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to take the fredome of the citie into his handes, unto^) bis grace hath 

 reformed diverse causes for the common weale of the holl realme. The 

 salve muste worke the remedy in London , wher the sore is furste 

 The kinges staple in Ledyn Hall muste be made free for all strangers 

 therin to bye all wollen clothes of the very cloth makers and pay theym 

 redy money not to be interrupte ne letted by no fredome of the citie. 

 And yf a fewe Citizens now lyving thinke their bying and selling of v^^ol- 

 len clothes shal be distroyed by that meanes, all riche men being agyde^) 

 ar out of nede and yong men may set upe draping of fyne wollen clo- 

 thes like as afore tyme, and therby gete their lyving truly v>^ithowt any 

 crafte or policy. Secondly ther muste be a somme of money ordenyd in 

 London so moche as shall vitall the holl citie in itself to have no nede 

 of no vitalles in the contrey. The cause of all grasiers and regraters of 

 corne and catalles and of all maulte men hath been onely for that Lon- 

 don hath not made provycion to vitall itself, so as never shal be vitalles 

 in London plentie for pore people to drape fyne wollen clothes nor to 

 make all workes of artificialite good chepe before London vitall itself 

 lyke as it was vitalled in old tyme. Ther is money inough in London 

 for that purpose, though nother jthe king nor no man lyving geve nor 

 lende no peny therto like as it shal be shewed, how whan tyme shall 

 require and all the ordre of mynysters and officers in the citie ordenyd 

 to make all provicions of vitalles for the citie. On notable provicion shal 

 be to encrese plentie of vitalles in the holl realme by reasone that the 

 citie of London and all other cities and market townes of clothmaking 

 in Englonde shall have stokes of money every in itself to make provision 

 to vitall itself, that all artiliciall people therin may make all thinges grete 

 chepe. And by that reason having stokkes of money shall bye their 

 vitales alway of the pore husbondmen, which riebe fermors graciers and 



1) statt until. 



2) Der Antrag den Freibrief Londons zu widerrufen ist gegen die grossen 

 Gilden (companies) gerichtet, die alle commerciellen und politischen Privilegien der 

 Stadt an sich gebracht hatten. 



3) vielleicht verschrieben statt agreede. 



Histor.-pJiüolog. Classe. XXIII. 7. K 



