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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58274	Reasons shewing the absolute necessity of large & speedy supplys, proportionable to the present occasion, humbly offered to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament		1691 (1691)	Wing R584; ESTC R6459	11,652	15

ready enough to follow the French in their Vanities But if we must be their Imitators let us not only imitate them in their airy and lighter Part but also in their solid and managing Part too that by our raising sufficient Supplies and good Conduct we may prosecute the War to Effect There are few of the Nobility and higher Rank who have not unnecessarily spent six or seven times as much as they have paid in Taxes and in as short a time too without any Concern or Regret and there are few of the Degrees under them who have not some time or other had Losses by Sea trusting Commodities or lending to insolvent Persons to the Value above-mentioned and we find by experience that after some little time they bear those Losses well enough and rub on and go about their Business as cheerfully as before Why then shan't we bear a Payment to the Publick for Loss I can't call it of like Value with a more easie and less anxious Concern since thereby we hope to secure the rest and to relieve and rescue our Allies and Friends from the great Oppressions they lye under But perhaps this dry way of reasoning may grow somewhat tedious to move the Affections and Reason together may be more prevailing with some Suppose then we should hear the raging Sea had entred our Neighbours Countries round and how it bluster'd and swell'd and came rowling along and threatned a general Deluge if instead of raising a speedy and plentiful Sum to repair the Banks to put a Check to its fury and rage we should hang back and be slow and each one wrangle to pay his due share and drill out the time until the merciless Waves come floating along and end the Debate by tumbling us all in the Deluge Should we not in all this be more unadvis'd than were the Jewish Zealots of old For they notwithstanding their heats and their feuds would joyn and unite to repulse an Enemy when at their Gates And shall we be wrangling and debating about paying our shares for repairing the Breeches i' th' Walls while the Enemy enters the City by storm and put all to the Sword This Allusion I think is not very wide and foreign from our present Circumstances for tho' we shan't be all destroy'd and put to the Sword upon a Conquest yet when we shall have lost our Liberties and Properties and which ought to be dearer to us the free Exercise of our Religion too how insipid nay rather how burthensome would such a Life be to any true English Spirit or good Christian Would an English Life be worth valuing or saving which can't breath in a free Air but be surrounded with the Checks Insults and Cruelties of a Conquering Tyrant But Instances and Examples which lye fresh in Peoples Memories especially such as they have been most sensibly affected with of late may make stronger and more lively Impressions than the best cold Reasoning or the most hitting Allusions that can be invented Let us instance then in the late Irish Alarum with what a Panick Fear was the whole Nation struck at that time and what Lamenting what Skreeking and Crying was there heard in our Streets with the Women And though the Men shew'd all the Bravery of the Old English Courage in mustering together to encounter the Danger yet as Men of Common Sense who would not be Fool-hardy considering the Tumult and Confusion and with what horror and dread the Danger was represented it can't well be suppos'd but that they too were in such a Consternation as that they would have been willing to have made a good large Offering towards the appeasing those suppos'd fierce and ravenous Daemons if that would have sav'd the rest and also their and their Wives and Childrens Lives May we not reasonably suppose every body would have given a Year or two's Revenue and so proportionable for Personal Estates And herein I dare appeal to every Man 's private Thoughts if they would but set themselves to represent the danger just as it appear'd to them then if they would not have been willing to have made such an Offering as above and thought they had compounded at an easie Rate Our danger now for ought I know is as great as it was suppos'd to be then tho' not all out so near at hand for tho' a Conqueror may not take away our Lives as above-said yet such a Life as we should then have would but be a lingring Death Why then should we not be as willing to give as good a Price towards procuring our Safety now as then Therefore let 's every one set apart two Years Revenue and so proportionably according to every ones ability for the Publick Service besides what 's already past let 's account our selves Debtors to the Publick so much 'T is an honest and just debt and ought first to be paid And those who have no Mind to be in debt may reckon upon 't as an Adventure sent out it may perhaps make a Return with good Encrease at worst there is good reason to hope it will ensure the rest of their stock All this would arise to a very great Summ and not much hurt the wealthiest and richest sort from whom ought to arise the greatest part of the Taxes But if all this Proposal be a strain too high yet at least let it be like bending a crooked Tree to an extream to make it grow strait Let these Considerations however prevail and influence us to contribute such Proportions as our Senate shall from time to time judge necessary or expedient without repining or desponding perhaps much less than is propos'd may serve I confess if it were practical it seems greatly necessary to lighten the Burthen of those on whom Taxes lye most heavy and place it on those who are better able to bear it by which means such would hold out much longer and the great and rich ones too and this should be done in time before it be too late For the higher and lower Rank of Men depend each upon the other It may be said of them as of Old People much about an Age that if one dye the other will quake for fear When the meaner sort are sinking they will go near to catch hold of the Great Ones and pluck them along It ought always to be remembred that a Kitching is as useful if not more than a Parlour The Romans a wise People in their way of Taxing had a regard to the Circumstances of persons and to their Usefulness in the Common-wealth and the Reason and Nature of the thing requires it For may not a single man of an Hundred Pound per Annum clear Estate afford to pay double or treble to him that hath but an estate of like Value who hath a Wife and five or six Children to maintain and provide for There are great variety of Instances of this Nature to enumerate them and propose fit Remedies would make up a Treatise of