England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
A commission appointed to estimate the money necessary for a war.
Ibid., vol. i., pp. 479, et seq. There was now no remedy . . . there was | |
67 | nothing to be done but resort to the Parliament . . a fleet must be prepared equal to what the Dutch world infallibly make ready against the Spring and worthy the presence of the duke of York, who was impatient to engage his own person in the conduct of it . . . Very notable preparations for war . . . could not be done without ready- money . . .and now the king commanded the chancellor and the treasurer to meet with those members of the House of Commons with whom they had used to consult, and . . . they concluded that a less sum than two millions and a half . . . ought not to be proposed, and being once proposed, ought to be insisted on and pursued without consenting to any diminution. |