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FIfteene, is a payment graunted in Parlya∣ment to the Queene by the temporaltie, namely, the fifteenth part of their goods: And it was vsed in auncient time to bee leuyed vpon their cattell going in their groundes, which thing was verie troublesome▪ and there∣fore nowe for the most parte, that way is altered
and they vs•• to leuye the same by the yarde▪ or I∣c••e ••or other measure of land. By meanes where∣of it is nowe lesse trouble∣some, & more certeine the•• before it was. And euerie Towne and Countrey doe knowe what summe is to bee paied among them, and how the same shalbe ray∣s••d. wée read that Moises was the first that did nu∣ber the people, for •••• ••••••∣bred the Israelites, and therefore the first Taxe, subsidie, tribute, or fiftéene was inuēted by him amōg the Hebrews, as P••l••dore Virgill doth thinke.