The antiquity, legality, reason, duty and necessity of præ-emption and prourveyance, for the King, or, Compositions for his pourveyance as they were used and taken for the provisions of the Kings household, the small charge and burthen thereof to the people, and the many for the author, great mischiefs and inconveniences which will inevitably follow the taking of them away / by Fabian Philipps.

Title

The antiquity, legality, reason, duty and necessity of præ-emption and prourveyance, for the King, or, Compositions for his pourveyance as they were used and taken for the provisions of the Kings household, the small charge and burthen thereof to the people, and the many for the author, great mischiefs and inconveniences which will inevitably follow the taking of them away / by Fabian Philipps.

Author

Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.

Publication

London :: Printed by Richard Hodgkinson for the author, and are to be sold by Henry Marsh ...,

1663.

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Subject terms

Pre-emption -- England.

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Contents

• title page
• To the Right Learned and truely Noble Lord, Christopher Lord Hatton, Baron of Kirkby, Knight of the Bath, Governor of the Isle of Guarnesey, and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Ho∣norable Privy Council.
• THE CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS.
• The Antiquity, Legality, Reason, Duty and Necessity of Prae-emption and Pourveyance, for the King: Or, Compositions for his Pour∣veyance, as they were used and taken for the Provisions of the Kings Houshold, the small charge and burthen thereof to the People, and the many great Mischiefs and Inconveniences which will inevitably follow the taking of them away.
  • CHAP. I. The Antiquity of Regal Pourveyance and Praeemption, for the maintenance of the Kings Houses, Navy, Ca∣stles, & Garrisons, attended by a Jus Gentium, and reaso∣nable Customs, of the most or better part of other Nations.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Use and Allowance of Pourveyance in England, and our British Isles
  • CHAP. III. The reason of Prae-emption and Regall Pourveyance, or Composition for the Provision of the Kings Houshold.
  • CHAP. IV. The right use of the Praeemption and Pourveyance, and Compositions for them.
  • CHAP. V. Necessity that the King should have and enjoy his An∣cient Right of Pourveyance, or Compositions for them.
  • CHAP. VI. The small charge of the Pourveyance or Compositions for it, to or upon such of the people as were chargeable with it.
  • CHAP. VII. That the supposed plenty of money, and Gold, and Silver in England since the Conquest of the West Indies by the Spaniards, hath not been a cause of raising the pri∣ces of food and victuals in England.
  • CHAP. VIII. That it is the interest of the people of England to revive again the Ancient and legal usage of his Majesties just rights of Praeemption and Pourveyance, or Compositions for them.
• ERRATA, OR FAVLTS escaped in the Printing.