The governance of England: otherwise called The difference between an absolute and a limited monarchy. A rev. text edited with introd., notes, and appendices by Charles Plummer.

Now that the lykennes off the kynges charges ordinarie and extraordinarie bith shewid, and ouer that, how necessarie it is that he haue grete livelod aboff þe same charges, in wich it nedyth þat he excede gretly euery man off the lande, wych livelod vndoutedly he hath not at þis day; hyt is therfore byhouefull þat we now serch how the kyng mey haue such livelod; but ffirst, off what comodites it mey best be take. The kyng off Ffraunce myght not sumtyme dyspende off his demaynes, as in lorde|shippes, and oþer patrimonie peculier, so mich as myght tho the kynge off England; wich mey well appere be that the qwene off Ffraunce hath but v. Ml marke yerely to huyr douer, wher as the qwene off Englond hath x. Ml marke. Ffor in tho dayis ther was but litle more off the reaume off Ffraunce in the kynges handes, but þat parte wich is callyd the Ile off Ffraunce. Ffor all the remenant off the reaume as Burgonye, Normandye, Guyne, Cham|payne, Langdoke, and Fflaunders, with mony oþer such grete lordshippes, were than in the handes off the Dussepers, and off oþer princes and grete lordis. Ffor wych cause the gabell off the salt, and the quaterimes of the wynes were graunted to the kynge by the iij estates off Ffraunce, wych was no litill subsidie. Ffor ther is no man in Ffraunce þat mey eyte salt, but yff he bie it off the kyng; and that is now sett to so grete prise, þat the bushell, wich the