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should be, that there should be a commandment of 

 a local removing, and transferring- some companies 

 from one province to another ; whereupon it is 

 supposed, that many that are planted in house and 

 lands, will rather lose their entertainment, than 

 remove ; and thereby new men may have their pay, 

 and yet the old be mingled in the country for the 

 strength thereof. 



In this proposition two things may be feared ; 

 the one, discontent of those that shall be put off; 

 the other, that the companies shall be stuffed with 

 &quot; Tirones,&quot; instead of &quot; Veterani.&quot; I wish therefore 

 that this proposition be well debated ere it be 

 admitted. Thus having performed that which duty 

 binds me to do, I commend you to God s best 

 preservation, 



Your most devoted and bounden servant, 



FR. BACON. 



Gorhambury, July 5, 1616.* 



* Stephens s Second Collection, p. 5. 



