A Supplicacyon for the Beggers

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Excerpt from A Supplicacyon for the Beggers: Written About the Year 1529, With a Supplycacion to Our Moste Souveraigne Lorde Kynge Henry the Eyght (1544 A. D.), A Supplication of the Poore Commons (1546 A. D.), The Decaye of England by the Great Multitude of Shepe (1530-3 A. D.)When trying to get together some evidence on the Condition of England in Henry viii's and Edward vi's reigns for the Introduc tion to the Ballad of Now a Bayes (fl ab. 1520, a.d.) for my first volume for the Ballad Society, I was struck by the difficulty of find ing out - what tracts and books on the subject there were, and how few of them could be easily got at, much less bought at any reason able price. But when I did get hold Of some of them, I found them Of such interest and value that I resolved to reprint such Of them as I could, and one of the earliest' is now before the reader.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.