[This was the tribute or imposition of money called _fifteenths_,
formerly laid upon cities, boroughs, &c., so called because it amounted
to a fifteenth part of that which each city or town was valued at, or a
fifteenth of every man's personal estate, according to a reasonable
valuation. In 1588, on occasion of the Spanish invasion, the Parliament
gave Queen Elizabeth two subsidies and four fifteenths.]
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