A collection of eighty-eight instances of ways or "invencions" for raising money for state purposes, gathered chiefly from ancient history. Presented to Q. Elizabeth by Henry Kingesmell in a dedicatory preface, in which the author says that he has just returned from a ten years’ peregrination through France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, The Fortunate Islands, and a great part of the Great Turk’s dominions, late 16th century