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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52767	A second pacquet of advices and animadversions sent to the men of Shaftsbury, occasioned by several seditious pamphlets spread abroad to pervert the people since the publication of the former pacquet.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing N403; ESTC R25503	46,011	78

the Citie may have an Account of the Gains of their Predecessors take it as follows it having been drawn up by one that was in those days a Member of Parliament Some concern the Citie alone and some were charged upon both Citie and Country 1. A Tax called the Royal Subsidie of Three hundred thousand pounds I think it was the Tax they got the King to pass to pay the Scotch Presbyterian Army which themselves had brought a little before into this Kingdom to compass their Ends. 2. Poll-money 3. The Free Loans and Contributions upon the Publike Faith of Money Plate Thimbles Bodkins Horse Arms c. amounting to a vast incredible sum I remember and mine eyes saw at Guild-hall Plate brought in out of the Citizens houses and heaped up like huge Wood-piles 4. The Irish Adventure money most out of this Citie for purchase of lands in Ireland which the King's Father called a dividing of the Bears skin before they had conquered him 5. The Weekly Meal-money that is to say the Citizens spared a Meal out of their own bellies converting the value of it into Cash to be presented after their Plate 6. The Citie loan after the rate of fifty Subsidies 7. The Assesment of Money to bring on a Presbyterian Army of Scots a second time 8. The Fifth and Twentieth part of men's estates 9. The Weekly Assesment for the Lord General Essex his Army 10. The Weekly or Monthly Assesment for Sir Thomas Fairfax 's Army 11. The Weekly Assesment for the second Scotch Presbyterian Army after it had entered England 12. The Weekly Assesment for the British Army in Ireland 13. The Weekly Assesment for my Lord of Manchester 's Army 14. Free Quarter connived at by the Rulers 15. Sequestrations of the King 's Queen's and Prince's Revenue 16. Sequestrations and Plunders by Committees 17. Excise upon all things Whereupon the Gentleman who drew up this Account wrote thus By these several Ways and Taxes about Forty Millions in Money and Money 's worth were milked out of the Nation the most part out of this Citie and that Parliament as the Pope did once might well have called England Puteum inexhaustum A vast Treasure it was such a one as nothing but a long Peace could have imported and nothing but pious Frauds many Follies and a Mad War could dissipate And yet all this prodigious Sum was drained away and spent before the yeer 1647. in but six years so that we do not reckon the vast Sums fetcht out of the Citie and Kingdom to carry on the succeeding Wars which sprang out of this in England Scotland and Ireland betwixt 1647 and 1654. amounting to another vast Sum of Moneys of which I am not able to give any Account I might reckon also the many Tuns of Tears and Blood that were drawn out of the eyes and sides of these three Nations which the Presbyterian Faction can never wash off without Tears of Repentance But let it not be the Repentance of Judas such a one as they made in 1648. when they saw the Ball of Empire caught out of their hands into the hands of Cromwel and mourned for that not for the completed Ruine of the King and his Family which themselves first began and carried on as far as they could And they must look to have it mention'd till they leave off reviving their old Tricks of undermining the Government and embroiling the Nation But this may serve at present to let the Young men as well as the old see what the Citie and Kingdom got by being led by the Nose to Westminster for a Crying down and shifting of Governours and State-Ministers under the King of whose Faults they knew nothing but what they took up upon the Credit of pretended Patriots but really crafty designing publike Enemies as they afterwards appeared to be And you perceive also how false this Narrator is when he tells you that in the memory of man there never was before February last such a flocking of people to Westminster at the opening of a Session of Parliament But what went the people out to see They went to see a Reed shaken with the wind But the Wind brought on a Storm upon those that would have shaken the Foundation of both Houses which seeing they could not do a Resolution is resolved on in mere spight that 't is now no Parliament but a Convention which certainly deserves a severe Animadversion of State upon such as would turn up the Foundation upon which we stand NARRATIVE When the King was come the Commons were sent for up to the Lords House where I made a shift to croud in and hear The King and Lord Chancellor each of them made a Speech worthy your consideration Copies whereof I have here sent you ANIMADVERSION But he is as false here also as he was before in the other for I finde neither of those Speeches inclosed in this Print He will be wary enough of printing them because they are worthy to be often read and consider'd by all the people in order to their satisfaction touching the justice prudence and candour of his Majestie 's Government therefore I must needs give you short Heads of the Kings Speech that the sinister intents and boisterous invective discourses of some men may be the better understood The King in his Speech of the 15 of February told his Lords and the Gentlemen of the House of Commons That he had called them together again after a long Prorogation that they might have an opportunity to repair the Misfortunes of the foregoing Session and to recover and restore the right use and end of Parliaments That he was resolved to let the World see that it should not be his fault if they be not made happie by their Consultations in Parliament That he plainly declared he came prepared to give them all satisfaction and security in the great concerns of the Protestant Religion as it is established in the Church of England that can consist with reason and Christian prudence And that he declared as freely that he is ready to grant a further securing of our Liberties and Properties by as many good Laws as they shall propose and can consist with the Government without which there will be neither Liberty nor Property left to any man That he would have all men judge who is most for Arbitrary Government they that foment such differences as tend to dissolve all Parliaments or He that would preserve this and all Parliaments from being made useless by such Dissentions That if these good Ends should happen to be disappointed He calls God and men to witness that the misfortune of that disappointment shall not lie at his dore What can be more desired from a gracious King But 't is not the mode nor agreeable to the temper and business of some men in the world to rest as men satisfied with Reason though perhaps they be These are they at whose dore the guilt of Parliamentary Constitutions must