hands; ' none shall keep above 2,000 ^ sheep, exclusive it^n^"
of lambs, at any one time.' But this restriction is not to ^^er of
extend to sheep kept on any man's own lands of inherit^ b^^kept^b
ance — his 'demesne lands in hand ' in England or Wales, ^°^®
or to spiritual persons keeping sheep on their own
lands.^ Secondly, no man is to hold more than two farm-

^ This must be taken to refer to home labour in cottages. The
manufacture in the aggregate was rapidly increasing.
' The number of the hundred [of sheep is not the same in every
county. In some counties ' the great hundred of six score ' prevails ; it
is, therefore, enacted that, for the purposes of the Act, six score sheep
are to be accounted an hundred.
» See 88. 7, 16.
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302 UISTOST OF TAXES.
3. By pfo- houses with lands belomnng ; and if two such ' holds '

hoidinff are taken he is required to reside in the parishes where

two they be, upon penalty of Ss. 4d. for every week of

ud flu- absence. And lastly, the statutes of 1487 and 1515,

maaTof before mentioned, concerning the decay of towns and

su^vtM • ^'^ maintenance of husbandry, are continued in force.
