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"My old friend, Colonel Benbow," said he, "what do you here?" "I have," returned the colonel, "a place of 80 pounds a-year, in which I serve your majesty as cheerfully as if it brought me in 4000 pounds a-year." "Alas!" said the king, "is that all that could be found for an old friend of Worcester?
The available, unpledged revenue of the kingdom hardly amounted to five millions of dollars a-year. The regular annual income of the church was at least six millions. The whole personal property of the nation was estimated in a very clumsy and unsatisfactory way, no doubt at sixty millions of dollars.
Lay long, talking with my wife, and did of my own accord come to an allowance of her of L30 a-year for all expences, clothes and everything, which she was mightily pleased with, it being more than ever she asked or expected, and so rose, with much content, and up with W. Hewer to White Hall, there to speak with Mr.
'I'd rather have a pot of beer out of the pewter, said Caldigate. 'Very like. One doesn't drink cham paign because it's better nor anything else. A nobbler of brandy's worth ten of it. It's the glory of out-facing the swells at their own game. There was a chap over in the other colony shod his horse with gold, and he had to go shepherding afterwards for thirty pounds a-year and his grub.
Though he had a good living at least, what the laity in speaking of clerical incomes is generally inclined to call a good living, we will say amounting in value to four hundred pounds a-year he was always in debt. This was the more inexcusable as he had no children, and had some small private means. And nobody knew why he was in debt in which word nobody he himself must certainly be included.
But tell me, can we that is, Elsie and me can we live in Edinburgh on twenty-four pounds a-year?" "I have known many a family brought up decently on as little, or even less," said Peggy; "but then they were differently bred from you and could live hard. Porridge and potatoes, and muslin kail, with a salt herring now and then."
He is fifty years old, and has five children by his former wife. 'I don't see why he shouldn't be a good husband for all that. 'And Plum-cum-Pippins is less than £300 a-year. Poor dear Julia! 'I believe you are jealous, John. 'Well; yes. Look at the way she has underscored it.
They did here in the House talk boldly of the King's bad Counsellors, and how they must all be turned out, and many others, and better brought in: and the proceedings of the Long-Parliament in the beginning of the war were called to memory; and the King's bad intelligence was mentioned, wherein they were bitter against my Lord Arlington, saying, among other things, that whatever Morrice's was, who declared he had but 750l. a-year allowed him for intelligence, the King paid too dear for my Lord Arlington's in giving him 10,000l. and a Barony for it.
In the mean time, till all these alterations could be made from the savings of an income of five hundred a-year by a woman who never saved in her life, they were wise enough to be contented with the house as it was; and each of them was busy in arranging their particular concerns, and endeavoring, by placing around them books and other possessions, to form themselves a home.
That is to say, that, during the last year of British rule, the revenue of the country more than doubled itself, and amounted to about 160,000 pounds a-year, taking the quarterly returns at the low average of 40,000 pounds. It must, however, be remembered that this sum would have been very largely increased in subsequent years, most probably doubled.
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