laſtly, there was ſcarce any one who would offer ready money, but papers and bonds, whereby no man could expect to avoid hunger among forraigners. Moſt therefore who had any villages, farmes, vineyards, or other grounds remaining, took this courſe, to commit their goods to the care of ſome friend (ſuch as could be got) who ſhould lay title to thoſe things as bought by them, and ſhould ſend ſomething every year to the true poſſeſſour out of the revenue. But as every one gathers ſticks from the fell’d oak, ſo in ſo great a liberty to commit any thing againſt thoſe that were condemned and baniſhed, it was eaſie to become malepart, and moſt knew by experience that thoſe to whom they had committed the managing of their affaires, were perfidious and falſe.
12. Some therefore privately returning labour’d divers wayes to order their buſineſſe for themſelves: but as ſoon as that was known, commands were iſſued out to the Captains of ſeverall Diviſions, that whomſoever of the Non-Catholicks they could apprehend (either thoſe who were not already departed, or who had returned) any where ſtaying, gathering corn, exporting it out of the Kingdom, or ſelling it, and receiving monies, they ſhould take care, to ſeize on them, and arreſt them, ſending them into the chiefe Towns of their Diviſions, taking notice of
