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A53116 The complaint of liberty & property against arbitrary government dedicated to all true English men, and lovers of liberty, laws, and religion. Nalson, John, 1638?-1686. 1681 (1681) Wing N94; ESTC R5910 4,925 10

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Priviledges of the Parliament against Arbitrary Power how it is drawn into a Compendium of a Council of State and the Free-born English Governed at the Will of His Highness and Officers But this is not all we want only a standing Army and absolute Dominion over Liberty and Estate to make up the compleat Picture of Arbitrary Government and here it follows Tuesday Decemb. 4. 1655. Present His Highness the Lord Protector Lord President Lawrence Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir Charles Woolseley Coll. Sydenham Mr. Strickland Col. Jones Lord Lambert ORdered by His Highness the Lord Protector and the Council That it be and hereby is referred to the Committee for the Army to send into the several Counties of this Nation Printed Copies of the Order and Declaration of His Highness with the Advice of His Council for an Assessment of Sixty Thousand Pounds by the Month for the next Six Months Commencing from the 25th of December Instant for and towards the maintaining the Army of this Common-wealth and to commend the same speedily to the Care of such Persons in each County as they shall think fit to distribute the same to the Commissioners thereby appointed or some of them to the Intent the matters therein contained may be put in effectual Execution December 1. 1655. Instructions of His Highness and Council to certain Commissi oners for securing the Peace of the Common-wealth I. If it appear That any Person hath actually ingaged in any design against the Person of His Highness the Lord Protector or in any Insurrection in England or Wales since Nov. 16. 1653. That all such Persons shall be secured by Imprisonment or Banishment and have their Estates Sequestred for the Payment of the Forces newly raised and other publick Charges of the Nation Allowance for Wives and Children not exceeding the third Part. II. That all Persone whatsoever That shall appear by Words or Actions to adhere to the Interest of the Late King on of Charles Stuart His Son and to be dangerous Enemies to the Peace of the Common-wealth to be secured by Imprisonment or sent beyond the Seas III. That an extraordinary Tax be Levied upon the Estates of every Person whose Estate hath been Sequestred for Delinquency in England and Wales or who hath been in actual Arms for the King against the Parliament every one that hath an Estate of 100 l. per Annum and so proportionably for all greater Estates And whosoever hath a Real and Personal Estate to the value of 1500 l. or more the real Estate of every such Person shall be assessed at 10 l. or at the Rate of 100 l. pet Annum to be paid half yearly The said Payment to be made Decemb. 21. next ensuing And the payment to be made to such Persons as the Commissioners shall appoint And if any will refuse to make Payment then the Real Estates of such Persons shall be Sequestred by the Commissioners for the use of the Common-wealth which Sequestration shall continue untill such Persons shall have paid in their Tax and given sufficient security for the payment of all such Sums of Money as his real Estate shall be Assessed and Taxed at as aforesaid And the same Rule to be observed for all Personal Estates of those that stand in Contempt Nevertheless it any of the Persons whose Estates are so charged as aforesaid shall be desirous to free their whole Estates from the Tax and if such Persons do set over by sufficient Assurances in Law Convey and Assure to the Protector and his Successors for the Vse of the Common-wealth Land free from Incumbrances of the Yearly Value imposed on them they shall then be free IV. That all of the said Party who are Persons of no Estates and live loosely without Labour be Apprehended and sent to Forein Parts V. That if any Persons shall be sent out of the Common-wealth and shall return without Licence that their Estates shall be Sequestred to the Publick Vse VI. That any Three of the Commissioners shall be impowred to Administer Oaths send for Persons Papers and Records as also to Imprison any Person for Contempt of their Order for which the Commissioners shall be saved harmless and imdemnified Instructions for Commissioners of each County I. YOV are to find out all Persons comprised under the First Head and to cause them to be forthwith secured within your County and you are also by good ways and means to discover and find out what Estates Real or Personal such Persons or any other intrusted for them or to their use and benefit have had at or on the first day of Sept. 1653. And to secure and sequester the same for the Vse of the Common-wealth and to certifie their Names together with the Account of your Proceedings to His Highness II. You are to use you utmost Endeavours to find out the Persons comprised under the second Head and to secure them III. You are forthwith to inform your selves of the Names and places of Abode of all such Persons as are comprised under the third Head and their Estates and who are entrusted for them And assoon as you know their Estates to proceed accordingly and Tax the same Observe here Dear Countrey-men Imprisonment Fine and Banishment Commanded and Practised with the highest Arbitrary Power and to maintain a standing Army Observe It was by Clamouring against Arbitrary Government that deluded the People to Rebel and Assist them with Power which when they had got you see how the Congregational People used it Observe who are they that now make the outcry against Arbitrary Government Andrew Marvel Oliver's Latin Secretary leads the Van in a Libel which wore that Name and I need not tell you who they are that prosecute the out-cry If after all this you cannot by Comparing their past Actions with their present see the snare they are laying for your Liberty and Property you are not so wise as the Fowls of the Air or the Beasts of the Field for Solomon tells you In vain is the Snare laid in the sight of any Bird. I have done my duty I have told you the Truth I have forewarn'd you of the danger If you suffer your selves to be imposed upon you can blame only your own Folly and Credulity I have but one thing to add and that is If you think and find I have told you a plain Truth and pointed to you where the real danger of Arbitrary Government lodges That you would be as valiant for the Truth as some ill People are against it That you would upon all occasions shew your selves good Subjects by vindicating His Majesty and the Government from the scandalous Imputations with which Virulent and Seditious Tongues Blaspheme the Footsleps of Gods Anointed That you would Inform the Ignorant confront the Impudent satisfie the Doubtful and Staggering and unite the Loyal which will be no more than your own Duty Interest Safety Liberty and Property calls for at your Hands And for the Congregational Declaimers against Arbitrary Government Let them remember Adonibezek's Toes and Thumbs and the Gratious Act of Oblivion and know that in Heavens Court of Judicature forbearance is no part of Payment Let them repent of their former Arbitrary and Tyrannical Usurpation or else I fear and justly too they will pull down swift destruction upon themselves while they are preparing a pit for others FINIS