46 REINHOLD PAULI, 



an ostiler 2 ^ levvdly to dresse Iiis horse rather than to doo it hymself 

 for hurtyng Iiis rayment. After that reson all servyug peple thorowt the 

 holle reame are so reisid into highnes of pride disdayn and idulnes by 

 weiryng of such fantasticall apparell, made in straiinge reame and brought 

 into England and worne to the hurte of all peple rent to ragges, daily and 

 yerly in kepyng owt the value therof in money , wliich shulde elles be 

 brought into the reame , wher in old tyme peple wäre the cloth , that 

 was made in the reame. Than was many great townes welthely meyn- 

 tenyd with cloth makyng, which are to see now decayed. Than was 

 wolle caried owt of England into other reamys to seile. In the tyme of 

 Edward the IIF^® no Englishman might cary no merchandise of the 

 staple owt of the reame in payn of forfeture, the 4 3 yere of Ed. III. 

 p°. ^). That tyme the werke of housbondry was discernyd to be the 

 cause of comon welth , whan no man shuld make his sone a prentise, 

 but if his father might dispend lande. The comon weale was than con- 

 siderid. Acte was than made, that English man shuld seile merchaundise 

 to no straungers but for redy money or for part merchandise in hande 

 to lende them naught like as now clothmakers for lakke of sale are fayn 

 to seil ther clothe to Esterlynges, which soone oon runnyth awey with 

 2 or 3 000 L. at a tyme and many such. Before London had recourse 

 Over see into Flaunders, all straungers brought gold and silver to all 

 havyn townes in England for all our wollen cloth and for other staple 

 wares for wolle feiles lede tynne and hides. Yhe, that amowntid yerly to 

 3000 00 L. , whan ther was not brought into England of straunge como- 

 dites to the value of 100000 L. Whan no silke nor soche quantite of 

 vvynes nor artificiall straunge fantasies was brought into the reame that 

 now is. So that in old tyme whan all the merchaundises of the holl 

 reame amountid litle above 300000 L. , bowt by straungers for money 

 brought into the reame, and by straungers caried owt of the reame. Than 



1) Jan. 25. 1369— Jan. 24. 1370. Das Statut 43 Edw. III. c.l zog wegen des 

 Krieges den in Calais errichteten Stapel zurück und bezeichnete eine Anzahl See- 

 plätze in England, Wales und Irland, Westminster eingeschlossen, als Stapelorte- 

 Vgl. Macpherson, Annais of Commerce I, 576. 



