[36] Laud writes to Lord Wentworth, that Croke and Hutton had both gone against the king very sourly. "The accidents which have followed upon it already are these: First, the faction are grown very bold. Secondly, the king's monies come in a great deal more slowly than they did in former years, and that to a very considerable sum. Thirdly, it puts thoughts into wise and moderate men's heads, which were better out; for they think if the judges, which are behind, do not their parts both exceeding well and thoroughly, it may much distemper this extraordinary and great service." _Strafford Letters_, ii. 170. [37] It is notoriously known that pressure was borne with much more cheerfulness before the judgment for the king, than ever it was before. Clarendon, p. 122. [38] Rushworth Abr. ii. 341; _Clarendon State Papers_, i. 600. It is said by Heylin that the clergy were much spared in the assessment of ship-money. _Life of Laud_, 302. [39] Rymer, _passim_. [40] _Id._ xix. 512. It may be curious to mention some of these. The best turkey was to be sold at 4_s._ 6_d._; the best goose at 2_s._ 4_d._; the best pullet, 1_s._ 8_d._; three eggs for a penny; fresh butter at 5_d._ in summer, at 6_d._ in winter. This was in 1634. [41] _Id._ xx. 113. [42] _Id._ 157. [43] Rymer, xviii. 33, _et alibi_. A commission was granted to the Earl of Arundel and others, May 30, 1625, to enquire what houses, shops, etc., had been built for ten years past, especially since the last proclamation, and to commit the offenders. It recites the care of Elizabeth and James to have the city built in an uniform manner with brick, and also to clear it from under-tenants and base people who live by begging and stealing. _Id._ xviii. 97. [44] Rymer, xix. 375. [45] Rushworth Abr. ii. 232. [46] Rushworth, ii. 79. [47] _Id._ p. 313. [48] Rushworth Abr. iii. 123; Whitelock, p. 35; _Strafford Letters_, i. 374, _et alibi_. See what Clarendon says, p. 293 (ii. 151, edit. 1826). The second of these tells us, that the city offered to build for the king a palace in St. James's park by way of composition, which was refused. If this be true, it must allude to the palace already projected by him, the magnificent designs for which by Inigo Jones are well known. Had they been executed, the metropolis would have possessed a splendid monument of Palladian architecture; and the reproach sometimes thrown on England, of wanting a fit mansion for its monarchs, would have been prevented. But the exchequer of Charles the First had never been in such a state as to render it at all probable that he could undertake so costly a work. [49] _Strafford Letters_, i. 340. [50] Rymer, xix. 699. [51] _Id._ 198. [52] Roger Coke's _Detection of the Court of England_, i. 309. He was Sir Edward's grandson. [53] Rymer, xx. 190. [54] _Id._ xix. 740. See also 82.