Yet is not this deare letting euerie
where alike: for the westerne halfe of Cornewall, commeth far short
of the Easterne, and the land about Townes, exceedeth that lying
farther in the Countrey.
The reason of this enhaunsed price, may proue (as I gesse) partly,
for that the late great trade into both the Indies, hath replenished
these parts of the world with a larger store of the Coyne-currant
mettals, then our ancestours enioyed: partly, because the banishment
of single-liuing Votaries, yonger mariages then of olde, and our
long freedome from any sore wasting warre, or plague, hath made our
Countrey very populous: and partly, in that this populousnes hath
inforced an industrie in them, and our blessed quietnes giuen scope,
and meanes to this industrie. But howsoeuer I ayme right or wide at
this, once certayne it is, that for these husbandry matters, the
Cornish Inhabitants are in sundry points swayed by a diuerse opinion,
from those of some other Shires. One, that they will rather take
bargaines, at these excessiue fines, then a tolerable improued rent,
being in no sort willing to ouer a penny: for they reckon that, but
once smarting, and this, a continuall aking.
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