HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 321 



&quot; counsellors of the misrule and mischief now reign- 

 &quot; ing in England. 



&quot; We remembering these premises, with the 

 &quot; great and execrable offences daily committed and 

 &quot; done by our foresaid great enemy and his adhe- 

 &quot; rents, in breaking the liberties and franchises of 

 &quot; our mother the holy church, upon pretences of 

 &quot; wicked and heathenish policy, to the high displea- 

 &quot; sure of Almighty God, besides the manifold trea- 

 &quot; sons, abominable murders, manslaughters, rob- 

 &quot; beries, extortions, the daily pilling of the people by 

 (C dismes, taxes, tallages, benevolences, and other 

 &quot; unlawful impositions, and grievous exactions, with 

 &quot; many other heinous effects, to the likely destruc- 

 &quot; tion and desolation of the whole realm ; shall by 

 &quot; God s grace, and the help and assistance of the 

 &quot; great lords of our blood, with the counsel of other 

 &quot; sad persons, see that the commodities of our realm 

 u be employed to the most advantage of the same ; 

 &quot; the intercourse of merchandise betwixt realm and 

 &quot; realm to be ministered and handled as shall 

 &quot; more be to the common weal and prosperity of 

 &quot; our subjects ; and all such dismes, taxes, tallages, 

 &quot; benevolences, unlawful impositions, and grievous 

 &quot; exactions, as be above rehearsed, to be foredone 

 &quot; and laid apart, and never from henceforth to be 

 &quot; called upon, but in such cases as our noble proge- 

 &quot; nitors, Kings of England, have of old time been 

 &quot; accustomed to have the aid, succour,, and help of 

 &quot; their subjects, and true liege-men. 



&quot; And further, we do, out of our grace and cle- 



