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regratours^) bieth grete chepe of poie inen for nede and seil it ageyne 

 derely to all artificers in market townes. For all biers and sellers of 

 vitalles sekith daily of plentie to make derth and scarsite. Therfor the 

 w'orkes of artificialite must have stokes of money in every market tovvne 

 to by vitalles of the pore workers of husbandry the oon sorte to helpe 

 the other, and so distroy all such sortes as byeth and sellith vitalles for 

 their owne singularite. 



The remedy to encresse all Engloude with plentie of vitalles shal 

 be by reason of the stokkes of money in all cities and townes of cloth- 

 making in the realme, so as the king and his lordes shall not nede to 

 troble theymself to make no actes of parliament, which cane never pre- 

 vayle, seing how no acte for the common weale cane passe these sortes 

 in the common howse , which gettith their riches from the commonaltie 

 to their owne singularite. And for the common weale will not distroy 

 their owne singuler weale, all merchauntes byers and sellers in London 

 er elles wher ar commonly pore mens sones naturall borne to labour for 

 their lyving, which after they be bounde prentises to be merchauntes, all 

 their labour stody and policy is be bying and selling to gete singler 

 richis frome the communaltie and never workith to gete their lyving nother 

 by workes of husbandry nor artificialite, but lyveth by other menes wor- 

 kes and of naught risith to grete richis , entending no thing elles but 

 only to gete richis, which knowith no common weale. For as moche all 

 other stodye is onely for their owne singler weale, merchauntes in Lon- 

 don may be excused by their ingnorauncy, though they have distroied 

 the plentie of vitalles and money in the hoU realme, they knowe not 

 how nor by what meanes , but lyvith after the common course of mer- 

 chauntes , gett richis how and by what meanes they force not in their 

 conscience, not dreding the rightwise judgment of God , but for dred of 

 the law they axe counseill of lawers, what richis they cane gete, whether 



2) Gegen dieselben ländlichen und städtischen Speculanten eifert Latimer: we 

 have landlords, nay, steplords I might say, that are become grmiers; and burgesses 

 are become regraters: and some farmers will regrate and buy up all the corn etc. 

 Works I, 279. 



