L1,500 Flemish a year,
besides other accommodations. The States-General have more. And that
commonwealth looks nearer her penny than ours needs to do.

"For the revenue of this nation, besides that of her industry,
it--amounts, as has been shown, to L10,000,000; and the salaries in
the whole come not to L300,000 a year. The beauty they will add to the
commonwealth will be exceeding great, and the people will delight in
this beauty of their commonwealth; the encouragement they will give to
the study of the public being very progitable, the accommodation they
will afford to your magistrates very honorable and easy. And the sum,
when it or twice as much was spent in bunting and housekeeping, was
never any grievance to the people. I am ashamed to stand huckling upon
this point; it is sordid. Your magistrates are rather to be provided
with further accommodations. For what if there should be sickness?
whither will you have them to remove? And this city in the soundest
times, for the heat of the year, is no wholesome abode: have a care of
their healths to whom you commit your own. I would have the Senate and
the people, except they see cause to the contrary, every first of June
to remove into the country air for the space of three months. You are
better fitted with summer-houses for them than if you had built them to
that purpose.

"There is some twelve miles distant the convallium upon the river
Halcionia, for the tribunes and the prerogative, a palace capable of
1,000 men; and twenty miles distant you have Mount Celia, reverend as
well for the antiquity as state of a castle completely capable of
the Senate, the proposers having lodgings in the convallium, and the
tribunes in Celia, it holds the correspondency between the Senate and
the people exactly And it is a small matter for the proposers,
being attended with the coaches and officers of state, besides other
conveniences of their own, to go a matter of five or ten miles (those
seats are not much farther distant) to meet the people upon any heath or
field that shall be appointed: where, having despatched their business,
they may hunt their own venison (for I would have the great walled
park upon the Halcionia to belong to the signory, and those about the
convallium to the tribunes) and so go to supper. Pray, my lords, see
that they do not pull down these houses to sell the lead of them; for
when--you have considered on it, they cannot be spared. The founders of
the schoo