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say: what prevelege hast thou, I will prynt any thyng for myne owne 

 advauntage , so that there is nother honestie nor goode order among 

 them, the which is grete petie. 



And all thynges owte of goode order goith to wrake and comyth to 

 naught. Where as yf there were goode order among them, there myght 

 be many of the kynges subiectes be set to worke such thynges, which 

 now men are dryvyn of necessitie to have strangers to worke, the which 

 strangers here within this realme dystroye moch vitale abhomynably in 

 suche wyse, that I thynke God is hyely dyspleasid therwith, but in gy- 

 dyng the people in order of a comen welthe I shall showe my mynde, 

 how that all such unsaciable persons may be gydyd in good order. Also 

 as I understande the byble shal be pryntyde beyonde the see^), the which 

 myght be as well done here within this realme as in any other realme, 

 and as goode cheape and as quyckly done. And as I thinke it wäre a 

 good policie for governers and rulers of a realme alway to Studie, which 

 way to set all comen people to laboures to kepe theire frowarde myndes 

 well occupiede and not to suffer such thynges to be wrought owte of 

 this realme, the which may easely be wrought within the realme. The 

 cownsell of Frawnce hath ordeynyde that no man shall pay costome for 

 pryntede bokes, and that becawse men shulde rather have such thynges 

 pryntede there , the which shulde sett many comen people to worke, 

 wherby they wex ryche and have money enoughe to j^ay theire dewtie 

 money to theire kyng, and whan any man is myndyd to have any white 



1) Bezieht sich auf die englische Bibel Coverdale's , welche seit 1535 wieder- 

 holt in Antwerpen abgedruckt ward. Auch die erste Ausgabe, ,,set forth with the 

 Ringes most gracyous lycence . . . published in London by Grafton and E. Whit- 

 church" 1537 ist dort veranstaltet, cf. H. Stevens in Caxton Celebration Catalogue 

 1877 p. 122. Nach Lord Herbert, Life and Reign of Henry VIII. in Kennet, Com- 

 plete History of England II, 213 ertheilte der König durch Cromwell das Privilegium 

 an R. Grafton , ,,who pretending the wont of good paper here got our King's and 

 Francis's license to print it at Paris both in Latin and English", was den vorhandenen 

 Exemplaren nicht entspricht. Im Allgemeinen standen Druck und Einband aller 

 Bücher unter Protection, seitdem durch 25 Henr. VIII. c. 15 (15374) die einst durch 

 1 Ric. III. c. 9 (148^4) gestattete freie Einfuhr aufgehoben wurde. 



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