[The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. by David Hume]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. CHAPTER XLIV 99/130
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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