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realm, and laying to pasture what customably have been used 

 in tillage ; whereby idleness, which is the ground and begin- 

 ning of all mischiefs, daily doth increase. For where in some 

 towns two hundred persons were occupied and lived of their 

 lawful labours, now there are occupied two or three herdsmen, 

 and the residue fall into idleness, that husbandrie, which is 

 one of the greatest commodities of this realm, is greatly de- 

 cayed, churches destroyed, the service of God withdrawn, the 

 bodies there buried not prayed for, the patrons and curates 

 wronged, the defence of this land, against our enemies out- 

 ward, feebled and impaired, to the great displeasure of God, 

 to the subversion of the policy and good rule of this land if 

 remedy be not provided,' <fec., &c. 



