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Now hauing store to spend in such order, there is no reason, but that to your prince you should much more be well willing & readie to yeeld your selues contributorie and dutifull, and therefore you must paie. To the other sort he said: Albeit your liuings be not of the best, yet good, sufficient, and able to mainteine you in better estate than you doo imploie it: but it appeareth that you are frugall and thriftie men; and what others doo voluntarilie spend in apparell, house, and familie, you warilie doo keepe, and haue it to lie by you; and therefore it is good reason that of your store you should spare with a good will and contribute to your prince; wherefore be contented, for you shall paie. And so by this pretie dilemma he reduced them to yeeld a good paiment to the king.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king after he had gotten a great masse of monie togither, hauing pitie on the people, which oppressed with the sharp proceedings of his greedie officers, cried daily to God for vengeance, ment to haue depriued them of their offices (as some write) & that such monie as had beene violentlie exacted, should haue beene restored and deliuered againe, if he had not bene preuented by death. And yet by his last will he commanded that it should be dulie and truelie performed, but in the meane season many mens coffers were emptied. [Thomas Kneisworth maior of London for this yeare, of his owne goods, builded the conduit on Bishops gate. He gaue to the fishmongers certeine tenements, for the which they be bound to find foure scholers that studie art; two at Oxford, and two at Cambridge, euerie of them fourse pounds the yeare. They be bound also to giue to twelue aged poore people of their companie, to euerie one of them at Bartholemew tide a winter garment for euer. Also to giue to the prisoners of Ludgate and Newgate euerie yeare fortie shillings, &c. The fift of Ianuarie in the night, the kings chamber was fired at Richmond, the which might not be quenched, till manie curteins, carpets, rich beds, and much other stuffe was consumed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this verie season, and the yeare of our Lord 1506, Elizabeth queene of Castile died without issue male, by reason whereof the inheritance of Castile (bicause that kingdome is not partible) descended to ladie Iane hir eldest daughter by king Ferdinando, the which was maried to Philip archduke of Austrich. Wherefore the yeare following, about the sixt day of Ianuarie, hauing a great nauie prepared, he intituled now king of Castile, sailed out of Flanders with his wife towards Spaine; but by a mightie tempest of wind and foule weather, the whole nauie was dispersed and sparkled abroad in diuerse places on the coasts of England. The kings ship with two other vessels were blowne by tempest on the west part of the realme, to the port of Weimouth in Dorsetshire. The king being wearied with the tossing of the seas, as one not accustomed thereto, contrarie to the mind of his councellors, came on land to refresh him selfe.

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