Ligeancia lugens, or, Loyaltie lamenting the many great mischiefs and inconveniences which will fatally and inevitably follow the taking away of the royal pourveyances and tenures in capite and by knight-service, which being ancient and long before the conquest were not then, or are now, any slavery, publick or general grievence with some expedients humbly offered for the prevention thereof / by Fabian Philipps.
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             Ligeancia lugens, or, Loyaltie lamenting the many great mischiefs and inconveniences which will fatally and inevitably follow the taking away of the royal pourveyances and tenures in capite and by knight-service, which being ancient and long before the conquest were not then, or are now, any slavery, publick or general grievence with some expedients humbly offered for the prevention thereof / by Fabian Philipps.
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           LIGEANCIA
           LUGENS
           ,
           OR
           LOYALTIE
           LAMENTING
        
         
           The
           many
           great
           Mischiefs
           and
           Inconveniencies
           which
           will
           fatally
           and
           inevitably
           follow
           the
           taking
           away
           of
           the
           
             Royal
             Pourveyances
          
           ,
           and
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           ,
           which
           being
           ancient
           and
           long
           before
           the
           CONQUEST
           ,
           were
           not
           then
           ,
           or
           are
           now
           any
           Slavery
           ,
           Publick
           or
           General
           Grievance
           .
        
         
           With
           some
           Expedients
           humbly
           offered
           for
           the
           prevention
           thereof
           .
        
         
           By
           
             Fabian
             Philipps
          
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           by
           
             J.
             M.
          
           for
           
             Andrew
             Crook
          
           ,
           and
           are
           to
           be
           sold
           at
           his
           Shop
           at
           the
           Green-Dragon
           in
           St
           Paul's
           Church-yard
           .
           1661.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           Ligeancia
           Lugens
           ,
           OR
           Loyaltie
           Lamenting
           :
           The
           many
           great
           mischiefs
           and
           Inconveniences
           which
           will
           fatally
           and
           inevitably
           follow
           the
           taking
           away
           of
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           ,
           which
           being
           Antient
           and
           long
           before
           the
           Conquest
           ,
           were
           not
           then
           or
           are
           now
           any
           Slavery
           Publique
           or
           General
           Grievance
           .
        
         
           THe
           King
           will
           upon
           occasion
           of
           Warr
           want
           
           the
           obligations
           and
           service
           of
           his
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           which
           hold
           
             in
             Capite
          
           .
        
         
           Their
           Homage
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           Seminary
           and
           Root
           
           of
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           .
        
         
           The
           Education
           of
           the
           Heirs
           of
           persons
           disaffected
           
           which
           hold
           
             in
             Capite
          
           ,
           when
           they
           shall
           be
           in
           ward
           or
           minority
           .
        
         
         
           His
           Tenants
           will
           be
           the
           more
           enabled
           to
           alienate
           
           their
           Lands
           to
           his
           Enemies
           ,
           or
           such
           as
           are
           disaffected
           ,
           which
           common
           persons
           in
           their
           Leases
           one
           to
           another
           do
           usually
           prevent
           and
           prohibit
           .
        
         
           Provision
           for
           maintenance
           ,
           education
           and
           portions
           
           for
           younger
           Children
           ,
           care
           of
           payment
           of
           Debts
           ,
           preservation
           of
           the
           Wards
           estate
           ,
           Woods
           ,
           and
           Evidences
           ,
           will
           be
           neglected
           .
        
         
           Finding
           of
           Offices
           after
           the
           death
           of
           the
           Ancestors
           ,
           
           extents
           of
           Mannors
           and
           Lands
           ,
           a
           light
           to
           Titles
           and
           Discents
           of
           Lands
           ,
           and
           recovery
           and
           making
           out
           of
           Deeds
           and
           Evidences
           laid
           aside
           .
        
         
           Genealogies
           and
           Pedigrees
           darkened
           ,
           and
           Descents
           
           not
           at
           all
           to
           be
           proved
           .
        
         
           Contention
           concerning
           the
           rights
           of
           Guardianship
           
           encreased
           and
           multiplyed
           .
        
         
           The
           Mothers
           of
           Fatherless
           Children
           in
           their
           minority
           
           made
           the
           Guardians
           ,
           &
           permitted
           to
           sacrifice
           the
           children
           of
           the
           first
           husband
           to
           the
           spoil
           and
           interest
           of
           a
           Father
           in
           Law
           and
           his
           second
           Children
           .
        
         
           Or
           make
           them
           to
           be
           a
           prey
           to
           the
           kindred
           of
           
           the
           Mothers
           side
           ,
           who
           will
           neither
           be
           so
           kinde
           or
           carefull
           as
           those
           of
           the
           Fathers
           .
        
         
           Or
           to
           Trustees
           ,
           Executors
           ,
           or
           Administrators
           ,
           
           who
           are
           too
           many
           of
           them
           dayly
           experimented
           to
           be
           false
           to
           their
           Trusts
           ,
           and
           may
           be
           as
           bad
           in
           their
           Guardianships
           .
        
         
           There
           will
           not
           be
           so
           good
           a
           means
           as
           formerly
           
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           Wards
           Estate
           from
           false
           or
           forged
           Wills
           ,
           fraudulent
           Conveyances
           ,
           and
           other
           Incumbrances
           .
        
         
           Nor
           for
           preventing
           of
           the
           Heires
           of
           Tenants
           
           
             in
             Capite
          
           to
           be
           disinherited
           by
           Heirs
           by
           second
           
           Ven●ers
           ,
           forged
           Conveyances
           or
           Wills
           ,
           frewardness
           of
           an
           aged
           Father
           or
           cunning
           of
           a
           Stepmother
           .
        
         
           In
           Socage
           and
           that
           ignoble
           or
           Plow-Tenure
           there
           
           will
           not
           be
           that
           ready
           defence
           for
           the
           Kingdom
           as
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           .
        
         
           All
           the
           Antient
           Baronies
           which
           are
           annexed
           
           to
           antient
           Earldomes
           and
           Baronies
           ,
           and
           the
           newly
           created
           Baronies
           being
           by
           Law
           and
           the
           signification
           of
           the
           words
           ,
           a
           Complexum
           of
           honorary
           possessions
           belonging
           to
           Earls
           and
           Barons
           ,
           aswell
           as
           of
           the
           honour
           and
           title
           residing
           in
           their
           persons
           ,
           cannot
           now
           be
           properly
           called
           Baronies
           ,
           and
           he
           that
           was
           a
           Baron
           before
           will
           in
           a
           strict
           interpretation
           of
           the
           Feudal
           Laws
           ,
           from
           whence
           they
           had
           their
           beginning
           ,
           be
           no
           more
           nor
           no
           better
           then
           a
           Soke-man
           .
        
         
           Alter
           and
           disparage
           the
           fundamental
           and
           ancient
           
           constitution
           of
           Peerage
           ,
           by
           making
           them
           to
           hold
           in
           Socage
           ,
           which
           no
           Baronies
           in
           the
           Christian
           World
           ever
           did
           ,
           or
           can
           be
           found
           to
           do
           .
        
         
           The
           antient
           Earls
           and
           Barons
           who
           hold
           as
           
           Tenants
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           
             per
             Baroniam
          
           ,
           as
           the
           Earl
           of
           Arundell
           ,
           who
           holdeth
           by
           the
           Service
           of
           Eighty
           four
           Knights
           Fees
           ,
           and
           the
           Earl
           of
           Oxford
           by
           thirty
           ,
           &
           many
           others
           may
           be
           greatly
           prejudiced
           .
        
         
           The
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           of
           England
           will
           
           by
           the
           taking
           away
           of
           their
           mesne
           Tenures
           by
           Knight-Service
           be
           disabled
           to
           serve
           their
           Prince
           as
           formerly
           ,
           or
           bring
           any
           men
           into
           the
           Field
           .
        
         
           The
           Subjection
           and
           Rights
           of
           the
           Bishop
           of
           
           the
           Isle
           of
           Man
           ,
           who
           holdeth
           immediately
           of
           the
           Earl
           of
           Derby
           ,
           will
           be
           taken
           away
           .
        
         
           The
           profits
           of
           the
           Kings
           
             Annum
             ▪
             Diem
             &
             
             
             Vastum
          
           will
           be
           lost
           or
           greatly
           disturbed
           ,
           and
           his
           and
           the
           Nobilities
           and
           Gentries
           Escheates
           ,
           which
           as
           to
           a
           third
           part
           of
           that
           which
           is
           holden
           
             in
             Capite
          
           or
           Knight
           Service
           could
           not
           before
           have
           been
           conveyed
           away
           ,
           will
           be
           in
           no
           better
           condition
           .
        
         
           Our
           Original
           
             Magna
             Charta
          
           (
           which
           is
           holden
           
           
             in
             Capite
          
           )
           and
           all
           the
           Confirmations
           of
           the
           English
           Liberties
           ,
           Franchises
           of
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ,
           and
           many
           other
           Cities
           and
           Boroughs
           which
           before
           9
           H.
           3.
           did
           use
           to
           send
           Burgesses
           to
           Parliament
           will
           be
           enervated
           .
        
         
           Destroy
           or
           weaken
           the
           antient
           Charters
           of
           
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ,
           for
           what
           (
           except
           their
           Court
           of
           Wards
           or
           Orphans
           )
           concerns
           their
           Customs
           and
           Husting
           Courts
           .
        
         
           Put
           into
           fresh
           disputes
           the
           question
           of
           Precedency
           
           betwixt
           England
           and
           Spain
           ,
           which
           belongeth
           to
           England
           ,
           in
           regard
           it
           holdeth
           of
           none
           but
           God
           ,
           and
           hath
           
             Scotland
             ,
             Ireland
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Isle
           of
           Man
           holding
           in
           Capite
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           Not
           well
           agree
           with
           the
           honour
           of
           England
           
           and
           the
           Monarchy
           and
           Superiority
           thereof
           to
           have
           the
           Isles
           of
           Garnesey
           and
           Jersey
           ,
           which
           are
           a
           part
           of
           Normandie
           ,
           to
           hold
           of
           the
           King
           by
           
             Feif
             roturier
          
           ,
           or
           the
           Principality
           of
           Wales
           and
           the
           Isles
           of
           Wight
           and
           Man
           to
           hold
           in
           Socage
           .
        
         
           Damnifie
           all
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           in
           their
           
           mesne
           Tenures
           ,
           in
           which
           they
           have
           a
           propriety
           which
           our
           
             Magna
             Charta
          
           ,
           and
           a
           greater
           then
           that
           ,
           twice
           written
           by
           the
           finger
           of
           God
           himself
           ,
           do
           without
           a
           crime
           forfeiting
           it
           ,
           or
           a
           just
           consideration
           or
           recompence
           for
           it
           ,
           (
           which
           a
           relaxation
           of
           their
           own
           Tenures
           and
           Services
           will
           not
           amount
           unto
           )
           forbid
           to
           be
           taken
           away
           .
        
         
         
           Prejudice
           the
           Families
           of
           
             Cornwall
             ,
             Hilton
          
           and
           Venables
           ,
           who
           are
           called
           Barons
           ,
           as
           holding
           
             per
             Baroniam
          
           ,
           though
           not
           sitting
           in
           Parliament
           .
           
        
         
           Bring
           a
           dis-repute
           upon
           the
           Esquires
           and
           Gentry
           of
           England
           ,
           whose
           original
           was
           from
           Tenures
           by
           Knight-Service
           .
           
        
         
           Take
           away
           a
           great
           part
           of
           the
           root
           and
           foundation
           of
           the
           
             Equestris
             Ordo
          
           which
           was
           derived
           out
           of
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           .
           
        
         
           Blast
           and
           enervate
           the
           degree
           of
           Baronets
           .
        
         
           Take
           away
           the
           cause
           of
           the
           eminent
           degree
           of
           Banneretts
           .
           
        
         
           Make
           our
           heretofore
           famous
           Nation
           in
           Feats
           of
           
           Arms
           and
           Chivalrie
           to
           be
           but
           as
           an
           
             Agreste
             genus
             hominum
          
           ,
           or
           a
           race
           of
           Rusticks
           like
           the
           Arcadians
           .
           
        
         
           Take
           away
           or
           weaken
           all
           the
           Mannors
           and
           Court
           Barons
           in
           England
           ,
           which
           were
           derived
           or
           had
           their
           original
           from
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           .
           
        
         
           Turn
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           ,
           which
           from
           the
           Duty
           of
           Homage
           and
           acknowledgment
           of
           Soveraignty
           
           were
           so
           called
           ,
           into
           a
           Tenure
           ,
           which
           by
           only
           acknowledging
           a
           Fealty
           for
           particular
           Lands
           which
           they
           hold
           is
           but
           
             à
             Latere
          
           ,
           and
           no
           more
           then
           what
           one
           man
           holding
           by
           a
           Lease
           for
           years
           is
           by
           Law
           bound
           to
           do
           to
           another
           .
        
         
           Release
           the
           aid
           of
           the
           Maritime
           Counties
           and
           Ports
           in
           case
           of
           Warr
           and
           Invasion
           .
           
        
         
           Extinguish
           the
           Duties
           which
           every
           Hundred
           upon
           the
           Sea
           Coasts
           do
           owe
           in
           that
           which
           which
           was
           called
           
           the
           Petty
           Watches
           .
        
         
           Discharge
           the
           Mises
           or
           Payments
           which
           in
           Wales
           and
           Cheshire
           are
           due
           to
           the
           Kings
           of
           England
           at
           their
           
           Coronations
           .
        
         
         
           Indamage
           the
           King
           in
           his
           other
           R●galities
           ,
           as
           in
           
           the
           
             Cinque
             Ports
          
           ,
           finding
           fifty
           ships
           upon
           occasion
           of
           Warr
           ,
           and
           many
           reservations
           of
           Honor
           and
           profit
           upon
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           ,
           Knight
           Service
           ,
           and
           
             Socage
             in
             Capite
          
           ,
           which
           if
           revived
           and
           well
           looked
           after
           would
           almost
           raise
           an
           Army
           and
           furnish
           a
           great
           part
           of
           the
           Provisions
           thereof
           .
        
         
           The
           King
           upon
           occasion
           of
           Warr
           shall
           never
           be
           
           able
           to
           erect
           his
           Standard
           ,
           but
           will
           be
           left
           to
           hire
           and
           provide
           an
           Army
           out
           of
           the
           Rascal●ity
           ,
           faithless
           ,
           unobliged
           ,
           rude
           ,
           deboisht
           ,
           necessitous
           ,
           and
           common
           sort
           of
           people
           .
        
         
           If
           a
           Warr
           should
           break
           forth
           before
           a
           Rent-day
           
           or
           Excise
           money
           can
           be
           gathered
           ,
           will
           never
           want
           misfortunes
           and
           distresses
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           thereby
           failing
           of
           an
           Assistance
           at
           Land
           may
           loose
           also
           the
           help
           of
           his
           Navy
           at
           Sea.
           
        
         
           May
           have
           his
           Money
           and
           his
           Rents
           seised
           ,
           as
           
           his
           late
           Majesties
           Magazines
           and
           Rents
           were
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           the
           late
           Warrs
           .
        
         
           Can
           have
           no
           manner
           of
           assurance
           in
           a
           Sedition
           
           or
           Commotion
           of
           the
           people
           that
           men
           will
           for
           a
           small
           pay
           adventure
           their
           lives
           and
           limbs
           for
           many
           times
           no
           better
           a
           reward
           then
           the
           lamentable
           comforts
           of
           an
           Hospital
           ,
           and
           the
           small
           charities
           and
           allowance
           usually
           bestowed
           upon
           maimed
           Souldie●s
           .
        
         
           Destroy
           the
           hopes
           of
           the
           Bishops
           ever
           sitting
           again
           
           in
           the
           House
           of
           Peers
           as
           a
           third
           Estate
           ,
           or
           if
           restored
           to
           those
           their
           just
           rights
           ,
           so
           weaken
           the
           ground
           and
           foundation
           of
           that
           most
           antient
           Constitution
           ,
           as
           they
           may
           again
           be
           in
           danger
           to
           be
           divested
           of
           them
           ,
           which
           the
           inconveniences
           of
           prescriptions
           interrupted
           ,
           and
           Customs
           altered
           ,
           may
           perswade
           us
           to
           take
           heed
           of
           .
        
         
         
           Disable
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Successors
           from
           recovering
           
           Forreign
           Rights
           ,
           succouring
           Allyes
           ,
           and
           making
           an
           Offensive
           or
           diversive
           Warr.
           
        
         
           Shake
           or
           dislocate
           ,
           if
           not
           take
           away
           that
           great
           
           Fundamental
           Law
           and
           Ancient
           Constitution
           of
           the
           Baronage
           and
           Peerage
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           their
           Rights
           of
           Sitting
           in
           the
           House
           of
           Peers
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           who
           sit
           there
           as
           Tenants
           in
           Capite
           and
           
             per
             Baroniam
          
           ,
           and
           are
           summoned
           thither
           
             in
             fide
             &
             homagio
          
           ,
           in
           the
           faith
           and
           homage
           by
           which
           they
           are
           obliged
           ,
           which
           Proviso's
           not
           always
           arriving
           to
           their
           ends
           or
           intentions
           ,
           or
           a
           Saving
           of
           the
           Rights
           of
           Peerage
           ,
           of
           Sitting
           in
           the
           House
           of
           Peers
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           will
           not
           be
           able
           to
           insure
           or
           give
           them
           a
           certainty
           to
           be
           left
           in
           as
           good
           a
           condition
           as
           they
           were
           before
           .
        
         
           Disfranchise
           the
           Counties
           Palatine
           of
           Lancaster
           ,
           
           
             Chester
             ,
             Durham
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Isle
           of
           Ely
           ,
           which
           relate
           unto
           Palaces
           of
           Kings
           ,
           (
           not
           Plows
           ,
           )
           and
           are
           no
           where
           in
           the
           Christian
           world
           to
           be
           found
           holden
           by
           any
           other
           Tenure
           then
           
             in
             Capite
          
           .
        
         
           Make
           our
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           to
           hold
           their
           
           lands
           by
           no
           better
           Tenures
           then
           the
           Roturiers
           or
           Paysants
           of
           France
           do
           theirs
           ;
           and
           in
           Socage
           ,
           which
           ,
           as
           Sir
           
             Henry
             Spelman
          
           saith
           ,
           
             Ignobilibus
             &
             rusticis
             competit
          
           
           
             nullo
             feudali
             privilegio
             ornatum
             &
             feudi
             nomen
             sub
             recenti
             seculo
             perperam
             &
             abusu
             rerum
             auspicatum
          
           ;
           belongs
           only
           to
           rusticks
           and
           ignoble
           men
           ,
           and
           being
           not
           intituled
           to
           any
           feudal
           priviledge
           hath
           of
           late
           times
           improperly
           and
           by
           abuse
           gained
           the
           name
           of
           Fee.
           
        
         
           Loosen
           the
           foundation
           of
           such
           ancient
           Earldoms
           
           and
           Baronies
           as
           have
           been
           said
           to
           consist
           of
           a
           certain
           number
           of
           Knights
           Fees
           holden
           of
           them
           .
        
         
         
         
         
         
         
           Hazard
           the
           
             avitas
             consuetudines
          
           ,
           ancient
           Rights
           
           and
           Customs
           belonging
           to
           Tenants
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           .
        
         
           Take
           away
           ,
           or
           lessen
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           future
           ,
           the
           fame
           
           and
           honour
           of
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           of
           the
           English
           Nation
           ,
           which
           in
           feats
           of
           Chivalrie
           (
           not
           Socagerie
           )
           extended
           as
           far
           as
           the
           
             Roman
             Eagles
          
           ever
           flew
           ,
           and
           had
           no
           other
           bounds
           then
           the
           utmost
           parts
           of
           the
           earth
           .
        
         
           Render
           them
           in
           Tenure
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           at
           first
           
           made
           them
           by
           their
           virtue
           and
           imployment
           ,
           Superiors
           in
           degree
           ,
           aswell
           as
           in
           their
           Lands
           and
           Revenues
           to
           the
           common
           sort
           of
           people
           ,
           to
           be
           in
           that
           particular
           but
           as
           their
           equals
           .
        
         
           Will
           not
           be
           consistent
           with
           the
           honour
           of
           England
           ,
           
           to
           have
           Tenures
           in
           Capite
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           retained
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           and
           Scotland
           ,
           and
           not
           in
           England
           ;
           and
           to
           lessen
           the
           honour
           and
           strength
           of
           the
           English
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           in
           England
           ,
           by
           reducing
           their
           mesne
           Tenures
           into
           free
           and
           common
           Socage
           ,
           whilst
           the
           better
           and
           more
           Noble
           Tenures
           in
           Capite
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           shall
           be
           enjoyed
           in
           those
           inferior
           and
           dependent
           Kingdoms
           .
        
         
           Or
           if
           taken
           away
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           and
           reduced
           into
           free
           
           and
           common
           Socage
           ,
           will
           in
           all
           probability
           meet
           with
           as
           many
           inconveniences
           as
           the
           like
           may
           do
           in
           England
           ,
           and
           lose
           the
           Kings
           of
           England
           that
           Service
           which
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           Tenures
           in
           Capite
           was
           always
           in
           a
           readiness
           ,
           and
           made
           use
           of
           by
           their
           Progenitors
           upon
           all
           occasions
           of
           War
           and
           necessity
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           England
           as
           Ireland
           .
        
         
           And
           if
           the
           like
           shall
           be
           done
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           where
           
           the
           people
           ,
           too
           much
           accustomed
           to
           infidelity
           and
           a
           
           Rhodomontading
           ,
           where
           they
           are
           not
           resisted
           ,
           are
           best
           if
           not
           only
           to
           be
           Governed
           by
           their
           dependencies
           upon
           their
           Superiors
           and
           Benefactors
           ,
           and
           holding
           their
           Lands
           by
           Military
           and
           Knight-Service
           ,
           (
           as
           that
           Kingdome
           it self
           doth
           in
           Capite
           of
           England
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           stoutly
           asserted
           by
           our
           King
           EDWARD
           the
           First
           and
           His
           Baronage
           of
           England
           ;
           )
           there
           will
           happen
           such
           a
           dissolution
           or
           distemper
           of
           that
           body
           politique
           as
           will
           exceed
           all
           or
           any
           imagination
           before
           hand
           ,
           and
           the
           inferior
           sort
           of
           people
           will
           by
           such
           an
           alteration
           of
           their
           Tenures
           be
           like
           hunger
           bitten
           Bears
           ,
           let
           loose
           to
           as
           bad
           if
           not
           a
           worse
           kind
           of
           levelling
           then
           our
           Phanaticks
           would
           not
           long
           ago
           have
           cut
           out
           for
           the
           three
           Kingdoms
           of
           
             England
             ,
             Scotland
          
           ,
           and
           Ireland
           ,
           now
           happily
           conjoyned
           under
           their
           rightful
           King
           and
           Soveraign
           .
        
         
           Will
           greatly
           derogate
           from
           the
           honour
           of
           the
           English
           
           Nation
           ,
           and
           make
           them
           who
           excelled
           in
           their
           Laws
           and
           Constitutions
           all
           or
           most
           of
           the
           Nations
           and
           Kingdoms
           of
           the
           Christian
           world
           ,
           and
           had
           more
           of
           right
           reason
           in
           them
           ;
           to
           be
           as
           a
           reproach
           to
           other
           Nations
           ,
           and
           seperated
           from
           the
           use
           of
           those
           ancient
           and
           Regal
           Rights
           ,
           Customs
           ,
           Powers
           and
           Regalities
           which
           all
           Monarchies
           in
           Christendom
           do
           use
           ,
           and
           will
           be
           as
           inconsistent
           with
           the
           honour
           of
           England
           as
           it
           would
           be
           to
           have
           their
           Kings
           ,
           in
           a
           complaisance
           of
           a
           troublesome
           and
           unquiet
           part
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           not
           to
           be
           Crowned
           nor
           Annointed
           ,
           not
           to
           use
           a
           Scepter
           ,
           or
           have
           a
           sword
           born
           before
           Them
           ,
           not
           to
           make
           Knights
           ,
           or
           not
           to
           do
           it
           in
           the
           ancient
           and
           usual
           manner
           ,
           which
           the
           Kings
           of
           other
           Nations
           and
           Kingdoms
           have
           ever
           done
           and
           enjoyed
           ;
           or
           to
           
           have
           the
           Earls
           of
           England
           (
           as
           if
           they
           were
           only
           
             Comites
             Parochiales
          
           ,
           Governors
           of
           Villages
           ,
           mentioned
           by
           Goldastus
           ,
           or
           
             Dijck
             Graven
          
           ;
           or
           men
           of
           small
           honour
           in
           Holland
           ,
           appointed
           to
           look
           to
           their
           Sea-banks
           )
           not
           to
           wear
           their
           
             Circulos
             Aureos
          
           ,
           Coronets
           of
           Gold.
           
        
         
           Will
           not
           accord
           well
           with
           the
           Rules
           of
           Justice
           to
           take
           away
           Knights
           Fees
           or
           Tenures
           by
           Knight-Service
           
           from
           the
           mesne
           Lords
           without
           a
           fitting
           Recompence
           .
        
         
           But
           break
           the
           Publique
           Faith
           and
           Contracts
           of
           those
           that
           hold
           of
           the
           King
           or
           them
           .
           
        
         
           The
           recompence
           of
           150000
           
             l.
             per
             Annum
          
           ,
           will
           not
           be
           adequate
           to
           the
           loss
           of
           the
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           ,
           which
           nothing
           but
           the
           Kingdome
           of
           England
           it self
           can
           balance
           ;
           and
           which
           the
           King
           of
           France
           ,
           or
           the
           King
           of
           Spain
           ,
           in
           their
           several
           Dominions
           ,
           would
           not
           for
           an
           yearly
           Revenue
           of
           many
           hundred
           thousand
           pounds
           part
           with
           ,
           but
           would
           think
           it
           no
           bad
           bargain
           to
           be
           re
           purchased
           after
           the
           same
           or
           a
           greater
           rate
           .
        
         
           It
           will
           be
           as
           unsafe
           as
           unusual
           ,
           to
           turn
           into
           a
           Rent
           that
           which
           was
           intended
           for
           the
           defence
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           .
           
        
         
           And
           to
           charge
           all
           mens
           Lands
           with
           recompence
           to
           be
           made
           for
           it
           ,
           will
           be
           against
           Justice
           ,
           Equity
           ,
           and
           
           Reason
           ,
           and
           make
           nineteen
           parts
           in
           twenty
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           to
           bear
           the
           burden
           of
           the
           twentieth
           .
        
         
           Or
           if
           by
           Excise
           upon
           Ale
           &
           Beer
           ,
           will
           do
           the
           like
           ,
           &
           lay
           the
           burden
           of
           the
           rich
           upon
           the
           poor
           ,
           &
           extend
           
           it
           to
           Children
           ,
           Servants
           ,
           Day-labourers
           ,
           Coblers
           ,
           Apple-women
           ,
           and
           all
           manner
           of
           the
           lowest
           ranks
           of
           people
           ,
           which
           are
           as
           unlikely
           to
           be
           Tenants
           in
           
           Capite
           as
           all
           the
           Colledges
           in
           the
           Universities
           ,
           and
           Hospitals
           of
           England
           are
           ,
           whose
           expences
           will
           be
           also
           enlarged
           by
           it
           .
        
         
           Will
           be
           a
           seminary
           and
           complication
           of
           Grievances
           .
           
        
         
           May
           be
           afterward
           legally
           taken
           away
           by
           Petitions
           to
           Parliaments
           ,
           or
           illegally
           (
           which
           God
           forbid
           ,
           )
           by
           an
           Insurrection
           or
           Mutiny
           of
           the
           common
           people
           as
           in
           
             Naples
             ,
             France
          
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           Will
           not
           be
           an
           honourable
           Revenue
           ,
           nor
           ever
           
           be
           well
           setled
           without
           the
           help
           of
           Garrisons
           ,
           Troops
           of
           Horse
           ,
           and
           Companies
           of
           Foot.
           
        
         
           The
           people
           will
           be
           double
           charged
           by
           the
           Brewers
           
           and
           Ale-men
           ,
           and
           inforced
           to
           pay
           250000
           
             l.
             per
             Annum
          
           ,
           for
           150000
           
             l.
             per
             Annum
          
           .
        
         
           And
           whether
           Excise
           ,
           or
           not
           Excise
           ,
           the
           King
           ,
           
           when
           the
           Tenures
           shall
           be
           taken
           away
           ,
           and
           Ship-money
           shall
           be
           denied
           him
           ,
           because
           as
           Mr.
           
             St
             John
          
           argued
           in
           the
           case
           of
           Ship
           money
           ,
           he
           had
           the
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           allowed
           for
           the
           defence
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           .
        
         
           Or
           the
           miseries
           of
           an
           actuall
           War
           shall
           overwhelm
           or
           oppress
           Him
           ,
           shall
           be
           told
           as
           His
           Royal
           Father
           was
           by
           that
           part
           of
           the
           Parliament
           which
           sate
           at
           VVestminster
           in
           1642.
           
           That
           He
           ought
           not
           to
           put
           in
           execution
           His
           Commissions
           of
           Array
           ,
           because
           His
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           were
           for
           the
           defence
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           .
        
         
           And
           that
           by
           several
           Statutes
           and
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           in
           the
           Raign
           of
           King
           E.
           3.
           it
           shall
           be
           said
           that
           he
           is
           restrained
           not
           to
           Imprest
           Hoblers
           ,
           which
           were
           as
           our
           Dragoons
           ,
           or
           Archers
           ,
           or
           Foot-men
           ,
           who
           are
           thereby
           not
           to
           go
           out
           of
           their
           Counties
           but
           in
           
           case
           of
           necessity
           and
           coming
           in
           of
           Forreign
           enemies
           .
        
         
           Or
           shall
           have
           need
           to
           succour
           His
           Allies
           ,
           make
           a
           diversive
           War
           ,
           or
           embroyl
           an
           Enemy
           ,
           shall
           be
           answered
           ,
           That
           they
           are
           quit
           of
           all
           Services
           but
           the
           holding
           their
           Lands
           of
           Him
           ,
           by
           doing
           of
           fealty
           ,
           which
           they
           will
           be
           apt
           to
           interpret
           according
           to
           their
           Interest
           ,
           the
           humor
           of
           their
           faction
           or
           party
           ,
           or
           as
           their
           designs
           or
           better
           hopes
           in
           a
           change
           shall
           direct
           them
           .
        
         
           Must
           be
           enforced
           for
           the
           safety
           of
           His
           people
           ,
           if
           the
           Tenures
           shall
           be
           taken
           away
           ,
           to
           raise
           and
           maintain
           a
           standing
           Army
           .
        
         
           And
           a
           standing
           Army
           ,
           and
           standing
           Assesments
           
           to
           maintain
           it
           ,
           will
           be
           certainly
           more
           prejudicial
           and
           chargeable
           to
           all
           the
           people
           in
           general
           ,
           then
           that
           which
           without
           any
           ground
           or
           reason
           ,
           the
           Tenures
           in
           Capite
           have
           lately
           been
           supposed
           to
           be
           to
           any
           in
           particular
           .
        
         
           It
           will
           derogate
           from
           the
           honour
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           
           who
           is
           
             Pater
             Patriae
          
           ,
           not
           to
           be
           trusted
           with
           the
           protection
           of
           Orphans
           ,
           so
           much
           as
           the
           Dutch
           ,
           who
           have
           a
           Court
           of
           Orphans
           .
        
         
           Or
           as
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ,
           who
           by
           ancient
           Custom
           have
           an
           absolute
           Court
           of
           Wards
           ,
           called
           a
           Court
           of
           Orphans
           ,
           which
           may
           by
           overthrowing
           the
           Kings
           Court
           of
           Wards
           come
           under
           the
           like
           fortune
           .
        
         
           Be
           a
           means
           to
           defraud
           Creditors
           and
           Purchasers
           ,
           who
           cannot
           for
           want
           of
           Offices
           or
           Inquisitions
           found
           
           after
           the
           death
           of
           Tenants
           in
           Capite
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           ,
           so
           well
           as
           formerly
           know
           how
           the
           Debtors
           Lands
           are
           setled
           ,
           or
           what
           is
           in
           fee
           simple
           to
           charge
           the
           Heir
           .
        
         
           Be
           against
           the
           peoples
           Oaths
           of
           Supremacy
           to
           
           
           desire
           the
           diminishing
           or
           taking
           away
           the
           Kings
           Rights
           or
           Jurisdiction
           .
        
         
           Take
           away
           His
           Power
           and
           Means
           of
           protecting
           
           and
           defending
           them
           ,
           and
           to
           perform
           his
           Coronation
           Oath
           ,
           and
           when
           the
           assistance
           and
           help
           of
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           have
           like
           Sea
           walls
           and
           banks
           ,
           proved
           not
           strong
           enough
           to
           withstand
           and
           keep
           out
           the
           Floods
           of
           Sedition
           ,
           it
           cannot
           now
           surely
           be
           for
           the
           good
           and
           safety
           of
           the
           people
           either
           to
           weaken
           as
           much
           as
           may
           be
           ,
           the
           strength
           which
           was
           before
           in
           them
           ,
           or
           to
           have
           none
           at
           all
           .
        
         
           Draw
           a
           Curse
           upon
           the
           Posterities
           of
           those
           that
           
           hold
           under
           those
           Tenures
           and
           shall
           endeavor
           ,
           contrary
           to
           the
           faith
           and
           promise
           of
           their
           Ancestors
           ,
           to
           subvert
           them
           .
        
         
           Make
           the
           common
           people
           insolent
           ,
           and
           teach
           
           them
           hereafter
           to
           find
           fault
           with
           every
           thing
           that
           fits
           not
           their
           Interest
           or
           humor
           ,
           and
           by
           such
           a
           largeness
           of
           liberty
           ,
           having
           before
           surfeited
           upon
           lesser
           ,
           to
           be
           like
           the
           waves
           of
           the
           Sea
           and
           its
           deep
           ,
           tossed
           and
           beating
           one
           against
           another
           by
           the
           winds
           of
           those
           inticements
           or
           factions
           which
           for
           their
           own
           wicked
           ends
           shall
           blow
           upon
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           by
           such
           an
           easiness
           of
           granting
           away
           so
           great
           
           a
           part
           of
           the
           just
           and
           legal
           power
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           Nobility
           ,
           and
           better
           part
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           over
           the
           most
           rude
           and
           not
           easie
           ,
           without
           it
           ,
           to
           be
           either
           governed
           or
           perswaded
           ,
           invite
           them
           to
           take
           up
           their
           not
           long
           ago
           designs
           and
           projects
           of
           taking
           away
           Copy-holds
           ,
           which
           they
           lately
           ,
           as
           foolishly
           as
           falsly
           ,
           called
           Norman
           slaveries
           ,
           and
           of
           enforcing
           their
           Lords
           to
           take
           two
           years
           purchase
           for
           them
           ;
           and
           that
           Landlords
           might
           be
           st●nted
           and
           ordered
           to
           take
           what
           the
           factiously
           
           well-affected
           Tenants
           should
           call
           reasonable
           in
           the
           leasing
           and
           renting
           of
           their
           Lands
           .
        
         
           Carry
           along
           with
           it
           and
           abolish
           the
           Royal
           Pourveyances
           ,
           
           which
           being
           in
           use
           amongst
           the
           people
           of
           
           Israel
           ,
           were
           never
           in
           that
           glorious
           and
           ever
           commended
           Raign
           of
           King
           Solomon
           ,
           nor
           in
           that
           long
           after
           pious
           order
           and
           Government
           of
           the
           good
           Nehemiah
           ,
           found
           to
           be
           a
           grievance
           ,
           nor
           taken
           to
           be
           so
           amongst
           the
           
             Greeks
             ,
             Poles
             ,
             Romans
          
           ,
           ancient
           
             Brittains
             ,
             Franks
          
           ,
           and
           Germans
           ,
           those
           great
           Assertors
           of
           Liberties
           ,
           or
           the
           most
           of
           the
           Nations
           of
           Europe
           ,
           (
           not
           cast
           unhappily
           into
           Common-wealths
           ,
           where
           they
           only
           dream
           of
           freedom
           ,
           but
           cannot
           find
           it
           ;
           )
           but
           were
           used
           in
           the
           West-Indies
           long
           before
           the
           Spanish
           curtesies
           and
           care
           of
           their
           conversion
           ,
           had
           ingrossed
           their
           gold
           ,
           destroyed
           the
           most
           of
           their
           Natives
           ,
           and
           made
           the
           relidue
           their
           slaves
           ;
           And
           in
           China
           ,
           and
           most
           parts
           of
           the
           habitable
           World.
           
        
         
           And
           being
           a
           
             Jus
             Gentium
          
           ,
           and
           a
           part
           of
           right
           Reason
           so
           universally
           allowed
           and
           practised
           ,
           were
           as
           Oblations
           or
           recompences
           for
           tolls
           or
           pre-emption
           ,
           or
           for
           some
           other
           confiderations
           ,
           chearfully
           paid
           to
           our
           Kings
           of
           England
           ,
           &
           so
           butted
           and
           bounded
           with
           good
           Laws
           ,
           and
           so
           easie
           ,
           as
           the
           Tenants
           did
           neither
           care
           to
           provide
           against
           it
           in
           their
           Leases
           ,
           or
           reckon
           to
           their
           Landlords
           those
           little
           and
           seldome
           payments
           and
           charges
           which
           were
           occasioned
           by
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           by
           throwing
           the
           Purveyance
           into
           the
           same
           Bill
           or
           intended
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           for
           taking
           away
           the
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           ,
           hath
           since
           caused
           the
           King
           to
           pay
           three
           times
           or
           more
           then
           formerly
           he
           did
           ,
           as
           12d
           per
           pound
           for
           Butter
           ,
           where
           it
           was
           before
           but
           three
           pence
           ;
           twelve
           shillings
           a
           hundred
           for
           Eggs
           ,
           where
           it
           was
           before
           but
           three
           
           shillings
           ;
           and
           eighteen
           pence
           a
           mile
           for
           a
           Cart
           to
           carry
           his
           goods
           or
           provision
           ,
           when
           it
           was
           before
           but
           
             two
             pence
          
           a
           mile
           in
           Summer
           ,
           and
           
             six
             pence
          
           in
           winter
           ;
           
             twelve
             pounds
          
           for
           a
           Beef
           or
           an
           Oxe
           ,
           which
           before
           was
           willingly
           and
           without
           any
           oppression
           of
           the
           Counties
           ,
           served
           in
           at
           fifty
           shillings
           .
        
         
           Render
           the
           One
           hundred
           and
           fifty
           thousand
           pounds
           
             per
             Annum
          
           of
           Excise
           ▪
           money
           for
           the
           intended
           recompence
           for
           the
           profit
           and
           honour
           of
           his
           Tenures
           ,
           Court
           of
           Wards
           ,
           and
           Pourveyance
           ,
           to
           be
           no
           more
           (
           if
           it
           could
           clearly
           come
           up
           to
           that
           summ
           )
           then
           
             Thirty
             seven
             thousand
          
           and
           
             five
             hundred
             pounds
          
           ,
           but
           if
           with
           allowances
           and
           charges
           in
           the
           collecting
           ,
           and
           arrears
           and
           bad
           payments
           ,
           or
           otherwise
           ,
           it
           should
           amount
           (
           as
           it
           is
           likely
           )
           to
           no
           more
           then
           
             One
             hundred
             thousand
             pounds
             per
             Annum
             ,
          
           the
           clear
           of
           that
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           three
           parts
           in
           four
           of
           his
           prizes
           enhaunced
           being
           deducted
           ,
           is
           like
           to
           be
           but
           
             Twenty
             and
             five
             thousand
             pounds
          
           per
           Annum
           .
        
         
           Which
           when
           the
           Excise
           (
           wherein
           the
           King
           himself
           shall
           now
           pay
           a
           Taxe
           or
           Excise
           for
           his
           Beer
           and
           Ale
           )
           and
           other
           Assessments
           shall
           every
           day
           more
           and
           more
           make
           dear
           the
           Markets
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           people
           shall
           ,
           to
           make
           themselves
           more
           then
           savers
           ,
           stretch
           the
           price
           of
           their
           Commodities
           ,
           and
           make
           an
           addition
           to
           the
           former
           years
           rates
           and
           demands
           ,
           for
           all
           sorts
           of
           victuals
           and
           provision
           of
           livelihood
           ,
           or
           that
           the
           King
           or
           His
           Pourveyors
           shall
           over
           and
           above
           that
           be
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           ready
           money
           ,
           enforced
           to
           pay
           a
           treble
           or
           more
           interest
           for
           buying
           upon
           Time
           or
           days
           of
           payment
           ;
           will
           also
           within
           the
           compass
           of
           seven
           years
           vanish
           into
           a
           Cypher
           .
        
         
           And
           if
           the
           Excise
           ,
           for
           the
           burden
           and
           grievance
           
           thereof
           ,
           should
           also
           be
           taken
           away
           ,
           the
           King
           having
           no
           provision
           made
           in
           the
           Act
           for
           taking
           away
           his
           Tenures
           in
           Capite
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           and
           of
           his
           Pourveyance
           ,
           (
           ●or
           the
           intended
           recompence
           of
           that
           part
           of
           the
           Excise
           therein
           mentioned
           )
           to
           resort
           back
           again
           in
           such
           a
           case
           to
           the
           former
           profit
           of
           his
           Tenures
           and
           ease
           of
           Pourveyance
           .
        
         
           Will
           then
           not
           only
           have
           given
           away
           those
           two
           great
           Flowers
           of
           His
           Crown
           for
           nothing
           ,
           but
           be
           as
           much
           a
           looser
           in
           what
           he
           shall
           over
           and
           above
           pay
           for
           his
           houshold
           provision
           ,
           Cart
           taking
           ,
           and
           other
           necessaries
           ,
           as
           hee
           shall
           pay
           a
           greater
           rate
           then
           his
           former
           pourveyances
           came
           unto
           ,
           which
           in
           200000
           l.
           
             per
             ann
          
           .
           which
           may
           well
           be
           conjectured
           to
           be
           the
           least
           which
           will
           be
           expended
           in
           that
           kinde
           )
           will
           ,
           considering
           three
           parts
           in
           four
           of
           the
           prizes
           enhanced
           ,
           amount
           to
           no
           less
           a
           detriment
           then
           
             one
             hundred
             seventy
             five
             thousand
          
           pounds
           
             per
             Annum
          
           ,
           besides
           what
           must
           be
           added
           to
           that
           loss
           for
           what
           shall
           be
           paid
           more
           then
           formerly
           for
           Timber
           and
           materials
           for
           the
           Navy
           ,
           and
           repair
           of
           the
           Kings
           Houses
           ,
           Castles
           and
           Forts
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           peoples
           every
           year
           more
           and
           more
           raising
           their
           priaees
           upon
           him
           .
        
         
           And
           then
           the
           bargain
           or
           exchange
           betwixt
           the
           King
           and
           the
           people
           for
           the
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           ,
           and
           his
           Pourveyances
           ,
           besides
           the
           giving
           away
           so
           great
           a
           part
           of
           his
           Prerogative
           and
           Soveraignty
           will
           arrive
           to
           no
           more
           then
           this
           .
           The
           King
           shall
           remit
           the
           yearly
           revenue
           of
           
             Eighty
             eight
             thousand
             &
             seventy
             pounds
             per
             Annum
             ,
          
           (
           defalcations
           for
           exhibitions
           and
           allowances
           
           for
           Fees
           ,
           Dyet
           ,
           and
           other
           necessaries
           and
           charges
           first
           deducted
           )
           which
           was
           made
           by
           the
           Court
           of
           Wards
           in
           the
           year
           1640
           ,
           besides
           
             Thirteen
             thousand
             two
             hundred
             eighty
             eight
             pounds
          
           profit
           for
           those
           kinde
           of
           Tenures
           which
           in
           that
           year
           was
           collected
           and
           brought
           into
           the
           Exchequer
           ,
           which
           will
           make
           a
           Total
           of
           
             One
             hundred
             one
             thousand
             three
             hundred
             fifty
             eight
          
           pounds
           
             per
             Annum
          
           .
        
         
           Or
           if
           but
           
             Eighty
             one
             thousand
             two
             hundred
             eighty
             eight
             pounds
             ,
          
           all
           charges
           cleared
           and
           deducted
           ,
           as
           it
           came
           unto
           in
           Anno
           1637.
           which
           was
           13º
           
             Car.
             primi
          
           ,
           both
           which
           was
           easily
           paid
           by
           the
           Nobility
           ,
           Gentry
           ,
           and
           richest
           and
           most
           able
           part
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           for
           or
           in
           respect
           of
           their
           Lands
           holden
           
             in
             Capite
          
           ,
           which
           were
           never
           purchased
           but
           frankly
           given
           for
           their
           Service
           ,
           Homage
           ,
           and
           incidents
           thereunto
           apperteining
           .
        
         
           And
           release
           the
           ease
           and
           benefit
           of
           his
           Pourveyances
           ,
           which
           did
           not
           in
           all
           the
           Fifty
           two
           Counties
           of
           England
           and
           Wales
           ,
           by
           the
           estimate
           of
           what
           was
           allowed
           towards
           it
           in
           Kent
           ,
           being
           thereby
           charged
           only
           with
           
             Twelve
             hundred
          
           pounds
           
             per
             Annum
          
           ,
           or
           thereabouts
           ,
           put
           the
           people
           of
           England
           to
           above
           
             Forty
             thousand
          
           pounds
           
             per
             Annum
          
           charges
           ;
           which
           totalled
           and
           summed
           up
           together
           with
           the
           profits
           of
           the
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           in
           An.
           1640.
           being
           16º
           Car.
           will
           make
           
             One
             hundred
             forty
             ▪
             one
             thousand
             three
             hundred
             pounds
             ,
          
           or
           
             One
             hundred
             and
             twenty
             thousand
             two
             hundred
             eighty
             eight
             pounds
             ,
          
           all
           necessary
           charges
           satisfied
           as
           it
           was
           in
           13º
           
             Car.
             primi
          
           .
        
         
           Shall
           give
           away
           that
           
             One
             hundred
             forty
             one
             thousand
             three
             hundred
             pounds
             ,
          
           or
           
             One
             hundred
             and
             twenty
             thousand
             two
             hundred
             and
             eighty
          
           pounds
           
             per
             Annum
          
           ,
           and
           
           loose
           
             One
             hundred
             and
             fifty
             thousand
          
           pounds
           
             per
             Annum
          
           in
           the
           buying
           of
           his
           Houshold
           provisions
           (
           besides
           what
           more
           shall
           be
           put
           upon
           him
           by
           a
           further
           enhaunce
           of
           prizes
           )
           for
           to
           gaine
           
             One
             hundred
             thousand
             pounds
          
           for
           that
           moyety
           of
           the
           Excise
           of
           Ale
           and
           Beer
           ,
           to
           be
           paid
           out
           of
           the
           sighes
           ,
           dayly
           complaints
           and
           lamentations
           of
           the
           poorest
           sort
           of
           the
           subjects
           ,
           and
           the
           discontents
           and
           mournings
           of
           nineteen
           parts
           in
           twenty
           of
           all
           the
           people
           ,
           who
           by
           the
           payment
           of
           that
           Excise
           will
           be
           made
           to
           bear
           the
           burdens
           of
           others
           ,
           to
           acquit
           less
           then
           a
           twentieth
           part
           of
           them
           ,
           of
           those
           no
           ruining
           payments
           not
           often
           happening
           to
           be
           charged
           upon
           them
           by
           reason
           of
           those
           kinde
           of
           Tenures
           ;
           or
           for
           nothing
           ,
           if
           that
           Excise
           should
           be
           taken
           away
           .
        
         
           Prejudice
           the
           King
           in
           his
           Honor
           (
           which
           Saul
           ,
           
           when
           he
           entreated
           Samuel
           not
           to
           dishonor
           him
           before
           the
           people
           ,
           understood
           to
           be
           of
           some
           concernment
           )
           and
           his
           Estate
           ,
           in
           not
           affording
           his
           Pourveyors
           a
           pre-emption
           in
           the
           buying
           provision
           for
           his
           Royal
           Family
           ,
           Tables
           and
           Attendants
           ,
           which
           all
           the
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           made
           concerning
           the
           Regulating
           of
           Pourveyances
           never
           denyed
           .
           The
           Princes
           of
           Germany
           are
           allowed
           in
           their
           smaller
           Dominions
           ,
           the
           Caterers
           of
           every
           Nobleman
           frequenting
           the
           Markets
           ,
           the
           servants
           of
           every
           Lord
           of
           a
           Mannor
           in
           England
           do
           enjoy
           ,
           and
           the
           common
           civilities
           of
           mankinde
           ,
           and
           but
           ordinary
           respect
           of
           inferiors
           to
           their
           superiors
           do
           easily
           perswade
           .
        
         
           Will
           not
           agree
           or
           keep
           company
           with
           that
           honor
           
           and
           reverence
           which
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           and
           Nature
           ,
           Nations
           ,
           and
           right
           reason
           ,
           will
           be
           due
           ,
           and
           ought
           to
           be
           paid
           to
           a
           King
           and
           Father
           of
           his
           Country
           ,
           
           nor
           with
           the
           gratitude
           of
           those
           who
           often
           enough
           come
           with
           their
           Buckets
           to
           the
           Well
           or
           Fountains
           or
           his
           mercy
           ,
           or
           are
           not
           seldom
           craving
           and
           obtaining
           favors
           of
           him
           ,
           to
           refuse
           him
           those
           small
           Retorns
           or
           Acknowledgments
           for
           his
           bounties
           ,
           nor
           prudence
           to
           shew
           him
           the
           way
           to
           be
           selfish
           or
           sparing
           in
           his
           kindeness
           to
           them
           .
        
         
           Shame
           our
           promises
           and
           protestations
           made
           unto
           
           him
           at
           his
           retorne
           from
           that
           misery
           wherein
           the
           sins
           and
           madness
           of
           a
           factious
           part
           of
           his
           subjects
           had
           cast
           him
           ,
           of
           sacrificing
           their
           lives
           ,
           fortunes
           and
           estates
           ,
           and
           all
           that
           they
           had
           for
           him
           ,
           that
           had
           rescued
           them
           from
           an
           utter
           destruction
           ;
           and
           yet
           when
           hee
           had
           told
           them
           of
           his
           wants
           ,
           and
           how
           much
           it
           troubled
           him
           to
           see
           his
           people
           to
           come
           as
           they
           did
           flocking
           to
           see
           him
           at
           Whitehall
           ,
           that
           hee
           had
           not
           wherewithall
           to
           entertain
           them
           or
           make
           them
           eat
           ,
           make
           such
           hast
           to
           take
           away
           his
           antient
           Rights
           of
           Pourveyance
           ,
           or
           dayly
           and
           necessary
           support
           of
           Him
           ,
           his
           Queen
           ,
           Children
           and
           Servants
           ,
           and
           for
           entertainment
           of
           Embassadors
           of
           Forreign
           Princes
           which
           for
           three
           days
           untill
           they
           have
           their
           Audience
           ,
           which
           is
           so
           sumptuous
           and
           extraordinary
           as
           it
           costs
           him
           at
           the
           least
           three
           or
           four
           hundred
           pounds
           a
           day
           .
        
         
           When
           as
           the
           ill-nurtured
           and
           unmannerly
           Dutch
           (
           gnawing
           a
           pickled
           Herring
           and
           an
           Onion
           in
           one
           hand
           and
           a
           piece
           of
           ruggen
           bread
           in
           the
           other
           )
           can
           in
           their
           slovenly
           and
           small
           moralities
           to
           their
           
             Prince
             of
             Orange
          
           allow
           him
           and
           his
           Court
           (
           which
           after
           the
           griping
           &
           high
           rate
           of
           their
           Excise
           goes
           a
           good
           part
           of
           the
           way
           to
           as
           much
           as
           what
           the
           King
           saved
           by
           his
           Pourveyances
           )
           a
           freedom
           from
           payment
           of
           Excise
           upon
           all
           Provisions
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           to
           the
           Queen
           
           of
           Bohemia
           ,
           and
           Embassadors
           of
           Forreign
           Princes
           all
           the
           year
           ,
           and
           to
           their
           Army
           &
           every
           common
           Soldier
           when
           they
           are
           in
           the
           field
           or
           leaguer
           or
           upon
           a
           march
           ,
           to
           the
           Ships
           of
           Merchants
           aswell
           as
           those
           of
           Warr
           in
           their
           Victualling
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           English
           Company
           of
           Merchants
           of
           the
           Staple
           there
           residing
           ,
           and
           deny
           not
           the
           Universitie
           of
           Leyden
           a
           freedom
           of
           having
           their
           provision
           of
           Wine
           and
           Beer
           laid
           in
           Excise-free
           .
        
         
           When
           the
           Lord
           Mayor
           of
           London
           hath
           an
           allowance
           or
           tolls
           out
           of
           Oats
           and
           Sea-Coals
           which
           are
           brought
           to
           be
           sold
           to
           London
           of
           Stallage
           and
           Pickage
           in
           the
           Markets
           and
           Faires
           ,
           out
           of
           Cattel
           brought
           to
           be
           sold
           in
           Smith-field
           ,
           and
           many
           other
           things
           towards
           the
           charge
           of
           his
           extraordinary
           House-keeping
           in
           the
           Yeare
           or
           Time
           of
           his
           Majorality
           ,
           which
           the
           simplest
           and
           poorest
           Citizen
           never
           grumbles
           at
           ,
           but
           acknowledgeth
           it
           to
           be
           for
           the
           honor
           of
           their
           City
           ,
           hath
           every
           Company
           or
           Corporation
           of
           Trades
           bringing
           him
           
             forty
             shillings
          
           in
           retribution
           of
           a
           Dinner
           and
           a
           cheap
           
             Silver
             Spoon
          
           ,
           every
           Citizen
           contributing
           to
           the
           charge
           of
           
             Triumphal
             Arches
          
           in
           entertainment
           of
           their
           Prince
           upon
           extraordinary
           occasions
           ,
           every
           Company
           bearing
           the
           charge
           of
           the
           Livery
           men
           and
           chief
           of
           their
           Company
           in
           their
           Pageants
           on
           the
           
             Lord
             Mayors
             days
          
           ,
           and
           every
           little
           Borough-Town
           in
           the
           Country
           can
           be
           well
           content
           to
           help
           one
           another
           in
           the
           charges
           which
           are
           put
           upon
           it
           when
           the
           King
           shall
           in
           his
           Progress
           receive
           any
           entertainment
           from
           them
           .
        
         
           Such
           a
           great
           provision
           as
           is
           necessarily
           to
           be
           made
           
           for
           the
           Kings
           Houshold
           and
           his
           multitude
           of
           Servants
           
           and
           Attendants
           ,
           will
           ,
           when
           much
           of
           his
           Provision
           shall
           not
           be
           sent
           (
           as
           formerly
           to
           his
           Court
           which
           did
           prevent
           it
           )
           sweep
           and
           take
           away
           the
           best
           sorts
           of
           Provision
           from
           the
           Markets
           ,
           and
           as
           experience
           hath
           already
           told
           us
           ,
           make
           scarce
           and
           dear
           all
           that
           can
           be
           brought
           to
           the
           Market
           near
           the
           Kings
           residence
           or
           his
           occasions
           .
        
         
           Teach
           the
           people
           ,
           whose
           measure
           and
           rule
           of
           
           conscience
           is
           to
           ask
           high
           rates
           ,
           and
           take
           as
           much
           as
           by
           any
           pretence
           ,
           tales
           ,
           falshoods
           or
           devices
           they
           can
           get
           ,
           and
           more
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           then
           common
           people
           ,
           to
           heighten
           their
           prices
           ,
           and
           get
           thereby
           unjustly
           of
           the
           King
           more
           then
           all
           their
           Subsidies
           or
           Assessments
           shall
           come
           to
           ,
           and
           render
           him
           in
           no
           better
           a
           case
           or
           condition
           (
           as
           to
           prices
           or
           good
           husbandry
           )
           in
           buying
           his
           necessary
           provision
           (
           as
           they
           say
           )
           by
           the
           peny
           ,
           then
           a
           Landlord
           that
           lets
           a
           Farm
           of
           50l.
           
             per
             Ann.
          
           to
           his
           Tenant
           ,
           and
           takes
           his
           rent
           in
           
             Wheat
             ,
             Malt
             ,
             Oats
             ,
             Wood
             ,
             Beef
             ,
             Mutton
             ,
             Veal
          
           and
           Poultry
           ,
           at
           such
           rates
           as
           he
           shall
           exact
           of
           him
           .
        
         
           Every
           Clown
           or
           Carter
           ,
           every
           mans
           servant
           or
           Kitching-maid
           shall
           in
           matters
           of
           Market
           and
           Provision
           be
           at
           liberty
           to
           buy
           a
           Salmon
           ,
           Phesants
           ,
           Partridges
           ,
           or
           Bustards
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           ,
           (
           fitter
           for
           the
           King
           then
           their
           Masters
           )
           out
           of
           his
           Pourveyors
           hands
           ,
           and
           do
           by
           him
           as
           a
           Trim
           over-monied
           Citizens
           wife
           did
           by
           a
           Gorget
           of
           60l.
           price
           ,
           (
           now
           too
           low
           a
           price
           for
           those
           kinde
           of
           Gentlewomen
           )
           which
           she
           bought
           in
           Anno
           1641.
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           our
           pretended
           religious
           but
           irreligious
           Warr
           out
           of
           the
           Queens
           hand
           ,
           and
           being
           afterwards
           sent
           to
           with
           a
           proffer
           of
           some
           advantage
           ,
           could
           finde
           neither
           manners
           nor
           duty
           to
           perswade
           her
           to
           part
           with
           it
           .
        
         
         
           And
           the
           e
           will
           be
           then
           but
           few
           Araunahs
           ,
           who
           
           when
           David
           and
           his
           Servants
           came
           to
           buy
           his
           
           Threshing-floor
           for
           to
           build
           an
           Altar
           ,
           bowed
           himself
           before
           the
           King
           on
           his
           face
           upon
           the
           ground
           ,
           and
           answered
           ,
           
             Let
             my
             Lord
             the
             King
             take
             and
             offer
             up
             what
             seemeth
             good
             unto
             him
             ;
             Behold
             ,
             here
             be
             Oxen
             for
             burnt-sacrifice
             .
          
        
         
           But
           every
           Nabal
           will
           be
           ready
           to
           answer
           our
           David
           and
           his
           Pourveyors
           or
           Servants
           ,
           Who
           is
           David
           ,
           and
           who
           is
           the
           son
           of
           Jesse
           ?
           or
           as
           one
           of
           that
           kindred
           
           did
           lately
           to
           the
           Kings
           Harbinger
           a
           :
           Windsor
           at
           the
           solemnities
           of
           the
           Feast
           of
           the
           Garter
           ,
           when
           hee
           could
           say
           the
           King
           had
           quitted
           his
           Tenures
           &
           Pourveyance
           ,
           and
           was
           now
           no
           more
           to
           him
           then
           another
           man
           ,
           he
           was
           at
           liberty
           to
           let
           his
           Lodgings
           to
           any
           one
           would
           give
           him
           sixpence
           more
           ;
           though
           the
           poor
           Persian
           (
           so
           much
           celebrated
           in
           History
           )
           who
           rather
           then
           he
           would
           offer
           nothing
           to
           his
           Prince
           in
           his
           Progress
           by
           his
           Cottage
           ,
           could
           run
           to
           the
           next
           water
           and
           bring
           as
           much
           of
           it
           as
           he
           could
           carry
           in
           hish
           and
           for
           a
           present
           ,
           would
           ,
           if
           he
           were
           now
           alive
           ,
           in
           a
           horror
           and
           detestation
           of
           so
           great
           a
           bestiality
           and
           such
           a
           
             Monstrum
             horrendum
          
           ,
           take
           his
           heels
           and
           run
           quite
           away
           from
           such
           an
           ingratitude
           or
           inhumanity
           .
        
         
           Disable
           the
           Brewers
           ,
           who
           complaining
           heavily
           of
           
           the
           Excise-men
           or
           Tormenters
           (
           as
           they
           call
           them
           )
           will
           by
           the
           mysteries
           of
           their
           Trade
           lay
           the
           burden
           as
           much
           as
           they
           can
           upon
           their
           customers
           ,
           &
           will
           not
           be
           able
           to
           give
           as
           much
           as
           formerly
           to
           the
           Maltsters
           ,
           nor
           the
           Maltsters
           to
           those
           that
           sell
           the
           Barley
           ,
           but
           all
           of
           them
           shifting
           of
           the
           burden
           one
           upon
           another
           will
           be
           a
           cause
           of
           the
           enhancing
           of
           the
           rates
           of
           Beer
           and
           Ale
           ,
           vitiating
           or
           making
           of
           it
           worse
           ,
           and
           by
           false
           
           Gaugings
           ,
           Expilations
           and
           Tricks
           of
           
             Excise
             men
          
           lesser
           measures
           used
           by
           the
           Retailers
           ,
           and
           every
           ones
           labouring
           to
           ease
           themselves
           as
           much
           as
           they
           can
           ,
           and
           using
           too
           many
           devices
           to
           make
           themselves
           savers
           ,
           or
           to
           increase
           their
           gain
           by
           the
           pretences
           of
           it
           ,
           will
           not
           fail
           to
           bring
           a
           huge
           trouble
           ,
           much
           damage
           ,
           and
           many
           inconveniencies
           upon
           the
           people
           ,
           and
           the
           poorer
           part
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           Will
           very
           much
           in
           the
           matter
           of
           Pourveyances
           
           (
           which
           Oliver
           and
           his
           Conventions
           were
           content
           not
           to
           molest
           )
           now
           thrown
           into
           that
           bargain
           ,
           diminish
           the
           magnificence
           and
           grandeur
           of
           the
           Kings
           hospitality
           ,
           which
           the
           surplusage
           of
           his
           Tables
           ,
           plenty
           in
           his
           Kitchings
           and
           Cellars
           ,
           and
           every
           where
           else
           to
           be
           found
           in
           all
           the
           places
           and
           offices
           of
           his
           Court
           ,
           did
           not
           only
           cause
           an
           admiration
           to
           strangers
           ,
           but
           yield
           a
           comfort
           and
           relief
           to
           many
           sorts
           of
           neighbor-inhabitants
           ,
           streets
           and
           villages
           adjacent
           ,
           and
           a
           great
           support
           of
           the
           poor
           ,
           who
           in
           the
           Raign
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Third
           ,
           were
           (
           besides
           the
           dayly
           crumms
           ,
           fragments
           ,
           and
           reliques
           of
           his
           houshold
           provision
           )
           not
           infrequently
           fed
           and
           Treated
           by
           that
           King
           ;
           who
           ,
           as
           our
           publique
           Records
           can
           tell
           us
           ,
           did
           several
           times
           send
           out
           Warrants
           and
           Writs
           to
           provide
           Victuals
           
             ad
             alendos
             pauperes
          
           
           in
           Westminster-Hall
           ,
           for
           as
           many
           poor
           as
           it
           could
           containe
           ,
           being
           a
           better
           kinde
           of
           expence
           then
           those
           vaine
           ,
           unnecessary
           and
           costly
           Treatments
           which
           our
           young
           Gallants
           and
           some
           Tradesmen
           do
           now
           too
           often
           make
           their
           Gentlewomen
           and
           Mistresses
           in
           
             Hide
             Park
          
           and
           
             Spring
             Garden
          
           ,
           to
           shew
           them
           how
           little
           at
           present
           they
           value
           money
           and
           how
           much
           they
           may
           want
           it
           hereafter
           .
        
         
         
           And
           at
           the
           same
           time
           can
           think
           every
           publique
           duty
           to
           be
           a
           grievance
           and
           every
           little
           too
           much
           which
           they
           contribute
           to
           their
           Prince
           .
        
         
           Who
           (
           if
           Pourveyances
           shall
           be
           taken
           away
           )
           will
           
           not
           be
           able
           to
           hinder
           or
           keep
           off
           those
           many
           inconveniencies
           which
           will
           obstruct
           his
           House
           keeping
           &
           Hospitality
           ,
           nor
           those
           many
           hardships
           ,
           disgraces
           and
           ruines
           which
           will
           fall
           upon
           many
           of
           his
           Servants
           and
           Attendants
           ,
           who
           (
           like
           the
           Priests
           in
           the
           desolation
           of
           the
           Temple
           )
           bewailing
           the
           former
           glory
           and
           present
           necessities
           of
           their
           Masters
           Court
           and
           house
           ,
           may
           weep
           between
           the
           Gate
           and
           the
           more
           retired
           places
           thereof
           ,
           and
           wish
           that
           a
           Queen
           of
           Sheba
           (
           as
           shee
           that
           came
           once
           out
           of
           the
           South
           to
           see
           King
           Solomon
           )
           may
           never
           come
           to
           view
           their
           Princes
           Court
           ,
           
             the
             manner
             of
             his
             Servants
          
           sitting
           at
           their
           Tables
           and
           eating
           of
           their
           meat
           ,
           
             the
             attendance
             of
             his
             Ministers
             and
             their
             apparrell
             .
          
        
         
           Take
           away
           not
           only
           the
           honor
           but
           the
           publique
           
           benefits
           and
           feudall
           Rights
           of
           the
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           ,
           by
           Knight-Service
           and
           
             per
             Baroniam
          
           ,
           which
           are
           justly
           and
           highly
           esteemed
           in
           all
           Kingdoms
           and
           Principalities
           which
           are
           so
           happy
           as
           to
           live
           under
           Monarchy
           the
           best
           of
           Governments
           ,
           and
           deprive
           our selves
           of
           those
           nerves
           and
           sinews
           which
           fix
           and
           consolidate
           the
           fidelity
           ,
           peace
           and
           welfare
           of
           Monarchies
           ,
           and
           the
           best
           part
           also
           of
           those
           feudal
           Laws
           ,
           wherein
           are
           contained
           many
           of
           the
           Laws
           and
           Rights
           of
           Kingdoms
           ,
           Marquisates
           ,
           Earldoms
           ,
           Baronies
           ,
           and
           their
           dependencies
           .
        
         
           Tenures
           
             in
             libero
             &
             communi
             Soccagio
             per
             fidelitatem
          
           
           
             tantùm
             pro
             omnibus
             servitiis
          
           ,
           in
           free
           and
           common
           Socage
           by
           Fealty
           only
           for
           all
           services
           so
           universally
           
           extended
           as
           to
           make
           all
           the
           English
           Tenures
           to
           be
           in
           that
           condition
           ,
           will
           be
           dangerous
           rather
           then
           profitable
           to
           the
           King
           and
           people
           ,
           whose
           good
           and
           safety
           consists
           in
           a
           due
           obedience
           of
           the
           people
           to
           their
           Prince
           ,
           and
           not
           in
           that
           which
           may
           invite
           and
           incourage
           Sedition
           and
           Rebellion
           ,
           &
           is
           fitter
           to
           be
           trusted
           to
           a
           Kingdom
           of
           Angells
           (
           which
           was
           once
           not
           without
           a
           Lucifer
           (
           a
           pretender
           to
           great
           Light
           )
           &
           his
           rebelling
           partie
           then
           to
           a
           people
           (
           many
           of
           whom
           being
           not
           fully
           cured
           of
           a
           disobedience
           more
           then
           ordinarily
           acted
           to
           the
           ruine
           of
           their
           King
           and
           his
           three
           Kingdoms
           ,
           are
           now
           in
           a
           full
           career
           of
           all
           manner
           of
           vice
           and
           wickedness
           ,
           running
           over
           all
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           and
           man
           ,
           and
           wholly
           given
           up
           to
           their
           pride
           and
           Luxury
           ,
           and
           an
           interest
           and
           care
           to
           maintain
           them
           .
        
         
           They
           that
           could
           then
           mis-interpret
           Scripture
           ,
           
           abuse
           the
           plain
           and
           genuine
           sense
           and
           meaning
           of
           all
           our
           Laws
           ,
           clearly
           exprest
           and
           fully
           to
           be
           understood
           ,
           and
           make
           an
           ill
           use
           of
           a
           not
           to
           be
           (
           as
           they
           thought
           )
           dissolved
           Parliament
           ,
           rebell
           and
           fight
           against
           their
           King
           ,
           multiply
           Grievances
           under
           colour
           of
           remedying
           them
           ,
           destroy
           him
           and
           endeavour
           to
           do
           the
           like
           to
           his
           Children
           and
           Successors
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           loyal
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           which
           according
           to
           their
           Allegiance
           and
           Tenures
           of
           their
           Lands
           made
           hast
           to
           his
           Standard
           and
           Defence
           ,
           will
           now
           think
           they
           have
           gotten
           better
           Fig-leaves
           ,
           either
           to
           cover
           any
           thing
           they
           shall
           attempt
           against
           their
           King
           and
           Soveraign
           ,
           or
           for
           abiding
           with
           Gilead
           beyond
           Jordan
           ,
           and
           not
           coming
           to
           help
           or
           assist
           him
           ,
           in
           regard
           that
           for
           all
           manner
           of
           services
           they
           are
           only
           to
           do
           him
           Fealty
           ,
           which
           they
           may
           disguise
           according
           to
           their
           several
           humors
           and
           interests
           .
        
         
           Will
           unhinge
           the
           Government
           and
           take
           away
           the
           
           
           Tyes
           and
           Obligations
           which
           were
           betwixt
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           the
           Nobility
           and
           better
           part
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           and
           the
           more
           common
           and
           inferior
           sort
           of
           them
           ,
           untie
           their
           bonds
           of
           Obedience
           ,
           and
           let
           them
           loose
           to
           a
           liberty
           of
           ruining
           and
           undoing
           themselvs
           by
           not
           obeying
           their
           Soveraign
           ,
           which
           is
           not
           to
           be
           hazarded
           upon
           the
           hopes
           of
           Tenures
           
             in
             Corde
          
           ,
           when
           the
           impression
           and
           remembrance
           of
           Benefits
           are
           as
           frail
           and
           little
           immortal
           as
           Gratitudes
           ,
           or
           the
           love
           and
           kindness
           of
           many
           friends
           or
           children
           which
           hardly
           survives
           dayes
           or
           moneths
           or
           a
           few
           years
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           most
           do
           not
           outlive
           the
           first
           Receivers
           ,
           but
           do
           most
           commonly
           within
           a
           few
           dayes
           ,
           if
           not
           hours
           after
           ,
           wax
           faint
           and
           languish
           ;
           and
           though
           they
           did
           at
           the
           first
           really
           mean
           and
           intend
           the
           thankfulness
           they
           promised
           ,
           can
           as
           quickly
           as
           the
           Scots
           did
           by
           the
           late
           Kings
           extraordinary
           favours
           and
           concessions
           ,
           even
           to
           the
           giving
           away
           almost
           all
           that
           hee
           had
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           or
           as
           some
           of
           their
           Brethren
           in
           England
           did
           in
           their
           undertakings
           to
           make
           him
           a
           glorious
           King
           ,
           forget
           what
           they
           promised
           or
           should
           do
           ;
           and
           having
           got
           power
           into
           their
           hands
           ,
           be
           most
           rigid
           and
           severe
           in
           the
           exercise
           and
           imployment
           of
           it
           and
           their
           liberties
           against
           those
           which
           granted
           them
           .
        
         
           Make
           the
           head
           of
           our
           English
           Body
           Politique
           not
           
           to
           be
           as
           a
           head
           in
           the
           body
           natural
           ,
           strongly
           fixed
           and
           resting
           upon
           those
           many
           Bones
           ,
           Joints
           ,
           Arteries
           ,
           Muscles
           and
           Veins
           which
           in
           that
           line
           of
           Communication
           ,
           do
           serve
           and
           attend
           the
           motions
           and
           directions
           of
           the
           head
           and
           principall
           part
           for
           the
           well
           being
           of
           the
           whole
           body
           ;
           but
           to
           be
           set
           in
           such
           an
           unfixed
           ,
           unsafe
           ,
           and
           unusuall
           order
           ,
           as
           it
           shall
           neither
           be
           able
           to
           protect
           it self
           or
           those
           who
           depend
           
           upon
           it
           ,
           and
           have
           no
           other
           ligaments
           but
           Fealtie
           ,
           and
           the
           too
           often
           broken
           oaths
           of
           Allegiance
           &
           Supremacy
           ,
           which
           can
           never
           attain
           to
           those
           great
           Obligations
           of
           Homage
           and
           Service
           of
           Warr
           ;
           which
           being
           annexed
           to
           the
           Land
           it self
           ,
           had
           besides
           the
           Bond
           of
           Loyaltie
           another
           also
           of
           Gratitude
           attending
           upon
           it
           ,
           and
           as
           a
           
             threefold
             cord
          
           not
           easily
           to
           be
           broken
           ,
           must
           of
           necessity
           farr
           surmount
           that
           so
           small
           a
           one
           as
           Fealtie
           ,
           which
           being
           little
           more
           then
           our
           modern
           ill
           used
           dayly
           Complements
           ,
           will
           prove
           such
           a
           
             small
             something
          
           ,
           as
           when
           Interest
           ,
           Profit
           ,
           Humors
           or
           Factions
           shall
           either
           altogether
           or
           apart
           stand
           in
           the
           way
           of
           them
           or
           any
           of
           them
           ,
           will
           be
           made
           to
           be
           little
           more
           then
           nothing
           .
        
         
           Mutilate
           and
           lame
           our
           Ancient
           best
           regulated
           and
           
           unparalleled
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           make
           it
           to
           be
           as
           paralitick
           on
           the
           right
           side
           ,
           and
           wanting
           the
           natural
           and
           right
           use
           of
           its
           right
           Arm
           and
           Legg
           ;
           and
           applying
           no
           better
           a
           remedy
           then
           a
           plaister
           of
           Excise
           ,
           drawn
           from
           the
           rebelling
           &
           necessitous
           example
           of
           a
           Neighbor
           Republique
           or
           Democratie
           ,
           put
           the
           power
           and
           ability
           of
           serving
           the
           King
           in
           his
           Warrs
           ,
           of
           helping
           him
           to
           preserve
           the
           
             Salus
             Populi
          
           or
           good
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           and
           performing
           the
           Oaths
           and
           Duty
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           (
           a
           great
           part
           whereof
           was
           before
           in
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           who
           were
           the
           best
           educated
           ,
           more
           knowing
           and
           virtuous
           part
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           and
           better
           understanding
           the
           order
           and
           affairs
           of
           Government
           and
           the
           Loyaltie
           which
           at
           all
           times
           and
           upon
           all
           occasions
           did
           belong
           unto
           it
           )
           into
           the
           hands
           and
           humor
           of
           the
           ignorant
           ,
           mis-understanding
           ,
           rude
           and
           giddy
           Plebeians
           or
           Common
           people
           .
        
         
           Deprive
           the
           King
           and
           people
           of
           those
           Strengths
           ,
           
           ready
           Ayds
           and
           Assistance
           of
           the
           Tenants
           
             in
             Capite
          
           
           and
           by
           Knight
           Service
           (
           who
           were
           as
           so
           many
           little
           and
           inoffensive
           Garrisons
           &
           Forts
           in
           every
           County
           to
           defend
           it
           )
           to
           make
           head
           against
           the
           sudden
           invasion
           of
           an
           Enemy
           ,
           put
           him
           to
           a
           stand
           ,
           and
           prevent
           (
           which
           was
           evidenced
           by
           the
           late
           use
           and
           terrors
           of
           Olivers
           County
           troops
           )
           the
           over-running
           or
           gaining
           of
           whole
           Territories
           or
           taking
           of
           places
           of
           Strength
           ,
           untill
           greater
           neighbor
           forces
           or
           an
           Army
           be
           imbodyed
           ,
           or
           to
           be
           as
           so
           many
           Brigades
           or
           Auxiliaries
           well
           horsed
           and
           furnished
           (
           with
           their
           Tenants
           )
           to
           attend
           their
           King
           in
           a
           diversive
           Warr
           ,
           as
           they
           were
           in
           Anno
           1640.
           in
           that
           unfortunately
           suspended
           Expedition
           or
           Inrode
           into
           Scotland
           against
           those
           Rebellious
           COVENANTERS
           against
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           as
           well
           as
           those
           of
           their
           Soveraign
           .
        
         
           Decay
           and
           impoverish
           the
           Kings
           Revenue
           ,
           and
           
           bring
           him
           into
           a
           want
           of
           money
           ,
           which
           made
           his
           late
           Majesty
           the
           Martyr's
           great
           and
           extraordinary
           Virtues
           ,
           Piety
           and
           Prudence
           ,
           too
           weak
           to
           defend
           himself
           or
           resist
           the
           torrent
           of
           Sedition
           and
           Rebellion
           ,
           which
           like
           an
           inundation
           of
           many
           waters
           rushed
           in
           upon
           him
           .
        
         
           Exchange
           the
           antient
           and
           noble
           Guards
           of
           England
           
           and
           its
           never
           failing
           defence
           ,
           as
           the
           earthen
           Walls
           and
           Bulwarks
           thereof
           ,
           by
           an
           Obligation
           of
           Tenure
           and
           Homage
           annexed
           to
           the
           Lands
           of
           those
           which
           hold
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           ,
           for
           a
           standing
           Guard
           or
           Army
           of
           Hirelings
           ,
           or
           men
           whose
           Fortunes
           are
           worn
           on
           their
           Backs
           as
           their
           Clothes
           ,
           or
           by
           their
           sides
           as
           their
           Swords
           ,
           which
           upon
           any
           necessity
           or
           mischance
           happening
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           may
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           pay
           (
           as
           the
           
             German
             Ruyters
          
           or
           Lancekneghts
           )
           or
           by
           insolence
           or
           presumption
           of
           their
           numbers
           or
           strength
           (
           as
           the
           Praetorian
           Bands
           amongst
           
           the
           later
           Romans
           )
           or
           the
           Turkish
           mutinous
           Janisaries
           ;
           or
           by
           being
           inconstant
           and
           faithless
           ,
           as
           the
           Cosacks
           and
           Tartars
           usually
           are
           to
           the
           Poles
           ;
           ruine
           and
           forsake
           him
           ,
           or
           by
           an
           humor
           of
           making
           Remonstrances
           and
           intermedling
           in
           State
           matters
           ,
           Innovating
           of
           Laws
           ,
           changes
           of
           Government
           ,
           and
           sacrificing
           to
           the
           Ignorance
           of
           their
           own
           mechanick
           Brains
           and
           new
           found
           destructive
           Politicks
           ,
           destroy
           the
           people
           &
           their
           liberties
           ,
           as
           our
           late
           Colonels
           and
           Captains
           of
           the
           new
           edition
           ,
           and
           the
           Agitators
           and
           
             Self-canonized
             Saints
          
           did
           attempt
           to
           do
           when
           they
           would
           make
           themselves
           to
           be
           so
           much
           concerned
           in
           the
           good
           of
           the
           people
           as
           to
           set
           up
           a
           Law
           of
           the
           Sword
           and
           a
           Committee
           of
           Safety
           to
           make
           no
           man
           to
           have
           any
           safety
           or
           property
           but
           themselves
           ,
           and
           called
           every
           thing
           Providence
           which
           proceeded
           from
           their
           own
           unparallel'd
           Villainies
           .
        
         
           Renverse
           and
           overturn
           many
           of
           the
           fundamental
           
           Laws
           and
           Constitutions
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           throw
           it
           with
           the
           heels
           upwards
           into
           very
           many
           evils
           and
           confusions
           ,
           which
           our selves
           as
           well
           as
           posterity
           may
           repent
           but
           not
           know
           how
           to
           remedie
           .
        
         
           Perpetuate
           a
           Moyety
           of
           the
           Excise
           upon
           Ale
           ,
           
           Beer
           ,
           Perry
           and
           Sider
           ,
           and
           make
           the
           groans
           and
           burden
           thereof
           to
           be
           as
           an
           Inheritance
           for
           the
           people
           ,
           &
           by
           the
           example
           and
           custom
           thereof
           be
           by
           degrees
           a
           means
           to
           introduce
           the
           whole
           Excise
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           Oliverian
           usurpation
           was
           laid
           upon
           them
           ;
           and
           though
           it
           may
           not
           happen
           in
           the
           life
           time
           of
           a
           gracious
           Prince
           ,
           Father
           of
           his
           Country
           ,
           and
           Preserver
           of
           his
           peoples
           Rights
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           may
           afterwards
           ,
           like
           Nessus's
           poisoned
           shirt
           upon
           the
           back
           of
           our
           Hercules
           and
           former
           Government
           ,
           canker
           ,
           eat
           up
           and
           destroy
           all
           their
           labours
           and
           industry
           .
        
         
         
           Will
           cut
           off
           our
           Sampsons
           Locks
           ,
           and
           bereave
           
           him
           of
           his
           strength
           ,
           break
           in
           pieces
           the
           Shield
           and
           Spear
           of
           his
           mighty
           men
           of
           Warr
           ,
           and
           when
           all
           things
           Antimonarchical
           should
           be
           rooted
           out
           ,
           will
           be
           a
           fruitfull
           plantation
           and
           product
           of
           the
           greatest
           of
           Antimonarchicks
           ,
           and
           be
           that
           which
           our
           English
           Monarchie
           never
           yet
           saw
           or
           allowed
           ;
           and
           if
           Gods
           mercy
           prevent
           not
           ,
           may
           be
           as
           good
           a
           guest
           as
           a
           Canker
           or
           Snake
           in
           the
           Bosom
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           All
           which
           and
           more
           evils
           and
           inconveniences
           then
           can
           at
           present
           be
           either
           fore-seen
           or
           enumerated
           ,
           and
           will
           (
           as
           to
           very
           many
           of
           them
           )
           as
           certainly
           follow
           the
           taking
           away
           of
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           ,
           as
           effects
           do
           usually
           their
           causes
           ,
           Cromwell
           the
           Protector
           of
           his
           own
           Villainies
           as
           well
           as
           our
           Miseries
           )
           very
           well
           understood
           ,
           when
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           destruction
           of
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Family
           ,
           the
           ruine
           of
           all
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           and
           the
           rooting
           up
           of
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           every
           thing
           which
           did
           but
           resemble
           or
           help
           to
           support
           it
           ;
           he
           did
           all
           he
           could
           to
           take
           away
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           .
        
         
           And
           having
           a
           constant
           and
           standing
           Army
           of
           Thirty
           thousand
           Horse
           and
           Foot
           allowed
           to
           him
           and
           his
           Successors
           by
           his
           
             Instrument
             of
             Government
          
           ,
           or
           
             Rod
             of
             Scorpions
          
           ,
           and
           a
           Revenue
           of
           
             Nineteen
             hundred
             thousand
             pounds
          
           to
           maintain
           himself
           in
           his
           intended
           unlimited
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           to
           keep
           the
           people
           in
           slavery
           ,
           cozening
           ,
           cheating
           ,
           and
           ruining
           all
           Loyal
           and
           honest
           men
           under
           the
           Hypocrisie
           and
           pretence
           of
           intentional
           Godliness
           ,
           and
           
             Two
             hundred
             thousand
          
           pounds
           
             per
             Annum
          
           for
           the
           provision
           of
           his
           House
           and
           Servants
           ,
           found
           himself
           no
           way
           indammaged
           
           by
           destroying
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           or
           by
           Knight-Service
           ,
           or
           concerned
           to
           retain
           or
           keep
           them
           .
        
         
           Which
           being
           the
           most
           noble
           sort
           of
           Tenures
           ,
           most
           antient
           ,
           free
           ,
           and
           priviledged
           ,
           will
           if
           they
           shall
           be
           truly
           and
           judiciously
           put
           in
           parallel
           and
           balance
           with
           those
           of
           the
           original
           and
           proper
           Tenures
           in
           Socage
           ,
           who
           as
           
             Coloni
             &
             adscriptitii
          
           ,
           tied
           to
           
           their
           husbandry
           and
           plowes
           ,
           did
           (
           as
           Sr
           
             Edward
             Cook
          
           saith
           )
           
             Arare
             &
             Herciare
          
           ,
           Plow
           and
           Harrow
           their
           Lords
           Lands
           ,
           and
           do
           many
           other
           servile
           works
           ;
           or
           with
           such
           a
           Socage
           as
           those
           many
           Tenants
           hold
           their
           Lands
           by
           ,
           which
           hold
           by
           a
           certain
           small
           rent
           of
           Sir
           
             Anthony
             Weldens
          
           Heir
           for
           Castle-guard
           to
           the
           ruined
           Rochester
           Castle
           in
           Kent
           ,
           to
           pay
           3
           s.
           4
           
             d.
             nomine
             poenae
          
           for
           every
           Tide
           which
           after
           the
           time
           limited
           for
           payment
           shall
           run
           under
           Rochester
           Bridg.
           
        
         
           Or
           with
           Copy-hold
           Tenures
           ,
           (
           which
           at
           the
           first
           being
           frankly
           given
           for
           years
           or
           life
           ,
           and
           after
           by
           a
           continued
           charity
           turned
           to
           a
           Customary
           Inheritance
           )
           were
           bound
           up
           to
           many
           inconveniences
           ,
           
           as
           not
           to
           lease
           their
           Lands
           or
           fell
           Timber
           without
           their
           Lords
           licence
           ,
           and
           many
           forfeitures
           ,
           payments
           and
           customes
           ,
           some
           at
           Fines
           incertain
           ,
           at
           the
           will
           of
           the
           Lord
           ,
           after
           the
           death
           of
           their
           Ancestor
           ,
           and
           which
           upon
           a
           suit
           or
           appeal
           in
           the
           Courts
           of
           Justice
           or
           Chancery
           are
           never
           mitigated
           or
           brought
           lower
           then
           two
           years
           present
           and
           improved
           value
           ;
           and
           where
           the
           Fines
           are
           certain
           ,
           do
           in
           many
           places
           pay
           as
           much
           or
           more
           ,
           in
           some
           places
           where
           they
           pay
           less
           pay
           after
           the
           rate
           of
           five
           pence
           
             per
             Acre
          
           ,
           and
           in
           other
           eight
           pence
           
             per
             Acre
          
           ,
           or
           higher
           as
           the
           custome
           varies
           ;
           and
           
           pay
           Herriots
           ,
           not
           only
           upon
           the
           death
           of
           the
           last
           Tenant
           but
           upon
           Surrenders
           ;
           and
           in
           some
           places
           the
           Widdows
           having
           no
           
             Free
             Bench
          
           (
           as
           they
           call
           it
           )
           or
           Estate
           in
           the
           Lands
           after
           their
           Husbands
           ;
           and
           where
           they
           have
           that
           or
           Dower
           ,
           which
           is
           seldom
           in
           other
           places
           ,
           do
           forfeit
           if
           they
           marry
           again
           ;
           or
           in
           some
           places
           ,
           if
           they
           commit
           fornication
           or
           adultery
           in
           their
           Widdow-hood
           ;
           and
           if
           the
           Lords
           of
           Mannors
           put
           the
           Tenants
           out
           of
           their
           Copyhold
           Estates
           upon
           a
           forfeiture
           ,
           they
           have
           by
           Law
           no
           remedy
           but
           to
           petition
           to
           them
           ,
           can
           have
           no
           Writ
           of
           Right-close
           to
           command
           their
           Lords
           to
           do
           them
           right
           without
           delay
           according
           to
           the
           custome
           of
           the
           Mannor
           ,
           no
           Writ
           of
           
             False
             Judgment
          
           at
           the
           Common
           Law
           given
           in
           the
           Lords
           Court
           ,
           but
           must
           sue
           to
           the
           Lord
           by
           Petition
           ,
           nor
           can
           sue
           any
           Writ
           of
           Monstraverunt
           to
           command
           their
           Lords
           ,
           not
           to
           require
           of
           them
           other
           Customs
           or
           Services
           then
           they
           ought
           ,
           must
           grinde
           at
           the
           Lords
           Mill
           and
           bake
           at
           his
           common
           Oven
           ,
           and
           not
           speak
           irreverently
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           Or
           those
           kinde
           of
           Tenures
           of
           Lands
           in
           
             Cumberland
             ,
             Northumberland
             ,
             Westmerland
          
           ,
           and
           the
           North
           parts
           of
           England
           ,
           which
           pay
           a
           
             thirty
             peny
          
           
           Fine
           at
           every
           alienation
           ,
           and
           a
           
             twenty
             peny
          
           Fine
           upon
           the
           death
           of
           an
           Ancestor
           or
           of
           their
           Lord
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           rate
           of
           the
           small
           yearly
           rents
           of
           their
           Lands
           ,
           which
           were
           at
           the
           first
           freely
           given
           for
           service
           in
           Warr
           ,
           and
           to
           repell
           the
           Scottish
           Incursions
           ,
           now
           much
           insisted
           upon
           and
           called
           Tenant-Right
           .
        
         
           Or
           Lease-holders
           which
           are
           racked
           or
           pay
           Fines
           ,
           
           and
           a
           Rent
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           any
           will
           give
           for
           them
           under
           harsh
           and
           strict
           Covenants
           ,
           conditions
           ,
           forfeitures
           ,
           &
           
             Nomine
             Poenae's
          
           ,
           without
           a
           standing
           Army
           &
           Assessments
           
           and
           a
           Troop
           of
           Horse
           (
           as
           was
           done
           in
           Olivers
           time
           )
           to
           scout
           in
           every
           County
           ,
           to
           awe
           ,
           terrifie
           ,
           abuse
           and
           sometimes
           rob
           the
           Inhabitants
           .
        
         
           Or
           the
           now
           so
           much
           desired
           Tenure
           of
           free
           and
           
           common
           Socage
           ,
           (
           many
           of
           which
           are
           under
           the
           payment
           of
           a
           Tenth
           every
           year
           ,
           of
           the
           value
           as
           they
           were
           first
           granted
           )
           by
           Fealty
           only
           for
           all
           services
           ,
           with
           a
           standing
           Army
           or
           Assessments
           ,
           though
           farr
           lesser
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           hoped
           ,
           instead
           of
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           ,
           will
           be
           more
           desirable
           and
           prove
           a
           greater
           freedom
           then
           either
           the
           old
           Socage
           Tenure
           ,
           which
           in
           Kent
           they
           did
           sometimes
           willingly
           exchange
           ,
           to
           hold
           the
           same
           Lands
           by
           Knight-Service
           ,
           or
           the
           Copy-holders
           or
           Northern
           Tenant-rightmen
           ,
           or
           the
           free
           and
           common
           Socage
           by
           Fealtie
           only
           and
           no
           other
           Services
           .
        
         
           None
           of
           which
           have
           or
           can
           justly
           claim
           as
           the
           Tenants
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           do
           those
           antient
           and
           honourable
           Rights
           ,
           Immunities
           and
           Priviledges
           which
           justly
           belong
           unto
           them
           ,
           nor
           their
           
           Court
           Barons
           and
           Court
           Leetes
           ,
           with
           the
           priviledges
           of
           
             basse
             Justice
          
           ,
           doing
           Justice
           to
           their
           Tenants
           for
           small
           Debts
           under
           Forty
           shillings
           ,
           correcting
           and
           overseeing
           the
           Assize
           of
           Bread
           and
           Beer
           ,
           Weights
           and
           Measures
           ,
           corrupt
           
           Victuals
           ,
           punishment
           of
           breach
           of
           the
           Peace
           ,
           swearing
           Constables
           ,
           making
           By-lawes
           ,
           power
           of
           administring
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           Inquiries
           concerning
           Victuallers
           ,
           Artificers
           ,
           Workmen
           ,
           Laborers
           ,
           and
           excess
           of
           prizes
           of
           Wines
           ,
           &c.
           
           Inquiries
           after
           Seditions
           ,
           Treasons
           ,
           &c.
           and
           presenting
           and
           certifying
           them
           or
           any
           other
           thing
           that
           might
           disturb
           the
           Peace
           and
           Welfare
           of
           their
           King
           and
           Country
           ,
           
           and
           by
           keeping
           the
           lesser
           Wheels
           in
           order
           ,
           did
           contribute
           much
           to
           that
           of
           the
           greater
           ,
           and
           every
           one
           (
           as
           litle
           and
           subordinate
           Reguli
           and
           petty
           Princes
           )
           enjoying
           under
           their
           Kings
           and
           Soveraignes
           that
           which
           to
           this
           day
           (
           as
           well
           as
           antiently
           )
           have
           been
           called
           Royalties
           ,
           which
           being
           but
           pencil'd
           and
           drawn
           out
           of
           Regal
           favours
           and
           permission
           ,
           are
           
             in
             Fide
             &
             Homagio
          
           deduced
           from
           those
           Tenures
           ;
           For
           all
           which
           free
           Gifts
           ,
           Emoluments
           ,
           Immunities
           and
           Priviledges
           ,
           they
           had
           no
           other
           .
        
      
       
         
           Burdens
           or
           Duties
           incumbent
           upon
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           Knight-Service
           .
        
         
           THen
           to
           go
           to
           Warr
           well
           arrayed
           and
           furnished
           
           with
           the
           King
           or
           his
           Lieutenant
           General
           (
           which
           every
           Subject
           if
           he
           had
           not
           Lands
           freely
           given
           him
           is
           in
           duty
           bound
           to
           do
           )
           or
           his
           mesne
           Lord
           when
           Warrs
           should
           happen
           ,
           which
           in
           a
           common
           course
           of
           Accidents
           may
           be
           but
           once
           or
           not
           at
           all
           in
           his
           life
           time
           ,
           and
           then
           not
           to
           tarry
           with
           him
           above
           forty
           dayes
           or
           less
           according
           to
           their
           proportion
           of
           Fee
           or
           Lands
           holden
           at
           their
           own
           charge
           (
           which
           is
           a
           greater
           favor
           then
           to
           go
           along
           with
           him
           all
           the
           time
           of
           his
           Warrs
           )
           and
           for
           all
           the
           time
           that
           they
           remain
           afterwards
           in
           the
           Camp
           to
           be
           at
           the
           Kings
           charge
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           Escuage
           assessed
           by
           Parliament
           of
           their
           
           own
           Tenants
           if
           they
           shall
           refuse
           to
           go
           also
           in
           person
           .
        
         
           Their
           respit
           of
           Homage
           was
           without
           personall
           attendance
           discharged
           once
           in
           four
           Terms
           or
           a
           years
           
           space
           for
           smaller
           Fees
           proportionable
           to
           the
           yearly
           value
           of
           their
           Lands
           then
           
             three
             shillings
             four
             pence
             per
             Ann.
          
           which
           they
           that
           held
           a
           Knights
           Fee
           yearly
           paid
           to
           their
           mesne
           Lords
           for
           respite
           of
           suit
           of
           Court.
           
        
         
           Their
           releif
           when
           they
           dyed
           ,
           leaving
           their
           Heirs
           
           at
           full
           age
           ,
           was
           for
           a
           whole
           Knights
           Fee
           but
           Cs.
           (
           lesse
           most
           commonly
           then
           a
           Herriot
           or
           the
           price
           of
           their
           best
           Horse
           or
           beast
           if
           they
           had
           holden
           in
           Socage
           )
           and
           when
           they
           were
           in
           Ward
           paid
           nothing
           for
           it
           ;
           for
           a
           Barony
           100
           marks
           ,
           and
           an
           Earldom
           100l.
           of
           a
           Marquis
           200
           Marks
           ,
           and
           a
           Duke
           200
           l.
           
        
         
           The
           
             Primer
             seisin
          
           ,
           which
           though
           due
           by
           Law
           was
           
           never
           paid
           untill
           4º
           or
           5º
           
             Car.
             primi
          
           ,
           was
           like
           the
           Clergies
           first-Fruits
           ,
           according
           to
           a
           small
           moderate
           value
           a
           years
           profit
           if
           in
           possession
           ,
           and
           a
           Moyety
           in
           Reversion
           ;
           and
           so
           small
           a
           casualtie
           or
           revenue
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           16th
           year
           of
           the
           Raign
           of
           his
           late
           Majestie
           they
           did
           but
           amount
           unto
           3086
           l.
           9
           s.
           8
           
             d.
             ob
             .
             half
             farthing
          
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           charge
           to
           the
           Officers
           of
           a
           general
           Livery
           
           (
           being
           like
           to
           an
           admittance
           of
           a
           Tenant
           in
           a
           Copy-hold
           estate
           ,
           but
           a
           great
           deal
           cheaper
           )
           where
           the
           Lands
           were
           under
           value
           and
           found
           but
           at
           5l.
           
             per
             Ann.
          
           which
           most
           commonly
           was
           the
           highest
           rate
           of
           finding
           or
           valuation
           of
           it
           when
           it
           was
           100l.
           
             per
             Annum
          
           or
           something
           more
           ,
           with
           all
           the
           Fees
           and
           requisites
           thereunto
           did
           not
           exceed
           10l.
           and
           the
           Fine
           for
           a
           Livery
           where
           there
           was
           a
           Wardship
           ,
           half
           a
           years
           profit
           after
           a
           small
           value
           ,
           and
           so
           little
           as
           in
           16
           Car.
           
           the
           accompt
           for
           Liveriess
           was
           but
           1316
           l.
           12
           s.
           4
           
             d.
             ob
             .
             farthing
          
           .
        
         
           And
           where
           a
           Special
           Livery
           under
           the
           Great
           Seal
           of
           England
           was
           sued
           out
           ,
           with
           a
           Pardon
           for
           Alienations
           ,
           Intrusions
           ,
           &c.
           did
           not
           with
           the
           Lord
           Chancellors
           ,
           Master
           of
           the
           Rolls
           ,
           and
           Master
           of
           the
           Wards
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           Fees
           included
           ,
           make
           the
           charge
           amount
           to
           more
           then
           15
           l.
           or
           20
           l.
           
        
         
           Where
           a
           Livery
           was
           not
           sued
           out
           as
           it
           ought
           to
           
           be
           ,
           the
           mesne
           rates
           and
           forfeitures
           (
           which
           may
           be
           avoided
           )
           were
           either
           pardoned
           or
           gently
           compounded
           ,
           and
           of
           so
           small
           a
           consideration
           in
           the
           Kings
           Revenue
           by
           Wardships
           ,
           as
           in
           Anno
           1640.
           and
           a
           time
           of
           peace
           ,
           the
           Account
           thereof
           amounted
           to
           no
           more
           then
           Nine
           hundred
           ninety
           two
           pounds
           fifteen
           shillings
           two
           pence
           half-peny
           half-farthing
           .
        
         
           And
           where
           a
           minority
           happened
           ,
           which
           in
           Times
           of
           less
           luxury
           was
           but
           seldome
           ,
           many
           were
           either
           Knighted
           or
           Married
           before
           they
           attained
           to
           their
           full
           age
           ,
           and
           Heirs
           females
           were
           not
           infrequently
           married
           long
           before
           their
           age
           of
           21.
           there
           being
           not
           one
           with
           another
           ,
           one
           in
           every
           seven
           that
           died
           leaving
           an
           Heir
           in
           Minority
           .
        
         
           Which
           may
           the
           better
           be
           credited
           ,
           for
           that
           ,
           if
           Report
           mistake
           not
           ,
           a
           Family
           of
           Poynings
           or
           Pointz
           ,
           having
           from
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           H.
           1.
           now
           almost
           six
           hundred
           years
           ago
           ,
           not
           had
           an
           Heir
           in
           minority
           .
        
         
           And
           it
           is
           certain
           enough
           that
           in
           twenty
           Discents
           of
           the
           Family
           of
           Veeres
           ,
           now
           Earls
           of
           Oxford
           ,
           in
           the
           space
           of
           six
           hundred
           years
           and
           some
           thing
           more
           ,
           and
           the
           Warrs
           and
           Troubles
           which
           happened
           in
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           there
           have
           not
           been
           but
           six
           in
           minority
           
           when
           their
           Fathers
           or
           Ancestors
           died
           ;
           and
           the
           like
           or
           less
           may
           be
           found
           or
           instanced
           in
           many
           others
           .
        
         
           And
           for
           one
           that
           is
           left
           very
           young
           at
           his
           Fathers
           death
           ,
           there
           are
           commonly
           nineteen
           that
           are
           of
           greater
           age
           ;
           and
           for
           one
           betwixt
           five
           years
           old
           and
           ten
           ,
           there
           are
           ten
           that
           are
           above
           the
           age
           of
           ten
           ;
           and
           for
           one
           that
           is
           betwixt
           that
           and
           fifteen
           ,
           there
           are
           seven
           that
           are
           above
           it
           ;
           for
           that
           most
           commonly
           in
           such
           early
           marriages
           as
           these
           times
           affoard
           ,
           which
           in
           great
           Estates
           are
           not
           seldome
           the
           sons
           are
           at
           age
           ,
           or
           a
           great
           part
           of
           it
           ,
           before
           their
           Fathers
           death
           ,
           and
           do
           keep
           a
           better
           account
           of
           their
           Fathers
           age
           then
           they
           do
           of
           their
           own
           .
        
         
           And
           then
           the
           marriages
           ,
           which
           now
           generally
           
           bring
           ten
           times
           bigger
           Portions
           then
           one
           hundred
           years
           ago
           ,
           were
           most
           commonly
           granted
           to
           the
           mothers
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           next
           and
           best
           friends
           ,
           if
           they
           petitioned
           within
           a
           moneth
           after
           the
           death
           of
           the
           Fathers
           or
           Ancestors
           ,
           and
           where
           there
           were
           considerable
           debts
           or
           many
           younger
           children
           ,
           were
           not
           rated
           at
           above
           one
           years
           improved
           value
           ,
           if
           the
           Estates
           were
           not
           indebted
           or
           incumbred
           with
           younger
           childrens
           portions
           ,
           and
           a
           great
           deal
           less
           if
           it
           were
           ,
           as
           may
           easily
           occur
           to
           any
           that
           shall
           compare
           the
           Fines
           for
           marriages
           (
           appearing
           in
           Sr
           
             Miles
             Fleetwood
          
           the
           Receiver
           Generals
           Accounts
           of
           the
           Court
           of
           Wards
           )
           with
           the
           value
           of
           the
           Lands
           in
           Wardship
           ,
           where
           very
           small
           sums
           ,
           as
           40
           ,
           50
           ,
           80
           ,
           or
           100
           l.
           Fines
           for
           Marriages
           ,
           may
           be
           found
           to
           be
           set
           upon
           an
           Estate
           of
           2
           or
           300
           
             l.
             per
             Annum
          
           .
        
         
           And
           most
           commonly
           compounded
           for
           to
           the
           use
           of
           the
           Ward
           himself
           ,
           and
           from
           Heir
           male
           to
           Heir
           Male
           ,
           although
           they
           were
           six
           or
           seven
           of
           the
           Sons
           
           of
           the
           same
           father
           ,
           for
           the
           same
           fine
           or
           compositi
           on
           ,
           if
           the
           Ward
           should
           dye
           ,
           which
           ,
           or
           the
           like
           favour
           as
           to
           Lands
           ,
           is
           not
           used
           by
           Lords
           of
           Mannors
           upon
           admission
           of
           Tenants
           to
           Copy-hold
           Estates
           .
        
         
           The
           Lands
           where
           there
           were
           no
           Dowers
           or
           Joyntures
           
           (
           which
           ordinarily
           did
           take
           away
           a
           third
           part
           or
           more
           )
           were
           leased
           for
           a
           small
           Rent
           ,
           not
           exceeding
           most
           commonly
           the
           tenth
           part
           ,
           and
           very
           often
           according
           to
           the
           troubles
           ,
           incumbrances
           and
           debts
           upon
           the
           Estate
           ,
           at
           the
           fifteenth
           or
           twentieth
           part
           ,
           out
           of
           which
           the
           Ward
           had
           an
           exhibition
           yearly
           allowed
           towards
           his
           Education
           ;
           if
           of
           small
           age
           ,
           after
           the
           rate
           of
           10l.
           
             per
             Cent.
          
           of
           the
           revenue
           of
           the
           Lands
           ,
           certified
           by
           the
           Feodary
           ;
           or
           if
           at
           University
           or
           in
           Travel
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           ,
           had
           a
           better
           allowance
           .
        
         
           The
           Licences
           for
           Marriage
           (
           which
           is
           totally
           denyed
           
           in
           Copy-hold
           Estates
           ,
           and
           would
           be
           therein
           gladly
           purchased
           )
           were
           of
           so
           small
           profit
           to
           the
           King
           seldom
           happening
           or
           cheaply
           granted
           ,
           and
           in
           that
           of
           great
           Ladies
           not
           called
           for
           ,
           as
           it
           came
           to
           no
           more
           in
           the
           16th
           year
           of
           the
           Raign
           of
           King
           Charles
           the
           First
           ,
           then
           37l.
           3
           s.
           4
           d.
           
        
         
           And
           the
           Licence
           to
           compound
           with
           Copy-holders
           
           for
           their
           Admittances
           in
           the
           times
           of
           the
           Lords
           of
           the
           Mannors
           ,
           Wardships
           ,
           so
           easily
           and
           for
           a
           little
           granted
           ,
           as
           in
           that
           they
           came
           but
           unto
           50l.
        
         
           The
           fines
           upon
           the
           making
           of
           the
           Leases
           or
           
           Grants
           of
           the
           Lands
           were
           small
           and
           more
           
             pro
             forma
          
           then
           otherwise
           at
           10
           s.
           15
           s.
           12d.
           6d
           ,
           &c.
           and
           very
           small
           summs
           of
           money
           when
           they
           exceeded
           .
        
         
         
           And
           whatsoever
           charges
           or
           payments
           may
           happen
           by
           Wardships
           ,
           which
           all
           things
           duely
           considered
           are
           less
           then
           what
           is
           paid
           upon
           Copy-hold
           Estates
           ,
           may
           by
           Law
           and
           the
           favour
           of
           former
           Kings
           ,
           be
           for
           a
           great
           part
           escaped
           by
           conveying
           away
           in
           their
           life
           times
           or
           devising
           by
           will
           two
           parts
           in
           three
           of
           all
           their
           Lands
           (
           leaving
           a
           third
           part
           to
           descend
           to
           the
           heirs
           )
           for
           payment
           of
           Debts
           and
           preferment
           of
           Wives
           and
           Children
           ,
           the
           heires
           of
           Tenants
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           men
           of
           any
           considerable
           Estate
           very
           often
           marrying
           before
           the
           age
           of
           
             One
             and
             twenty
          
           years
           ,
           and
           having
           all
           or
           the
           most
           part
           of
           the
           Fathers
           Estate
           ,
           reserving
           some
           Estate
           for
           life
           ,
           and
           the
           Mothers
           Joynture
           or
           Dower
           excepted
           setled
           upon
           them
           .
        
         
           Which
           they
           may
           well
           be
           contented
           with
           ,
           when
           as
           all
           the
           charges
           and
           burdens
           (
           as
           some
           ,
           do
           cal
           them
           )
           which
           do
           happen
           upon
           those
           Tenures
           ,
           are
           lesser
           then
           the
           payment
           of
           the
           first-fruits
           of
           Benefices
           and
           Bishopricks
           to
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           with
           Procurations
           ,
           Synodalls
           ,
           &
           other
           necessary
           charges
           in
           the
           Bishops
           Visitations
           ,
           lesser
           then
           that
           of
           Tenths
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           then
           true
           yearly
           value
           ,
           reserved
           by
           King
           H.
           8.
           and
           E.
           6.
           upon
           their
           Gifts
           ,
           Grants
           ,
           Sales
           and
           Exchanges
           of
           Abby
           Lands
           ,
           lesser
           then
           the
           payment
           of
           Tythes
           ,
           and
           lesser
           and
           more
           seldom
           then
           the
           easie
           payments
           and
           burdens
           upon
           Copy-hold
           Estates
           ;
           when
           as
           those
           that
           purchased
           any
           of
           those
           kinde
           of
           Lands
           either
           charged
           with
           Tythes
           or
           Tenths
           ,
           or
           the
           Duties
           or
           incidents
           belonging
           to
           Lands
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           by
           Knight-Service
           ,
           did
           buy
           them
           with
           those
           Concomitants
           ,
           which
           neither
           buyer
           nor
           seller
           were
           able
           to
           purchase
           
           or
           discharge
           ;
           and
           cannot
           pretend
           it
           to
           be
           a
           grievance
           ,
           because
           they
           cannot
           enjoy
           them
           freer
           then
           they
           purchased
           or
           expected
           ,
           no
           more
           then
           he
           that
           buyes
           a
           Calf
           can
           complain
           it
           was
           not
           an
           Oxe
           ,
           then
           hee
           that
           bought
           a
           Copy-hold
           Estate
           after
           the
           rate
           of
           an
           Estate
           of
           that
           nature
           ,
           and
           did
           suite
           and
           service
           belonging
           unto
           it
           ,
           can
           afterwards
           think
           himself
           to
           be
           ill
           used
           ,
           or
           under
           any
           oppression
           ,
           because
           it
           was
           not
           free-hold
           ;
           or
           hee
           that
           bought
           a
           Lease
           can
           justly
           conceive
           himself
           to
           be
           injured
           by
           him
           that
           sold
           it
           ,
           because
           he
           hath
           not
           the
           Reversion
           or
           Fee
           simple
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           should
           (
           if
           rightly
           examined
           and
           duly
           considered
           )
           be
           no
           more
           a
           cause
           of
           complaint
           or
           grievance
           then
           the
           weakness
           in
           Estate
           of
           a
           Tenant
           overwhelmed
           with
           debts
           ,
           and
           his
           disability
           to
           pay
           a
           cheap
           and
           easie
           Rent
           of
           Twenty
           pounds
           
             per
             Annum
          
           ,
           though
           it
           makes
           that
           Rent
           to
           be
           a
           burden
           ,
           which
           formerly
           (
           and
           being
           not
           indebted
           )
           he
           found
           to
           be
           none
           ,
           can
           make
           it
           either
           to
           be
           a
           grievance
           or
           unreasonable
           or
           illegal
           ,
           or
           the
           old
           age
           or
           sickness
           of
           a
           formerly
           lusty
           and
           healthfull
           man
           ,
           which
           renders
           a
           small
           weight
           to
           be
           very
           heavy
           ,
           which
           was
           at
           other
           times
           not
           at
           all
           troublesome
           to
           him
           ,
           can
           make
           it
           in
           it self
           to
           be
           so
           much
           as
           he
           now
           takes
           it
           .
        
         
           Nor
           are
           the
           supposed
           Grievances
           and
           Burdens
           of
           Tenures
           
             in
             Capite
          
           and
           Knight-Service
           ,
           naturally
           ,
           originally
           or
           intrinsecally
           to
           be
           found
           either
           in
           them
           or
           by
           them
           ,
           but
           are
           often
           occasioned
           by
           the
           parties
           groundless
           complaints
           ,
           and
           the
           troubles
           and
           burdens
           which
           they
           bring
           upon
           themselves
           ,
           who
           like
           men
           very
           sick
           by
           distempers
           and
           
           diseases
           of
           their
           owne
           making
           and
           complaining
           heavily
           of
           their
           paines
           and
           anguish
           ,
           can
           many
           times
           only
           tell
           that
           they
           are
           sick
           ,
           and
           not
           as
           they
           would
           or
           should
           be
           ,
           but
           not
           whence
           it
           came
           ,
           or
           if
           they
           could
           are
           unwilling
           to
           remember
           the
           causes
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           For
           ,
        
         
           
             The
             Reason
             why
             they
             seem
             to
             be
             Burdens
             and
             Grievances
             ,
             and
             heavier
             then
             formerly
          
           
             CAnnot
             be
             hid
             from
             those
             which
             shall
             but
             enquire
             and
             rightly
             and
             judiciously
             search
             into
             the
             Causes
             of
             that
             which
             now
             lyes
             more
             upon
             some
             mens
             spirits
             ,
             or
             imaginations
             ,
             then
             need
             to
             be
             ,
             if
             they
             would
             doe
             by
             themselves
             in
             the
             Oeconomie
             and
             manage
             of
             their
             Estates
             and
             Affairs
             ,
             as
             their
             more
             prudent
             and
             virtuous
             Ancestors
             did
             ,
             who
             when
             Meadow
             ground
             was
             in
             H.
             6.
             dayes
             now
             not
             much
             above
             200
             yeares
             agoe
             ,
             in
             the
             most
             fertile
             Counties
             of
             England
             ,
             at
             no
             greater
             a
             yearely
             value
             then
             8
             d
             per
             Acre
             by
             the
             yeare
             ,
             and
             other
             lands
             of
             4
             d.
             or
             5
             d.
             an
             Acre
             per
             Annum
             ,
             could
             keep
             greater
             houses
             or
             hospitalities
             by
             five
             or
             ten
             to
             one
             then
             they
             doe
             now
             ,
             a
             greater
             retinue
             of
             servants
             and
             dependants
             ,
             gave
             great
             quantities
             of
             lands
             in
             Common
             ,
             
             and
             Estovers
             of
             wood
             to
             the
             poore
             or
             whole
             Townshipps
             ,
             live
             honorably
             if
             they
             were
             Barons
             ,
             and
             worshipfully
             if
             they
             were
             Knights
             ,
             and
             Esquires
             ,
             and
             serve
             their
             Prince
             faithfully
             ,
             did
             great
             acts
             of
             Piety
             and
             Charity
             ,
             by
             building
             and
             endowing
             of
             Churches
             ,
             and
             stood
             as
             greater
             and
             lesser
             Pillars
             in
             their
             severall
             Counties
             ,
             did
             not
             rack
             and
             skrew
             their
             Tenants
             to
             the
             utmost
             that
             any
             would
             give
             for
             lands
             ,
             with
             harsh
             and
             hard
             Covenants
             and
             Conditions
             ,
             did
             grant
             Mannors
             ,
             Annuities
             ,
             and
             Farms
             to
             Gentlemen
             in
             Fee
             ,
             or
             for
             lives
             ,
             to
             serve
             and
             go
             along
             with
             them
             and
             their
             Prince
             upon
             occasion
             of
             wars
             ,
             were
             not
             troubled
             at
             their
             Tenures
             
               in
               Capite
            
             and
             by
             Knight-service
             ,
             did
             not
             thinke
             those
             benefits
             to
             be
             any
             burdens
             ,
             though
             great
             summs
             of
             money
             were
             somtimes
             paid
             as
             6000
             l.
             by
             a
             mother
             of
             an
             Earle
             of
             Oxford
             ,
             and
             20000
             marks
             by
             a
             mother
             of
             in
             Earle
             of
             Clare
             ,
             in
             the
             raigne
             of
             King
             H.
             3.
             for
             their
             wardshipps
             ,
             when
             marriage
             Portions
             or
             Dowries
             in
             money
             were
             but
             small
             ,
             and
             their
             large
             and
             great
             revenues
             considered
             ,
             were
             but
             as
             accumulations
             of
             many
             lesser
             wardshippe
             ;
             were
             not
             so
             much
             indebted
             as
             now
             ,
             nor
             so
             much
             enforced
             to
             mortgage
             or
             sell
             Lands
             ,
             get
             Friends
             ,
             Servants
             ,
             or
             Tradesmen
             to
             be
             bound
             for
             them
             ;
             to
             have
             their
             Lands
             extended
             ,
             or
             the
             persons
             of
             such
             of
             them
             as
             were
             under
             the
             degree
             of
             Baronage
             ,
             outlawed
             or
             arrested
             ,
             were
             not
             up
             to
             the
             ears
             in
             Shop-keepers
             or
             Trades-mens
             Books
             or
             Items
             ,
             but
             lived
             within
             the
             pale
             of
             Virtue
             and
             fence
             of
             Sobriety
             ,
             and
             far
             better
             then
             they
             do
             now
             ,
             when
             they
             do
             let
             errable
             land
             at
             13
             or
             16
             
               s.
               per
            
             Acre
             ,
             by
             the
             year
             ;
             Pasture
             at
             20
             or
             30
             s.
             
             and
             Meadow
             at
             40
             s.
             or
             sometime
             3
             l.
             the
             Acre
             
               per
               An.
            
             were
             not
             driven
             out
             of
             their
             ancient
             and
             former
             love
             and
             reputation
             in
             their
             Countries
             or
             Neighbourhood
             ,
             by
             letting
             the
             Kitchin
             chimneys
             of
             their
             Country
             houses
             fall
             down
             for
             want
             of
             making
             but
             ordinary
             fires
             in
             them
             ;
             but
             did
             in
             their
             several
             orbs
             and
             ranks
             live
             more
             honourably
             and
             worshipfully
             then
             now
             they
             do
             or
             can
             ,
             when
             they
             are
             guilty
             of
             few
             of
             those
             great
             and
             good
             actions
             ;
             did
             not
             ,
             as
             too
             many
             do
             ,
             spend
             in
             the
             pursuit
             of
             Vanities
             ten
             times
             more
             then
             their
             Forefathers
             ,
             who
             had
             long
             kept
             and
             enjoyed
             the
             same
             or
             greater
             Estates
             ;
             nor
             sit
             up
             all
             night
             ▪
             to
             come
             home
             drowsie
             and
             discredited
             in
             the
             morning
             ,
             with
             the
             loss
             of
             4
             or
             500
             l.
             and
             sometimes
             3
             or
             4000
             l.
             by
             gaming
             ;
             bestow
             2
             or
             300
             l.
             on
             a
             Coach
             ,
             and
             100
             or
             200
             l.
             upon
             a
             Band
             ;
             Spend
             more
             in
             gaming
             ,
             drinking
             ,
             and
             whoring
             ,
             (
             which
             their
             forefathers
             ,
             though
             sometimes
             addicted
             thereunto
             ,
             could
             get
             at
             cheaper
             rates
             then
             by
             maintaining
             a
             costly
             
               Corinthian
               Lais
            
             or
             a
             sumptuous
             Cleopatra
             )
             then
             would
             pay
             for
             the
             charge
             of
             a
             Wardship
             ,
             and
             lose
             more
             in
             a
             careless
             or
             not
             at
             all
             taking
             of
             their
             Accounts
             ,
             or
             looking
             to
             their
             Estates
             &
             Affairs
             then
             would
             twice
             over
             discharge
             it
             ,
             nor
             did
             tamely
             permit
             their
             flatterers
             ,
             sycophants
             ,
             and
             promoters
             or
             concealers
             of
             their
             vices
             ,
             to
             go
             a
             share
             in
             their
             Estates
             and
             Fortunes
             :
             Too
             many
             of
             their
             eldest
             sons
             were
             not
             so
             mounted
             to
             the
             height
             of
             Fashions
             as
             to
             spend
             more
             in
             Powder
             ,
             Plays
             ,
             Coaches
             and
             Ribbons
             (
             the
             lesser
             circumstantials
             of
             their
             vain
             expences
             )
             then
             their
             forefathers
             ,
             when
             they
             were
             Heirs
             apparent
             had
             allowed
             them
             for
             all
             necessaries
             ,
             and
             
             a
             better
             kind
             of
             education
             ,
             and
             expend
             more
             in
             Peruks
             or
             Periwigs
             ,
             at
             3
             or
             5
             l.
             price
             ,
             for
             every
             one
             ,
             then
             would
             pay
             for
             the
             charges
             of
             suing
             out
             their
             Fathers
             Liveries
             ;
             too
             many
             of
             their
             wives
             and
             daughters
             did
             not
             racket
             with
             a
             troop
             of
             young
             Gallants
             ,
             or
             Gentlemen
             of
             Amours
             or
             Dalliance
             ;
             nor
             discourse
             more
             of
             Romances
             then
             the
             Word
             of
             God
             ,
             Virtue
             and
             good
             Examples
             ,
             send
             their
             Linnen
             for
             the
             attire
             of
             their
             heads
             and
             necks
             ,
             when
             they
             are
             above
             one
             hundred
             miles
             from
             London
             ,
             by
             the
             weekly
             Posts
             ,
             to
             be
             washed
             or
             starched
             by
             the
             Exchange-women
             ,
             hunt
             after
             the
             newest
             and
             most
             costly
             fashions
             ,
             sacrifice
             to
             all
             the
             parts
             of
             pride
             ,
             gluttony
             ,
             prodigalities
             ,
             and
             luxuries
             ,
             drive
             a
             trade
             of
             black
             Patches
             and
             Painting
             ,
             give
             10
             ,
             20
             or
             40
             l.
             for
             a
             yard
             of
             Lace
             ;
             did
             not
             make
             it
             their
             designs
             to
             vie
             with
             every
             one
             they
             can
             perceive
             to
             wear
             Jewels
             ,
             Diamond
             Lockets
             ,
             Necklaces
             of
             Pearl
             ,
             or
             more
             costly
             Apparel
             then
             themselves
             ;
             did
             not
             give
             
               insana
               pretia
            
             ,
             extravagant
             and
             cheating
             prices
             ,
             because
             such
             a
             mad
             great
             woman
             ,
             or
             a
             neighbours
             purse-emptying
             wife
             had
             given
             the
             same
             ,
             &
             't
             would
             be
             a
             disparagement
             to
             come
             (
             as
             they
             say
             )
             behind
             them
             ,
             or
             wear
             any
             thing
             at
             a
             lesser
             rate
             ;
             nor
             adventure
             and
             many
             times
             lose
             5
             ,
             10
             or
             20l.
             in
             an
             afteroonn
             or
             evening
             at
             Cards
             ,
             which
             is
             now
             become
             most
             of
             their
             huswifery
             ;
             their
             daughters
             did
             not
             in
             their
             hopes
             of
             getting
             Princes
             to
             their
             Husbands
             ,
             or
             impossible
             great
             Marriages
             ,
             help
             to
             cast
             their
             fathers
             estates
             and
             purses
             into
             a
             consumption
             ,
             and
             spend
             more
             money
             betwixt
             their
             age
             of
             13
             and
             20
             then
             would
             have
             made
             treble
             the
             marriage
             portions
             of
             their
             Grandams
             ,
             
             when
             100
             l.
             or
             2
             or
             300
             l.
             was
             a
             good
             portion
             for
             a
             good
             Knights
             well-bred
             Daughter
             ,
             when
             1100
             marks
             was
             in
             2
             H
             6.
             a
             good
             portion
             for
             a
             marriage
             betwixt
             Thomas
             Lord
             Clifford
             and
             a
             Daughter
             of
             the
             Lord
             Dacre
             ;
             when
             Henry
             Lord
             Clifford
             having
             great
             and
             large
             Revenues
             in
             the
             North
             parts
             of
             England
             and
             else
             where
             ,
             did
             in
             33
             H.
             8.
             suppose
             it
             to
             be
             a
             good
             provision
             for
             his
             Daughter
             
               Elizabeth
               Clifford
            
             to
             devise
             to
             her
             by
             his
             last
             Will
             and
             Testament
             one
             thousand
             pounds
             if
             shee
             married
             an
             Earle
             ,
             (
             which
             in
             those
             dayes
             were
             men
             of
             no
             small
             revenues
             )
             or
             an
             Earles
             sonne
             and
             heire
             ,
             1000
             marks
             if
             a
             Baron
             ,
             and
             800
             marks
             if
             a
             Knight
             ,
             and
             that
             Henry
             Lord
             Clifford
             his
             sonne
             did
             in
             the
             12th
             .
             or
             13th
             year
             of
             the
             raign
             of
             Queen
             Eliz.
             give
             by
             his
             Will
             but
             2000
             l.
             to
             his
             Daughter
             if
             shee
             married
             an
             Earl
             or
             an
             Earls
             son
             and
             heir
             ,
             2000
             marks
             if
             a
             Baron
             or
             his
             son
             and
             heire
             apparent
             ,
             and
             800
             marks
             if
             shee
             married
             a
             Knight
             ,
             and
             that
             1500
             or
             2000
             or
             3000
             l.
             is
             now
             but
             an
             ordinary
             Portion
             to
             be
             given
             in
             marriage
             to
             rich
             yeomens
             sonnes
             ,
             or
             the
             smaller
             sort
             of
             Gentry
             or
             Silkmen
             ,
             Mercers
             ,
             or
             Drapers
             ,
             and
             a
             great
             deale
             too
             litle
             for
             those
             kind
             of
             
               Haggard
               Hawks
            
             (
             for
             there
             be
             some
             though
             not
             so
             many
             as
             should
             be
             which
             live
             soberly
             and
             chastly
             ,
             and
             are
             helpers
             to
             preserve
             and
             increase
             ,
             not
             spend
             their
             husbands
             estates
             ,
             aswell
             as
             their
             owne
             Portions
             ,
             )
             who
             fly
             
               Steeple
               high
            
             and
             cannot
             by
             any
             law
             or
             perswasion
             of
             Scripture
             ,
             Reason
             ,
             Shame
             ,
             or
             feare
             of
             Poverty
             ,
             Imprisonment
             and
             ruine
             of
             their
             husbands
             &
             children
             ,
             and
             their
             sighs
             &
             sorrows
             be
             brought
             to
             stoop
             or
             give
             way
             to
             any
             lower
             pitch
             ,
             but
             are
             more
             
             destructive
             to
             a
             husband
             ,
             who
             against
             his
             will
             and
             for
             that
             little
             quiet
             and
             content
             which
             he
             can
             get
             ,
             must
             permit
             it
             ,
             then
             the
             mischances
             of
             a
             Rot
             of
             Sheep
             ,
             Piracies
             or
             Shipwracks
             ,
             the
             sea
             breaking
             in
             upon
             their
             Landes
             ,
             ruine
             of
             Sequestrations
             or
             Suretyship
             ,
             and
             if
             they
             might
             have
             their
             wills
             are
             able
             to
             Bankrupt
             and
             exhaust
             the
             King
             of
             Spain
             and
             all
             his
             West-Indies
             .
          
           
             When
             too
             many
             of
             the
             young
             women
             will
             not
             like
             or
             love
             the
             men
             ,
             unless
             they
             be
             as
             vain
             and
             expensive
             as
             themselvs
             ;
             and
             the
             men
             to
             please
             the
             women
             &
             be
             fashionable
             ,
             must
             run
             a
             vie
             with
             them
             who
             shall
             soonest
             spend
             all
             they
             have
             ,
             or
             can
             by
             any
             sinfull
             courses
             compass
             a
             support
             or
             maintenance
             for
             it
             .
          
           
             And
             the
             fathers
             most
             commonly
             so
             much
             indebted
             before
             they
             marry
             their
             eldest
             sons
             ,
             as
             they
             must
             have
             their
             marriage
             Portions
             to
             marry
             their
             Daughters
             ,
             and
             for
             2
             or
             3000
             l.
             Portion
             ,
             make
             his
             Daughter
             in
             law
             a
             Joynture
             of
             4
             or
             500
             
               l.
               per
               Annum
            
             ,
             to
             free
             her
             from
             the
             trouble
             of
             over-loveing
             her
             husband
             ,
             when
             as
             shee
             shall
             be
             after
             his
             death
             so
             well
             provided
             to
             get
             another
             .
          
           
             When
             two
             or
             three
             servants
             wages
             amount
             to
             as
             much
             as
             six
             heretofore
             ,
             and
             a
             great
             deale
             more
             
               per
               Annum
            
             then
             would
             have
             made
             a
             good
             Gentlemans
             younger
             sonne
             an
             Annuity
             ,
             when
             great
             Assessments
             beleaguer
             them
             on
             one
             side
             ,
             and
             their
             own
             vices
             and
             prodigalities
             ,
             and
             all
             manner
             of
             costly
             sins
             and
             vanities
             now
             so
             universally
             practised
             on
             the
             other
             side
             ;
             Tradesmen
             use
             false
             weights
             and
             measures
             ,
             and
             more
             then
             formerly
             tricks
             and
             mysteries
             of
             Trade
             ,
             adulterating
             their
             work
             and
             commodities
             ,
             and
             raiseing
             
             the
             prices
             to
             three
             times
             more
             then
             heretofore
             ,
             and
             by
             the
             prodigality
             and
             carelesness
             of
             not
             a
             few
             of
             the
             Gentry
             ,
             creep
             into
             their
             estates
             ,
             and
             get
             too
             great
             a
             footing
             in
             it
             ,
             by
             furnishing
             them
             with
             vanities
             ,
             and
             the
             country
             men
             and
             Farmers
             to
             maintain
             their
             growing
             pride
             ,
             and
             excesse
             making
             all
             the
             haste
             they
             can
             to
             imitate
             them
             ,
             do
             heighten
             the
             rates
             of
             all
             that
             they
             sell
             ;
             and
             when
             the
             foundations
             of
             our
             
               Little
               World
            
             (
             which
             was
             wont
             to
             be
             the
             best
             of
             the
             Greater
             )
             are
             broken
             up
             ,
             and
             most
             part
             of
             the
             people
             eccentrick
             and
             running
             into
             excess
             and
             disorder
             ;
             when
             the
             Apprentices
             and
             Servants
             will
             do
             all
             they
             can
             to
             live
             like
             Gentlemen
             ,
             the
             Mechanicks
             like
             Merchants
             ,
             the
             Gentry
             as
             high
             as
             the
             Nobility
             ,
             the
             Maids
             will
             be
             apparelled
             like
             their
             Mistresses
             ,
             &
             the
             Mistresses
             as
             farr
             beyond
             their
             estates
             as
             their
             wits
             ,
             Vintners
             &
             Woodmongers
             wives
             &
             Poulterers
             daughters
             must
             have
             Pearl
             Neck-laces
             of
             great
             prizes
             ,
             and
             all
             ranks
             and
             degrees
             of
             people
             would
             ,
             (
             as
             if
             they
             had
             been
             chosen
             Kings
             &
             Queens
             on
             Twelfth
             nights
             ,
             make
             it
             their
             business
             to
             be
             in
             their
             expences
             Kings
             and
             Queens
             all
             the
             year
             after
             )
             do
             not
             only
             consume
             and
             waste
             the
             estates
             of
             very
             many
             of
             our
             Gentry
             ,
             and
             disable
             them
             to
             pay
             as
             formerly
             their
             necessary
             Aids
             ,
             Contributions
             and
             Oblations
             to
             their
             Prince
             for
             the
             safety
             of
             themselves
             and
             their
             Countries
             ,
             but
             carry
             them
             and
             all
             that
             follow
             their
             example
             beyond
             an
             
               Asiatica
               luxus
            
             ,
             that
             forreign
             luxury
             of
             Asia
             ,
             which
             ,
             as
             Juvenal
             saith
             ,
             
               
                 —
                 incubuit
                 victumque
                 ulciscitur
                 orbem
                 ,
              
            
             Conquered
             and
             undid
             the
             conquering
             Rome
             and
             Mistress
             of
             the
             word
             ;
             the
             abuse
             of
             peace
             and
             plenty
             ,
             which
             the
             Lydians
             by
             the
             policy
             of
             Cyrus
             did
             ruine
             
             and
             subdue
             themselvs
             withall
             ;
             &
             that
             height
             of
             pride
             and
             plenty
             which
             in
             Germany
             did
             help
             to
             procure
             their
             after
             wofull
             warrs
             and
             desolations
             .
          
           
             And
             making
             us
             to
             be
             almost
             as
             mad
             in
             our
             Luxuries
             as
             the
             ridiculous
             Sybarites
             ,
             will
             suddenly
             (
             if
             Gods
             mercy
             and
             good
             Laws
             prevent
             not
             )
             make
             poor
             England
             (
             which
             for
             Twenty
             yeares
             last
             past
             hath
             been
             kicked
             ,
             tost
             and
             torn
             like
             a
             Foot-ball
             by
             the
             
               pocketing
               and
               plundering
               Reformers
            
             and
             their
             ungodly
             Warrs
             )
             to
             be
             a
             Burden
             to
             it self
             ,
             and
             not
             able
             to
             support
             the
             Excesses
             and
             pride
             of
             the
             people
             of
             it
             ;
             but
             trembling
             at
             the
             apprehension
             of
             Gods
             long
             deferred
             Judgments
             for
             the
             punishment
             of
             it
             ,
             groan
             under
             the
             burden
             of
             those
             sins
             which
             do
             every
             day
             more
             and
             more
             hasten
             and
             draw
             them
             down
             upon
             us
             .
          
           
             And
             may
             perswade
             us
             when
             it
             is
             too
             late
             ,
             that
             the
             saving
             in
             these
             last
             Twenty
             yeares
             
               Eighteen
               hundred
               thousand
               pounds
            
             which
             would
             have
             been
             paid
             to
             King
             Charls
             the
             First
             ,
             and
             his
             Majesty
             that
             now
             is
             ,
             by
             reason
             of
             Wardships
             and
             Tenures
             
               in
               Capite
            
             and
             by
             Knight-Service
             ,
             with
             many
             other
             great
             summs
             of
             money
             due
             to
             them
             out
             of
             their
             Royal
             Revenues
             ,
             amounting
             to
             as
             much
             or
             a
             great
             deal
             more
             which
             the
             King
             in
             his
             largely
             extended
             Act
             of
             Oblivion
             is
             now
             pleased
             to
             remit
             and
             pardon
             ,
             will
             not
             by
             a
             Tenth
             part
             make
             the
             people
             of
             England
             savers
             for
             what
             was
             lost
             and
             expended
             in
             the
             Warrs
             by
             ruines
             and
             plundrings
             ,
             besides
             very
             near
             
               Forty
               millions
            
             of
             sterling
             money
             spent
             in
             publick
             Taxes
             and
             Assessments
             to
             purchase
             an
             unhappy
             Rebellion
             ,
             and
             the
             sad
             effects
             and
             consequences
             of
             it
             .
          
           
             So
             that
             our
             Complaints
             of
             Tenures
             
               in
               Capite
            
             
             and
             Knight-Service
             are
             from
             a
             
               Non
               causa
            
             ,
             by
             imagining
             that
             to
             be
             a
             cause
             which
             was
             not
             ,
             for
             our
             supposed
             grievances
             ,
             are
             but
             like
             those
             of
             hurt
             and
             wounded
             men
             by
             their
             own
             follies
             and
             distempers
             ,
             which
             cannot
             endure
             the
             softest
             hand
             or
             most
             gentle
             touch
             of
             a
             Friend
             .
          
           
             Tenterden
             Steeple
             was
             not
             the
             cause
             of
             Goodwin
             Sands
             ,
             nor
             of
             Shipwracks
             at
             Sea
             ,
             but
             the
             rage
             of
             the
             Windes
             &
             Seas
             ,
             and
             the
             Waves
             and
             Billows
             cuffing
             each
             other
             .
          
           
             Nor
             is
             our
             ever
             welcome
             Youth
             ,
             and
             lamented
             when
             it
             is
             lost
             ,
             the
             cause
             of
             Gouts
             ,
             Palsies
             ,
             Dropsies
             ,
             Hectick
             Fevers
             ,
             Consumptions
             ,
             and
             many
             times
             a
             worser
             Disease
             ,
             which
             the
             Intemperances
             of
             young
             people
             with
             no
             little
             charge
             in
             the
             purchase
             of
             them
             have
             hired
             to
             be
             their
             attendants
             .
          
           
             But
             they
             are
             our
             more
             then
             ordinary
             pride
             and
             vices
             which
             have
             made
             our
             Burdens
             twenty
             times
             exceed
             any
             payments
             or
             charges
             by
             Wardships
             ,
             which
             are
             (
             when
             they
             happen
             )
             sufficiently
             recompenced
             by
             the
             care
             and
             priviledges
             of
             the
             Court
             of
             Wards
             ,
             preserving
             the
             Wards
             Wood
             and
             Timber
             ,
             binding
             in
             great
             Bonds
             those
             which
             are
             trusted
             ,
             to
             make
             true
             and
             just
             accompts
             ,
             calling
             them
             (
             if
             need
             be
             )
             often
             to
             accompt
             ,
             as
             in
             the
             Duke
             of
             Buckinghams
             case
             ,
             once
             in
             every
             three
             years
             ,
             and
             redressing
             wrongs
             done
             to
             them
             either
             in
             their
             real
             or
             personal
             estates
             .
          
           
             The
             
               Hundred
               thousand
               pounds
            
             and
             above
             spent
             the
             last
             year
             in
             Coaches
             and
             Feathers
             extraordinary
             ,
             and
             
               One
               hundred
               and
               fi●ty
               thousand
            
             pounds
             at
             the
             least
             spent
             this
             year
             in
             Ribbons
             ,
             must
             be
             no
             grievance
             ,
             but
             a
             quarter
             of
             either
             of
             the
             summs
             spent
             in
             Wardships
             ,
             (
             which
             in
             Scotland
             in
             the
             raign
             of
             their
             
             King
             Malcombe
             the
             Second
             ,
             which
             was
             before
             the
             Conquest
             ,
             was
             not
             unwillingly
             yielded
             to
             be
             the
             Kings
             Right
             ,
             
               nè
               non
               suppeterent
               Regiae
               Majestatis
               facultates
               ,
            
             to
             the
             end
             the
             King
             should
             have
             wherewithall
             to
             defend
             the
             Kingdom
             ;
             which
             Master
             St
             John
             in
             the
             case
             of
             Ship
             money
             ,
             and
             the
             Parliament
             (
             so
             called
             )
             in
             An.
             1642
             ,
             were
             content
             should
             be
             allowed
             the
             King
             for
             the
             same
             purpose
             )
             must
             be
             intolerable
             .
          
           
             Or
             like
             those
             which
             let
             their
             sacks
             of
             Wool
             fall
             into
             the
             water
             ,
             and
             finde
             them
             to
             be
             much
             heavier
             then
             they
             were
             ,
             if
             our
             Land
             
               be
               as
               the
               shaking
               of
               the
               Olive-tree
               ,
               and
               as
               the
               gleaning
               Grapes
               when
               the
               Vintage
               is
               done
               ,
            
             and
             we
             cry
             ,
             
               Our
               leanness
               ,
               Our
               leanness
            
             ,
             and
             finde
             a
             disability
             more
             then
             formerly
             to
             perform
             those
             Duties
             &
             Services
             which
             were
             never
             denyed
             to
             be
             due
             unto
             our
             Prince
             in
             support
             of
             his
             Royal
             Dignity
             and
             the
             Welfare
             and
             happiness
             of
             his
             people
             ,
             the
             cause
             is
             allunde
             ,
             comes
             another
             way
             ,
             and
             ariseth
             from
             our
             unlucky
             Reformations
             ,
             publick
             Taxes
             and
             Assessments
             ,
             to
             assist
             the
             ungodly
             attempts
             of
             those
             who
             designed
             and
             continued
             our
             intestine
             warrs
             ,
             &
             from
             those
             grand
             Impositions
             which
             most
             of
             the
             people
             have
             laid
             upon
             themselves
             in
             the
             purchase
             of
             pride
             and
             superfluities
             ,
             which
             those
             who
             have
             made
             it
             to
             be
             so
             much
             their
             business
             may
             know
             how
             to
             free
             themselves
             of
             .
          
           
             And
             if
             the
             Lands
             which
             are
             holden
             by
             such
             beneficiary
             Tenures
             so
             antient
             ,
             so
             honorable
             for
             the
             King
             ,
             and
             safe
             for
             him
             and
             his
             people
             ,
             and
             so
             legal
             &
             rational
             
               cum
               totius
               antiquitatis
               et
               multorum
               seculorum
               ,
               concensu
               ,
            
             from
             generation
             to
             generation
             ,
             &
             through
             many
             generations
             well
             and
             thankfully
             approved
             ,
             usage
             and
             custome
             of
             them
             shall
             be
             now
             taken
             to
             be
             
             burdens
             ,
             the
             owners
             of
             those
             Lands
             may
             easily
             save
             the
             labour
             and
             trouble
             of
             complaining
             ,
             and
             free
             themselves
             of
             those
             undeservedly
             called
             burdens
             ,
             by
             restoring
             of
             the
             Lands
             according
             to
             the
             rules
             of
             right
             reason
             ,
             law
             ,
             and
             equity
             ,
             to
             those
             or
             their
             heirs
             ,
             which
             did
             at
             first
             freely
             give
             them
             ,
             and
             had
             the
             faith
             and
             promise
             of
             those
             that
             received
             those
             no
             small
             favours
             
               cum
               onere
            
             to
             perform
             the
             Services
             and
             Duties
             which
             the
             Law
             and
             a
             long
             and
             reasonable
             custome
             have
             charged
             upon
             them
             or
             those
             which
             afterwards
             purchased
             them
             .
          
           
             Or
             if
             that
             will
             not
             be
             liked
             ,
             and
             we
             must
             think
             we
             do
             nothing
             ,
             unless
             (
             not
             in
             a
             Desart
             but
             a
             Land
             of
             Canaan
             )
             we
             out-do
             the
             murmurings
             of
             the
             sadly
             punished
             Israelites
             with
             Quails
             in
             their
             mouthes
             ,
             when
             all
             shall
             be
             done
             as
             some
             people
             would
             have
             it
             ,
             and
             that
             Tenures
             
               in
               Capite
            
             and
             by
             Knight-Service
             ,
             and
             the
             Royal
             Pourveyances
             shall
             be
             sacrificed
             to
             their
             desires
             or
             wishes
             ,
             they
             will
             then
             make
             no
             better
             a
             Bargain
             of
             it
             then
             those
             ,
             who
             repining
             &
             grumbling
             at
             the
             charge
             of
             maintaining
             Sea-walls
             and
             Banks
             ,
             have
             aftewards
             found
             by
             wofull
             experience
             ,
             that
             it
             was
             farr
             less
             charge
             and
             damage
             then
             to
             have
             the
             Sea
             break
             in
             upon
             their
             Marshes
             and
             Lands
             ,
             drown
             and
             carry
             away
             their
             Cattel
             ,
             and
             be
             at
             a
             greater
             charge
             then
             formerly
             in
             making
             them
             up
             again
             and
             maintaining
             of
             them
             .
          
           
             Or
             as
             those
             that
             found
             fault
             with
             the
             Surplice
             did
             ,
             when
             by
             their
             unquiet
             ignorances
             they
             opened
             the
             door
             to
             an
             Army
             of
             Fanaticks
             and
             Locusts
             which
             did
             almost
             eat
             up
             every
             green
             thing
             in
             the
             fields
             of
             our
             Religion
             .
          
           
             Or
             as
             those
             Murmurers
             ,
             who
             thinking
             
               Twenty
               
               shillings
            
             to
             be
             a
             heavie
             Taxe
             for
             Ship-money
             ,
             Guard
             of
             the
             Seas
             ,
             and
             Defence
             of
             the
             Kingdom
             ,
             to
             be
             laid
             upon
             7
             or
             800l.
             
               per
               Annum
            
             (
             for
             that
             was
             all
             which
             was
             in
             a
             year
             or
             half
             a
             year
             laid
             upon
             the
             unhappy
             Mr
             Hamdens
             Lands
             )
             were
             afterwards
             for
             many
             yeares
             together
             enforced
             to
             pay
             the
             fifth
             part
             of
             their
             Rents
             and
             Revenues
             to
             help
             to
             destroy
             the
             King
             ,
             Laws
             ,
             and
             Religion
             ,
             kill
             their
             Debtors
             ,
             Husbands
             and
             Children
             ,
             and
             near
             Relations
             .
          
           
             And
             then
             the
             next
             thing
             will
             be
             to
             desire
             that
             they
             might
             have
             the
             farr
             heavier
             burden
             of
             Taxes
             and
             Assessments
             taken
             off
             ,
             which
             if
             Tenures
             
               in
               Capite
            
             &
             by
             Knight-Service
             shall
             be
             taken
             away
             ,
             can
             no
             more
             be
             avoided
             then
             he
             that
             wilfully
             shuts
             out
             the
             light
             of
             the
             Sun
             or
             the
             Day
             ,
             unless
             he
             will
             like
             Democritus
             sit
             and
             grow
             wiser
             in
             the
             dark
             ,
             can
             save
             the
             greater
             charges
             and
             expences
             of
             candles
             and
             other
             lights
             :
             And
             will
             at
             the
             last
             learn
             to
             believe
             ,
             that
             when
             
               Salus
               privatorum
               &
               omnia
               bona
               Civiuin
               in
               salute
            
             
             
               Patriae
               continentur
            
             ,
             every
             private
             mans
             good
             and
             safety
             depends
             upon
             the
             Kings
             and
             the
             Weal
             publick
             ,
             it
             will
             not
             be
             for
             the
             good
             and
             safety
             of
             the
             people
             to
             take
             away
             the
             Lions
             meat
             ,
             enforce
             him
             to
             seek
             his
             prey
             or
             take
             it
             himself
             ,
             or
             to
             suffer
             the
             head
             to
             languish
             ,
             in
             hope
             that
             the
             members
             or
             the
             rest
             of
             the
             body
             should
             be
             the
             better
             for
             it
             ;
             who
             when
             they
             are
             called
             to
             the
             Council
             or
             Parliament
             of
             the
             body
             natural
             ,
             are
             to
             lay
             aside
             all
             their
             own
             Interest
             and
             Concernments
             ,
             and
             every
             one
             doe
             what
             they
             can
             to
             cure
             and
             help
             the
             wants
             of
             it
             .
          
           
             And
             that
             if
             those
             Lands
             which
             are
             holden
             
               in
               Capite
            
             and
             by
             Knight-Service
             had
             been
             at
             the
             first
             purchased
             at
             the
             true
             and
             utmost
             value
             ,
             and
             the
             
             charges
             now
             incumbent
             upon
             them
             ,
             had
             been
             since
             imposed
             upon
             them
             ,
             when
             other
             Lands
             were
             free
             and
             not
             charged
             with
             them
             ,
             there
             might
             be
             reason
             enough
             to
             call
             them
             burdens
             ;
             But
             being
             that
             they
             were
             not
             at
             the
             first
             purchased
             ,
             but
             freely
             and
             frankly
             given
             upon
             those
             Conditions
             which
             were
             by
             Agreement
             promised
             to
             be
             performed
             by
             those
             that
             thankfully
             received
             them
             ,
             and
             would
             be
             so
             now
             by
             the
             greatest
             maligners
             of
             them
             or
             inveighers
             against
             them
             ,
             there
             can
             be
             no
             manner
             of
             reason
             ,
             cause
             or
             ground
             to
             esteem
             them
             to
             be
             burdens
             ,
             oppressions
             or
             Norman
             servitudes
             (
             as
             
               Ordericus
               Vitalis
            
             and
             
               Mathew
               Paris
            
             ;
             the
             later
             whereof
             wrote
             his
             History
             in
             the
             Raign
             of
             King
             H.
             3.
             since
             which
             time
             many
             Indulgences
             have
             been
             granted
             to
             those
             kinde
             of
             Tenures
             ,
             have
             been
             pleased
             to
             mistake
             them
             )
             when
             our
             
               Magna
               Charta
            
             and
             all
             our
             Acts
             of
             Parliament
             have
             in
             every
             age
             ranked
             them
             amongst
             the
             peoples
             Liberties
             ,
             and
             confirmed
             and
             made
             many
             an
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             to
             support
             those
             Regalities
             .
          
           
             And
             when
             the
             Parliament
             of
             Imo
             Car.
             I
             mi
             in
             their
             great
             care
             of
             their
             Liberties
             ,
             and
             the
             taking
             away
             of
             all
             that
             might
             but
             disturb
             them
             ,
             did
             call
             them
             a
             
               Principal
               Flower
               of
               the
               Crown
            
             ,
             which
             being
             not
             used
             to
             be
             made-up
             or
             grow
             out
             of
             Grievances
             .
          
           
             Cannot
             be
             disparaged
             by
             those
             clamours
             and
             crys
             which
             have
             ,
             more
             then
             needed
             ,
             been
             made
             concerning
             the
             Earl
             of
             Downes
             concealed
             Wardship
             ,
             and
             the
             inconveniences
             arising
             thereby
             ,
             which
             did
             not
             the
             tenth
             part
             of
             that
             prejudice
             to
             his
             Revenue
             and
             Estate
             ,
             which
             his
             prodigality
             and
             other
             Extravagancies
             afterwards
             brought
             upon
             it
             ,
             and
             might
             how
             soever
             have
             been
             prevented
             ,
             if
             his
             mother
             in
             law
             or
             any
             
             other
             of
             his
             friends
             (
             upon
             the
             several
             Requests
             of
             the
             Master
             of
             the
             Court
             of
             Wards
             and
             the
             Officers
             of
             that
             Court
             )
             would
             have
             petitioned
             and
             compounded
             for
             his
             Wardship
             ,
             and
             not
             have
             made
             those
             many
             Traverses
             and
             Denyals
             in
             those
             many
             Suits
             of
             Law
             and
             pursuits
             which
             were
             afterwards
             made
             to
             compell
             them
             to
             it
             .
          
           
             Nor
             will
             that
             or
             any
             other
             which
             are
             pretended
             grievances
             be
             ever
             equal
             or
             come
             up
             to
             those
             farr
             exceeding
             real
             and
             certain
             grievances
             which
             too
             many
             of
             the
             Fathers
             in
             law
             of
             England
             (
             into
             whose
             hands
             and
             custody
             most
             of
             the
             Wardships
             or
             Guardianships
             are
             endeavored
             to
             be
             more
             then
             formerly
             put
             )
             will
             ,
             if
             those
             Tenures
             shall
             be
             taken
             away
             ,
             bring
             upon
             fatherless
             children
             ,
             and
             will
             in
             a
             short
             time
             do
             more
             harm
             to
             the
             childrens
             Estates
             of
             the
             first
             husband
             then
             ever
             yet
             happened
             by
             Wardships
             to
             the
             King
             and
             mesne
             Lords
             .
          
           
             Which
             the
             case
             of
             one
             that
             twelve
             years
             ago
             had
             the
             Revenue
             of
             an
             Infant
             amounting
             unto
             above
             700l.
             
               per
               Annum
            
             charged
             with
             no
             more
             then
             1000
             l.
             debt
             ,
             and
             a
             great
             personal
             Estate
             committed
             to
             his
             Trust
             ,
             hath
             to
             this
             day
             paid
             none
             or
             a
             very
             small
             part
             of
             it
             ,
             but
             keeps
             the
             Rents
             and
             profits
             ,
             allowing
             a
             small
             exhibition
             to
             the
             Infant
             ,
             to
             his
             own
             advantage
             .
          
           
             Of
             another
             ,
             that
             hath
             sold
             and
             wasted
             Woods
             and
             Timber
             of
             a
             Minors
             ,
             to
             the
             value
             of
             Ten
             Thousand
             pounds
             sterling
             .
          
           
             And
             many
             more
             sad
             &
             deplorable
             Experiments
             ,
             which
             abundantly
             induce
             to
             believe
             as
             well
             as
             lament
             them
             ,
             &
             are
             not
             to
             be
             found
             in
             those
             well-ordered
             &
             easie
             way
             of
             the
             Grants
             and
             Dispositions
             of
             Wardships
             
             which
             happened
             by
             Tenures
             
               in
               Capite
            
             &
             by
             Knight-Service
             .
          
           
             Which
             may
             appear
             to
             be
             the
             better
             established
             ,
             &
             upon
             greater
             grounds
             of
             Law
             ,
             right
             Reason
             ,
             Justice
             and
             Equity
             ,
             when
             as
             many
             of
             the
             Lords
             of
             Manors
             and
             Copy-hold
             Estates
             who
             do
             now
             enjoy
             by
             those
             Tenures
             many
             Rights
             ,
             Seignories
             and
             commands
             ,
             with
             view
             of
             Frank-pledge
             ,
             Deodands
             ,
             
             Felons
             Goods
             ,
             Wrecks
             ,
             Goods
             of
             Out-lawed
             persons
             ,
             and
             
               retorna
               Brevium
            
             granted
             and
             imparted
             to
             their
             Ancestors
             by
             the
             bounty
             and
             favor
             of
             his
             Majesties
             Royal
             Progenitors
             ,
             who
             did
             not
             think
             it
             to
             be
             a
             grievance
             to
             have
             Abby
             or
             religious
             Lands
             which
             were
             freely
             given
             or
             cheaply
             granted
             to
             them
             held
             
               in
               Capite
            
             and
             by
             Knight-Service
             ,
             though
             there
             were
             at
             the
             same
             time
             a
             Tenth
             of
             the
             then
             true
             yearly
             value
             reserved
             ,
             would
             not
             upon
             the
             pretence
             and
             clamours
             of
             some
             Copy-holders
             concerning
             Fines
             incertain
             ,
             and
             the
             rigours
             and
             high
             demands
             put
             upon
             them
             by
             some
             Lords
             of
             Manors
             who
             have
             5
             or
             600
             Copy-holders
             in
             some
             Manors
             belonging
             unto
             them
             ,
             and
             can
             ask
             13
             s.
             4
             
               d.
               per
               Acre
            
             for
             some
             Lands
             ,
             and
             10
             
               s.
               per
               Acre
            
             for
             others
             to
             permit
             them
             to
             take
             their
             Estates
             hereafter
             at
             a
             reasonable
             Fine
             certain
             ;
             and
             whether
             poor
             or
             rich
             ,
             indebted
             or
             not
             indebted
             ,
             and
             charged
             with
             children
             or
             not
             ,
             will
             seise
             their
             Herriots
             ,
             and
             take
             as
             much
             as
             they
             can
             get
             upon
             the
             admissions
             of
             the
             Heir
             ,
             or
             the
             out
             ▪
             cries
             against
             the
             many
             costly
             and
             vexatious
             Suits
             which
             have
             tired
             Westminster-Hall
             ,
             and
             some
             Parliaments
             concerning
             Fines
             incertain
             ,
             be
             well
             contented
             .
          
           
             That
             their
             power
             of
             rating
             and
             taking
             Fines
             should
             be
             restrained
             ,
             or
             that
             they
             should
             be
             ordered
             
             upon
             the
             admittances
             of
             their
             Copy-hold
             Tenants
             by
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             to
             permit
             their
             Tenants
             without
             such
             Fines
             as
             they
             usually
             take
             to
             surrender
             and
             alien
             two
             parts
             in
             three
             for
             the
             advancement
             of
             their
             Wives
             ,
             payment
             of
             debts
             or
             preferment
             of
             Children
             ,
             as
             the
             Kings
             of
             England
             and
             mesne
             Lords
             have
             limited
             themselves
             ,
             or
             should
             be
             tyed
             upon
             the
             death
             of
             every
             Tenant
             and
             admission
             of
             his
             Heir
             ,
             as
             King
             James
             was
             pleased
             to
             limit
             him
             and
             his
             Heirs
             and
             Successors
             .
          
           
             That
             
               upon
               consideration
               of
               Circumstances
               ,
               which
            
             
             
               may
               happen
               in
               assessing
               Fines
               ,
               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
               Heir
               ,
               incertainty
               of
               the
               Title
               ,
               or
               greatness
               of
               Incumberances
               upon
               the
               Lands
               ,
               there
               shall
               be
               (
               as
               those
               or
               any
               other
               the
               bike
               Considerations
               shall
               offer
               themselvs
               )
               used
               that
               good
               discretion
               and
               conscience
               which
               shall
               be
               fit
               in
               mitigating
               or
               abating
               Fines
               or
               Rents
               to
               the
               relief
               of
               such
               necessities
               .
            
          
           
             Or
             to
             release
             and
             quit
             all
             their
             Royalties
             in
             their
             Manors
             ,
             nor
             would
             think
             it
             a
             good
             bargain
             to
             have
             no
             Compensation
             or
             Recompence
             at
             all
             for
             them
             ,
             or
             no
             more
             then
             after
             the
             rate
             of
             what
             might
             
               Communibus
               Annis
            
             ,
             one
             year
             with
             another
             ,
             be
             made
             of
             them
             ;
             or
             that
             they
             could
             with
             justice
             and
             equity
             lay
             the
             burdens
             and
             payments
             of
             the
             Copy-holders
             upon
             the
             Free-holders
             and
             Cotagers
             .
          
           
             Which
             if
             they
             do
             not
             now
             take
             to
             be
             reasonable
             in
             their
             own
             cases
             ,
             may
             certainly
             give
             every
             man
             to
             understand
             how
             little
             reason
             there
             will
             be
             to
             take
             away
             the
             dependencies
             and
             benefits
             by
             Tenures
             
               in
               Capite
            
             and
             Knight-Service
             holden
             of
             the
             King
             and
             mesne
             Lords
             .
          
           
           
             Or
             to
             abridge
             the
             King
             of
             that
             harmeless
             power
             never
             before
             denyed
             to
             any
             of
             his
             Ancestors
             ,
             to
             create
             Tenures
             in
             Capite
             and
             by
             Knight
             service
             ,
             or
             in
             grand
             Serjeanty
             for
             the
             defence
             and
             honour
             of
             the
             Kingdom
             ,
             upon
             new
             Grants
             of
             Lands
             or
             Favours
             ;
             especially
             when
             ●s
             His
             Majesty
             that
             now
             is
             ,
             did
             by
             His
             Declaration
             of
             the
             thirtieth
             of
             November
             last
             ,
             concerning
             the
             establishing
             and
             quieting
             the
             Government
             in
             the
             Kingdom
             of
             Ireland
             ,
             (
             which
             hath
             been
             since
             very
             much
             liked
             and
             approved
             by
             the
             Parliament
             of
             that
             Nation
             )
             insert
             a
             Saving
             of
             the
             Tenures
             of
             the
             Mesne
             Lords
             ,
             and
             ordained
             Tenures
             
               in
               Capite
            
             and
             by
             Knight-Service
             upon
             the
             Lands
             which
             shall
             be
             set
             out
             to
             the
             Souldiery
             for
             their
             Arrears
             .
          
           
             Or
             that
             Tenures
             
               in
               Capite
            
             not
             by
             Knight-Service
             ,
             with
             all
             petit
             Serjeanties
             ,
             (
             which
             ,
             as
             Sir
             
               Edward
               Coke
            
             saith
             ,
             is
             a
             Tenure
             
               as
               of
               the
               Crown
            
             ,
             that
             is
             ,
             
               as
               he
               is
               King
            
             )
             and
             the
             Profits
             and
             Reservations
             upon
             them
             ,
             which
             if
             well
             gathered
             would
             make
             some
             addition
             to
             the
             Royal
             Revenue
             ,
             should
             by
             the
             pattern
             of
             Olivers
             (
             so
             called
             )
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             be
             taken
             away
             when
             there
             are
             no
             Wardships
             incident
             thereunto
             ,
             and
             that
             aid
             to
             make
             the
             Kings
             eldest
             Son
             a
             Knight
             ,
             or
             marry
             his
             eldest
             Daughter
             ,
             should
             
             be
             taken
             away
             in
             the
             Capite
             and
             Knight-Service
             Tenures
             ,
             and
             left
             to
             remain
             in
             the
             former
             Socage
             Tenures
             ,
             or
             how
             little
             it
             will
             be
             for
             the
             good
             of
             the
             people
             if
             the
             intended
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             shall
             order
             the
             Tenures
             
               in
               Capite
            
             by
             Socage
             to
             pay
             double
             their
             former
             quit
             Rents
             or
             other
             Rents
             or
             Incidents
             belonging
             thereunto
             ,
             or
             to
             pay
             for
             a
             Relief
             double
             their
             petit
             Serjeanties
             or
             other
             Duties
             reserved
             .
          
           
           
             When
             as
             Tenures
             
               in
               Capite
            
             and
             by
             Knight-Service
             can
             certainly
             have
             no
             pretence
             of
             Grievance
             in
             them
             ,
             (
             for
             they
             are
             only
             pretences
             and
             causeless
             clamours
             that
             have
             of
             late
             cast
             them
             into
             an
             odium
             or
             ill
             will
             of
             the
             common
             sort
             of
             people
             ,
             or
             such
             as
             do
             not
             rightly
             understand
             them
             )
             but
             may
             be
             made
             to
             be
             more
             pleasing
             unto
             them
             by
             this
             or
             the
             like
          
        
         
           
             Expedient
             ,
          
           
             IF
             the
             Marriage
             of
             the
             Wards
             and
             Rents
             of
             their
             lands
             during
             all
             the
             time
             of
             their
             minorities
             computed
             together
             shall
             be
             reduced
             to
             be
             never
             above
             one
             years
             improved
             value
             ,
             which
             will
             be
             but
             the
             half
             of
             that
             which
             is
             now
             accounted
             to
             be
             a
             reasonable
             Fine
             ,
             and
             frequently
             paid
             by
             many
             Copy-hold
             Tenants
             ,
             whose
             Fines
             are
             certain
             ,
             and
             would
             be
             most
             joyously
             paid
             by
             those
             which
             are
             by
             Law
             to
             pay
             Fines
             incertain
             at
             the
             will
             of
             their
             Lords
             .
          
           
             That
             the
             Arch-Bishop
             of
             Canterbury
             and
             those
             other
             few
             mesne
             Lords
             ,
             who
             by
             antient
             exemption
             and
             priviledge
             are
             to
             have
             the
             Wardships
             of
             Tenants
             holding
             of
             them
             by
             Knight-Service
             in
             their
             
             minorities
             ,
             though
             they
             hold
             other
             Lands
             
               in
               Capite
            
             and
             by
             Knight-Service
             of
             the
             King
             ,
             may
             be
             ordained
             to
             do
             the
             like
             favors
             .
          
           
             That
             all
             that
             hold
             in
             Capite
             and
             by
             Knight-Service
             be
             freed
             from
             all
             Assesments
             touching
             Warr
             of
             their
             demesne
             Lands
             holden
             
               in
               Capite
            
             and
             by
             Knight-Service
             ,
             as
             in
             all
             reason
             they
             ought
             ,
             being
             a
             Libertie
             or
             Priviledge
             (
             amongst
             
             others
             )
             granted
             to
             them
             by
             the
             Charter
             of
             King
             Henry
             the
             First
             ,
             the
             (
             Original
             of
             a
             great
             part
             of
             our
             
               Magna
               Charta
            
             )
             in
             these
             words
             ,
             
               Militibus
               qui
               per
               Loricas
               terras
               suas
               defendunt
               terras
               dominicarum
               carucarum
               suarum
               quietas
               ab
               omnibus
               geldis
               &
               ab
               omni
               opere
               proprio
               dono
               meo
               concedo
               ,
               ut
               sicut
               tam
               magno
               gravamine
               alleviati
               ,
               sunt
               in
               Equis
               &
               Armis
               ,
               se
               bene
               instruant
               ut
               apti
               &
               parati
               sint
               ad
               servitium
               meum
               &
               ad
               defensionem
               Regni
               mei
            
             ;
             that
             the
             Knights
             which
             hold
             by
             Knight-Service
             ,
             and
             defend
             their
             own
             Lands
             by
             that
             Tenure
             ,
             shall
             be
             acquitted
             of
             all
             geldes
             and
             taxes
             of
             their
             Demesn
             Lands
             ,
             and
             from
             all
             other
             works
             upon
             condition
             ,
             that
             as
             they
             being
             freed
             from
             so
             great
             a
             burden
             ,
             they
             be
             at
             all
             times
             ready
             with
             Horses
             and
             Arms
             ,
             for
             the
             service
             of
             the
             King
             and
             defence
             of
             the
             Kingdom
             :
             Which
             being
             long
             after
             found
             out
             ,
             produced
             ,
             and
             read
             by
             
               Stephen
               Langton
            
             ,
             to
             the
             Earls
             and
             Barons
             of
             England
             ,
             and
             Abbots
             and
             others
             of
             the
             Clergy
             ,
             assembled
             in
             St
             Pauls
             Church
             in
             London
             ,
             in
             the
             great
             Contest
             which
             was
             betwixt
             King
             JOHN
             and
             His
             Barons
             about
             their
             Liberties
             ,
             
               Gavisi
               sunt
               gaudio
               magno
               valde
            
             (
             saith
             Matthew
             
             
               Paris
               )
               &
               juraverunt
               omnes
               in
               presentia
               dicti
               Archi-Episcopi
               quod
               viso
               tempore
               congruo
               pro
               hiis
               libertatibus
               ,
               si
               necesse
               fuerit
               ,
               decertabunt
               usque
               ad
               mortem
            
             ;
             They
             greatly
             rejoyced
             ,
             and
             did
             in
             the
             presence
             of
             the
             said
             Arch-Bishop
             swear
             ,
             that
             if
             need
             were
             they
             would
             contend
             even
             to
             death
             for
             those
             Liberties
             :
             And
             is
             at
             this
             day
             so
             little
             misliked
             in
             France
             ,
             as
             an
             ancient
             Counsellor
             of
             Estate
             of
             that
             Kingdom
             ,
             in
             the
             Reigns
             of
             the
             Great
             Henry
             the
             Fourth
             of
             France
             ,
             and
             
             his
             son
             Lewis
             the
             Thirteenth
             ,
             in
             his
             discourse
             of
             the
             means
             of
             establishing
             ,
             preserving
             and
             aggrandising
             a
             Kingdom
             ,
             is
             of
             opinion
             that
             those
             
               Fieffs
               ,
               Nobles
            
             ,
             and
             Tenures
             by
             Knight
             Service
             ,
             ought
             to
             have
             an
             exemption
             ,
             as
             they
             there
             have
             ,
             of
             all
             manner
             of
             Taxes
             and
             Impositions
             ,
             for
             that
             they
             are
             to
             hazard
             their
             lives
             
               pour
               la
               defence
               de
               l'Estat
            
             ,
             for
             the
             defence
             of
             the
             Kingdom
             .
          
           
             If
             where
             Lands
             are
             holden
             in
             Socage
             of
             the
             King
             or
             any
             other
             Person
             ,
             and
             there
             be
             a
             Wardship
             by
             reason
             of
             the
             said
             lands
             holden
             of
             the
             King
             
               in
               Capite
            
             ,
             or
             
               pour
               cause
               de
               garde
            
             of
             some
             other
             that
             holds
             
               in
               Capite
            
             and
             is
             in
             minority
             ,
             the
             lands
             which
             are
             found
             to
             be
             holden
             of
             the
             King
             or
             any
             other
             mesne
             Lord
             in
             Socage
             ,
             being
             taken
             into
             consideration
             only
             as
             to
             the
             Fine
             for
             the
             marriage
             ,
             may
             not
             be
             put
             under
             any
             Rent
             or
             Lease
             to
             be
             made
             by
             that
             Court
             ,
             but
             be
             freed
             as
             they
             were
             frequently
             and
             anciently
             by
             Writs
             sent
             to
             the
             Escheators
             ,
             now
             extant
             and
             appearing
             upon
             Record
             .
          
           
             That
             
               Primer
               seisins
            
             be
             taken
             away
             and
             no
             more
             paid
             .
          
           
             That
             the
             King
             shall
             in
             recompence
             thereof
             have
             and
             receive
             of
             every
             Duke
             or
             Earl
             that
             dieth
             seised
             of
             any
             Lands
             or
             Hereditaments
             in
             Capite
             and
             by
             Knight-Service
             ,
             the
             sum
             of
             two
             hundred
             pounds
             ;
             of
             every
             Baron
             two
             hundred
             marks
             ;
             of
             every
             one
             else
             that
             holdeth
             by
             a
             Knights
             Fee
             ,
             proportionably
             ,
             according
             to
             the
             quantity
             of
             the
             Fee
             which
             he
             holdeth
             ,
             twenty
             pound
             for
             a
             Reliefe
             .
          
           
             That
             incroachments
             upon
             wast
             grounds
             and
             high
             ways
             ,
             which
             are
             holden
             in
             Capite
             ,
             shall
             be
             no
             cause
             
             of
             Wardship
             or
             paying
             any
             other
             duties
             incident
             to
             that
             Tenure
             ,
             if
             it
             shall
             upon
             the
             first
             proof
             and
             notice
             be
             relinquished
             .
          
           
             That
             in
             case
             of
             neglecting
             to
             petition
             within
             a
             moneth
             after
             the
             death
             of
             the
             Tenant
             
               in
               Capite
            
             ,
             or
             otherwise
             concealing
             any
             Wardships
             ,
             or
             not
             suing
             out
             of
             Livery
             ,
             if
             upon
             information
             brought
             ,
             issue
             joyned
             ,
             and
             witnesses
             examined
             ,
             or
             at
             any
             time
             before
             Hearing
             or
             Tryal
             of
             the
             Cause
             ,
             the
             Party
             offending
             or
             concerned
             shall
             pay
             the
             prosecutor
             his
             double
             costs
             ,
             and
             satisfie
             the
             King
             the
             Mesne
             rates
             ,
             he
             shall
             be
             admitted
             to
             compound
             .
          
           
             That
             only
             Escuage
             and
             service
             of
             Warr
             (
             except
             in
             the
             aforesaid
             cases
             of
             the
             Arch-Bishop
             of
             Canterbury
             and
             some
             few
             others
             )
             and
             all
             other
             incidents
             except
             Wardships
             ,
             due
             by
             their
             Tenants
             which
             hold
             of
             them
             by
             Knight-Service
             ,
             be
             reserved
             to
             Mesne
             Lords
             ,
             &
             that
             the
             Reliefs
             of
             five
             pounds
             for
             a
             whole
             Knights
             Fee
             ,
             or
             proportionably
             according
             to
             the
             quantity
             of
             Lands
             of
             that
             kinde
             of
             Fee
             holden
             ,
             shall
             be
             after
             the
             death
             of
             every
             such
             Tenant
             Twenty
             pounds
             ,
             and
             proportionably
             as
             aforesaid
             .
          
           
             That
             to
             lessen
             the
             charges
             of
             Escheators
             and
             Juries
             for
             every
             single
             Office
             or
             Inquisition
             to
             be
             found
             or
             taken
             ,
             after
             the
             death
             of
             every
             Tenant
             
               in
               Capite
            
             &
             by
             Knight-Service
             ,
             the
             time
             of
             petitioning
             within
             a
             moneth
             after
             the
             death
             of
             the
             Ancestor
             may
             be
             enlarged
             to
             three
             moneths
             ,
             and
             the
             Shire
             ,
             Town
             ,
             City
             ,
             or
             principal
             place
             of
             every
             County
             be
             appointed
             with
             certain
             days
             or
             times
             for
             the
             finding
             of
             Offices
             ,
             to
             the
             end
             that
             one
             and
             the
             same
             Meeting
             ,
             and
             one
             and
             the
             same
             Jury
             ,
             with
             one
             and
             the
             same
             
             charge
             ,
             or
             by
             a
             contribution
             of
             all
             parties
             concerned
             may
             give
             a
             dispatch
             thereunto
             .
          
           
             That
             the
             unnecessary
             Bonds
             formerly
             taken
             in
             the
             Court
             of
             Wards
             at
             2
             s.
             6
             d.
             or
             3
             s.
             charge
             upon
             suing
             out
             of
             every
             
               Diem
               clausis
               extremum
            
             ,
             or
             Writ
             to
             finde
             an
             Office
             obliging
             the
             prosecution
             thereof
             ,
             may
             be
             no
             more
             taken
             ,
             when
             as
             the
             time
             limited
             for
             petitioning
             to
             compound
             for
             Wardships
             ,
             and
             the
             danger
             of
             not
             doing
             of
             it
             ,
             will
             be
             ingagement
             sufficient
             .
          
           
             That
             Grants
             ,
             Leases
             ,
             and
             Decrees
             of
             the
             Court
             may
             not
             (
             to
             the
             great
             charge
             of
             the
             people
             )
             be
             unnecessarily
             as
             they
             have
             been
             at
             length
             Inrolled
             with
             the
             Auditors
             of
             that
             Court
             ,
             when
             as
             the
             same
             was
             done
             before
             by
             other
             Officers
             ,
             in
             other
             Records
             of
             that
             Court
             to
             which
             the
             Auditors
             may
             have
             a
             free
             access
             ,
             and
             at
             any
             time
             take
             extracts
             out
             of
             them
             .
          
           
             That
             a
             severe
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             be
             made
             against
             such
             as
             shall
             mis-use
             or
             waste
             any
             Wards
             Estate
             ,
             Lands
             ,
             Woods
             ,
             and
             Timber
             committed
             or
             granted
             to
             them
             ,
             or
             any
             personal
             Estate
             which
             belongeth
             unto
             them
             ,
             or
             shall
             not
             give
             them
             fit
             education
             ,
             or
             shall
             disparage
             them
             in
             their
             Marriages
             ,
             or
             marry
             them
             without
             any
             competent
             portion
             ,
             or
             shall
             not
             within
             a
             moneth
             after
             the
             death
             of
             such
             Ward
             ,
             or
             coming
             to
             his
             age
             of
             
               One
               and
               twenty
            
             years
             make
             a
             true
             accompt
             and
             payment
             unto
             the
             said
             Ward
             ,
             or
             his
             Heirs
             or
             Executors
             ,
             of
             all
             that
             shall
             be
             by
             them
             due
             and
             payable
             to
             him
             or
             them
             by
             reason
             of
             the
             said
             Wardship
             ,
             upon
             pain
             of
             forfeiture
             to
             the
             use
             of
             the
             said
             Ward
             ,
             his
             Heirs
             or
             Executors
             ,
             besides
             the
             said
             moneys
             due
             and
             payable
             to
             the
             use
             of
             the
             said
             Wards
             ,
             
             double
             costs
             and
             damages
             expended
             or
             sustained
             therein
             .
          
           
             And
             that
             if
             any
             thing
             of
             grievance
             shall
             appear
             to
             have
             been
             in
             the
             compositions
             for
             Royal
             Pourveyances
             ,
             or
             in
             Cart
             taking
             ,
             which
             that
             which
             was
             called
             a
             Parliament
             did
             (
             shortly
             after
             the
             death
             &
             murder
             of
             the
             King
             )
             very
             much
             mistake
             ,
             when
             in
             their
             Declaration
             sent
             into
             all
             the
             parts
             of
             the
             world
             of
             the
             causes
             and
             reasons
             of
             their
             erecting
             a
             Commonwealth
             ,
             they
             were
             pleased
             to
             averr
             (
             that
             which
             the
             people
             of
             England
             know
             how
             to
             wonder
             at
             ,
             but
             not
             to
             make
             affidavit
             of
             )
             that
             they
             exceeded
             all
             their
             Taxes
             and
             Assessments
             laid
             upon
             the
             people
             .
          
           
             And
             that
             if
             the
             manage
             of
             those
             antient
             customes
             should
             require
             some
             better
             order
             to
             be
             taken
             ,
             there
             may
             be
             such
             a
             reiglement
             as
             may
             consist
             with
             his
             Majesties
             Honor
             and
             Profit
             ,
             and
             the
             ease
             and
             good
             of
             his
             people
             .
          
           
             Or
             if
             a
             Tryal
             and
             experiment
             be
             to
             be
             given
             the
             people
             ,
             or
             those
             (
             who
             like
             children
             will
             trouble
             a
             kinde
             and
             tender
             hearted
             Parent
             with
             Requests
             and
             Importunities
             to
             give
             them
             stones
             instead
             of
             bread
             and
             Scorpions
             for
             Fishes
             )
             of
             the
             Inconveniences
             of
             taking
             away
             of
             antient
             Land-marks
             ,
             and
             good
             old
             Lawes
             and
             Customs
             ,
             tryed
             and
             approved
             in
             this
             Nation
             for
             more
             then
             
               One
               Thousand
            
             years
             ,
             and
             a
             great
             deal
             more
             in
             others
             ,
             and
             the
             greater
             and
             more
             to
             be
             feared
             Inconveniences
             of
             Excises
             ,
             losses
             ,
             and
             damage
             to
             the
             Royal
             Revenue
             ,
             and
             committing
             the
             Tutelage
             ,
             protection
             and
             ordering
             of
             the
             best
             Families
             of
             the
             Kingdom
             and
             their
             Estates
             during
             their
             minorities
             to
             the
             prey
             and
             ill
             management
             of
             those
             that
             can
             get
             them
             ,
             and
             will
             never
             so
             well
             execute
             those
             Trusts
             as
             
             the
             King
             ,
             who
             hath
             not
             ,
             nor
             can
             (
             as
             they
             )
             have
             any
             private
             passions
             ,
             Interests
             or
             Concernments
             to
             carry
             him
             out
             of
             the
             waies
             of
             Justice
             .
          
           
             And
             that
             if
             such
             or
             the
             like
             Regulations
             to
             be
             added
             by
             His
             Majestie
             or
             His
             Counsell
             will
             not
             be
             enough
             to
             perswade
             the
             people
             from
             being
             
               Pelo's
               de
               se
            
             ,
             or
             longing
             for
             their
             own
             ruines
             .
          
           
             The
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             intended
             to
             take
             away
             Tenures
             
               in
               Capite
            
             and
             by
             Knight-Service
             ,
             may
             be
             with
             a
             reservation
             of
             Escuage
             service
             in
             Warr
             and
             Homage
             ,
             without
             the
             incidents
             of
             Wardships
             ,
             and
             be
             but
             as
             a
             Probationer
             to
             continue
             untill
             three
             years
             ,
             and
             the
             next
             ensuing
             Parliament
             after
             that
             time
             expended
             ,
             which
             may
             either
             continue
             the
             Act
             or
             suffer
             it
             to
             expire
             .
          
           
             Which
             with
             other
             Regulations
             which
             may
             be
             made
             in
             separating
             from
             the
             right
             use
             any
             abuses
             which
             may
             be
             found
             to
             have
             crept
             into
             those
             
               Seminaries
               of
               Honor
            
             ,
             that
             standing
             ,
             more
             noble
             ,
             and
             more
             obliged
             Militia
             ,
             that
             legal
             and
             antient
             Constitution
             or
             the
             management
             thereof
             ,
             and
             giving
             if
             need
             be
             some
             better
             Rules
             and
             Orders
             ,
             may
             preserve
             unto
             the
             King
             and
             his
             Successors
             that
             great
             part
             of
             his
             Regal
             Jurisdiction
             and
             power
             to
             defend
             himself
             and
             his
             people
             ,
             and
             to
             the
             People
             that
             most
             antient
             and
             fundamental
             Law
             which
             is
             attended
             by
             many
             other
             Fundamentals
             ,
             Customes
             ,
             Rights
             ,
             &
             Usages
             in
             relation
             &
             affinity
             to
             it
             not
             to
             be
             parted
             withall
             ,
             keep
             us
             from
             
               serò
               sapiunt
               Phryges
            
             ,
             the
             fate
             of
             those
             that
             would
             rather
             repent
             bitterly
             and
             too
             late
             ,
             then
             yield
             to
             those
             counsels
             or
             admonitions
             which
             might
             have
             prevented
             it
             ;
             and
             from
             a
             worse
             complaint
             ,
             by
             as
             much
             as
             the
             whole
             differs
             from
             a
             
             part
             ,
             made
             by
             
               Monsieur
               la
               Noüe
            
             ,
             that
             great
             Captain
             
             and
             Soldier
             of
             France
             ,
             in
             the
             Raigns
             of
             their
             Francis
             the
             First
             ,
             and
             our
             Henry
             the
             Eight
             ,
             and
             Edward
             the
             Sixth
             ,
             of
             the
             alienation
             and
             decay
             of
             the
             
               Feiffes
               Nobles
            
             and
             Arrierebans
             ,
             by
             granting
             them
             in
             Mortmaine
             and
             to
             Roturiers
             ,
             or
             men
             ignoble
             ,
             wherein
             he
             informs
             us
             ,
             that
             Francis
             the
             First
             and
             Henry
             the
             Second
             (
             Kings
             of
             France
             )
             did
             do
             all
             they
             could
             to
             reduce
             them
             to
             their
             former
             Order
             ,
             and
             was
             of
             opinion
             that
             Barbarians
             have
             better
             observed
             that
             policie
             in
             Government
             then
             Christians
             ,
             and
             that
             the
             Obligation
             of
             those
             Military
             Tenures
             
               sont
               bien
               estroites
            
             ,
             are
             very
             binding
             ,
             
               Et
               avec
               lesquelles
               les
               Roys
               de
               France
               par
               l'espace
               de
               sept
               cent
               Ans
               ont
               faites
               choses
               memorables
               ,
            
             and
             wherewith
             the
             Kings
             of
             France
             have
             for
             seven
             hundred
             years
             atchieved
             great
             things
             .
          
           
             That
             the
             wings
             of
             our
             Eagle
             may
             not
             be
             clipped
             ,
             nor
             the
             paws
             of
             our
             Lyon
             ,
             which
             is
             to
             defend
             his
             Kingdoms
             and
             people
             ,
             lamed
             ,
             lessened
             ,
             or
             cut
             shorter
             ,
             that
             the
             common
             and
             poorer
             sort
             of
             people
             may
             not
             (
             as
             they
             do
             begin
             already
             )
             complain
             that
             the
             Nobility
             and
             Gentry
             have
             to
             ease
             themselves
             bound
             heavy
             burdens
             upon
             them
             ,
             that
             we
             may
             not
             (
             as
             Bodin
             
             relates
             of
             Henry
             the
             Second
             King
             of
             France
             )
             fall
             into
             his
             mistake
             ,
             who
             raising
             a
             great
             Taxe
             upon
             the
             people
             whereby
             to
             free
             them
             from
             the
             ravage
             and
             insolencies
             of
             the
             hired
             Soldiers
             ,
             found
             it
             afterwards
             to
             be
             an
             increase
             of
             their
             grievances
             .
          
           
             That
             the
             people
             may
             not
             do
             by
             their
             fundamental
             Lawes
             (
             which
             they
             were
             but
             lately
             much
             in
             love
             with
             ,
             and
             called
             their
             Birth-Rights
             )
             as
             some
             young
             Prodigals
             do
             by
             their
             Fathers
             dearly
             gained
             Lands
             ,
             sell
             them
             for
             a
             mess
             of
             Potage
             with
             
             Coloquintida
             in
             it
             ,
             which
             would
             be
             a
             greater
             folly
             then
             the
             hungry
             Esau
             committed
             ;
             or
             as
             some
             young
             Gentlemen
             do
             ,
             when
             (
             to
             get
             or
             save
             a
             little
             money
             )
             they
             pull
             down
             their
             Ancestors
             antient
             ,
             great
             ,
             and
             hospitable
             Houses
             ,
             and
             sell
             the
             Timber
             ,
             Lead
             ,
             and
             materials
             thereof
             ,
             to
             put
             themselves
             in
             a
             more
             speedy
             way
             of
             ruine
             .
          
           
             That
             our
             King
             (
             who
             in
             extent
             of
             his
             Dominions
             and
             the
             Antiquity
             of
             his
             Royal
             Blood
             and
             Descent
             is
             superior
             to
             the
             most
             of
             Kings
             and
             inferior
             to
             none
             )
             may
             not
             be
             lesse
             then
             they
             in
             his
             Tenures
             or
             the
             dependency
             of
             his
             people
             ,
             but
             be
             girt
             with
             as
             much
             power
             and
             majestie
             as
             his
             glorious
             Progenitors
             .
          
           
             That
             
               the
               Mighty
               men
               and
               the
               men
               of
               Warr
               may
            
             continue
             ,
             that
             
               the
               Ensigne
               of
               the
               People
            
             ,
             nor
             the
             Watchmen
             upon
             Mount
             Ephraim
             may
             not
             be
             taken
             away
             ,
             
               that
               the
               Vintage
               may
               not
               fail
               and
               the
               gatherings
               not
               come
               ,
            
             that
             his
             Servants
             may
             not
             ask
             ▪
             
               Where
               is
               the
               Corn
               and
               the
               Wine
            
             and
             
               not
               be
               known
               in
               the
               streets
               ,
            
             but
             may
             (
             as
             King
             Solomons
             )
             every
             man
             in
             his
             
               course
               lack
               nothing
            
             ,
             that
             their
             Children
             (
             as
             it
             was
             of
             that
             wisest
             of
             Kings
             Servants
             ,
             when
             Nehemiah
             long
             after
             returned
             with
             the
             Children
             of
             Israel
             from
             Captivity
             )
             may
             be
             found
             in
             the
             Registers
             ,
             that
             the
             Splendor
             &
             Magnificence
             of
             the
             Kings
             of
             Englands
             Courts
             (
             farr
             surpassing
             those
             of
             
               France
               ,
               Spain
            
             ,
             the
             Emperors
             of
             Germany
             ,
             and
             all
             other
             Christian
             Princes
             )
             may
             not
             be
             impaired
             or
             diminished
             ,
             and
             that
             
               our
               Pathes
               and
               the
               glory
               of
               our
               Lebanon
            
             and
             
               Excellency
               of
               Sharon
            
             and
             
               the
               foundations
               of
               many
               Generations
            
             may
             be
             restored
             .
          
        
         
           
             —
             Casus
             Cassandra
             canebat
             .
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
         
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A54688-e190
           
             Spelmans
             Glossar
             .
             261.
             
          
           
             1
             Reg.
             10.
             24
             ,
             25.
             2
             
             Reg
             4.
             21
             ,
             22
             ,
             23.
             
             Nchem.
             5.
             18.
             
             Sigonius
             de
             Repub.
             Athen.
             lib.
             4.
             540.
             
             &
             541.
             
             
               Martin
               :
               Cromerus
            
             ,
             lib.
             2.
             de
             Regno
             Poloniae
             .
             Bignonius
             in
             notis
             ad
             lib.
             1.
             
             Marculfi
             465.
             
             Rosinus
             de
             Antiquitat
             Rom.
             lib.
             7.
             14.
             24.
             lib.
             10.
             cap.
             22.
             
             LL
             Wisigoth
             .
             lib.
             9.
             tit
             .
             6.
             
             LL
             Ripuar
             .
             tit
             .
             65.
             
             Cujacius
             tit
             .
             48.
             ad
             10.
             cod
             .
             Iustinian
             14
             29
             Tacitus
             in
             vita
             Ridley's
             View
             of
             the
             Civil
             and
             Ecclesiastical
             Law.
             9
             H.
             3.
             cap.
             21.
             
          
           
             2
             Reg.
             24.
             v.
             20.
             
             &
             22.
             
          
           
             1
             Sam.
             25.
             10.
             
          
           
             Claus.
             31
             H.
             3.
             
          
           
             Socage
             .
          
           
             Copy-hold
             .
          
           
             Northern
             Tenant-Right
             .
          
           
             Lease-holders
             .
          
           
             Free
             Socage
             .
          
           
             Beraultus
             in
             Commentar
             .
             &
             Spelmans
             Glossar
             .
             261.
             &
             in
             verb.
             leta
             ,
             431.
             
          
           
             Trin.
             18.
             
             E.
             1.
             in
             placit
             inter
             Abbatem
             de
             Leicester
             &
             Abbatem
             de
             Selby
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A54688-e7040
           
             Escuage
             .
          
           
             Homage
             .
          
           
             Relief
             .
          
           
             Primer
             Seisin
             .
          
           
             Livery
             .
          
           
             Mesne
             Races
             .
          
           
             Marriage
             .
          
           
             Rents
             .
          
           
             Licences
             to
             Widdows
             holding
             
               in
               Capite
            
             by
             Knight
             Service
             to
             marry
             .
          
           
             To
             compound
             with
             Copy-holders
             .
          
           
             Fines
             taken
             by
             the
             Court
             of
             Wards
             upon
             the
             Grants
             of
             Lands
             in
             minority
             .
          
           
             Bodin
             .
             de
             Repub
             .
          
           
             Coke
             in
             praefat
             .
             9.
             
             Relat.
             
          
           
             Instructions
             or
             Directions
             of
             King
             James
             to
             be
             observed
             in
             the
             Court
             of
             Wards
             .
          
           
             Coke
             1.
             part
             :
             institut
             .
             126.
             
             Fitz
             Herberts
             N
             B.
             82.
             25.
             
             E.
             3.
             cap.
             11.
             
          
           
             Rot.
             Parl.
             20.
             
             R.
             2.
             n.
             27.
             
          
           
             Mat.
             Paris
             240
             ,
             241.
             
          
           
             La
             Noüe
             Discours
             Politicques
             .
          
           
             Bodin
             .
             lib.
             6
             ,
             de
             Repub.