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wares and litle money, that litlemoney is to befownd in the hollreame, which 

 must nedes cause litle störe of money to the use of the kyng and of his lords. 



Evyn like as cloth makers are nsid, evyn like wise use they ther 

 pore artificer , sayng to ther spynners carders weyvers fullers shermen 

 and other: if they will have any werks, therfore they must take both 

 wares and money as lynnen cloth and canvas for kerchews smokks and 

 such other necessaryes and dubletts and jakkett clothes and all such 

 other straunge wares for ther apparell , very scant for all pore peple to 

 gete money to pay ther lords rents. It is over long to describe the 

 myschief, that merchaunts werkth thorowt the reame by bryngyng such 

 quantite of stränge merchaundise and artificiall fantasies brought into 

 the reame, that causith so great nomber of idull peple to fall to byeng 

 and sellyng therof, so many pedlers and chapmen, that from fair to fair, 

 from markett to markett carieth it to seil in horspakks and fote pakks 

 in basketts and budgetts sitting on holydays and sondais in chirche por- 

 chis and in abbeys dayly to seil all such trifells^), wherby all straungers 

 in other reames hath werk, and English men hath non, which in a right 

 Order myght make all kynde of artificialite nedfull to suffise the holl 

 reame. All nacions sittyng in the contreys deviseth fantasies to make 

 English men foles to gete the riches owt of the reme in experience as 

 well French men and other, that in London shewith wäre howsis füll of 

 trifell sold and bought for a hundred pownde , if the werkmanship of 

 makyng therof takyn awey, the very substance beside the werk is not 

 Worth a hundred Shilling. But boones hornes sakkes ledder peces heres 

 papers erthyn potts botells glassis and such other trifells, yhe, and daily 

 carieth owt of England old shoes hornes and bones, and bryngith it into 

 the reame ageyn made in to fantasies , werby they gete the riches owt 

 of the reme and not therfore take clothe nor English comodites , but 

 sekith to have rialles, angels^) and other fyne gold, easy to cary and to 



1) Merchantys wjch cary out thynges necessary to the use of our pepul and 

 brycg in agayn vayn tryfullys and conceytys only for the folysch pastyme and ple- 

 sure of man. Cardinal Pole in Starkey's Dialogue p. 80. 



2) Uial oder ryal in Nachahmung französischer Stücke hiess nach der Wäh- 



