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A26573	No post from heaven, nor yet from hell but a true relation and animadversions, written and sent as an antidote to all unbelieving Brownists, prophane Anabaptists, schismaticall monsters, and such like incendiaries of the state : proving by histories, records, and examples that His Majestes taxations have not been unusuall, nor his government tyrannicall, though falsely so imputed, invented, divulged and scattered abroad / collected by Sir Robert Cotton ; and now put to presse and dedicated to His Sacred Maiestie, by G.A., Gent.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.; G. A., Gent.	1643 (1643)	Wing A8; ESTC R11162	23,326	35

Clergy he had eight tenths and a ●alfe and once out of them and the laity together besides a loane 〈◊〉 Anno quinto of 6000l By the Poll or Heads of all his people from above fifteen years ●e collected twice a contribution assessed proportionably from the Beggar to the Duke Besides in strength of prerogative only of every ship and fish●r man six pence The like of New-castle coales and of every last of corne inwards and outwards the like sum He also took their horses armour and cattel hinc factus est subditis invisus saith the Bishop of London and so it seemed for at his deposing it was one of the objected Articles against him He the first yeare of his raigne imposed upon his Subjects as formerly his Ancestors had done a personall service as Anno primo that all the Clergy shall array Armis equis competentibus from the age of 16 to 60. eos millenis centenis provisos facient Thus under grievous burthens the State laboured continually for his treasury being wastfully emptyed was as Tacitus saith of Tyberius scelere replendum by which he meant the intolerable racking of the people And therefore crave to have his present Officers removed and very hardly would be drawn any more to taxe themselves but conditionally and with this limitation that their mony should be received expended and accompted for to themselves and by Treasurers of their own election and are content in the end to load his poore dejected fortunes with the reproachfull weight of these their many burthens Thus you see this unfortunate Prince first brought into want than into contempt and last of all deposed a most remarkeable President for these our times had actions and occasions fitted opportunitie and intentions Henry the fourth HEnry the fourth in 13 yeares out of the Lands of his people received twice relief once Auxilium de medietate feodorum and againe a Noble out of every twenty pounds throughout all his Realme Out of the goods of the Commons foure times a tenth besides one for three yeares and the like one and a half for two and for three yeares a poundage at eight pence once and foure times twelve pence whereof the last was for foure yeares The like number and yeares of the tonnage the first only rated at two shillings the rest at 4 shillings the tonne Out of the moveables of the Clergy thrice a tenth and twice a moity As also out of every Stipendary Minister Fryer and such manner of persons six shillings and eight pence a piece Besides all these of all he took Anno octaevo a contribution It a gravia that it was granted Ea conditione ne trahatur in exemplum ut eandem post datum computum cremareutur Henry the fifth HEnry the fifth his Sonne next succeeded him in whose nine yeares raigne I find no charge imposed upon the Lands of his Subjects Out of the goods of the Commons he received six times the tenth and a fifteenth entirely and once 2 thirds of Staple Wares once for soure yeares and after for life Three shillings tonnage and twelve pence poundage thrice he had the tenth of his Clergy And in the eighth yeare of his raigne when the Chancellor bewailed to him in Parliament the feeblenesse and poverty of the people he who of as many attempts as he undertook Totidem fecit Monumenta Victoriae yet for redresse and ease of those miseries as Livy saith of an excellent Souldier pacem voluit quia vincere potuit and left in the ninth yeare of his raigne a peaceable successor and heire Henry the sixth HEnry the sixth Nimium foelix malo suo as the event proved for retaining paternae Majestatis nihil praeter speciem nominis By feare and facility laid the way open to his factious and ambitious kindred to work themselves into popular favour and himself into contempt which was soon done by leading the easy King by expence into extremity For besides the resumption he took on his own and his Fathers grants which was of purpose plotted to make a consumption of duty and affection towards him he out of the old inheritance of his Subjects exacted six pence in the pound in Anno the 14 and doubled twice that valuation not onely of all Lands purchased from the entrance of Edward the first but all free-hold and copy-hold under 200l and two in twenty of all above He further imposed first 6s 8d and then 20s upon every Knights fee Out of the goods of the Commons he had six tenths whereof one for three yeares besides three moities and one third of fifteens three halfes one third and eighth entire Besides these former out of the wools he had 37 thousand 1071 raised by a moity of a tenth And againe of all goods 6 shillings and 8 pence in the pound of the merchants Of Subsidies rated as in former times he had then by grant once but for a yeare trebled for three and a half this Subsidie was advanced to 33s and 4 pence of denizens and 53s 4 pence of Aliens Besides a Subsidie a loane of Aliens goods tonnage and poundage improved to 6 shillings and eight pence He took in his 18 yeare and after the rates of his Fathers time he took it first thrice 10 yeares then as often for two yeares and againe by a new grant for five yeares and in the end for terme of his life Of the Clergy he had besides one half of Dismees foure entire tenths and by the State in generall in Anno the 31. of Hen. 6. 2000 Archers maintained for half a yeare at the Common charge By the Poll he exacted in Anno the eighteenth of every merchant stranger if an housholder 16 shillings a piece if none six shillings And in Anno the 27 6 shillings 8 pence of every such stranger and 20d of their Clerks In Anno the 13 he had granted for terme of his life 10l a yeare of all inhabitants meere denizens and 20s of every stranger merchant that came into the Land The first Monopolies I find were grounded upon the extremity of these times For in Anno the the 29 th Spinalloes Merchants of Genoa had by grant for 8 thousand pounds the Sole trade of many Staple commodities as the merchants of Southampton had all Allome for the same summe Thus was this unhappy Princes Raigne all war and waste and in the end as one saith of Lepidus A Militibus à fortuna deseritur he was left a while to a disgraced life Spoliata quam tueri non poter at dignitate A wofull example and still fresh bleeding in our memories Edward the fourth EDward the fourth besides two Resumptions not onely of the grants of such Kings as he accounted de factor and not de jure to reigne But also of those made by himself a sea of profit that by infinite attainders flowed dayly into his Treasurie took not withstanding of the Lords

his service And An. the 13. enjoyned all from 20. to 60. armed and victualled at their owne charge And commanded the Sheriffs An. 6 7 8 12 16. and 18. to see all able men that parati sint muniti ad veniendum ad Regem quando vocati fuerint their weapons to be provided ad sumptus incolarum and themselves enjoyned to muster and traine every six weeks If any neglected his appoynted service there was sent to the Sheriffs a writ De habendis illis coram concilio qui praemonitinon venerunt in expeditione Regis as An. quinto one the parties imprisoned and their goods seised into the Kings hands as An the ninth and sixteenth or else redemption by Fine as the Sheriffs of Bedford and Buckingham did their men for six hundred Marks in Anno decimo quinto And the owner of fourty pound land at his first fault was punished cum tertia parte bonorum for his second Cum tota residua and for his third fuit corpora eorum ad voluntat Regis and of Knights twenty pounds de qualibet Hida as in Anno the 13. I have the longer insisted upon this Kings Reigne that tanquam in speculo we may behold the intolerable miseries and exactions charged and cast upon the Nobility Clergy and Commons in former time Edward the third EDward the third charged the Lands of his Subjects twice fourty shillings of every Knights Fee and five pounds sixteen shillings of every parish And in the 48. of his Reigne out of the goods of the Commons he took once the ninth part and the fifteenth part of Forrests and wastes twice the tenth 13. times the fifteenth for one yeare and twice for three years and once the twentieth part of all moveables and 30000. Sacks of Wooll Of the Burroughes and Cities four tenths and one for three years From the Temporall Lords the tenth sheafe Lambe and fleece who with the Bishops and Knights granted 20000 Sacks of Wooll c. Of the Clergy alone one tenth for foure years besides a contribution in the twelfth yeare of his Reigne seising the same yeare all the goods of the Clunny and Cistertian Monks Of the Church and Laity together he received six times the tenth of all their moveables And from the Merchants and Staple a Subsidy of wooll for three yeares Imposing in Anno the 33. sixe and twenty shillings and eight pence upon every Sack of wooll transported which doubled the Impositions of his father and grandfather advancing it after for six years to 40 s. And in An. the 38. being the yeare he resumed his stile of France to 46. s. 4. d. the sack of wooll taking poundage of all commodities six pence inward and outward and joyning the Merchants for every sampler of wooll transported to return in 40 s. Bullyon in his Mint himselfe becomming Merchant of all the Tin in Devon-shire and Cornwall in An. the 12. And in An. the 15 assessed upon the heads of his subjects a fine of four pence severally Besides in Anno the 20. he took a Loan of all the Bishops Abbots Iustices aliis potentioribus Regnide diversis pecuniarum summis inter summas of one hundred thousand and forty pounds In the first yeare of his Reigne he commanded all the Sea-Townes to attend with shippes his service sumptibus propriis auplici Eskippamento and to provide them of 60. Townes and upwards And in the yeare following layeth the like charge upon 76. Port Towns for all ships of forty Tuns and more And in Anno the tenth the like at their owne charge besides a contribution of money for payment whereof the Officers are commanded Ut eos per districtiones et alias punitiones prout expedire viderint compellant enjoyning such Merchants of London Qui ex transmarinis passagiis lucra adquirunt To furnish Ships for war at their own charge And in Anno the 14. the Cinque Ports set out to Sea thirty ships and maintained them during the service half at their own and halfe at the Countries charge eighty being furnished and defrayed by the out-Ports and the Admirall being directed to Imbargue all the other shippes for the Kings service And although the Subjects found this an infinite grievance yet could they not upon humble complaint in Parliament receive any further relief but that the King would not have it otherwise than before For provision hee took of his subjects 19000 Quarters of Graine 2200. Oxen salted and 3000 Bacons besides of other provisions an infinite quantity and the like was very frequent all his Reigne The persons of all meaner subjects from sixteen to sixty he caused to be armed in a readinesse and the Gentry and Nobility supplying the King at their owne charges with seven hundred or eight hundred men at Arms and two thousand or three thousand Archers as An. the 14. with other proportions for divers yeares following And the Bishops ordered to furnish Armis et equis competentibus so many as occasion required So that seeing these things were so grievous and burthensome unto them they in the 22. yeare of his Reigne complayned in Parliament of the miseries they underwent thereby as of their ayds advanced to forty shillings fine that in Law should bee but twenty shillings Their setting forth of men and the Kings taking of their victualls without payment the Sea left to the charge of their keeping And from their Woolls by way of Subsidie there was 6000l yearly exacted without Law besides the lending of ●…onyes and themselves restrained from transporting any yet ●●…ch was the necessity of those times that they neither had redresse of their complaint nor the State one yeare free or dischar●ed of contributions impositions and exactions all his raigne Richard the second RIchard the second succeeding his Grandfather took of the Clergy and laity once the tenth of all their Lands and ●hrice the goods of the Comm. the like entirely and 6 times the ●…alf twelve times a fifteenth and 6 times the moity And had Anno the 21 granted one tenth to him and a fifteenth ●nd a half of either of them yearly for terme of life From out of the Boroughs and Cities thrice a full tenth and ●…nce a moity Out of all merchandize he received three yeares six pence in the ●…ound and once twelve pence And for every tonne of wine and such commodities six pence ●or two yeares doubling it for as many and trebling it for as many The custome of wools rated by Edward the first at a Noble a ●●…ck and under his Son increased asmuch more was to this King ●wo shillings and eight pence which single for eight yeares he ●ad granted unto him besides once for three yeares and once for ●…ure having after improved it to foure and thirty shillings and ●…ure pence the sack The sum of these Subsidies in Anno decimo quarto amounted un●… 160000 pounds From out of the goods of the

spirituall and temporall onely a tenth of their yearly possessions and of the Commons six tenthes three quarters and the like proportion of fifteens A Benevolence in An. the 14. which Fabian calleth a new contribution and chargeth them in An. the 12. with the wages of his Archers to the sum of 51117. l. Of the Merchants he took Tonnage and Poundage for terme of life Besides of Merchants as well Denizens as strangers a Subsidy the two and twentieth of his reigne leaving his kingdome in the next to the few dayes of his sonne Edward the fifth FOr Ostendunt Terris hunc tantum fata nec ultra esse sinent Richard the third RIchard the third his Vncle succeeded homo ingeniosissimèe nequam facundus malo publico full of art to beguile the people he to make a just semblance of his unjust entry besides his act of Parliament full of dangerous untruthes dissembled the part of an excellent Prince making the Commons believe by a statute to which he gave first form of life discharged them for ever of all exactions called benevolences so that in all his short and wicked reigne I find recorded but once any taxe upon the people and that was tenths granted by the Clergy of both Provinces Henry the seventh HEnry the seventh succeeding resumed in the third of his Reigne most of the grants of Offices made by his brother and assessed upon the Lands onely of his Subjects but one ayd in Anno the 19. out of their goods and lands a tenth peny and fifteenth arising to the sum of 120000. He took three Subsidies whereof the last was not above 36000. pounds And one benevolence and an entire sum of the City of Lond. of 9688. l. 17. s. 4. d. Of the Clergy he had twice the tenth and 25000 pound by way of Subsidy and of them and the Commons two Loans the City of London rated at 6000. l. the other not definite in proportion but so assessed as the Commissioners and the Lenders could agree c. But that whereby he heaped up his Masse of Treasure for he left in Bullion four Millions and a halfe besides his plate jewels and rich attire of house was by sale of Offices Redemption of penalties dispensing with Lawes and such like to the yearly value of 120000. l. Henrie the eighth HEnrie the eighth his successor reaping the fruit of his Fathers Labour gave ease of burthen to his Subjects his first two yeares taking within the compasse of his other thirty foure three tenths of the Commons foure fifteens six Subsidies whereof that in An. quarto amounted to 160000 l. And that in An. the 7. to 110000. l. Tonnage he had and poundage also besides many other taxatious loans and benevolences which I here purposely omit because I hasten to an end I will therefore touch two of the most remarkable and those were taken by strength of prerogative also c. The one was that in Anno the 17. acted by Commissioners who as themselves were sworn to the service so were they to sweare all those with whom they did conferre or contract the rates directed by instructions as the thirds of all goods Offices and lands above ten pounds and the fourth under The other about An. the 36. Exacteth out of all goods Offices and lands from 40 pounds to twenty eight pence in the pound and of all above twelve pence in the pound And amongst the many Loans there is none more notorious than that of the 14. which was ten pound in the hundred of all goods jewells utensils and Land from twenty to three hundred pounds and twenty Marcks of all above as farre as the Subjects fortune revealed by the extremity of his oath would reveale And to the Revenues of his Crown he added a masse of treasure by an inhumane spoyle of sacred Monuments and impious ruine of holy Churches if Gods blessing could have accompanyed so foule an act Edward the sixth EDward the sixth his sonne besides Tonnage and Poundage for life in Anno the 1. received of his Lay subjects six fifteens and of both three Subsidies leaving one of the temporality ungathered with his sister Queen Marie QVeen Marie remitted in Anno primo of her Reigne yet was she inforced to presse upon her people and besides the Loan in Anno 1. for terme of life granted unto her by Parliament shee laid an imposition of six shillings eight-pence upon Wines and a new imposition upon French Wines and took besides five fifteens of the Commons and of them and of the Clergy three years Subsidies Queen Elizabeth QVeen Elizabeth her Sister of happy memory succeeding besides divers Loans of her people and others in forraign parts with the imposition upon cloathes and French wines had by grant of her subjects thirty eight fiftteens twenty Subsidies of the Commons and eight and twenty of the Clergy All which together rose to a summe of two Millions and 800000. pounds Thus having at the last drawne downe the many and mighty pressing burthens of this Common-weale which were and have bin taken either by prerogative power or by general grant I hope by this time you perceive that His Majesties Taxations are not nay have not beene so frequent or usuall so many or intolerable nor yet either in quantity or quality to them in any degree comparable Let us then see in what or wherein His Majesty hath transcended or wherein or by what meanes those few compared to this multitude should lye so heavy and be such a gnawing corrosive unto the subjects heart that he and he alone of all his Predecessors excepting two and they had Competitors must be by these fire-brands of strife and the very tempests of sedition thus hatefully detracted scorned and vilified Is it for Tonnage or Poundage why that was taken by Edw. the second Edward the third Henry the fourth Henry the fifth Henry the sixth Edw. the fourth Henry the seventh Henry the eighth and Edw. the sixth Is it for ships or ship-money why that was taken likewise by Wil. the Conquerour Ed. the second Ed. the third and Rich. the second Is it for Monopolies why that was first invented by Henry the sixth and so hath since continued Is it for ●essing all men by the Poll or head why that was done by Edward the first Richard the second and Henry the sixth And yet I pray you understand how it came to him and observe the cause that first drew him into this want and thus exhausted his Treasure it was by reason of our good Brethren of Scotlands rising mistake me not for I do not meane their fleshly but their spirituall rising who like the Ammonites and Moabites were to the children of Israel so were they at that present to us like Thornes in our eyes and Goads in our sides And thus you see how far short his Majesty is or hath been of his Predecessors to lay unusuall and unheard of taxations upon us their little fingers having been heavier

No POST from HEAVEN Nor yet from HELL But a true Relation and Animadversions written and sent as an Antidote to all Unbelieving Brownists Prophane Anabaptists Schismaticall Monsters And such like Incendiaries of the STATE Proving by Histories Records and Examples That his Majestes Taxations have not been unusuall nor his Government Tyrannicall though falsely so imputed invented divulged and scattered abroad Collected by Sir ROBERT COTTON And now put to presse and Dedicated to His Sacred MAIESTIE By G. A. Gent. Printed at OXFORD 1643. TO THE High and Mightie Monarch CHARLES King of great Brittaine France Ireland Defend of the Faith c. Wishing a glorious Conquest on Earth and a triumphant Victory in He●●●● Great SIR APPELLES having drawn an exquisite picture ambition tickling Fancy set it to the view of Censure and covertly concealed himself Time brought to light an Artist more curious than Acute he sees dislikes Appelles mends and puts ●… to the view againe in short time after he returnes reviews 〈◊〉 nd still dislikes Appelles marking his transcendency and find●ng his imbecillity dislodges himself and suddainly lets slip this ●…itter Curbe Sutor ne ultra crepidam So if I Oh King like to this unskilfull Artist have presumed Icarus-like to soare above my pitch and Phaeton-like to mount the Chariot of the Golden Sun Let it I beseech you be im●…uted to Error Amoris which I am always bound to offer and not to Amor Erroris which I may not I must not nay I dare not proffer Be pleased then to cast your Princely eye upon this undigested lumpe of Virgins waxe and do but grace it with one Royal smile and then you Arme and make him able to incounter with that triple headed Monster base ingratitude at this present your Majesties greatest and heaviest enemy but could it infuse into me the strength of Sampson I would tye those Foxes tayles together that go about to disturbe your Peace and drive them into a Desert where they should never returne againe either to destroy your Corne or hurt your Pasture but Oh my good wishes fall short of my true hearts intention howsoever this vigor it will adde unto me that I shall neither expect the hopes of any nor fear the votes of many but merrily chant this Miscellany Nec habeo nec careo nec curo And so upon the bended knees of my heart praying for your Majesties long and happy Raigne over us I humbly kisse your Royall hand Your Majesties poore and unfortunate yet most true and loyall Subject G. A. NO POST FROM HEAVEN Nor yet from Hell But a true Relation and Animadversion written and sent as an Antidote to all unbelieving Brownists Prophane Anabaptists Schismaticall Monsters and such like Incendiaries of the State c. TO search for forraigne Stories or to trace into the foot-steps of Royall and regall governements of remote and farre Countries and Kingdomes for proofes to make good my Assertions unlese I can by some of our own domestique and authentique records and examples make them first appeare were but Nodum in scripo quaerere and would rather savour of too much curiosity than give any true rellish unto verity My first intention therefore was to have both fully and at large set down all the exactions impositions taxes and loanes that have been either by prerogative power or generall grant exacted leavyed taken and set upon this State from William the Conquerors time to King Iames But having sithence propounded to my self brevity and to shunne prolixity I will therefore only with as light a hand and in as short a way as possibly I can summarily draw up those which do most concerne and conduce to this present discourse and cursorily runne over the residue that so the curious and the carping may perceive and the judicicus and religious judge that His Majesty hath not so far transcended his bounds of government as is most scandalously and most injuriously cast upon him 2 Then will I in a short Method and very briefely compare His Majesties taxations and theirs together 3 And lastly I shall compendiously touch those Exactions Impositions and Gabells practised used and taken in forraigne States and Kingdomes that so these Sonnes of Belial Those that have Jacob's voyce but Esau's hands whose broyling spirits doe nothing but fling fire-brands and heap on wood to set Kingdomes in combustion those that are a nurcery of warre a Seminary of Schisme whose very thoughts are barbarous and their actions bloudy the children of darknesse and the very spawne and off-spring of cursed Cham may see their nakednesse consesse their Errour flye for covert crave for mercy and pray for repentance William the Conqueror ANd first to begin with William the Conquerour who in the entrance of his Government tooke of every Hideland twelve pence as due from the Subject to their Soveraigne both before and since the Conquest to defray such charge as either the defence of the land from spoyle or the Sea from piracy should expose the Prince unto And it was called Danegeld Gelda Regis or Hidage and was sessed by the Hide or plough-land like to that Ingrata per Iugerae in Rome yet by no rate definite He also took other Exactions as the Monk of St. Albans saith Sive per fas sive per nefas And into this list also of charge he racked the Bishops Abbots seising upon them and at their charge a proportion of souldiers for his service exiling many worthy men that opposed as they then thought his thraldome William Rufus THe next is Will Rufus who in the An. 7. set upon the Heads of so many as he mustered up for the French wars 10. 〈◊〉 man and so discharged them And in Anno the 9. he spoyled the Churches of their Ornaments and holy vessels and leavyed four Hidages of every plough Land Tribut is Angliam modo non abradens sed extorciens And so wearyed with wars taxations and expence Ne respirare potuit Anglia sub ipso suffocata quid jam non Regibus ausum aut quid jam Regni restat scelus in this Kings time Henry the first THen Henry the first who in Anno quinto magnam a Regno exegit pecuniam And by this means gravabitur terra Angliae opressionibus multis He took also in the 10. year six shillings danegeld and the 17. year Anglia fuit variis depressa exactionibus bonis sine peccato spoliata King Stephen FOr King Stephen there needs no more but the words of the Monk of Gisbourn Post annum sext pax nulla omnes partes torrebat violenta praedatio Henry the second HEnry the second alluding and not unlike to the Feoda given the Erem it es in the decline of the Empire as Salaries continued the policy of his Progenitors who allotted the land into such and so many equall portions as might seem competent for the supportation of a Knight or man at arms from whom as occasion required he

received either service or contribution This tenure now esteemed a thraldom began upon a voluntary submission and therefore respecting their first immediate dependancy 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 war at their nown charge to the number of 60216. at the least for the Knights sees in England are no lesse a great case and strength to his State for they are Totidom hostagia as Bracton sayth It were a thing perillous now to alter after such a current of time and custome He in the beginning of his Reigne took a Scutage whereof there is no record But the second Scutage which was in Anno quinto amounted to 124 Millia Librarum Argenti which reduced to the Standard of our monies to 5. s. the Ounce whereas that was not five groats will amount to neare 400000. l. In Anno the 7. Scutagium fuit Assessum and duas Marcas which if summed up by the received number of Knights sees being 60216. in the hands of the Layety cannot be lesse than 250000 l. The like in the next year and in An. the 11. there was an ayd of two pence de unaquaque Libra And quatuor sequentibus Annis de singulis libris singulas denarias was taken of all men and their estates and full fortunes being delivered upon their oaths And in the 14. year a Scutage was assessed ad marcam unam de singulis feodis And in the 18. year Scutagium pro quolibet Feoda And in the 35. of his Raigne a tenth of all mens moveables was granted In which dying 900. Millia libr. in Auro Argento praeter utensilia Jocaliaretulit Richard the first RIchard the first in the beginning of his Reigne besides Scutagium Walliae assessum at ten shillings leavied as in the succour of the holy Land a Subsidy out of all the moveables in the Realm to his owne use Et Eleeno sine titulo vitium rapacitatis inclusit A Coutribution there was in his sixth year of 150 Millia Marcarum Argenti to pay his ransom as also a Scutage assessed at 20. s. And in the 7. year he imposeth a contribution called Tenementale extremity inventing Nova varia praedandi vecabula and this was 2 s. of every plough-land from the husband-man and from the gentry nobility the 3. part of their Militarie service He enforced the Cistertian Monks to redeem their Wools sine Coriaria assessed a Scutage at 20 s. and four years after of every plough Land 5 shillings and of every Burrough and City Duos Palfridos totidem summarias and of every Abbot halfe asmuch than loosing of purpose his great seale proclaimed that Omnes Chartae Confirmationes quae Prioris sigilli impressione roboraverat should be void whereby he drew from all men a composition of their Liberties This fashion was afterwards taken up by some of his successors as in the eleventh of Henry the thirds raigne and therefore some reason Richard had in the end to become a gatherer that had not long before by accompt of his Chancellor Hubert then Archbishop spent Intra biennium undecies centena millia Marcarum argenti de regno Angliae King Iohn HIs Brother King Iohn succeeding took in the first yeare of his raigne a Scutage assessed at two marcks for the two next yeares three shillings of every plough-Land and the yeare following besides a Scutage the fourtieth of the revenues of the Clergy and laity In the fourth yeare he took the like Scutage and the seventh part of the Moveables of the Barons and Clergy and in Anno quinto a Scutage assessed at two marcks The like in his six and seventh yeares twenty shillings Scutage and the thirteenth part of the Moveables aswell of the Clergy as the laity in the yeare following In Anno the ninth he exacted by redemption of the concubines of the Clergy a great sum and in the eleventh Extorsit tributum grave videlicet 140 millia librarum à viris Ecclesiasticis Clericorum horreum invadit In the 12 a Scutage assessed at two marcks besides the exaction of 22000 l. from the Cistertians He took in the 13 yeare a Scutage of 20 shillings In the yeare following from the Ministers of the Church 40000 marcks And in the 16 yeare Scutagium assessum ad tres Marcas Thus in the space of 17 yeares was the State delivered but thrice from impositions Henry the third ANd now for Henry the third there was in his time assessed upon the Clergy Nobility and Gentry fifteen Scutages one at ten shillings two at 20 shillings eight at two marcks and foure at fourty shillings the Knights see The Land of the Inferior were twice taxed at half a marck the plough and two tallages upon the Land of the Crown From out of the moveable goods of the lay Subjects have been taken five times as sometimes the fourtyth thirtyth twentyth and fifteenth parts and once the sixteenth of the Clergy for this King He likewise imposed nine times a tenth upon the Church six times for a yeare only and by it self once accompanyed with the first fruits once for three yeares and once for five besides two Aides the one Moderate the other called gravis Exactio and that worthily if to the eight hundred marcks imposed upon Saint Edmonds-Bury all the other Abbyes were rated accordingly And by the accompt of William de Middleton he received in the time of his governement de exitu Scutagium foure millions and 20000 l. And as in all the 56 yeares of his raigne excepting five either the Church or Common-wealth were charged with contribution and taxes so were they grieved with other exactions either for carriages victualls or personall attendance For in his sixteenth yeare the inhabitants of Winchelsey were enjoyned ut providerent decem bonas naves magnas And at another time for twenty Dunwich and Ipswich five a peece and all the ports proportionably at their own charge And in the same yeare there was taken and transported 100000 quarters of wheate 5000 of oates and many Bacons the Church not forborne in those charges for from Winchester was taken 2000 quarters of wheate and oares and 10000 of Bacons the other Bishops and Clergy bearing their charges of victuals in the like taxations comming ut unda supervenit undae ac si esset Anglia puteus inexhaustus And in the twelventh and fourteenth the King levieth Souldiers for his wars beyond Sea collecting Pro runcata sui de singulis duobus hidis curi and to bring secum victualia and those that were dispenced withall to contribute for victualls to those that went for fourty days commanding the Sheriffes to sweare all Ad arma c. as were sworn in the time of K. Iohn his Father by wth ordinance all able Subjects from youth to

decripit age were bound to arme themselves and be in continuall readinesse à sero usque ad mane for so the record is to attend the Kings pleasure and these men thus sworne to bring with them Lericas Ha●bioues c. and to such as neglected he sent out his writs reprehending at first Iurgatoriae eo quod c. and after finding them according to their abilities and tenures as taking in Anno the 26 of William de Umfrevile 100 marcks and so in proportion of many others Edward the first EDward the first exacted from the Lands of his Subjects foure times Scutage assessed at every time 40 shillings the Knights fee and once an ayde called Auxilium novum which he farmed out for ready mony Out of the rents of the Clergy he tooke a tenth part twice for one yeare and once for six and the twentyth part twice from both the Provinces and once for two yeares from Canterbury only and seised once into his own hands the possessions of the Priors Aliens Of the goods of the Clergy he took the thirtieth fifteenth and the fifth part once the moity three times and the tenth seven times first for two yeares and then for three yeares and once for six yeares Of the goods of the Commons the eighth the ninth and the twelveth part he took once twice severally the tenth and 11h the Sessors being sworn to leavy and rate truly Three times he had the fifteenth part and once the moity of a fifteenth from the Clergy and laity together And this King had granted of the moveables a tenth a fifteenth and a third part of the Cities and Boroughs besides a great loane on the seventh and eighth and twice the sixth part from the Merchants and a twentyth and seven portion once of there commodities imposing a new custome of a Noble uponevery sack of wooll which he let out to farme And under pretence of some breach of amity with those parts whither his Merchants traded he seised in Anno the 22. all the wools 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 the same yeare to the distast of the Pope and murmur of the Clergy all the mony gathered In Subsidium Terre Sanctae And lastly upon the persons of his Subjects he imposed one tallage sessed either in Communi or per capita and twice the like upon the Iews whereof the one amounted to 5000 marcks Neither were his people freed from attendance in their persons or exactions in their estates all his raigne for there was but one yeare of intermission from continuall payments for in record there appeare his writs to the Sheriffes as in Anno the 31 De peditibus eligendis de tota Anglia and to be found by their severall Countries calling his Earles Barons and Knights to personall service according to their Tenures Edward the second EDward the second his Son assessed upon the Lands of his Subjects one or two Marcks at once at ten shillings the Knights fee From the revenues of the Clergy rated by the book of tenths he at distinct times took 4 5 and 6d in the marck and once a fifteenth part of the whole From the goods of the Clergy a tenth for three yeares and twice a loane from the Abbots and Bishops From the laity besides a tallage of their moveables in Cities and Boroughs once a tenth twice a fifteenth and twice a twentieth part of their goods besides a loane from the Commons and ten shillings borrowed upon every sack of wooll from merchant strangers and a Noble from others Clergy and laity together Of their goods a tenth a fifteenth and twice an eighteenth part besides a loane He augmented his Fathers new Custome with an imposition of a Noble more upon every sack of wooll And in Anno decimo because he was infinitam pecuniam effundere he seiseth and increaseth an imposition upon all commodities inward and outward to an extream rate causeth the Commons in every shire to lay down monies in deposito to pay his Souldiers And took from the Nobility and Gentry a large contribution and seized Omnes lanas coria mercatorum c. He charged the Ports and Sea-Towns twelve severall yeares Adcostos suos sumptibus villarum as the Record sayth to set to sea in his service ships furnished Armis victualibus sometimes for one moneths space as in Anno the 11. Sometimes for four as in Anno the twelfth Sometimes for seven And Anno quarto the number of ships more or lesse occasion required And in Anno the seventeenth Southampton was charged with six and 180. Sea-townes more with ratable proportions for the Kings service And in Anno the 18. imbarguing all the ships that were in any Port that were of 40 Tuns and upwards or of 50 Tuns and upwards And in Anno 2. causing the Town of Southampton to build a Gally for himself of 120. Oars and commanding all the Sheriffs for provision of victualls And in An. 1. 4. 9. To provide De exitibus Comitatus ad certum pretium Sometimes to the proportion of 3500 quarters of Corne and many Bacons as An. the 16. and to send them to the Kings Army as also Carrecta Carra cum equis Bobus out of every severall County Sometimes he made the Forts to send provision themselves as An. the 7. and not to suffer any ship with victualls Ibidem discariari And herein not sparing the Church exacted the first three years Fermenta alia victualia from them Besides the former charges the persons of all men as well of the Nobility as meaner Rank were at their owne charges often enjoyned to serve as in the 6 7 8 9 10 and 16 of this King when they were called singulatim as well Knights and Noblemen as such as held 40 pound land according to their Tenures subforisfactur Terrarum Cattallorum equis Armis sumpti bus propriis c. And of this the Clergy were not exempted as in Anno the 16. of this King And in the first three years of this King out of one Town one umptibus propriis for forty dayes As Anno the 5. one Or for 16. days as Anno novo one or proseptem septimanis one as Anno quarto Sometimes a thousand in one Countrey as Anno 3. Sometimes an entire Army of 18300 as in An. the 11. And 48. thousand 800. at the charge of all the Countries And An. decimo quinto London sumptibus Civitatis sound 500 men for 40 dayes And the like An. the 18. The King likewise commanded Anno the sixteenth that all men of forty shillings Lands and upwards should rateably send to his service Men And Annis 9 10 15. and 16. that all jurati ad arma or from 16 to 60. secundum Stat. Wincestriae should attend