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13. The Extraordinary underline Revenue of Our Kings deletion
The Hereditary Revenue of the Crown having been by many Grants deletion & /deletion add and /add
Alienations transfered into the
hands of private subjects, it became necessary for private Contributions to supply the place of it, besides War, Marriages of the Royal Family deletion & /deletion add and
/add Various things of the
same nature demanded extraordinary supplys from the Subject, the Patrimony of the Crown not being sufficient to answer these demands even in good Reigns deletion &
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enough to satiate the desires of Avariscous deletion & /deletion
add and /add Tyrranical Monarchs.
Innumerable were the Taxes formerly levied in this Kingdom to produce these extraordinary supplies, few of which are at present in use, many of them unintelligible, deletion & /deletion add and /add unknown
to us both with regard
to the mode of Collecting deletion & /deletion add and [[/add]
the Sums arising from
them; We shall touch upon all these in their proper order, but first promise whatever We have met with Valuable in Antient Writers relating to the