Social Changes in England in the Sixteenth Century as Reflected in Contemporary Literature: Part I. Rural Changes, Deel 1

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Ginn, 1895 - 114 pagina's

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Pagina 77 - We heartily pray thee to send thy holy Spirit into the hearts of them that possess the grounds, pastures, and dwelling-places of the earth, that they, remembering themselves to be thy tenants, may not rack and stretch out the rents of their houses and lands, nor yet take unreasonable fines and incomes after the manner of covetous worldlings...
Pagina 62 - And thus all sorts of people were helped and succoured by abbeys ; yea happy was that person that was tenant to an abbey, for it was a rare thing to hear that any tenant was removed by taking his farm over his head, nor he was not afraid of any re-entry for non-payment of rent, if necessity drove him thereunto.
Pagina 21 - ... leave no grounde for tillage, thei inclose al into pastures: thei throw doune houses: they plucke downe townes, and leave nothing standynge, but only the churche to be made a shepehowse.
Pagina 42 - Where he that now hath it, payeth 16/. by the year, or more, and is not able to do any thing for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor.
Pagina 68 - More plenty of mutton and beef, Corn, butter, and cheese of the best, More wealth any where, to be brief, More people, more handsome and prest, Where find ye ? (go search any coast,) Than there, where enclosure is most. 8. More work for the labouring man, As well in the town as the field...
Pagina 22 - All their housholdestuffe, whiche is verye litle woorthe, thoughe it myght well abide the sale, yet, beeynge sodainely thruste oute, they be constrayned to sell it for a thing of nought. And when they have wandered abrode tyll that be spent, what can they then els doo but steale, and then justly pardy* be hanged, or els go about a beggyng. And yet then also they be caste in prison as vagaboundes, because they go aboute and worke not : whom no man wyl set a-worke, though thei never so willyngly profre...
Pagina 10 - Such climb to heaven before the shaven crowns : But how? forsooth with true humility. Not that they hoard their grain when it is cheap, Nor that they kill the calf to have the milk, Nor that they set debate between their lords, By earing up the balks that part their bounds...
Pagina 78 - ... that the inhabitants thereof may both be able to pay the rents, and also honestly to live, to nourish their families, and to relieve the poor : give them grace also to consider, that they are but strangers and pilgrims in this world, having here no...
Pagina 22 - ... thei be so weried, that they be compelled to sell all : by one meanes therfore or by other, either by hooke or crooke they must...
Pagina 78 - ... that they are but strangers and pilgrims in this world, having here no dwelling place, but seeking one to come : that they, remembering the short continuance of their life, may be content with that that is sufficient, and not join house to house, nor couple land to land, to the impovershment of other, but so behave themselves in letting out their tenements, lands, and pastures, that after this life they may be received into everlasting dwelling places : through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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