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of the Scots, soon blown over, they should be thus 

 grinded to powder with payments ; and said it was 

 for them to pay that had too much, and lived idly. 

 But they would eat their bread that they got with 

 the sweat of their brows, and no man should take it 

 from them. And as in the tides of people once up, 

 there want not commonly stirring winds to make 

 them more rough ; so this people did light upon two 

 ringleaders or captains of the rout. The one was one 

 Michael Joseph, a blacksmith or farrier, of Bodmin, 

 a notable talking fellow, and no less desirous to be 

 talked of. The other was Thomas Flammock, a 

 lawyer, who, by telling his neighbours commonly 

 upon any occasion that the law was on their side, 

 had gotten great sway amongst them. This man 

 talked learnedly, and as if he could tell how to make 

 a rebellion, and never break the peace. He told the 

 people, that subsidies were not to be granted, nor 

 levied in this case ; that is, for wars of Scotland : for 

 that the law had provided another course, by service of 

 escuage, for those journeys ; much less when all was 

 quiet, and war was made but a pretence to poll and 

 pill the people. And therefore that it was good they 

 should not stand like sheep before the shearers, 

 but put on harness, and take weapons in their hands. 

 Yet to do no creature hurt ; but go and deliver the 

 king a strong petition for the laying down of those 

 grievous payments, and for the punishment of those 

 that had given him that counsel ; to make others 

 beware how they did the like in time to come. And 

 said, for his part he did not see how they could do 



