By the King.  
Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well:  
Although there be nothing more against our mind then to be drawn into any course that may breed in our subjects the least doubt of our unwillingness to throw any burdens upon them, Having already published both by our speeches and writings, our great desire to avoid it in the whole course of our government: yet such is our Estate at this time, in regard of great and urgent occasions fallen and growing daily upon us (in no sort to be eschewed) as we shall be forced presently to disburse greater sums of money than it is possible for us to provide by any ordinary means, or to want without great prejudice. In which consideration, seeing no man of any indifferent judgement or understanding, can either plead ignorance how much woe found the Crown exhausted by the accidents of Foreign wars, and inward rebellions, Or on the other side doth not observe the visible causes of our daily expense ever since we came into this Kingdom, We think it needless to rose any more arguments from such a King to such Subjects: But that as our necessity is the only cause of our Request, So your love and duty must be the chief motive of your ready performance of the same. To which woe may further add one thing, which is no less notorious to the Realm, that since we came to this Estate, no one means or other of extraordinary help hath been afforded us, notwithstanding more extraordinary occasions of large Expense, one falling on the neck of another without time or respiration, than ever lighted upon any King of this Realm. A matter whereof we make not mention as proceeding from the coldness of our people affections, of whose service and fidelity in the highest points we have had so clear proof, But rather as a circumstance the better warranting this course, seeing the ordinary form of Subsidies offered to Princes in Parliament, carried with it now that inconvenience of burdening the poorer sort of our people, which we do endeavour to eschew by all the ways we can. You shall therefore understand, that in this consideration, and in respect of our opinion of your good mind towards us, howsoever the omission in the former time to repay some loan, in regard of unexpected violent necessities, might make a doubtfulness now that promise should be kept, we have persuaded oneselues that you will no way measure our Princely resolution by the precedent accidents, nor ever doubt of us when we engage that word yet never broken to any, which now we do hereby give for repayment of whatsoever this Privy Seal of ours shall assure you. That which we require therefore is, that within twelve days after the receipt hereof, you will cause the sum of Twenty pound to be delivered to 〈◊〉 Charles Cornwallis knt▪ whom we have appointed to be our Collector in our County of Norfolk: The loan whereof, we do desire to be until the four and twenty day of March which shallbe in the year of our Lord God 1605. For assurance whereof, we have directed these our letters of Privy Seal unto you, which, with the hand of our said Collector testifying the receipt of the same sum of Twenty pound shall bind us, our heirs, and successors, for the repayment thereof, and shall be an immediate warrant to our Exchequer to pay the same unto you, or your Assigns, upon the delivery of this our Privy Seal 〈◊〉 our said Receipt.  
Given under our Privy Seal at our Palace of Westminster the last day of July, in the second year of our reign 〈…〉 Ireland, and of Scotland the eight and thirtieth. 〈…〉