good and euill and of the liues and manners of men for what is there in all this earth so much desired as houses landes Lordships and possessions and to commaund ouer people What els is the end of all so many and so great trauels watch studie so many and so great hazards by Sea land so many shifts sleights deceite and oppressions of all which this world hath béene is euer wil be full against all which who so will holde a thing of so great value he must be well prouided and of great defence and hath néed to haue in him self the strength wisdome councell and iudgement of many and so much the rather by how much his possession is the greater that for two causes First for that in his errour of life fall and misgouernment lyeth the fall ruin and decay of a number what of his owne blood what of his tenaunts faith full fréends and seruants Secondly for that his estate is subiect vnto many enemyes of whom the greatest moste dangerous is the flatterer the olde enemye of all man kinde as the story of our father Adam and mother Eue and the Serpent dooth well declare This mooued Iuno as Ouid fableth to commit Io her Cow vnto Argus to kéep which Argus had an hundred eyes in his head and therfore much a dooe had Mercury to deceiue him with all his swéet songs Musick for when he had brought one of his eyes a sléep yea diuers of them yet waked diuers others and stood vpon their ward and whether his face or his back were toward Io yet he all way behéeld her A reason vvhy Copyholdes Customes and Corporations vvere first ordayned and hovv that Pride Flatterye are the cheefe causes that many a young Gentleman commeth to sell his Lands Chap. 18. ANd surely in mine oppinion this mooued the wise and honorable fathers and Magistrates of olde time to incorporat so great liuings and possessions and also to erect and establish in Lordships so many coppy holdes and custummary tenures as the moste souereign remedy against pride and surcuydrie which commonly accompanieth the priuate singuler sole proprietie in lād possession office or any other thing whatsoeuer also a way and meane to furnish the common welth with many bothe able to deserue wel and to doo good also glad and willing therto vnto the which pride is either the only lot and impediment or els of all other the greatest as he vpon whō flatterie attendeth yea and in such sorte that he leadeth him by the nose vp and down the house making him to beléeue of him self any thing causing him also to delight no while in any one thing whether it be apparail or the fashion therof place person dyet fréend seruaunt Tenaunt or other thing whatsoeuer and this as dayly experience teacheth is the high and ready way to the Vsurers house and from thence to the Extorcioner who dwelleth hard by of which twain by that time he hath takē foorth his lesson kindely I dare be his suretie he will not be hasty to doo good to any good body neither if he would shall he haue wherwith all for either shall he haue no lands lest him at all or if he haue any he shall be glad to let thē déerer then the any honest man shall doo good thereon so that in conclusion bothe the Landlord and the Tenaunt shal be miserable The cause héerof is Pride moste and chéefly as I haue said and often times youth good nature or peraduenture excesse of Pleasure and Sensuall delights where through young Gentlemen are often snared through euill company béeing ouertaken sometime by giuing their woord sometime through bribe of a little present mony sometime by one deceit sometime by an other wherin men are soone pampred uamely such as are of small experience and iudgement and knowe not the false lures of the wicked and vngodly against all which these Corporations and customes are of great force and a great defence for in bothe these cases hardly can they be assaulted much lesse inuaded by any of the enemies aforesaid First for that a corporation is neuer vnder age as for example Maior and Comminaltie Deane and Chapter Wardens and Fellowes and such like whose succession is by election their proprietie is ioint and in common neither can one dooe any thing without the rest and therfore to flatter any one of them vaine and to flatter them all very hard namely mens Natures Wit Iudgements and Affections béeing diuers and euery man willing to maintaine and prefer his owne oppinion or his fréends Pride atteinteth them not for who is proud or at the least so proud of any thing wherein a number hath to commaund as much as he and without whō he can doo nothing then béeing armed against Pride the Father of necessitie and néed they are better fréely to afforde their good woord or déed and therfore in vayne were it to bribe them But admit that any of them would be bribed it were also in vain and would procure the euel wil of all the rest without bribing them all which were heauie and harde to doo So that in any competition made vnto such persons against any olde Fréend Tenaunt Officer or seruaunt it is verie harde to preuaile except it be through his owne great misbehauiour And where it is betwéen méere Sraungers one of them against an other there the best and moste woorthie is sure to spéed for certainly and infallibly there is nothing in all this world so amiable so belooued and fauoured as honestie vertue and godlynes are Where priuate flatterie or briberie stand not in their light as in the case of priuate Owners and proprietaries I haue alleadged that it both may and often dooth And thus much of the Corporatiōs of their effects Now to speake of the customes of Manours the very sāe or like in effect may be said for the Inheritour of customary Land although hée be seased therof to him and to his heires yet can hée not sel it without licence of the Lord and that solemnly graunted by his Steward in open Court and there entred nay hée cannot set or let the same or otherwise impaire the wood or other commodities therof without the licence aforelaid So great an entresse and commaundement hath the Lord therin and yet not to the hinderaunce or preiudice of the Inheritaunce but econtra namely that the selling setting or other gouernment of such a royall possessiō as land is should stand in the Iudgemēt discretiō of diuers those of the ripest best aduised and not to be solde wasted or spoiled through the intemperaunce of one foolish or vngodly man or woman either for néed or necessitie or other wise for flatery or other fōd or foolish affection what soeuer wherin the Lord and his lerned Stuard and the homagers of the Court are Iudges In all which cases it may euidently appéer how great a care those honourable and reuerend Forefathers
executors That is very true also quoth Pierce except they be wicked persons bothe the sufferer and the executor Then quoth our Hoste séeing all punishments are fear full and gréeuous vnto the sufferer therof no pleasure but rather sorowe and gréefe of hart vnto the erecutors therof such and so must néeds be the first causes and occasiōs therof That is very true quoth Pierce You knowe quoth our Hoste that the causes and occasiōs of punishment is sin wickednes and misgouernment of life for the woord of God telleth vs that the reward of sinne is death All that is very true quoth Pierce Very well then quoth our Hoste these Propositions which you haue graunted doo suffise for the matter which I haue taken in hand to prooue which is that these great Fées and charges were neuer ment nor yet are receiued or conuerted into priuate or proper vse I pray you Neighbour quoth Pierce let me heare how it is prooued for I promise you faithfully for any thing I haue yet herd your prooues are farther to fet You knowe quoth our Hoste that the nature of the vngooly is to be quarelous and contencious and dayly prouoking one an other and also to take no wrong doo no right That is very true quoth Pierce You knowe quoth our Host that the common weapō wher with they wil be auēged vpon eche other is the Law which indéed is the Magistrate as ye haue already graunted so that vpon the matter he is made the executor of their wilfulnes and vengeaunce which they will néeds doo vpon eche other which thing you haue alredy confessed to be gréeuous and vnpleasant to euery good man Therfore hath it euer béen and yet is thought and that very wisely and truely that the likeliest way meane to disswade their wilfulnes which no reason looue nor feare of GOD could disswade was to make their wilfulnes as déere and as heauy vnto them as reasonably might be doon to the end that they should not so lightly and for euery trifle ver and trouble bothe the Magistrate one an other which effect although it failed to woork that their madnes would not be restrayned therby that yet their vngodlines might return to the profit and reléefe of others their Neighbours Brethern that were better affected so by one self and same meane the vngodly punished fléeced and the godly amended inriched therby that this was their meaning y was the first assessors therof common experience teacheth vs for in néedfull and necessary actions as debt detinew and account and such like the charges are so reasonable as that no man would in conscience giue lesse The reason is for that they are actions of common right and such as must néeds day by day arise betwéene a man and his Brother neither doo they dishonest either of the parties which I dare not affirm vpon actions vpon cases neither did they so iudge of them as I verily beléeue and therfore did they set double and treble charges thereupon for greater is the charges in a brabble for a woord spoken then for thrée hundred pound of honest det So that the Magistrate who for such Ale house actions and brabbles should otherwise neuer be at rest except he should deny them his help which might be slaunderous and perillous to the whole estate The Magistrate I say of pure pittie and compassion was forced to set great charges vpon them for the small fauour that he bare vnto them vnto their first causes occasions The greatnes of all which charges not withstanding yet doo we dayly sée how the vngodly run togither by heaps like brute beasts and yet I dare safely say that by the greatnes of these charges and the terrour therof many a brabling matter hath béene and is dayly put vp without any reuenge sought therof and many a one hauing pursued and recouered in his action yet haue his charges so gallded him that he hath béene easier to deale with all his life after And so by this meane many a wilfull body brought to knowe him self and to honor God therby I cannot tell Neighbour Simon quoth Pierce but I my self haue had two or thrée brabbles that haue kept me dooing these seuen yéeres in which time I am sure I haue spent abooue fiftie pound beside my charges to and fro losse of time and my hinderaunce at home And what haue ye gotten for all this quoth our Hoste These papers quoth he Wel woorth fiftie points quoth our Hoste I think verily quoth our Hoste if any honest Neighbour had néeded to haue borowed ten Pound therof you would not haue it so ready to haue pleasured him withall If I should say truely quoth Pierce I think the very same What are you assessed vnto the poore in your parish quoth our Hoste A peny a wéek quoth Pierce And think you that enough quoth our Hoste Yea verily quoth Pierce Loe Sir quoth our Hoste whether commeth this vnto my saying and maintenaunce of these great Fées and charges or not Who can deny the excellency of this institution wherby the Couetous vngodly men are shot one against an other and doo punish eche other and wherby also so plentiful prouision is made for the godly poore at their charges and yet no thank to them therfore and that those things from the which they would depart vnto any Honest or godly vse or purpose with as good will as from their eyes to be plucked out of their heads or their tripes out of their bellyes by this meane vndesired of their owne accord they bring it in by handfuls so as it hath béene sayd plentiful prouision made for their godly Neighbours at their charges and yet no thank vnto them therfore Call you this a prouiding for the poore Neighbour quoth Pierce I would I had giuen you the best horse in my Plough to make this saying true and I swere to you quoth he prooue it true and you shall haue him yet or this day Seuen night for that would case my hart if I might perceiue that any godly person hath fared the better or were amended by any parte of all my great expences For then yet should I think that I haue doone some good with all the losse of my money Why Neighbour Pierce quoth Simon doo you doubt that all these sommes or the greatest part therof commeth not to the vse of the common welth and to the reléefe and sustenaunce of the godly poore and other easements of common things in maintenaunce of the common Welth Nay Neighbour Simon quoth he I dout it not for I am fully perswaded the contrary Truely Neighbour Pierce quoth he this is an vncharitable and a very erronious oppinion and that I will prooue vnto you by reasons manifest and apparant such as your self haue alredy graunted confessed I pray you neighbour Simō quoth Pierce let me heare how Simon approoueth these fees and charges as publique and not priuate by
it to the wurst especially if there ensue any euil vnto the partie therby it shal not help the party to say that hée ment him good or at y least no euil therby for although that in felony the intent doo qualifie the fact it is not so in Trespassers wherfore your act was not lawful nor Iusticiable except yée had béen Officers or otherwise the yée had come in found thē dooing some felonious or vnlawful act by means wherof yée had had sufficiēt coullour to haue laid yourhāds vpon thē for euery man is an Officer for peace sake for the preseruaciō therof then quoth hée your case had béen otherwise vnto this wée aunswered that our act in all reason séemed more lawful and tollerable then theirs for that in their exercise there is little good purpose or none at all nor better end or purpose then to induc◠such euil and vnhappy euents and consequents as hapned in this case of ours and that therfore their cause ought not to haue fauour against vs as if wée had hindred or interrupted their honest or lawful exercise in any godlynes or in any thig tending vnto vertue to the glory of God or to the proffit of the common welth His aunswere vnto that was that we are not to dispute of that which the reuerend and honorable Magistrates haue established yea holden in no small reputatiō it falleth for y Magistrates Rulers Officers to beare with them in all incidents casualties otherwise should they disalowe their owne Acts and be contrary vnto them selues which were inconuenient Then wée demannded of him why for the first Viall that was broken the Maister should not bring the action against the Dauncer who in very déed was the breaker therof and not the other man His aunswer therunto was that in very déed wée were bothe Trespassers vnto him alike he at his libertie election to take his remedy aginst vs bothe or against any of vs for quoth hée although the daūser were the materiall cause yet was y other man y efficiēt cause therof asfor proof if a carter wilfully driue his cart ouer a man woman or Childe bothe the cart the horses and the Carter are guiltie of the fact wherof the deaf man is not excusable neither can plead not guiltie to the fact because hée was the first and chéef efficient cause therupon wée mooued vnto him this question why the Musitions them selues should not be said to be the first efficient cause séeing that without their noise the Daūcer would not so haue fared nor taken on neither the deaf man haue taken him for a madde man as bothe you and wée would haue doon if wée had béen in his case and had heard no more then hée heard Vnto that his answere was that whatsoeuer it séemed vnto him or vnto vs it is quoth hée at your peril and at all mens perils els that resorte haunt to such places to put on all our Sences wits and vnderstandings and also to desire God to giue them wisdome and his grace to Iudge wisely wel to digest such things as they heare and sée therin and the wée be not snared in euil thorugh ignorant appetite of our sences vnto our hinderaunces more then wée our selues are able of our selues to Iudge or think for saith hée séeing wée are not able neither is our authoritie to blame or chalenge the places neither to disalowe the things there professed which were to derogate from the Magistrate Yet if wée haue so much grace of God as to be Magistrates vnto our selues and in such cases to blame and reprooue our selues and our owne sences and inordinat desires either in due time before wée are fallen orels in some reasonable time and with our reasonable losse and hinderaunce it may suffice for answere vnto vs by them vnto whome otherwise wée must créep and pray our redresse neither able to craue it at their hands without an inconuenience aforesaid which is condemn and disalowe the things by them selues allowed and established Wée asked him what reason there was that wée should be charged in seuerall actions and vnto seuerall Persons for one trespasse as namely vnto the Maister and also to the seruants His answere thervnto was that the Maister hath a speciall interest in his seruant for the proffit hée is to receiue by his seruice for which seruice hée is to recouer not for the hurt doon vnto the person for the partie him self recouereth for that To be short his resolution was that for all our harmes and losse that wée had gotten wée weare so far from all hope of redresse or amends that wée were in the wurse case in our defēce against thē very like to yéeld amends by iudgement of law And thus you sée quoth Pierce how poore guiltlesse simple men in a far honester cause are put to the wurser end Neighbour Pierce quoth our Hoast as for the be as bée may But truely Neighbour you had but euil successe in going to sée pleasure and to heare Musick and yet trust mée if yée wil I suppose the you sped a great deale better then a nūber spéed in such like places who think neuerthelesse them selues to haue sped there wel and come away right wel contented which in very déed is the only cause why in my fantasie they spéed wurse then you for why you are hurt and féel it but they are hurt but haue no féeling therof vntil their hurt be past all cure for a man is neuer so daungerously sick or sore as when hée hath lost the sence and féeling of the sore or of the sicknes So fareth it in such persons as these for although they féel no euil that they contract and yet in such places yet doo they carry thence with them the séeds and radicall causes of great Infortunes as the woful and lamentable end of many a good mans Childe hath witnessed dayly dooth wil. But truely Neighbour Pierce quoth our Hoast you are waxen more then half a Lawyer by these meanes Nay soft quoth Pierce I haue an other matter to tel you and that almoste as straunge as this and that chaunced to my self in a mischaunce about a foure yéeres past I pray yée let vs heare it quoth our Hoast marry quoth Pierce thus it hapned A Fréend of mine would néeds giue mée my dinner at an Ordinary table where wée fared very daintily but I promise you for myne owne parte I haue thought my self better at ease many a time oft with bread chéese in other Company So Sir in the name of God when dinner was doon in stéed of grace to the dice they went on euery side vpon proper square tables fit I warrāt you for the purpose there to the hazard they go xx s. xl s. v. l. vi l. a cast I stood by and beheld Anon there came a Straunger a plain homely felowe of the Cuntrye much like my self and hée séeing such sums of
our Hoast for there is no courage in him neither hath he the way to help him self to keep you in dooiÌ„g in y he giueth such couÌ„cel to peace quietnes vnto such fellowes as you the would gladly cut hi out woork if him self were not his owne hinderaÌ„ce Nay surely Neighbour ê™ Pierce what councel soeuer he had giuen me therin or what councel he or any other of them all shall héerafter giue me in such matters I am taught alredy though to my cost while I liue to looue peare ensue it to looue mine owne house my honest labour trauel and chéefly abooue all other things to serue God wherin I finde the only stay and comfort of mans life to rest that when all is sought and tried there is none other rule ne leuel wel and surely to guyde order our affaires dooings The application of Pierces tale by the Hoste that the great charges of the Lavv is profitable to the common vvelth and a repressing of vice and sinne Chap. 13. AHa very wel said then quoth our Hoste I am glad that yet at the last ye are come to y point whereunto I haue all this while laboured to bring you which is to coÌ„fesse that these great and excessiue charges and expences haue reformed and changed you from an vngodly troublesome man to a godly wise and prudent man able to giue councell not only priuatly and to your owne fréends and family but also to beare office and authoritie in your Parish yea in y who le Shire where we bothe dwel so that I hope from hencefoorth we shall haue great store of you and that of the greatnes of such fées and charges of sutes in Law and of the first Assessors and the now receiuers therof ye are vtterly concluded estopped to speak or think saue in all honor reuerence Doo you think so Neighbour quoth he Yea verily quothe he for you haue confessed all this your reformation amendmeÌ„t to haue comen thence look what effect it hath wrought in you ye are of charitie bound to think that it hath wrought woorketh wil woork in a number moe then you the mony that you haue or rather think that haue departed froÌ„ is in their hands who are treasurers therof as I haue alleaged towards the good and godly vses intents purposes the may or shall arise héerafter in coÌ„mon benefit to wit seruice of the whole common welth wherin your parte is as far foorth as theirs Doo ye call this a mending Neighbour Simon quoth Peirce In very déed quoth he I must néeds confesse that these great and excessiue Charges and large Expences haue rebuked me haue chastised and amended me but to say that I think or iudge it thank woorthy vnto them that haue receiued my money I say the Deuill kisse his arse that so amendeth me or any fréend of mine for verily such amending in my iudgement deserueth asmuch and the very like thanks as did the Wife who gaue her husband two strong poysons meaning to spéed him in déed but the poysons béeing of contrary natures wrought one vppon an other and destroyed either others force wherby the man béeing hardly handled for a season yet béeing driuen into a lax by their extremetie auoyded them bothe and with them much corruption so that where before he was a very corrupt body he was by their clensings the better xx yéeres after Thus she did him good by accident but far from her intent or purpose and vtterly against her will. And surely they that take so excessiuely of me and of others our money by that kinds of punishment amend and refourme vs I holde them woorthy as much thank therfore as was this Wife at her husbands hand for his amendment which was wrought by her meane For I dare safely vndertake that for our affliction and punishment or for the dishonor of God and other vngodlines that dependeth therupon they are as sorowfull as was the parish Clark of a Town that was sore visited with the Plague who said vnto his wife vpon a day Wife quoth he if there come two corpses to day we will haue a shoulder of Mutton and a quart of Sack to supper if there come but one we will haue a shoulder of Mutton and but a pinte of Sack. Content husband quoth she And veryly I think that as hartily as this good man his Wife prayed for their recouery that were visited so hartily pray these for peace quietnes and the honor and seruice of God and the Godly charitable dealing and liuing of their Neighbours and Bretheren Pierce prooueth that the sufferaunce of vvickednes and vngodlines increaseth their gayne vvho are and should be the rebukers and punishers therof and that to be the cause of great iniustice vnrightuousnes Chap. 14. NEighbour Pierce quoth our Hoste I pray you let me further vnderstand what yée doo meane by this History for it should séeme y ye haue alleadged it against me not with standing that it maketh for me by the wunderfull effect which you your self are forced to confesse that it hath wrought vpon you I knowe what I haue confessed Neighbour quoth Pierce and also in what maner I haue confessed it far enough from your purpose or any confirmation therof And where in maintenance of these great fées and reuenues you haue alleaged that they are publique also how many and how good and godly are the'ffects and frutes therof without proofe made of them or of any one of them either by your owne experience or by other necessary demonstration There in proofe of the contrary to wit y they are proper and priuate and therfore excessiue and vnreasonable which is my assertion I haue brought you this proofe of mine owne experience wherby I haue sufficiently shewed that the first causes of all these great gaines and profits are prosecuted as I haue affirmed and not persecuted as you pretend For I haue partely shewed you héere what leaue libertie the coÌ„mon people namely youth hath to followe their owne lust and desire in all wantâ—nnes and dissolution of life For further proofe wherof I call to witnesse the Theaters Courtaines Heauing houses Kissing boothes Bowling alleyes and such places where the time is so shamefully mispent namely the Sabaoth dayes vnto the great dishonor of God and the corruption and vtter destruction of youth All which I say are either the causes or the effects of these great gaynes and reuenues or els bothe causes and effects interchaungeably For I dare vndertake that if either these gaynes and profits were publique as you pretend or els if there were as great gayn and profit to the Magistrates and Officers in the godly liues and honest conuersation of the common people as there is in the coÌ„trary these harbours of vngodlines misnurture would haue lesse fauour and maintenaunce then they haue and godlines Sobrietie and modestie of liues maners would
may be intreated to giue you a yéer or twain for the rest vpon reasonable consideratioÌ„ the yung man gaue him hartie thanks the money was fetched down couÌ„ted deliuered the assurauÌ„ce made accordiÌ„gly which béeing doon y yungmaÌ„ took his leaue hartily desired me although a méer strauÌ„ger vnto him yet because I was present a witnes of so great curtesie humanitie to go with him to London vnto this Merchants house which I also was content to doo and hauing dispatched the occasion of my there béeing and hauing like wise taken my leaue to London wée came and to to the Merchants house wée went when wée came before this Merchaunt the yung Gentleman began to intreat him as fair as hée could telling him of this good godly Lawyer and of his great compassion his good councell and perswasion desired him to accept this C. I. in part of payment to giue him a yéere or twaine for payment of the rest This Merchant hauing heard all the matter now GOD forbid quoth he that euer a Lawyer should heap coales vpon Merchants head or that a Merchant should not be as willing and as ready to doo a godly déed as a Lawyer hauing receiued at the hands of God the like habilitie therto And there withall hauing receiued the C. l. he tooke his owne bond for the rest to be paid by x. l. a yéere his first pay to begin after the Gentlemans C. l. ful paid and deliuered vnto him all his Indentures and other assurances of the Mortgage and making vs great chéere he let vs depart Now when I would haue taken my leaue of this young Gentleman I could by no meanes forbid him to bring me on my way hitherward as farre as Ware xx miles on this side London where he paid all my charges for that night and the next day we tooke leaue eche of other and departed either of vs toward his owne Thus ye sée how frutefull was the good gratious déed of one man and how it prouoked the zeale of an other to doo the like A A A A A A A Amen quoth Pierce Well quoth our Hoste because you doo so hardly receiue my proofes I will bring you more store of them and such as I am ready to verifye against whom soeuer will deny their trueth An other tale of the Hoste of a vvoorshipfull Lavvyer that made leases to all his Tenants of the Farmes they heeld for Li. yeeres after a straunge sorte and also very vvisely Chap. 17. I Was quoth he in Buckingham Shire not very long sithence at the house of rich Officer toward the Law whom I could name if néed required who during the time of my béeing there made vnto all his Tenants leases of their Farmes wherof I my self am witnes present at their Sealing and deliuerye The leases are for li. yéeres from the day of the date therof the rent referued as followeth Yéelding and paying vnto the said Leassor and his heires yéerely during so many of the said li. yéeres as thinheritaunce shall remaine in him or them not solde exchaunged mortgaged forsaited leased in reuertion or otherwise estraunged v. l. currant money of England and yéelding and paying from and immediatly after any such act doone by him or them or any of them v. sÌ„ yéerly of like currant mony and so after the rate of other rents were they greater or smaller Prouided allwayes that the tenaunt shall not sellset nor let their said Farme or any percel therof without the assent and licence of the said Leassor or his heires of which reseruation I asked him a reason whereunto his answere was this Sée quoth he how hard a matter it is for young Gentlemen vnto whoÌ„ it falleth by the grace and gift of God to be Landlords and owners wisely to order gouern either their possessions lands and reuenues or them selues I know also quoth he that in the wisdome prudency and good gouernment of such standeth the happy and prosperous estate of a common welth and her misery in the contrary and therfore in my iudgement ought all men generally to wish yea and to endeuour that the greatest lands and possessions may be in their hands who bothe can and will order and dispose the same to the honor and glory of God and to the profit of the common welth wherin me thinketh sauing reformation the to often and to common translation of possession is not the least matter nor last to be considered as well for the causes therof which are euill as also for the effects thereof which are wurse The causes that make men to sell their patrimonyes and to spoile their inheritance who knoweth not to be these riot game whordome delight in all vngodly pleasures and pastime of sensualitie shortly the not fearing ef God nor seruing him and the not caring to knowe his will and commandements nor to liue therafter these are the causes The effects are these first the spoyle of the land and the making it barren and bare of all the commodities therof secondly the dislodging and disapointing of the honest Farmers and good house kéepers for their sakes that will bid more then they without any other respect and those are commonly the wicked and vngodly and from thence ariseth infinit sutes and controuersies maintenaunces champerties and such like This causeth lands often to chaunge their tenaunts and inhabitants and by that meanes breacheth dissolueth one of the greatest and surest bonds of looue and fréendship that is or euer was namely coeducation conuersation and acquaintaunce which hatcheth nourisheth and confirmeth looue and fréendship not only betwéene men but euen betwéene the brute and vnreasonable beasts who hauing béene â—â—â—tered long togither in one place will not only looue and defend one an other but also euen the very place wherin they were bred and nourished and they will very hardly be sundred or driuen there from And this is the very law of kinde which can not effectually woork among neighbours of whom some are dayly or yéerly flitting and giuing place vnto new namely such as will bid more the which commonly are the wurser sorte as hath béene already alleaged These are two effects The third is the sinceritie of Iustice also of discipline bothe which it greatly hazardeth namely for y buyers and sellers are Corelatiues and that the one cannot be without the other and for that also the causes of selling spoyling of patrimonies are such as I haue alredy declared These things are right perillous in a common welth and yet doo almoste necessarily followe the to often and common translation of possession and inheritaunce namely where it is by peny purchase against the which neuerthelesse it is meruelous hard to foresée and to prouide I meane for heires and inheritors of Lordships lands and possessions to continue in the same béeing things that so many desire to haue yea often times such as haue in their hands the bridle of libertie or restraint of