Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	fruit_n	good_a	2,614	5	4.5284	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29120	A præsent for Cæsar of 100,000 l. in hand and 50,000 l. a year / by Thomas Bradley ...	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4135; ESTC R32858	8,956	65

cause of grievance to any other that are most concern'd in it whose good is principally aim'd at in this design which is as followeth I Doe propose that the Statute of the 26. of Henry the 8th and of the first of Qu. Eliz. for payment of first-first-fruits and tenths may be put into due execution which require that they be paid in to the true value of them and not as they stand partially rated in the late Kings books by an antient inquiry made above 100 years since which gives them not in to the 5th nor to the 6th nor scarce to the 8th part of the true value of them throughout the land Some reasons shewing the reasonableness equity justice and seasonablenesse of this Demand FIrst it is legal that they should be so paid the Statute is clear and peremptory for it as above the 26. of Hen. the 8. and the 1. or Qu. Eliz. Secondly And that Statute made in a free full Parliament where the Bishops chiefly concern'd in it as Lords Spiritual so called sate in the upper House in great power and with them in that Parliament six and twenty Abbots which together with the Bishops were able to have carried a Vote against the Lords temporal which in those days were not so numerous And besides these a full Convocation of the Clergy sitting and unanimously assenting to it Thirdly And this Act so considerable that three of the greatest Officers in the land The Lord Chancellor the Lord chief Baron and the Master of the Rolls are thereby required to make Inquiry from time to time by all the ways and means they can in their discretiō devise to find out the true values of them that so the first-fruits and tenths may be paid in accordingly And against those would I have put in my information in the Committee for discoveries if my Council had not otherwise perswaded and over-ruled me Fourthly There is good Bond for it which every Incumbent at his entrance into his living enters into the first-fruits Office called the Melius Inquirendum the Condition whereof runs as followeth THe Condition of this Obligation is such that if the Rectory of A. in the County of B. be hereafter proved to be of more yearly value than ten pounds then if C. D. Incumbent there do answer the Keepers of the Liberties of England accordingly within one moneth after Certificate of due proof thereof had and delivered unto him without fraud or further delay then this present Obligation to be void and of none effect or else to stand and remain in full force and vertue I Have taken some pains and been at some cost in this Inquiry and I find this ten pound commonly to be an hundred seldom less than fourscore as for instances the Rectory of Alsford in Hampshire stands in the late Kings Books at 29l and some odd shillings I have known this Rectory to be let at 450l communibus annis and besides the * incumbent reserving to himself the house with the accommodatious about it with some gleab land and other advantages to the value of 30l a year and upward I could multiply instances of this kind if it were necessary Fifthly We may better now afford to doe it than heretofore inasmuch as we are freed from many other burdens and yearely payments which formerly we stood charged withall as Synodals and procurations and good reason for it for the duties upon which they were charg'd being laid down which were the calling of Synods and visitations of the Churches which were to be done at the charge of the Ministry it will follow rationally that the charge occasioned by these duties should die with them as also the contributions usually given to the Bishops at their first entrance upon their Sees by way of gratuity Sixthly It was not so long since it was questioned and that in Parliament too whether any tithes should be paid at all and shall it now be questioned whether these dues shall be paid out of them to his Highness which the Law requires Seventhly VVhat more usual with Christian Kings and Commonwealths than in great exigencies of affairs as in their chargeable wars c to supply their wants out of the Revenues of the Church by receiving sometimes a tenth sometimes a fifteenth part throughout their Dominions and that where they have no such Law for it as we have but only raggione del Stato as the Italian speaks Eightly If you look upon the Preface that usher'd in this Act when it was first made in the 26. of Hen. 8. you shall find it speaks as strongly for his Highness and the present affairs of the Commonwealth now and they do as necessarily require it as then they did Ninthly Doe the great affairs of the Commonwealth force his Highness to raise such great summes of mony for the managing of them by such ways and means as reason of state puts him upon as by contribution decimation excise and the like and is it fit that such sums as these are which are clearly due by Law should lie asleep and be wav'd the while Tenthly Let noe man think it strange that the melius Inquirendum should be now set on foot The Lord Treasurer Buckhurst was setting it on foot in his time as his Secretary Gurney told me about eight and twenty years agoe at my return out of Spain where I had been with the Lord Cottington Embassadour extraordinary upon the treaty of the peace between the two Kingdoms then and there honourably concluded ever since which time I have had it by me Eleventhly I offered to set it on foot in the late Kings time and for that purpose acquainted the Archbishop of Canterbury with it but he kept it off and charged me upon my Canonical obedience I should not stir in it neither did I while I owed him any Twelfthly and mainly even those which are most concerned in it and may pretend to have greatest cause to except against it shall receive advantage by it It is the only way to settle them in their tithes and to confirm them upon them and to engage his Highness to protect them in the possession and enjoyment of them which before and as yet doe stand but upon tottering terms most of the Counties in England having petitioned against them let them pay their dues and they may with the better confidence demand and require them But in the mean time while they pay their dues to his Highness in such an inconsiderable proportion what if the Parishioner should take the advantage of it to pay his tithes by the same proportion and being required to pay them to the full value shall answer that he pays his tithes in to the Incumbent after the same proportion that the Incumbent pays them in to his Highness and the Commonwealth both being equally due How this will stand good in Law I know not but I am sure it is good in equity Lastly were the revenues yet left unto the Church

A PRAESENT FOR CAESAR Of 100000 l in hand and 50000 l. a year By Thomas Bradley D. D. and Minister of Nettlebed in the County of Oxford Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars Luke 20. 25. LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold by Stephen and Thomas Lewis in Shooe-lane at the sign of the Book-binders To his Highness the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland with the Dominions thereunto belonging c My Lord IT is not my business nor intention in this Paper-praesent to set out all Caesars dues or duties but as a Subject under your Highness government and a friend and servant to the Commonwealth whereof I am a Member to do mine own It is a businesse concerning which I have formerly acquainted your Highnes with some things in the general and since that some others appointed by your Highness to take the cognisance of it in particular and it is at this present before the Commissioners for discoveries at VVorcester-house But as the presence of the Sun obscures all other lesser lights and makes them burn more dimly so the assembling of the present Parliament doth in a manner suspend and supersede all vigorous actings of derivative and infeour powers And therefore I have made bold to make this address immediatly unto your self and to present unto your Highness own hand and view in short and yet in full too the whole substance of the matter with the grounds and reasons of it shewing the legality equity justice and necessity of it that you may at your leasure deliberately consider of it and the more confidently resolve what to do in it It is the unhappiness of great Princes that they must see with other mens eyes and hear with other mens ears In this I desire your own may be Judges And now my Lord I shall humbly crave your favourable protection in the offer of this proposal and the further pursute of it if any further pursute be made in it For although it speaks nothing but Law and Reason Equity and Antiquity yet what entertainment it may probably meet with when it comes abroad both the title and the subject of it may promise and presage even such as all subjects of this nature do usually find to be unwelcom yet truly there are none of those that are most concern'd in it but upon conference when they have rightly understood my mind in it and their own Case they have gone away wellsatified but my Lord they will be better satisfied if in consideration of those great sums your Highness is to receive out of the Church-revenues so freely and so firmly by law conferr'd upon you your Highness will be pleased to protect them in all the rest and to settle upon the Church and confirm unto it her antient portion and patrimony the Tithes to put them into a better capacity of demanding and receiving them than now they are in when men will pay them but what they list and if they do but demand their dues of them in a legal way presently they are threatned with ejectment which as things now stand with them is no hard matter to compass considering the many pins upon which their standing doth depend and the world of exceptions which the Commissions Proclamations Orders and Ordinances made concerning them if stretch'd upon the tenters to the extremity of them and acted upon with rigour make them liable unto besides many of those which are their Judges in these cases being of different judgements from them in matters of Religion and ways of worship and directly principled not only against their persons but even against their very callings and the payment of Tithes out of which their livelihood and your Highnesses revenue should arise the continuance whereof is the only way of perpetuating the Ministry in the Church and which once taken away it will inevitably follow that in short space the Ministry will be utterly ruined and rooted out of the Church of England and that once down all other Ordinances fall with it which it is your highest honour to protect and to uphold but leaving those matters to your Higness wisedom and care with the contribution of my prayers to the great God of Heaven and Earth the high dispoof all things for his blessed protection direction and assistance to be ever present with you in all your Great Noble High Wise and Religious undertakings I passe to the businese intended and subscribe as above Your Highnesses and the Commonwealths to serve you in all good ways Thomas Bradley A PRAESENT FOR CAESAR THere is no man that looks upon this Commonwealth and considers it in the posture that now it stands but he will confesse that it would require even the golden mines of Peru to defray the charge of it and to carry on the businesses in which it is engag'd hence it is that the supream Magistrate upon whose shoulders the government of it lies is forc'd to raise vast sums of money by such ways means as reason of state puts him upon as by contribution excise decimation and the like for the managing of them which lie heavy upon the people and are resented as grievous burdens for let reason of State speak what it will and necessity be never so pressing men are not willing to part with their money t is ease and freedom from burthens that they look for which when they sensibly feel then they will sit down satisfied and contentedly acquiesce in their condition What was it that kept the 10 tribes so close to Jeroboam and his successors after the rent from Judah that through the reign of 18 Kings they kept constant to them and never returned again But that he did that which Rehoboam should have done and which the people sued for and the grave Counsellers advised him to in making their yoaks easier and their burdens lighter The nearest way for us to do so too is to alter the chargeable posture that we now stand in if with honour justice and safety that may be done but if that cannot be the next way is to supply it with treasure by such ways and means as are most clear and smooth and least liable to exceptions and what more clear than what Law hath determined what more just than for a man to demand his own what more equal than for men to pay their debts which they owe t is not a curtesie but a duty not a gratuity but the payment of a just and due debt To render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars And such is that which here I offer which if it may be managed by such hands as I have ready to commend of men of known worth and integrity fidelity and ability to undertake and to perform it It shall bring in to the Treasury for the Praesent 100000l and to the Revenue 50000l yearly and clearly without any charge to the State in the gathering of it or trouble or just