divers other maladies, to the destruction of the support of the
same - we do command on behalf of our lord the King, whom may God
preserve and bless, that all those who go about begging in the
said city and who are able to labor and work for the profit of
the common people shall quit the said city between now and Monday
next ensuing. And if any such shall be found begging after the
day aforesaid, the same shall be taken and put in the stocks on
Cornhill for half a day the first time, and the second time he
shall remain in the stocks one whole day, and the third time he
shall be taken and shall remain in prison for forty days and
shall then forswear the said city forever. And every constable
and the beadle of every ward of the said city shall be empowered
to arrest such manner of folks and to put them in the stocks in
manner aforesaid."

The hundred year cry to "let the King live on his own" found
fruition in a 1352 statute requiring consent of the Parliament
before any commission of array for militia could be taken and a
1362 statute requiring purchases of goods and means of conveyance
for the King and his household to be made only by agreement with
the seller and with payment to him before the King traveled on,
instead of at the low prices determined unilaterally by the
King's purveyer.

Every man who has wood within the forest may take houseboot and
heyboot in his wood without being arrested so long as it take
such within the view of the foresters.

English was made the official language of the courts, replacing
French and Latin, and schools in 1362 and of Parliament,