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where, by reason of the tenures in chief revived through 

 the only labours of these officers, both the sums for respect 

 of homage be increased, and the profits of wardships, primer 

 seisins, ouster le maine, and liveries, cannot but be much 

 advanced. And so her majesty s self hath, in this parti 

 cular, gained the full sum of 8,7367. 5s. 5d. ob. qu. not 

 comprising those profits in the Exchequer and court of 

 wards, the very certainty whereof lieth not in the know 

 ledge of these officers, nor accounting any part of that great 

 benefit which the earl and his executrix have made by the 

 demises: which one year with another, during all the thir 

 teen years and a half, I suppose to have been 2,2637. or 

 thereabouts ; and so in all about 27,158/. above all his costs 

 and expenses. The which albeit I do here report only for 

 the justification of the service in this place; yet who can 

 not but see withal, how much the royal revenues might be 

 advanced, if but the like good endeavours were showed for 

 her majesty in the rest of her finances, as have been found 

 in this office for the commodity of this one subject? 



The views of all which matter being presented to the most 

 wise and princely consideration of her majesty, she was 

 pleased to demise these profits and fines for other five 

 years, to begin at the feast of the Annunciation, 1590, in 

 the thirty-second year of her reign, for the yearly rent for 

 merly reserved upon the leases of the earl ; within the com 

 pass of w 7 hich five years, expired at the Annunciation, 1595, 

 there was advanced to her majesty s benefit, by this ser 

 vice, the whole sum of 13,0137. 14s. Id. qu. beyond the 

 ancient yearly revenues, which, before any lease, were 

 usually made of these finances. To which, if there be 

 added 5,7007. for the gain given to her majesty by the 

 yearly &quot;receipt of 3007. in rent, from the first demise to the 

 earl, until the time of his death, together with the sum of 

 1,1737. 15s. Sd. ob. clearly won in those six terms bought 

 of the countess ; then the whole commodity, from the first 

 institution of this office, till the end of these last five years 

 expired at the Annunciation, 1595, shall appear to be 

 19,8877. 9s. 9d. ob. qu. To the which sum also if 

 28,5507. 15s. 6d. ob. qu. which the earl and the countess 

 levied hereby, be likewise adjoined, then the whole profit 

 taken in these nineteen years, that is, from the first lease, 

 to the end of the last, for her majesty, the earl, and the 

 countess, will amount unto 48,4387. 5s. 4d. This labour 

 hitherto thus luckily succeeding, the deputies in this office 

 finding by daily proof, that it was wearisome to the subject 



