70 ' REINHOLD PAULI, 



the realiue riche, and so shall the king and his lordes be riebe like as 

 in old tyme to have no nede to stody, how to gader money out of that 

 litle quantitie of money, wliich is in the handes of the coramons, in the 

 realme to niake scarsite. 



All lordes were riche in olde tyme, which kept welthy howsholdes 

 and bilded substanciall howses not having the riches now able to doo 

 suche actes by reason of the riche commodities, which God giveth yerly 

 by all the common people to worke for the common weale of all the holl 

 realme, which common weale is now distroyed by a few pore mens chil- 

 dern suffered to be merchauntes beyers and sellers having all the holl 

 commodities in the realme in their handes to occupie like as they liste. 

 Therfor Englonde cane never be made a riche realme but by the raeanes 

 of a staple of wollen clothe, that all strangers may bring gold and silver 

 into the realme, wherwith to by clothes of the very clothmakers. And 

 that all sortes of woUes in Englond may be bought and solde for half 

 price now like as they were but 60 yeres paste shall cause the more 

 nonibre of common people to drape clothes and to worke theym so sub- 

 stancially and truly by the recorde of every towne seale, wher they are 

 made, and theruppon to be brought to the kinges staple to be seald 

 with the staple seale to recorde their true making in all contries, wher- 

 soever they shalbe bought and sold, though any strangers in other con- 

 tries falsely hurte theym by straynyng or otherwise, yf they have the 

 seale of the kinges staple, shall wittenyse their true making, whan they 

 were bought at the kinges staple. And if it can be provide^), that any 

 Englishe men by clothes at the kinges staple and worke any faused") 

 with theym in Englonde, before they be caried out of the realme, wher- 

 by the wittenyse of the seale of the kinges staple shuld be slandered, 

 that all such shuld be ponyshed in example. The very cause, wherof 

 all strangers shal be glade to bring plentie of gold and silver into Eng- 

 londe to bey clothes at the kinges staple, shal be by reason, that woles 

 shal be so grete chepe , and that shall cause the more erth to be tilled 

 by workes of husbandry and make vitalles good chepe. 



1) proved. 2) falsehood. 



