A similar edict expelled the gipsies from Germany. At the Diet of Spires, June 10, 1544.
Statutum est ne vagabundum hominum genus quos vulgo Saracenos vocant per Germaniam oberrare sinatur usu enim compertum est eos exploratores et proditores esse.—State Papers, vol. ix. p. 705.
[307] ELLIS, first series, vol. ii. p. 101.
[308] Bulla pro Johanne Scot, qui sine cibo et potu per centum et sex dies vixerat.-RYMER, vol. vi. part 2, p. 176.
[309] BUCHANAN, History of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 156.
[310] Letter of Archbishop Cranmer.—ELLIS, second series, vol. ii. p. 314.
[311] Statutes of the Realm. 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 12.
[312] Extracts from a Narrative containing an Account of Elizabeth Barton: Rolls House MS.
[313] Statutes of the Realm.
[314] Rolls House MS.