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And next came a statute against witchcraft. In 1603 is an act to prohibit people from eating anything but fish in Lent, entitled "An Acte to encourage the Seamen of England to take Fishe, wherebie they may encrease to furnishe the Navie of England."
Unto the prince and people that shalbe the occasion of this worthie worke, and shall open their cofers to the furtheraunce of this most godly enterprise, God shall open the bottomles treasures of his riches, and fill them with aboundance of his hidden blessinges; as he did to the goodd Queene Isabella, which beinge in extreme necessitie, laied her owne jewells to gage for money to furnishe out Columbus for the firste discovery of the West Indies.
Win, who started to decipher it from mere curiosity, ended by reading it five or six times. It ran as follows: "having fed my Prince and Eased him after his hard Flight we took Counsel anent his Refuge. "That he should lye at ye Manor looked not wise. Ye Castel seemed ye better Place. "Lest he be curiously viewed of Many we did furnishe Other garb and a Strong Bigge Cloake.
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