A profitable and necessarie discourse, for the meeting with the bad garbelling of spices, vsed in these dayes And against the combination of the vvorkemen of that office, contrarie vnto common good. Composed by diuers grocers of London, wherein are handled such principall matters, as followeth in the table, before the booke.

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A profitable and necessarie discourse, for the meeting with the bad garbelling of spices, vsed in these dayes And against the combination of the vvorkemen of that office, contrarie vnto common good. Composed by diuers grocers of London, wherein are handled such principall matters, as followeth in the table, before the booke.
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Grocers' Company (London, England)
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Printed at London :: By R.B. for Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater noster Row at the signe of the Talbot,
[1592]
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Spice trade -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800.
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"A profitable and necessarie discourse, for the meeting with the bad garbelling of spices, vsed in these dayes And against the combination of the vvorkemen of that office, contrarie vnto common good. Composed by diuers grocers of London, wherein are handled such principall matters, as followeth in the table, before the booke." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68409.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2024.

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The ground of the Abuses.

FOrsomuch as in the saide actes, the saide manner of garbling of the said spice, so then agreed vp∣on, nor the saide sortes likewise, that the same spices shoulde be deuided and made into, were not expressed in the said Acts, nor sufficientlie recorded in any court, Therefore the Garbeller vnder the Lorde Mayor, garbelleth the said spi∣ces

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as it pleaseth him: and the retaylors grocers by force of the said actes, are inforced to put the same to sale in such manner, as the said Garbel∣lers doo handle them, and in such sort:

That hir maiestie is deceiued in the goodnes and price of the said spice, to a great value in the yeere.

The marchant and owners before their faces are defrauded and deluded, with their owne goods.

The Retaylors are discredited, and their spice in markets and faires are made forfeit, by reason of their corruption, and are in the said book at large expressed.

The price is nothing abated.

And all the people are deceiued.

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