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
his acquaintance, to borrow some: but they shall as soone wrest the
Clubbe out of Hercules fist, as one penie out of their fingers,
vnlesse they giue bond for euerie twentie pound so taken in lone, to
deliuer a thousand pound waight of Tyn at the next Coynage, which
shal be within two or three months, or at farthest within half a yeere
after.
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