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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D.

CHAPTER XLIV
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She is said to have paid four millions of debt, left on the crown by her father, brother, and sister; an incredible sum for that age.[**] The states at the time of her death owed her about eight hundred thousand pounds; and, the king of France four hundred and fifty thousand.[***] * Rymer, tom.xvi.p.141.

D'Ewes, p.

151,457,525,629.
Bacon, vol.iv.p.

363.
** D'Ewes, p.473.I think it impossible to reconcile this account of the public debts with that given by Strype, (Eccles.Mem.

vol.ii.p.


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