[149] Ibid., 1620, Jan. ? (There are several petitions against other intruders also, by the countenance of the City of London, “who wish to engross all markets.”)
[150] Ibid., 1620, Jan. ?
[151] Ibid., 1620, Jan. 28.
[152] Ibid., 1620, Feb. 21.
[153] State Papers, Domestic, 1622. Several petitions from North Wales against the Proclamation.
[154] Ibid., 1621. Petition of Drapers of Shrewsbury.
[155] Ibid., 1621, May 21. Petition of Clothiers of North Wales: the Drapers of Shrewsbury are trying to draw all trade to Shrewsbury, which will be their ruin.
[156] State Papers, Domestic; Oswestry Corporation Records, printed in S. A. S. Vol. III.
[157] In 1622 the Bailiffs had requested a loan from the Mercers towards the establishing of a market for Welsh cloth in Shrewsbury.
[158] The traders of Liverpool seem to have been the first to do this, so far as the Welsh trade of Shrewsbury was concerned. Cf. Owen’s Shrewsbury.