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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

his Majesty may rather abate much of what is already allowed than give more in a way of Augmentation How shall the Treasurers of the Navy Army Houshold or other men Intrusted for Payment of his Majesties Treasure by Assignations be directed where and upon whom to place and make their Assignments without interfering each with other By the Acts of Parliament Assigning such and so many Counties to each Treasurer as shall drown the Sum estimated to be the full Expence of each Office for one Year If his Majesties Revenues should be paid by Assignations after this manner from the respective Treasurers how or where shall his Majesty be supplied with Treasure sufficient for his privy Purse Intelligence with Forraign Princes and other extraordinary Expences Suitable to the Dignity of his Person By and from the Customes Excize and Imposts laid and to be laid upon all Native and Forraign Commodities Exported and Imported the Revenue whereof is not at all within the Ken Compass or Prospect of this Proposition but left wholy as it now is to be improved and imployed by his Majesty for those and other Services without Reference to the Way Proposed for the Collection and Payment of his other Aides and Land-Taxes that concern the Nation in General In what particulars doth the Way Proposed tend to the Advantage of his Majesty or his Successors I love not Repetitions yea have had them here and there scatteringly delivered through the whole Discourse past yet in the regard this is the Hing upon which the Design of this Proposition doth turn and the only Ground of my present undertaking I shall contrary to my Desire and the Practice of those that know what they say or write gratifie you with a particular enumeration of some few of those many Advantages of no small Consideration that may accrue to his Majesty by this Proposition 1. First In his Honour it being much below the Dignity of a Prince that hath a Rich Loyal and Loving People to his Subjects willing and ready upon all emergencies to supply his Wants to seek the Aid and Assistance of private Persons that never Act without Designs of Profit and Gain to themselves in all their pretended Services for him and without which they will not supply him For his Majesty to have Advice and to Prosecute this Way when he was under the Inhumane Usage of the late Usurpation was no wonder Force hath no Choice But for his Majesty to be advised to the same Courses now when he is Crowned King of England by those that I dare say are his Faithful and Loyal Servants and Subjects and to prosecute that Advice when the Persons and Purses of the whole Nation are at his Devotion and Service is much to his Dishonour The Long Parliament in the late unhappy War that first brought up the Payment of Orders in Course in this Nation were not able to carry on the War without such a way in regard of the Peoples Disaffection to them and that the greatest part of the Nation was then under the Power of the Kings Army but this is no Rule or Coppy for his Majesties Friends or Servants to walk in or write by unless they could make it appear that his Majesty is at present in the same Dilemma When the War ceased Payments in Course ceased of Course And why they should be continued to his Majesties great Dammage and Dishonor in this happy time of Peace I cannot understand If he hath not enough in Gods Name let him have more yea much more than enough rather than one Penny too little there is no Loyal Subject that will not say AMEN to this Prayer only let not the Usurer Farmer c. Eat out and Devour his Revenues under the notion of high Services and I know not what other Pretences 2. In his Revenue of Excize Hearth-Money and all Land-Taxes which by this Means may be improved to the utmost Pitch of what they are be it more or less 3. In the Charge of Collecting the said Revenues which at present costs his Majesty as allowed by the Acts of Parliament for two Millions of Treasure 33333 l. 06 s. 08 d. all and every Part thereof being by the way Proposed to be paid by the Subject that hath the Benefit of his Assignations 4. In the Fees allowed to all Officers and their Clerks in the Exchequer for the Receipt of his Majesties Revenue By the like Fees Paid and Allowed to the same Officers and their Instruments for the payment of his Majesties Treasure either to private Persons or to the respective Treasurers of the Navy Army Houshold in their respective Offices to be paid by them to private Men for his Majesties Use and Services 6. In all Fees and Allowances made and given by the Auditors to all or any of these Treasurers upon their Accompts as Money disbursed as paid by them for Portage Water-Carriage Baggs Wax or any other Charge whatsoever in the Receipt of his Majesties Treasure Assigned to them in their several Offices and Trusts 7. In having by this means a Bank of Treasure in all those Countries that lie near London ready upon all Commands to supply present Occasions All Assignations being by this Proposition in the first place to be charged and given to and upon all Counties remote from London whether in England or Wales 8. Hereby his Majesty shall have Treasure ready to pay off all Fleets or Ships so soon as they are safely gotten to their Moarings to prevent that devouring Charge or Monster of paying Victuals and Wages for twelve or thirteen Months before mentioned 9. It enabling his Majesties Commissioner in all Offices whatsoever to Contract and Purchase for his Majesties Use and Service all and all sorts of Provisions far better in their kind and by at least eight or ten per Cent. cheaper in their Price than they can possibly do in the way of Payment now Practised 10. By cutting off all Interest-Money now paid to the Goldsmiths or other men for Moneys taken up by way of Anticipation before his Majesties Revenue can possibly be Collected and paid into his Majesties Exchequer 11. By the like saving of all Interest now paid and allowed upon all Orders Payable in Course either for Goods sold or Moneys lent upon that way of Payment 12. By preventing the present Dammage sustained by Farms and Contracts upon all or any of his Majesties Aides wherein the profit to the Contractor is at least one fourth if not one third Part of what he undertakes for besides the Oppression of the Subject 13. By preventing all capability of Diversion of his Majesties Treasure in all or any part thereof from the Services to which it was designed by the Parliament when it was first granted to his Majesty especially in the case of War or any other extraordinary Service where the Tax laid is a Land Tax and refers to the Nation in General and not to particular Persons so and so qualified as the Excize and Hearth-Mony do 14. By capacitating the Victualler of his Majesties Navy to make his Provision of Victuals in all Sea-Ports and Harbours where any of his Majesties Fleets or Ships shall lye or may touch or come such as Dover Harwich Newcastle Plymouth Dartmouth c. by taking up his Bills of Imprest and giving him Assignations upon those Towns Cities or Counties most contiguous to those Parts or Harbours whereby his Majesties Ships shall or may be dispatched to Sea and not lie in Harbour full manned sometimes two Months together before he can get Victuals to send them forth to Sea 15. In full and seasonable Supplies of the Magazeens of all his Majesties In-Stores and Out-Stores in all and every of his Majesties Yards and Store-houses at Chatham Deptford Woolwich and Portsmouth the want whereof doth at present Rob one Yard to Supply another after the Provision taken thence was laid in there at excessive Rates and Prizes and after the Expence of Land and Water-Carriage Cranage Portage Labourers Wages c. to Lodge them for his Majesties Service in that Yard which as before I hinted is no small Devourer of his Majesties Treasure and consequently a begetter of his Debts besides the Disservice that is done to his Majesty when the Service in that Yard shall call for the Use of the same Provisions In short the Way Proposed will if I mistake not be effectual in a short time not only to bring his Majesty out of Debt but also to prevent his being in Debt for the Future by cutting off all Eating Charges upon his Majesties Treasure whatsoever if the Aides already setled upon him be found upon their full Improvement to be sufficient to carry on his Services with Honour and if not yet to satisfie the Parliament so as to Give and Grant him such further Aides as may and will do it Effectually without any Application to private Men by the present forenamed Contrivances and Practices which are so far from answering the End Proposed by them that they are the Foundations of those great Debts that are Incumbent upon him and never will nor indeed can free him from them but plunge and involve him deeper and deeper in them the longer they are continued by him FINIS

at Court or Nobility requireth begets himself unwarily into Debt to several men 40000 l which if paid would almost ruine his Estate and if not paid will grow more and more upon him every Year Suppose also this Nobl-eMan upon consideration of his present condition should advise with his Steward or other Servants or Friends what course to take to free himself from this great pressing Debt It cannot be imagined that any faithful Steward or Friend will say Sr. you have 5000 Pounds per Annum in good Revenue settle it upon your Creditors for their security that their Debts shall be paid them but limit your self to no time when only ingage your Income for the Principal and pay them Interest till you can pay them both Interest and Principal and that they may be satisfied that you intend really and truly to pay them one time or other give them order that all and every of them shall bring his and their Bills Bonds Book-Debts or what else soever he hath to shew for his Debt to your Steward and there enter their Claim upon Record with Promise that he that comes first shall be first paid and he that comes last must be content to stay till the last but himself be paid only both the first and last shall all be assured that let the Payment be when it will ever or never they shall all be paid in Course and they shall all have Interest allowed them till it be paid though never or never so late first Yet admit he or they should thus advise this Noble-Man can any rational Man think that this is a good way or proposition to disingage him from his Debts or that it is a good Foundation laid to free him from them and yet preserve his Estate Honour Adventure and all necessary Expences intire surely no Considering that by this Advice his Revenue must be pawned to his Creditours his Adventure will daily call upon him for more Issues his Honour will require that he should still live at the same rate as formerly and that the Interest of his 40000 Pounds Debt will be a constant eating Charge upon his Estate Must not these Incumbrances needs leave him in a worse Condition as to his Debts the next than he was this Year if he resolves to take up or prosecute this Way or Advice For the Interest of 40000 Pound for one Year is 2400 Pound which is almost half as much as his whole Revenue can drown of his Debts for that Year so that he pays but 2600 Pounds of his 40000 Pound Debt in one whole Year and is left at loss how to equip and set to Sea his Ships the next Year having all his Revenue in Lavender to his Creditours If he doth not set them forth he hazards the loss of his 20000 l Stock if he doth he must then advance Money upon the Credit of his whole Estate to do it withal and this involves him into a greater Debt than he was in at first If he cannot take up Money without great Disadvantage then there is nothing left him but to hire his Ships Man Victual and Store them with all Commodities fit for the Trade he drives upon Trust or Ticket from such as will trust him or sell their Commodities to him at 6 6 and 6 Months time till his Ships return from Sea at what time he hath Freight Victual and Wages to pay to all his Seamen and Owners as a growing Debt upon him Now I pray consider will any of those that trust him with their Goods at such Days of Payment if they know his Condition not include in the Price of their Goods so much Profit as may bear the hazard and adventure of their Trust and Forbearance surely they will And by how much his Necessity may pinch him to make use of their Courtesie by so much he may assure himself they will grow upon him in the Price and Profit of their Commodities and this runs him more and farther into debt than ever for he that drives a Trade upon Ticket or Trust either by advancing Money at Interest or taking up Goods at Time is and must needs be in a sad Condition as to his Trade Unto which we may also add that if this Lord or Noble-Man shall yet resolve to live at as high a rate as ever for the Maintenance of himself his Lady and Family and for the upholding his Reputation in Court and Country Necessity being laid upon him so to do then certainly his Debt must and will increase upon him every Year so long as he continues in this course and sink him deeper and deeper into Debt and all this and more that might be said upon the single Accompt of this Sandy Foundation or Advice given him by his Steward to enable him to creep out of Debt by degrees I list not to make any Application of this Parallel to the Case in hand an easie understanding will save me that labour and though I know that Similies do not run upon four Feet yet I shall take the boldness to tell my Reader that as this Course is and must be greatly destructive and prejudicial to the private Estate Honour and Reputation of this Lord or Noble-Man so it is infinitely much more in the case of the King in regard no Comparison between a private Man and a Prince will or can reach the sad Loss and Dammage that must and will attend his Service more than any private Mans whatsoever 6. The next begetter of his Majesties great Debts is the non-payment of the Seamens Wages so soon as the respective Ships come into Harbour and are safe at their Moarings after the Service is ended the neglect or want whereof is the Ground and Cause of that devouring Charge that attends his Majesties Service What the Dammage thereof is or may be is not easily discerned by most Men and little considered by those that do discern it as being neither their Horse nor their Load but that you may see a little into the mischief thereof I shall crave Leave to hold it forth in the Example of a Ship of 200 Men that by the Foot you may better guess at the Body of great Sea-Monsters Suppose a Ship manned with 200 Men and employed in his Majesties Service for six Months past to come into Harbour and for want of Treasure to pay off the Company lyes at her Moarings or in dry Dock one Month full manned in Victuals and Wages the Question before us is what Dammage this is to his Majesty for the growing Debt of Victuals and Wages for that Month. That we may the better see the Dammage we must inquire and know what is the Debt from his Majesty for the whole Company for their six Months Service past Now the Debt for the Wages of 200 Men for one Month supposed at 30 Shillings Medium for one Man comes to 300 Pounds which for six Months is 1800 Pounds This being stated it appears that the Dammage his Majesty