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sanctuary, and many more came out of fear, no less 

 guilty than those that had taken sanctuary. 



As for money or treasure, the king thought it 

 not seasonable or fit to demand any of his subjects at 

 this parliament ; both because he had received satis 

 faction from them in matters of so great importance, 

 and because he could not remunerate them with any 

 general pardon, being prevented therein by the 

 coronation-pardon passed immediately before : but 

 chiefly, for that it was in every man s eye, what great 

 forfeitures and confiscations he had at that present 

 to help himself, whereby those casualties of the 

 crown might in reason spare the purses of the sub 

 ject, especially in a time when he was in peace with 

 all his neighbours. Some few laws passed at that 

 parliament almost for form s sake ; amongst which 

 there was one to reduce aliens being made denizens, 

 to pay strangers customs ; and another to draw to 

 himself the seizures and compositions of Italians 

 goods, for not employment, being points of profit to 

 his coffers, whereof from the very beginning he was 

 not forgetful ; and had been more happy at the latter 

 end, if his early providence, which kept him from all 

 necessity of exacting upon his people, could likewise 

 have attempered his nature therein. He added, 

 during parliament, to his former creations, the en 

 noblement or advancement in nobility of a few 

 others ; the Lord Chandos of Britain, was made Earl 

 of Bath ; Sir Giles Daubeney, was made Lord Dau- 

 beney ; and Sir Robert Willoughby, Lord Brook. 



The king did also with great nobleness and 



