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painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things 

 to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not 

 against God. 



The ninth eule teaches you what you ought to say often 

 to small and great of your household, that all do 

 your commands. 



Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, 

 quickly, and willingly, without grumbling and contradic- 

 tion, they do all your commands that are not against God. 



The tenth rule teaches you the particular command 

 that you ought to grve to the marshal of your hostel. 



Command those that govern your house before all your 

 household that they keep careful watch that all your house- 

 hold within and without be faithful, painstaking, chaste, 

 clean, honest, and profitable. 



THE ELEVENTH RULE TEACHES YOU WHO OUGHT TO BE RE- 

 CEIVED TO BE OF YOUR HOUSEHOLD INDOORS OR WITHOUT. 



Command that no one be received, or kept to be of 

 your household indoors or without, if one has not reason- 

 able belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and 

 painstaking in the office for which they are received, and 

 withal honest and of good manners. 



THE TWELFTH RULE TEACHES YOU WHAT INQUEST OUGHT OFTEN 

 TO BE MADE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD BY YOUR COMMANDMENT. 



Command that often and carefully inquest be made if 

 there be any disloyal, unwise, filthy in person, gluttonous, 

 quarrelsome, drunken, unprofitable, and those who shall be 

 found so, or of whom such report is spread, let them be 

 turned out of your household. 



