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Excerpt from The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Vol. 2: Containing, an Account of the Chancellor's Life From His Birth to the Restoration in 1660; A Continuation of the Fame, and of His History of the Grand Rebellion, From the Restoration to His Banishment in 1667
WW Rents at the leali, or to take their Lands into their own Hands, for which They were as ill provided. All this Mifchief fell upon the Nobility a'hd greateft Gentry, who were Owners of the greateit Eitates, every Body whofc Efiate lay in Land undergoing a Share in the Suffering, which made the Difcontent general which They thought the bell: Way to remedy would be to raife no more Taxes, which They took to be the Gaufe why the Rents fell. In the mean Time the Eitpenfes of the Court, and of all who depended upon it, grew [till higher, and the King him felf leis intent upon his Bufinefs, and more loved his Plea f'ures, to which He prefcribed no Limits, nor to the Ex penfes which could not but accompany them.
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