values of Money, which together with the excessive quantities of

Gold and Silver, which about those times began to be brought into

Christendom out of the West Indies, were the occasion that the

Statutes for Labourers and Servants were no further observed

because the prices of all things being much inhansed, Labourers

and Servants could not live upon their Hire and Wages ordained by

the Statute: and this is acknowledged in the Preamble of the

Statute of the 5th of Q. Elizabeth (which is the next Statute for