Note 386 — Chapter XVII · FROM THE YEAR 1551 TO THE DEATH OF EDWARD VI.
Reading edition
A paper calendared under Jan. 1553 (No. 75) calculates the average expenses from 33 to 38 Hen. VIII. at 8,500l. a year. In the six years of Edward’s reign they rose by regular gradation from 17,000l. to 52,000l. The average revenue for the former period was 9,000l., for the latter, 11,000l. See also No. 83, ‘a device how to keep Ireland in the stay it now remaineth upon the revenues only.’