[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.