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REINHOLD PAULI, 



have therby wynnyng, by reason it is so reisid into bygh price in other 

 reames, specially iu Fraunce. 



What shall we say of all straungers , that it is petie so to sufFer 

 theyni to bryng all such straunge merchaundise in to the hurtyng the 

 comon weale of the reame? To make act by our lawz to bynde theym 

 from so doyng , that wer nother wisdome nor honour to the reame , by 

 owr lawz to rule straungers and putt theym to inconvenyence , to cause 

 theym to reporte yll of the reame. It were more wisdome and honour 

 to ponyssh our own nacion of English merchaunts, that daily stodyeth 

 every oon to distroy the labour and lyvyng of all theyr neighbours. So 

 as they may wynne any riches by byeng all such straunge merchaundize 

 withowt the reame and within the reame, so as they may gete any wyn- 

 nyng therby, they care not to distroy the welth of the kyng of his lords 

 and of all the holl reame. In exemplum if English men were bownd 

 to a right order, no straungers wer able to hurt England. All straunge 

 merchaunts aught to come and goo free beyng what they list. What 

 defawt aught to be putt to theym , bryngyng owt in to the reame , that 

 myght hurt the comen weale, if English men wold not bye it and re- 

 ceyve it to seil it in the reame elles cowd not hurt. 



London to this day hath lyvid at suche a libertie withowt any good 

 Order of comen weale, by whose occupieng all England is brought into 

 nede and necessite. The insurreccion on May day^) begänne evyn by 

 the inordinat meane of Londoners and not of straungers, but by adven- 

 turers and by byers and sellers of all artificialite, wherby all pore handy- 



rung von 1465 das neue goldne Nobelstück zu 10 Schilling, angel das kleinere Gold- 

 stück zu 6 sh. 8 d. Ruding, Annais of the Coinage of Great Britain I, 283. 



2) Am 30. April 1517 erhoben sich die Lehrlinge und Gesellen in London 

 gegen Gewinn und Arbeit der Fremden, Italiener, Franzosen, Flanderer, Deutsche, 

 deren Häuser zum Theil zerstört wurden. Alte aufgehobene Statute wurden ange- 

 rufen, mit den Waffen und dem Galgen eingeschritten. Hall, Chronicle 588; Grafton, 

 Chronicle of London II, 289 ff.; Lord Herbert's Henry VIIL bei Kennet II, 28. Ueber 

 die von allen Gewerben niedergehaltene Arbeiterclasse und deren Erbitterung gegen 

 die Concurrenz der fremden Arbeit L. Brentano, Zur Geschichte der englischen Ge- 

 werkvereine S. 79. 



