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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38371	England must pay the piper being a seasonable discourse about raising of money this session : in a letter to a member of the honourable House of Commons.		1691 (1691)	Wing E2935; ESTC R27351	9,757	9

paid 50 Pounds for Licence for one Year besides the Tax according to the Rent of their Houses upon their Trades and personal Estates with the general Excise These I hear are Presidents intended to be follow'd in Raising of Mony here together with a new Imposition on Chimnys to be purchas'd at ten years value and the Sale of such confiscated Estates in Ireland as are not receiv'd for the Uses before specifi'd But I think these two last will find few Adventurers How the States or at least the Dutch Seamen will resent the Lord Torrington's suffering them to sustain the Loss on our Coast without affording them Relief we shall not know till there be some Joint Engagement against the French Fleet especially since after such upon the whole I do not wonder that we have such Rumours of the Dutch Endeavours to make a separate Peace as they did once when they were in League with the Emperour and King of Spain leaving them in the lurch And it is to be suspected that if the States indeavour it not speedily the Rable will compell them to it for it is well known that there still remains a Party there who never loved the P. of O. and are no better inclin'd to him as King As to the Emperour this Years Successes of the Turks in Hungary and Transilvania must necessitate him to consent to a Peace either in Christendom or with the Port. The latter he cannot effect as Matters now stand upon honourable Terms And the Venetians being animated by the taking of the important Place Napoli di Malvasia will be very sollicitous to pursue their good Success with all Vigour imaginable on their Side and we may be assured that the Pope being so deeply interested in the advancing the Prosperity of that Republick will leave nothing unattempted to induce the Emperour to prosecute the War against the Infidels rather than here And the Germane Princes sufficiently harassed by the War with France wherein they have suffer'd so much Burning and Devastation even to the paying of Contributions beyond the Rhine will gladly embrace the Overtures of Peace with that Crown especially finding that this Year hitherto they have not been able to perform one Action the Benefit whereof may countervail the Charge of one Brigade of their Army Farthermore it is to be consider'd how disadvantagiously the Confederates make War against France The several Princes are necessitated in their several Districts to obtain the consent of their respective States to raise Mony after which there must be an adjusting of all Things by Plenipotentiaries or Conference of those absolute Princes by which means they are generally so late in the Field that the French King effects a great part of his Designs e'er they come from their Winter Quarters And when they are advanc'd the Princes have almost as many independant Generals as they have Armies and it is well known with what Difficulty the Germane Princes especially the Emperour raiseth Mony to maintain so expensive a War Wheras 't is certain the French King hath made a secure Fund for nine Years beforehand to defray all the stated and contingent Charges of the War and can with the same facility renew it at the Expiration of that Term by a singular Way he hath above all other Princes that even in times of Peace the whole Revenue of his Kingdom comes into his Exchequer every 4 or 5 Years He ordereth his Armies by his own single Command without any other co-ordinate Power or dependence on the Suffrages of others whereby all his Affairs are managed with secrecy and steadiness From whence we must conclude that he is likelier to weary out the Confederates even upon the Defensive part at their Charges than they are to gain any Advantage upon him even though we were able to provide our Quota of the Expence and supply fresh Armies in conjunction and according to the Exigence of the Confederates But what can we hope to doe when the Sheaf of Arrows is unloosed and any of the Confederates shall make a separate Peace Can it be conceiv'd that we can be able to cope with the French K. when the Circumvallation is broken and he shall be at Liberty to turn an uninterrupted Force upon us when we are exhausted by Taxes and so divided among our selves upon account of the Interest of King James and the ill understanding betwixt the Ch. of England and the Dissenters the Monarchical and Common-wealth Men The Case being thus I think we ought seriously to consider for whose Cause we began the War It was first proclaimed here and it was one of the great Eye-sores both to the French and Confederates that King James would join with neither Party but that he designed to have stood neuter But the States and Confederates found a means to make him flie for Refuge to that Prince who solely was not an Enemy to his Person and was likeliest to protect him though he had declined to join in a League with him which as matters fell out had been his onely Security So that upon the whole we may conclude that the Revolution here was the Contrivance of the Confederates but principally of Spain and the States to make a powerfull Diversion against France and engage us in their Quarrel and to add the whole Force of England to their Defence Since therefore the War was begun and is continued for the Advantage of the States and those Princes and hath been so destructive to our selves that as it is managed besides the inestimable Losses we have sustained we are forced to contribute so great a share of our own Money to support them It cannot but be thought most advisable before you consent to raise Money to send Commissioners to the States to know whether they be able and willing to continue the War and such onely to be sent who may discover the Secrets of their Councils and their Strength and if they find them in both agreeable to our Wishes then to know what share they will bear of the Expences for it is but reasonable that as we sustain all this Misery and Damage for their sakes and in subservience to their single Interest they and not we should bear the Burthen For to tell us at this time of the day that we have put K. William upon the War is a cold Consolation and an ill Requital for our Easiness to subject our selves to Dutch Stratagems If therefore the States and Confederates will pay the Debt of four Millions be it more or less I think our Country Men will be content to submit to the raising a Fund of two Millions more for the next Compaign and upon no other Terms I think it can be advisable to grant any Money at all nor then without a just Account of what is expended There was something more added but it was onely Assurance of Friendship and that it was from an earnest Desire to serve his Countrey that he had composed it Such therefore as it is I send you and judge you will think I have fully obey'd your Commands who am Yours assuredly