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                        (  7  ) of one condition ; that the laws of the kingdom were injurious, and hindered us participating of that Christian liberty us are born to possess ; nay, most unjust, by making so great a difference of means estates prefering some to be peers and potentates giving to some large autho- rity, and enlarging others possessions, and taking advantage of the humble and plia- ble condition and carriage of ethers kept them in servility and baseness scarcely giving them allowance of subsistence; and not that neither, without sweat and hard labour; when among Christians there should be an equal share of all things in common, taking this for his theme :

When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then a Gentleman ?

With such like seditious and traiterous persuasions this tardy priest did prepare the vulgar, who are always ready to en- tertain the least proffers of rebellion and fit them for insurrection upon the slightest: occasion. — This doctrine once on foot spread itself from rustic to gentle, and from shire to shire; that at length is in-