54 ([return])
[ Carte's Life of Ormond.]
55 ([return])
[ Pepys's Diary, Feb. 14, 1668-9.]
56 ([return])
[ See the Report of the Bath and Montague case, which was decided by Lord Keeper Somers, in December, 1693.]
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[ During three quarters of a year, beginning from Christmas, 1689, the revenues of the see of Canterbury were received by an officer appointed by the crown. That officer's accounts are now in the British Museum. (Lansdowne MSS. 885.) The gross revenue for the three quarters was not quite four thousand pounds; and the difference between the gross and the net revenue was evidently something considerable.]
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[ King's Natural and Political Conclusions. Davenant on the Balance of Trade. Sir W. Temple says, "The revenues of a House of Commons have seldom exceeded four hundred thousand pounds." Memoirs, Third Part.]