[1] About this season there grew a great hartburning and malicious grudge amongst the Englishmen of the citie of London against strangers; and namelie the artificers found themselues sore grieued, for that such numbers of strangers were permitted to resort hither with their wares, and to exercise handie crafts to the great hinderance and impouerishing of the kings liege people. Besides that, they set nought by the rulers of the citie, & bare themselues too too bold of the kings fauor, wherof they would insolentlie boast; vpon presumption therof, & they offred manie an in|iurious abuse to his liege people, insomuch that a|mong other accidents which were manifest, it fortu|ned that as a carpenter in London called William|son had bought two stockdooues in Cheape, Hall in H. 8. fol. lix. and was about to pay for them, a Frenchman tooke them out of his hand, and said they were not meate for a carpenter.