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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



indebted to the house, cither for his 

 diet, either for any otl'.er duty of the 

 house, he shall bo openly iij the hall 

 prociayined ; and whosoever will 

 pay it for him, shall have and en- 

 joy his Iodising and cliamber that is 

 so indebted. 



Apparcll. 



They h^TC no order for their ap- 

 parell ; bnt they may go as him 

 listeth, so that his apparel! pretend 

 to no li2;htncss or vvantonnesse in the 

 wearer ; for even as his apparcll 

 doth shew him to be, even so shall 

 he be esteemed among them. 



The Fashion of their House in the 

 Night. 



In the night time they have not 

 their gates shut, so tliat every man 

 may go in and out through the 

 house all seasons of the night, which 

 is occas-iun that their chambers are 

 often ti'.nes robbed, and many other 

 jwisfdcmeanors used. 



Library. 



They now have no library, so 

 that they cannot attaine to the know- 

 ledge of divers learnings)" but to their 

 great chardges, by the buying of 

 such bookes as they lust to study. 

 1 hey had a simple library, in which 

 v,'ere not many bookes besides the 

 law, and that library, by meanes 

 that it stood allways open, and that 

 the learners had not each of them a 

 key unto it, it was atte the last 

 robbed of all the bookes in it. 



Their usage in time of Pestilence. 



If it happened that the. plague of 

 pestilence be any* thing nigh their 

 house, tiien every man goeth home 

 into his country, which is a great 

 loss of learning ; for if they had 

 some house nigh London to resort 

 unto, they might as well exercise 

 their learnir\g as in the temple un- 

 till the plague vvcrc ceased. 



MISCEL. 



