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Fol. 131. The King presently issued out writs to all the Counties within the Realm.] Observator. Our Author is deceived in this, as in many things else; For in the first year of the Payments of Ship∣money the writs were not issued to all the Counties of England, but only to the maritine Counties, &c.

Answer. This mistake I acknowledge also. But did it de∣serve so much favour as for the Observator to give me two for one? for first he saith, in the first year of Shipmoney the writs were issued to the Maritine Counties] No such matter, it was to the maritine, to the Port-townes only. Secondly, he saith that in the next year, and not before, the like writs were issued out to the Counties in England, which is an un∣doubted truth; but whereas he gives us some more cer∣tain note of that year to be 1636. he is much out; for those general writs were issued in the year 1635. as a consequent of the opinion of the Judges in that November; and this is an undoubted truth also.