lands in England, for there is a straighter order taken. And if there bee any such in Ireland, it were good it were likewise looked unto; for this evill may easily be remedied. But proceede.
Iren. It is also inconvenient in the realme of Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemens children should be in the disposition of any of those Irish Lords, as now they are, by reason that their lands bee held by knights service of those Lords. By which means it comes to passe that those gentlemen being thus in the ward of those Lords, are not onely thereby [o 1] brought up lewdly, and Irishlike, but also for ever after so bound to their services, they will runne with them into any disloyall action.
Eudox. This grievance Iren. is also complained of in England, but how can it be remedied? since the service must follow the tenure of the lands, and the lands were given away by the Kings of England to those Lords, when they first conquered that realme, and, to say troth, this also would be some prejudice to the Prince in her wardshipps. Iren. I doe not meane this by the Princes wards, but by such as fall into the hands of Irish Lords;
- ↑ brought up lewdly,] Ignorantly. The word is repeatedly used by Spenser in this sense j as it had been by Chaucer. And thus, in our translation of the Acts of the Apostles, Ch. xvii. 5. we hare " certain lewd fellows of the baser sort " Todd.
