Note 261 — Chapter VII
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Dom. State Papers, Queen Eliz., Vol. 189, 50. The report goes on to say that the clothiers will have to give up their trade, because since they might only sell to English merchants they could not get a good price. They say they were working at a loss of 6s. 8d. a cloth. See p. 86 supra for the Earl of Leicester's letter to the same effect.