ring themselves, and wait at Court with them commonly divers Months,
before they be received. The great Officers tell the King, the People
have brought their Rents. The King saith, 'Tis well. But if he give
no order withal to receive the things brought (as he seldom does)
there is no remedy, but there they must wait with them. And this
he doth out of State. The Rents and Duties brought at the two other
times are after the same manner; the great Men do only bring theirs
once at the New year.

[The accidental Incomes of the Crown.] There are other Revenues the
King hath, which are accidental; but bring in great wealth; That
whensoever any man dies, that hath a stock of Cattel, immediately
out thence must be paid a Bull and a Cow with a Calf, and a Male and
Female Buffalo, which tax they call Marral. And there are Officers
appointed, whose place it is, to come and carry them away. Also at
Harvest yearly there is a certain rate of Corn to be paid by every
man according to the Land they hold and enjoy. Heretofore the King
granted, that upon Payment of a Sum of Money, they should be clear
from this yearly Tax of Corn so long, till the present Possessor
died, and the Land descended to his Son or some body else. And then
the Estate became liable again to the forementioned Duties. But now
of late there is no mention of any discharge by Money. [The Profits
that accrue to the King from Corn-Lands.] So that in time all Houses
and Families in the Kingdom will be liable to the Payment of this
Tax of Corn; which will bring in no small quantity of Provision to
the King. Only Soldiers that are slain in the Wars, their Lands are
free from the Payment of this Tax; but if they die naturally they
are not. The Farmers all in general, besides their measures of Corn,
pay a certain Duty in Money, with their Rents.

If they Sell or Alienate their Inheritances, the Kings accustomed
Duties must not be diminished, whosoever buyeth or enjoyeth
them. Neither is here any Land which doth not either pay, or do some
Duty to the King. Only one case excepted, and that is, if they give
or dedicate Land to a Priest, as an Alms or Deed of Charity in God's
Name. On that there is never any more Tax or Duty to be imposed,
as being Sacrilegious to take ought from one that belongs to the
Temple. [Custom of goods imported formerly paid.] Formerly the King
had the Benefit of the trade of two Ports Cotiar and Portalone, unto
each of which used to come yearly some t