54 REINHOLD PAULI, 



whicli shulde kepe the bodie in helth and welth, vvliich is, that husbondrye 

 may be sett up in such sort , that there niay be plentie of meate and 

 drynke to fede the bodie of this realme, and that vitall may be so plen- 

 tyfull , that men of artihciall ocupacions may kepe servauntes to worke 

 those necessaries good chepe, which is nedfuU to be had for the whole 

 bodie of the realme, and by settyng people to worke the erth Avith plowes 

 and then to sett up artificialitie, when vitall is good chepe, and that men 

 may have servauntes good chepe and for lytyll money, than shall all 

 people be set to worke, which now begg, steale , robbe and morder for 

 lacke of lyvyng. 



Whan all sortes of people be set to worke by an ordynary order, 

 than shall folow a quyet and a plentyfull tyme. For as the decay of 

 this realme is chiefiy by layng downe the plowes and not makyng of 

 clothes in good townes. so must it be inhawnsede to welth, fyrst by settyng 

 up husbondrye, and that clothes to be made in goode townes, which may 

 very easely be done. For the settyng up of plowes may thus be don, 

 as I thynke , yf it wolde please owre most gracious kyng by the advice 

 of his most godly cowncelors to sende fourth commyssions to all shires 

 in Englande , and commawnde , that in every village within this realme 

 the most awncient people therin to be broughte before the commyssioners, 

 and that the commyssioners there declare openly to the people , that it 

 is the wyll and pleasure of owre most gracious kyng to know, what 

 grownde lyeth ydle and not occupiede , the which hath byn occupiede 

 in tyme past, and that it is the wyll and pleasure of the kynges maiestie 

 and his most honorable cownsell to se such grownde put to such use 

 agayne only for that intent, that his naturall borne subiectes shulde not 

 lyve in such mysery, as of late they have done, and that only for theire 

 sakes his maiestie by the godly advice of his cowncelors entende the 

 welfare of his subiectes in that behalfe, and that all such people within 

 any vyllage to take an othe to declare treuly, what grownde hath byn 

 lylde, which now is laide to pasture, the which is hurte to the inhaby- 

 tawnce there And although in many lordshipes within this realme 



1) Die unter Eduard VI. am 1. Juni 1548 zur Ausführung der Statute Hein- 



