“As touching the other defendant Elizabeth Hellyard the courte was fully satisfyed with sufficient matter whereupon to ground a sentence against the defendant Eliz. but shee being a wyfe and subject to obey her husband theyr Lord ships did forbeare to sentence her.”[60] Footnote 60: _S.P.D._, cclx., 21, 1634. Three men, “artificers in glass making,” beg that Lady Mansell may either be compelled to allow them such wages as they formerly received, or to discharge them from her service, her reduction of wages disabling them from maintaining their families, and driving many of them away.[61] Lady Mansell submits a financial statement and account of the rival glassmakers’ attempts to ruin her husband’s business, one of whom “hath in open audience vowed to spend 1000li, to ruine your petitioners husband joyninge with the Scottish pattentie taking the advantage of your petitioners husbands absence, thinckinge your petitioner a weake woman unable to followe the busines and determininge the utter ruine of your petitioner and her husband have inticed three of her workemen for windowe glasse, which shee had longe kepte att a weeklie chardge to her great prejudice to supplie the worke yf there should be anie necessitie in the Kingdome,” etc., etc., she begs justice upon the rivals, “your petitioner havinge noe other meanes nowe in his absence (neither hath he when he shall returne) but onelie this busines wherein he hath engaged his whole estate.”[62] Footnote 61: _S.P.D._, cxlviii., 52, 1623. Footnote 62: _S.P.D._, dxxi., 147. Addenda Charles I., 1625. Able business women might be found in every class of English society throughout the seventeenth century, but their contact with affairs became less habitual as the century wore away, and expressions of surprise occur at the prowess shown by Dutch women in business. “At _Ostend_, _Newport_, and _Dunkirk_, where, and when, the _Holland_ pinks come in, there daily the Merchants, that be but Women (but not such Women as the Fishwives of _Billingsgate_; for these _Netherland_ Women do lade many Waggons with fresh Fish daily, some for _Bruges_, and some for _Brussels_, etc., etc.) I have seen these Women-merchants I say, have their Aprons full of nothing but _English Jacobuses_, to make all their Payment of.”[63] Footnote 63: _England’s Way_, 1614. _Harleian Misc._, Vol. III., p. 383.