Note 610 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE

Fortescue, On the Governance of England, chap. xii.: “The reaume off Ffraunce givith never ffrely off thair owne good will any subsidie to thair prince, because the commons thereoff be so pouere.... But owre commons be riche, and therefore thai give to thair kynge as somme tymes quinsimes and dessimes, and ofte tymes other grete subsidies.”