DREI VOLKSWIRTHSCHAFTL. DENKSCHRIFTEN A.D. ZEIT HEINRICHS VIII. 15 



I. 



Ä treatise concerninge the Staple and tJie Commodities of this Eeabne. 



After the Staplers hadd made theym seif into a Company corporat 

 at Calais^) of no moo in nomber, than convenyently occupied so moche 

 wolle and feiles, as the housbond-men and fermours in England receyved 

 of the gift of Godd yerly by werk of hoiisbondry in a right order, wher 

 Godd lirst gaff the leyrs^) therof, when no singularte was sought to have 

 more plenty of wolle by mens wisdome, than God by his wisdome first 

 ordenyd , that alle men by ther bodily werke schuld receyve of Goddes 

 gift bothe mete and clothyng togeders, that is with the werke of hous- 

 bondry to receyve the speciall gift of the fynes and goodness of the staple 

 wolle , which Godd by his first day of everlastyng light by vertu of his 

 holy spirit gaff into the erth for the comon welth of Englande , before ' 

 sone moone and sters were made, whiche are but the mynesters of the 

 gift of the same. Than at the first begynyng of the staple at Calais, 

 whan was but a certayn nomber of Staplers, than was the certayn quan- 

 tite of staple wolle receyved of Godd by werk of housbondry ordynaryly 

 sold at Caleis alwey for redy money and for bullion, which that tyme the 

 Loo contreys in Flaunders was gladd to bryng to Calais to pay for wolle 

 at the staple in band, which bullion in a mynt at Caleis was coyned 

 ther from the dayes of Eichard the 11*^ duryng^) Henry the IIII*^^) the V*^^) 

 and the Vl''*^*^) to Edward^) more than sixty®) yers, which was encrese 

 of plenty of money to the hol! welth of the reame , beside the clothe 

 likwise for redy money was sold to straungers in the reame. After that 

 soo many Staplers encreased in nomber oon of a nother by meane of 



1) Allmälich seit Ende des 14. Jahrhunderts, Macpherson, Annais of Commerce 

 I, 604. 611. 



2) Layer, Lage, Schicht. 



3) 1377—1399. 4) 1399—1413. 5) 1413—1422. 6) 1422-1461. 

 7) IV, 1461,-1485. 8) Ms: XL«, offenbar verschrieben für LX«. 



