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sold such lands at easie rates, few would have bought 

 them, by reason the purchasers were uncertain how 

 long they should enjoy their purchase: besides, 

 under-officers do not usually refuse bribes; and it is 

 well known that the surveighers did under- rate estates 

 according as they were feed by the purchasers. 



Again, many of the estates of banished persons 

 were given to soldiers for the payment of their arrears, 

 who again sold them to others which would buy them 

 at easier rates. But chiefly it appears by the rate 

 as My Lord's estate is let at present, there being 

 several of the mentioned lands that are let at a higher 

 rate now then they were surveighed; nor are they 

 all valued in the mentioned particular according to 

 the surveigh, but many of them which were not 

 surveighed, are accounted according to the rate they 

 are let at at this present. 



The loss of My Lord's estate, in plain rents, as 

 also upon ordinary use, and use upon use, is as 

 folio weth : 



The annual rent of My Lord's lands, viz. 

 22,393/. los. id. being lost for the space of 18 years, 

 which was the time of his acting in the wars, and of 

 his banishment, without any benefit to him, reckoned 

 without any interest, amounts to 403,083/. But 

 being accounted with the ordinary use at six in the 

 hundred, and use upon use for the mentioned space 

 of 18 years, it amounts to 733,579/. 



But some perhaps will say, that if My Lord had 

 enjoyed his estate, he would have spent it, at least 

 so much as to maintain himself according to his 

 degree and quality. 



I answer; that it is very improbable My Lord 

 should have spent all his estate, if he had enjoyed it, 

 he being a man of great wisdom and prudence, knowing 



