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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	lord_n	pay_v	tenant_n	1,537	5	9.6349	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95991	A true narrative of som [sic] remarkable-proceedings concerning the ships Samson, Salvador, and George, and several other prize-ships depending in the High Court of Admiralty; humbly presented to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, and the Councell of State, and the Councell of Officers of his excellency the Lord Generall. / By Tho. Violet of London, gold-smith.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1653 (1653)	Wing V593; Thomason E1070_4; ESTC R208665	74,616	123

Common-wealth and every particular member in this Nation have been abused by their indirect waies For in the late Parlament and late Council of State many things were propounded of excellent use for the Common-wealth both by my self and others but seldom any thing took in any other mould then that such and such Members their brethren kindred or favorites must have the management of all the Publick Treasuries Customs and Excise Prize good Mint-affairs and all other places of profit And justly I conceiv they ought to have the preheminence provided every one of their attempts had been just their allowances moderate and their whole transactions fairly and truly carried without fraude Noble Sir it will upon strict examination bee found for these many years several publick Officers have not duely accounted for their Receipts of monie to the Common-wealth by which abuses of not calling the Treasurers or Committee-men to a strict account yearly or oftener according to the former customs in the Exchequer The Common-wealth hath in their Officers hands at this daie remaining Millions of monie which is as due to them as a man's rent is due when a Tennant enjoy's his land-Land-Lord's lands and had all the accounts of the Common-wealth been kept in a Regular waie the publick debts might have been far better paid and the Common-wealth have kept their Lands intire which hath been sold at an under value above a Million of monie for Rents of Lands that yearly might have been paid this Republick to the World's end had som Members and Treasurers of the late Parlament been just SIR This Nation may bee compared to the poor man in the Gospel that fell amongst a partie of Theivs who have wounded us several waies these Theivs are som of the late Members of Parlament som Treasurers Committee-men and several other Officers of the Publick som of them hath served the Common-wealth as many lewd people do at great fires in Cities pretend they com to carrie away the goods that they should bee kept from the fire and for the use of the owners and by all outward appearance in their words express themselves to bee very instrumental to squench the fire when originally in their hearts and actions they blow the coles and com onely to pelfer and proline the monie plate linnen and goods they can laie their hands on And the poor owners in such times of f●ight delivering his or their goods to any that will band them from the fire many a merciless Theif instead of keeping this monie plate and goods safe for the distressed and afflicted owner carrie's it directly home to his own hous and there felenously keep 's it for his private use and so add's affliction to affliction when the poor and distressed man know's hee was careful to keep his plate his monie and som goods from the fire but hath had the ill luck to deliver it into such hands that have rob'd him who pretended during the fire to bee friends but after proved Theivs SIR I humbly referr it to you should such a Theif com afore you whether you would not think it to little to make the Theif restore to the true owner the partie that had a great loss by fire his own proper goods so unduly and felenously detained and if upon refusal and denial and just and due proof by good witness or taking the goods in the Theivs custodie whether you ought not in Justice to send such Theivs to a hous of Correction or trie them by a Jurie and hang them SIR Let mee entreat you for God's sake consider you having the power of this Nation now in your hands whether you can answer it to God your own conscience or this abused Nation for whom you serv now I have with all humilitie humbly made you acquainted with it if you and other worthie Members of Parlament do not do the Common-wealth right in this particular I humbly saie it is the praiers and exspectations of thousands to have this strictly called to account Sir I humbly present you not with one Theif but with hundreds of Theivs not pilfering Theivs that steal's for necessitie to fill their bellies but mightie Theivs such as have swallowed of the Common-wealth's Treasure som of them one hundred thousand pounds a man these Theivs lurk not in barns allies thatch'd houses or blinde places but in Palaces and Lord-ships which they have fraudently gotten and almost every Parish in this Nation hath one of the brood of these Caterpillers SIR my most humble suite to you is to remember the time of this Parlament is set the daies weeks and months run quickly about many that have cap't and crouched to several of the late Parlament men when they were in power now Sir they slite and scorn several of them for abusing their trust for God's sake avoid that Rock which destroied several of them which was self-seeking and covetuousness and feeding men's expectation with vain delares at last the tears of the poor and oppressed ascended to heaven and God in his good time will call to account such as while they had a band of beeing the Common-wealth's nursing Fathers have almost starved the Childe Sir when this Common-wealth hath caled for bread som of them hath given it a Stone when this Common-wealth hath been a thirst som of them hath given it Vinigar and Gall in stead of wine to refresh them many of them beeing men of no conscience no faith promiss-breakers and self-seekers I humbly leav this to your consideration whether these Gripers the Treasurers Committees and others of the Common-wealth's spunges ought not to bee made restore what they have unjustly deteined and bee squeezed to cut som of these men in pieces and make them Hawk's-meat they will bee as acceptable a sacrifice as Emson and Dudley was in Henry the Eighth's time Let but the State paie mee my monie out of the Silver I caused to bee staied which is now coining in the Tower which the late Council of State promised mee amounting to the summe of Eleven thousand pounds I will finde waies to bring into this Parlament divers hundred thousand pounds which will bee acceptable to all the good people of this Nation and save them taxes and if these Treasurers and Committee-men bee angry when they see what I propound I shall value their anger no more then I do som Merchants and som others that are mad at mee for staying the Dutch Prize-silver Sir I had not common reason if I did not see and know som men have and will leav no stone unturn'd to do mee a mischief for this my affection and faithfulness to this Nation staying the Silver But if my service bee duely respected by such worthie persons as your self who is qualified and impowred to do mee right it shall encourage mee to proceed in this service for the benefit of this Common-wealth Thus with the tender of my service and due respects I remain Your humble servant Thomas Violet FINIS AN