¶
To
the
most
honorable
Lordes
of
the
Parliament
wyth
the
commons
of
the
same
:
theyr
moste
humble
and
dayly
Oratour
Robert
Crowley
,
wisheth
the
assistence
of
Goddes
holy
spirite
.
AMonge
the
manifolde
&
moste
weyghtie
matters
,
(
most
worthy
counsaylours
)
to
be
debated
and
communed
of
in
this
present
Parliament
,
and
by
the
aduise
,
assent
and
consent
therof
spedili
to
be
redressed
:
I
thynke
ther
is
no
one
thinge
more
nedfull
to
be
spoken
of
,
then
the
greate
oppression
of
the
pore
communes
,
by
the
possessioners
as
wel
of
the
clergie
as
of
the
laitie
.
No
doubt
it
is
nedfull
,
and
ther
ought
to
bee
a
spedy
redresse
of
many
mattiers
of
religion
:
as
are
these
.
The
vse
of
the
sacraments
and
ceremonies
,
the
vsurping
of
tenthes
to
priuat
commoditie
,
the
superfluouse
,
vnlerned
,
vndiscret
and
vicious
ministers
of
the
church
,
and
theyr
Supersticious
and
Idolatrous
administracions
,
Of
these
thynges
I
saye
ought
ther
to
be
a
spedy
reformacion
.
For
they
are
now
most
lyk
hastely
to
bringe
vppon
thys
noble
realme
,
the
ineuitable
vengeaunce
of
God
,
if
they
bee
not
shortly
reformed
:
for
as
muche
as
it
hath
pleased
the
almyghty
and
lyuinge
God
,
to
open
vnto
vs
those
abhominacions
,
which
haue
heretofore
ben
kepe
secret
and
hyd
from
vs
.
These
thinges
,
I
say
,
are
yet
far
out
of
ioynt
,
and
had
great
nede
to
be
refourmed
.
For
notwithstandyng
the
Kinges
maiesties
late
visitation
:
the
ignorant
people
,
who
haue
longe
ben
fostred
and
brought
vp
in
the
superstition
and
wrong
beleue
of
these
thynges
,
and
are
yet
n●
doubte
,
secretely
instructed
by
their
blinde
guydes
and
by
them
holden
styl
in
blindnes
:
wyll
not
be
perswaded
that
theyr
forfathers
superstition
was
not
the
true
fayth
of
Christe
,
til
such
tyme
as
they
haue
continuyng
among
them
,
such
preachers
as
shal
be
able
and
wyll
,
by
the
manifeste
scriptur●s
proue
vnto
them
that
both
they
and
their
fathers
were
deceiued
and
knewe
not
how
to
worshyppe
God
aright
,
but
shamfuly
seduced
by
the
couetise
of
the
shepherdes
and
guides
:
sought
him
where
he
was
not
,
and
when
they
thought
they
had
bene
mooste
hyghe
in
his
fauoure
by
doynge
,
hym
suche
honoure
as
they
thought
moste
acceptable
in
hys
syght
:
then
committed
they
most
detestable
blasphemie
,
&
were
abhominable
before
hym
.
☞
Thys
knowledge
,
I
say
,
wyll
not
be
beaten
into
the
heades
of
the
ignoraunte
:
so
longe
as
theyr
shepeherdes
be
but
hyrlynges
&
folow
liuynges
,
for
such
minister
not
to
the
congregation
:
but
to
theyr
owne
bealyes
.
They
are
not
shepeherdes
,
but
butchars
.
They
come
not
to
feede
,
but
to
be
fed
.
And
doubtles
(
most
christen
counsaylours
)
I
thinke
it
not
possible
to
amende
this
great
enormitie
,
otherwyse
then
by
reducynge
the
order
of
choseynge
of
the
ministers
,
vnto
the
order
that
was
in
the
primitiue
church
wherof
is
mentioned
in
the
Act
,
☞
The
craftes
man
sueth
for
the
fredom
of
a
Citie
,
not
because
he
intendeth
to
be
a
maintainer
of
the
Citie
:
but
because
he
hopeth
that
he
shall
lyue
so
muche
the
more
welthyly
hym selfe
.
And
euen
for
lyke
causes
do
our
ministers
and
are
lyke
styll
to
do
(
so
longe
as
they
maye
bee
receyued
when
they
come
vncalled
)
applye
them selues
to
priesting
,
because
they
lyke
wel
the
ydlenes
of
the
lyfe
.
☞
I
doubt
not
but
the
Kynges
maiesties
visitters
know
more
of
thys
matter
then
I
can
be
able
to
writ
.
And
by
them
,
I
doubt
not
,
you
shal
be
moued
to
commune
of
this
mattier
at
the
ful
.
☞
The
sacramentes
they
styl
abuse
,
vseinge
them
as
matters
of
merchaundyce
,
and
chiefly
the
most
worthy
memory
of
our
redemption
,
for
that
they
selle
boethe
to
the
quycke
and
to
the
deade
,
to
the
rych
and
to
the
poore
.
None
shall
receyue
it
at
theyr
handes
,
wythout
he
wyll
paye
the
ordinarie
shotte
,
and
so
are
they
redy
to
serue
euery
man
.
They
loke
vpon
the
monei
onely
and
nothynge
vppon
the
mynde
.
Whether
it
be
taken
to
confort
of
conscience
or
iudgement
,
they
pas
not
.
Thei
tel
the
monei
,
thei
loke
for
nomore
.
If
they
wyll
deny
this
to
bee
true
let
them
saye
why
,
they
suffer
the
pore
to
begge
money
to
paye
for
theyr
housel
,
as
they
call
it
?
Perchaunce
they
wyll
answer
that
the
money
is
not
payede
for
the
sacrament
,
but
for
the
.iiii
offeryng
dayes
.
Then
aske
I
thys
questian
,
Why
thei
appoint
not
another
time
to
receiue
it
in
,
then
that
tyme
whyche
is
to
lyttle
to
bee
occupied
in
declareynge
to
the
people
the
right
vse
&
profyte
of
the
sacramentes
,
&
to
instructe
them
so
,
that
they
do
not
receiue
it
to
theyr
iudgment
,
but
to
theyr
confort
and
quietnes
of
conscience
,
for
which
purpose
it
was
first
instituted
?
Vndoubtedli
(
most
christian
counsailours
)
they
can
not
deni
but
that
they
appoynt
to
receyue
it
then
,
because
they
wil
be
sure
of
it
.
Theyr
doeynges
wyll
declare
it
,
thoughe
they
woulde
deny
it
,
for
none
may
receyue
the
sacramentes
vnles
he
do
fyrste
paye
,
the
money
.
And
then
,
wyth
how
lyttle
reuerence
it
is
ministred
and
receyued
:
euery
thristen
hert
seeth
&
lamenteth
.
These
thinges
(
I
doubt
not
)
are
so
euident
and
playne
vnto
you
:
that
it
nedeth
not
to
troble
you
wyth
manye
wordes
concerneinge
the
abuses
therof
.
Many
godly
minded
men
haue
boeth
written
and
preached
,
&
do
dayely
writte
and
preach
,
of
and
agaynst
those
abuses
,
wherfore
I
am
certen
that
you
haue
iuste
occasion
and
can
do
no
lesse
but
seke
a
furder
redres
her
of
(
whyche
al
christen
hertes
do
desire
)
in
thys
present
parliament
.
But
as
for
the
oppression
of
the
pore
,
which
is
no
lesse
nedful
to
be
communed
of
and
reformed
then
the
other
:
I
feare
me
wyll
bee
passed
ouer
with
silence
,
or
if
it
bee
communed
of
.
I
canne
scarsely
truste
that
any
reformacion
canne
bee
had
,
vnlesse
God
do
nowe
worke
in
the
hertes
of
the
possessioners
of
thys
realme
,
as
he
dyd
in
the
primitiue
church
,
when
the
possessioners
were
contented
and
very
wyllyng
,
to
sell
theyr
possessions
and
geue
the
price
therof
to
be
commune
to
al
the
faythful
beleuers
.
Take
me
not
here
that
I
shoulde
go
about
by
these
wordes
to
perswade
men
to
make
all
thinges
commune
:
for
if
you
do
you
mistake
me
.
For
I
take
God
to
wytnes
I
meane
no
such
thyng
.
But
with
all
myne
hert
I
woulde
wysh
that
no
man
were
suffered
to
eate
,
but
such
as
would
laboure
in
theyr
vocation
and
callyng
,
accordynge
to
the
rule
that
Paule
gaue
to
the
Thessalonians
.
But
yet
I
woulde
wysh
that
the
possessioners
woulde
consyder
whoe
gaue
them
theyr
possessions
,
and
howe
they
ought
to
bestowe
them
.
And
then
(
I
doubt
not
)
it
shoulde
not
nede
to
haue
all
thynges
made
commune
.
☞
For
what
nedeth
it
the
seruauntes
of
the
householde
to
desyre
to
haue
theyr
maysters
goodes
commune
,
so
longe
as
the
stuarde
ministreth
vnto
euery
man
the
thinge
that
is
nedefull
for
hym
?
☞
If
the
possessioners
woulde
consyder
them selues
to
be
but
stuardes
,
and
not
Lordes
ouer
theyr
possessions
:
thys
oppression
woulde
sone
be
redressed
.
But
so
longe
as
thys
perswasion
styketh
in
theyr
myndes
.
It
is
myne
owne
.
Whoe
shal
warne
me
to
do
wyth
myne
owne
as
me selfe
lysteth
?
it
shall
not
bee
possible
to
haue
any
redresse
at
all
.
For
if
I
may
do
wyth
myne
owne
as
me
lysteth
:
then
maye
I
suffer
my
brother
,
hys
wyfe
and
hys
chyldrene
,
to
lye
in
the
strete
,
excepte
he
wyll
geue
me
more
rent
for
myne
house
than
euer
he
shal
be
able
to
paye
Then
may
I
take
his
goods
for
that
he
oweth
me
and
kepe
his
body
in
prison
,
tournyng
out
his
wyfe
and
chyldren
to
perishe
,
if
God
wyll
not
moue
some
mans
herte
to
pittie
them
:
and
yet
kepe
my
coffers
full
of
goulde
and
syluer
.
☞
If
ther
were
no
god
,
then
would
I
think
it
leafull
for
men
to
vse
their
possessions
as
thei
liste
Or
if
God
woulde
not
requitre
an
accompt
of
vs
for
the
bestoweynge
of
them
.
I
woulde
not
greately
gaynsaye
thoughe
they
toke
theyr
pleasure
of
them
whylse
they
lyued
here
.
But
forasmuch
as
we
haue
a
God
,
and
he
hath
declared
vnto
vs
by
the
scripturs
,
that
he
hath
made
the
possessioners
but
Stuardes
of
his
ryches
and
that
he
wyl
holde
a
streyght
accompt
with
them
for
the
occupiynge
and
bestoweynge
of
them
:
I
thynke
no
christian
ears
can
abyde
to
heare
that
more
then
Turkysh
opinion
.
☞
The
Philosophers
who
knewe
nothyng
of
the
bonde
of
frendshippe
which
Christe
our
mayster
and
redemer
lefte
amonge
vs
:
affirmed
that
among
frendes
al
thinges
are
commune
meaneyng
that
frendshippe
woulde
not
suffer
one
frende
to
holde
frome
an
other
,
the
thinge
that
he
hath
neede
of
.
And
what
shal
we
saye
?
Are
we
not
frendes
?
Suerly
if
we
be
not
frendes
:
wee
beare
the
name
of
Christe
and
bee
called
christians
in
vayne
.
Yea
if
wee
haue
not
a
more
perfecte
frendeshyppe
then
that
whereof
the
Philosophers
speake
:
wee
are
but
fayned
christians
we
beare
the
name
onely
and
are
no
thynge
lesse
in
dede
:
For
this
is
the
token
that
Christe
gaue
whereby
wee
shoulde
be
knowen
to
be
of
him
:
Some
perchaunce
wyll
thynke
that
this
frendshyp
is
to
be
vnderstande
onely
of
the
pastors
and
shepherdes
towarde
theyr
flocke
because
Christ
sayth
that
a
good
shepherde
geueth
his
lyfe
for
his
shepe
.
☞
And
here
I
proteste
vnto
you
all
,
that
the
same
spirite
that
sent
Ionas
to
the
Niniuits
,
Daniel
to
the
Babilonians
,
Nathan
to
Kyng
Dauid
,
Achior
vnto
Holofernes
,
Iudith
vnto
the
Priestes
and
Elders
of
the
Iewes
,
the
prophete
to
Ieroboam
in
Bethel
,
Iohn
the
Baptist
vnto
Herode
,
and
Christ
vnto
the
Iewes-wytnesseth
wyth
my
conscience
,
Lorde
(
sayeth
the
Porphete
)
hast
thou
forsaken
vs
?
doest
thou
hide
thy selfe
in
the
tyme
of
our
trouble
?
Whylse
the
wicked
waxe
proude
the
pore
man
is
aflicted
and
troubled
.
Would
to
God
the
wicked
myght
feale
the
same
thinges
that
they
inuent
for
other
.
For
the
sinnere
prayseth
hym selfe
in
the
desyers
of
hys
soule
,
and
he
extolleth
and
fetch
furth
the
couetouse
man
.
He
prouoketh
the
Lorde
and
is
so
proud
that
he
wyll
not
seke
hym
.
He
neuer
thynketh
vpon
God
.
His
wayes
be
defiled
at
all
tymes
.
He
loketh
not
vpon
thy
iugementes
Lorde
,
be
will
reuenge
hym
vpon
al
hys
enimies
.
He
thynketh
thus
with
hym selfe
,
I
wyll
not
remoue
from
one
generacion
vnto
an
other
without
mischefe
.
Hys
mouth
is
full
of
malediction
and
euill
reporte
,
fraude
&
deceyte
:
He
lyeth
in
wayte
wyth
the
rychemen
of
the
villages
or
graynges
,
in
secrete
corners
,
to
the
intent
to
slea
the
innocent
.
His
eyes
are
fyexed
vpon
the
pore
,
he
layeth
awayete
,
euen
as
a
lyon
in
his
denne
.
He
layeth
a
wayte
to
take
the
poore
man
by
force
,
and
when
he
hath
gotten
him
wythin
his
reache
,
then
wyll
he
take
hym
violentlye
.
In
hys
net
will
he
ouerthrowe
the
pore
,
and
through
hys
strength
shall
the
mutitude
of
the
oppressed
be
ouer
charged
and
fall
.
For
in
his
hert
he
sayeth
,
God
hath
forgotten
God
turneth
a
waye
hys
face
,
and
wyll
neuer
regarde
the
oppression
of
the
poore
,
etc.
to
the
ende
of
the
same
Psalme
.
☞
What
sentence
(
thinke
you
)
wil
the
Lorde
gyue
vpon
this
euidence
?
No
doubt
(
most
worthy
counsellers
)
euen
the
same
that
we
reade
in
Esaie
the
Prophete
I
loked
for
iudgement
and
rightouse
dealynge
amongeste
my
people
and
beholde
there
is
iniquitie
,
☞
For
couetyse
,
the
rote
of
al
iuelles
,
occupieth
that
grounde
so
that
the
heauenlie
sede
can
bi
no
meanes
geue
encrease
.
This
is
a
plage
of
al
plages
most
horryble
And
doubt
ye
not
you
lease
mongres
,
that
take
groundes
by
lease
to
the
●ntente
to
lette
them
out
agayne
for
double
and
triple
,
the
rent
:
your
parte
is
in
this
plage
The
Lorde
shall
take
his
spirite
from
you
.
He
shall
forbyd
the
cloudes
of
his
mercy
,
to
rayne
vpon
you
wyth
the
swete
dwe
of
hys
greace
.
And
you
surueighers
of
landes
,
that
of
x.
li.
lande
can
make
.xx.
you
shall
not
be
forgotten
in
the
effu●ion
of
thys
plage
.
☞
For
when
you
haue
multiplied
your
renttes
to
the
higheste
,
so
that
ye
haue
made
all
youre
tenantes
your
slaues
to
labour
and
toyle
and
bringe
to
you
all
that
maye
be
plowed
and
digged
out
of
youre
groundes
:
then
shal
death
sodaynly
strike
you
,
then
shall
God
wythdrawe
his
confortable
greace
from
you
,
them
shall
your
conscience
prycke
you
,
then
shall
you
thynke
with
de●perat
Cain
,
that
your
sinne
is
greater
than
that
it
may
be
forgeuen
.
For
your
owne
conscience
shall
iudge
you
worthye
no
mercye
,
be
,
cause
you
haue
shewed
no
merci
.
Yea
the
same
enimie
that
both
kendled
,
and
doeth
yet
mayntayne
in
you
thys
mischeuouse
,
outragiouse
and
vnsaciable
couetousnes
:
shall
then
bee
as
busy
to
put
you
in
mynde
of
the
wordes
of
Christ
saienge
,
the
same
measure
that
you
haue
made
vnto
other
,
shal
be
nowe
made
vnto
you
.
You
haue
shewed
no
mercye
:
howe
can
you
than
loke
for
mercye
?
Oh
noble
counsailours
be
mercyful
to
your selues
Destroye
not
your
owne
soules
to
enriche
your
heyres
.
Enlarge
not
your
earthly
possession
wyth
the
losse
of
the
eternal
enheritaunce
.
Learne
to
knowe
the
estate
that
God
hath
called
you
vnto
,
&
to
lyue
accordinge
to
your
profession
,
Know
that
you
are
al
ministres
in
the
common
weale
and
that
the
procion
which
you
are
borne
vnto
,
or
that
your
prince
geueth
you
is
your
estate
.
Knowe
that
your
office
is
to
distribute
&
not
to
scrape
to gether
on
heapes
,
God
hath
not
sette
you
to
surueye
his
landes
,
but
to
playe
the
stuardes
in
hys
householde
of
this
world
,
and
to
se
that
your
pore
felow
seruantes
lacke
not
theyr
necessaries
.
Consider
that
you
are
but
ministers
and
seruauntes
vnder
the
Lorde
oure
God
,
and
that
you
shal
render
a
streyght
accompt
of
your
administracion
.
Stand
not
to
much
in
your
own
conceyte
,
gloriynge
in
the
worthynesse
of
your
bloude
,
for
we
are
all
one
mans
chyldren
,
and
haue
(
by
nature
)
lyke
right
to
the
rychesse
and
treasures
of
thys
worlde
wh●rouf
oure
natural
father
Adame
was
m●de
Lord
and
Kinge
.
Whiche
of
you
can
laye
for
hym selfe
any
naturall
cau●e
whyche
shoulde
possesse
the
treasure
of
this
worlde
,
but
that
the
same
cause
maye
he
founde
in
hym
also
whome
you
make
your
slaue
?
By
nature
(
therefore
)
you
can
claime
nothinge
but
that
which
you
shall
gette
wyth
the
swet
of
your
faces
.
That
you
are
Lordes
and
gouernoures
therfore
,
commeth
not
by
nature
but
by
the
ordinaunce
&
appoyntment
of
God
.
Knowe
then
that
he
hath
not
called
you
to
the
welth
and
glorie
of
this
worlde
:
but
hath
charged
you
wyth
the
greate
and
rude
multitude
.
And
if
any
if
them
perishe
thorowe
your
defaute
,
knowe
them
for
certentie
,
that
the
bloude
of
them
shal
be
required
at
your
handes
.
If
the
impotent
creatures
perishe
for
lacke
of
necessries
:
you
are
the
murderres
,
If
the
sturdye
fall
to
stealing
,
robbyng
&
reueynge
:
then
are
you
the
causers
therof
,
for
you
dygge
in
,
enclose
,
and
witholde
from
them
the
earth
out
of
the
which
they
shoulde
digge
and
plowe
theyr
lyueynge
.
☞
The
whole
earth
therfor
(
by
birth
ryght
)
belongeth
to
the
chyldren
of
men
.
They
are
all
inheritours
thereof
indifferently
by
nature
But
because
the
sturry
shoulde
not
oppress●
the
weake
and
impotent
:
God
hath
apoynted
you
stuards
to
geue
meate
vnto
his
housholde
in
due
reasone
.
And
if
you
be
founde
faythfull
in
thys
litel
:
then
knowe
that
he
wyll
preferre
you
to
muche
greater
thynges
.
But
if
ye
bee
found
oppressing
your
felowe
seruauntes
:
them
knowe
for
certentie
,
that
the
Lorde
your
maister
shall
at
hys
comeynge
,
rewarde
you
wyth
many
strypes
.
Call
to
your
remembraunce
the
History
of
Kynge
Nabuchodonosor
whoe
for
☞
Considre
Pharao
wyth
his
great
armie
,
whom
the
Lorde
ouerwhelmed
in
the
red
sea
for
oppressing
and
persecuting
his
people
.
Yea
considre
al
the
nobilitie
that
haue
possessed
the
earth
,
euen
from
the
begynnyng
:
and
then
saye
howe
you
be
theyr
successours
,
and
by
what
title
you
cleyme
that
which
was
theyrs
.
☞
Many
hundred
yeres
sence
,
the
noble
Romains
helde
all
Europa
,
and
parte
of
Affrike
and
Asia
,
in
quiete
possession
:
and
where
are
they
that
succeade
them
in
theyr
impeir
?
The
brutishe
Gothes
inuaded
and
vanquished
the
impier
of
Rome
:
and
where
are
theyr
successours
?
☞
What
shoulde
I
stande
in
the
rehearsall
of
the
great
possessioners
that
haue
hertofore
possessed
the
earth
,
whose
liniall
descent
can
not
be
founde
?
It
shal
suffice
me
to
remitte
you
to
the
wordes
of
the
Lorde
vnto
Nabuchodonosor
,
whiche
are
wrytten
in
the
boke
of
Daniell
the
Prophet
.
☞
There
shal
you
learne
that
it
is
God
that
gyueth
the
impier
to
whom
it
pleaseth
hym
,
and
that
all
power
is
from
aboue
,
accordynge
to
the
answer
that
our
sauiour
Christe
made
vnto
Pilate
,
when
he
bragged
hym
wyth
the
power
than
he
had
to
crucifie
hym
and
to
deliuer
hym
.
Thou
shouldest
,
sayed
our
sauiour
,
haue
no
power
ouer
me
at
all
,
☞
Thus
it
is
euident
vnto
you
(
moste
worthy
counsaylours
)
that
your
power
and
estate
cometh
frome
aboue
,
and
that
by
nature
,
you
can
cleyme
nothynge
of
the
possessions
of
thys
worlde
,
more
then
that
whiche
you
gette
wyth
the
swet
of
your
faces
.
☞
I
doubt
not
therfor
but
that
your
consciences
do
condescend
and
agre
vnto
that
which
I
haue
spoken
concernynge
youre
office
and
ministerie
,
knoweynge
that
God
hath
appointed
you
to
minister
necessaries
to
the
impotent
and
to
defende
the
innocent
.
☞
Do
not
therfore
neglect
thys
principalle
poynt
of
your
dutie
,
to
seke
in
this
parliament
a
redresse
of
thys
great
oppression
,
wherwyth
the
pore
membres
of
this
noble
realme
,
ar
most
vnmercifully
vexed
on
euery
syde
.
☞
The
lande
lordes
for
theyr
partes
,
suruey
and
make
the
vttermost
peny
of
al
their
groundes
,
bysydes
the
vnreasonable
fynes
and
incomes
.
And
he
that
wyl
not
or
can
not
geue
all
that
they
demaunde
:
shall
not
enter
be
he
neuer
so
honest
or
stande
he
neuer
so
greate
neede
.
☞
Y●a
though
he
haue
ben
an
honest
,
true
,
faythfull
and
quiete
tenant
many
yeres
:
yet
at
the
vacation
of
his
Copie
or
Iudentur
,
he
must
paye
welmoste
as
much
as
woulde
purchayse
so
much
grownde
or
else
voide
in
haste
,
though
he
,
his
wyfe
and
childrene
,
shoulde
perishe
for
lacke
of
harbour
.
☞
What
a
sea
of
mischifes
hath
floued
out
of
thys
more
then
Turkyshe
tyrannie
:
what
honeste
housholders
haue
ben
made
folowers
of
other
not
so
honest
mens
tables
:
what
honeste
matrones
haue
ben
brought
to
the
needy
rocke
and
cardes
:
what
menchyldrene
of
good
hope
in
the
liberall
sciences
and
other
honeste
qualites
(
wherof
this
realme
hath
great
lacke
)
haue
ben
compelled
to
fal
some
to
handycrafts
and
some
to
daye
labour
to
sustayne
theyr
parents
decrepet
age
and
miserable
pouertie
:
what
froward
and
stoubourne
children
haue
herby
shaken
of
the
yoke
of
godly
chastisement
rennyng
hedlonge
into
all
kyndes
of
wickednes
and
finally
garnyshed
galowe
trees
:
what
modeste
,
chast
and
womanly
virgins
,
haue
for
lacke
of
dourie
bene
compelled
either
to
passe
ouer
the
dayes
of
their
youth
in
vngrate
seruitude
,
or
els
to
mary
to
perpetuall
miserable
pouertie
:
what
immodeste
,
&
wanton
gyrles
haue
hereby
bene
made
sisters
of
the
Banke
(
the
stumlyng-stocke
of
all
fraile
youth
)
and
finally
,
most
miserable
creatures
lyinge
and
dyinge
in
the
stretes
full
of
all
plages
and
penurie
:
what
vniuersall
destruction
chaunceth
to
thys
noble
realme
by
thys
outragious
and
vnsaciable
desire
of
the
surueiers
of
landes
:
I
reporte
me
to
you
(
moste
christian
counseilours
)
whiche
are
here
assembled
from
all
partes
of
thys
noble
realme
,
to
consult
for
the
wealth
of
all
the
membres
of
the
same
.
☞
On
the
other
syde
,
there
be
certeyne
tenauntes
,
not
able
to
be
lande
Lordes
,
and
yet
after
a
sort
they
conterfaite
lande
lordes
,
by
obteininge
leases
in
and
vpon
groundes
and
tenementes
,
and
so
reyse
fines
,
incomes
,
&
rentes
:
and
by
such
pillage
pike
out
a
portion
to
mainteyne
a
proude
port
,
and
all
by
pilling
and
polling
of
the
poore
commons
that
must
of
necessitie
seeke
habitations
at
theyr
handes
.
☞
That
this
is
true
,
I
report
me
to
my
lorde
the
Maire
&
other
the
heade
officers
of
the
Citie
of
London
,
who
(
if
they
be
not
ignorant
of
the
state
of
the
Citie
)
can
witnes
with
me
that
the
moste
parte
,
yea
I
thinke
ix
.
of
the
.x.
partes
,
of
the
houses
in
London
,
bee
set
and
let
by
them
that
haue
them
by
lease
:
and
not
by
the
owners
.
☞
Howe
thei
polle
the
pore
tenantes
,
would
sone
be
tryed
,
if
theyr
leases
were
conferred
with
theyr
rentrolles
.
It
is
not
to
be
thought
contrary
but
that
the
greate
leasmūgers
haue
greate
gains
by
their
leases
,
for
the
litleons
that
hold
but
a
piece
of
houseing
of
.xx.
or
.
xxx.s
.
by
yere
:
can
fynde
the
meanes
to
holde
and
dwell
vpon
the
chiefe
parte
therof
rent
fre
,
by
letynge
out
the
residue
for
the
whole
yerely
rent
.
☞
I
thinke
not
contrary
but
these
thinges
do
appeare
in
the
syght
of
many
to
bee
but
verey
trifles
,
and
not
worthy
to
be
spoken
of
in
so
noble
an
assemble
as
this
most
honorable
parliament
.
For
they
are
no
mattiers
concerneyng
the
welth
of
the
nobilitie
,
yea
it
is
rather
hyndrance
to
many
of
them
,
to
haue
these
thynges
redressed
,
then
any
encrease
of
theyr
welth
.
Yea
euen
you
(
moste
christian
counsaylours
)
whych
are
here
assembled
,
to
debate
the
weightie
mattiers
of
thys
realme
:
are
not
all
so
free
from
this
kynde
of
oppression
,
but
that
you
coulde
be
well
contented
to
wyncke
at
it
.
And
therfor
,
for
asmuche
as
the
inordinate
loue
of
men
towarde
them selues
is
such
,
that
eyther
they
can
not
se
theyr
owne
fauts
,
or
else
if
they
do
se
them
,
or
be
tolde
of
them
,
they
take
them
not
to
be
so
great
as
they
are
in
dede
:
I
thinke
it
no
meruayle
,
though
such
of
you
(
most
worthy
counsaylours
)
as
haue
any
profite
by
this
oppression
,
do
wythin
them selues
deride
and
laugh
to
scorne
my
fole
hardines
and
rashe
interprise
herein
,
knowyng
that
it
is
not
the
vse
of
them
that
be
assembled
to
the
intent
to
establishe
suche
thynges
as
shall
be
for
the
wealth
of
a
whole
realme
:
to
condescende
and
agree
to
those
thynges
whiche
shall
be
disprofitable
vnto
the
chiefe
membres
of
the
same
.
☞
Truth
it
is
(
moste
worthy
counsaylours
)
I
might
well
and
worthely
be
laughed
at
:
if
I
woulde
attempt
any
such
thing
.
But
the
thing
that
hytherto
I
haue
spoken
of
:
is
not
to
the
disprofite
of
any
,
but
to
the
great
commoditie
and
profite
of
all
the
whole
realme
.
☞
For
what
discommoditie
is
it
to
the
heade
,
shoulders
,
the
armes
,
and
other
the
vpper
membres
of
the
bodie
,
beinge
already
sufficiently
clothed
:
to
put
on
the
legges
and
feete
a
peare
of
hose
and
shoes
,
to
defende
them
also
from
the
iniuries
of
the
wether
&
other
hurtes
that
myght
chaunce
vnto
them
in
theyr
trauaylyng
to
cary
the
body
from
place
to
place
,
fo●
his
commoditie
and
pleasure
?
Verely
in
myne
opinion
that
body
is
farre
vnworty
to
haue
either
legges
or
feete
:
that
wyl
let
them
go
bare
,
hauyng
wherwith
to
couer
them
.
☞
Euen
so
you
,
beynge
the
chiefe
membres
of
thys
noble
realme
,
and
hauing
in
your
handes
the
wonderful
and
incomperable
riches
of
the
same
:
what
shoulde
it
greue
you
to
departe
wyth
some
portion
thereof
,
that
the
inferioure
membres
thereof
,
maye
at
all
tymes
be
able
to
do
theyr
ministerie
and
office
accordyngly
.
❧
Once
remembre
,
that
as
the
bodye
wyth
out
the
inferioure
partes
is
but
lame
and
as
a
blocke
vnweldy
,
and
muste
,
if
it
wyll
remoue
from
place
to
place
,
creepe
vpon
the
handes
:
euen
so
you
,
if
ye
had
not
the
poore
membre
of
this
realme
to
tyll
the
grounde
and
do
your
other
drudgery
:
no
remedy
you
muste
needes
d●
it
your selues
.
☞
Vse
them
therfore
as
the
necessarie
membres
of
the
misticall
bodye
of
this
moste
noble
realme
,
and
be
not
in
thys
poynte
more
vnnatural
then
the
heathen
Philosophers
were
.
They
in
theyr
wrytynges
declare
no
lesse
then
I
haue
wrytten
.
☞
Thys
oughte
not
a
lytle
to
moue
you
,
being
christians
(
whose
redemer
Iesu
Christ
sitteth
at
the
ryghte
hande
of
God
his
father
)
to
study
,
not
onely
to
be
equal
with
,
but
to
passe
the
heathen
&
vnchristened
in
this
matter
,
euen
as
farre
as
the
excellencie
of
the
name
and
religion
whiche
we
professe
,
passeth
theyrs
.
☞
Remembre
(
most
christian
counsaylours
)
that
you
are
not
only
naturall
membres
of
one
body
wyth
the
poore
creatures
of
this
realme
:
but
also
by
religion
you
are
membres
of
the
same
misticall
body
of
Christ
,
who
is
the
head
of
vs
all
(
his
membres
)
and
estemeth
all
that
is
done
to
the
leste
of
vs
his
membres
,
as
done
to
hym selfe
.
For
he
sayth
.
☞
What
so
euer
ye
do
to
the
leste
of
these
litle
ones
that
beleue
in
me
:
ye
do
it
vnto
me
.
If
you
therefore
,
neither
wyll
your selues
oppresse
our
sauiour
Christe
in
his
membres
,
nor
suffre
other
to
do
it
:
fayle
not
to
fynde
a
redres
of
this
greate
oppression
,
whiche
I
haue
declared
to
the
same
ende
.
And
then
I
doubt
not
,
but
God
shall
so
worke
wyth
you
:
that
euery
man
shall
wyllyngly
embrace
a
reformation
of
all
mattiers
of
religion
.
For
the
spirit
of
God
shall
dwell
in
you
and
in
vs
all
,
and
Christe
himself
(
as
he
hath
promised
)
shall
bee
in
the
myddes
amonge
you
.
Wher
as
contrariwise
,
if
you
suffer
our
loueinge
sauiour
thus
to
be
oppressed
,
he
wyll
forsake
you
,
he
wyll
leaue
you
to
the
spirite
of
errour
.
Your
reformacions
shal
take
no
place
.
All
your
diuises
shall
be
abhominable
in
his
syght
,
because
ye
haue
not
purged
your
handes
from
the
bloude
of
this
oppression
.
Let
the
decres
whych
were
establyshed
in
thys
place
by
a
parliam●nt
assembled
for
a
lyke
purpose
:
be
your
president
,
not
to
folow
,
but
to
beware
by
them
that
ye
establish
not
the
lyke
.
The
intent
of
that
assemble
was
nolesse
to
refourm
the
abuses
of
our
religion
then
thys
is
.
But
because
Christe
was
not
deliuered
frome
oppression
:
he
woulde
not
be
amonge
them
.
They
were
not
congregated
in
hys
name
,
but
rather
agaynste
hym
and
hys
doctrine
,
for
he
hym selfe
is
dear
loue
,
&
(
as
his
Apostle
Iohn
writeh
)
wher
this
dear
loue
is
not
,
☞
If
you
wyll
call
these
articles
into
question
agayne
(
as
in
dede
you
haue
iuste
occasion
to
do
)
I
doubt
not
but
you
shal
be
fully
perswaded
that
they
proceaded
of
the
spirit
of
erroure
and
not
of
the
spirite
of
God
,
because
the
charitie
of
God
was
not
amonge
them
in
that
assemble
.
Other
thynges
ther
be
wherby
the
pore
membres
of
Christe
in
thys
noble
realme
,
are
oppressed
,
wherof
I
haue
made
no
mention
,
partely
because
I
am
loth
to
offende
wyth
the
multitude
of
my
rude
wordes
,
&
partely
for
that
I
know
you
can
not
seke
for
a
redres
of
these
thynges
wherof
I
haue
spoken
:
but
the
other
wil
offer
them selues
vnto
you
.
I
meane
the
greate
Extortion
and
Vsurie
that
reigneth
frely
in
thys
realme
,
and
seme
to
be
authorised
by
Parliament
wythin
these
.iii.
yeres
laste
paste
.
☞
The
Cleargie
of
the
Citie
of
London
,
haue
for
theyr
parte
optayned
by
Parliament
,
authoritie
to
ouer
tenthes
euen
after
the
exemple
of
the
landlordes
and
leasemongers
,
and
maye
by
the
vertue
of
the
acte
requir
for
double
rentes
,
double
tenthes
.
If
the
rent
of
any
kynde
of
housyng
or
grounde
wythin
the
Citie
of
London
be
raised
(
as
ther
is
in
dede
veri
much
)
from
x.
s
,
to
xx
.
s
:
than
may
the
persone
(
whoe
had
before
but
xvi
.
d
.
ob
.
)
by
the
vertu
of
this
act
,
demaunde
.
ii.s
.
ix.d
,
the
double
.
Bysydes
this
,
the
exactions
that
they
take
of
the
pore
commons
,
is
to
much
beyonde
al
reason
and
conscience
.
No
couple
can
be
maried
,
but
these
men
must
haue
a
dutie
,
as
the
call
it
.
No
woman
may
be
purified
,
but
they
and
theyr
ydle
ministers
must
haue
some
duties
of
hir
.
None
can
be
buried
but
they
wyll
haue
a
fliese
.
Not
three
monethes
before
the
beginning
of
this
present
Parliament
:
I
had
iust
occasion
to
be
at
the
payment
of
this
dutie
for
the
buriyng
of
an
honest
pore
man
,
whose
frendes
were
wylling
to
haue
his
body
reuerendly
laied
in
the
ground
,
&
according
to
the
custome
,
gaue
warninge
to
the
curate
that
they
woulde
brynge
the
deade
body
to
the
churche
:
desiryng
him
that
he
would
do
his
dutie
and
to
be
there
to
receyue
it
,
and
accordyng
to
the
custome
,
to
laye
it
in
the
grounde
.
But
thys
Rauen
smellyng
the
carion
:
coulde
not
but
reueile
it
to
the
other
carion
byrdes
of
the
same
church
,
and
so
woulde
needes
come
all
together
in
a
flocke
to
fetche
theyr
praye
,
wyth
crosse
and
holy
water
as
they
were
wonte
to
do
,
notwythstandynge
the
Kynges
Iniunctions
and
late
visitation
.
The
frendes
of
the
deade
man
refused
al
thys
and
required
to
haue
no
more
but
the
commune
coffen
to
put
the
body
in
,
agreynge
to
paye
to
the
keeper
therof
his
accustomed
dutie
,
and
in
lyke
maner
to
the
graue
maker
,
and
the
foure
poore
men
to
cary
the
bodye
,
so
that
the
whole
charges
had
ben
but
.
vii.d
.
☞
But
when
the
corps
was
buried
,
wythout
other
crosse
or
holy
water
stycke
,
Dirige
,
or
Masse
,
with
praiers
of
as
smal
deuotion
,
as
any
pore
curate
could
say
,
yet
must
we
needes
paye
.
vii.d
.
more
That
is
to
saye
.
i.d
.
to
the
curate
,
whiche
he
called
an
heade
peny
,
and
.
vi.d
.
to
.ii.
clerkes
that
we
had
no
neede
of
.
☞
Thys
was
done
in
Sepulchres
parishe
in
the
Citie
of
Lodon
.
And
if
it
shall
please
any
of
this
noble
assemble
to
trye
the
truth
of
this
:
I
wyl
verifie
it
where
so
euer
I
shal
be
called
,
euen
in
the
presence
of
all
the
ydle
ministers
of
the
same
churche
.
☞
This
haue
I
written
(
moste
worthy
counsailours
)
to
gyue
you
an
occasion
to
set
such
an
ordre
in
thys
and
suche
other
thynges
,
that
either
we
may
haue
ministers
founde
vppon
the
tenthes
that
we
paie
yerli
to
the
churches
:
other
els
that
it
maye
be
leaful
for
vs
to
do
such
ministeries
our selues
,
and
not
to
be
thus
constrained
to
feede
a
sorte
of
carion
crowes
,
whiche
are
neuer
so
mery
as
when
we
lament
the
losse
of
our
frendes
.
☞
Thys
muche
haue
I
spoken
of
the
extortion
that
reygneth
frely
in
the
Clergie
.
Nowe
,
wyth
your
pacience
,
I
wyl
with
like
breuitie
,
speake
of
the
great
&
intollerable
vsurie
,
which
at
this
daie
,
reigneth
so
frely
this
realme
ouer
al
,
and
chiefely
in
the
Citie
of
London
:
that
it
is
taken
for
moste
leaful
gaines
.
Yea
it
is
welmoste
heresie
to
reproue
it
,
for
men
say
it
is
alowed
by
Parliament
.
Wel.
The
most
part
,
I
am
sure
,
of
this
most
Godly
assemble
and
parliament
:
do
knowe
that
the
occasion
of
the
acte
that
passed
here
concerning
Vsurie
:
was
the
vnsaciable
desire
of
the
vsurers
,
who
coulde
not
be
contented
with
Vsurie
,
vnlesse
it
were
vnreasonable
much
.
To
restrayne
this
gredy
desire
of
theirs
therfore
,
it
was
communed
and
agreed
vpon
,
and
by
the
authoritie
of
Parliament
,
decreed
:
that
none
should
take
aboue
.
x.li
.
by
yere
for
the
lone
of
an
.
C.li.
☞
Alas
that
euer
any
christian
assemble
should
be
so
voied
of
gods
holy
spirite
,
that
they
should
alowe
for
leaful
:
any
thynge
that
Gods
word
forbiddeth
,
Be
not
abashed
(
most
worthy
counsaylours
)
to
cal
this
acte
into
question
againe
.
Scan
the
wordes
of
the
Psalmist
concerning
this
matter
,
Lorde
,
sayth
he
,
who
shal
enter
into
thy
tabernacle
,
and
who
shal
rest
in
thy
holy
mountaine
?
H●
answereth
.
That
entreth
without
spot
&
worketh
ryght
.
That
speaketh
truth
in
his
hert
,
&
hath
not
deceiued
with
his
tonge
,
that
hath
done
his
neighbour
ho
harme
,
nor
accepted
any
reproche
against
his
neighbour
.
He
regardeth
not
the
wicked
:
but
then
that
feare
the
Lorde
,
he
glorifieth
&
praiseth
.
He
that
swereth
to
his
neighbour
&
deceyueth
hym
not
.
He
that
hath
not
giuen
his
money
vnto
vsurie
,
&
hath
not
taken
gyftes
&
rewardes
agaynst
the
innocent
.
☞
If
you
(
moste
christian
counsaylours
)
do
glorie
in
the
knowledge
of
Gods
spirite
,
who
hath
spoken
these
wordes
by
the
prophet
:
howe
can
you
suffre
this
acte
to
stande
which
shal
be
a
witnes
against
you
in
the
later
day
,
that
you
alowe
that
,
which
Goddes
spirite
forbiddeth
?
☞
If
he
that
geueth
not
his
money
to
Vsurie
:
shal
dwell
in
the
Lordes
tabernacle
:
where
shal
he
dwel
that
giueth
his
money
to
Vsury
?
shal
he
not
be
shutte
out
&
cast
into
vtter
darknes
?
Theyr
workes
be
contrary
,
&
why
should
not
their
rewarde
be
also
contrary
?
If
the
one
be
receyued
in
:
the
other
must
be
shut
out
.
Yea
and
you
that
haue
made
this
lawe
,
vnlesse
you
do
reuoke
it
and
establysh
an
act
to
the
c●ntrary
:
the
Brydegroume
,
the
onely
sonne
of
God
,
shal
at
the
laste
daye
deny
you
and
saye
that
he
neuer
knewe
you
,
☞
I
am
not
ignoraunte
what
Glosses
haue
ben
made
vpon
this
place
,
and
howe
men
haue
wrested
&
made
it
no
precept
,
but
a
counsaile
of
our
sauiour
,
&
therfore
not
to
infer
necessitie
to
christians
but
to
leaue
them
at
libertie
either
to
do
it
or
leaue
it
vndone
.
☞
Oh
mercifull
Lorde
,
what
maner
of
religion
is
it
that
these
men
professe
?
☞
They
boast
them selues
to
bee
the
disciples
of
Christe
and
setters
forthe
of
his
glorie
.
☞
They
wyll
beare
the
name
of
hym
and
be
called
christians
,
and
yet
wyl
be
at
libertie
to
chose
whether
they
luste
,
to
folowe
hys
counsayle
or
leaue
it
vndone
.
☞
Our
shepherd
Christe
,
of
whose
flocke
they
boaste
them selues
to
bee
,
sayeth
that
hys
sheepe
heare
his
voyce
and
folowe
hym
.
And
immediatly
before
,
he
sheweth
,
☞
And
doubte
ye
not
(
moste
worthy
counsaylours
)
what
so
euer
he
is
that
wyll
defende
or
teach
,
that
any
one
lytle
iote
of
the
counsayles
of
Christ
shoulde
be
so
vaynly
spoken
that
any
of
hys
flocke
myght
refuse
to
practise
the
same
in
hys
lyuynge
to
the
vttermoste
of
hys
power
:
is
nolesse
then
a
membre
of
the
Deuell
,
and
a
verey
Antichriste
.
☞
For
he
that
desyreth
not
in
hys
herte
to
practise
in
his
lyueynge
,
all
the
counsayles
of
Christe
our
maister
and
teachar
:
shall
be
numbred
amonge
the
obstinate
Iewes
,
for
none
of
the
flocke
of
Christ
,
because
he
heareth
not
his
voice
nor
foloweth
him
.
Thus
I
mak
an
ende
Wyshyng
vnto
you
(
most
worthy
counsaylours
)
the
same
spirit
that
in
the
primitiue
church
gaue
vnto
the
multitude
of
beleuers
,
☞
But
if
ye
lette
these
thynges
passe
and
regarde
them
not
:
be
ye
sure
the
Lorde
shal
confound
your
,
wisdome
.
Inuent
,
Decre
,
Establish
and
authorise
what
you
can
:
al
shal
come
to
nought
.
The
wayes
that
you
shall
inuent
to
establyshe
vnitie
and
concord
:
shal
be
the
occacions
of
discorde
.
The
thynges
wherby
you
shal
thinke
to
wyn
prayse
through
al
the
worlde
:
shal
tourne
to
your
vtter
shame
,
and
the
wayes
that
you
shall
inuent
to
establysh
a
kyngdome
:
shal
be
the
vtter
subuercion
of
the
same
.
The
mercifull
father
of
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christe
,
indue
you
wyth
hys
spirit
,
that
you
be
not
parttakers
of
these
plages
.
AMEN