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unto Goddes wisdome, no mans right is meiten nor mesured by Goddes 

 right, that is the Standard right of all comon weale. That shuld be the 

 kynges hedd right Uike as the hadd right of every oon man. What other 

 right hath Godd putt into the hedd of every oon man, but only the 

 right of comon weale of all the membris in his body. What man can 

 say by the office of his mouth, fedyng all the membris in his body, to 

 gifF to oon hand more than to another or to oon fynger or to any oon 

 member more than to another, wherby oon to hurt and distroy another, 

 but that alle membris shuld receyve mete togedere to liff owt of necessite etc. 



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Clement Armestrong's Sermons and Declaracmis agaynst Popish Ceremonies. 



Im fünften Sermon p. 121 findet sich folgende Schilderung der 

 goldenen Zeit, als England noch nicht den Canal beherrschte, der flan- 

 drische Markt noch nicht dominierte und fremde Käufer baar bezahlten : 



Before the getyng of the narow see and Caleis England lyvyd wel- 

 thily in itself, whan all peple comonly receyvid ther levynge of Goddes 

 gift with ther labours in right order, before ther was any merchaunte 

 in London, that adventured, before the narow see was goten. Not for 

 that the getyng of the see shuld hurt the reame, but for sufFeryng Lon- 

 doners to cary over it into Flaunders , what they have lustid at their 

 Avill. Than was no ruyn nor scarsite in the hoU reame, whan all peple 

 in London lyvid by ther werkes of artificialite, drapying all fyne scarletts, 

 fyne russetts and other sortes of fyne clothes, whan in London was 7 20 

 brode lomes to weif brode clothes. Than was London an artifice, whan 

 all peple theriu lyvid by ther werkes of artificialite. Than was never a 

 merchaunt therin, that adventurid over the see. Than was all the holl 

 reame füll of welth and plenty of vitalles and money. Than was all 

 the havyn townes in England in welth, occupied with resort of all straun- 



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