[1] [2] [3] This yeare in the parlement holden at London (beginning the morow after the feast of saint Hila|rie, and continuing twelue wéeks) the earle of Nor|thumberland was restored vnto his former digni|ties, lands and goods,The parle|ment begin|neth againe. The earle of Northumber|land restored The Ile of Man. the Ile of Man onlie excepted, which by reason of the forfeiture made by the earle of Salisburie, the king had first giuen vnto him, and now depriued him thereof, where all his other lands, possessions, and liuings were wholie to him and his heires restored. By authoritie of the same parlement a subsidie was also granted to the king,A subsidie. of euerie knights fée twentie shillings, whether the same were holden of him by menaltie, or otherwise. Moreouer, euerie man and woman that might dispend in lands the value of twentie shillings & so vpward, aboue the reprises, whether the same lands belonged to the laie fee, or to the church, paied for euerie pound twelue pence: and those that were valued to be woorth in goods twentie pounds and vpwards, paid also after the rate of lands, that is, twelue pence for euerie pound. Abr. Fl. out of Tho. Walsin. Hypod. pag. 164. ¶ This séemeth to be that subsidie which Tho|mas Walsingham calleth a sore surcharging subsidie, or an vnaccustomed tax: the forme and maner wher|of (saith he) I had here interlaced, but that the verie granters and authors thereof had rather that the po|steritie should be vtterlie ignorant thereof, and ne|uer heare of it; sithens it was granted vpon this condition, that hereafter it should not be drawne in|to example; neither might the euidences thereof be kept in the kings treasurie, nor in the excheker; but the records thereof presentlie (after the iust ac|counts giuen vp) burned; neither should writs or commissions be sent abroad against the collectors or inquirers hereof for their better inquest.