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.

Title

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.

Author

Grocers' Company (London, England)

Publication

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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Subject terms

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 3, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the Right Honourable Sir William Webbe Knight, Lord Mayor of Lon∣don, and to the right Worshipfull the Aldermen of the same Cittie his brethren.
• To the discreet and vertuous Readers.
• table of contents
• Reformation for Garbelling.
  • Chap. 1.
  • Chap. 2.
    • Nutmegges.
    • Pepper.
    • Maces and Cynamon.
    • Ginger, Gaules, Rise and Erreus.
    • Cloues, Graines, Woormseed, Anniseed, Commin∣seed, Dates, Senie, and all other things garbellable.
  • Chap. 3.
  • Chap. 4.
  • Chap. 5.
    • Pepper.
    • Maces and Cynamon.
    • Ginger, Gaules, Rise and Erreus.
    • Cloues, Graines, Woormseed, Anniseed, Commin∣seed, Dates, Senie, and all other things garbellable.
  • Chap. 6.
  • Chap. 7.
  • Chap. 8.
  • Chap. 9.
    • Cloues.
    • Maces.
    • Synamon.
    • Nutmegges.
    • Ginger.
    • Gawles.
    • Ryse.
    • Annyseedes.
    • Wormeseedes.
    • Greines, Almonds, Dates, Seenie, Comminseed, Turmerick, and such like.
  • Chap. 10.
    • Pepper.
    • Cloues.
    • Maces.
    • Synamon.
    • Nutmegges.
    • Ginger.
    • Gawles.
    • Ryse.
    • Annyseedes.
    • Woormeseed.
  • Chap. 11.
• Heere ensueth the petition and orders, required of the workemen in garbelling of the principall garbel∣ler, for the dissoluing of such complaintes as were mooued against them (as they pretend) the which for that the same do conteine many things worthie to be regarded: therefore we haue added the same to this discourse, as very pertinent thereto.
  • The proofe of the gaine heereby.
  • Our agreement beeing nine workemen with eight Labourers nowe imployed, whose number are not to be increased, will handle all the businesse as is declared in this man∣ner following.
  • The Oath we meane to take.
• Heere insueth the Acts of Common Councell before remembred, made in Anno xviii. of King Henry the eight: and in Anno the se∣conde of King Edward the sixt, concerning the Garbelling of spices, drugges, and Mar∣chandize, in London.
  • To the right Honorable Lord, the lord Mayor of this Cittie of London, and the Worshipfull Aldermen, his brethren, and to the descreet commons, of this present Common counsell assembled.
  • The Rates and prises what the garbeller shall take for garbelling all manner of Spices, and other things that ought to be garbelled, rated, and prised, the xiii. of August, Anno 1526. by the wardens of the grocers in london, and the sociates, as heereaf∣ter dooth ensue.
  • Commune Consilium tent. apud Guildhall Ciuitatis London, desimo septimo, die Iunii, Anno. Regni Edwardi Sexti, secundo, Coram.
  • The oath of the common Garbeller.
• An Appendix declaring, that forsomuch as the request of the authors, doo lie dispersed in this booke, and least it should seeme to car∣ry abroad, an vnseruiceable mention of mat¦ters therein: therfore they, for a careful re∣fining thereof, haue collected as readie (for such Commissioners as may be appointed, or if any such hap to be) for the due exami∣nation of the necessity of their saide petiti∣ons, the contents of the said booke, and the breefe of such things, as they do sue to haue reformed, and to haue passed to an Acte of Common councell in London, the rather, for that these presence may beare the better credit, by a conference with such commis∣sion, whereby the same Art of Garbelling, may be indued with the life of some lawe, for the benefit of the Common-wealth.
  • The briefe Contents of the Booke.
  • The ground of the Abuses.
  • The conclusion of the booke, and the matters therein required, to be enacted and to be for euer obserued, if it shall be so thought requisite by the Commit∣tees appointed.