See Hist.

of James, chap.

46.
This improvement of the revenue was owing to the suggestions of one Caermarthen; and was opposed by Burleigh, Leicester, and Walsingham: but the queen's perseverance overcame all their opposition.

The great undertakings which she executed with so narrow a revenue, and with such small supplies from her people, prove the mighty effects of wisdom and economy.

She received from the parliament, during the course of her whole reign, only twenty subsidies and thirty-nine fifteenths.