Soueraigae, were reuoked and suppressed, and the same vnder her
Highnesse priuie Seale confirmed. Notwithstanding, when her Majestie
made her pleasure afterwards knowne, that shee would have a generall
contribution from euerie Shire, for redeeming this exemption, Cornwall
opposing dutie against reason, or rather accompting dutie a reason
sufficient, yeelded to vndergoe a proportionable rate of the burthen.
So they compounded to furnish ten Oxen after Michaelmas for thirtie
pound price; to which, by another agreement with the Officers, they
should adde fortie markes of their owne. Vpon half a yeeres warning
either partie might repent the bargaine. This held for a while; but
within a short space, either the carelesnesse of the Iustices in
imposing this rate, or the negligence of the Constables in collecting
it, or the backwardnesse of the Inhabitants in paying the same, or all
these together ouerslipped the time, and withheld the satisfaction.
Hereon downe comes a Messenger with sharpe letters from the Officers
of the Greene cloth. The conclusion ensued, that his charges must bee
borne, and an higher price disbursed for the supplie. Thus it fareth
too and fro, and the Cornishmen seeme to hold a Wolfe by the eares:
for to make payment the people are unwilling, as in a charge
heretofore vnusuall, to undergoe the [5] managing hereof, the Iustices
strayne courtesie, as in a matter nothing plausible, and appertaining
to ouer-many partners, for the well effecting, and yet to breake they
are both afraid, suspecting that a heauier load will follow, if this
composition be once set at large.

These commodities goe not vnaccompanied with their inconueniences: for
to Cornwall also hath Pandora's Boxe beene opened. One is, that the
farre distance from the higher seates of Iustice, rippeth a wider gap
to intruding iniuries, and increaseth the charge and time of procuring
their redresse. Which due occasion of discouragement, the worst