[364] Both documents, the first in Latin, the second in French, in “Statutes of the Realm”; a text, revised on the originals, is in the Appendix to Miss Bertha H. Putnam’s “Enforcement of the Statutes of Labourers during the first Decade after the Black Death,” New York, 1908, pp. 8* and 12*. [365] The taking of money out of the realm was especially feared: “Quamplures ejusdem regni nostri cum pecunia quam in eodem regno habere poterunt, ad partes exteras in dies se transferunt et transferre proponunt.” Dec. 1, 1349, Rymer’s “Fœdera,” vol. v. p. 668. [366] “Rolls of Parliament,” vol. ii. p. 233. Compare the French ordinances; that of John the Good, January 30, 1350 (Isambert, “Recueil général des anciennes lois françaises,” iv. p. 576), orders the idle people of Paris, picturesquely described as “gens oiseux ou joueurs de dez ou enchanteurs (singers) es rues ou truandans ou mandians, de quelque estat ou condition qu’ils soient, ayans mestier ou non, soient hommes ou femmes,” to either work or go away, which was less radical and still less to the point than the English rules. Another order of the same king (Nov. 1354, ibid. p. 700) was directed against the workmen who since the plague were exacting exorbitant wages, and, in addition to that, “wine, meat and other unwonted things.” If denied, they preferred to do nothing but would go to taverns and there had been heard to say that, “owing to the great price they are accustomed to take, they will work only two days a week,” a kind of difficulty which, dating back six centuries, is not entirely of the past. [367] “Rolls of Parliament,” vol. ii. p. 261, parliament of 1354. [368] Statute 34 Ed. III, chap. 10, A.D. 1360–1. [369] “Rolls of Parliament,” ii. p. 312. [370] “Rolls of Parliament,” ii. p. 340, A.D. 1376. To have them outlawed brings no relief to their masters, for they manage not to be caught and carefully avoid the places where they are known: “Et si les ditz servantz corores soient utlagez à la sute de la partie, il n’est profit al sutour, ne damage ne chastiement al servant futyf, par cause q’ils ne poont estre trovez ne jà ne pensent repeirir en pays là cù ils ont ensi servi.” Same petition. [371] Langland shows, in the same way, the shameless beggar who goes, bag on shoulder, asking from door to door, who may very well if he pleases gain his bread and beer by work; he knows a trade, but he prefers not to exercise it: “And can som manere craft · in cas he wolde hit use, Thorgh whiche craft he couthe · come to bred and to ale.” “Piers Plowman,” Text C, pass. x. l. 155; see also ibid., pass. i. l. 40.