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20 obliging all the Villages Nine hundred yards round the City, to deliver in every morning Six beeves, Forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a proportionable quantity of Bread, and Wine, and other Liquors: for the due payment of which his Majesty gave Assignments upon his Treasury. For this Prince lives chiefly upon his own



'To deliver victuals for my sustenance.'

Demesnes, seldom except upon great occasions raising any Subsidies upon his Subjects, who are bound to attend him in his Wars at their own expence. An Establishment was also made of Six hundred persons to be my Domesticks, who had Board-wages allowed for their maintenance, and Tents built for them very conveniently on each side of my door. It was likewise ordered, that Three hundred Taylors should make me a Suit of Cloaths after the fashion of the CountreyCountry [sic]: That Six