2597.] [Footnote 9: NOTE I, p.253.This is a prodigious sum, and probably near the half of what the king received from the parliament during the whole course of his reign.

It must be remarked, that a tenth and fifteenth (which was always thought a high grant) were, in the eighth year of this reign, fixed at about twenty-nine thousand pounds; there were said to be near thirty thousand sacks of wool exported every year.

A sack of wool was at a medium sold for five pounds.

Upon these suppositions it would be easy to compute all the parliamentary grants, taking the list as they stand in Tyrrel, vol.iii.p.

780; though somewhat must still be left to conjecture.