Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	penny_n	shilling_n	sum_n	20,709	5	12.1572	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54694	Restauranda, or, The necessity of publick repairs, by setling of a certain and royal yearly revenue for the king or the way to a well-being for the king and his people, proposed by the establishing of a fitting reveue for him, and enacting some necessary and wholesome laws for the people.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1662 (1662)	Wing P2017; ESTC R7102	61,608	114

of twenty shillings upon every Knights Fee twelve pence of every man and woman that could dispend twenty shillings per annum above reprises by their Lands and so proportionably according to their land revenues twelve pence of every one whose goods were valued at twenty pounds and proportionably to what it exceeded gran-to King Henry the fourth seven hundred thousand pounds found in King Richard the second 's Treasury two fifteenths of the Commons in the sixth year of his reign a tenth and a half of the Clergy and of the Commons two fifteenths in the ninth a Subsidie by the Laity and half a mark a piece of the Stipendary Priests and Friars in the tenth a Subsidie to be levied through the Realm and in anno 11. a fifteenth a resumption of many Grants and Annuities regulation of his Houshold and banishment of the Gascoigners and Welsh impoverishing him and the Kingdom by Petitions and Suits Great summes of money given to King Henry the fifth by the Clergy a Subsidie by the Clergy and Laity a double Disme and a fifteenth by the Laity and in the 9th year of his reign two tenths of the Clergy and a fifteenth of the Laity and another fifteenth in the same year his Crown Royall and Jewels pawned and a resumption of divers Lands and Annuities granted to unworthy persons To King Henry the sixth in anno primo of his reign a Subsidie of five Nobles upon every sack of wool transported for three years forty three shillings of every sack of wool carried out by Merchant strangers a Subsidie of twelve pence in the pound of all merchandize imported or exported 3. shillings upon every Tonne of wine for three years granted by Parliament in 〈◊〉 3. a Subsidie of three shillings upon every Ton of 〈◊〉 and of all other Merchandize twelve pence per pound except woolfell and cloth or every Benefice of ten marks per annum ten of that parish to pay six shillings and eight pence of every Benefice of ten pounds per annum ten parishioners to pay thirty shillings and four pence and so rateably for every Benefice And of the Inhabitants of Cities and Boroughs every man worth twenty shillings above his Housholdstuff and his own and wives Apparrel four pence and upwards after that rate or proportion in anno 8. a Disme and fifteenth of the Laity Great summes of money raised by King Edward the fourth by penal Lawes and Benevolences resumption in the seventh year of his reign of all manner of gifts which he had given from the first day of his reign A Subsidie in anno 8. of two fifteens and a half and in anno 13. a Subsidie Some Taxes laid upon the people by King Richard the third and a resumption of all Lands and Estate granted to Elizabeth Grey Queen of England A Subside to Henry the seventh in an 2. of his reign at a tenth of every mans goods towards the setting forth an Army into Britain anno 4. two fifteens of the Laity and two Dismes of the Clergy Poll-money of every Duke ten marks every Earle five pounds every Baron four pounds every Knight four marks of every one worth forty shillings twelve pence of every one that took wages twelve pence of every man above fifteen years old four pence anno 6. great Benevolences anno 11. a Subsidie towards his warres in Scotland anno 〈◊〉 Benevolences and great Fines upon penal Lawes 〈◊〉 ●●ghteen hundred thousand pounds left in his Treasury say the Historians but as the Lo●d Treasurer Cecil Earle of Salisbury informed King James four Millions and a halfe Divers Subsidies granted to King Henry the eighth in anno 6. of his reign and in anno 14. another Subsidie upon goods a years value for one year of all the Clergies spiritual livings a great summe of the Laity in the Parliameat following anno 25. a Subsidie of four pence per pound in goods from twenty shillings to five pound from five pounds to ten pounds eight pence from ten pounds to twenty pounds sixteen pence from twenty pounds and upwards two shillings of all strangers double of all Strangers not Inhabitants four pence a head of every one that had Lands Fees or Annuities eight pence the pound from twenty shillings to five pounds and so doubled according as they did for goods by several proportions and of the Clergy three shillings in the pound great sums of money and treasure by the confiscation of Cardinal Wolsey Anno 26. tenths and first-fruits of the Clergy formerly paid to the Popes granted unto him An. 36. a Benevolence An. 37. a Subsidie of six shillings per pound of the Clergy two shillings eight pence of the goods of the Laity and four shilligs per pound of Lands tenths of all Abby and Religious Lands reserved upon his Grants two hundred thousand pounds paid by the Clergy of the Provinces of York and Canterbury to be excused from a Praemunire and the vast and inestimable treasure in Money Plate Shrines Jewels Copes and rich moveables upon the spoil of the Abbies and Religious Houses An Ayde given by Parliament to King Edward the sixth in the 2d year of his reign of twelve pence per pound of the goods of his naturall Subjects two shillings per pound of Strangers for three years of every Ewe kept in several pastures three pence of every Weather two pence of every Sheep kept in the Commons three half pence and eight pence per pound of every woollen Cloth made for sale throughout England anno 6. Commissions given out for sale of Church goods an 7. one Subsidie and two fifteens granted by Parliament and the gain for some years made by the Coynage of Bullion sent from Sweden and returned in Merchandise One Subsidie of the Laity given to Queen Mary in anno 2. of her reign eight pence in the pound from five pounds to ten pounds from ten pounds to twenty pounds sixteen pence per pound and of all strangers double To Queen Elizabeth in anno primo a Subsidie and two fifteens of the Clergy and a tenth of the Temporalty Anno 5. a Subsidie of the Clergy and two fifteens of the Temporalty Anno 8. a Subsidie of the Clergy and a subsidie fifteenth and tenth of the Temporalty Anno 13. a Subsidie of the Clergy one subsidie two fifteenths and a tenth of the Temporalty anno 18. a subsidie of the Clergy two fifteenths and tenths of the Temporalty Anno 23. the like Annis 27. 29. the like Anno 31. two subsidies of the Clergy and three subsidies and six fifteens of the Temporalty Anno 39. three subsidies of the Clergy and Temporalty and six fifteens of the Temporalty An. 43. four subsidies of the Clergy and four subsidies and eight fifteens of the Temporalty the pawning of many of her Jewels and mortgaging divers of her Lands A Subsidie of Poundage and Tonnage Wools Woolfels and Leather anno primo Jac. two parts of Recusants Lands convicted in anno 3. four Subsidies in the pound by

Magna Charta and Charta Foreste fortieth part of every mans goods towards the payment of his debts and a thirtieth part afterwards granted by Act of Parliament much of his Forrests and Woods converted to errable land his Parks of Woodstock and Gillingham ploughed many Grants made in his minority revoked his great Officers as Hubert de Burgh Earl of Kent Chief Justice of England and others called to account Ranulph Britton Treasurer of his Chamber fined in one thousand marks a great summe of money given by the City of London to be made Toll-free every one that could dispend in land fifteen pound per annum ordered to be knighted or pay a Fine great summes of money gained by composition with Delinquents at seven years value of their Lands by the Dictū de Kenilworth his houshold charges lessened a meaner Port kept less Almes given his Jewels and the Crown royal pawned Plate sold to pay his debts at no greater a value then the weight though the workmanship did cost as much and the golden Shrine of Edward the Confessor forty shillings for every Knights see twice assessed for his warres in Gascony great sums of money raised of the Iewes the banishment of the Poictouins and his half-brothers who had made it too much of their business to beg what they could of the Revenue and by his own sometimes sitting in the Exchequer to preserve it thirty two thousand pounds sterling received of Leolin Prince of Wales propaee habenda and a resumption of divers of the Crown Lands which had been aliened Nor by an Inquiry in Anno 4. of King Ed. 1 by Act of Parliament of the Castles Buildings Lead and Timber of the Kings his Demeasnes Parks Woods extent of Manors forrain Parks and Woods Pawnage Herbage Mills Fishings Freeholds Cottages Curtilages customary Tenants Patronages Perquisit●s of Courts Liberties Customes and Services a Subsidie in Anno 6. of his reign of the twentieth part of every mans goods towards the charges of his warres in Wales the Statute of Quo warranto in Anno 18. to inquire and seise into the Kings hands all liberties usurped a Subside in anno 22. of his reign upon Woolfels and Hydes transported a tenth of all goods the eighth of the goods of the Citizens and Burgesses a twelfth of the rest of the Laity and a moiety of the Clergy in anno 25. and in anno 26. the ninth penny of the Commons the tenth penny of the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury and the fifth of York taking away much monies from the Priors Aliens payment by the Clergy in anno 23 of all such summes of money which they had promised to pay to the Pope towards the maintenance of the Holy warres and half a years value of their Ecclesiasticall livings and promotions abased monies four hundred and twenty thousand pounds fifteen shillings and four pence raised from the Jewes and a farre greater summe afterwards contribution of ships and ship-money by the maritime Coasts and Counties in case of danger and invasion sixty five thousand marks of silver received for Fines of some corrupt Judges and great summes of money likewise for forfeitures by an Inquisition or Commission of Trail Baston A fifteenth of the Clergy and a twentieth of the Temporalty to King Edward the Second in anno primo of his reign the moveables and personal Estate of the Knights Templers in England Contribution of ships and ship-money by the maritime Counties a fifteenth in anno 6. and the great and rich confiscated personall Estates of the two Spencers Father and Son and an Ordinance made pro Hospitio Regis concerning the regulation of his Houshold Thirty thousand marks paid to King Edward the third in anno 2. of his reign by Robert Bruce King of Scots to release his Soveraignity to that Kingdom a tenth of the Clergy Citizens and Burgesses and a fifteenth of others granted in anno 6. of his reign Aids of ships ship-money by the Sea-coasts and in an 13. the tenth sheep of all the Lords Demeasnes except of their bound Tenants the tenth fleece of wool and the tenth lamb of their store to be paid in two years and that such of them or their Peers as held by Baronie should give the tenth of their grain wool and Lamb and of all their own Demeasnes and two thousand five hundred sacks of wool given by the Commons anno 14. the ninth of the grain wool and lamb of the Laity to be paid in two years the ninth of the goods of the Townsmen and the fifteenth of such as dwelt in Forrests and Chases anno 17. forty shillings for every Sack of wool over and above the old rate anno 18. a Disme by the Clergy of Canterbury for three years two fifteenths of the Commons and two dismes of the Cities and Towns to be levied in such wise as the last in an 20. two fifteens to be paid in two years anno 21. two shillings upon every Sack of wool granted by the Lords without the Commons in anno 22. three fifteens to be paid in three years All such treasure as was committed to Churches throughout England for the Holy warre all the goods of the Cluniacques Cistercians and some other Orders of Monks half the wools of the Laity and the whole of the Clergy the jewels of the Crown pawned imprisonment of his Treasurer abasing some of his 〈◊〉 and ordaining some of his Exchanges of money to be at London Canterbury and York monies abated in weight and made to pass according to former value and the profits which the forrain Cardinals enjoyed in England during their lives taken into his hands one hundred thousand pounds received for the ransome of John King of France great sums of money for the ransoming of David King of Scotland Philip afterwards Duke of Burgogne Jaques de Bourbon and many of the French Nobility fifty shillings granted by Parliament in anno 43. for every sack of wool for six years by which imposition only as the Trade of Wools and Cloathing then flourished the King as it was computed might dispend one thousand marks per diem fifty thousand pounds by the Laity and as much by the Clergy granted him by the Parliament in anno 45. to resume his right in France a Poll-money by Act of Parliament of four pence for every person of of the Laity that took not almes of every Clergy-man beneficed twelve pence and of every Religious person four pence in anno 50. and a resumption of divers of his Crown Lands A Subsidie in the first year of K. Richard the second levied upon the great men to spare the Commons Poll-money of every person above fifteen years old Fines of seaventeen shires in anno 21. and causing them to pay great summes of money for aiding the Duke of Gloucester and Earles of Arrundel and Warwick the Bohemians which pestered his Court banished and a resumption of divers of his Crown Lands A tenth of the Clergy and a Subsidie

Northumberland Seymour Duke of Somerset Russell Earl of Bedford St. John Earl of Wiltshire Rich Willoughby Paget Sheffeild Barons his giving away great quantities of Ecclesiasticall and Chantry Lands Viscount Mountague Lord Howard of Effingham Lord North advanced by Queen Mary the Subsidie of four shillings in the pound for Lands and two shillings for Goods granted to King Edward the sixth in the last year of his Reign remitted by her and nine thousand two hundred pounds land per annum of the Crown given away paying at the same time twelve pound per cent Interest for twenty thousand pounds borrowed of the City of London and the greater charges and Expences of Queen Elizabeth in protecting the Neatherlands and United Provinces which cost her five hundred thirty four thousand pounds and four hundred thousand pounds in succouring King H. 4. of France besides what was disbursed for other Protestant Allies guarding the Back-door of Scotland relieving guarding the young King who was afterwards her Successor endeavouring to reduce Ireland to its former obedience which in a few years cost her as the Lord Treasurer Cecill Earl of Salisbury in the Reign of King James informed the Parliament nineteen hundred twenty and four thousand pounds and defending her self from the Assaults and machinations of the Pope King of Spain and other Catholick Princes advancing and enriching Cecil L. Burghley Sackvile L. Buckhurst Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy Knowles Wotton Sidney Carew Petre Compton Cheney Norris and Stanhop to be Barons and creating of the Earls of Essex Leicester Lincoln and Warwick Remission of a Subsidie granted to Q. Mary Farming of her Customs to Smyth but for thirteen thousand pounds per annum afterwards to forty two thousand pounds and raising them after that only to no more then fifty thousand pounds per annum five hundred thousand pounds spent by King James in a totall subduing of Ireland three hundred and fifty thousand pounds paid for Queen Elizabeth's debts to the City of London for which some of the Crown Lands were mortgaged and for debts to the Army Admiralty and Wardrobe and discharging the reckoning of brass money in Ireland with the same sums in silver his vast expences by Treaties and Ambassadours amounting in the seventh year of his Reign unto five hundred thousand pounds to keep us in our envied peace and plenty four hundred thousand pounds disbursed in relieving the Dutch besides what was spent in satisfying the greedy cravings of the Scottish Nation preferring and raising of the Duke of Richmond Ramsey Earl of Holderness Earls of Carlisle Kelley Morton and Dunbarre Howard Earl of Northampton Carr Earl of Somerset Herbert Earl of Montgomery Villers Duke of Buckingham Cranfeild Earl of Middlesex Cecill Earl of Salisbury Howard Earl of Suffolke Mountague Earl of Manchester Ley Earl of Marleborough and Digby Earl of Bristol All which and many more which might be here enumerated did not only as was usuall in the Reigns of our former Kings by necessary bounties encouraging of virtue and valour rewarding of merits and high deservings of Ministers of State and great Atchievements of men of warre through a successiion of ages accidents occasions and reasons of State draw and derive their honours from those fountains of Honour but large Revenues and Lands many times likewise to support and maintain their Dignities and sometimes upon the Petitions of the Commons in Parliament as to conferre upon John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster the Dukedome of Acquitaine in the reign of King Edward the third to make John Holland the Kings half-Brother Earl of Huntington in the reign of King Richard the second and to preferre and advance the Lords John and Humphrey Sons of King Henry the fourth and sometimes great Pensions and Annuities were given for life untill Lands could be provided to support them in reward of virtue and their services done or to be done for the good of the Nation and to continue them and their posterities as props and pillars of the Royall Throne in a gratefull acknowledgment of the favours received from it And besides those former rewards and Ennoblishments puts it at this day for Creation money paid to the Dukes Marquesses and Earls to no less a charge then one thousand pounds per annum by which the people were in all ages no loosers when the Honour strength and defence of the Kingdome was maintained and increased by them and themselves kept in peace and plenty the manner of living in ancient and better times being with little money and small rents great services by the thankfull and ready duty and affections of Tenants to their Benefactors and mesne Lords not only made them great in power but enabled them to imitate their Princes as much as they could in great hospitalities deeds of charity and almes building and endowing of Churches Abbies Priories and Religious Houses and giving large Inheritances to their Servants Friends and Followers pro homagio servitio and other dependances Common of Estovers and of great quantities of Lands to severall Cities Towns and Villages and in such a plentifull manner distributed and gave their Lands as if the Lands in Capite by Knight Service Coppyhold Lands Commons which our King's Nobility and Gentry bestowed heretofore upon the inferiour sort of people and what they dedicated to God by giving to Churches Religious Houses Colleges Churches and Chappels should be surveyed and measured they would amount to no less then two parts in four of the Lands of the Kingdome The quondam lethargie sleepiness and unactivity of many of the Officers of the Exchequer who should be as the Argus eyes to guard the Royall Revenue the indulgence heretofore or neglect of some of her Officers and their not remembring that they were to be the Kings and his Treasurers Remembrancers respiting or nichiling of his debts upon feigned Petitions which can tell how to deceive the most carefull Barons or Judges of that Court when their Soveraign suffered in the mean time very great damage for want of the money the not duly estreating of all Fines and Amerciaments corrupt compounding for such as were estreated by under Officers at easie rates granting to the City of London their Fines and Amerciaments want of looking after as they doe in other Nations the execution of those multitudes of penall Lawes which otherwise will be to little purpose and assisting the collection of the Kings legall profits arising thereby the heretofore carelesness or corruption of some of our former Kings Officers who for fees of favour enlarged their Charters and Grants to bodies politique Cities Towns and Corporations and to as many private persons as would petition for them and decked them with the flowers of the Kings Crown which were not to be parted with so easily So as what by Grants or Prescription which in many cases is but the incroachment or filchings of liberties and priviledges concealed or not well looked after covered and drawn into a property by a time beyond