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that it shall not be agenst no contracte made in any tretie of peace, so 

 that ether subiectes as marchantes may carie what comoditie they lyst 

 and whether they lyst. For I thynke, it is not agenst no tretie of peace, 

 that any citie or towne shulde devise for theire comen welth, thoughe 

 per adventure it be agenst the tretie of peace, that the kynges maiestie 

 or his cownsell shulde make any law to inhibite , that no comoditie of 

 any foren realme shulde be brought in to this realme, within whome the 

 kynges hyghnes hath concludyd any such tretise. And yf it shall be 

 thought nedfull at any tyme , that some certayne workes of artyficialytie 

 to be bowght of any stranger , yit shall it be bought by the consentes 

 of the comynaltie , the which I shall speke of more at large , when I 

 speke of the artifycers in London. 



What a losse is it to se all bodyly workes of comen people dystroyde, 

 which shulde not only helpe to kepe all people owte of idolnes to ly ve in a 

 right Order, but also shulde increase the welth of the whole realme, as for an 

 example : yf all wulles wäre drajiede in the realme, the workes of the people 

 shulde be moch more worth than the wull, so that yf there wäre but hälfe 

 the wull that now is, and that it shulde be drapede, it wolde be more worth 

 to the realme, than now is all the wull and the shepe that berith it. 



So to set as many people to worke all such erth as is before spo- 

 kyn of, and the residew to be sett to worke artificiall workes, which 

 now is wrought beyonde the see , so shall the grete nomber of people 

 within the whole realme be set to worke savyng those, which shall seme 

 to be sycke and sore etc, the which I wyll shew in the provision for 

 them, how theye also shalbe providyd for and how the most parte of them 

 shall or at the least may laboure for theire owne meate, which shall 

 ease all comen people of theire grete charge, which theye now are at 

 in gevyng to them theire almost. And although this niy rude wrytyng 

 semes not to shew clerely the order of artificers, yit, as I have saide, all 

 the comen people within this realme may very well be set to worke by 

 husbondrye and artificialitie. And of artyficialitie shall I shew more at 

 large by it seife here after in the order of artificers^). 



1) Die offenbar unvollendete Abhandlung kommt hierauf nicht zurück. 

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