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" the prises of vittayles and other necessaries doe 

 " ryse, and so cannot we so much ; for though it 

 " bee true, that of such landes as come to handes 

 " eyther by purchase or by determination and ending 

 " of such termes of yeares that I or my ancestors 

 " had graunted them in time past, I do receyve a 

 " better fine than of old was used, or enhaunce the 

 " rent thereof, being forced thereto for the charge 

 " of my household, that is so encreased over that it 

 " was ; yet in all my lyfetyme I look not that the 

 " thyrd parte of my land shall come to my disposition, 

 " that I may enhaunce the rent of the same, but it 

 " shall be in men's holding either by leases or by 

 " copy graunted before my tyme, and still con- 

 " tinuing, and yet lyke to continue in the same state 

 " for the most part during my lyfe, and percase my 

 " sonnes : so as we cannot rayse all our wares as 

 " you may do yours, and as me thinketh it were 

 " reason we did ; and, by reason that we cannot, so 

 " many of us as (yee know) that have departed out 

 " of the country of late have bene driven to give 

 " over our households, and to keepe eyther a cham- 

 " ber in London, or to wayte on the court uncalled, 

 " with a man and lackey after him where he was 

 " wonte to keepe halfe a score of clean e men in his 

 " house, and twenty or twenty-four other persons 

 " besides everyday in the weeke, and such of us as 

 " doeabyde in the country still cannot with two hun- 

 " dredth a yeare keepe that we might have done with 

 " two hundred markes sixteen yeares ago." " We 



