SUBSIDIES RAISED BY EDWARD 111. 39 



Brought forward, £:i77,606 2 9 

 five hides of leather, after L.6 value 



the last 89 3 



VVherof the custom amounts to . 6 17 C 

 8,06 1 ^ of worsted, after IGs. 8d. value, 



the price is . . . . 6,717 18 4 



i| Whereof the custom amounts to . 215 13 7 



Summary of the out-carried com- 1 paqc ^o- 17 o 

 modities in value and custom, J ' "^ 



IMPORTS. 



1,832 cloths, after L.6 value each, 

 Whereof the custom amounts to 



Summary of the in-brought wool- 

 lens in value and custom, 



That the imported cloths viere much finer than those 

 exported, may be inferred from their comparative value 

 as here stated, and we may conclude pretty justly, 

 that the fabrication of coarse cloths exclusively occu- 

 pied the manufacturers of Britain, while the finer 

 fabrics were still brought from abroad, and that, in 

 fact, the wants of the mass of the people were the 

 regulators of British industry. 



(45.) Subsidies raised by Edward IIL— In 1338, 

 Edward took a fifteenth of all the commonalty of his 

 , realm in wool,. rating the price of every stone of 14 lbs. 

 at 2s., although, in the previous November, he had 

 sent the Bishop of Lincoln, and the Earls of Suffolk 

 and Northampton, with one thousand sacks of wool, 

 into Brabant, which, being sold at L.40 a sack, pro* 



