Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6789

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          <head xml:space="preserve"> Out of Sr Walter Copes Apology
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          For the Earle of </head>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Treasureship. He found dates
              <emph style="st">there</emph>
              <emph style="super">in the Exchequer</emph>
            of 3 or 400,000
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            , to the King, what
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            were separate what desperate no man knew. he sought
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            for better knowledge.
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            He caused
              <emph style="st">his</emph>
            the K. Mannors to be surveyed.
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            The K. custodye landes anciently called the crowne landes
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            conserved in the pipe. The decayed revenues he
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            retained by the K. commission of Assertes.
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            He caused the K. woodes to be surveyed.
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            He raysed the K. revenues, out of the copyholders for
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            [???]. Coppyholders
              <emph style="st">for</emph>
              <emph style="super">of</emph>
            inheritance. Mastes & commons
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            Casuall fines. extended lands surveyed.
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            He improved the customs, & advanced them from 86,000
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            to 120,000
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            . & from 120,000
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            to 135,000
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            per anum.
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            He got money for the K.
              <emph style="st">by</emph>
            from the dealers in Allome.
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            By his [???] for the Baronets
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            hath brought into the K. coffers
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            80,000
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            .
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            By his bargayne for bringing water to London likely to bring
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            in great yearly reveneu to the K.
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            He was a patron of all Industry & manufactures, of there [???] &
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            intentions. As for the [???] of Allum, of Buffes, for fishing, Copper
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            &
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            copperall of Iron & steele, sault by the home, sault upon salt,
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            & men farmers & fiers for easy </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> concerning his secretarys place &c.
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            & concerning the wardes &c.
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            I note </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> out of his answere to obiections
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            Queen Mary raysed cloth from 14
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            to a noble.
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            The Gascoigne wines from 3
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            to 4 markes.
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            Queen Elizab. raysed the sweet wines from 3
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            6
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            to 40
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            the tonne.
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            And upon the currents for every 5 hundred 5
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            6
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            .
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            He forebeare to impose upon [???] & all natures incident to the poore & upon
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            all thinges concerning the ordinance, shippes, & defence of the realme
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            but imposed specially upon silkes, spices, lawnes, cambrickes, whale bones
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            & such like thinges rather of dilicacy then necessity, allowing free
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            liberty to transport without charge what was not vented </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> All I noted out of 10 leaves
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            in 40, the
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            whole </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> I borrowed the booke of
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            M. T. Buck. 1615. </s>
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