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his market townes, how his gracious entent and will is, that as many 

 plowes as hath been occujiied in his hol! realme in old tyme shal be 

 occupied ageyne, wherby the moste parte of his comon people shall have 

 labours and lyvinge to lyve out of necessite and scarsite as many as 

 ar able to worke. Our gracious king thus doing shall firste reyne the 

 hartes and myndes of all his common people members in the body of 

 his realme. After the moste parte of his common people so sett to the 

 workes of husbandry to encresse plentie of vitalles, the other lesse parte 

 of his people to be set to the workes of artificialite to make clo.thing 

 and to make all other thinges nedfuU and necessary, wherby to encresse 

 plentie of money, wherwith to by ther bodyly lyving. So shall all the 

 workers of husbandry have plentye of money for their vitalles of the 

 workes of artificialite , and so shall the one parte of the people worke 

 for meate and drinke and that other parte for money. 



Wheras now so grete nombre of idull ]3eople ar in Engionde besyde 

 all such that workith husbandry havyng no workes or artificialite to 

 gete money wherwith to by there meat and drinke of the workes of hus- 

 bandry. And all the same idull people havyng lyff" in theym must nedys 

 have lyving. Ergo yf they be^) workes of artificialite gete no money, 

 wherewith to gete their lyving, muste nedes hege or stele their lyvinge 

 from them, that workith husbandry, or otherwise by craftie meanes of 

 beying and sellyng or by policy to stody howe of plentie to make scar- 

 site for their singulare weale to distroy the common weale, that is the 

 wisdome of this worlde. For yf all people be not sett to labour and 

 worke to lyve out of necessite, alles muste they nedys sike^) their lyvinge 

 by their wisedome and policye. In example to see how alle the workes 

 of syne and wykednes is wrought in suche people as of necessite ar suf- 

 ferid to seke theire owne lyvinge, every man like as his liste. Every 

 pore manes sone borne in labour is suffered to be a merchaunt, hier 

 and seller, which never workith to help his neybores nor never stodith 

 for a comon weale but for his owne singulare weale. Alle suche cane 

 never lyff in charite, for charite never seketh his owne thinges, 

 1) by. 2) seek. 



