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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858  page 194

Sir  Roger Twysdens Journal from the Roydon Hall MSS

of it out by hym and his officers, as I myself saw upon ye Act of 21 Jacobi, cap. (sic), and that very Roll of 2d Ric. 2d did playnly manifest;—on ye people's part, beecause wheresoever they have any the least share, as well in dispensing as giving ye publique Treasure, the Commons are most insupportably burthened, as all Republiques, and the present experience of our neyghbours sufficiently assure us. For, if the beginning of those great Gabelles,1 France (wthout hope of reliefe) gaspeth under, were not 1356, whilst King John remayned prisoner heere, and the French governed by the three estates first beegun, certaynly they were then setteled by their auctority, which, about an hundred years after, Charles ye VII., by the assistans of the souldiary ye helped hym in the expulsion of ye English out of Normandy and Guien, did first lay onely2 by regall power, sweld now to that height, as what ye fermor pays the King is far more then what he doth ye Landlord. God of hys mercy avert England from succeeding them in misery!
   12.—1641. Upon these considerations I was not wthout apprehension what the issue of things might bee; but ye many good lawes then past persuaded me it was to no other intent then that was given (as one of them assured me), might not goeinto private courtiers' purses, but spent
  
1  See Froissard, to. 1, cap. 155, p. 180; Mat. Villani, lib. 6, cap. 18; lib. 7, cap. 51 and 53 ; lib. 8, cap. 38. Sir Roger inserts the following note on the next page without reference, but it is evident that this is the place to which he had intended it to be added:—1356, whilst King John remayned heere in prison. "II governamento del Eeame di Irancia, era ridotto a tre Stati, cio e Prelati, Baroni, e Borghesi, i quali tenieno il consiglio, et deliberavono quello volieno che nel Eeame si faeesse, et il Delphino vi consentiva. ... II Proposto di Parigi col favore del popolo ruppe quello ordine; e reco il governamento di Parigi alle mani de Borghesi, schiudendone prima Baroni e poseia i Prelati, e- per essempio di costoro cosi feciono 1'altre ville di Picardia, e d'altre Provincie del Reame. Et qui commincib 1'odio da gentili huomini al popolo."—'Mat. Villani, Hist. lib. 8, cap. 38.—T. D Comines, lib. 6, cap. 7 editionis Dionisii Sauvage, 1580, et in aliis cap.

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