the last parliament of king James; they shelter themselves under the name of a corporation; they make bye-laws which serve their turns to squeeze us and fill their purses. 1 3. The Tariff of Honors. Copied from the measures of Sully in France. Creation of the new ord of baronets. The price of other titles. 2 A considerable sum of money in the whole was derived by king James from the sale of honors and dignities, a method of obtaining revenue copied from the measures taken in France by Sully, the famous minister of Henri IV. The charge best known is that for admission into the order of baronets, a new hereditary knighthood created by the king. The price was fixed at the amount of the 'maintenance of thirty foot soldiers for three years, at 8d. a day each,' to assist the king's troops in the reduction of Ulster, in Ireland, that is to say, 1,095l. The price for a barony was fixed at 10,000l.; that for a viscounty, at 15,000l.; and that for an earldom, at 20,000l. It must not be assumed that these titles could be bought at random; purchasers were required to be of sufficient position to maintain the dignity granted to them. 1 Rushworth, iv. 33. 2 Clamageran, L'impôt en France, vol. ii. Book iii. cap. 1. It was probably also in imitation of the tax on cards in France that, in 1631, an office was established for sealing packs of playing cards, to which the master and wardens of the company of makers of playing cards sent, in pursuance of a contract made with the king, a certain number of packs of cards weekly. A similar contract was made with the company of dicemakers. The imposts were farmed; and the packs of cards and dice were required to be sealed and stamped. Rushworth, ii. 103; Foedera, xx 145. APPENDICES. No. I. THE ORDINANCE OF THE SALADIN TITHE, 1188. LATIN TEXT. No. II. SOME PARTICULARS OF THE SCHEDULES OF ASSESSMENT FOR THE TAXES ON MOVEABLES. COLCHESTER, 1295 AND 1301. No. III. FORM OF ORDINANCE FOR THE TENTH AND SIXTH, GRANTED IN 1322. No. IV. THE SHIP-WRITS. PARTICULARS OF A WRIT, OF THE SECOND ISSUE, 1635, FOR DORSETSHIRE, TO SHOW THE FORM OF THESE WRITS. No. V. THE SHIP WRITS. DISTRIBUTION OF SHIPS TO THE SEVERAL COUNTIES. APPENDIX I. THE ORDINANCE OF THE SALADIN TITHE, 1188. LATIN TEXT. 1. Unusquisque decimam reddituum et mobilium suorum in eleemosynam dabit hoc anno, exceptis armis et equis et vestibus militum, exceptis similiter equis et libris et vestibus et vestimentis et omnimoda capella clericorum, et lapidibus pretiosis tam clericorum quam laicorum. 2. Colligatur autem pecunia ista in singulis parochiis, praesente presbytero parochiae, et archipresbytero, et uno Templario et uno Hospitalario, et serviente domini regis et clerico regis, serviente baronis et clerico ejus, et clerico episcopi; facta prius excommunicatione ab archiepiscopis, episcopis, archipresbyteris singulis in singulis parochiis, super unumquemque qui decimam praetaxatam legitime non dederit, sub praesentia et conscientia illorum qui debent, s.cunt dictum est, interesse. Et si aliquis juxta conscientiam illorum minus dederit quam debuerit, eligentur de parochia quatuor vel sex viri legitimi, qui jurati dicant quantitatem illam quam ille debuisset dixisse; et tunc oportebit illum superaddere quod minus dedit. 3. Clerici autem et milites qui crucem acceperunt, nihil de decima ista dabunt, sed de proprio suo et dominico: et quidquid homines illorum debuerint ad opus illorum colligetur per supradictos, et iis totum reddetur. 4. Episcopi autem per litteras suas in singulis parochiis episcopatuum suorum facient nunciari, et in die Natalis, et |