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they may hold it and kepe it by the law that no acte be to the con- 

 trary for fere of losyng therof. In example to se, whether all merchauntes 

 in experience doo not so lyve only under the lawe without faith after a 

 staple of wollen cloth is set upe in London. All and^) so lyvith with- 

 out faith cannot have grace to lyve in the will of mercy of God, that 

 is the new testement, for by grace all men ar justified and savyd thorow 

 faith. All thinge, what is not of faith, is syne. 



All wollen clothes made in all townes of clothmaking in Englonde, 

 before they be brought to the kinges staple, muste have the seale of the 

 towne wher they ar made , and at the enseyling therof the clothmaker 

 to pay one peny for the weving and one peny for the fulling and one 

 peny for the dying, that is a grott of every cloth, which the clothmaker 

 shall stope in bis handes in paying the wever fuller sherman and dier, 

 and that grote to be putt to the common stokk of the towne to vitall 

 the pore artificers besyde other money daily reisid for the same pores. 

 By suche reason of all stokkes shall ryse and encresse in market townes 

 of clothmaking in a shorte tyme and riebe clothers may lende their mo- 

 ney for that purpose in meane tyme and have it ageyne. 



Suerly the common weale of Englonde muste rise out of the workes 

 of the common people. The workes of husbandry encressith plentie of 

 vitalles and the workes of artificialite encressith plenty of money. What 

 Sorte distroieth the workes of common people distroieth Goddes workes 

 and causith necessite, for God gevith no mete to common people, but by 

 their workes the workes of common people shall encresse Englonde 400000 

 marckes every yere in golde and silver more then hath been. In ex- 

 ample to consider how ther is caried out of Englonde in woles wollen 

 clothes tynne leede^) and hyddes etc. abought the value of 600000 poun- 



1) idiomatisch für wJio. 2) Von den drei alten Handelsartikeln Englands 



singt Crowley 1550: This realm hath three commodites, 



Wool, tin and lead, 

 Which being wrought within the realm, 

 Each man might get his hread. 

 Vgl. Starkey's Dialogue p. 173 und p. CLXXIV. 



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