PART III

THE OUTCOME OF THE AGRARIAN REVOLUTION

"Lords spiritual and temporal, have it in your mind This world as it waveth, and to your tenants be kind." --_The Proclamation of the Commons_, Gairdner, _Letters and Papers of Henry VIII._, xii. I. 163.

"We must needs fight it out, or els be brought to the lyke slavery that the Frenchmen are in.... Better yt were therefore for us to dye like men, than after so great misery in youth to dye more miserably in age."--E. E. T. S., Crowley, _The Way to Wealth_.

_Doctor._ "On my faithe youe trouble youreselves ... youe that be justices of everie countrie ... in sittinge upon commissions almost wekely."

_Knight._ "Surely it is so, yet the Kinge must be served and the commonwealth. For God and the Kinge hathe not sent us the poore lyving we have, but to doe services therefore amonge our neighbours abroad."--_The Commonweal of this Realm of England._

"We have good Statutes made for the Commonwealth, as touching commoners and inclosers, many meetings and sessions; but in the end of the matter there cometh nothing forth."--Latimer, _First Sermon preached before King Edward VI._, March 8, 1549.