DREI VOLKSWIRTHSCHAFTL. DENKSCHRIFTEN A. D. ZEIT HEINRICHS VIU. 39 



craft are brought into nede and necessite. Before May day pore handy 

 craft peple, which that wer wont to kepe shoppes and servaunts and hadd 

 labour and levyng by makyng pyns poynts girdells glovis and all such 

 other thyngs necessary for comon peple , hadd therof sale and profits 

 daily, unto a thirty yere agoo a sorte begänne to occupie to bye and 

 seile alle soche handycraft wares, callid haburdashers , otherwise callid 

 hardware men, that a fourty yere agoo was not four or five shopes in 

 London, wher now every stret is füll of theym. Which sellith all fan- 

 tasies and trifell, in distroyeng all handy craft, wherby many riebe men 

 is reson upon that distruction of the pore peple. Which before May 

 day pore peple perceyvid theym seif, havyng no lyvyng, and wer bownd 

 prentissis in London, notable to kepe no howsis nor shops, but in allis^) 

 sittyng in a pore chamber, workyng all the weke to seil his wäre on the 

 Saturday brought it to the haburdasshers to seil , to such as use the 

 sale therof, which wold not giff theym so moche wynnyng for theyr wares 

 to fynde theyr mete and drynk, sayng: they hadd no nede therof, ther 

 shopps lay storydd füll of byend see, markyng, than begänne pore arti- 

 ficers to murmur and grudge daily, cursyng for bryngyng such thyngs 

 into the reame. Such haburdashers adventurers shewid to the pore peple, 

 it was not they, that brought so moche in to the reame, but straungers, 

 that brought it over and lay in the citie thorowt the yere and solde it 

 to all haburdashers , as in very deede French men and Flemyngs ever 

 kepith warehowsis and seiers at the water side of all such haburdash 

 wares and sellith it to theym at all tymes thorowt the yere. A ware- 

 howse with stuffes, estemyd worth a hundred pownde, the werkmanship 

 therof accowntid by it seif all the substance, wherof it is made, not worth 

 a hundred Shilling, but trifells aforesaid. So the pore artificers in Lon- 

 don, being distroyd by occupieng into Flaunders, aswell fullers shermen 

 and all other murmuryd and grudgid, that so putt in to ther heddys 

 straungers was the cause therof, so begane they to rise upon straungers. 

 Which insurection, if the Cardinall ^) hadd not incontinent subdewid it, 



1) alleys. 2) Cardinäl Wolsey. lieber sein Einschreiten s. Brewer, 



Letters and Papers II, p. CCXVI. 



