Note 047
From Chapter 58 of the Decline & Fall

Will. Gemeticensis, l. vii. c. 7, p. 672, 673, in Camden. Normanicis. He pawned the duchy for one hundredth part of the present yearly revenue. Ten thousand marks may be equal to five hundred thousand livres, and Normandy annually yields fifty-seven millions to the king (Necker, Administration des Finances, tom. i. p. 287.).

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