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"her faith she should not change, nor diffemble " her opinion with contrary doings. It was faid, "I constrained not her faith, but willed her, "not as a King to rule, but as a subject to obey, and that her example might breed inconveni"ence."

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"The Emperor's Ambaffador came in "with a fhort message from his master, of war, "if I would not fuffer his coufin, the Princess, "to use her Mafs. To this no anfwer was given."

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20. "The Bishops of Canterbury, London, " and Rochester, did consider to give licence to "fin, was fin. To fuffer and wink at it for a "time might be borne, fo all poffible haste might "be used."

26. "The French Ambaffadors faw the "baiting of the bulls and bears."

27. "The Ambaffadors, after they had "hunted, fat with me at fupper."

29. "The Ambaffadors had a fair fupper "made them by the Duke of Somerset, and "afterwards went to the Thames, where they faw both the bear hunted in the river, and

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"the wild-fire cast out of the boats, and many

pretty conceits.”

June 15. "The Duke of Somerset with five "others of the Council went to the Bishop of Winchester, to whom he made this answer: "I having deliberately feen the Book of Com"mon Prayer, (although I would not have made

it fo myself,) yet I find fuch things in it as "fatisfieth my confcience, and therefore I will "both execute it myself, and alfo fee others, my "parishioners, to execute it."

20. "The Mayor of London caufed the "watches to be encreased every night, because "of the great frays; and also one Alderman to fee good rule every night."

22. "There was a privy fearch made through "all Suffex, for all vagabonds, gypfies, con"spirators, prophefyers, all players, and such "like."

October 19. "Sir Thomas Palmer confeffed that the Gendarms (Gens d' Armes) on the mufter-day fhould be affaulted by two thou"fand footmen of Mr. Vane's, and my Lord's

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(Lord Gray's) hundred horfe, befides his "friends that stood by, and the idle people

"which took his part. If he were overthrown "he would run through London, and cry "Liberty, Liberty, to raise the apprentices, &c."

KING EDWARD'S "Journal," printed in the
Second Volume of Burnet's Hiftory of the
Reformation.

The Bishop has likewife added a Discourse about the Reformation of many Abuses, written by this incomparable Prince, in which he fays, "As the gentlemen and ferving-men ought to "be provided for, fo neither ought they to have "fo much as they have in France, where the "peafantry is of no value; neither yet meddle "in other occupations, for the arms and legs "doth neither yet draw the whole blood from "the liver, but leaveth it fufficient to work on; "neither doth meddle in any kind of engender

ing of blood; no, nor no one part of the body "doth ferve for two occupations: even fo nei❝ther the gentleman ought to be a farmer, nor "the merchant an artificer, but to have his art "particularly. Furthermore, as no member in a "well-proportioned body and whole body, is

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too big for the proportion of the body; fa "must there be in a well-proportioned Com"monwealth no perfon that fhall have more than "the proportion of the country will bear, for it "is hurtful immoderately to enrich any particular

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part. I think this country can bear no merchant

to have more land than one hundred pounds; "no husbandman or farmer worth above one "hundred or two hundred pounds; no artificer "above one hundred marks; no labourer much "more than he fpendeth. I fpeak now generally, and in such cases may fail in one parti"cular; but this is fure, this Commonwealth 66 may not bear one man to have more than two "farms, than one benefice, than two thousand "fheep, and one kind of art to live by."

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"For idle perfons, there were never, I think, more than be now. The wars men think is "the cause thereof. Such perfons can do no"thing but rob and steal. But flack execution "of the laws hath been the chiefeft fore of all ; "the laws have been manifeftly broken, the "offenders banished, and either by bribery or "foolish pity escape punishment."

"These fores must be cured with medicines, "First, by good education; for Horace sayeth «wifely,

Quo femel eft imbuta recens, fervabit odorem
Tefta diu.

"which took his part. If he were overthrown "he would run through London, and cry "Liberty, Liberty, to raise the apprentices, &c."

KING EDWARD'S " Journal," printed in the
Second Volume of Burnet's Hiftory of the
Reformation.

The Bishop has likewife added a Discourse about the Reformation of many Abuses, written by this incomparable Prince, in which he says, "As the gentlemen and ferving-men ought to "be provided for, so neither ought they to have "fo much as they have in France, where the "peasantry is of no value; neither yet meddle "in other occupations, for the arms and legs "doth neither yet draw the whole blood from "the liver, but leaveth it fufficient to work on; "neither doth meddle in any kind of engender

ing of blood; no, nor no one part of the body "doth ferve for two occupations: even fo nei❝ther the gentleman ought to be a farmer, nor "the merchant an artificer, but to have his art

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particularly. Furthermore, as no member in a "well-proportioned body and whole body, is "too big for the proportion of the body; fa "must there be in a well-proportioned Com"monwealth no perfon that fhall have more than "the proportion of the country will bear, for it "is hurtful immoderately to enrich any particular

“part.

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