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mysh money shuld make the sterlyng pownde, abowt 28 Shilling Flemysh 

 the pownde, after which rate the Staplers recyvyd ther payments for ther 

 wolle at the marte. Which Staplers after that tyme never usid for ther 

 wolle to bryng no money into England, as they didd before, but alwey 

 patisid^) and covenauntid with the adventurers ^) in London to delyver 

 ther money, that rose of ther wolle sales to theym by exchaunge. So 

 begane the Staplers and the adventurers for ther own singler profite to 

 make ther exchaunge to geders in kepyng owt of the reame all such mo- 

 ney , as yerly shuld be brought into the reame for our riche comodites, 

 so as the kynge of England and alle the lordes of therth , the rulers of 

 the peple, never syns hath serchid nor seen, how the comon weale of 

 the reame hath been distroyed , nor never thynking of such maters , but 

 loke forvvard and nothyng behynd in tyme past. But always whan hurte 

 of peple is spied, that such as are hurt , of necessite compleyn, than ri- 

 gour makyth acte, Avho, that dothe such hurte, and myschiefe, ageyn to 

 have myschief for his reward, either payne, losse of godes or deth. That 

 is rigorous lawe of after witt ever after mischief and hurte emonges the 

 peple is wrought, the lordes in England hath ynow to doo to herken 

 alwey to mischiefs doon in the reame dayly for lakk of a right order of 

 lief in the holl comonaltie. But they never serche to the originall cause 

 to know, what is the very rote of the holl nede, necessite and scarsite 

 of the holl reame. Whan the Dowch tong hadd so aggred with the 

 Staplers of England to sett ther money at a certayn rate of 28 Shilling 

 the sterlyng pownde to pay so to the Staplers at the marte, than ratid 

 they ther money in ther contreys at the marte at hygher value, that 

 rather than the Staplers shuld carye ther money for ther wolle into Eng- 

 land, they shuld gayn more profite to delyver it by exchaunge to adven- 



1) D. i. kamen überein, cf. Halliwell, Dictionary of archaic and provincial 

 words: patising. 



2) Die Merchant Adventurers, obwohl auf älterer Vereinigung beruhend, wurden 

 doch erst durch Acte Heinrichs VIL vom Jahre 1505 zu einer Compagnie incor- 



, poriert mit besonderer Vergünstigung, Wollzeuge in die Niederlande auszuführen, 

 ! Macpherson, Annais of Commerce II, 27. 



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