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XIII. Copy of a Manuscript in the British Museum, (Harl MSS. 6844, fol. 49) entitled, “An Expedient or Meanes in Want of Money to Pay the Sea and Land Forces, or as many of them as shall be thought expedient without Money in this Year of an almost Universal Povertie of the English Nation.” By Fabian Philipps. Communicated by the Rev. Samuel Ayscough, F.A.S.
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Queen Elizabeth, in her great want of money in the wars of Ireland to pay the army, did, by the advice of as prudent a council as any prince in christendom ever had, cause some brass money to be coyned and made current for her present occasions, upon her royal promise to give those which should receive it good money of gold or silver, some years after which king James, her successor, did justly cause to be performed. [MS. of an account given by Robert Cecill, earl of Salisbury, lord treasurer of England to the parliament in the raigne of king James.]
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page 192 note [b] Fabian Philipps was a barrister of the Middle Temple. He was born at Prestbury in Gloucestershire, an. 1601, and died in 1690. See Wood's Fasli, Oxon. f. 3, 4, where is given a list of many of his writings, which were numerous and chiefly political. In the British Museum, Sloane MSS. 970, f. 26, is a Discourse by him “Touching the Antiquity of the Temple Inns of Court.”
Wood deseribes him as a man of considerable learning, and much attached to the study of antiquity; and fays, “that he was always a zealous asserter of the king's prerogative, and so passionate a lover of king Ch. l. that two days before he was beheaded he wrote a Protestation against his intended murder, which he printed, and caused to be put on polls and in all common places. He was Filacer for London, Middlesex, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire, and did spend much money in searching and writing for the asserting of the king's prerogative, yet got nothing by it, only the employment of one of the commissioners appointed for the regulation of the law, worth 200 per annum, which lasted only for two years.”