quated, and altogether idle: As that which forbiddeth any to we are their beards all on the upper lippe, and none under the chinne. And that which putteth away [o 1] saffron shirts and smockes. And that which restraineth the use of guilt bridles and [o 2] petronels. And that which is appointed for the recorders and clerks of Dublin and Tredagh, to take but ijd. for the coppy of a plainte. And that which commaunds bowes and arrowes. And that which makes, that all Irishmen which shall converse among the English, shall be taken for spyes, and so punished. And that which forbids persons amesnable to law, to enter and distraine in the lands in which they have title; and many other the like, I could rehearse.
Eudox. These truely, which yee have repeated, seeme very frivolous and fruitelesse; for, by the breach of them, little dammage or inconvenience, can come to the Common-wealth: Neither indeed, if any transgresse them, shall he seeme worthy of punishment, scarce of blame, saving but for that they abide by that name of lawes. But lawes ought to be such, as that the keeping of them should be greatly for the behoofe of the Common-weale, and
- ↑ saffron shirts] He presently explains the reason of their wearing saffron shirts &c. Todd.
- ↑ petronels.] See Cotgrave's Fr. Diet. "Petrinal, a horsemans peece, a petronell." Hence the soldier, who served with a petronell, was called poictrinalier. It appears to have been much the same as our blunderbuss. See the Fr. Encyclopedic, in V. Todd.
