68 REINHOLD PAULI, 



meanes, as it is to see, how people cannot lyve in right order one with 

 an other, because the king beiiig the hede of bis lordes knyghttes and 

 squiers, which ar bis barmes^) bandes and fyngers, doo not mynystre to 

 all common people bodyly members suche gif tes of grace , as God yerly 

 gevith to theym, wbich tbey shuld worke for the common weale of the 

 hole realme. 



All people in England lyvitli comonly evyn as tbey lyste with wor- 

 kes of syne and myschif to gete singler ricbis one frome an other ba- 

 ving no drede of Gode, but only dreding the actuall paynes and ponysh- 

 ment of the law, bowsoever the wiked j)eople workith myschief to distroy 

 one an other, vvherby to dystroy the comon weale of the hole realme. 

 Wbat so ever tbey doo, no remedy is in Englonde , yf ther be no acte 

 of parliament made to the contrary, and whan any playnytb of the 

 distruccion of the welth of comon people is brought afore the king and 

 bis lordes in the hedd bowse. Therfor cane tbey make no acte nor good 

 Order for the welth of the common people, but remyttytb all causes to 

 pase') by the wisedome content will and agrement of theym, which ar 

 in the common bowse, thinking that suche, as ar in the common bowse, 

 shuld specially entende the welth of all common people, the kinges bo- 

 dyly merabers. Who woll serch may prove, wbetber suche sortes ar 

 not in the common bowse , which hath distroyed the welth of tbe king 

 and bis lordes and common pepole gettyng every yere above 200000 

 poundes out of the common weale into their syngler weale, wbetber ther 

 be not fermors in the common bowse, which hath gotten 6 or 7 or 10, 

 12 or 14 farmes of tbe king and bis lordes, and by ther leases ar made 

 lordes of theire lande and by that reason withholditb the lordes erthe 

 frome tbe workes of the common people. And whether the enclosiers 

 of pastures for shepe and graciers and regraters of corne and catalles ar 

 not in tbe common bowse and merchauntes byers and sellers , which 

 gettyth their ricbis out of tbe common weale , alway studying by their 

 policy of plenty of all thinges to make scarsitie, so as by their meanes 

 common people ar brought into nede and necessite to worke syne and 



1) arms. 2) pass. 



