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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51451	The most equal and easie method of raising a sufficient fund to carry on a vigorous war against France		1691 (1691)	Wing M2874; ESTC R7114	8,194	16

The most EQUAL and EASIE METHOD OF RAISING A SUFFICIENT FUND To Carry on A Vigorous War AGAINST FRANCE LONDON Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall M DC XC I. WHen we consider the Wars on every side in which Europe is now engaged the Streams of Blood that are daily spilt the utter Ruin of Multitudes of Families the Devastation of whole Provinces by Fire and Sword and the base Treacheries that are now practised to reveal Secrets of State to betray Cities blow up Magazines and to act all manner of Hellish Exploits and all this only to glut the insatiate Ambition of the French King it ought not only to fill us with Horror and Indignation against the Cause of all these Miseries but should provoke all good Men to draw their Purses willingly and wise Men to employ their utmost Care that the Cause of all these Evils may be removed as soon as may be The English Nation has all along formerly made so considerable a Figure in the Affairs of Europe holding the Balance and turning the Scale as it pleased in doubtful Times especially under Active Princes that we have no reason to doubt of Success at this time if we do but assist his Majesty generously and sufficiently who has already Delivered these Three Kingdoms from the Danger of French Bondage and who is universally expected by all the Confederates to become likewise shortly their Glorious Deliverer Now in order to this end I humbly offer to the Consideration of this Parliament whether a small Excise upon some few Commodities for there is no need of a General Excise be not the most expedite and easie the most effectual and surest way of raising such Summs as are now most convenient to carry on with Success a vigorous War against France It is the most easie because the least sensible Way of raising Monies The paying great Summs at once will make many a Man to stagger as not being always provided with a Store sufficient but the small and inconsiderable Payments that are made by Excises can be no great Grievance to any Man for if his Dealings be small so are his Payments if great so are his Profits too Every thing here falls in a just proportion to Mens own Capacities or Abilities and after all the Trials of the Wit of Man Excises have been fixed upon by all our Neighbours as the Best and the Easiest Way of raising Great Summs And as it is not now and then a Gawdy Day of Getting that commonly makes Men Rich but rather a constant Course of daily Increase by small Gains so it may be said of the Publick Treasury that from small beginnings and contemptible but general Collections it uses to grow unto prodigious Summs like the Rain that falls which does by abundance of small Drops use to rise into a mighty Stream And that an Excise is the most likely and effectual means to raise great and extraordinary Summs or such as are now necessary to enable us to cope with France let it be consider'd what Funds London alone is capable of raising when Amsterdam with its Precinct which bears but a small Proportion to London either as to Riches or Extent or Number of Inhabitants does hereby especially raise for the use of the States-General at least sixteen hundred thousand pounds per annum But it is become an Objection of no small Weight with some that an Excise ought above all things to be avoided because it is so easie and so tolerable to the Subject We shall say they never get quit of Excises because they are felt so little Nay farther that the Excises which have been once laid have been always continued by Parliament Indeed in a late Reign when the Crown and the Kingdom were thought to have different Interests when there was reason for State-Jealousies and the Parliament might fear lest the Weapons they should provide for the Defence of the Nation might be turned against themselves there was good reason for such Objections But now that we have a Prince of Heroick Virtue Magnanimity and Honor who can have no separate Interest from his People who has received the greatest Provocations from France who has been so lately our Deliverer under God from the most dismal prospect of National Calamities who has already upon great Trials resisted with scorn all Temptations to Arbitrary Power and whose Wisdom and Prudence and continual Thoughtfulness can never be guilty of such an Error in Politicks as by any just Cause to create Jealousies in his People at a time when all his Designs do aim at no less than the Liberty of Europe At such a time as this and under such a Prince Surmises of this kind are both vain and ungenerous most unworthy and ungrateful It hath every where been the Policy and the Practice of the wisest Nations to contrive the Easiest and least Burdensom Ways of raising Taxes And shall we when not only our own Fate is still in some suspence but the Dominion of Europe is so strenuously contended for by the most dangerous and ambitious Prince that ever sate upon a Christian Throne shall we at this time entertain our selves with Preposterous and Chymerical Notions of I know not what that may happen God knows when and neglect foolishly our only means of Safety Was there ever an Excise yet laid that did not actually expire with the Period set to it by Parliament If Excises that have been once established have had the Fortune to be continued it is much to their Credit and to the Honor of those that did first establish them For if there had been any Inconveniences to the Publick found in the use of them they would of course have been set aside to make way for less Grievous Taxes But their continuance for some more years upon repeated Experience of their convenience to the Publick does loudly speak in Praise of them above strained or imaginary Notions to the contrary The same necessity at present lies upon us as well as our Neighbours to raise greater Summs than ordinary for our common Defence and to humble France in its highest Pride Money must be raised or the Nation perish But of all the Nations in Europe there is not one more Rich in its proportion or more plentiful in all things and yet none so free as we from Excises in general and consequently none more capable of bearing them with Ease When once we dare venture to try the Experiment I shall from that Minute conclude the Fall of France as good as done and we shall soon see their humblest Addresses for Peace when once they see us thus in good earnest engaged against them Did not an Excise laid upon a few Commodities by the then Parliament contribute more than any thing else to the Overthrow of King Charles the First And did not Holland by this means above all others preserve it self against the Power of Spain As long as the World lasts a Shilling will beat Sixpence and Silver and