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A13968	To the Kings most excellent Maiestie. The humble petition of two sisters the Church and Common-wealth: for the restoring of their ancient commons and liberties, which late inclosure with depopulation, vncharitably hath taken away: containing seuen reasons as euidences for the same.	Trigge, Francis, 1547?-1606.	1604 (1604)	STC 24280; ESTC S119477	42,513	118

passe not for that Let all such great sheepe-maisters that are decaiers of tillage take héede which will haue no seede furrowes nor haruests nor greatly passe not for them they contradict hoerein Gods ordinance as this place prooues And after we read of Noah as of an obedient subiect to God héerein thus And Noah began to be Ish Haadhmah that is a man wholy giuing himselfe to labour in the earth and he planted a vineyard To plant a vineyard is correspondent in some countries to our sowing of corne and an acre of Mines yeeldes better increase then an acre of our Corne as I haue heard Isaak also as heire of Noah did follow his steps and though a straunger in Aegypt yet we read of him thus And Isaak did sowe corne in that countrie and he found in that yeere an hundred measures and God blessed him Shall Isaak sowe being a stranger in Aegypt and not wée at home Did hée finde an hundred measures for one For so Munster saith that the Chalde Paraphrast doth erpound this And shall we say that we can finde no commoditie by tillage And it followes God blessed him a blessing of God followes tillage They shall not thriue that decay it as erperience teacheth God appeated to Gedeon as he was threshing and appointed him Iudge ouer Israel And doth not this commend threshing Elizeus also whom God did chuse to bee a Prophet in Eliah his roome was a great maintainer of tillage for thus we reade And Eliah departed thence and found Elishah the sonne of Shaphat who was plowing with twelue yoke of oxen before him and he was with the twelue And was not Elizeus a great husbandman who had twelue yoke of oxen and no doubt many plowes going together in his field and many plowmen among whom after hée deuided those two oxen which he killed And doe not all these so beloued of God and giuing themselues so greatly to tillage commend it vnto vs shall we prefer pasture and neglect this Master Camden writes that in England were the stately Palaces of Lady Ceres meaning great Barnes of corne Now we may see in some places some such great Barnes still and Inclosers makes them stande emptie I know whereas 1500. quarters of corne hath béene yéerely growing since inclosure hath beene practised there groweth not now 500. And againe he writes that England for corne was the onely storehouse of all the west Empire And that out of England yeerely the Romanes transported 400. shippes bigger then barkes laden with corne to relieue their souldiers that lay on the borders in Germany In those daies England was able to relieue other countries with corne but sometime now she is glad to buie corne of other countries her selfe Inclosers haue partlie brought this to passe who had rather haue their wooll-houses filled with wooll then their Barnes with corne O dishonorable children to their mother The Preacher also in his booke writes verie excellently in the commendation of tillage If in a countrie saith hée thou seest the oppression of the poore and the defrawding of iudgment and iustice be not afraide at the matter for hee that is higher then the highest regardeth and there be higher then they And the aboundance of the earth is ouer all the King also consists of the field that is tilled Salomon giueth an Item to all that deale hardly with the poore how that the God of heauen beholdeth Nay Shomer as it is in the Hebrew that is marketh and keepeth in memorie all their dealings And that the tillage of the earth surpasseth all and that euen the King thereby is maintained by the foode that it ministreth to strengthen his people and by the multitude of valiant souldiers it affordeth for his warres For as Plinie writes Most strong and valiant souldiers are made of husbandmen and come foorth of the countrie and which thinke no harme And shall wée deale hardly with those that must fight and aduenture their liues for vs And shall wée not maintaine tillage the honorable mother of chiualrie Lechem in Hebrew signifies bread and Lacham to fight They therfore which destroy bread destroy chiualry Nay how can any christian truly say the Lords prayer and pray Giue vs this day our daily bread that decaieth tillage Will he pray for bread and not vse the ordinary meanes to haue bread which is tillage This is plainely to tempt God Will he haue God feede vs miraculously with Manna as hee did Israel in the wildernes In Canaan God will haue plowing and sowing vsed And therefore after the children of Israel came into the lande of Canaan Manna ceased That historie also of the plague in King Dauids daies must teach vs some thing and therein that is especially to be marked to build an Altar in the threshing floore of Araunah It should seeme that God loues threshing flooers and there hée will be praised But Inclosure decaieth tillage and therefore God is not praised in our threshing fl●oers This may be a cause of the plague amongst vs euen now Let vs erect Altars in the threshing flooers of Araunah and the plague shall cease Inclosers doe thinke that there are too manie men in this lande and that they may decaie townes by their Inclosure and that it is no great matter to ●e●aie a towne But God s●●th their thoughts and now he beginneth to diminish the people of this land hee may diminish them as well as they and he beginneth at the very head first Couetousnesse which is the roote of all euill which our Sauiour describes in the Gospel and S. Paul to Timothie and pride which God hates and resists which Esay also paints out vnto vs in his third chapter at large the taking Gods name in vaine for filthy lu●re For which God wil not hold vs guiltles c. And because deceite and guile goe not out of our streetes And for that by our wicked liues Gods word is euill spoken of These no doubt may séeme to bée the causes of the plague amongst vs God giue all men eies to see their sinnes and to amend them that the plague may cease and especially Citizens and such as inhabit in townes corporate amongst whom these sinnes commonly raigne A second reason against this Inclosure is that it dispeopleth townes THe people are called Gods inheritance Aske of me will giue thee the heathen for thine inheritance the ends of the earth for thy possession And again Behold saith Dauid childrē are the inheritance of the Lord a reward the fruite of the wombe He putteth behold before this his doctrine as though it were a strange thing and yet most true Secondly he addeth that children are a reward Inclosers manie times lacke this reward they loue the earth so wel that God wil not blesse them with many sonnes Nay Dauid addeth Like as the arrowes in the hand of the Gyant so are the children of

hanged for their labours or else wander vp and downe and begge and then also are cast into prison as vagrant persons seeing no man will set them a worke when as they doe most willingly offer their seruices For now there is nothing to be done about husbandrie wherein they haue beene brought vp all their liues when as there is nothing sowen For now one Sheepeheard and one Neat-heard is sufficient to looke to that ground with cattell to the tillage whereof that it might beare corne many mens hands and labours were required And by this meanes it commeth to passe that in many places Corne waxeth very deare We may note here first how that Sir Thomas More being a Papist yet touched this sinne euen in Abbots and that in the darkenes of Poperie and shall not we condemne it in the light of the Gospell Secondly he affirmes that it makes beggers and that it makes théeues and causeth a dearth of corne in our land nay it pulleth downe Townes If in his daies it wrought these mischiefes when as it began but to set in foote into this Common-wealth what hath it done since which hath growne to the very heart thereof nay what will it doe in the ende if it procéede as it hath begun if some stay and remedie be not had It will no doubt begger and quite decay the Common-wealth of England How many farmes now stand emptie since Inclosers began or onely with some seruants in them which dare giue nothing not knowing their maisters pleasure so hospitalitie is quite thereby decayed How many poore men lacke worke as threshers and poore women as spinners and doe complaine for lacke of their accustomed workes and how many poore mens children are inforced to begge or else liue idely which heretofore where tillage was maintained were taken into seruice to driue the plough or to keepe cattell thereby in time grew to be good members in the Common-wealth which Inclosers néed not The seauenth reason This Inclosure with depopulation is a sin whereof God shall make speciall inquirie at the day of iudgement IT is written in the booke of Genesis that the earth was full of crueltie and that that was the principall cause of the drowning thereof and it is to be feared that this shall be the cause of the burning thereof as appeareth in the 25. of Math. verse 42. 43. The Prophet Dauid thus manifestly prophesieth of Christs comming to iudgement The Lord shall arise and haue mercie vpon Syon for the áppointed time is come for all thy seruants haue great pleasure in her stones and it pitieth them to see her in the dust And all nations shall feare thy name O Lord and all the kingdomes of the earth thy glorie for the Lord doth builde Syon and he will be seene in his glorie He hath had respect vnto the prayer of Hangareger as it is in the Hebrew that is of the poore afflicted and he hath not despised their supplication This shall be written Ledhor acharon for the last generation of the world And the people created shall praise the Lord. Here we may marke first that this Psalm prophesies of our daies and that this lesson concernes vs. The time is now come for God to arise to iudgement and to haue mercie vpon Syon And then is it not written for vs that liue in the ende of the world Oh that we would marke it The lesson is this that all Gods seruants rather delight in the stones of Syon that is in the Lords shéepe and faithfull seruants more than in their flockes of sheepe or in their braue walles and high Towres and it pitieth them to see these stones troden vnder foote and lye in the dust and to be made no account off And that in the Sun-shine of the Gospell when all nations shall feare the name of the Lord and all the Kings of the earth his glory by the preaching of his word But God doth build Syon and will be seene in his glorie There be some as should seeme that haue pulled downe Syon and Gods Church and these his stones But God himselfe will build it vp againe saith the Prophet and will be seene in his glory Let all depopulators of townes themselues build vp the Lords Syon and farmes againe least if that they suffer God to build them when as he comes in his glorie that his building be too costly for them and cost them not some hundreth pounds of money which now perchance they are loth to disburse but the damnation of their soules For God hath a regard vnto the prayer Hangaregar that is of the poore afflicted that is trampled vnder foote and made no account of but is as a broome as that word signifieth and hath not despised their supplications The iust men should florish in Gods house like to Palme trees and we haue made them like broome euen béesomes to swéepe and make cleane our houses And doe we thinke that God will not reuenge this Who sées not such broomes almost in euery place that is many good farmes pulled downe and lye in the dust to swéepe and beutifie and build a new braue and stately house Let all such as make the Lords Palmes their broome béesomes to swepe their houses with all take héede at the day of iudgement God shall search out diligently for all such and without spéedy repentance and planting his palmes againe shall cast them into hell This is written for the last generation as Arias Montanus translates it and doth it not concerne vs And a people Nicrah created shall praise the Lord. This word Nicrah also that is a people created doth most manifestly portray out vnto vs our daies The Church of God was not seene was as no body was in the wildernes and now God hath as it were created it againe and brought it into light and this people shall praise the Lord. Nay to confound Popery all Gods people are created againe to good works there is no naturall faculties remaining in them to doe good as the Papists teach The people created shall praise the Lord. God ceased his creation of natural things the seauenth day as we reade in Genesis And therefore the Prophet Dauid no doubt meanes another spirituall creation and the regeneration of our Soules And to this place for all Scripture hath a most pleasant and sweete harmonie in it selfe if any one doe marke it doth Saint Paul allude when as he saith we are created in Iesus Christ to good works And Esay also prophesieth in the ende of the world of such couetous worldlings The earth also saith he playeth the hypocrite because of the inhabitants thereof for they haue transgressed the lawes they haue changed the ordinances and customes and they haue broken the euerlasting couenant here is plainely set downe why the earth doth not now of late yéelde her accustomed increase Because the inhabitantes thereof haue changed the ordinances of their Ancestors and