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.

kyng bieth ffor iij^d or iiij^d, is solde to his peple ffor ij^s and a j^d, and other while more. And the iiij^th pype off the wynes that be made in Ffraunce mey be no lityll thyng, sithyn the tyllyng off the vynes is the grettest comodite off the reame; but þat como|dite we haue not in this lande. Wher fore ther is no parte off tho maners off subsidie þat myght be gode ffor owre souerane lorde, but yff it were that he myght sell to his subgettes the salte þat comyth hyder. In wich thynge he shall haue more groch|ynge off the peple than proffett. Ffor in Ffraunce the peple salten but lytill mete, except thair bacon, for thai wolde bie litil salte; but yet thai be arted to bye more salte than thai wolde. Ffor the kynges officers bryngen to thair houses euery yere, also moche salte as by thair coniecture is ressnable to the nombre off þe men, women, and childeren that dwellen therin, ffor wich thai shall pay though thai wolnot haue so muche. This rule wolde be sore aborred in Englond, as well by the marchaunts þat bithe wonned to haue thair ffredome in biynge and sellynge off salte, as by the peple þat vsen moche to salte thair meytes more than do þe Ffrenchmen; by occasion wheroff thai woll than at euery mele groche with the kynge, þat entreteth hem more rygoursly than his progenitors haue done. And so his hyghnes shall haue þeroff, but as hadd þe man þat sherid is hogge, muche crye and litil woll. In Fflaunders, and in oþer lordeshippes off the Dukes off Burgoigne downewarde, he takith certayn imposicions made by hym selff vppon euery oxe, euery shepe, and vppon oþer thynges solde; and also vppon euery vesaill off wyne, euery barrell off bere, and oþer vitalles solde in his lordeshippes, wich is no litil revenue to hym;

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Title: 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.
Author: Fortescue, John, Sir, 1394?-1476?
Canvas: Page 132
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon Press,; 1885.
Subject terms: Political science; Monarchy; Constitutional law -- Great Britain.

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