By the King. Trustie and welbeloved, we greete you well : although there be nothing more against our minde then to be drawne into any course that may breed in our subjects the least doubt of our unwillingnes to throw any burthens upon them ..
Dated at end: Westminster the last day of July, in the second yeere of our reigne ..
Printer's name conjectured by STC.
Printed in civilité type on top half of a full sheet.
There are three major states. (1) Last line begins "Ireland". 1a: the last 7 lines have blanks for the sum, the collector, and the county. 1b: these blanks printed with "twentie pounds", "Thomas Scudamore Esquire", and "Yorke"; some resetting. (2) Last 7 lines partly reset; last line begins "England". 2a: the last 7 lines have blanks for the sum, the collector, and the county. 2b: these blanks printed with () £40, (¹) £30, or () £20 and Sir Charles Cornwallis, Norfolk. (3) Last 7 lines partly reset; last line begins "our". All copies of state 3 have blanks.
Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, England.
STC (2nd ed.) 9175i.3.
Available electronically as part of Early English books online.