Besides, though the
price seeme very high, yet mostly, foure yeeres tillage, with the
husbandmans payne and charge, goeth neere to defray it. Another,
that they fal euery where from Commons to Inclosure, and partake not
of some Easterne Tenants enuious dispositions, who will sooner
preiudice their owne present thrift, by continuing this mingle-mangle,
then aduance the Lords expectant benefit, after their terme expired.
The third, that they alwayes preferre liues before yeeres, as both
presuming vpon the Countries healthfulnesse, and also accounting
their family best prouided for, when the husband, wife, and childe,
are sure of a liuing. Neither may I (without wrong) conceyle the
iust commendation of most such wiues, in this behalfe: namely,
when a bargaine is so taken to these three, it often falleth out,
that afterwards the sonne marieth, and deliuereth his yeruing-goods
(as they terme it) to his father, who in lieu thereof, by his wiues
assent (which in many auncient deeds was formall) departeth to him
and his daughter in lawe, with the one halfe of his Holding in hand.
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