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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44602	Proposals for a fund of a hundred and fifty thousand pounds per annum The first fifty thousand pounds per annum, of which, is proposed to be raised by and from a real improvement of the rights and prerogative of the crown. The other hundred thousand pounds per annum, to make the said fund, is proposed to be raised by such, who before they pay it, will be gainers, in happening to be the persons charged herewith, and therefore may with more reason afford to pay it, and think it no burden for being so charged. Most humbly offered to the consideration of the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and both houses of Parliament. By Thomas Houghton. Lime-street December the 4th 1694.	Houghton, Thomas, Gent.	1694 (1694)	Wing H2932; ESTC R217010	4,981	11

of them together with all Legatees that shall happen so to be unto any Person or Persons Dying after the 26th of March 1695 that they and every of them Pay one Twentieth Part to the King of what shall descend or be given to them by the Deceased or of what He or She Dyed Seized of or was possest of any time in Three Months last ' before his or her death and shall not be publickly and well known to be sold and conveyed for a valuable consideration by a good conveyance under Hand and Seal with sufficient Witness done and Executed according to Law and such a Conveyance as shall be free from all Suspicion and Colour of Fraud to defeat the Payment hereof the Just Debts Funeral Expences of the Deceased being first paid And that every Heir Heiress and Co-Heir Executor and Executrix Administrator and Administratix or some of them shall within twenty days time next after the death of the Deceased make and give in a true Inventory and Appraisement of the whole Effects Goods and Chattels Estates Real and Personal of the Deceased unto the next Justice of the Peace or unto the Vicar or Minister of the Parish where the Deceased Dyed and make Oath of the same to be true which Appraisement the Justice of the Peace Vicar or Minister shall return in twenty days time next after Oath so made into Their Majesties Exchequer or to the Managers of this affair or to such as shall be appointed for the Receipt hereof And if any Heir Heiress Co-Heir Executor Executrix Administrator or Administratix neglect or refuse to make such Inventory or Appraisement and to make Oath for the Truth thereof and return it as aforesaid every one so failing to pay one Tenth Part to Their Majesties of what shall Descend Fall or be given to them or come into their Possession by the Death of the Deceased For if You Please to Consider The Estates which descend and devolve to and upon Successors by the death of their Predecessors in England and Wales is Yearly and every Year above Three Millions per Annum so that one twentieth part will fully answer and raise a Hundred Thousand Pounds per Annum which makes up the Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds per Annum as above proposed for a Fund and for a further supply I propose as Followeth That Proclamation and Publick notice be given through England and Wales That all and every person or persons who have any profitable Employment Commission or Office dependent on the Crown or Kings Business for which they receive a Sallery and are not exposed to the danger of the Wars nor peril of the Seas That they and every of them return their Names and places of abode into the Exchequer or to the Managers hereof on or before the 26th Day of March 1695 upon pain of being suspended from such their Office and Imploy with an account of what their Yearly Salleries are and that they make Oath thereof before the next Justice of the Peace that the same account is within Five Pounds at a Hundred per Annum Sallery to the best of their knowledge true and so proportionably That all such persons do Yearly pay during Your Pleasure one Months Sallery to the King for continuation Money in His Service And that all such new Commissioners Officers and Servants as aforesaid that shall enter into any such Station Office or Imploy after the 26th day of March 1695 pay the like proportion of one Months Sallery at their Entrance for Induction Money As also that all persons exercising or possessing any Ecclesiastical Benifice Office Function or Imploy worth Fifty Pounds per Annum or upwards Pay the same at such times and places and to such persons as You in your great Wisdom shall think fit to appoint With this Proviso That all Bishops and Judges sitting in the House of Lords and all such Members of the House of Commons as are Commissioners in any Branch of the Kings Business be free and exempted from this Tax or Months Imposition for their Attendance and Service they make the Nation in both Houses of Parliament Which Money being added to that before will supply the Fund Proposed if either of the two former Branches should want In their proportions To Conclude for answer to such Objections as shall be made against any of the beforementioned Payments I shall not inlarge but in short say it is manifest that all Felons and Criminals that are Guilty whether Convicted by Law or no if they had their deserts ought to be punished according to the merit of their Crimes and it appears plainly by daily experience that the taking away the Lives of such Offenders hath not nor will not be a sufficient warning to discourage others therefore it seems more reasonable that some method should be used to raise a benefit by them for the use of the King at whose Mercy their Lives are rather than to continue the Old way to Hang and Destroy them and for themselves they have nothing to say knowing if they transgress and be taken they must be punished by Loss of Life Body or Estate as the Law now directs but if this method above proposed be put in practice many Offenders after they have paid and fined off their Faults may reclaim and become better and in time prove an industrious and serviceable people both at home and abroad and live to produce a better Issue so that if His Majesty and You think fit and Please to make it so it may be better to raise Fifty Thousand Pounds per Annum this way then to destroy them and yet continue to lose all For the second sort of persons which I propose to raise the Hundred Thousand Pound per Annum or the greatest part of it being the Heirs Heiresses Co-Heirs Executors and Administrators of Deceased Persons they will have no reason to complain or grumble at the Payment of one twentieth part of the whole to the King in regard there is Nineteen times as much more fallen descended or given to them and many times unexpectedly procured without any trouble care or cost of theirs for where the Deceased leaves but little they pay the less and where they leave more 't will be the better for them And for the Donors or Dying Persons from whose Substance this must arise and proceed they need not Grieve or Repine before their Death at their consenting to give it for whil'st they Live they pay no-nothing and when they are Dead they will want no more therefore may more freely comply with this to support an Industrious and Indefatigable PRINCE in a Chargeable War For the Third sort of persons who are proposed to be charged with raising a part of this Fund they are such who have Commissions and profitable employments under the King and this Government and therefore being gainers thereby have no manner of cause or pretence to be excused for 't is but reasonable they should Assist that which Supports or Mnintains them c. Having thus proposed and reasonably proved the raising of a Hundred and Fifty Thousand● Pound per Annum for a Fund in all Humility and most Dutiful Submission I leave the further Consideration thereof to the Great Wisdom and Prudence of both Houses of Parliament and Beg leave to Subscribe and Remain Your Most Humble and Most Obedient Servant Thomas Houghton