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[Illustration: 1-371-more.jpg SIR THOMAS MORE] They only voted two shillings in the pound on all who enjoyed twenty pounds a year and upwards; one shilling on all who possessed between twenty pounds and forty shillings a year; and on the other subjects above sixteen years of age, a groat a head.

This last sum was divided into two yearly payments; the former into four, and was not therefore at the utmost above sixpence in the pound.

The grant of the commons was but the moiety of the sum demanded; and the cardinal, therefore, much mortified with the disappointment, came again to the house, and desired to reason with such as refused to comply with the king's request.

He was told that it was a rule of the house never to reason but among themselves; and his desire was rejected.