HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 227 



brand of infamy. But for this good act s sake the 

 king himself was after branded, by Perkins pro 

 clamation, for an execrable breaker of the rites of 

 holy church. 



Another law was made for the better peace of 

 the country ; by which law the king s officers and 

 farmers were to forfeit their places and holds in case 

 of unlawful retainer, or partaking in routs and un 

 lawful assemblies. 



These were the laws that were made for repress 

 ing of force, which those times did chiefly require ; 

 and were so prudently framed, as they are found fit 

 for all succeeding times, and so continue to this day. 



There were, also made good and politic laws that 

 parliament, against usury, which is the bastard use 

 of money ; and against unlawful chievances and 

 exchanges, which is bastard usury ; and also for the 

 security of the king s customs ; and for the employ 

 ment of the procedures of foreign commodities, 

 brought in by merchant strangers, upon the native 

 commodities of the realm ; together with some other 

 laws of less importance. 



But howsoever the laws made in that parliament 

 did bear good and wholesome fruit ; yet the subsidy 

 granted at the same time bare a fruit that proved 

 harsh and bitter. All was inned at last into the 

 king s barn, but it was after a storm. For when the 

 commissioners entered into the taxation of the sub 

 sidy in Yorkshire, and the bishoprick of Duresme; 

 the people upon a sudden grew into great mutiny, 

 and said openly, That they had endured of late 

 years a thousand miseries, and neither could nor 



