Note 12 — A DISCOURSE concerning the LAWS and GOVERNMENT of ENGLAND.
Reading edition
Annal. lib. 14. c. 33. Copia negotiatorum et commeatuum maxime celebre. The city of London in the Danish times was able to pay L. 11,000 as its proportion of L. 70,000, a tax then imposed on the nation. Asser, in the life of Alfred, refers to above 120 cities, boroughs and villages.