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value it would not quit the charge, to go about 

 again. 



There was another law made against a branch 

 of ingratitude in women, who having been advanced 

 by their husbands, or their husbands ancestors, 

 should alien, and thereby seek to defeat the heirs, or 

 those in remainder, of the lands whereunto they had 

 been so advanced. The remedy was, by giving 

 power to the next, to enter for a forfeiture. 



There was also enacted that charitable law, for the 

 admission of poor suitors in forma pauperis, without 

 fee to counsellor, attorney, or clerk, whereby poor men 

 became rather able to vex than unable to sue. There 

 were divers other good laws made that parliament, as 

 we said before ; but we still observe our manner, in se 

 lecting out those, that are not of a vulgar nature. 



The king this while, though he sat in parliament, 

 as in full peace, and seemed to account of the de 

 signs of Perkin, who was now returned into Flanders, 

 but as a May-game ; yet having the composition of 

 a wise king, stout without, and apprehensive within, 

 had given order for the watching of beacons upon 

 the coasts, and erecting more where they stood too 

 thin, and had a careful eye where this wandering 

 cloud would break. But Perkin, advised to keep his 

 fire, which hitherto burned as it were upon green 

 wood, alive with continual blowing, sailed again 

 into Ireland, whence he had formerly departed, 

 rather upon the hopes of France, than upon any un 

 readiness or discouragement he found in that people. 

 But in the space of time between, the king s dili 

 gence and Poynings commission had so settled things 



