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 latly, there was carce any one who would offer ready money, but papers and bonds, whereby no man could expect to avoid hunger among forraigners. Mot therefore who had any villages, farmes, vineyards, or other grounds remaining, took this coure, to commit their goods to the care of ome friend (uch as could be got) who hould lay title to thoe things as bought by them, and hould end omething every year to the true poeour out of the revenue. But as every one gathers ticks from the fell’d oak, o in o great a liberty to commit any thing againt thoe that were condemned and banihed, it was eaie to become malepart, and mot knew by experience that thoe to whom they had committed the managing of their affaires, were perfidious and fale.

12. Some therefore privately returning labour’d divers wayes to order their buinee for themelves: but as oon as that was known, commands were iued out to the Captains of everall Diviions, that whomoever of the Non-Catholicks they could apprehend (either thoe who were not already departed, or who had returned) any where taying, gathering corn, exporting it out of the Kingdom, or elling it, and receiving monies, they hould take care, to eize on them, and arret them, ending them into the chiefe Towns of their Diviions, taking notice of every