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sixe times sixe dayes (unlesse they meet 

 with a deare friend to furnish them after 

 twenty in the hundred) before their turne 

 bee served. Once (my Lord) I thought 

 to borrowe a hundred pound at a Pinch, 

 but the Gentlman that ow'd the money 

 would not traffick with me because I 

 dwelt beyond Severn. A foule indignity 

 to your Lordshipps Havings, having 

 such royal Livings in Monmouth and 

 Glamorganshire. I beseech your Lord- 

 ship order may be taken that we may 

 be as free of the Userers Courts of 

 Requests as other Shires be ; we are 

 out of the principallity, and the Kings 

 Subjects : then to bee barred from those 

 Benefits & Immunities which the Law 

 doth alow, were lawlesse and unreason- 

 able. Our Shire is a Shire-royall ; and 

 we pay as royally for our usury as if we 

 dealt with (a) Jewes, the cursedst Genera- 

 tion of all Adams children. Another 

 time I dealt for a hundred pound with an 

 Userer Hold-borne -'ward; and having 

 neglected my Houre, his Wives Sheet- 

 travel! with him by night, gave (O course 

 fortune) my dayes labour the Canvase: 

 & driven to become suter to her mighti- 

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(a) Userers 

 are Jewes by 

 their trade. 



