British Library, Hargrave MS 311
The King
and repaired their Estates either
issues and expenses with their certein
and casuall Revenewes And that
either by
priuie Councell
or
2 Parlia
Excesse of
2 Retynue & Favorit
3 Guifts & Rewards
Revenewes of the Crowne And that
either by the
Subject
or
2 Power absolute
in the sou
First For proporc
and expences with their certeine and
H:4: a
Kingdome, together w
tenth of the Clergie amounted to noe more then
48000l of w
inter acta Cone
H 4 marked
of the Sea, and defence of this Kingdome, the
Realme of Ireland and Dominions of France.
In this estimate
but 1000l & then an ordinance was made by the King
Prince and all His Councell there named in the Roll
The like was a
was appointed 16000l and 7000l to the Citty of London
in discharge of the Kings Debt to them.
H: 5: a
Cone: a
in fin: ♀
of England or of the Exchequer shall annualy
make declarac
revenewe of the Realme, together w
the Kings house, chamb
and Debts.
A
c
a
☘ ☘
revenew of Wales, and the Dutchy of Cornwall,
Hamper, the accompts of Sheriffs & Escheators,
the exchange of Bullion, and the benefitt of wards
and marige (then rated at but 1000 markes apeece)
rose not to aboue 56966l, and being at
he undertooke the Conquest of France
a
◦+ 7
=ing to 55743:l 10:s 10:d was so by the King w
of his Councell ordered as before.
And by this Record it appeareth that the Clarke of
the Navy and not the treasuror was the officer
only for that place
H: 6: a
12 H:6: no: 24:
of the Excheq
of w
and to his Chamber and wardrobe 2000l The
rest to defray the Debts and necessary occasions
of the state
Queen Eliz: A
and Dutchy of Lancaster the proffitt of the Kingdome
was 188197l: 4s: the paym
of wh
Admiralitie 30000l w
1604 was 40000l and is now swolne to neere 50000l
yearly by the error and abuse of Officers
reformeing the excesse
of
2 Retynue & Favorit
3 Gifts & Rewards.
reformeing the excesse of
houshold either by
or
2 Councell Table
1 By Parliam
A
Regis
crip: fo: 29
that ordinance was
neur, et au profitt de son sainct Esglise, et a'l hon=
neur et au profit de son peuple selono droit et
reson del serement q
fist a son Coronm
Alila Regio
his charge and Salary.
A
36: E: 3
A
derac
1: R: 2:
the petic
meniall servants maybee remid
hold might not exceed the ordinary Reuenews of the
Realm &c
A
4:1:et:11:H:
4
retynue, since it was now more chargable, but lese
hon
=ces of the houshold in ease of the people might be
kept, and the officers of the houshold sworne to put
the ordinances and statuts in due execuc
consider the iust greifes of his subiects by uniust
puruiance contrary to the statute, that heereaft
vous poiez viure le vostre biens propres in ease de
v
rot act. conc: a
RR
of the houshold is limitted to 16000 markes
A
et 18: H:6:
order in p
A
12: E: 4
forme of his Court w
hospit tempo:
E: 4
And to ease the charge of the Kings house, the
queens haue allowed a portion of their Iointure
suiteing to their owne expence to the Treasuror
of the houshold, As did Phillip the wife of
E: 3: et 7: H:4
his wife a
H: 6: no: 9
2 Excesse of houshold abated and
reformed by Councell table.
fact tempore
Ed: 3
allowances, makeing thereof a Booke by way of
Ordinance, w
H:4 marked
PP
his Councell to ordaine such moderate governance of
his house, that may conteyne
du peuple
27:H:6:
whereof 2000l was out of the queenes Iointure.
hospit temp:
E:4
booke of ord
Cardinall Woolsey for the more hon
of the king amendeth, and still remaineth the ground
Woolsey temp:
H:8:
corrupted, it may seeme fitt, either to put downe
the tables, and leaue all attend
money, as France and Spaine doth, or else by set=
ting vp the hall againe, reduce the houshold, to the
best, First, and most magnificent order, so all
things being spent in publiq
hon
loyning, pr
is nev
so little as 2000l yearelie, And few mean houses
in Westm
firing by the stealth of the Court Instrum
2 By abateing and reformeing the
excess of retynue and Fovorites.
Dorobernencis
a Netherland
when they grew heavie and a burthen to this
State, vnable to foster more then her owne Children./
in vita:R:1:
the Bavarians, although hee was the son of his
sister, takeing from him that Earldome, for
the people op
exchange the title of Poictow.
Albani et Willi
Rishanger et
liter Baron:
PP
Earle of Pembrooke and B
and all the Poictons their follow
E:2: in lib: legu
MS: fo: 285
le lignage sire pieres de Gaueston soit entierem
ouste destre entoins le Roy et de son seruis Item
Burgois de Til soit ouste et non fiaz q
Mareschall del Eschequer Item q
Assabi et son frere et seux de Gascoigne et
Aymerick de Friscomband soint oustre, et
terres prises en le main le Roy.
a
Act of p
Thus H:4: did w
sort ov
Realme w
Record saith there were
personnes vaylantes et suffesants si besoigne
seroit mes de Rascaile pur la grendre part
3 By abateing and reforming the
excess of guifts and Rewardes
Hence was it that the wisdome of former times
foreseeing the mis
2: A
4 no: 9:
a Law: 11: R:2: that whatsoeu
by Iudgm
any other wayes, shall not bee giuen away, And
that the procurer of any st such guift shall be punished.
7:H:4
were out of Debt, making frustrate the grant and
ordeined a penaltie of double value to euery mover or
procurer of any such.
11:H:4:no:23
thing should bee deliu
Councell, who might examine it, least the kings
wants should light vpon the Com
And to keep the hand of H: 6: from wastfull giueing,
25 H: 6:m: 24
Canterbury and others all proffitts of wards mariages
releife, Escheates and forfeitures to defray the
charge of his house
a
Som
poss
spoyle, so are the words of the Record.
1 H: 4:
depose R:2: for wasting and bestowing the lands &
reuenew of the Crowne, vpon vnworthy persons, &
thereby ou
3 By rousing of money and improu=
ing the revenuew of the Crowne eith
of their owne by way of retribuc
Sec
Ex hist Roffensi
ed to H:2: R:1: Iohn: and H:3: To: E:1 diuerse
fifteenes and tenths for his warrs ag
e:3:
to E:3: for his warres, And the like granted to R:2:
2:3:7:R:2:
and p
9:H:4:
Tonnage and Poundage began :45: E:3. had thence
H:4: et 1o:H:5:
granted so in expresse words, and that they pro=
ceed of good will, and not of Dutie.
Presidents of this nature are plentifull in all
Rolls of parliam
Monacho in vita
H:2
Ex Adamo
Merioneth
Ex rot par a
R:2:
the pound, And in the 18 of E: the 1st: a fifteenth
was granted to expell the Iew's, And a
a tenth of the Clergie, and a fifteenth of the
Com
heresie.
Ex hist Rostens:
for Confirmac
1: & 13: E: 3: et: 7:
H: 4:
adn 13:E: 3 and 7: H: 4: that the lawes may bee
executed ag
E: 3: no: 16:
else they held themselus not bound to pay the grant
8:9:10:11:R:2
R;2: The 10th and 15th granted the 4 and 7 of H
5 is vpon Condic
7 H: 5
the king, so hee will promise to liue hereafter
E: 4:
hee there protesteth to p
R:2
of subsidies to the extreamest value, there were new
Comission
Fortunes aboue the estimate of the former taxes.
3:
to inable him out of his owne by an act of resumpc
of Landes, offices Annuities &c
3:
Claus a
E: 2
lates, Earles, and Barons.
2
2: resumed: a
6: H: 4
the 40th of E:3 were resumed,
et: 2 H: 5
grants out of the principalitie made to vnworthy
persons, and all annuities out of the customes of
wooles, deducting 10000l out of all other annuall
pensions rateably, leaving the remaine, if any
to the Patentees
29: et 33:H:6:
all Landes, offices, liberties, and grants from An
12: E: 4:
Ex act Conc a
H: 6: Rot par: a
H: 7:
Edward the 4th a
2: resumed all grauntes made by E:4: or R:3:
1/ Loanes voluntarie, as vpon assurance of bloud
of the Nobilitie So was William de le Poole
E:3:
the Duke of Gloucester a
22: H: 6:
his Debt
Pawne vpon Iewells
H:3:
And when his own were at gage, hee tooke
Aurum et iocalia Feretri Sancti Edwardi
Confessoris
E: 1st:
lia sua impignoranda
9: E:2
Lord Beaumont
30: E: 3
S
Hen: 4
argentas de Hispania
rich B
And H: 6 to the same man then Cardinall
29: H: 6
and 29th of his raigne, And the like to many others
And the late Queene to ease her people did
like w
often morgage of her Land.
Vpon assignement of Customes
and Subsidees
Soe did the Cardinall Beauford lend 10000l to
H: 6
London and South
the course of most trade thither. And H: 6: a
a
E: 4
ouer of the next subsidie or ayde that should bee
granted from the Church or Laytie, to whom
a demise / in truth to draw on a supplie the sooner
from the state.
Vpon the great seale or the
priuate seale.
4 m
paying Fee) a Patent sealed for paym
dues by a day certeine.
The priuie Seale, w
And it is of late worthie of observac
willingnes of former times in respect of those.
a
Les sommes esocits
1000 markes, the B
B
600l The B
priuy seale 200l. The Clarks of the Chancery
1000 markes.
Perticuler graunts of the
sub
a
NN:
Luke compelled by an order in Councell: 3: H: 5 because
they had by grace et sufferance du Roy grantes priui=
leges &c reportants grand lucre pour lexercise
de leur merchandreen le Angleterre
p
H: 6
being enioyned to attend the Councell table, or else to pay the
demanded loane.
14 H: 8
exacteth by way of loane 10l in the hundred
of all goods Iewells, vtensells, and land, accord=
ing to the extreamest rate revealed by oath of
the possessors
Notwithstanding there is a law :2: R:2: that none
shall bee denied (in demand of any loane) his
reasonable excuse.
Perticuler graunts of the Sub
by contribuc
guifts:
Cant
Rot claus :29:E:1:
Claus 35:E:3
fore called liberalitas popule
Curialitas
them to proceed ex spontanea voluntate nec de iure vindicare potest
20: in an Instrucc
a
as by the Law hee might compell all his Sub
and at their owne charg to attend his warres,
hee was contented to spare such, as would but
contribute as much after his degree and
reputac
would stand him in, thereby implying a ne=
cessitie in them to giue, to escape a further expence.
Maria
was by a stat in queene Maryes tyme, repealed.
and that since repealed this last yeare, hath
made a reveveing of the former, whereby the
king is remitted into his former advantage,
and the Sub
a
lence, hee sought it w
amicable graunt, yet he threatned the re=
fusers w
sonm
The Kings rayse money and im
proue the Reuenewes of
the soveraigne in dis=
poseinge
if they were not of the antient demesne Landes,
w
the Crowne. And those are such landes as goe vnd
the title of Terra Regis
confessor. Of other Landes I neu
tion, Neither do euer finde that Acts of re=
sumption euer reached to Landes that were sold
for valuable consideration.
By passinge in Fee farme, except places of
the kings residence, Parks, Spatious wasts, or
Forrests, all the Landes of the Crowne w
remaine either in the annexation, Costodie
Landes, or the queenes Ioynture and exceed not
yearly 3200l, Theis although largelie estated
out in seu
years, will not
a treble Rent, w
if the offer bee not made restrictive for the
new ten
finde readie and hartie vndertakers amongst
gentree and Nobilitie too, who haue any place
of residence neere any of his Ma
the kings securitie the better, since their abilities
will settle the Fee Farme Rent vpon more
land then the purchase
If any shall obiect ag
and proffittes of Courts, a preiudice in not serveing
necessarilie (as of late) by sales or diminution
of Regalities in seizure of so many Royalties
It may bee answered to the First, That the
casuall p
offic
by a Collecc
late queene, where the totall issue of such
certeine charge exceeded the receipt of such
changes aboue 8000l
To the second if looking vpon the seu
of the kings Landes exposed to the Fee Farme
sales, wee fynd some at 50 others at 21 yeares,
as to the late Contractors, and make out of
theis extreames a medium of the largest 40
yeares, and set on the other side the Com
and current estimate for dead rents 15 yeares
p
vnimproued respectiulie to the like trebled
by a Fee Farme, wilbee 250l losse to his Ma
in the sale.
As for Regallityes, though it may add
somewhat to a Sub
pettee Com
whose transcendent power drowneth
subordinate dependances and
But if wee consider besides the former imp
the increase of casuall aduantage and diminu
=tion of certeine charge, wee shall haue iust
cause not to continue this course.
For if the Com
bee ordered by instruction to reserue vpon euery
mannor of aboue 30l pof
of Knights service by halfe a Fee, and aboue
50l in Capite by an intire Fee, and of the
purchase to pay his rent into the his
tally, the former will aduance the revenue acce=
dentall of the Crowne in wardshipps, primer
seisin, alienations, and aydes, at the latter cut
off at once so many their vnnecessarie Receiuors,
Auditors, Stewards, Bayliffs and Clarks, as stand
the king in yearly aboue 12000l
As for other dues or casuall Reuenews, w
now fall vnder the Charge of theis officers, the
Collection and payment maybee, as it hath beene
with the rest, from the time of Hen: 2 vntill
late Dayes, layd on the Sheriffs of the Shires
and all the accounts left to the two Auditors
of Presse to draw vpp, and the Clarke of
Pype to enter in
time; For it must seeme strang to all men
of Iudgment, that it should bee with those
officers (who had their begining but since the 25
yeare of H:8: by addic
of 15000l from the suppressd Manasteries) other
wise then w
continued, when as all Crowne annexed Lands,
that gaue them their Iust imploym
most parte, passed from the soveraigne into
the subiects possession.
Besides this of a gen
there hath beene a proiect in p
ize the Copyholders in the seu
should hold to bee of more pr
then the former bringing w
inconveniences, losse of Fines, Regalities, and
advantages of sale, and being without many of
advantages, as Ward
aydes, for noe man will buy Quilletts but in soccage
and discontinuance of officers who must still remaine
though they can bring the King but little proffitt
ties or wastes, As in the 7 of Hen: 4 the state
held it more iust to helpe the King out of his
H: 4:
therefore gaue way by p
proue vpp his Lands thoug in Lease Prouided
that the Lessee should haue refusall of the
bargaine if hee would.
all such wast quod absq ue iniuria alterius
fieri potest
1:
in most Counties of England for a sum
E:1:
And it was not the least of Charitable
thrift in the King to reduce much of his wast
to habitac
mote Forrests, w
thousand Families for his service and bring
many thousand pounds to his Coffers.
But in the carriage of this busines, there must
bee much caution to pr
them there are manie that haue right of
Comsans membre
agreem
dent, For multituds are iealous and inconstant,
and the instrum
as bee neighbors interessed and popular, not
strangers; and the First demise to the inhabi=
tants, and at vnder and easie values
3 By manuringe of Lands
13: H:3: m: 10:
Cliffe, Woodstock, Haverell, &c) all mens Cattle
pro bobus pro lardaria Regis in Parcis prædictis
impinguendis
And E: 1: com
England excolere seminare et appropriare ad
maximum Regis proficuum omnes terras quæ Regi
et cononæ suæ deuenerint per mortem aliquorum
vocatione Episcoptuum &c
proue the Reuenews of the Crowne
par
E:1:
dome as the marchants were ladeing them in the
Ports, giueing them securitie of paym
day, and a short prize, And then transported them
to his own best and readiest vse.
Thus did E: 3: a
6 a
a
transported it into Gascoigne, where by reason of
a dearth the price was extreame. And in a
hee arrested all in the tynne in Sout
to his owne present vse: And in the year following
vsing the advantage of the Stat w
trade the Staple Com
vented himselfe many sacks of wooll to other ports
of better advantage
And the late queen a
of priuie Seale a greate p
sigillo a
Reg:
the seas.
to trade Comodities
H:6: n:15
the trade of allom for two yeares, granted the
marchants of Sout
the like sum
Thus did many of the kings after there such
time as the heavy burden of imposition began in
91: H: 3
better name then maltolt and continued vntill
15 yeare of R:2 by diuerse intermissions (for then
15: R: 2:
altogether taken away, For when R:2: and his
successors found the Revenew lessened by the im=
portunate cry of their people, whereby imposi=
=tions were layd aside, they began to devise another
sup
prerogative; And finding a greedie desire of one
marchant to pr
strained by that Stat w
one Port, Callice for all Staple Comodities)
they vsed to sell Lycenses w
any S
to trade what comodities, and to what places
they would, To the marchants of Newcastle :R:
2 gaue leave to carry wooll fells &c to any other
Port besides Callice, vpon Condic
to le sage discretion de vous au de vostre Counseil
H:4:
dispenseth for great quantities of Tynn for seuen
yeares, paying 4000l yearly aboue the Custome
H: 6
Newcastle the same lycense they had a
and granteth 600 sacks of wooll to Benedict
Benony marchant of Florence w
ses were so frequent, that the towne of Callice
complayned in p
without releife, as it seemeth, For the same king
a
transport from London to Cicester 12000l sacks
a
borrowing 1000l of diuerse marchants p
them,
Comodities to the streights of Morrocco, vntill they
were satisfied there sum
inter H: 7:et:
Dudley
many marchants to trade inward and outward
Comodities prohibited As, to Alonso de Burgues,
greate proporc
multitude of others all kinds of graine and other
forbidden things As in a
Customes by
securitie of them, either to bring in or carry out
yearlie as much Comodities as shall yeild the King
in Customes the sume agreed on, or else to make
it vp out of their owne money. Thus did H: 7: many
yeares not only w
stocks of money
consensu merceator
E: 1 and E: 3: and againe in H: 8 tyme, of w
Rot Almaign
3:E:3
Extract Bruxells
the treate of inter course, and of late so stretch
ed, as it is feared, it will proue the ouerthrow
of trade Neither doe I finde this course at
any other time.
As a branch of this may aptlie fall out
the benefitt Princes made by a Prerogatiue
power of imposeing inward and outward
upon Comodities ouer and aboue the an=
tient custome or subsidie
The first that vsed this course after the
state was setled from a king of a voluntary
gou
ruled more by the edge of the sword then by
rule of Law) was H: 3 about the entrance
of his Raigne But finding it to bee an appa=
rent ou
30:
H: 3: in all portes of England, that all mar=
chants might come faciendo rectas et debitas
maltolts
in anno 25 taketh them away w
that neither hee nor his successors should doe
1 m: 42
ing in a
ties, as release of prisage, for w
quite him w
ca: 1: et: 2
hee in a
of p
by collor of maltolt
E: 2 cap: 14:
=omes and raysing of old, was the destrucc
traffique, and therefore repealed all Maltolts
Onlie in a
loane, and hwe with leave of the marchants
E:2
nothing to any supreame power to impose
stat: 2: E: 3: ca
9:
2o: the great Charter of Free traffique.
But haueing about a
=mis
people complayned the yeare following,
promiseth neu
of his Ancestors After in a
cap: 1
paine of death for transporting any wooles
w
E: 3 made great advantage by selling of dis=
pensation of that Law, and grounded vpon it
many impositions, but it fell so heauy vpon
the people, that their discontents so farr in=
creased, that the king was inforced to cause
ArchB
Rot par a
E: 3:
continued by gentle intermissions the aduant=
=age hee had by that Law, takeing an improuem
of custome for openinge the passage, that there
same State made purchase of their former
freedome and discharge of the Maltolt by
granting the 10th sheafe and Fleece &c
And thus it continued all his Raigne, being a
time of greate necessitie and expence by reason
of the warrs, hee sometimes taking the advantage
either to raise an imposition, or else to gaine
an ayde from the people, in discharge there=
of, they continuallie vrging the iniurie in
barring them their birth right, And the king
on the other side the greatnesse of his owne
occasions
And it may bee gathered by Record that thus
it held on vntill the 15 R: 2: In ws
last petic
(in likely hood) from the kings power in re=
strayninge or p
H:4: H:5: H:6:
to many m
statute:
ordinary, yet were they to priuate p
for p
the kings succeedinge raised noe lesse benefitt
then by sale of any gen
a
a
all goods for paym
of Comodities domesttique, as they may bee
sold beetweene marchant and m
Forreine, then so as it shall appeare vpon oath
of the marchant or his Factor they stood them
in at first. And the gen
all regall advantage vpon trade of marchantes is
ut causa honesta sit et necessaria, Ratio facilis,
tempus idoneum
3:
and new Customes at London for 1000 m
monthly, to bee paid into the wardrobe, The
like hee did a
R:2: a
of Cloath in diuerse Counties, And E:4: a
subsidie of vluage of Cloth.
Thus did H: 8: w
his time the late queene, and our now Sover
aigne Master, And it was so then in vse in
the best gouerned State (Rome) w
porc
3 Kings raise money and improue
the Revenews of the Crowne.
Lawes
them.
It is a course vsuall, that kings have raised
by calling in question, the Charters and liberties
of Corporac
other Royalties
Thus did R: 1st: proclayming q uod omnes Charta
And H: 3: a
qui suis volebant , getting money ther=
libertatibus gaudere, vt innouarent Chartas
suas de nouo Regis sigillo
by
E: 1st: by diuerse Com
aArticuli de Ragman
in question about a
domes of England Gilbert de Thornton his
Atturney, putting in Informac
ranto against all p
a
renewe their Charters, and fine for their lib
13: E: 3
Com term: Hill
a
a
amerciam
ters vpon of the ten
iudged voyd, and the penalties made payable
to the kings officers, vnlesse they made a new
purchase of their lib
the vsuallest and easiest meanes to raise money
form
the best abilities. And if there were now but
XXl taken of euery Corporac
that holdeth by Charter his liberties 5l for
renewing them, and of euery one that
Claymeth by pr
a Charter, all w
table, it would amount to aboue 100000l
times, but w
22: R: 2
in all his Comiss
only to bee of the quorum for compounding
w
his people, such distrust that it grewe the death
of the one, and deposition of the other
Dudley: 1o: H: 8
and there is no string will sooner iarr in the
Com
or dispatch of Iustice.
Of the first sorte there bee many found in
H:6: and E:4: his time, somtimes of p
although by course of Com
warrantable but to such as are goeing in
obsequium Regis
ibidem moraturi
sometimes freeing men from arrests, by calling
them vp to appeare before the Kings Councell
sometimes in cases highly criminall releiueing
prison
of all proceedings vpon supposall of indirect
practises vntill the King was better informed
inter: H:7: et
Dudly
time, where the K
writeing to the Iudges of Assize his letters
of Favour.
Chancellorsh
to Gray for 5000 markes.
Diuerse offices now in the guift of the M
of the Rolls were ingaged to the Chancellour
of treasuror of England, as are to bee seene
in Records of H:4: H:5: and H:6: to bee
passed by warrant of the kings hand, and
vpon some considerac
this course, vsing Dudly as his instrum
pound w
the cheife Iustice, the keepers of most of the
Records, the Clerks of the Assize and peace,
the Masters of the game and parks, and
whatsouever else carrying either proffitt or
reputac
money, for their places. Neither is this differ
from the course of other States, For in France
victi Lewis: 12
did so w
his Successors did not forbeare.
Spanish Aduocate defendeth the lawfulnes of
it. And Charles the 5th pr
to Phillip:2:
example and practise of the See of Rome.
The like might bee of all inferior promoc
that are or may bee, in the kings guift, whether
Ecclesiasticall, or temporall, if they were after
the true value, in proffitt and reputac
into rankes accordinge to the seu
of their imploym
Of the first, It is onlie in respect of land,
whereby euery man is to fyne when the King
shall require, that hath abilitie to bee made
a Kn
tie of examples.
The other out of choise and grace, as Hugo
de Putiaco B
created Earle of Northumberland for a great
sum
of theis times would set their Ambition at as
high a price, And for his Ma
a degree of hon
next vnder Barons, and grant them in taile,
takeing of euery one 1000l in fyne, it would
raise w
elecc
p
ed admission of many knights of the Bath, held
themselues all this time disgraced.
some kings out of a last shift haue seemed
to releiue themselues, yet was it (in truth)
full of danger and distrust to the Com
and to the Prince in conclusion of most disadvant=
=age, For the revenews of the Crowne being
com
value, howsoeu
the proporc
And euery man will rate his com
sale, not according to the account of pence or
pounds, but to the weight of the pure silver
conteyned in the current money, As for
example, that w
coyne worth 5s: in the pound weight, will (if
the allay bee to the halfe) bee held at 10s: And
so in euery proporc
is not meerly to bee esteemed in respect of the
sculpture or Figure, but it must value in
pecunia quantum in massa
Comoditie as other wares, and therefore hold=
eth its estimac
goodnes, And the Lo
1561 when the current of state Councell af=
fected an abas'm
deliberac
never would giue way to any such resoluc
in his time.
But that benefitt w
more of bullion then now hee doth, is to erect
againe Cambium Regis
office as antient as before: H: 3: and so conti=
nued vntill the midle of H: 8: the proffitt of it
being now ingrossed amongst a few Goldsmiths
and would yeald aboue 10000l a yeare, if it
were heedfully regarded, and then should the
king himselfe keep his mint in continuall
worke, and not stand at the deuoc
to supply Bullion, and should neu
materealls if two things were observed. The
one to p
trade outward the value thereof in domestique
abate the mightie indraught of Foreine
Manufactures and vnnecessarie wares, that the
outward trade might ouer ballance the inward,
w
Remembr Regis
27o: E:3
wealth, w
for then the Exitus
introitus
late queene as in a
time the vnmeasurable vse of Luxurious
Comodities was brought in, as wynes, spices,
silke and finne lynnens &c For of the later
sort of aboue ten groates the ell there is
aboue 360000l yearly spent, w
value of our Clothes transported, maketh
the State to buy more then they do sell,
whereas a good Father of a Familie ought to
be vendacem
emacem
Condic
greater parte neither gett nor saue, w
priuate house is an apparent argument of
ruyninge, and must bee no lesse in a Com
wealth, And it is observed gen
hence the want of Bullion now is such, that
there is not money sufficient to pay the lend
their principall, so that vsurie is paid for
mony vpon supposition, & not really.
If then his Ma
of his Councell to advantage himselfe any other
wise by Coynage, it will bee safer to doe it vpon
a simple mettall, then by any implyant or bett
suite, w
antient vsed. For Rome in her increase &
greatest pitch of glory had there money ære
argento auro puro puto
dome, And I beleeve it my bee wrought to his
Ma
ease, if it may bee put in practise w
caution, & constant resoluc
bee onlie in the ventinge of the quantitie, w
clogg the State w
example, w
of Bullion
The proportion that I would hold beneficiall
and safe should bee in the masse at first 120000l,
by w
in w
mitation, that none bee inforced to take any
but in sum
tieth part proporc
Against this some may obiect, that it will either
not advantage the king so much as is p
either from the difficulty in venting, or facilitie
in Counterfeitinge, or else pr
w
The benefitt of the king will easilie fall out, if
hee restrayne Retaylors of victuall and small
wares
in and about London there are aboue 3000 that
one w
en tokens, whereof the 10th remaineth not to
them at the yeares end, when they renewe
their store, w
And all the rest of this Realme cannot bee in
feriour to the Cittie in proporc
and figure may wsubtel subtlelie
bee milled, that the charge will pr
tise of false play For the pr
(w
had in it found 800000 by a late inquirie by
order of the late queene, and so falleth out
bee nothing either of losse by the first vtteringe,
being so easie, nor burthen any w
a masse at a time, since continuall vse will
disperse so small a quantitie into so many
hands. But on the other side, it will bee to
the meaner sort (except the retaylors that
made as much advantage formerly of their
owne tokens, as the king shall now of necessary
vse and benefitt, For the buy
not bee tyed to one sellor and his badd Comodi
=ties, as they are still, when his tokens, here
after made currant by authoritie shall leaue
him to the choise of any other Chapman,
and to the poore in this time of small
charitie it will bee of much releife, since many
are like to giue a farthing alms that will not
parte w
Besides it cannot but pr
that by the myntinge pence, and halfe pence
is occasioned, there will bee noe cause hereaft
to cutt any Bullion into proporc
losse. what that hath beene may bee coniectured
if wee marke but of the greate quantities from
the penney downwards since H:8: tyme stamped,
how few remaine; whereas of all the Coynes
from three pence vpwards w
(or manuall) plentie passe still in dayly
payments
Regalities mixt
As for Restituc
Abbotts and B
great sumes.
Corodaries in Cathedrall Churches
And haueing in euery Cathedrall and Collegiat
and made money of it at the highest rate hee could.
Vacancie of Byshoppricke
The benefitt of the vacancie of any B
some kings haue vsed their best advantage
makeing a circular remoue of as many as in
reputac
place voyd.
Concurrent Iurisdicc ion as the Pope
had in former tymes
Besides theis there are two of noe meane
Com
The one is grounded vpon a Concurrent Iuris=
dicc
king, by haueing the power Papall in that point
invested in him by act of p
by his Com
narie for some valuable respect. Thus did
inter Woolsy et ArchB
Cant dat: 14: H: 8
& all other the B
had gott his Legatiue power, And this if it
were put in practise would drawe to the King
20000l into his Coffers.
Church landes
now in
The other is the short accompt yeilded the king of
such Eccl
paid vnto the Pope in former times, & now by statute
invested in the Crowne, For in former times the See
of Rome received them not, as only out of the meere
spiritualities, but also from out of all the temporal=
=ities of spirituall p
from the Church into the hands of the Laytie, yet ought
they to pay this duties, since they were setled in the
Crowne by a former Law, and noe subsequent ever
hath discharged them