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A54682	The antiquity, legality, reason, duty and necessity of præ-emption and prourveyance, for the King, or, Compositions for his pourveyance as they were used and taken for the provisions of the Kings household, the small charge and burthen thereof to the people, and the many for the author, great mischiefs and inconveniences which will inevitably follow the taking of them away / by Fabian Philipps.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1663 (1663)	Wing P2004; ESTC R10010	306,442	558

Anno 1487. in an Act of Parliament made by King James the third anent strange●s bringing in victuals and utheris merchandice it is provided that quhair any victuals of merchandise cummis gaining for the King that his Comptroller after that the price be maide with the strangers sall have sa meikle of the first and best as is needful to the Kings proper use for the quihilk full payment but delay and their learned Craig in the Reign of our King James doubts not to reckon the Angari● Parangariae plaustrorum navium praestationes furnishing of Carriages and Ships for publick uses inter ea quae Regalia dicuntur quae in annexo patrimonio numerantur amongst those Regalities which are annexed to the Crown of Scotland eo quod ad conservandam Regni dignitatem ex consensu ordinum constituta sunt in regard that by the consent of the Estates is thereby conserved the dignity of the Kingdom And their Ce●sus Cani Rent or Provision quh●●t beir aytes or uther kind of victuals reckoned by Bolls of Wheat and Chalders of victuals not yet forsaken or laid by may induce any man to believe that they were well acquainted with those just and ancient observances And in that Charter of our King Johns at Running Mede near Stanes being the same word for word which was after so long and bloody warres confirmed by King Henry the third which was made when his weaker forces were ready to be encountred by a farre stronger of his boysterous Barons there is no denying of Prae-emption and the reasonable part of Pourveyance the former of which as long as the fifth Commandement in the Decalogue and the acknowledgements and respects of inferiors to superiors the honor due to Kings Patribus Patriae and the common civilities of mankind shall continue in force and be practised and unrepealed is certainly to be continued and should not be disturbed by any the Sons of men who would preserve the honour and dignity of their Prince and Common Parent for it was there only agreed that nullus constabularius vel Ballivus noster capiat blada vel alia Catalla alicujus nisi statim inde reddat denarios No Constable or Bayliff of the King shall without present payment take any Corn or Cattle of any mans aut respectum inde habeat de voluntate venditoris unless the Seller should be contented to give day for it Et nullus Ballivus noster vel Vice-comes vel alius capiat equos vel caretas alicujus pro cariagio faciendo nisi reddat liberationem antiquitus statutum scilicet pro careta ad duos equos decem denarios per diem pro careta ad tres equos quatuordecim denarios per diem And that none of the Kings Bailiffs Under Sheriffs or other take any mans carts or horses for the Kings carriages without paying the antient rate or Livree appointed that is to say for a Cart and two Horses ten pence a day and for a Cart and three Horses fourteen pence Nor did the Conservatores libertatum Angliae enforced upon King Henry the third in his troublesome Reign make any quarrels or restrictions concerning it In Charta Foreste made at the same time no Foster or Bedil was to make Scota●● or gather Garb Oats Corn Lamb or Pig nor any gathering but by the view and oath of twelve Rangers the Exception allowing the things in casibus non exceptis and proving that such things might in such manner be then reasonably and lawfully taken And in that Kings Regin Writs were frequently sent to the Sheriffs as appeareth in the close Rolls to make provisions of Mutton Puletry Geese Eggs c. against Christmas and other principal Feasts and sometimes to the Chamberlains of London to make provision of wine Spices and Furres to be paid de denariis Regis and at other times to some others to make provision of Corn Bacon c. for fortifying a Castle promising that the Sheriff should make payment and be allowed upon his accompt out of the profits of the County so as although the provisions for the Kings own Houshold or for publick uses were not taken without monies to be paid for them yet they were as it may well be supposed at reasonable prices and by a priviledge or prerogative of Praeemption and not alwayes at such prices as the avaritious humour of the Sellers should exact when the Sheriffs in their Turns or Leets might compel them to reasonable rates And Sir Edward Coke will hardly be brought off from a mistake in alledging in his Comment upon the Statute of Artic●li super Chartas that when the Kings of Englands provisions began to fail and could not be had as formerly out of their own Demeasnes there were Markets kept at the Court gates which being not in the Reign of King Henry the first who changed his Provision Rent into money doe not appear to have been afterwards in his time or of the next succeeding Kings Stephen Henry the 2. Richard the 1 or King John and King Hen. 3. who needed not to have made use of his Sheriffs to have furnished his Christmas or other houshold provisions if Markets with that decency and regard which belonged to a Kings Court where those great Kings and a daily confluence of their then no small Nobility with their usual Trains and Attendants and many times forreign Princes or their Ambassadors were to pass had been or were then kept at the Court gates for Britton who wrote in the Reign of King Edward the first only saith that the Clerk of the Market or he which was to look to the measures was to goe with his Standard from Market to Market when he found the Market to be within the Virg● otherwise to make the Bayliffs to appear before him Tertio Ed. 1. ca. 7. it was enacted that of Prises taken by the Constables or Castellanes upon such folk as be not of the Towns where the Castles are no Constable or Castellane from thenceforth should exact any price or like thing of any other then of such as be of the Town or Castle and that it be paid or else agreement made within forty daies if it be not an antient price due to the King or to the Castle or the Lord of the Castle Tempore Ed. 1. ca. 2. It was ordained that no Officers of the King or of his Heirs should take Corn Leather Cattel ot any other goods of any manner of person without the good will and assent of the party to whom the goods belonged And ca. 3. the King granted for him and his Heirs that all Clerks Lay-men of the Land should have their Laws Liberties and free Customes as largely and wholly as they have used to have the same at any time when they had them best And if any Statutes have been made by him or his Ancestors or any Customes brought in contrary to them

the comfort of the Lands belonging to a Deanery Prebenda or Prebendship of Lands and other Revenues annexed to the Cathedrals many if not most of which with the Deanerles and Prebendships thereunto belonging as the Deanerie and twelve Prebends of Westminster by Queen Elizabeth were of the foundation and gift of the Kings Royal Progenitors Which comfortable and necessary supports of our Bishops administred by their Clergie are ex antiquo and long agoe resembled by some or the like usages in Ireland where the Coloni or Aldiones such as hold in Socage of the Irish Bishops did besides their Rents and Tributes erga reparationes Matricis Ecclesiae quidpiam conferre give something yearly towards the reparation of the Cathedral or Mother Churches and the Herenaci another sort of Tenants so called did besides their annual rent cibarià quaedam Episcopo exhibere bring to the Bishop certain provisions for his Houshold which was very frequent with the Tenants of Lands holden of our English Abbies and Religious Houses by an inquisition in the County of Tirone in anno 1608. it was by a Jury presented upon oath that there were quidam Clerici sive homines literati qui vocentur Herinaci certain learned men of the Clergy who were called Herinaci ab antiquo seisiti fuerunt c. And anciently were seised of certain lands which did pay to the Arch-bishop or Bishop of the Diocess quoddam charitativum subsidium refectiones pensiones annuales secundum quantitatem terrae consuetudinem patriae a dutifull and loving aid and some provisions and pensions according to the quantity of their lands and custome of their Country and the grants of such lands as appeareth by a Deed of the Dean and Chapter of Armach in Anno Domini 1365. to Arthur and William Mac Brin for their lives and the longer liver of them at the yearly rent of a mark and eight pence sterling una cum aliis oneribus servitiis inde debitis consuetis with all other charges and services due and accustomed had in them sometimes a condition of quam diu grati fuerint obedientes so long as they should be gratefull and obedient unto them Wherefore the Barons Nobility and Gentry of England who did lately enjoy those beneficiall Tenures by Knight-service now unhappily as the consequence and greater charges and burdens upon the people will evidence converted as much as an Act of Parliament in the twelfth year of the Reign of his Majesty that now is can doe it into Socage which were at the first only given for service and assistance of their King and Country and their mesne Lords in relation thereunto and have besides the before recited conditions many a beneficiall custome and usage annexed and fixed unto them and at the dissolution of the Abbies and Religious Houses had much of the Lands given and granted unto them and their Heirs in tail or otherwise with a reservation of a Tenth now a great deal below the value can doe no less in the contemplation of their honours dignities and priviledges received from them and many great favours continued unto their Heirs and Successors from Generation to Generation then doe that in the matter of Praeemption Pourveyance or Contribution towards the Composition or serving in of victuals or Provision for his Majesties Royal Houshold and the honor of his House and Kingdome which their Ancestors did never deny The Lord Maiors of London who doe take and re-receive yearly a payment or Tribute called Ale-silver and the Citizens of London who doe claim and enjoy by the Kings Grants Charters or Confirmations a freedom from all ●olls Lastage throughout England besides many other large priviledges and immunities and the Merchants of England and such as trade and trauell through his Ports and over his Seas into forrain parts and are not denied their Bills of Store to free their Trunks and wearing Clothes and other necessaries imported or exported from paying any Custome and other duties which with many other things disguised and made Custome-free under those pretences for which the Farmers of the Customes have usually had yearly allowances and defalcations would amount unto a great part of the peoples pretended damage by the compositions for Royall Pourveyance should not trouble themselves with any complaints or calculations of it when as both Citizens and Merchants can derive their more then formerly great increase of trade and riches from no other cause or fountain then the almost constant ●esidence of the King and Courts of Justice in or near London and the many great priviledges granted unto them and obtained for them by the Kings and Queens of England The Tenants in ancient Demeasne claiming to be free from the payment of Tolls for their own houshold provisions and from contribution unto all wages assessed towards the expences of the Knights of the Shires or Burgesses sent unto the Parliament which Sir Edward Coke believes was in regard of their helping to furnish the Kings Houshold provisions though since granted to other persons and their services turned into small rents now much below what they would amount unto and many Towns and Corporations of the Kingdome the Resiants in the Cinque Ports and Romney Marsh Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the Colledges and Halls therein and the Colledges of Winton and Eaton claiming to be acquitted from the payment of Subsidies by antient Exemptions may be willing to pay or bear as much as comes to their share in that one of the smallest parts of duty which is not to be refused by such as will fear God and honour the King And all the Subjects of England who enjoy their Common of Estovers in many of the Kings Woods or Forrests Pannage or feeding of Swine with Acorns or fetching of Ferne from thence Priviledges of Deafforrestations Assart lands Pourlieus and Browse wood and have Common of Vicinage and Common appendant not only therein but in most of his Manors by a continuance or custome of the charity or pitty of his Royal Progenitors and where they have no grant to produce for those and many other favours will for refuge and to be sure not to part with it fly to praescription and time beyond the memory of man and suppose that there was a grant thereof because that possibly there might have been one should not think much to let him pertake of some of their thanks and retributions which will not amount to one in every twenty for all the benefits which they have received of his Royal Ancestors or doe yearly receive of him Nor should forget that God Almighty the maker of heaven and earth giver of all good things and bestower of blessings who fed his people of Israel with Quails in the Wilderness where none were bred Manna where none was either before or since and made the Rocks to yeild water did in his Theocraty or Government of them by his Laws and Edicts written

Praeemption Pourveyance or Compositions for it when it concerns him so much and so nearly in his honour and the daily bread and sustenance of himself and his Royal Family when he expendeth for want of his Pourveyances or compositions for them yearly more then he did when he enjoyed them as may appear by a just accompt and calculation lately made by his Majesties special command no less then seventy three thousand six hundred seaven pounds fourteen shillings and seaven pence in his Houshold and Stable provisions besides the extraordinaries of Carriages for his Navy Provisions and Ammunition and what would have been added unto it if he had as other Kings or Princes gone his Sommer Progress when the want of it is so unbecomming a King and the aspect of it when he had it was in CHAP. IV. The right use of the Praeemption and Pourveyance and Compositions for them SO lovely and very well imployed and canont by rules of truth reason and understanding be gainsaid by the most disffaected and worst of Subjects when they shall but please to take into their consideration That the magnificence and bounty of a King in his house and the method and manner used therein is no small part of the increase continuance and support of his power reverence honor and awe which are so necessary and essentiall to the good and well-being of a King and his People as they cannot be wanted but are and should be the adjuncts and concomitants of the Royall or Princely dignity and like Hypocrates Twins subsist in one another which the wisdome of the Antients as well as modern and all Nations and People under the Sun and even the naked wild and savage part of them have by a Jure Gentium and eternall Law of Nature derived from divine instinct allowance and patern in the infancy of the world and through all the times and ages of it so well approved as they could never think fit to lay aside or disuse the practise of it for it cannot be by any rule of reason supposed that the fifth Commandement being at the Creation of mankind after Gods own Image written in the heart of him and all his after Generations and justly accompted to be comprehended in those Precepts of the Law of Nature and the righteous Noah with which the world was blessed as well before the flood as afterwards and before the Children of Israel had received the Decalogue or ten Commandements in the dread and astonishment of Gods appearance to Moses in Mount Sinai there was not a distinction at the first and all along holden and kept betwixt Parents and Children and Kings or common Parents and their Subjects in the fear and reverence of Children to Parents and of Subjects to their Kings and Soveraigns when as Noah though preaching to the old world in vain and to no purpose as they made it was so mighty a man and so well beloved and observed as he could by Gods direction cause to be brought into the Ark two of every sort of the species of all irrationall living creatures in order to their preservation for the Generations which were to survive the threatned deluge which without some more then ordinary extent of power could not be compassed by him if he had been but an ordinary man or but one of the common people who hearkened not unto his preaching and had no better an opinion of his Ark or Floating-house then as a Dilirium or his too much adoring the Images of his own phantasie Pharaoh King of Egypt having those requisites and decorums which the Kings and Princes of those early dayes had appertaining to their Royall super-eminence and dignities could upon Josephs extraordinary deserts array him in fine linnen and silks put a gold chain about his neck make him to ride in his second Charriot and cause a Cry or Proclamation to be made before him that every man should bow the knee David that was but the Sonne of Jesse the Bethlemite and once a Keeper of his Fathers few sheep as his envying brother told him in the Wilderness or Common and was taken as God himself said from the Sheep-coat would not when he came to be King omit the dues and regalities which belonged unto Kings though he could in a gratefull acknowledgment say unto God Who am I O Lord God and what is my house that thou hast brought me hither but could think it comely and fitting for him as a King to dwell in a house of Cedars And King Solomon his Son who expending 7 years in the building of the Temple and House of God was thirteen years in building of his own house and another magnificent and stately house of the Forrest of Lebanon and another for the Queen his Wife which was the Daughter of Pharaoh had 300 shields of beaten gold three pound to every shield put into his house of the Forrest his sumptuous Throne of Ivory over-laid with the best gold the like whereof was not in any Kingdome drinking vessels and all the vessels of Gold in that house and kept that state and order in his Tables in the sitting of his servants at meat the attendance of his Ministers and their Apparrel and his Cup-bearers as the Queen of Sheba coming unto him with a very great Train was so much astonished thereat and the house that he had built as there was no more spirit in her and confessed that what she had seen with her own eyes was more by half then what was told her in her own Land All which being allowed by God as necessary honors for Kings conservations of respects and allurements to the obedience and esteem which were to be paid and performed by the people were not put in the Catalogue of that Prince and great Master of wisdomes failings or not walking in the wayes of God or doing that which was right in his eyes and keeping his Statutes and Judgements as his Father David did Neither were those Royal and great Feasts made long after by Ahasuerus which reigned from India unto Ethiopia over an hundred and seven and twenty Provinces to his Princes and Servants the Nobles and Princes of his Provinces for one hundre● 〈◊〉 eighty daies Or the state of that mighty King whe● 〈◊〉 shewed the honour of his Excellent Majesty when as white green and blue Hangings were fastned with cords of fine linnen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble with Beds of gold and silver upon a pavement of red blue white and black marble and gave them drink in vessels of gold according to the state of the King put under any note or character of blame But those and other due respects have so alwaies attended the world and the good order and government of it under Monarchy and Kings and Princes through all the changes and chances thereof as it may be taken to be as universall a Law of Nature and Custome or Nations as the duty and honor of

in many as Canterbury York Durham Lincoln Coventry and Lichfield Exeter Ely Winchester and Norwich much abated when as now by the rise of mony and prises they are greatly different from what they then we●e and are of some of those Benefices and Spiritual Promotions but the eighth or tenth and of many but the twentieth part And receives his prae-Fines and post-Fines Licences and Pardons of Alienation upon Common Assurances at less then a tenth and many times less then a twentieth part of the true yearly values of the lands or rates which the Law ordering the compositions to be upon oath intendeth him after the example of his Royal Father who permitted the yearly value of lands in Capite and by Knight-service to be found by Juries and Inquisitions at the tenth part of the now true yearly value when as by oath they were to find and certifie the true yearly values and all the Lands of the Kingdome but his own are raised and improved generally ten to one or very much in very many parts and particulars thereof more then what they were two hundred years last past in or about the Reign of King Henry the sixth when as the errable and pasture lands which are now in Middlesex let at fifteen or sixteen shillings per annum an Acre and Meadow commonly at forty shillings and sometimes at three pounds the Acre were in Anno 1 Ed. 3. at a farre lesser yearly value when two Toftes of Land one Mill fifty acres of Land and two acres of Wood in Kentish Town near London was of no greater yearly value then 20 s. and 3 d. and the courser sort of pasture land in Essex now let for 8 or 9 s. the Acre and Meadow at twenty or thirty shillings the Acre was then in that Countie and in many fertill Counties within sixty miles and farre less of London valued but at eight pence per annum and four or five pence the Acre errable and the like valuations were holden in licences of Mortmain in all his extents or values of lands seised for taken into his hands Received their primer seisins at the like small yearly rate and took for suing out of Liveries which may be resembled to a Copiholders admittance not a fifth part proportionably to what is now paid by Copiholders to their Lords of Manors and respites of homage as they were taxed and set in anno primo Jacobi in a very easie manner Did not in the valuation of Lands and Estates as some Lords of Manors have been known to doe whereby to rack and oppress the Widdows and Fatherless employ some Sycophants or Flatterers of the Manor to over-value them or have some Decoyes in the assessing of Fines to seem willing to pay or give as much when they are sure to have a good part of it privately restored unto them again or cause their poor Tenants to be misled and the more willingly cozen themselves by crediting hard and erroneous Surveyes taking Leases of their Copihold Estates or using some other unwarrantable and oppressive devices worse then the Pharisaicall Committees did in the renting of lands they had no title unto when they did put men to box one another by overbidding themselves at their wickedly improving Boxes But did according to his Father King James his instructions given to his Councel of the Court of Wards in the assessing of Fines for the Marriages of the Wards and renting of their Lands which too many of the Nobility and Gentry and other of his Subjects did never or very seldome order the Stewards of their Manors to doe order that upon considerations which might happen therein either by reason of the broken estate of the deceased want of provision for his wife his great charge of children unprovided for infirmity or tenderness of the Heirs incertainty of the title or greatness of the incumbrances upon the Lands they should have liberty as those or the like considerations should offer themselves to use that good discretion and conscience which should befit in mitigating Fines or Rents to the relief of such necessities Suffers the Fees of his Chancery and Courts of Common-pleas and Kings-Bench for the small Seals to be receved as they were in the Reign of King Ed. 3. and the Tenths reserved upon the Abby and Religious lands at no greater an yearly value then they were in the later end of the Reign of King Henry the eighth when they were first granted though now they are of a four times or greater yearly value The Fees of the Seals of Original and Judiciall Writs and Process in Wales as they were in the 34. year of the Reign of King Henry the eighth when the English Courts of Justice were there first erected takes six pence a piece for Capons reserved for Rent in Queen Elizabeths time the issues of lands forfeited unto him upon Writs of distringas at such small rates as six shillings eight pence upon one distringas and 10 s. at another which the Law intendeth to be the profits of the Lands distrained betwixt the Teste and the return of the Writs which would have amounted unto twenty times or a great deal more and receiveth his Fines upon Formedons and othe real Actions granted and issuing out of the Chancery at most gentle and moderate rates his Customes inward and outward at easie rates proportionable to such small values as the Merchants advantage to themselves shall give in or the Officers or Commissioners for the King at the Custome-houses shall at randome and without view think to be a favourable and easie estimate Some single ones of which before recited undervaluations besides the profits of the Tolls of Fairs and Markets if rightly and justly paid according to the true improved values or two of the most of them would make up in a constant Revenue unto him a great deal more then the Compositions for his Pourveyances yearly and lately amounted unto by the difference betwixt his rates or prices and those of the Market A due consideration whereof if there were nothing else to put in the Ballance might induce the Earls Marquesses and Dukes of England who have received their honors and dignities from his Royal Progenitors to permit him as well to enjoy his Pourveyance and reasonable support maintenance of the honor of himself and his Royal Family as they doe take and receive of him their Creation monies being antiently a third part of the fines and profits of the Counties whereof the Earls are denominated since reduced to a certain and yearly sum of money when as also not a few of them have had great and large Revenues given them by his Royal Progenitors to uphold and sustein their Dignities and Honors And the Bishops whose Bishopricks and Baronies and most of the Revenues belonging unto them were of the foundation of the Kings Royal Ancestors and received their Investitures and Temporalties from him may if they shall think the Compsitions for Pourveyances ought not

Children to their Parents and the love of Parents to their Children when we find all the Kings and Potentates of Europe Asia Africa and America to have maintained their Honors and Regalities by the state which they used in their Palaces and extraordinary Buildings witness the House or Palace of Julius Caesar who as Plutarch saith had ornatus majestatis causa some Acrosteria or fastigia Turrets or Pinacles for ornament and majesty placed thereupon the Escurial of Spain the Louvre of France the Palaces and Piazza's of the Roman Emperors of those of Greece and the Grand Signieur the Colledges publick and costly buildings of the Kings of Fez and Morocco the stately Palaces of the Sophy or Emperor of Persia the Mogol Emperour or Dairo of China the Caesar of Japan and the quondam Emperour of Mexico in the West-Indies which stood not alone or solitary for the wonder of passengers or habitation only of Jack-daws as too many of 〈◊〉 uses of our Nobility and Gentry doe now fo●●ant of hospitality or the owners residence but were ever attended with a numerous and fitting retinue of Servants extracted out of the best and greatest Families of their Kingdoms and the wisest and most virtuous who as the Scripture saith being cloathed in silks and fine rayment had the honor to stand before Princes who had their Crowns of gold rich habiliments and costly utinsils their Jura insignia Majestatis rights and Ceremonies appropriate to Majesty and an Apartment state or fence betwixt them and the common usage or contempt of the people The which was so customary and usual in Davids time a● forespeaking the royalty of Solomon which was to succeed him he doth in his Psalms or holy Songs informe us that the Kings glory is great in Gods salvation who hath laid Honour and Majesty upon him all his garments smel of Myrrhe Aloes and Cassia out of the Ivory Palace whereby they have made him glad upon his right hand did stand the Queen in gold of Ophir the Kings Daughter is all glorious her clothing is of wrought gold and her raiment of needle work Nor would the outward pomp and shew of Kings and their Palaces Apparrel Ensignes of Honor and Majesty and all those Rites and ornaments which doe belong unto their Grandeur and Majesty be intire or as it should be if there were not a plenty and state also in their feeding daily recruits of nature and life and hospitality All which put together in a comely and most necessary combination and harmony do with the virtue power prudence and goodness of Kings and common Parents constitute and make that honor which doth justly belong unto them and so necessary as God himself commanded it by word of mouth twice wrote it with his own finger and by an early example severely punished Korah Dathan and Abiram for murmuring against Moses And therefore the Apostle Peter instructed by the Holy Ghost commands us as if one could not be without the other to fear God and honour the King And Aristotle who had been much at home as well as abroad and no young beginner or Pupil in Politicks but a Master of that most excellent and useful kind of learning how to govern and obey could even in his ignorance of God and of the Scriptures which he thought not worthy his reading conclude that Qua in civitate non maximus virtuti honos tribuitur in ea optimus civitate status stabilis firmus esse nullo modo potest no Common-wealth can be lasting or happy where the greatest honour is not given to virtue And St. Hierom a better Tutor in Christianity tells us that ubi honor non est ibi contemptus ubi contemptus ibi frequens injuria indignatio ibi quies nulla where there is not honor there is contempt and where there is contempt there are injuries and anger and where anger wrath no manner of quiet which to the Common people when Princes are wronged and enforced to take arms or use the sword is as good as a wind or Brawl amongst glasses And that which my worthy friend the very virtuous and learned Franciscus Junius the Sonne of that pious and learned Franciscus Junius who with Tremelius the Jew translated the Bible or Book of God out of the originall languages hath in his laborious travails and searches into the old Reunick Gothick Danish and Frisick languages and the Etymologies and Antiquities of the old Greek and Celtick Languages and the Saxon with her people derived from them been pleased to communicate unto me is not unworthy observation that the word Lord was antiently amongst the English Saxons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and afterwards came to be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whence per contractum or abbreviaion it came to be called lord Et quotquot se in magnatis alicujus clientelam se commendaverant appellaverunt dominum suum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quoòd suppeditasset panem i. e. omne alimentum qui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicebatur And as many as came to be under the protection of any Lord or to hold Lands of them did call their Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signified a giver of bread because he afforded ●hem bre●d which was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to which Etymologie agre●th the Cambro-Britannick or Welch derivation by Mr. John Davies where he deriveth Satrapa● nobilem dominum a Noble-man Lord o● Governor of a Province ab Hebraea radice significante pavit rexit homines from an Hebrew root or original signifying one that fed as well as governed men which Goropius Becanus alloweth to be the meaning of the Dutch word H●●t which signifieth prebentem vel offerentem alimenta a giver of victuals and food from which word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Mr. Junius who although he be a Dutchman born yet is very well acquainted with the English language by many years conversation amongst us remaineth amongst us to this day the word loaf or b●ead and the word Lady so much esteemed amongst us and misused and altered in the antient and honorable origination of it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a bread giver not a converter of their Husbands and his Auncestors Manors Lands Woods and Hospitality into Coaches Lacquies and the ●urnishing out of their over-costly Jewels and Apparrel Paintings and making new faces Black-patches or the Devils Brand-marks forty fifty or a hundred pounds lost in a night or afternoon at Cards and running up and down like so many costly and expensive Cleopatra's and half a dozen or a dozen of Mark Anthonies a●ter them make it their business to be lascivious and luxurious to tempt and be tempted and doe the Devil service When their Mothers and Grandams were better imployed in the more honest and honourable imployments of hospitality house-keeping charity and alms-deeds and receiving the love honour and applause of their Tenants and poor Neighbours And their Husbands Ancestors if of any