Reasons humbly offered to the consideration of the high court of Parliament by the drapers, mercers, haberdashers, grocers, hosiers, and other trading house-keepers of this nation, of the great decay of their trades ; that there are a sort of people called by the name of pedlars, hawkers, and petty-chapmen, who contrary to law, do carry about, dispose and sell in all the cities ... very great quantities of several sorts of goods and commodities belonging to the said tradesmen, and to the great inconvenience and danger of the whole nation in general, in these particulars following; viz