A process to centralise the administration of Crown revenue was underway and foreign debt had been eliminated.

Wars during Elizabeth's reign are estimated to have cost over £5 million (at the prices of the time) which Crown revenues could not match - in 1588, for example, Elizabeth's total annual revenue amounted to some £392,000.

Sixteen days later he was appointed a Commissioner to report upon the Crown revenues.

He was employed to collect Crown revenue in 1285 and was keeper of the Queen's forests at Glencree in 1290.

In 1535-6, another 200 smaller monasteries were dissolved by statute, followed by the remaining greater houses in 1538-40; as a result, Crown revenues doubled for a few years.

In thirteen years de Neville had misappropriated Crown revenues and wasted Crown property, besides imposing a regime of grave oppression, extortion and injustice upon the unfortunate people of Rutland.

Crown revenues supported the church, paid by revenue assignments based on royal income.

Originally, Crown revenues were managed by overseers who came to be known as the Lords Auditors of the Checker, later King's Compositors, then Lords of Exchequer.

Excel workbooks containing appropriation expenses and Crown revenue and capital receipt data as published in the Estimates of Appropriations 2009/10.

Why, Richard, the total Crown revenues for a year are less than one million!