ce of Land for this their Service, whether it be to the
King or the Lord; but what they do for the other People they are
paid for. Thus all that have any Place or Employment under the King,
are paid without any Charge to the King.

[His Policy to Secure himself from Assassination or Rebellion.] His
great Endeavour is to Secure himself from Plots and Conspiracies of
his People, who are sorely weary of his tyrannical Government over
them, and do often Plot to make away with him; but by his subtilty
and good fortune together, he prevents them. And for this purpose he
is very Vigilant in the Night: the noise of Trumpets and Drums, which
he appoints at every Watch, hinders both himself and all others from
sleeping. In the Night also he commonly does most of his Business,
calling Embassadors before him, and reading the Letters; also
displacing some of his Courtiers, and promoting others, and giving
Sentence to execute those whom he would have to live no longer; and
many times Commands to lay hold on and carry away great and Noble men,
who until that instant knew not that they were out of his favour.

[Another point of his Policy.] His Policy is to make his Countrey as
intricate and difficult to Travel as may be, and therefore forbids
the Woods to be felled, especially those that divide Province from
Province, and permits no Bridges to be made over his Rivers: nor the
Paths to be made wider.

[Another, which is to find his People work to do.] He often employs
his People in vast works, and that will require years to finish, that
he may inure them to Slavery, and prevent them from Plotting, against
him, as haply they might do if they were at better leisure. Therefore
he approves not that his People should be idle; but always finds
one thing or other to be done, tho the work be to little or no
purpose. According to the quantity of the work, so he will appoint
the People of one County or of two to come in: and the Governor of the
said County or Counties to be Overseer of the Work. At such times the
Soldiers must lay by their Swords, and work among the People. These
works are either digging down Hills, and carrying the Earth to fill up
Valleys; thus to enlarge his Court, which standeth between two Hills,
(a more uneven and unhandsom spot of ground, he could not well have
found in all his Kingdom); or else making ways for the Water to run
into the Pond, and elsewhere for his use in his Palace. Where he hath
it running thro in man