Compare 1577 edition: 1 This demand was inforced on the morrow after, by sir Thomas Moore then speaker of the parlement: but he spake not so much in persuading the house to grant it, but other spake as earnestlie against it, so that the matter was argued to and fro, and handled to the vttermost.Hard hold a|bout grant of the great subsidie. There were that proued how it was not possible to haue it leuied in monie, for men of lands and great substance had not the fift part of the same in coine. And sith the king by the loane had re|ceiued two shillings of the pound, which by this rate amounted to 400000 pounds: and new to haue foure shillings of the pound, it would amount in the whole vnto twelue hundred thousand pounds, which is first and last six shillings of the pound, being al|most a third part of euerie mans goods, which in coine might not be had within this realme.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 For the proofe whereof was alleaged, that if there were in England but tw [...]ntie thousand parishes, and euerie parish should gi [...] an hundred markes, that were but fiftéene hundr [...] thousand markes, which is but an hundred thousand pounds; and there be not ve|rie manie parishes in England one with another, a|ble to spare an hundred markes,There are no [...] 10000 pari|shes in Eng|land as Stow hath trulie noted. out of cities and townes. And where it is written, that in England there be fortie thousand parish churches, it was proo|ued that there were not thirtéene thousand at this daie. Hard hold there was about this demand, and certeine wise and discréet persons were sent to the cardinall, to mooue him to be a meane to the king,The obstinate answer of the cardinall to the motion of the common house in the parlement. that a lesse summe might be accepted: but he answe|red that he would rather haue his toong plucked out of his head with a paire of pinsers, than to mooue the king to take anie lesse summe: and so with that an|swer they departed, reporting to the house the cardi|nals words. Then euerie daie was reasoning, but nothing concluded.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Wherevpon the cardinall came againe into the lower house, and desired that he might reason with them that were against the demand: but he was an|swered that the order of that house was to heare, and not to reason, except amongst themselues. There he began to shew arguments of the great wealth of the EEBO page image 878 realme, so that it might be thought, that he repined and disdained that anie man should be wealthie but himselfe. After he was gone, the commons debated the matter according to their former maner, and so in the end concluded of two shillings in the pound, from twentie pounds vpwards, and from fortie shil|lings to twentie pounds, of euerie twentie shillings twelue pence, and vnder fortie shillings of euerie head of sixtéene yeeres and vpward foure pence to be paid in two yeares. When this was notified to the cardinall, he was much therwith offended, so that to please him, at length, the gentlemen of fiftie pounds land and vpward, by the liberall motion of sir Iohn Huseie,Sir Iohn Huseie. a knight of Lincolnshire, were burdened with twelue pence more of the pound of the same lands, to be paid in thrée yeares.