¶In the month of Maie was a proclamation made against all vnlawfull games, Ed. Hall in H. 8. fol. Cxlix. according to the sta|tutes made in this behalfe, and commissions awar|ded into euerie shire for the execution of the same; so that in all places, tables, dice, cards, and bouls were taken and burnt. Wherfore the people murmured a|gainst the cardinall, saieng: that he grudged at eue|rie mans plesure, sauing his owne. But this procla|mation small time indured. For when yoong men were forbidden boules and such other games: some fell to drinking, some to feretting of other mens co|nies, some to stealing of deere in parks, and other vn|thriftinesse.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This yeare in the citie of London a great grudge was conceiued against merchants strangers,Great grudge against stran|gers for pro|curing licẽces to sell w [...]dad. for that they by vertue of licences, which they had pur|chased to bring woad into the realme, contrarie to a statute thereof prouided, brought ouer such plentie thereof, and vttered it aswell in the citie, as abroad in the countrie, so franklie, that Englishmens woad laie vnbought. Edw. Hall. H. 8. fol. Cliiij. At length the maior called a common councell in the moneth of August, and there were manie billes laied against the strangers, and at last it was enacted, that no citizen nor fréeman shuld buy nor sell in no place, nor exchange nor meddle with certeine strangers, called Anthonie Bonuice, Laurence Bonuice, Anthonie Uiuald, Anthonie Caueler, Francis de Bard, Thomas Calnecant, and a great sort more, whose names I let passe. And if anie person did meddle or occupie with them con|trarie to this act, he should loose his fréedome and li|bertie in the citie of London. By whi [...]h act the stran|gers were so brideled, that they came to a reasonable point and conclusion.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this season the angell noble was iust the sixt part of an ounce Troie, Ualuation of certeine coins as angels, rials, crowns, &c. so that six angels were iust an ounce, which was fourtie shillings sterling; & the angell was worth two ounces of siluer: so that six angels were worth twelue ounces, which was but fourtie shillings in siluer. By reason of the good weight and low valuation of the English coine, mer|chants dailie carried ouer great store, bicause the same was much inhanced there. So that, to méet with this inconuenience, in September proclama|tion was made through all England, that the angell EEBO page image 894 should go for seuen shillings foure pence, the roiall for eleuen shillings, & the crowne for foure shillings foure pence. On the fift of Nouember following, by proclamation againe, the angell was inhanced to se|uen shillings six pence, and so euerie ounce of gold should be fiue and fourtie shillings, and an ounce of siluer at thrée shillings and nine pence in value.