Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	penny_n	pound_n	shilling_n	5,001	5	11.2551	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51635	Reasons humbly offer'd to the Honble. House of Commons for translating the duty of excise from mault-drinks to mault, whereby may be advanced to the Crown above twenty millions for carrying on the war against France together with some brief notes and observations on the laws and administrations in relation to that duty and the partiality and inequality thereof / by Robert Murray ...	Murray, Robert, 1635-1725?	1696 (1696)	Wing M3123; ESTC R7688	4,336	4

be brought in to a Common Avaridge for Support of the Whole And this is so far from proving a Damage to An● as Some through Mistake might imagine that it will rather turn to their Advantage and Profit Nor is it Consistent with the Honour and Justice of Government to Burden One Part of the People to Ease the Other that were to lay the Foundation of Government in Vnrighteousness which wholly Consists in the Equal and Impartial Distribution of Justice towards All Nor do the People complain so much of the Greatness or Long-continuance of any Tax as at the Partiality and Inequality thereof which usually creates Discontent that for the most part ends in Sedition to the Disturbance of Government which all wise Governments will endeavour to prevent by keeping the Body-Politique in a due Temperament or State of Health and Long-Life for it is most certain that when there is no Internal cause of Sedition there can be no Dissolution of Government which therefore must be Eternal More particularly One Moiety of the Original EXCISE being Given the Crown in Recompense of the Court of Wards c. taken away 12 Car. II. in Ease of the said Nobility and Gentry who were only grieved by that Court the Equivalent in Honour might well enough have been charged upon Themselves and the People have been quite Exempted at least it seems highly Just that They bear their proportionable Part with the People which is done by this Expedient THAT This is a more equal Tax and may be managed without subjecting their Houses to the Inspection of Excise-men which will obviate the Common Objection against Altering the Duty from Mault-DRINKS to MAULT and the putting the same at Eight Pence per Bushel will reduce the Excise of Drink to Two Shillings per Barrel which now Pays Four Shillings and Nine Pence and yet more than double the present Revenue and will be Collected at a little more than One Third Part of the now Charges the Sallaries of many Superfluous Officers being saved amounting to many Thousand Pounds per Annum Nor is MAULT by any Concealment subject to so many Frauds it taking up Eighteen or Twenty Days time after Wetting before it can be fit for Sale And the MAULSTERS being for the most part Wealthy the Duty will be Currently Paid and as well if not better Secured as from the BREWERS THAT this alone will be a Fund sufficient to take off all Anticipations on this Duty in the Exchecquer Excuse a General Excise and other petit Impositions as that on Glass Earthen-ware Coals c. which may be thought grievous and will serve the Government to support the War during the Continuance thereof and help to take in Clipt and Light-Money and totally free all future Impositions upon Land One Fourth Part of the said Duty on MAULT settled on the Crown for ever will be an Equivalent in Lieu of that part of the Excise that is Hereditary and now being settled on the Crown for Ten Years or during the Continuance of the War will be found a Fund sufficient for Twenty-One Millions viz Raise Two Millions for Ten Years per Annum Three Millions the first Seven Years Four Millions for Five Years or Five Millions per Annum for Four Years besides the ordinary Revenue of the Crown which may be extinguished in Ten Years And that such a Settlement for This or the like Term of Years to Support and Carry on the War for some Continuance will contribute very much to the Abatement of the Pride and Courage of the Enemy FROM the Whole 'T is not designed by this PAPER to Propose the Laying a New Imposition on Mault but to Lessen what seems already tho' not Directly yet Remotely Charg'd on it by reducing the same from Twelve Shillings and Eight-pence per Quarter to Five Shillings and Four-pence for so in Effect it now Pays For Six Bushels making Two Barrels of BEER and ALE is Nine Shillings and Six Pence and the other Two Bushels being a Third Part more is Three Shillings and Two Pence which makes Twelve Shillings and Eight Pence per Quarter And it is humbly submitted That it may be much better to Lay an Excise on One Single Commodity which affects All in General than a General Excise on all Commodities AND to sum up all I further crave Leave to add That by a plain Estimate the Revenue will equal if not exceed the Joynt-Income of Custome and Excise as now they produce for if the Number of People be rightly computed to be above Eight Millions allowing to each Two Pecks and a Half per Mensem and Thirteen Months in the Year the Number of Quarters amount in the whole to Eight Millions per Annum which at Eight Pence per Bushel or Five Shillings Four Pence per Quarter is upwards of Twenty-One Hundred Thousand Pounds per Annum by which Means the Government may not only totally Free the Nation from all future Impositions on Land c. as afore but also the War being Ended Take off all Customs for Import and Export except of such Goods where the Duty laid is intended to amount to a Prohibition This may make England become a Free Port the Great and Good Effects of which are too many and too Obvious to stand in need to be Repeated and shall therefore only Instance That this alone without any other Effort will effectually Secure our African and East-India Trade from any whatsoever Competitors All which is Humbly Offer'd to the Wisdom and Consideration of the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS FINIS