. 30,000
Rent of houses belonging to the crown . . . . . . . 1,250
Post-office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000
Exchequer revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000
Probate of wills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000
Coinage of tin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Wine licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000
Forest of Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000
Fines on alienations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000
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L1,200,000
[From the original report in the collection of Thomas Lloyd, Esq.]
NOTE I, p. 558.
_Principles of the Levellers_.
The following statement of the principles maintained by the Levellers is
extracted from one of their publications, which appeared soon after the
death of Cromwell, entitled "The Leveller; or, The Principles and Maxims
concerning Government and Religion, which are asserted by those that are
commonly called Levellers, 1659."
_Principles of Government_.
1. The government of England ought to be by laws, and not by men; that is,
the laws ought to judge of all offences and offenders, and all punishments
and penalties to be inflicted upon criminals; nor ought the pleasure of his
highness and his council to make whom they please offenders, and punish and
imprison whom they please, and during pleasure.
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