one by a rate according to the Place he is in, and the Countrey he hath under him:  And most of them are to present a Sum of Money besides.  And if they can procure any precious Stone, or Rarity, or any other thing, which they think the King will accept, that also they bring, and glad they are to be honoured with the favour of his acceptance.  These New-years Gifts for these many years he thinks scorn to receive, and bids them carry them away again till another time.  Thus they come with them time after time presenting them, which he as often refusing; at last they bring them no more.

[Inferior Persons present their New-years Gifts.] All sorts of Tradesmen also, and such as by their Skill can any ways get Money, at the New year are to pay into the Treasury each one a certain rate.  Which now adayes he accepts not, though formerly he always did.

[What Taxes and Rents the People pay.] At this and the other times the things which the People carry as their Rents and Taxes, are Wine, Oyl, Corn, Honey, Wax, Cloth, Iron, Elephants Teeth, Tobacco, Money.  They bring themselves, and wait at Court with them commonly divers Months, before they be received.  The great Officers tell the King, the People have brought their Rents.  The King saith, ’Tis well.  But if he give no order withal to receive the things brought (as he seldom does) there is no remedy, but there they must wait with them.  And this he doth out of State.  The Rents and Duties brought at the two other times are after the same manner; the great Men do only bring theirs once at the New year.

[The accidental Incomes of the Crown.] There are other Revenues the King hath, which are accidental; but bring in great wealth; That whensoever any man dies, that hath a stock of Cattel, immediately out thence must be paid a Bull and a Cow with a Calf, and a Male and Female Buffalo, which tax they call Marral.  And there are Officers appointed, whose place it is, to come and carry them away.  Also at Harvest yearly there is a certain rate of Corn to be paid by every man according to the Land they hold and enjoy.  Heretofore the King granted, that upon Payment of a Sum of Money, they should be clear from this yearly Tax of Corn so long, till the present Possessor died, and the Land descended to his Son or some body else.  And then the Estate became liable again to the forementioned Duties.  But now of late there is no mention of any discharge by Money. [The Profits that accrue to the King from Corn-Lands.] So that in time all Houses and Families in the Kingdom will be liable to the Payment of this Tax of Corn; which will bring in no small quantity of Provision to the King.  Only Soldiers that are slain in the Wars, their Lands are free from the Payment of this Tax; but if they die naturally they are not.  The Farmers all in general, besides their measures of Corn, pay a certain Duty in Money, with their Rents.