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REINHOLD PAULI. 



vised in Kent of makyng the first bedys Avith the pater noster^) holow 

 like muske balles. made of boxe, which in a short tyme susteynyd a 30 

 or 40 men, that made theym and sold theym to Londoners, wherby all 

 parties , which occupied theym, gate lyvyng oon with another unto a 

 haburdasher, that caried a sample into Flaunders and ther causid a gret 

 abundaunee of theym to be made by youg prenters^) used in all such 

 actyvite ther and bvought theym into England to the distruction of the 

 seid artificers here. 



Thus adventurers hath usid by bryngyng of straunge artificialite owt 

 of Flaunders to distroy all artificialite in England, wherby the kyng and 

 his lords are made scarse of money, not consideryng ther welth nor the 

 welth of the hoU reame. The hoU welthe of the reame is for all our 

 riche comodites to gete owt of all other reamys therfore redy money; 

 and after the money is brought in to the hoU reame , so shall all peple 

 in the reame be made riche therwith. And after it is in the reame, 

 better it were to pay 6'^ for any thyng made in the reame than to pay 

 but 4^ for a thyng made owt of the reame, for that 6*^ is owres so spent 

 in the reame and the 4^^ spent owt of the reame is lost and not ours, 

 if a right order of a comon weale may be said in England to have vitall 

 as plentifull as in old tyme artificialite to be meyntenyd shall cause as 

 good chepe artificialite as in other reames and moche more substauncialL 

 It shall be the gret welth to the kyng and all his lords to sett as moche 

 peple as can be to artificialite , for as moch as they labour and werke 

 all for money, that ther money may alwey rönne owt of ther hands in 

 to the hands of such, as occupieth housbondry for ther mete and drynk, 

 which money shuld so rönne owt of the housbonds hands into the hands 

 of the kyng and of his lords of the erth. As it is convenyent for lords 

 to have plenty both of vitalle and of money, which Londoners hath dis- 

 troyd and yut the lords discrivyth^j not ther own hynderaunce and losse. 



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