WATER-WORKES. 



praying my Lord of Moungomery to assist 

 your Lordship (if there bee cause). Let 

 it be Vaughans supplication ofBeggers unto 

 his Royall Majestic, that they may have 

 meanes to work, and so to live. 



There bee within a mile and a halfe 

 from my house every way, five hundred 

 poore habitations ; whose greatest meanes 

 consist in spinning Flaxe, Hempe, and 

 Hurdes. They dispose the seasons of the 

 yeare in this manner : I will begin with 

 May, June, and July, (three of the merriest 

 months for beggars) which yeeld the best 

 increase for their purpose, to raise multi- 

 tudes : Whey, Curdes, Butter milke, and 

 such belly-provision, abounding in the 

 neighbourhood, serves their turne. As 

 Wountes or Moles, hunt after wormes, the 

 ground being delve-able : so, these Idelers 

 live intollerablie by other meanes, and 

 neglect their painfull labours by oppress- 

 ing the neighbourhood. August, Sep- 

 tember and October, with that permission 

 which the Lord hath allowed the poorer 

 sort to gather the Eares of corne, they do 

 much harme. I have seene three hundred 

 Leazers or Gleaners in one Gentlemans 

 corne-field at once ; his servants gather- 

 3i ing 



How the 

 poore of the 

 country dis- 

 pose of the 

 seasons of 

 the yeare. 



