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622 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 62. them hopes of better days. He told them that as ' the natural born subjects of her Majesty they were as dear to her as her own people/ and that they should have no more cause to complain of English oppression. 1 In this particular/ reported Secretary Fenton, ' the Deputy was universally noted most acceptable to all men, that he wished to be suppressed and universally abolished throughout the realm the name of a churle and the crushing of a churle ; affirming that howsoever the former barbarous times had devised it and nourished it, yet he held it tyrannous both in name and manner, and therefore would extirpate it, and use in place of it the titles used in England, namely, husbandmen, frank- lins, or yeomen. This was so plausible to the Assembly that it was carried throughout the whole realm in less time than might be thought credible if it was ex- pressed.' l 1 Sir Geoffrey Fenton to Walsingham, July 10 : MSS. Ireland. END OF VOL. X. RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON & BUNGAY.