While the Flemings were not allowed to purchase cloth in England, the English merchants could not buy it from the clothiers, and the clothiers were obliged to dismiss their workmen, who began to be tumultuous for want of bread.

The cardinal, to appease them, sent for the merchants, and ordered them to buy cloth as usual: they told him that they could not dispose of it as usual; and, notwithstanding his menaces, he could get no other answer from them.[*] An agreement was at last made to continue the commerce between the states, even during war.
It was not till the end of this reign that any salads, carrots, turnips, or other edible roots were produced in England.

The little of these vegetables that was used, was formerly imported from Holland and Flanders.[**] Queen Catharine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose.

The use of hops, and the planting of them, was introduced from Flanders about the beginning of this reign, or end of the preceding.
* Hall, fol.

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** Anderson, vol.i.p.