This prerogative had been much abused by the purveyors;[v] and the commons showed some intention to offer the king fifty thousand pounds a year for the abolition of it.
* Journ.

21st May, 1604.
** Journ.

21st May, 1604.
*** A remonstrance from the Trinity House, in 1602, says, that in a little above twelve years after 1588, the shipping and number of seamen in England decayed about a third.
Anglesey's Happy Future State of England, p.

128, from Sir Julius Caesar's Collections.

See Journ.