Although there be nothing more againſt our minde then to be drawne into any courſe that may breed in our ſubiects the leaſt doubt of our vnwillingnes to throw any burthens vpon them, Hauing already publiſhed both by our ſpeeches and writings, our great deſire to auoide it in the whole courſe of our gouernment: yet ſuch is our Eſtate at this time, in regarde of great and vrgent occaſions falne and growing dayly vpon vs (in no ſort to be eſchewed) as wee ſhall be forced preſently to diſburſe greater ſummes of money then it is poſſible for vs to prouide by any ordinary meanes, or to want without great preiudice. Jn which conſideration, ſeeing no man of any indifferent iudgement or vnderſtanding, can either plead ignorance how much woe found the Crowne exhauſted by the accidents of Forreine warres, and inward rebellions, Or on the other ſide doth not obſerue the viſible cauſes of our dayly expence euer ſince wee came into this Kingdome, Wee thinke it needleſſe to roſe any more arguments from ſuch a King to ſuch Subiects: But that as our neceſſitie is the onely cauſe of our Requeſt, So your loue and duety muſt be the chiefe motiue of your ready performance of the ſame. To which woe may further adde one thing, which is no leſſe notorious to the Realme, that ſince wee came to this Eſtate, no one meanes or other of extraordinarie helpe hath beene affourded vs, notwithſtanding more extraordinarie occaſions of large Expence, one falling on the necke of another without time or reſpiration, then euer lighted vpon any King of this Realme. A matter whereof wee make not mention as proceeding from the coldneſſe of our people affections, of whoſe ſeruice and fidelitie in the higheſt points wee haue had ſo cleere proofe, But rather as a circumſtance the better warranting this courſe, ſeeing the ordinarie fourme of Subſidies offered to Princes in Parliament, caried with it now that inconuenience of burthening the poorer ſort of our people, which wee doe endeauour to eſchew by all the wayes wee can. You ſhall therefore vnderſtand, that in this conſideration, and in reſpect of our opinion of your good minde towards vs, howſoeuer the omiſſion in the former time to repay ſome loane, in regard of vnexpected violent neceſſities, might make a doubtfulneſſe now that promiſe ſhould be kept, we haue perſuaded oneſelues that you will no way meaſure our Princely reſolution by the precedent accidents, nor euer doubt of vs when wee engage that word yet neuer broken to any, which now wee doe hereby giue for repayment of whatſoeuer this Priuie Seale of ours ſhall aſſure you. That which we require therefore is, that within twelue dayes after the receipt hereof, you will cauſe the ſumme of Twenty pounde to bee deliuered to 〈◊〉 Charles Cornwallis knt▪ whom we haue appointed to bee our Collector in our Countie of Norffolk: The loane whereof, we doe deſire to be vntill the foure and twenty day of March which ſhalbe in the yeere of our Lord God 1605. For aſſurance whereof, we haue directed theſe our letters of Priuie Seale vnto you, which, with the hand of our ſayde Collector teſtifying the receipt of the ſame ſumme of Twenty pound pounds ſhal binde vs, our heires, and ſucceſſors, for the repaiment thereof, and ſhall be an immediate warrant to our Exchequer to pay the ſame vnto you, or your Aſſignes, vpon the deliuerie of this our Priuie Seale 〈◊〉 our ſayd Receipt.