This high interest is an indication of the great profits and small progress of commerce.
The extraordinary supplies granted by parliament, during this whole reign, amounted not to more than six hundred and thirty thousand pounds; which, divided among twenty-one years, makes thirty thousand pounds a year.

I do not include those supplies, amounting to three hundred thousand pounds, which were given to the king by his last parliament.
These were paid in to their own commissioners; and the expenses of the Spanish war were much more than sufficient to exhaust them.

The distressed family of the palatine was a great burden on James, during part of his reign.

The king, it is pretended, possessed not frugality proportioned to the extreme narrowness of his revenue.

Splendid equipages, however, he did not affect, nor costly furniture, nor a luxurious table, nor prodigal mistresses.