50 ßEINHOLD PAULI, 



which he hath made therwith. But of the stufF he hath solde as moch 

 as amowntith to the some of 251 and move unknowen to me, and ther- 

 with hath bought a wode sale in the name of tvvo other men in the 

 contrey pertyners with hym and his cowncellers to werke that falsehode. 

 And wher now that goodes beeng owt of his handes and so sodenly callid 

 to his accownt, lurkith and hidith hymself in the howse of oon John 

 Gryraes in London in Seynt Lawrence parish^) and dare not be forth 

 comyng. which Grymes kepith hym in his howse and mayntenyth hym 

 to withhold the seid 200 L. So am I robbid of my goodes and cannot 

 get^) the partie. Wherfor if ye wilbe my good maister, 1 may have a 

 easy short remedy withowt any trouble in the law. So as it may please 

 your mastership to send for the seid Grymes, commandyng him to bryng 

 forth the seid Weders, to be savely kept unto such tyme he shall make 

 aunswere to alle thynges he hath chargid hymself with in his seid boke 

 of accownt to show, wher my goodes is, and to restore it ageyn, as moche 

 as by an indifferent auditor can be provid, he hathe so falsely inbesselid. 

 Or ellis, if the seid Grymes wille not bryng forth the seid Weders, to 

 doo that, which is rightfull accordyng to conscience, it may please your 

 mastership to compell the seid Grymes soo to doo as a man withowt honestie 

 to meynten such a false felow with owt shame. Your seid servaunt thus 

 beeng quyetid in his mynd shall writ you the clere knoledge, how to 

 sett up Cristes chirch , whiche was never yitt sett up nor Cristes faith 

 never mynesterid by no generali forme syns Cristes ascension , and shall 

 show your mastership the mynestracion of the order of comen weale and 

 the Offices therof, and what is the kynges levyng on his part, and the 

 levyng of the prest on his part; how the levyng of the busshop and 

 decon risith owt of the Werkes of the sole in the chirch inwardly, that 

 is the tithes, and the levyng of the kyng risith owt of the werkes of 

 the owtwarde bodyes of the peple, that is the rentes of the erthe. And 

 to shew, what the offices are of the busshop and decon by ther offices 



1) In der Nähe von Cheapside. 



2) Original: getin. 



