64 REINHOLD PAULI, 



All workes of artyficialite as well makers of wollen clothes and all 

 other thinges muste nedes dvvell in market townes to worke for money, 

 for God hatli ordenyd, that gold and silver shulde be brought out of 

 other contreys into Englonde for wollen clothes and for other commodities, 

 which God gevith yerly to the realme, otherwise cane be no plentie of 

 money in the realme but brought in for our riche commodities value for 

 value. So long as our owne English merchauntes ar sufferid to cary our 

 wollen clothes out of the realme to seil in other contreys and for theym 

 bring in no gold nor silver into the realme, never shall be no plentie 

 of money but riche merchauntes and merchaundizes and pore king and 

 lordes and pore commons. Therfore all clothe makers and other artificers 

 muste dwell to gethers in market townes like as in olde tyme, and the 

 high prices of all sortes of woles in the realme muste be mynyshed to 

 the low price agayne as in olde tyme. For that entent the felowship of 

 clothers and stapellers muste be called before the kinges grace and his 

 honorable counseill to shew by the recordes of the staple bokes , what 

 prices all sortes of woles bought and sold in Englonde but 124 yeres^) 

 passed, and theruppon to Charge alle stapellers and clothmakers to pay 

 no higher price for woles now like as in old tyme. That is no new in- 

 vencion for people to murmor or to grudg, yf the king restore his com- 

 mon people members in the body of his realme to the same welth, that 

 they were in olde tyme. What one man shal be agenste that acte of 

 the common weale , a thousand comon people shall hold with the king 

 agenste that wiked man for the mynyshing of all sortes of woles to the 

 half prices, lyke as they were in old tyme. Yt shall cause the pasturers 

 of shepe to open their closiers^) and sufFer the more erth to be wrought 

 by workes of husbandry to encrese the more plentie of vitales in the holl 

 realme , that clothmakers and all other artificers may kepe their hows- 

 holdes good chepe and geve lesse wages to all artificers to make Inglishe 

 clothes and all other thinges good chepe. 



1) Würde von 1536 aus gerechnet etwa mit dem Ende der Regierung Hein- 

 richs IV., 1413, zusammentreffen, 



2) enclosures. 



