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in England to be sewer, if that other first bill shuld chaunce to be lost 

 by adventure over the see, so as no colour of excuse can be made of put- 

 tyng such money in adventure, but as money lent by very kynd of usary 

 havyng fewer bonds obligatory therefore. 



Now to shew more of the said yong merehaunts , so many usid to 

 borow clothes of clothe raakers for respite duryng a fourteen or fifteen 

 yers, in which tyme many of theym ranne awey to sayntwaries ^) and 

 other places, by lossis and lendyng not able to pay for theyr clothes, 

 Avher than clothe makers wold no longer trust to theym , but sought to 

 seil ther clothes rather for money and wares to be poned^) in band. 

 Than begane clothe makers abowt a thirty six yers agoo to proferre ther 

 clothes to Esterlyngs in the Stiliard^), whiche afore that tyme bought 

 all ther clothes of merehaunts within the citie , by whome many 

 Citizens hadd gret gaynes and never sought to bye ther clothes of 

 clothe makers. For a sixty yers agoo old merehaunts bought all 

 ther clothes of cloth makers in the contrey by the holl sortes in pakkes 

 brought home to ther howsis in carts and in wayns, whan than all 

 sailyng clothes came never to Blakwell Hall^) to no Esterlyngs handes. 

 But after clothmakers cowd not seil ther clothes nother to old merehaunts 

 nor to yong merehaunts for ther suertie nor profite that causid theym 

 this thirty yere and more to professe theym to seil to the Esterlyngs, so 

 as the Esterlyngs syns that tyme hathe hadde clothes at ther pleasure 

 for respite, that many of theym hath rönne awey with gret stokkes so 

 borowid of clothe makers soome oon with a 3000 or 4000 pownde, and 

 all for lakke of a right order, that English clothes are not sold to all 

 straungers by wey of a staple for the comon weale of the holl reame. 



1) Sanctuarien, Asyle. 2) pawned. 



3) Der Stahlhof, die alte Gildhalle der Deutschen in London am linken Them- 

 seufer oberhalb London Bridge, s. J. M. Lappenberg, Urkundliche Geschichte des 

 hansischen Stahlhofs in London, Hamburg 1851. 



4) Blackwell, auch Bakewell Hall, in Basinghall Street, wo seit 20 Richard II 

 (139^7) ein Wochenmarkt für Wollzeuge stattfand, Cunningham, Handbook of Lon- 

 don p. 28. 



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