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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Counterfayte fooles, with minſtrels and ſuch lyke.Counterfeyte fooles, minſtrels, ieſters, and theſe kinde of iuglers, with ſuch like idle perſons, that range abrode in the countrey, hauing no ſpecial licẽce of the king, ſhalbe cõpelled to learne ſome ſcience or crafte to get their liuing, if they refuſe ſo to do, they ſhal be drawen like horſes in the plough and harrowes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Poſſeſsion of landes.Though the ſonne chaunce to be put in poſ|ſeſſion of his fathers lande by the kings licence, during the life of his father, yet ſhall the ſame landes be forfayted to the king if his father be af|terwardes conuicted of treaſon committed a|gainſt the kings perſon.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 All ſuche women, that are maried to any Lorde or Baron (though ſhee haue no iſſue by him) ſhall yet haue the thirde parte of his landes after his deceaſſe and the remnaunt ſhall go to his heyres.Dowrie of wiues.

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