A seat in the house was, in itself, of small importance: but the former became a point of honor among the gentlemen.Journ.10th Feb.

1620.
Towns which had formerly neglected their right of sending members, now began to claim it.Journ.26th Feb.

1623.
*** An Abstract, or brief Declaration of his Majesty's Revenue, with the Assignations and Defalcations upon the same.
Of crown lands, eighty thousand pounds a year; by customs and new impositions, near one hundred and ninety thousand; by wards and other various branches of revenue, besides purveyance, one hundred and eighty thousand: the whole amounting to four hundred and fifty thousand.

The king's ordinary disbursements, by the same account, are said to exceed this sum thirty-six thousand pounds.[*] All the extraordinary sums which James had raised by subsidies, loans, sale of lands, sale of the title of baronet, money paid by the states and by the king of France, benevolences, etc., were, in the whole, about two millions two hundred thousand pounds; of which the sale of lands afforded seven hundred and seventy-five thousand pounds.

The extraordinary disbursements of the king amounted to two millions; besides above four hundred thousand pounds given in presents.