Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king kept his Christmas at Greenwith this yeare, with much noblenesse and open court. And the tenth daie of Februarie, in his owne person, iusted with all commers. On Twelfe daie his grace and the earle of Deuonshire, with foure aids, answered at the tourneie all commers, which were sixtéene per|sons: noble and rich was their apparell, but in feats of armes the king excelled the rest. About this time the king hauing regard to the common welth of his realme, considered how for the space of fiftie yeares past and more, Polydor. the nobles and gentlemen of Eng|land, being giuen to grasi [...] of cattell, and kéeping of shéepe, had inuented a meane how to increase their yearelie reuenues, to the great decaie and vn|dooing of husbandmen of the land. For the said no|bles and gentlemen,An inconue|nience of tur|ning arable ground into pasture. after the maner of the Numidi|ans, more studieng how to increase their pastures, than to mainteine tillage, began to decaie husband tacks & tenements, and to conuert arable ground into pasture, furnishing the same with beasts and shéepe, and also deere, so inclosing the field with hed|ges, ditches, and pales, which they held in their owne hands, ingrossing woolles, and selling the same, and also shéepe and beasts at their owne prices, and as might stand most with their owne priuate commo|ditie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Hereof a thréefold euill chanced to the com|mon wealth, as Polydor noteth. One,The [...] wealth [...] thereby. for that there|by the number of husbandmen was sore diminished, the which the prince vseth chieflie in his seruice for the warres: an other, for that manie townes and villa|ges were left desolate, and became ruinous: the third, for that both wooll and cloth made thereof, and the flesh of all maner beasts vsed to be eaten, was sold at far higher prices than was accustomed. These enormities at the first begining being not redressed, grew in short space to such force and vigour by euill custome, that afterwards they gathered to such an v|nited force, that hardly they could be remedied. Much like a disease, which in the beginning with litle paine to the patient, and lesse labour to the surgeon maie be cured; whereas the same by delaie and negligence being suffered to putrifie, becommeth a desperate sore, and then are medicines nothing auailable, and not to be applied, according to his opinion that said:

Helleborum frustra (cùm iam cutis aegratumescit)

Poscentes videas: venienti occurrite morbo. [...]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king therefore causing such good statutes as had beene deuised and established for reformation in this behalfe, to be reuiued and called vpon, tooke or|der by directing foorth his commissions vnto the iusti|ces of peace,Commissions granted for the mainte|nance of [...]l|lage and lai|eng open of inclosures and other such magistrats, that present|ment should be had and made of all such inclosures, and decaie of husbandrie, as had chanced within the space of fiftie yeares before that present time. The iustices and other magistrates, according to their commission executed the same. And so commande|ment was giuen, that the decaied houses should bée built vp againe, that the husbandmen should be pla|ced eftsoones in the same, and that inclosed grounds should be laid open, and sore punishment appointed a|gainst them that disobeied.