ABSTRACT
The gentlemen were always together commonly a mile from the commons. What they did he knows not, but at length they brought forth certain articles of their griefs, of which one was that the King should remit the subsidy, and another that he should let the abbeys stand, which articles George Stanes openly proclaimed in the field, and the sheriff and he, about Langwith field, said to the commons, ‘Masters ye see that in all the time we have been absent from you we have not been idle. How like you these articles? If they please you say Yea. If not, ye shall have them amended.’ The commons then held up their hands and said with a loud voice, ‘We like them very well.’
