him from London (where most of them dwell) or forged by the way,
telling what great likelyhood there is of warres, what danger of
Pirates at Sea, how much of the fore-bought Tynne lieth on their
hands, &c. The owner, on,the other side, stoppeth his eares against
these charmes, answeres his newes with the Spaniards, Credo en Dios,
encounters his reasons, with the present scarcitie and charges of
getting and working Tynne, and so keeping vp the price, Iniquum petit,
ut aequum ferat. In the end, after much bidding, and louing, varying,
and [15] delaying, commonly that Marchant who hath most money to
bestow, and that owner who hath most Tynne to sell, doe make the
price, at which rate the Marchant is bound to yeeld present payment
for so much Tynne as shall be brought him, and, of necessitie, must
bargaine for tenne thousand at the least. Others notwithstanding are
not bound to buy or sell at this price, but euerie man left at
libertie, to make his best market.

The Tynne so sold, hath vsually amounted heretofore to the worth of
thirtie or fortie thousand pound in money, and carried price betweene
twentie and thirtie pound the thousand, sometimes higher, and sometimes
lower, according to the quicke vent and aboundance, or the dead sale
and scarcitie; wherein yet some haue obserued, that this so profitable,
and vendible a marchandize, riseth not to a proportionable
enhauncement, with other lesse beneficiall, and affected commodities,
and they impute it partly to the Easterne buyers packing, partly to
the owners not venting, and venturing the same.

Here I must either craue or take leaue of the Londoners, to lay open
the hard dealing of their Tynne Marchants in this trade. When any
Western Gent, or person of accompt, wanteth money to defray his
expences at London, he resorteth to one of the Tynne Marchants of