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land_n	hold_v	king_n	tenure_n	3,330	5	12.6135	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34703	An answer made by command of Prince Henry to certain propositions of warre and peace delivered to His Highnesse by some of his military servants whereunto is adjoyned The French charity, or, An essay written in French by an English gentleman, upon occasion of Prince Harcourt's coming into England, and translated into English by F.S.J.E.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.; Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. French charity.	1655 (1655)	Wing C6477; ESTC R32525	69,823	112

20. part twice from both the Provinces and once for two yeares from Canterbury only The possessions of the Priors Aliens he seized once into his own hands putting the Monks to a bare Pension of 18. pence a week Of the goods of the Clergie he took the 30. the 15. and the 5. part once the Moietie three times and the Tenth seven times whereof the Grant was first for two yeares and then for three yeares and once for six yeares c Of the goods of the Commons the 8. the 9. and the 12. part he took once twice severally the 10. and 11. the Sessors being sworn to levy and rate truly Three times he had the 15. part and once the moiety of a 15. From the Clergie and Laietie together the King had granted of their Moveables a 10. a 15. and a 30. part Of the Cities and Boroughs besides a great Loan once the 7. and 8. and twice the 6. part From the Merchants a 20. and a 7. portion once of their Commodities imposing a new Custome of a Noble upon every Sack of Wooll which he let out to Farm And under pretence of some breach of Amity with those parts whether his Merchants traded he seized anno 22. a all the Woolls into his hands and made of them instant Sale to the best value leaving them upon security to a short price and a long day of payment He took b the same yeare to the distaste of the Pope and murmure of the Clergie all the money gathered in subsidium Terrae Sanctae for the succour of the Holy Land to furnish his Journeyes Upon the persons of his Subjects he imposed one Tallage c sessed either in communi in generall or per capita by the Poll. And twice the like upon the Iews whereof the one amounted to 50000 Marks Neither were his people by continuall payment for there was but one yeare of intermission all his Reign freed from attendance in their Persons For in record there appeareth plentifully his writs to the Sheriffes as d an. 31. de peditibus el gendis de tota Anglia for the chusing of foot-Souldiers throughout all England and to be found and furnished by their severall Countryes calling e his Earls Barons and Knights to personall service according to their Tenures His Son the second Edward assessed upon the lands of his Subjects twice Scutage once at two Marks once at 40. sh the Knights Fee From the Revenues of the Clergie rated by the book of Tenths he at distinct times took 4d 5d and 12d in the Mark and once the ●5 part of the whole From the goods of the Clergie a Tenth for three yeares And twice f a Loan from the Abbots and Bishops From the Layetie besides a Tallage of their Moveables in Cities and Boroughs once a Tenth twice a 15. and twice a 20. part of their goods Besides a Loan from the Commons and 10. shillings borrowed upon every Sack of Wooll from Merchant Strangers and a Noble from others a From the Clergy and Layetie together of their goods a Tenth a 15. and twice an 18. part besides a Loane He augmented his fathers new Custome with an Imposition of a Noble more upon every Sack of Wool And anno 10. b quia exitus Regni sui terrarum because the profits of his Realm and dominions elsewhere together with all the money granted by the Church and Layetie ad sumptus Belli sufficere noluit was not enough to defray the charges of his wars and that he must infinitam pecuniam effundere spend a vast deal of mony he sesseth and increaseth an Imposition upon all Commodities inward and outward to an extreme Rate and caused the Commons in every Shire to lay down money in deposito to pay his Souldiers and took from the Nobility and Gentry a large contribution towards his wars and seized c omnes Lanas Coria Mercatorum data securitate Possessoribus derationabili pretio postea solvendo All the Woolls and Hides of the Merchants giving security to the Owners that a reasonable price should be paid for them afterwards He charged the Ports and Sea-Townes 12. severall yeares ad costos suos sumptibus villarum at their own costs and the charge of the Villages about them as the Record saith to set to Sea in his service Ships furnished Armis victualibus with Armes and Victualls sometimes for one month as anno 11. d sometimes for 4. as e 12. and sometimes for 7. as anno f 4. the number of Ships more or lesse as occasion required In an. 17. a Southampton was charged with six and 118. Sea-Towns more with rateable proportions for the Kings service Sometimes as anno 18. b embarguing all the Ships in any Port that were of forty Tunnes or upwards or of 50. Tunnes and upward as an. 20. c contra hostiles aggressus Gallorum against the hostile attempts of the French Causing the town of Southampton anno 6. d to build a Galley for himself of 120. Oares Commanding all the Sheriffes for provision of Victuall as anno e 1 2 3 4 9. to provide de Exitibus Comitatuum certum pretium at the charge of the County a certain Rate to the proportion sometimes of 30500 Quarters of Corn and many Bacons as anno 16. f and to send them to the Kings Army As also g Carrecta Carra cum Equis Bobus Carts and Waggons with Oxen and Horses out of the Countyes severally for the use of war Sometimes he made the Ports to send provision themselves as anno 7. h and not to suffer any Ships with victualls i ibidem d scariari to be there unladed but to order them by security for those parts where the Kings Army was lodged And not sparing the Church exacted k his three first yeares Frumenta alia victualia pro exercitu suo Corn and other Victualls for his Army from them Besides the former Charges the Persons of Men aswell of the Nobility as meaner rank were at their own Charge often enjoyned to serve by reason of the wars l As in 6 7 8 9 10. and 16. m of this King when they were called singulatim man by man as well Widowes as Knights n and Noblemen and such as held 40. l. land according to their Tenures a sub forisfactura terrarum Catallorum Equis Armis sumptibus propriis to appear with Horse and Armes at their own charge under penalty of forfeiting their Lands and Chattels to provide de hominibus ad Arma ultra famulos suos consuetos men for the service besides their ordinary Servants according to Augustus b rule Viri Foeminaeque ex Censu coactae dare Militem both men and women were forced to find their Souldiers And of this the Clergie was not exempted c anno 16. of this King And out of every

Hidage and was sessed by the Hide or Plough-land like to that Jugatio per jugera taxation by the acre in Rome yet by no rate definite with this as with another Exaction taken as the Monk of S. Albans a saith sive per fas sive per nefas by fair means or by foule He passed over into France into the list of charge he ranked the Bishops and Abbots sessing upon them and at their charge a proportion of Souldiers for his service exiling many worthy men that opposed this thraldome William Rufus anno 7. set upon the heads of so many as he mustered up for the French wars 10. shil. a man and so discharged them In an. 9. he to the same end spoiled the Churches of their Ornaments and Holy vessels and levied 4 Hidages of every Plough-land a Tributis Angliam non modo abradens sed excorians not only shaving but even flaying England with his impositions so that wearied with warre and expence ne respirare potuit Anglia sub ipso suffocata England was quite stifled by him and could not so much as breath b Quid jam non Regibus ausum Aut quid jam Regno restat Scelus What durst not Kings then do What mischief could the Nation suffer more in this Kings time c Henry the first anno 5. magnam à Regno exegit Pecuniam exacted a great summe of his Kingdome with which he passed into France and by this means d gravabatur terra Angliae oppressionibus multis England was born down with many oppressions e He took in the 10. year 6. shillings Danegeld f And in the 17. Quod inter eum Regem Francorū magnū fuit dissidium Anglia fuit variis depressa Exactionibus Bonis sine peccato spoliata by means of the great difference betwixt him and the King of France England was oppressed with divers exactions men spoild of their goods for no offence at all Of King Stephen there need no more then the words of the Monk of Gisborn g Post annum sextum Pax nulla omnes partes terrebat violenta Praedatio after the 6. year of his reign there was no quiet but all parts of the land became a prey and spoil to violent men Henry the second alluding not unlike to the Feoda given the Eremitae in the decline of the Empire as Salaries by which they stood bound to defend the Frontiers against the Incursions of the Barbarous Nations continued the Policy of his Progenitours who allotted the land into such and so many equall portions as might seem competent for supportation of a Knight or man at Armes from whom as occasion required they received either service or contribution This Tenure now esteemed a Thraldome began upon a voluntary and desired submission for who from his gift would not of the Prince accept land upon the like conditions so it toucheth not the Soveraign as a wrong to the Subject but as in right his own And therefore respecting their first immediate dependency upon the Crown which is a great part of the Kings Honour their duties and Escheats a great benefit and their attendance by Tenure in warre at their own charge to the number of 60216 at the least for the Knights Fees in England are no lesse a great ease strength and security to his State for they are totidem Hostagia so many Hostages as Bracton saith it were a thing perillous now to alter after such a current of time custome This King to understand the better his own strength publico praecepit edicto quod quilibet Praelatus Baro quot Milites de eo tenerent in Capite publicis suis instrumentis significarent he caused it to be proclaimed that every Prelate and Baron should notify by publick deed how many Knightships they held of him in capite By this rule of Scutage constant in the number he levied alwayes his Subsidies and relief though divers in the rate Of the first which was neare the beginning of his Reign there is no record The second Scutage a which was anno 5. amounted to 124 millia librarum argenti thousand pounds of silver which reduced to the standard of our mony 5 shil. the ounce whereas that was not five groats will amount to near 400000l An. 7. a Scutagiū fuit assessum ad duas Marcas pro Exercitu Tholosae a Scutage was assessed 2 Marks for the army at Tholouse wch if summed up by the received number of Knights Fees being 60216 in the hands of the Layety onely of our moneys cannot be lesse then 250000l The like in the next year In an. 11. b there was an Aid pro servientibus inveniendis in exercitu to find men to serve in the wars of 2d de unaquaque libra in every pound And 4. sequentibus annis de singulis libris singulis denariis in the four following yeares a penny in the pound was taken of all men the estates of mens Fortunes being delivered upon their Oaths In the 14. yeare a Scutage was assessed c ad Marcam unam de singulis Feodis one Mark on every Fee And anno 18. d Scutagium pro quo libet Feodo a Scutage for every Fee A Tenth of all moveables was granted in the 35. of his Reign In which year dying 900 e millia librarum in auro argento praeter utensilia jocalia reliquit he left in mony 900000 pounds besides Plate and Jewels f Richard the first in the beginning besides Scutagium Walliae assessum a Scutage assessed upon Wales at 10. shil. levied as in the succour of the Holy Land a Subsidie out of all the Moveables in the Realm to his own use g Et eleemosynae titulo vitium Rapacitatis inclusit cloaking his ravenous extortion under the fair name of a pious almes A contribution there was in the 6. yeare of 150 h millia marcarum argenti ad pondus Columnien sium 150000 marks of silver to pay his ransome as also a Scutage assessed at 20 shil. In the i 7. he imposed for his warrs a contribution called Tenementale Extremity for by his waste and imprisonment he had almost exhausted the wealth of the State invented nova varia praedandi vocabula new and sundry words to expresse his exactions as Tacitus a saith of Centesima Quinguage sima an hundredth part and a fiftieth part names that since have found reception and use with us This was 2. shillings of every Plough-land from the Husbandman and from the Gentry and Nobility the third part of their Military service He inforced the Cistertian Monks b to redeem the same yeare their woolls fine Pecuniaria at a Fine For his Army into Normandy c he took a Scutage assessed at 20 shillings d And 4. years after of every Plough-land 5. shillings and of every Borough and e