“Als de Engelsen niets hadden gedaan,” zo schreef hij, “zouden de Belgen nog steeds textiel voor hen produceren, [en] zou Engeland nog steeds de schapenhouder voor de [Hanzeliga] zijn geweest.”
“Had the English left everything to itself,” he wrote, “the Belgians would be still manufacturing cloth for the English, [and] England would still have been the sheepyard for the [Hanseatic League].”