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<HEAD>TO <HI>THE HONOURABLE</HI> THE COMMONS OF ENGLAND ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT: The humble Propo&s;als of a VVell-wi&s;her to <HI>Englands</HI> Pro&s;perity.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Humbly pre&s;ented and &s;ubmitted unto your mo&s;t judicious con&s;iderations, wherein are de|mon&s;trated &s;undry ways to rai&s;e Money, both speedily, for the pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;ities of the Kingdom, and certainly, for a la&s;ting Annuall Revenue: Whereby the indu&s;|trious People of this Nation may be ea&s;ed, his Maje&s;ty truly and faithfully &s;erved, generall Taxes for the future le&s;sned, Pole-Mony and Donatives spared; and the Government under his Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t Royall Per&s;on (which God grant in mercy to this Nation may be for many years over us) &s;plendidly and magnificently main|tained and &s;upported.</HEAD>
<P>IN order to which, by way of Introduction, Hi&s;tory doth make it out, that it was held as a Maxim among&s;t the wi&s;e&s;t Coun&s;ellors of State, and greate&s;t Politicians, to be ever the &s;afe&s;t, be&s;t, and mo&s;t plea&s;ing way to any civilized People, to rai&s;e the Revenue for the &s;upport of the Government, out of tho&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">es which generally they found their People were mo&s;t inclining or addicted unto: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;uppo&s;ing on the one hand, that by Pecuniary mulcts men would be very much <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">wn from viciou&s;ne&s;s, meerly to &s;ave their pur&s;es; So on the other hand, that when <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ties are laid on viciou&s;ne&s;s, it &s;eldom meets with oppo&s;ition, but is ea&s;ily admit|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> proving ever the mo&s;t la&s;ting Revenue of any what&s;oever <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="2" REF="2">that although they are at never &s;o great a charge to plea&s;e their fancies and appetites they will not re&s;train them&s;elvs, counting it Gallantry to purcha&s;e their plea&s;ures at dear rates, glorying in the profu&s;ene&s;s of expence therein.</P>
<P>Therefore, how much better is it (&s;eeing Vice is &s;o hard to be exploded from Man-kind,) that out of it a Revenue, for the expence and &s;upport of the Govern|ment, &s;hould be rai&s;ed, rather than out of the Indu&s;try of laborious and ingenious men.</P>
<P>And to &s;atisfy all Per&s;ons concerned herein, that it is no new thing to have Money rai&s;ed out of the vices of a Nation for the &s;upport of the Government, but that it is practi&s;ed among very knowing and politick People: <HI>Ru&s;&s;ia, Italy,</HI> and <HI>Spain,</HI> will af|ford us fit examples, as at this day is practi&s;ed among&s;t them.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, In <HI>Ru&s;&s;ia,</HI> The Emperour of tho&s;e large Territories receiveth his greate&s;t Incom out of his <HI>Cabacks,</HI> which in our Language is either Tipling-Hou&s;es, Drinking-&s;chools, or Ale-hou&s;es, either of which that word will bear.</P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Italy,</HI> As <HI>Rome, Naples,</HI> and other parts, the Princes of which Territories do rai&s;e great Revenues from their licenced Stews; though I think it very unfit, that among us who profe&s;s the purity of the Go&s;pel &s;uch-wickedne&s;s &s;hould be countenanced or tolerated upon any &s;uch Accompt as to rai&s;e Mony in this Nation thereby.</P>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>Spain,</HI> who&s;e great Monarch, for Tobacco vended in &s;moak and &s;neezing as al&s;o out of Play-hou&s;es, and other Recreations permitted in his Kingdom, receives yearly a very con&s;iderable Incomb.</P>
<P>So that you &s;ee the fore-mentioned Nations, through a di&s;creet Policy have laid their greate&s;t burdens upon Vice meerly to &s;pare the virtuous.</P>
<P>Are we in <HI>England</HI> &s;o free from Vice, that we cannot find whereon to lay the like Impo&s;itions, but that mo&s;t of all Taxes generally mu&s;t be laid upon the Indu&s;trious party? Surely no, for although <HI>England</HI> is fuller of vertuous per&s;ons then any King|dome in the World, yet it is conceived by Juditious men, there is &s;o much vice nou|ri&s;hed among us, that if what is practi&s;ed, were loaden with pecuniary dutys, will rai&s;e a very con&s;iderable Reuenue towards the expence of the Government, and thereby greatly ea&s;e and encourage Ingenuous and vertuous men. Which, that it may be ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> into con&s;ideration, and that the Ea&s;e, Pride, and Luxury of this Nation may bear th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> burden, to the &s;paring of the Indu&s;trious and laborious, I proceed to &s;hew the waye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> and means concurring thereunto, whereby I hope, in the Clo&s;e, it will appear, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> meerly out of that which may be termed the viciou&s;ne&s;s of the Nation, not only a con|&s;iderable annual Rent may be rai&s;ed, but a very large &s;upply had for the pre&s;ent nece<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;ities which at this time &s;o pre&s;&s;es the Kingdome.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, That no per&s;on throughout <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales</HI> be permitted to Retail Be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> or Ale in any Chandlers or Cooks &s;hop, Victualling-hou&s;e, Tavern, or any other wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> what&s;oever, without Licen&s;e: And that for &s;uch Licen&s;e, to pay a Fine, and year Rent, according to the drauft they have and place where they are &s;eated; and the bett<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> to prevent di&s;orders, and to a&s;certain and &s;ecure their rent, none to be admitted to L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">+cen&s;es but able re&s;pon&s;able men for e&s;tate, and of good lives and conver&s;ations.</P>
<P>The which hou&s;es may be reduced to a certain &s;et number in each Town, City, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Pari&s;h, according as the Magi&s;trates of the &s;aid City, Town, or Pari&s;hes &s;hall think <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">udicious knowing per&s;ons, there may be one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">
<PB REF="2">thou&s;and throughout <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Annuall Rent.</NOTE> which computed at 3 l. Fine one with the other,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ready Money.</NOTE> and as much yearly rent, amounts unto three hundred thou&s;and pounds pre&s;ent money,<NOTE PLACE="marg">l. 300000</NOTE> and the like yearly.<NOTE PLACE="marg">l. 300000</NOTE> For though in &s;ome places 20 s. may be enough, in others ten and 20 l. would be but little enough.</P>
<P>The Retaylers of drink being thus e&s;tabli&s;hed, and the fore|mentioned Revenue rai&s;ed upon them, then may the Exci&s;e which the Brewers now pay, and is &s;o &s;tumbled at, (becau&s;e not any per|&s;on that brews their own Beer, doth pay one farthing to the Ex|ci&s;e) be totally laid a&s;ide, and likewi&s;e that de&s;ign of rai&s;ing Ex|ci&s;e on Mal&s;ters, for tho&s;e that make their own Malt, will have the like priviledg as when they brewed their own Beer: For as the Exci&s;e is now gathered, only the poor and &s;uch as have their drink from Brewers, and &s;et out Ships, bear the whole burden thereof. And &s;uch as are able, and brew their own Drink; of which thou|&s;ands of Families there be in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales</HI> that do &s;o, go &s;cotfree.</P>
<P>But becau&s;e it may be alledged; It is not equall that the Re|taylers of Beer and Ale, &s;hould only be charged with a duty to|wards the &s;upport of the Government, &s;eeing all in the Nation reap alike benefit, and ought to bear their proportion; before I end, you &s;hall &s;ee every one, by one way or other, be they Rich, or be they Poor, will be brought in for a &s;hare, that it &s;hall not lye altogether upon particular &s;houlders.</P>
<P>Secondly, That none be permitted without Licence to Retail Tobacco, which &s;uperfluous &s;moky Weed, is &s;o viciou&s;ly u&s;ed in <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> that there is no one thing vended in this Na|tion, which can bear a greater Fine and yearly Revenue then it; e&s;pecially if the exce&s;&s;ive and exorbitant gains which the Retay|lers obtain thereon, be in any rea&s;onable mea&s;ure con&s;idered; for that which the Ware-hou&s;e-man, and Retailing Tobacconi&s;t buyes of the Merchant, reckoned <HI>Verginia,</HI> ordinary &s;ort, at 5 d. and 6 d. <HI>per</HI> pound, he utters again for 18 d. and 2 s. <HI>per</HI> pound, and what they buy of that which they call, &s;weet &s;cented <HI>Verginia</HI> of the Merchant for 10 d. and 12 d. <HI>per</HI> pound, they utter again at 3 s. and 4 s. <HI>per</HI> pound, nay, oftentimes they have as much for the or|dinary &s;ort, as for the &s;weet &s;cented. And when the Retailing Tobacconi&s;ts vend the&s;e &s;orts to Vintners, Ale-hou&s;es, and Chand|lers, and who utter it by the Pipe, they &s;ell it for &s;ix and 8 s. <HI>per</HI> pound; and for the better &s;ort by the Pipe, obtain 12 s. and 16 s. <HI>per</HI> pound: which con&s;idered, is there any thing that merits more to have a duty rai&s;ed thereon, then this Weed Tobacco? For if dear or cheap, none u&s;es it the le&s;s, or will do &s;o, that Calculating the multitude of Warehou&s;e-men, &amp; Tobacco-&s;hops, retailing To|bacco, and then tho&s;e that u&s;e it in Chandlers and Cooks &s;hops,
<PB REF="3" MS="y">Victualling-hou&s;es, Ale-hou&s;es, and Taverns; it may be value at twice as much as Retailers of Beer and Ale, the gains be &s;o ex|ce&s;&s;ive and exorbitant, and a u&s;ele&s;s Commodity: but if Calcu|lated only after the rate of the Retailers of Beer and Ale,<NOTE PLACE="marg">l. 300000</NOTE> it will produce three hundred thou&s;and pound pre&s;ent mony,<NOTE PLACE="marg">l. 300000</NOTE> and as much yearly rent.</P>
<P>Thirdly, That without Licence, no per&s;on what&s;oever to Re|tail Wine in <HI>London</HI> or el&s;where, neither Coopers, Vintners, nor any that keep Cellars to furni&s;h the Country, or private per&s;ons, there being many, e&s;pecially within and about <HI>London,</HI> that may give a round &s;um for Licen&s;e to retail Wine, be&s;ides the Vintners, which, though in <HI>London,</HI> ought to pay for their Licen&s;es, they &s;elling their Wine retailed as dear, if not dearer, then they that do retail it in the Countrey, and pay for their Licen&s;es; &s;o that if all Retailers in and about <HI>London,</HI> as well as other Cities of <HI>England</HI> did pay for their Licen&s;es,<NOTE PLACE="marg">40000 l.</NOTE> it would well amount all together,<NOTE PLACE="marg">40000 l.</NOTE> unto fourty thou&s;and pounds Fine, and as much yearly Rent.</P>
<P>Fourthly, That without Licence, none &s;hould Retail Aquavi|tae or Strong waters, of which there be many thou&s;ands in <HI>En|gland</HI> within and without <HI>London,</HI> and other parts of the King|dome, which added to the&s;e other &s;orts of forrain drinks, as <HI>Sher|bet, Tea Medea, Coffee,</HI> and <HI>Chicholatae,</HI> and other &s;uch like liquors, which being brought under one and the &s;ame form; the Revenue that would be rai&s;ed thereby,<NOTE PLACE="marg">20000 l.</NOTE> may be computed to ri&s;e unto twen|ty thou&s;and pounds pre&s;ent money for Fines,<NOTE PLACE="marg">20000 l.</NOTE> and as much yearly Rent.</P>
<P>Fifthly, It being already in this Kingdome e&s;tabli&s;hed, that no Stage-Playes, Sights, Opera's, or &s;uch like Recreations, are to be u&s;ed or &s;et up without Licen&s;e, then tho&s;e that &s;et up &s;uch things, &s;hould be ingaged to pay good Fines for Licen&s;e, and a yearly Rent, which if computed at 2 s. in the pound, out of what they daily gather in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">30000 l.</NOTE> it may ari&s;e to thirty thou&s;and pounds <HI>per an|num,</HI> throughout the Kingdome,<NOTE PLACE="marg">30000 l.</NOTE> and they may very well give as much more pre&s;ent money for Fines.</P>
<P>Sixthly, In regard Vanity, Ea&s;e, and Pride &s;way &s;o much with us in <HI>England,</HI> and is maintained to as great a height in our Nati|on, as in any part of the World, which will &s;ufficiently appear, if ob&s;ervation be but taken of tho&s;e numbers of Coaches daily &s;et up and u&s;ed almo&s;t by every one in this Kingdome, upon which Vani|ty, Pride, and Ea&s;e, there may very well be laid a burden towards the Nations Charges; and the rather, becau&s;e &s;uch per&s;ons for the mo&s;t part are exempted of paying any duty in reference to their expence of Beer and Ale in their Families, by brewing their own drink, and no way in a manner lyable to Exci&s;e, or any duty, as tho&s;e a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e that have no drink, but from the Retailers thereof;
<PB N="5" REF="3">fore to be helpful in their &s;tation to bear a part of the Nations Charge, there can be no way &s;o convenient to rai&s;e a duty from &s;uch, but to Enact it, That no per&s;on &s;hall keep a Coach in <HI>En|gland</HI> or <HI>Wales</HI> without Licen&s;e, for which to pay five pound Fine, and five pound Annual Rent for a Coach of two Hor&s;es, and of four, 7 l. 10 s. and of &s;ix, ten pounds; and &s;o <HI>pro Rato</HI> for one two, or more Coaches that they may keep, of two, four, or &s;ix Hor&s;es, be they Nobility, Gentry, Citizens, Stage, or Hackney-Coaches, it being &s;uppo&s;ed, that throughout <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> there may be u&s;ed twenty thou&s;and Coaches when lea&s;t; which at five pounds Fine, and five pounds Annual Rent, will amount unto one hundred thou&s;and pounds ready money, and as much An|nually.<NOTE PLACE="marg">l. 100000</NOTE> And what per&s;on is he that for his Ea&s;e, Vanity,<NOTE PLACE="marg">10000</NOTE> or Pride, will refrain the keeping of a Coach for 5 l. Licen&s;e Mo|ney, and as much yearly, for, and towards the expence of the Go|vernment, being, if con&s;idered, it will be &s;aved to him other|wayes in Taxes, which generally come to much more.</P>
<P>So that it will appear, by the &s;ix foregoing propo&s;als, there may ea&s;ily be rai&s;ed for the pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;ities of the Kingdome,<NOTE PLACE="marg">l. 790000</NOTE> &s;even hundred and ninety thou&s;and pounds ready money,<NOTE PLACE="marg">79000</NOTE> and as much Annual Rent, which will go very far towards the expen&s;es of the Government, and the taking away of Taxes, which can never be levi'd to rai&s;e mony &s;o equally and conveniently, or &s;o much to the ea&s;e and content of the People, as by &s;uch wayes as the&s;e; which if drawn into a right Channel, and the collecting of this money which will yearly be paid in upon Licen&s;ed Ale-hou&s;es, and Re|taylors of Tobacco, be&s;etled upon the pre&s;ent Receivers through|out <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> it will be done at a very ea&s;y Charge: And then the Auditors keeping the Accompts, as they do of his Maje&s;ties other Rents in each County, will be a means that no Arrears be &s;uffered, or uncollected, to the great &s;atisfaction of tho&s;e Towns and Pari&s;hes in each County that are to pay the &s;ame.</P>
<P>In a Book called, <HI>Trade Revived,</HI> publi&s;hed about a year &s;ince, as will appear, in fol. 49. of that book, and &s;o forwards, the propo|&s;al of rai&s;ing money by Licen&s;es upon Beer and Ale, Tobacco, and other Liquors, was &s;et forth; and be&s;ides the&s;e, other fore-men|tioned Propo&s;als of rai&s;ing money upon Coaches, and Pa&s;times, in this Paper in&s;erted, there be &s;undry other wayes propounded for the like u&s;e, as well for a pre&s;ent &s;upply, as an Annual Rent; which if taken into con&s;ideration with the re&s;t, happily may be of good u&s;e and furni&s;h mens to do what ever work is to be done in this Kingdome, without trouble or vexation to the people, but rather to their quiet and advantage. And becau&s;e it is the gene|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="6" REF="4"><HI>Trade Revived</HI> lying by them, not to look back, or to take the pains to turn over Papers (if mi&s;laid) thereby to inform them&s;elves of what may be nece&s;&s;ary for the good of the Nation to promote the &s;ame when opportunities offer. I conceive it may be acceptable enough, briefly in reference to this our purpo&s;e, once more to bring in view, what was therein &s;et down touching the&s;e things, which are as followeth.</P>
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<ITEM>Fir&s;t, To have publick Regi&s;ters throught <HI>England</HI> in all Towns, Cities, and Ports, as well to Regi&s;ter Lands as Ship|ping, vho upon their admi&s;&s;ion, to pay a Fine and yearly Rent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Secondly, All &s;uch as Regi&s;ter their E&s;tates in Lands and Ship|ping, whereby a certain and a&s;&s;ured benefit will accrue, not only to them&s;elves and Po&s;terity, but to the whole Nation at their Re|gi&s;tring their &s;aid Lands and Shipping, to pay 3 d. 4 d. or 6 d. in the pound, according to their Annual Rent, towards the pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;ities of the Kingdome, and 3 d. 4 d. or 6 d. <HI>per</HI> Tun, of Ship+ping.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thirdly, That publick Notaries may be e&s;tabli&s;hed through|out <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> at who&s;e admi&s;&s;ion, to pay a Fine and year|ly Rent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fourthly, That publick Brokers may be e&s;tabli&s;hed for the u&s;e of the Commerce, and none el&s;e admitted to u&s;e that Calling, and at their admi&s;&s;ion to pay a Fine and yearly Rent.</ITEM>
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<P>The u&s;e of which four-recited particulars, (both as to the advan|tage of the Nation in general, &amp; every particular per&s;on) is at large in the &s;aid &s;heets of <HI>Trade Revived,</HI> and fol. 49. before mentioned, &s;et forth, being purpo&s;ely for brevity &s;ake here omitted. And when the benefit and advantage which the Nation will receive by the afore&s;aid &s;ettlement is taken into con&s;ideration, as al&s;o calculati|on made of the pre&s;ent advance of money thereby, and future Rent that will come in there-from, &s;urely it will apparently be cleared to all, that a mo&s;t plentiful increa&s;e will be had thereof, both pre&s;ent and to come, much to ea&s;e the people from Tax|es, which let them be never &s;o &s;mall, are both burden&s;ome, and ill re&s;cented; all which together, may ari&s;e unto as much as the &s;ix fir&s;t Propo&s;als.</P>
<P>And to accompany the fore-recited means to rai&s;e a Revenue for the &s;upport of this Nations Government, the duty of Cu|&s;tomes upon all imported Manufactory, and &s;uperfluous Commo|dities. And Exci&s;e upon our own Manufactory con&s;ume among our &s;elves, is the mo&s;t innocente&s;t and equalle&s;t way that can by mankind be thought of in a Nation, and as good a way to bring in a con&s;tant and certain Revenue as any what&s;oever, if regulated and fitly ordered and collected, without burthening the people <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> Rich and poor accor|ding
<PB REF="4">to their expences, &s;o that therin none need to envy one the other, for all pay proportion, as they be in quality, which duties are not burthen&s;ome in them&s;elve would be &s;o accounted, were they not made &s;o by the irregular way in their colle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> of which, concerning the due regulation of the duty of Exci&s;e. By the Author o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> forementioned Book of <HI>Trade Revived,</HI> in fol. 25. and &s;o forwards; it is at large decl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> &s;ome things whereof, &s;ince his Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t happy re&s;tauration, have bin both re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">+ed, and regulated, by which the Commerce at this day doth find, not onely ea&s;e, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> benefit, to their great incouragement and hope, that in due time, all things el&s;e are ami&s;s therein, will receive the &s;ame I&s;&s;ue and amendment.</P>
<P>Having ingaged your Honours patiences thus far to read and ob&s;erve what is ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">+&s;ed in the foregoing Propo&s;als, I was minded here to re&s;t, and to &s;pare my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> thoughts, till I &s;aw what effect tho&s;e things would take already in&s;erted in this Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">&punc; But fearing I might not have the like opportunity, and al&s;o knowing the nece&s;&s;iti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e the Nation for want of Money to be very great; as likewi&s;e that perchance &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the particulars mentioned may be &s;tumbled at, becau&s;e either not rightly under&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> or that they may happily draw a duty from &s;om that are unwilling to bear any cha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the publick them&s;elves, &s;o it can be impo&s;ed any ways upon others, or that it may <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the Nation into a quieter condition for the future, and le&s;&s;en their pre&s;ent fees, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> divers per&s;ons are &s;o hard to part with, that rather then lo&s;e a penny of their pre&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">+com, will be content to &s;uffer their own Po&s;terity and the Nation eternally to lye <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> opre&s;&s;ive mi&s;ery, wherby in time no man will dare or be able &s;ecurely to deal one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the other, and if they do, certainly &amp; a&s;&s;uredly couzned. In con&s;ideration of whic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> fora&s;much that &s;ome things which are propo&s;ed, not being &s;etled rightly, may no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> an&s;wer expectation. To &s;upply the deficiency whereof, and compleat what th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> may fall &s;hort, I &s;hall lay down one way more to rai&s;e money for the Public<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> which is, That Sealed Paper may be Introduced and u&s;ed in this Nation, as it is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Kingdome of <HI>Spain:</HI> And if &s;o &s;etled here in <HI>England,</HI> it will bring in &s;o con&s;id<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="6 letters"> a Revenue for the &s;upport of the Government, and of his Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Royal <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> that after it hath once taken place, it will i&s;&s;ue from every per&s;on &s;o ea&s;ily and i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="6 letters">+bly, that no rational man can any way repine thereat, for that none of the poor <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> way be burthened therewith, ari&s;ing chiefly from &s;uch as are able, and will be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> to pay the &s;ame without grudgings: And &s;o certain will this Revenue be, as n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> can be more, i&s;&s;uing from &s;o many &s;mall &s;prings, that con&s;tantly running throug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;everal Channels into one, will increa&s;e the &s;ame into &s;o fair a &s;tream, that it w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> the greate&s;t burden of the Nations expence, and &s;o become the only means to &s;et from all other future Taxes.</P>
<P>I would not be mi&s;taken in this propo&s;al of rai&s;ing money, by introducing Paper, that here I mean, that all Paper u&s;ed in <HI>England</HI> &s;hould be monopolized, &s;ue &s;ealed from one hand, no, no.</P>
<P>But that a certain &s;ort of Paper be &s;ealed, and u&s;ed in all publick occa&s;ions th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> or may appear in Judicature, and at &s;everal prizes, according to the occa&s;ions, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ome Moneths &s;ince pre&s;ented to his Maje&s;ty, the particulars whereof being &s;ub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> to your honourable Con&s;iderations, are as followeth.</P>
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<P>That there be an <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> for the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Paper and Parchment for pub|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> u&s;e, a &s;tock thereof will be prepared for a very &s;mall &s;um of Money to begin the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">.</P>
<P>That this Paper &s;o Sealed, may be of one &s;ort for proportion, that &s;o the Records <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> places, may an&s;wer their duplicates, when tran&s;cribed and tran&s;mitted unto the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Office, which &s;aid Paper according to the &s;everal u&s;es for which it is to be appli|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o be of di&s;tinct prizes, which is to be expre&s;&s;ed by the Seal; the Parchment to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ed according to its u&s;es, in &s;mall or greater Panes, labells, or pieces.</P>
<P>That only the fir&s;t &s;heet or page of every Evidence or writing which &s;hall con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">f more &s;heets or pages then one &s;ingle &s;heet or page, to receive only the Seal, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">y of the re&s;t following the fir&s;t &s;heet or page, but to be of co~mon Paper un&s;ealed.</P>
<P>That the&s;e Seals being of &s;everal Prizes; the fir&s;t Seal, to be valued at a penny <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">eet or page, and this to be u&s;ed for all manner of Receipts, Acquittances, Ente|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t the Cu&s;tome-hou&s;e, Di&s;charges, Petitions, Affidavits, Certificates, and other the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rdinary occa&s;ions.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e &s;econd Seal to be of 3 d. a &s;heet or page, and this to be implyed for all Agree|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">s, Sales of goods, Bonds, Bills, to fifty pounds, and under.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e third Seal to be at 6 d. the &s;heet or page for all Bonds and Bills, and above 50 l. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">00 l.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e fourth Seal at 12 d. the &s;heet or page, for all things, as before, above 100 l. but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ceeding 500 l.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e fift Seal at 2 s. the &s;heet or page, for all things from 500 l. to a 1000 l. and un|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">is Seal may be comprehended all Declarations, Bills, and An&s;wers in Chancery, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">er Courts, Judgments, Pleas, Executions, and Decrees, which concern Suits in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">r Chancery.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e &s;ixt Seal at 4 s. a &s;heet or page for any &s;um above 1000 l. for all Lea&s;es, Pur|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="6 letters">, Mortgages, Rent-charges, Conveyances of Land, Hou&s;es, or Offices, Wills and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">ents, and &s;uch like.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;eventh Seal at 20 s. a &s;heet or page, comprehending all matters that pa&s;s under <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">eat Seal, or Privy Seal.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> eighth Seal at 40 s. comprehending all Honours under the degree of a Ba|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="5 letters"></P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> ninth Seal 4 l. for a Baron, and all other Superiour Honours.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> tenth Seal at 10 l. a &s;heet or page, comprehending, and having reference unto <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">vernments, Dome&s;tick or Forrain, whether of Provinces, Cities, Towns, or Ca|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r any other &s;uch like commands, to which is annexed an annual &s;tipend.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> as to the difference of the&s;e Seals, they may be fewer or more at le&s;s or bigger <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> as it &s;hall be thought convenient for each purpo&s;e, to which they may or &s;hall be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">d. And as touching the management and &s;etling this de&s;ign, that it may do the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> for which it is propo&s;ed and intended, if it be approved, and that your <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rs &s;hall de&s;ire to be further informed therein, the Author of this Propo&s;al <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;t readily obey command, and que&s;tions not but to make it evident that no one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">n more ea&s;ilier be e&s;tabli&s;hed, and produce an Incomb more plea&s;ing and with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">evance to the Nation then this will, for none &s;hall be compelled to u&s;e this Pa|per,
<PB REF="5">unle&s;s they of their own accord will, there being not any per&s;on that &s;hall u&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t, but will one way or other find an advantage thereby: And for the publick advantage that will ari&s;e in reference to the incomb thereof, let con&s;ideration be had of the effect it produceth in <HI>Spain,</HI> where for this many years it hath bin u&s;ed, and is found the mo&s;t readie&s;t, greate&s;t, and in&s;en&s;ible&s;t Incomb of any, and hath brought into the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Coffers, va&s;te &s;ums yearly, to many &s;cores of thou&s;ands of Duckars, although they are for people few in number, and very mean in negotiations; and it was in the time of <HI>Spains</HI> greate&s;t extremity and want, amid&s;t their late wars with <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Hol|land,</HI> fir&s;t &s;et afoot; which very thing, and the Revenue <HI>Spain</HI> received thereby, had it bin paid in Silver, as it was in black money, it would well nigh have &s;upplyed the be&s;t of his expences for tho&s;e <HI>French</HI> Expeditions; but as it and all other the King of <HI>Spains</HI> Revenues of his Crown are gathered in, in Cope-money, the lo&s;s thereby is &s;o great, that it le&s;&s;ens his whole Incomb one half, and hath ruinated <HI>Spain,</HI> &s;o as never to be re|covered without a Miracle: and &s;hould we ever here in <HI>England</HI> &s;uffer Coper Coyn, or deba&s;ed money to pa&s;s for currant among&s;t us, we &s;hall &s;oon make <HI>England</HI> wor&s;e then <HI>Spain.</HI> Con&s;idering then of what a value this &s;ettlement was to <HI>Spain,</HI> a poor depopu|lated Kingdome, how much more con&s;iderate will it be to <HI>England,</HI> who&s;e large Com|merce and dealings, both abroad and at home, carried to a greater heigth through the infinite multitudes of people, all who&s;e tran&s;actions will be as &s;o many riverets ad|ding &s;till to the filling of the Ci&s;tern, that it cannot but in rea&s;on be granted to be a &s;et|tlement worthy the taking into con&s;ideration, for hereby &s;uch Publick-Faith Debts, or other Debts which &s;hall be thought fit to be paid, to &s;uch as have &s;uffered &s;o much for their loyalty to their King and Countrey, may receive a quick and ea&s;y &s;atisfaction, of which there are &s;undry Poor of all &s;ides, that merit relief therein.</P>
<P>I have now done, and I hope none will think their labour ill &s;pent in the ob&s;erving or reading what in this paper is &s;et forth, or blame the Author for publi&s;hing the &s;ame, &s;uch things as the&s;e being only fit for National meetings, and by them to be con&s;ider|ed, the which ble&s;&s;ed be God, we now enjoy with all freedome, &s;o it is my hope, and I cannot but believe, that what&s;oever may any wayes advance the Publick good, will be with much earne&s;tne&s;s (now in this pre&s;ent Parliament) preferred and perfected to the glory of God, his Maje&s;ties Honour, and the Nations ea&s;e and Pro&s;perity, which I heartily wi&s;h, and when any of the particulars herein mentioned, hath bin, or is by any other per&s;on made publick, it will very much rejoyce me to find, and know that there be a&s;&s;enters to the&s;e my thoughts and Judgment, and that have like publick &s;pirits as to wi&s;h well to their native Countrey and brethren inhabitants therein, and who al&s;o de&s;ire to do good, for good &s;ake; for undoubtedly would every man leav off &s;elf intere&s;t in its exorbitancy, &amp; &s;trive to promote the comon good, &s;taying a while &amp; &s;triving the advancement of the one, it would make them in due time attain unto the other, when as its mo&s;t probable by &s;triving only for &s;elf, both the one and the other come <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o ruine; I wi&s;h it were not &s;o much the pre&s;ent fin of the Nation, its not to late to be amended, and I hope it will be mended before it grow too late, which once hapning, there will be no going back. Concluding therefore with this Prayer, That if by pre&s;uming to pub|li&s;h and pre&s;ent the&s;e to your Honours, I have erred, let the zeal I have for the peace <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nd pro&s;perity of <HI>England,</HI> and the de&s;ire to promote his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, obtain a par|don for him, who begs of God, that he will give you Wi&s;dome and Courage to &s;ettle
<PB REF="6">this poor Nation, that hath &s;o long lain under mi&s;ery, in unity and peace, both i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Church and State, and al&s;o &s;o to &s;trengthen his Maje&s;ties hands with power, and his Cof|fers with Money, that he may be able to with&s;tand and &s;ubdue all his Enemies, and re|ward his friends, that under him and his Government, the people of <HI>England</HI> may live a &s;afe peaceable and happy life.</P>
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