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Thes thingꝭ ar Againste a Common wealth

yron mills. for spoill of wood

glasse houses for spoill of wood

Sugar houses for spoill of wood & eggꝭ

Printing of bockes. because yt hindereth sellars and writing & maintayneth vice

hop yeardꝭ for spoiling of wood & yong plantꝭ

woode and sowninge of woade for spoill of corne


Rich men to Rob by auctoryty. or to sele their Landꝭ to becom piratꝭ or theues

Lawiars to be Iustices and to bear Any Autoryty in A common wealth. for on Lawyar is ynough in a whole shire/

poore men to be hanged for pleasure of the Rich

Iudges and Iustices to Liue that Doe iniustice and oppresse for Rewardꝭ the Innocente / but their {kine}s should be stripte over their eares And hanged vp over the place of Iudgment to terrifie others & for Example & Reward of Iniustice/.

Calendared text from MS Ashmole 195, f. 151r

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE133’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE133, accessed 29 October 2026.