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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	penny_n	pound_n	sum_n	26,410	5	12.5513	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26573	No post from heaven, nor yet from hell but a true relation and animadversions, written and sent as an antidote to all unbelieving Brownists, prophane Anabaptists, schismaticall monsters, and such like incendiaries of the state : proving by histories, records, and examples that His Majestes taxations have not been unusuall, nor his government tyrannicall, though falsely so imputed, invented, divulged and scattered abroad / collected by Sir Robert Cotton ; and now put to presse and dedicated to His Sacred Maiestie, by G.A., Gent.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.; G. A., Gent.	1643 (1643)	Wing A8; ESTC R11162	23,326	35

spirituall and temporall onely a tenth of their yearly possessions and of the Commons six tenthes three quarters and the like proportion of fifteens A Benevolence in An. the 14. which Fabian calleth a new contribution and chargeth them in An. the 12. with the wages of his Archers to the sum of 51117. l. Of the Merchants he took Tonnage and Poundage for terme of life Besides of Merchants as well Denizens as strangers a Subsidy the two and twentieth of his reigne leaving his kingdome in the next to the few dayes of his sonne Edward the fifth FOr Ostendunt Terris hunc tantum fata nec ultra esse sinent Richard the third RIchard the third his Vncle succeeded homo ingeniosissimèe nequam facundus malo publico full of art to beguile the people he to make a just semblance of his unjust entry besides his act of Parliament full of dangerous untruthes dissembled the part of an excellent Prince making the Commons believe by a statute to which he gave first form of life discharged them for ever of all exactions called benevolences so that in all his short and wicked reigne I find recorded but once any taxe upon the people and that was tenths granted by the Clergy of both Provinces Henry the seventh HEnry the seventh succeeding resumed in the third of his Reigne most of the grants of Offices made by his brother and assessed upon the Lands onely of his Subjects but one ayd in Anno the 19. out of their goods and lands a tenth peny and fifteenth arising to the sum of 120000. He took three Subsidies whereof the last was not above 36000. pounds And one benevolence and an entire sum of the City of Lond. of 9688. l. 17. s. 4. d. Of the Clergy he had twice the tenth and 25000 pound by way of Subsidy and of them and the Commons two Loans the City of London rated at 6000. l. the other not definite in proportion but so assessed as the Commissioners and the Lenders could agree c. But that whereby he heaped up his Masse of Treasure for he left in Bullion four Millions and a halfe besides his plate jewels and rich attire of house was by sale of Offices Redemption of penalties dispensing with Lawes and such like to the yearly value of 120000. l. Henrie the eighth HEnrie the eighth his successor reaping the fruit of his Fathers Labour gave ease of burthen to his Subjects his first two yeares taking within the compasse of his other thirty foure three tenths of the Commons foure fifteens six Subsidies whereof that in An. quarto amounted to 160000 l. And that in An. the 7. to 110000. l. Tonnage he had and poundage also besides many other taxatious loans and benevolences which I here purposely omit because I hasten to an end I will therefore touch two of the most remarkable and those were taken by strength of prerogative also c. The one was that in Anno the 17. acted by Commissioners who as themselves were sworn to the service so were they to sweare all those with whom they did conferre or contract the rates directed by instructions as the thirds of all goods Offices and lands above ten pounds and the fourth under The other about An. the 36. Exacteth out of all goods Offices and lands from 40 pounds to twenty eight pence in the pound and of all above twelve pence in the pound And amongst the many Loans there is none more notorious than that of the 14. which was ten pound in the hundred of all goods jewells utensils and Land from twenty to three hundred pounds and twenty Marcks of all above as farre as the Subjects fortune revealed by the extremity of his oath would reveale And to the Revenues of his Crown he added a masse of treasure by an inhumane spoyle of sacred Monuments and impious ruine of holy Churches if Gods blessing could have accompanyed so foule an act Edward the sixth EDward the sixth his sonne besides Tonnage and Poundage for life in Anno the 1. received of his Lay subjects six fifteens and of both three Subsidies leaving one of the temporality ungathered with his sister Queen Marie QVeen Marie remitted in Anno primo of her Reigne yet was she inforced to presse upon her people and besides the Loan in Anno 1. for terme of life granted unto her by Parliament shee laid an imposition of six shillings eight-pence upon Wines and a new imposition upon French Wines and took besides five fifteens of the Commons and of them and of the Clergy three years Subsidies Queen Elizabeth QVeen Elizabeth her Sister of happy memory succeeding besides divers Loans of her people and others in forraign parts with the imposition upon cloathes and French wines had by grant of her subjects thirty eight fiftteens twenty Subsidies of the Commons and eight and twenty of the Clergy All which together rose to a summe of two Millions and 800000. pounds Thus having at the last drawne downe the many and mighty pressing burthens of this Common-weale which were and have bin taken either by prerogative power or by general grant I hope by this time you perceive that His Majesties Taxations are not nay have not beene so frequent or usuall so many or intolerable nor yet either in quantity or quality to them in any degree comparable Let us then see in what or wherein His Majesty hath transcended or wherein or by what meanes those few compared to this multitude should lye so heavy and be such a gnawing corrosive unto the subjects heart that he and he alone of all his Predecessors excepting two and they had Competitors must be by these fire-brands of strife and the very tempests of sedition thus hatefully detracted scorned and vilified Is it for Tonnage or Poundage why that was taken by Edw. the second Edward the third Henry the fourth Henry the fifth Henry the sixth Edw. the fourth Henry the seventh Henry the eighth and Edw. the sixth Is it for ships or ship-money why that was taken likewise by Wil. the Conquerour Ed. the second Ed. the third and Rich. the second Is it for Monopolies why that was first invented by Henry the sixth and so hath since continued Is it for ●essing all men by the Poll or head why that was done by Edward the first Richard the second and Henry the sixth And yet I pray you understand how it came to him and observe the cause that first drew him into this want and thus exhausted his Treasure it was by reason of our good Brethren of Scotlands rising mistake me not for I do not meane their fleshly but their spirituall rising who like the Ammonites and Moabites were to the children of Israel so were they at that present to us like Thornes in our eyes and Goads in our sides And thus you see how far short his Majesty is or hath been of his Predecessors to lay unusuall and unheard of taxations upon us their little fingers having been heavier