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Compare 1577 edition: 1 7 That he should place shirifes where they had béene accustomed to beare rule, with instructions gi|uen them to deale vprightlie in causes, so as offen|ders might not escape through bribes, or any other respect of freendship; but that euerie man might re|ceiue according to right and equitie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 8 That soldiours should conuert their swords (as Esaie saith) into culters & plough shares, their speares into mattocks, and so returne from the campe to the plough: and that such as were woont to keepe watch in the night season, might now sléepe and take their rest without any danger.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 9 That the husbandman might be set frée from all trouble and vexation, by meanes wherof he might follow his tilth, and plie his culture.

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