I cannot utter with my tongue, or conceive with my heart, the great grievances that: the town and country, for which I serve, suffereth by some of these monopolies.

It bringeth the general profit into a private hand, and the end of all this is beggary and bondage to the subjects.

We have a law for the true and faithful currying of leather.

There is a patent sets all at liberty, notwithstanding that statute.

And to what purpose is it to do any thing by act of parliament, when the queen will undo the same by her prerogative?
Out of the spirit of humiliation, Mr.Speaker, I do speak it, there is no act of hers that hath been or is mores derogatory to her own majesty, more odious to the subject, more dangerous to the commonwealth, than the granting of these monopolies." Mr.Martin said, "I do speak for a town that grieves and pines, tor a country that groaneth and languisheth, under the burden of monstrous and unconscionable substitutes to the monopolitans of starch, tin, fish, cloth, oil, vinegar, salt, and I know not what; nay, what not?
The principalest commodities, both of my town and country, are engrossed into the hands of these bloodsuckers of the commonwealth.