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the value of £26,000 on the payment-deferred system to Charles. His loans to his Majesty were reckoned at £100,000, besides moneys to the queen and royal AN INDIAN TIN8EL - WORKER. children; for (as Carew wrote) " this Sir Paul never fails the king when he has most need." To so generous a financier a Stuart king could not stint his favours by scruples as to chartered rights. The two merchants took into partnership an ally more influential than either. Endymion Porter, poet-