42 REINHOLD PAULI, 



HO money. And if all the clothe in England myght be made of trew 

 wolle, sewerly wrought and made in to clothes and sold by record of a 

 staple seale to witnes the sewer makyng therof tliorowt all reames, and 

 that dyvers sliew dayes of the market may [be] ^) ordenyd fre for all straungers 

 to by clothes of the clothmakers to giff redy money for theym, like as 

 in old tyme, so wold the straungers in all reames putt redy money in 

 to the purses bowgetts^) and casketts to bryng in to England to bye 

 wollen clothe sewrly made and good chepe. To see, what inconvenyence 

 and myschief is wroght for that no staple of clothe is in England, all 

 the Dowch tong, havyng our English wolle at ther pleasure, with Spaynysh 

 wolle doth drape great quantite of cloth, which they seil in hurtyng the 

 sale of English cloth, of which two wolles makith such cloth, that will 

 tak a shynyng glosse with forcibly pressing plesaunt to the jie , by 

 cause the Spaynysh heyry woll kepe the pressyng, wher English woU of 

 fyne staple will not. And that cloth is thykk and stuffy in the band 

 to seme fast made clothe, and will not be stretchid owt longer than the 

 length of it seif upon no teynters*), but rather it will rent in sondry, 

 havyng no staple cannot ratche. So they accownt ther clothes sewerly 

 made to provyde ther own werkmen settyng besyly to werke. And our 

 English clothes of staple woll, which will ratche, they use daily in And- 

 warpe and other townes to stratch theym upon teynters four or five 

 yards longer in every pece owt only to wyne so moch by the mesure of 

 theym, sellyng theym in to Almayn , but also sclaunderyng English clo- 

 thes to the pryse of ther clothes, sayng to Almayns , so disceyvid by 

 theym, that English men do falsly make theym, reporting English wolle to 

 be the best wolle, and the wurst makers of clothes and falsist, that can be. 



All which myschief and sclaunders is for lakke of a staple and 

 right Order not hadd for no comon weale. No man in England never 

 seketh for no comon weale, but all and every for bis singler weale. By 

 the wisdome of Adams fall under the sone no mans wisdome attaynyth 



1) fehlt in der Handschrift. 

 3) eye. 



2) für: budgets. 



4) tenter, Spannrahmen. 



