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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40484	A friend to Cæsar, or, An humble proposition for the more regular, speedy, and easie payment of his Majesties treasure, granted, or to be granted by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the carrying on of his Majesties expences, whether ordinary or extraordinary, both in time of peace and in time of war and also the causes of those many debts which the crown is so heavily clogged with, and sound propositions for the cure thereof / by a person of honour.	Person of honour.	1681 (1681)	Wing F2213; ESTC R226983	34,769	33

Subjects In all Diseases of the Body Natural we say to discover the Cause of the Distemper is half a Cure and to remove it will totally restore the Patient What is true in the Distemper of the Body Natural is as equally true in the Distemper of the Body Politick take away the Cause and the Effect ceaseth And however it is not easy yea 't is impossible to Assign all the grounds and causes of his Majesties unhappiness in this particular after the expression of so much Love Loyalty and Affection from his Parliament and People who almost if not altogether have at every Session given him for these ten Years past little or much to enable him to carry on his Affairs without exposing himself to Debts and other grieving Disadvantages to himself and his People yet some of them that are too obvious and the grand Causes among many others shall be given in answer to this Inquiry for the future prevention of so great a disservice both to his Majesty and his People who by reason thereof is alwaies receiving and yet hath not sufficient and who are always giving and yet are as far from their end in giving as if they had given little or nothing 1. The first Reason or Cause that I shall mention may be in the Parliaments not giving or granting what they do give or grant till the Service for which it is given be commenced or in some forwardness for its Expence whereby his Majesty is oftentimes forced either to advance his Treasure upon the Credit of what they are about to give him or for want thereof to purchace all or most Commodities requisite for his Service at exorbitant Rates and Prizes which renders it much more in Charge and Expence than otherwise it would or ought to be 2. These Allowances given by the Parliament out of the Treasure given his Majesty in their respective Acts to several Persons though in it self it be upon view but of small or no consideration to wit one penny or two pence in the Pound Yet if these pence or two pences be cast up and put into a total Sum to be defaulked from the whole Sum given it will then appear that the want thereof is a great Detriment to his Majesty and doth frustrate his Service as to so much beyond his expectation from the Sum given him As for Example suppose the Sum given to be two Millions as of late it hath been and more four pence in the Pound distributed into pence and two pences to several persons amounts in the whole Two Millions to 33333 l. 06 s. 08 p. This 33333 l. 06 s. 08 p. if duly paid would answer his Majesties expectation of two Millions of Treasure said to be given his Majesty and the Parliaments intention in giving him so much whereas this defaulkation in the Act it self renders the Sum so much less than is promised and his Majesty so much the more in debt for want of it and the Subject liable to future Taxations for the same Money which he hath already paid as part of the two Millions formerly granted 3. The Anticipation of his Majesties Revenues by Loanes from the City of London and other private Men or Places before what is given him by his Parliament is or can be reckoned is a great cause of its expence without that Providence which otherwise might be used and consequently of leaving his Majesty under the burthen of debt as much if not more than he was before it was given him 4. The paying of Interest to all Venders of Goods or Commodities served into the Navy for the carrying on his Majesties Service there is intollerably disadvantagious to his Majesty and contracts upon him such and so great Debts that unless the Parliament be constantly giving his Majesty must needs sink under the weight of them for over and above the common and bare Interest allowed these men knowing before-hand what course they must steer before they can compass their Money will not part with their respective Commodities without the inclusion of 20 per Cent. Profit for their Goods sold for which upon receipt of Bills or Debentures for their Money they immedlately carry them to the Exchequer and enter them there as so much Money lent to his Majesty at 7 or 8 per Cent. till they be paid whereby it appears to me I know not what it doth to other men that his Majesty loseth 30 per Cent. of all Bills or Debentures so brought into his Exchequer as Money lent for Goods sold into the Service which must needs leave his Majesty as much in Debt at the end of the Year as he was at first 5. The Payment of those Moneys either lent or anticipated by Tallyes or brought into the Exchequer by Bills or Debentures in the new way commonly called by COURSE is the Ivy that eats out the Heart of his Majesties Revenue for though it be true that the Parliament have in their Wisdoms made strict Provisoes in several Acts for the due payment thereof without much Charge or Fees to the Vender or Buyer yet it is also true that let them do what they can to prevent the Mischiefs that may attend their Payment Irregularly or out of Course yet when they have done all all that they have done nor doth nor can signify any thing as to the freeing his Majesty from being in Debt in regard what they build upon in this way is that which cannot stand for want of a sure and solid Foundation to bear it upon For whatever is or may be pretended unto by those Gentlemen that were the first contrivers of this way as men interested to promote it yet indeed the way it self is a Sandy Foundation and so far from answering its end to wit the speedy payment of his Majesties Debts that it is totally destructive to him and the Nation and the longer it is followed the more he will find himself plunged into Debt So that if he had not the Peoples Purses and Affections to supply him in a constant way of giving he would never be able to extricate himself out of them And to speak plainly Payments in course are at the best but coarse Payments both in reference to his Majesties Honour and Profit and with reference to his Peoples satisfaction except such as are interressed Persons or usurious Abusers of his Majesties Service I shall take leave to expatiate a little upon this Head because I know it to be the greatest Diana of these times and is looked upon as the rarest Expedient that ever was found out for the Honour of his Majesties Service Suppose a Lord or other Noble Man of this Nation whose Revenue is 5000 Pound good Estate to be also an adventurer to the East Indies or Guinny twenty thousand Pounds with hopes and design to improve his Fortune who yet by reason thereof and other Expences incumbent upon him for the support of his Family and maintenance of himself in that grandeur that his Birth Office

A FRIEND TO CAESAR OR AN HUMBLE PROPOSITION FOR The more regular speedy and easie Payment of his Majesties Treasure Granted or to be Granted by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament for the carrying on of his Majesties Expences whether Ordinary or Extraordinary both in time of Peace and in time of War AND ALSO The Causes of those many Debts which the Crown is so heavily Clogged with And sound Propositions for the Cure thereof By a Person of Honour LONDON Printed for Robert Harford at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1681 THE PREFACE TO THE READER YOu have here Reader presented to your View one of the most useful Books this Age has seen This woody noisy Age fruitful only in base in treacherous or vain Productions and therefore sunk in the Esteem of wise and Good Men has the Honour at last of Publishing this excellent Book whose Merit is too great to be spoke in the narrow Limits I oblige my self to The worthy Author has shewn himself in the following Pages to be what the Title calls this Book a Friend to Caesar No cunning Gloser of the Court no fawning Parasite no supple insinuating Flatterer but such a Friend as generously interposes to free the Sacred Crown of the Brittish Empire from that Rust and Tervith that has so long obscured its Lustre The Title of this Book promises no more than what the Author admirably acquits himself of in the following Discourse He has shewn himself not only by his excellent Design and End to be a true English-Man a brave an honest and a worthy Patriot but also by his admirable Management of it to be a Wise and Great Man capable of the highest Reasonings and the best Resolves A fit and just disposure of the publick Treasure is a Point so necessary and withal so nice that as there is nothing more worthy the enquiry of such whose Station and Quality fits them for the Service of the State so there is nothing that more requires to be proposed and setled by the steadiest Councels the greatest Deliberations and the Wisest Cautions You will find Reader lively Instances of the unhappiness of diverting the publick Monyes from the Ends to which they were appropriated And every reflecting Mind will easily discern how Fatal such Miscarriages may prove when the Peace of Nations shall be a Sacrifice to the by-Ends of private Persons or when the Treachery of some or the Neglect of others shall hazard the ruine of the general Repose or Wreck of the publick Safety You will find how heavily the Crown is clogged with Debt You will find many of the plain and obvious tho concealed or neglected Causes And you will find such sound Propositions of Cure as nothing less I believe than the collective Wisdom of the Nation can alter them to mend them I perswade my self that no Man can bring any just Objection to the solid Reasonings to the plain Demonstrations that this Author uses If at least he Read with such an attention of Mind as the Subject requires and comes but to it with an unprejudiced Judgment I have often thought it a most deplorable thing that the Splendor of the Imperial Crown of these Rich and Flourishing Nations should be so long Dark'ned and Eclipsed by such a Cloud of Debts And I have wondred as oft how it could possibly be so So many Wise and Faithful Ministers of State I thought could never suffer their Masters Treasure to flow out of the proper Channel and to be diverted to Ends unworthy the Glory of the Royal Diadem or unsuitable to the Honour of their own Fidelity and Loyalty Howsoever it be the King is unhappily engaged in very great Streights and Difficulties by the pressing Burthen of his Debts and as this excellent Author has well dived into the Causes and discovered the Moths and Rust that insensibly by unminded Stepps secretly Cankered and Decay'd the Treasure So has he with all Candour offered such Means of Redress as he has upon the maturest Result of Judgment thought the best The Legislative Power of the Nation is certainly the best Judge of this Gentlemans Opinion and himself has with all becoming Humility and due Submission wholly laid these his Sentiments at the Footstool of that Sacred Power 'T is a sence of Duty that every true Englishman must alwaies cherish in himself and which for my own particular is one of the only things I can Vallue in my self God forbid therefore that any thing I say in this Preface should be extended to forestal the Judgment of a Parliament for all whose Proceedings as I have alwaies the highest Veneration and Deference So I would by no means be thought to intend this a Censure upon them in case their Sentiments prove different from the Authors No but on the contrary I profess to regulate my little Reason by their strength of Wisdom and reform the Errours of my Judgment by the Truth of theirs The occasion of my Writing this was no more than an excess of Love and Zeal I naturally have for my King and Country which alwaies taking new Fire at every hint that speaks any brave or generous Service to them broke out into rapture at the reading of these Sheets My Breast I found was too narrow for the Genius that inspir'd it and no longer able to contain at last it thus ran on I could not forbear recommending a thing I liked so well to the glad perusal of others and the Bookseller would needs publish what I writ I cannot but confess 't an Honour to me for by this Advantage something of me may remain to future Ages whilest annexed to this inestimable Jewel and this worthless Scribble which otherwise perhaps had perished in the next Fire or which is worse bin continued by the fate of Wilds and Flecknots Workes to case up Fruit might now had I the vanity to subscribe it convey my Name and Memory to the utmost end of time I could never end Reader did I give but way to all the Violence and Heat that agitates my Mind What could not be said on this Glorious this Loyal this useful Theme A Proposition for establishing and securing a lasting Glory to the English Crown and Nation by delivering the Crown from the wretched wardship of its Debts and by Protecting it from all future Invasions of that kind This Glorious Deed once done I should not doubt to see in a short time the Royal English Lyons rouse themselves to the Fear and Terrour of all their insulting Neighbours But I will not go too far nor too long detain the Reader from the useful Sheets that follow I will only beg the Readers Patience and the Authors Pardon for adding the following Opinion of mine to what the worthy Author speaks about Distress where the Collectors do not presently pay in their Mony when required I conceive that not meerly a Constable but in the Country some Justices of the Peace or in a

Contract too great Salleries to subordinate Instruments want of seasonable Supplies of the Magazeens in all his Majesties Yards and Store-Houses buying all sorts of Provisions at extream Rates and Prizes when and not before Necessity enforceth their supply payment of those Provisions in a long bow of time furnishing the necessity of one Yard or Store-House with the Provisions of another Yard after they are laid in there at exorbitant Rates and Charge want of due Musters and in Default thereof Payment of dead Payes to Captains Pursers Imbezellments of Boteswaines Gunners and Pursers the abuse of provant Cloaths sold to Seamen prest into the Service buying poor Seamens Tickets compounding for Bills and Debentures when there is Money in the Office to pay them Diverting his Majesties Treasure to private Uses These and an hundred more that with an easie Recollection might be ennumerated are all tending much to the Disservice of his Majesty the contracting of greater Debts than needs the Discouragement of the Subject to serve his Majesty with Provisions the Discontent of the whole Nation and the Disappointment of the good Intentions of the Parliament in laying so many and so great Burthens and Taxes upon the Subject with design to preserve his Majesty from being in Debt But in regard all or the most part of these and those I pass over with Silence are such as are already in the Hands and Care of Subordinate Instruments intrusted with their Regulation and Prevention I shall rather choose in Silence to bury them than by raking in them to uncover the Nakedness of those whose Trust is to reform them And shall proceed in what remains before me as the Design of this whole Discourse to wit if it be possible to propound such Expedients as at least in my poor and weak Capacity may have a Tendency to preserve his Majesties Honour and to redeem him from those needless growing Debts that now burthen him and in him the whole Nation And yet to carry on his Majesties Revenue Service and Expence at as high a Rate of Honour and Value as now it is or can be supposed to be by all those Contrivances and Practices before mentioned The whole Charge and Expence of his Majesty may for Methods Sake be looked upon under the Notion of Ordinary or Extraordinary I call such Ordinary as refer to his Person his House Guards Buildings Reparations Privy-Purse Intelligences Negotiations with forraign Princes Maintenance of his Navy in Harbour his Garrisons Fortifications Building and Repairing of Ships together with all other things that are constant Charges upon him and must be kept and maintained by him and his Successors as Kings of England I call nothing Extraordinary but open and Proclaimed War with one or more Forraign Nations or Association with Forraign Princes whereby he is and must be forced to raise an Army or set out Fleets of Ships to Sea c. For the Common Defence of the Nation preservation of Peace Trade c. The first of these is already provided for and setled the Parliament having given his Majesty twelve hundred thousand Pounds a Year to enable him to pay and bear all Charges and Expences that may or do attend such things as are of a constant being and must of Necessity be kept up and maintained for the preservation of the Nation in time of Peace and the Honour of his Majesties Person and Court And I could heartily wish that if what is already setled upon him shall by experience be found too little more might be added rather than his Majesty be exposed to follow the by-Ways and Devices of Byassed Men to advance Money for his Necessity and thereby run himself into great Debts not so easily Discharged as Made It is a sad Story that the whole Nation of England I might say three whole Nations should not be sufficient for the Maintenance of one Man according to the Nobleness of his Birth the Dignity of his Office and the Necessary Expences that attend it without such Precarious ways before mentioned that render him as a borrower a Servant to the Lender and yet after all leavs him in a worse Condition than he was at first The last of these must be provided for by Additional and Extraordinary Levyes upon the Nation according to the Greatness and Formidableness of the Enemy the length of the War c. As it shall be made known by his Majesty to his Parliament who are bound seasonably and speedily to supply what they in their Wisdoms find fitting for the better carrying on of the War both by Sea and by Land for the Preservation of his Majesty and the Honour and Safety of the Nation c. Now supposing the first already setled and the last to be setled by the Parliament the next Enquiry is how his Majesty may have and enjoy the full proceed of his Revenue already setled upon him for all ordinary Expences without Snips Abatements Defaulkations or other great Loss or Dammage before it be collected or after it is Collected before it is paid to him or to his use to such Persons as he shall Authorize to receive the same And how his Parliament may for the future so settle a Reveliue upon his Majesty for all extraordinary Charges c. in case of War and dispose the Collection Receipt Payment and Expence thereof and of every part thereof that the Nation may not be abused his Majesty Dishonoured nor his Service Retarded either for want of Treasure sufficient to bear the Charge or want of Care and Fidelity in the Payment of all Expences the War may require I put the Collection and Payment of all Treasure whether for Ordinary Charges in time of Peace or Extraordinary Expences in time of War together because the same way to be propounded for the Collection and Payment of all Treasure given or to be given his Majesty for ordinary Expences is or with little Variation may be the way and measure of all Collections for extraordinary Expences in time of War For the Collection whereof I shall humbly Offer to Consideration these ensuing Propositions viz. 1. That all Acts of Parliament already made whereby his Majesty hath any Revenue from the Nation in General such as Excize upon Ale and Beer Hearth-Money c. and all future Acts to be made to Levy Money upon the general Body or Bulk of the Nation for any Cause or Causes whatsoever either Ordinary or Extraordinary be declared by the Parliament to be Collected in manner and form following That is to say First by every Township in the whole Nation according to the respective Proportions assessed upon them Secondly by every Parish containing such and so many Townships in that Parish Thirdly by every Division containing so many Parishes in that Division Fourthly by every Hundred containing so many Divisions as are in that Hundred Fifthly by every County containing so many Hundreds as are in that County And lastly by the whole Nation containing so many Counties as are