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myschiff. And whether lawers ar not of the common howse, which get- 

 tyth their richis rysyng out of the workes of syne and myscheff of the 

 common people for robbyng and stellyng richis one frome an other and 

 for disceyving and begilling on a nother and for stryf variaunce and de- 

 bate on agenste a nother^). In example whether the richis, that merchauntes 

 beyers and sellers and lawers gettith of the common people yerly, risith 

 not out of their necessite and scarsite vexacion tribulacion angwise and 

 payne. Ergo whether thos sortes in the common howse may well con- 

 tent and agre, that all common people shuld lyve out of suche workes 

 of syne and myschif, out of which they gete all their richis. And yf 

 the king and his lordes in the hedd howse wold mynyster the riche giftes 

 of grace to the comon people, which God gevith theym yerly to worke 

 for the common weale of the hole realme , they in the common howse, 

 which hath and doth distroy the common weale, cannot suffer no acte 

 passe for the common Aveale , but they niuste nedes distroy their owne 

 singuler weale. 



Therfor the king and his lordes of the erth hath nede to ordeyn, 

 that the common weale of the hole realme may by his mynysters to be 

 mynysterd in all market townes , wherin all wollen clothes ar wrought 

 and made, for therin the common weale restith. And by that reason 

 the king and his lordes shall never more be trobeled with no workes 

 of actes of parliament for the common weale , but to the governors and 

 rewlers of his riche townes , which shall have gold and silver brought 

 out of all other contries for our wolles and wollen clothes etc. value for 

 value. Therfor all the gold and silver brought into Englonde by stran- 

 gers shal be in market townes by clothmakers paied for wages to their 

 artificers, which with the same money shall bye vitalles of husbande men 

 and fermers in all contreys in the realme and by their handes the same 

 money shall come to the handes of the king and his lordes and so shall 

 gold and silver encresse yerly in Englonde and make the hoU body of 



1) Lawyers, whose covetousness hath almost devoured England, Latimer, Works 

 I, 318. Bycause he for hys lucur deludyth bothe partys and prolongyth the contro- 

 versy by hys crafty wytt, Cardinal Pole in Starkey's Dialogue p. 191. 



