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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54612	A discourse of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of crown-lands, assessments, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, hearth, excise, &c. : with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning wars, the church, universities, rents and purchases ... : the same being frequently applied to the state and affairs of Ireland, and is now thought seasonable for the present affairs of England : humbly recommended to the present Parliament.	Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.	1689 (1689)	Wing P1920; ESTC R20953	59,806	88

was by design of the Soveraign but of some temporary Assessor whose turn it may be to receive the Talio upon the next occasion from the very man he has wronged 5. 4. Men repine much if they think the Money leavied will be expended on Entertainments magnificent Shews triumphal Arches c. To which I answer that the same is a refunding the said Moneys to the Tradesmen who work upon those things which Trades though they seem vain and only of Ornament yet they refund presently to the most useful namely to Brewers Bakers Taylors Shoemakers c. Moreover the Prince hath no more pleasure in these Shews and Entertainments than 100000 others of his meanest Subjects have whom for all their grumbling we see to travel many miles to be Spectators of these mistaken and distasted vanities 6. 5. The people often complain that the King bestows the Money he raises from the People upon his Favourites To which we answer that what is given to Favourites may at the next step or transmigration come into our own hands or theirs whom we wish well and think do deserve it 7. Secondly as this man is a Favourite to day so another or our selves may be hereafter Favour being of a very slippery and moveable nature and not such a thing as we need much to envy for the same way that leads up an Hill leads also down the same Besides there is nothing in the Laws or Customs of England which excludes any the meanest mans Child from arriving to the highest Offices in this Kingdom much less debars him from the Personal kindness of his Prince 8. All these imaginations whereunto the vulgar heads are subject do cause a backwardness to pay and that necessitates the Prince to severity Now this lighting upon some poor though stubborn stiff-necked Refuser charged with Wife and Children gives the credulous great occasion to complain of Oppression and breeds ill blood as to all other matters feeding the ill humours already in being 9. 6. Ignorance of the Number Trade and Wealth of the people is often the reason why the said people are needlesly troubled viz. with the double charge and vegation of two or many Levies when one might have served Examples whereof have been seen in late Poll-moneys in which by reason of not knowing the state of the people viz. how many there were of each Taxable sort and the want of sensible marks whereby to rate men and the confounding of Estates with Titles and Offices great mistakes were committed 10. Besides for not knowing the wealth of the people the Prince knows not what they can bear and for not knowing the Trade he can make no Judgment of the proper season when to demand his Exhibitions 11. 7. Obscurities and doubts about the right of imposing hath been the cause of great and ugly Reluctances in the people and of involuntary severities in the Prince an eminent example whereof was the Ship-money no small cause of twenty years calamity to the whole Kingdom 12. 8. Fewness of people is real poverty and a Nation wherein are eight Millions of people are more than twice as rich as the same scope of Land wherein are but four for the same Governours which are the great charge may serve near as well for the greater as the lesser number 13. Secondly If the people be so few as that they can live Ex sponte Creatis or with little labour such as is grazing c. they become wholly without Art. No man that will not exercise his hands being able to endure the tortures of the mind which much thoughtfulness doth occasion 14. 9. Scarcity of Money is another cause of the bad payment of Taxes for if we consider that of all the Wealth of this Nation viz. Lands Housing Shipping Commodities Furniture Plate and Money that scarce one part of an hundred is Coyn and that perhaps there is scarce six millions of Pounds now in England that is but twenty shillings a head for every head in the Nation We may easily judge how difficult it is for men of competent Estates to pay a sum of Money on a sudden which if they cannot compass Severities and Charges ensue and that with reason though unlucky enough it being more tolerable to undo one particular Member than to endanger the whole notwithstanding indeed it be more tolerable for one particular Member to be undone with the whole than alone 15. 10. It seems somewhat hard that all Taxes should be paid in Money that is when the King hath occasion to victual his Ships at Portsmouth that sat Oxen and Corn should not be received in kind but that Farmers must first carry their Corn perhaps ten Miles to sell and turn into Money which being paid to the King is again reconverted into Corn fetcht many miles further 16. Moreover the Farmer for haste is forced to under-sell his Corn and the King for haste likewise is forced to over-buy his Provisions Whereas the paying in kind Pro Hic Nunc would lessen a considerable grievance to the poor people 17. The next consideration shall be of the consequences and effects of too great a Tax not in respect of particular men of which we have spoken before but to the whole people in general To which I say that there is a certain measure and proportion of money requisite to drive the Trade of a Nation more or less then which would prejudice the same Just as there is a certain proportion of Farthings necessary in a small retail Trade to change silver money and to even such reckonings as cannot be adjusted with the smallest silver pieces For money made of Gold and silver is to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to the matter of our Food and Covering but as Farthings and other local extrinsick money is to the Gold and silver species 18 Now as the proportion of the number of farthings requisite in commerce is to be taken from the number of people the frequency of their Exchanges as also and principally from the value of the smallest silver pieces of money so in like manner the proportion of money requisite to our Trade is to be likewise taken from the frequency of commutations and from the bigness of the payments that are by Law or Custom usually made otherwise From whence it follows that where there are Registers of Lands whereby the just value of each mans interest in them may be well known and where there are Depositories of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as of Metals Cloth Linnen Leather and other Usefuls and where there are Banks of money also there less money is necessary to drive the Trade For if all the greatest payments be made in Lands and the other perhaps down to ten pound or twenty pound be made by credit in Lombars or Money-Banks It follows that there needs only money to pay sums less then those aforementioned just as fewer Farthings are requisite for change where there be plenty of silver two-Pences then