DREI VOLKS WIRTHSCH AFTL. DENKSCHRIFTEN A. D. ZEIT HEINRICHS VIII. 5 1 



doyng to receyve ther levyng; in example, if the office of decons had 

 been mynestrid in England, the comen weale of the reame shuld never 

 have been distroyd. Your Mastershipp shall see the resons, hovv to be- 

 gyne first to sett up a right order of comen [weale] and what reasons 

 to be declared to the peple in consideracion therof. A right order of 

 comen weale can never be made by no mens wisdome of afterwitt, but 

 by Goddes wisdome of forwitt with charite, As God was before the de- 

 vile, grace before syne, lyve before dethe, the image of the kyng must 

 be lyvely by mynestery, that all the solles of peple in his holl realme 

 must be in eure and knoledge in his hedd office, and that mynestery 

 must be by the office of dekons , that no unlawfuU peple be sufferd to 

 wander owt of eure in the holl realme. Your seid servaunt is redy to 

 shew yow, how to begyn this order incontynently for you to doo that 

 dute, wherby to wyne the gretist love and favour of all the comons of 

 the holl reame above all the councellors of the kyng^) that ever was. 



II. 



How the Comen People may he set to worhe an Order of a Comen Welth. 



All inordynate lyvyng among people in any realme is only under 

 sujfferaunce of the kyng, for any kyng in governyng his people under any 

 other law, than only Godes law, can never fulfyll Godes wyll in his of- 

 fice, nor all the kynges, that ever was or shal be on the erth, can never 

 make better lawes, than God hath made, nor in no wyse any kyng ought 

 not to awgmente theire owne wordely power, but only in executyng Godes 

 ordynary powre. And that every kyng within his realme ought to con- 



1) fehlt im Original. 



2) Da sicherlich an Thomas Cromwell gerichtet, zu einer Zeit, als dieser schon 

 Mitglied der Privy Council war, also schwerlich vor 1531. Cromwell wurde im Oc- 

 tober 1534 Master of the Rolls und im Jahre 1535 Vicegerent und Generalvicar. 



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