10 A SPEECH TOUCHING PURVEYORS. 



law they ought to take between sun and sun ; by 

 abuse they take by twilight, and in the night-time, 

 a time well chosen for malefactors : by law they 

 ought not to take in the highways, a place by your 

 majesty s high prerogative protected, and by statute 

 by special words excepted, by abuse they take in 

 the ways, in contempt of your majesty s prerogative 

 and laws : by law they ought to shew their com 

 mission, and the form of commission is by law set 

 down ; the commissions they bring down, are against 

 the law, and because they know so much, they will 

 not shew them. A number of other particulars there 

 are, whereof as I have given your majesty a taste, 

 so the chief of them upon deliberate advice are set 

 down in writing by the labour of some committees, 

 and approbation of the whole house, more particu 

 larly and lively than I can express them, myself 

 having them at the second hand by reason of my 

 abode above. But this writing is a collection of 

 theirs who dwell amongst the abuses of these 

 offenders, and the complaints of the people ; and 

 therefore must needs have a more perfect under 

 standing of all the circumstances of them. 



It remaineth only that I use a few words, the 

 rather to move your majesty in this cause : a few 

 words, I say a very few ; for neither need so great 

 enormities any aggravating, neither needeth so great 

 grace, as useth of itself to flow from your majesty s 

 princely goodness, any artificial persuading. There 

 be two things only which I think good to set before 

 your majesty ; the one the example of your most 



