Chapter XXIV: 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.