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* 27 Eliz. cap. 1. * 27 Eliz. cap. 2. * Some even of those who defend the queen's measures, allow that in ten years fifty priests were executed, and fifty- five banished Camden, p. 649. The parliament, besides arming the queen with these powers, granted her a supply of one subsidy and two fifteenths.
The tax was so far personal, that a man paid only in the county where he lived, though he should possess estates in other counties; and the assessors formed a loose estimation of his property, and rated him accordingly. * Coke's Inst. book iv. chap. 1, cf fifteenths, quinzins. Coke's Inst. book iv. chap. 1, subsidies temporary. * Journ. 11th July, 1610. Coke's Inst. book iv. subsidies temporary.
But this generous offer was merely a lure or bait to bring the buccaneers to port, in order that the Governor might mulct them "the tenths and fifteenths of their booty as the dues of the Crown for granting them commissions." The news of the intended taxation spread abroad among the pirates.
In 1549 it was stated by the wardens of North Elmham, Norfolk, that the net proceeds of the five and thirty or forty acres which they rented out were devoted exclusively towards the paying of the fifteenths due from time to time to the king and his successors.
* D'Ewes, p. 257. D'Ewes, p. 263. The commons granted an aid of one subsidy and two fifteenths. Mildmay, in order to satisfy the house concerning the reasonableness of this grant, entered into a detail of the queen's past expenses in supporting the government, and of the increasing charges of the crown, from the daily increase in the price of all commodities. * D'Ewes, p. 246.
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