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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

Money charged upon them and Collected by them whether for the Hearth Money Excize or the Navy distinctly whereby the said Treasurers may at one view have and see not only the full Sum payable by every Hundred in the said County but also by every Division in the said Hundred every Parish in the said Division and every Township in the said Parish for three Months and where and in whose Hands the same and every part thereof is Lodged for his Majesties Service 4. Fourthly That the like Certificate or List be also sent up to the said Treasurors under Hands and Seals of two or more of the Commissioners of every City or Town Corporate chargable in the said Act or Acts with any part of that Sum that is charged upon each County as part or member thereof for three Months 5. Fifthly That when the Treasurer of the Navy or any other Treasurer hath received the aforesaid Lists Certificate or Duplicates of every County Hundred Division Rape Wapentake City and Town in the whole Kingdom charged with all or any part of the Sum mentioned in the said Act or Acts he or they the said Treasurers be further required and by the said Acts Impowred to give publick Notice at the common Office of the Navy or other Places where their respective Trusts are to be executed to all men that have or shall sell any Provisions Commodities Goods or Wares to his Majesty or others Authorized by him for his Use in the Navy or any other Place where his Service requires them and are thereby become Creditors to his Majesty for any Sum of Money whatsoever that they and every of them shall forthwith bring to his and their Offices respectively all such Bills Orders Warrant or Debentures Signed and Attested in the due form of the Office of the Navy Army Houshold c. by three or more of those that are or shall be Authorized to give Warrant for all Payments referring to their particular and respective Trusts and there to put their Hands as for the Receipt of so much Money as shall justly appear to be due upon the same after due Examination had thereof by the said Treasurers and their Deputies and Instruments and after Defaulkation made of all Imprests formerly paid thereupon 6. Sixthly That the said Treasurers be in like manner Impowred and Required by the said Acts to call for and take up all Bills of Impresses Signed and paid in the due form of their several Offices to any Person or Persons that have or shall contract for any Provisions referring to the Navy Army Houshold c. to be afterwards supplyed and served into his Majesties Stores for the present and future Service 7. Sevently That the said Treasurers for the time being respectively be required and by the said Acts Impowred upon Receipt and Delivery of all and every such Bills of Emptions or other ordinary Warrants Debentures c. to give to the respective Parties from whom they do or shall receive the same one or more Assignations under his or their Hands and Seals upon one or more of the said Counties Hundreds Divisions Parishes and Townships most remore from London of so much of his Majesties Treasure vested in them by the said Acts as shall Pay and Discharge each Mans Bill or Debenture Order or Warrant therein Charging and in his Majesties Name requiring all to whom the said Assignations shall come or concern to pay the same to him or them or their lawful Assigns upon sight thereof if then due or so soon as the same shall appear to be and grow due by and from the said Counties Hundreds Divisions Parishes and Townships by Vertue of the said Act or Acts of Parliament Which Assignation so Signed and Sealed as aforesaid shall be and by the said Acts shall be expressed to be as good and sufficient Security to the respective Parties for their several Debts due from his Majesty as if they had still kept their Bills and Debentures for the same and upon Payment thereof by the County Hundred Division Parish and Township and the Collectors thereof respectively upon whom it is charged or drawn the like good and sufficient Security and Discharge for and to the said County Hundred Division Parish and Township and the respective Collectors and all other men whatsoever concerned therein as if they and every of them had paid the same according to former Custom to the high Collector Receiver General or Farmers of his Majesties Revenues 8. Eightly That the said Treasurers be enabled by the said Acts if the Parties shall desire it to include in one and the same Assignation as one intire Sum all such Money as shall appear due to or upon eight ten twelve or more Bills or Debentures Orders or Warrants to 8. 19. 12. or more men that shall amicably Consent and Agree among themselves to employ one or more men for them all to receive the Sum assigned from the respective Counties Hundreds Divisions Parishes and Townships provided that they and every of the said Treasurers do specify in the body of his and their Assignations each mans distinct Name Bill and Sum of Money due to him in particular though he chargeth the County c. but with one Total 9. Ninthly That all Commissioners nominated in and by the said Acts for all and every County be required to be Aiding and Assisting to all and every such Person or Persons that shall present or produce to them or any of them any Assignation upon that County Hundred Division Parish or Township within the same by giving Warrants of Distress to all Constables and other Officers in case of Refusal or Delay of Payment thereof after the same shall appear due to his Majesty or his Assigns by the respective Acts of Parliament 10. Tenthly That the Comptroller of the Navy c. for the time being or such other Person or Persons as his Majesty and the Parliament shall think fit to appoint be Required and Impowred by vertue of the said Acts to take and keep an exact Counter-Check or Book of Accompts by way of Charge and Discharge or Creditor and Debtor of all Bills Debentures Orders and Warrants that shall be taken up by the said Treasurers respectively and of all Assignations thereupon given by them or any of them to all or any of his Majesties Subjects or Creditors therein specifying the particular Sums of Money due to the respective Persons upon the said Bills c. and payable by the said Assignations to them or their lawful Assigns by and from the respective Counties Hundreds Divisions Parishes and Townships as the same shall grow due to his Majesty by Vertue of the said Acts for Beer and Ale Chymnies or any other thing or way whatsoever And that no Bill Debenture Order or Warrant be taken in by them or any of them the said Treasurers nor any Assignation be thereupon given by the said Treasurers or any of them without the Presence Privity Approbation and Attestation

Corporation the Major or other chief Magistrate should be present at the Distress of the Goods of such as shall delay Payment of or any wayes imbezel the publick Monyes both for the greater solemnity of the thing as being the publick Mony and to prevent the Odium and Revenge that may attend a particular Person for doing it That I may keep my Word with the Reader and no longer uncharitably detant him from the Book it self I will but add my hearty Wishes and Prayers for the auspicious Progress and Event of this worthy Authors generous Design and again asking his Pardon for thus presuming and of the Reader for his Detention conclude this Preface and conduct you to the excellent Book it self FAREWEL A Catalogue of some new Books Printed and Sold by Robert Harford at the Angel in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1681. THe Reformed Bishop or XIX Articles tendered by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a well wisher of the present Government of the Church of Scotland as it is setled by Law in order to the further establishment thereof Octavo price bound 2 s. 6 d. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions shewing the Nature and Measures of Crown-Lands Assessments Customes Poll Monys Lotteries Benevolence Penalties Monopolles Offices Tythes raising of Coins Harth-Money Excise c. With several interspersed Discourses and Digressions concerning Wars the Church Universities Rents and Purchases Usury and Exchange Banks and Lombards Registers for Conveyances Beggars Ensurance Exportation of Money Wool Free Ports Coins Housing Liberty of Conscience c. The same being frequently applyed to the State and Affaires of Ireland and is now thought seasonable for the present Affairs of England Quarto price stitched ● s. Humane Prudence or the Act by which a Man may raise himself and Fortune to Grandeur by A. B. Twelves price bound 1 s. The Count of Gabalis or Conferences about secret Sciences rendered out of French into English with an Advice to the Reader by A. L. A. M. Twelv price bound 1 s. The Jesuits Catechisme according to St. Ignatius Loyola for the Instructing and Strengthning of all those that are weak in that Faith Wherein the Jmpiety of their Principles Perniciousness of their Doctrines and Iniquity of their Practices are declared Quarto price st 1 s. The Politician Discovered or Considerations of the late Pretensions that France Claims to England and Ireland and her Designs and Plots in order thereunto in two serious Discourses by a true Protestant and well-wisher of his Country Qu. pr. st 6 d. A Mathematical Compendium or useful Practices in Arithmetick Geometry and Astronomy Geography and Navigation Embattelling and Quartering of Armies Fortification and Gunnery Gauging and Dyalling explaining the Logarithms with new Indices Nepairs Rods or Bones making of Movements and the Applications of Pendulums with the Projection of the Sphere for an Universal Dyal c. By Sr. Jonas More Knight late Surveyor General of his Majesties Ordnance The second Edition with large Editions Twelves price bound 3 s. The Church Papist so called his Religion and Tenets fully discovered in a serious Dispute which long since happened between a then reputed Papist and an open professed Romanist whereby the common and trite Arguments of pretended Visibility Succession Vinversality c. of the Roman Church travelling the Nation to amuse and stagger the Weak and to seduce and pervert the unstable sort of People are briefly Confuted Whereunto is added a short Discourse proving Episcopacy to be of Divine Institution Kingly Government of Gods setting up and the Religion of the Church of England to be the best in the World By one of the Children of the late Captivity Quarto price 6 d. All the Letters Memorials and Considerations concerning the offered Alliance of the Kings of England and France to the High and Mighty Lords the States of the united Neatherlands according to the several times when they were delivered With Considerations on the Alliance and also Reflections on the said Considerations Faithfully Translated from the Dutch Coppies Printed at Haerler by Barent Jansen Hoog Euys 1680. Folio price 6 d. The Priviledges and Practice of Parliaments in England Collected out of the Common Laws of this Land Seen and allowed by the Learned in the Laws Commended to the high Court of Parliament Quarto st 6 d. The great Pressures and Grievances of the Protestants in France and their Apology to the late Ordinances made against them both out of the Edict of Nantes and several other Fundamental Laws of France and that these new Illegalities and their Miseries are contrived by the Popish Bishops Arbitrary Power Gathered and Digested by E. E. of Grays-Inn sometimes under-Secretary to the French King Humbly Dedicated to his Majesty of Great Brittain in Parliament A FRIEND TO CAESAR c. IT appears by several Acts of Parliament that the Nation hath frequently been charged with great Sums of Mony for the carrying on Wars and for other the necessary Service of the Crown and Nation Those Sums for Methods sake were by their several Acts distributed to the respective Counties and Cities of the Nation and afterwards subdivided by Commissioners appointed by the same Acts into Hundreds Wapes and Wapentakes in each County and the whole Sum for one or three Months laid upon every distinct County apportioned to the respective Hundreds thereof and the Proportion allotted to every Hundred subdivided again by the Commissioners of each Hundred into so many Parts as there are Divisions in that Hundred more or less according to the greatness and smallness of the Divisions and Warrants Issued out by the said Commissioners to the Constables of each Division to Collect the Sum required after an Assessment thereof made by the Inhabitants or some of them appointed thereunto by the Commissioners of each Hundred This Money laid uppon each Division of each Hundred is again subdivided into Parishes and those Parishes into the respective Townships of each Parish and at length stated by the Assessors upon each individual Inhabitant of each Township that hath any Estate Real or Personal to render him or them lyable to pay any part of what is laid upon that Division And so the whole Treasure granted by the Acts or ought to be collected and paid by the Inhabitants of every Township by all Townships in every Parish by all Parishes in every Division by all Divisions in every Hundred by all Hundreds in every County and by all Counties in the whole Kingdom A way very suitable to the Prudence of the representative of the People and much becoming the Justice of the High Court of Parliament Yet if I may have Leave without Offence I would humbly demand How it comes to pass that notwithstanding so Many so Great and Unparallel'd Sums of Money as have been given and granted to his Majesty since his happy return to his Crown His Majesty should yet be said not only to have an Empty Exchequer but also to be much in debt to several of his

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

in it As for Cities and other Corporate Places the way of Collection may be carried by Parishes in that City Corporation c. according to the respective Revenues that may arise from each Parish This is already practised as to all Land Taxes and needs no Alteration or Amendment 2. Secondly That two able and sufficient Men Inhabitants of each Township be required by the Deputy Lieutenants Justices of the Peace or other Commissioners to Assess themselves and the rest of the Inhabitants of each Township Parish or Division in every Hundred and enable to Collect what is so by them Assessed proportionably to the whole Sum laid upon that Hundred or Division and those Parishes and Townships within the same This also is the Method of former Times as to all Land-Taxes and cannot be put in a better way 3. Thirdly That this Money or Treasure thus Collected may remain and be in all and every part thereof in the Hands of the said Collectors respectively for and till such time as it be required from them by such Treasurers as shall be Impowred to receive and pay or Assign it to be received and paid to such Men to whom the same or any part thereof shall appear to be due from his Majesty upon any accompt whatsoever according to the respective Trust of the said Treasurers and the due and ordinary Form of that Place and Office wherein they are Intrusted as Treasurers and not otherwise whether they be Treasurers at War or for the Army the Navy the Houshold or any other Treasurers whatsoever legally warranted to receive and pay his Majesties Treasure and Debts More than this needs not be said or done with Reference to the Colecting of all Aids whatsoever in all Townships Parishes Divisions Hundreds and Counties of the whole Nation And more than these two able and sufficient Men are needful to be appointed as Collectors thereof in their respective Townships who are best able to know and Determine how many Chimnies are in each House of that Township and how many Ale-Houses or Brewers and Drawers of Ale and Beer do inhabit therein having the Acts of Parliament to direct them what to do for the one and Instructors from the Justices or other Commissioners for the Hundred what to Impose upon the other either by the Strike of Mault spent or by the Barrel of Ale drawn c. In this way propounded his Majesty shall be sure to have his full Revenue Collected and deposited in good Hands ready to be paid to such as by his Authority shall Assign the same or any part thereof to all or any of his Creditors to whom they shall give their Assignations free of all Charge to his Majesty not only for Collecting but also for paying of the same For they do not more nor so much as the Collectors for the Poor or the Church-wardens of every Parish do or ought to do And by this way it will easily appear not only what the whole Sum of all and every Aid granted or to be granted to his Majesty will or doth amount unto in every Township Parish Division Hundred and County of the whole Kingdom but may also happily discover that whereas his Majesty now loseth one fourth if not the third Part of his Aids given him by Anticipations Loanes at Interest Extraordinary Prizes for Provisions Interest Money for Payments in Course Fees to Collect and Charges to Remit them after Collections Fees upon Receipt and Payment of them Contracts with Farmers and Undertakers and twenty things more that I list not to mention He shall now have not only all or the most part of those Expences saved and his Revenue setled and determined what it is but also the same augmented some hundred thousand Pounds by the Year every Year so long as it shall be continued This may satisfy for the way of Collecting his Majesties Treasure whether for Hearths or Excize and in general of all other Aids whatsoever that are or may be given him by his Parliament and laid upon the Nation in General As to the Payment of this Treasure thus Collected and Lodged in the Subjects own Hands which will much content them I shall further offer to Consideration these Propositions following which I doubt not will content and please them much more if due Care and Fidelity be had and used therein 1. First That the Treasurers both of the Navy Army and Houshold or other Treasurers of his Majesties Revenues respectively be required and enabled by Act of Parliament to receive and Pay the same as the Sole Trustees thereof for the Use and Service of his Majesty and for no other Use or Service whatsoever 2. Secondly That all Treasures Aydes and Collections so Vested in the said Treasurers by the several Acts of Parliament shall not be diverted or paid by them or any of them to any other Use or Service than for the Services proper and peculiar to their respective Trusts whether in the Army Navy Houshold c. Or by any other Order or Warrant than the ordinary Warrant of three or more of the Commissioners for the Treasury three or more of the Commissioners of the Navy c. And that if they or any of them shall presume to pay any part thereof to any other Use than the Payment of his Majesties due Debts according to their several Trusts by any other Order or Warrant than the ordinary Warrant of that Office whereof they are Treasurers that they by the said Act he or they shall be liable to such Punishment as his Majesty with his Parliament shall think fit to lay upon him or them for his or their Breach of Trust in that behalf And that the Auditors of their Accounts respectively be required and impowred by the said Act or Acts of Parliament not to give him or them any Allowance of any of his Majesties Treasure so paid by any extrajudicial Warrant or Order upon any Pretence whatsoever upon all or any of their present or succeeding Accompts upon pain of losing their Places and suffering what other Punishment his Majesty and his Parliament shall think fit 3. Thirdly That the Commissioners of each County nominated in the said Act or Acts be impowred and required speedily to send up to the said Treasurers under the Hands and Seals of six or more of them a List or Certificate of what Sum or Sums of Money are Due and Payable to his Majesty by the said County as their Part of the whole Sum granted for three or six Months according to the several Acts for the same and therein declare how the same is by them and their fellow-Commissioners distributed into so many Hundreds as are in that County and into so many Divisions as are in each Hundred and into so many Parishes as are in each Division and into so many Townships as are in each Parish And to signify in the said Certificate the Names of the respective Collectors of every Township together with the distinct Sums of