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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	edward_n	england_n	king_n	19,073	5	3.9817	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65085	To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and to the Lords spiritual and temporal, with the Commons assembled in Parliament : a true discovery of the great damage His Late Majesty, King Charles the First, received by Sir Paul Pindar and the rest of the comminssioners in their managing His Late Majesties impost and custom, from the year 1626 to 1639 ... : here is likewise humbly offered to Your Majesty and the Parliament a modell for collecting Your Majesties customes for the future / by Thomas Violet.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing V586; ESTC R28373	11,595	17

TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Majesty And to the LORDS Spiritual and Temporal with the COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT A true Discovery of the great Damage His late Majesty King Charles the First received by Sir Paul Pindar and the rest of the Commissioners in their managing His late Majesties Impost and Custom from the year 1626. to 1639. humbly presented to your Majesty by especial Command of your Royal Father of Blessed Memory Here is likewise humbly offered to your MAJESTY and the Parliament a Modell for Collecting Your MAJESTIES Customes for the Future for the preventing former abuses which will advance Your MAJESTIES Customes above One hundred thousand pounds a Year more then was made 1660. if it be duly put in execution By Thomas Violet of London Goldsmith TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY The Humble Petition of Thomas Violet of London Goldsmith Humbly Sheweth THAT Your Petitioner Anno. 1647. Your Majesties Royal Father writ His Royal Letter from Hampt Court to Sir Lewis Dives to require him to acquaint your Majesty that your Royall Father desired your Majesty to keep a careful watch on His Customes and Farmers of His Customes that so You might prevent the former abuses put on Your Royall Father in the managing of His Customes apprehending and finding he had bin wronged many hundred thousand pounds in His Customs from 1626. to 1939. and was one principal cause of the mi●chiefs that befell Him when hee was a Prisoner in the Tower with Sir Lewis Dives Knight did make him acquainted That Your Royal Father of Blessed Memory did send for Your Petitioner to Hampton Court some few daies before He was removed to the Isle of Wight and it was to give Him an accompt of the management of His Customes from 1626. to 1639. which business Your Petitioner delivered in writing to His said MAJESTY And upon Your MAJESTIES happy Arrival as soon as Sir Lewis Dives came over into England Your Petitioner revived the said business to Sir Lewis and desired him to acquaint Your MAJESTY therewith that so Your Petitioner might know Your Royal Pleasure Sir Lewis Dives having imparted the same to Your MAJESTY You commanded the Form or Modell which Your Petitioner delivered to Your Royall Father to be brought in to Your MAJESTY which accordingly is herewith humbly Presented Your Petitioners humble prayer is That in regard of the great and weighty affairs that now lye before Your MAJESTY the Approaching Parliament c. Your MAJESTY will vouchsafe to refer the Examination of the said Modell unto the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord High Chancellour of England Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England and the Lord Roberts of Truro or any two of them and they to certifie Your MAJESTY their Opinion concerning the said Modell with what expedition they can And in the mean time that present Order be taken That no Person or Persons Farm the said Customes And that Sir Lewis Dives and the Petitioner do attend their Lordships with any other Additions thereunto for Your MAJESTIES service And your Petitioner shall pray c. At the Court at Whitehall the 14th of May. 1661. HIS MAIESTY is pleased to refer this Petition to the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon Lord High Chancellour of England the Lord High Treasurer of England and the Lord Roberts or any two of them who are to take the same together with the said Model for regulateing the Customes into consideration and thereupon certifie His MAIESTIE their Lordships Opinion thereof and what is fit to be done therein for the good of His MAIESTIES Service Edward Nicholas AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF YOUR Majesties Customes BY COMMISSIONERS FOR THE Future preventing those intollerable abuses and unnecessary Expences now put upon your Majesty in the Custom Houses to your Majesties Damage above one hundred thousand pounds a year since your Majesties happy Arrival 1660. Humbly Sheweth THat if Your Majesty please to settle the Customs for the Kingdome of England by Commissioners those more or lesse at your Majesties pleasure and at the Sallary of 1000 l. per an each Commissioner that then these Commissioners be upon Oath to do your Majesty all saithful service and for better dispatch to sit twice dayly except in case of Sickness Festivals and the Sabbath and to the utmost of their skill to discover the best improvement can be made of your Majesties Customs Amongst whom most especial care must be had for the placing some of most approved integrity and diligence by which means much of the dudue practises past may be unfolded the most unnecessary number of your Officers which now not only uselesly take wages but also many of them defraud by themselvs and by their consents your Majesty twenty times as much as their sees that these weeds be plucked up and a certain way for the future so plainly directed as that monthly your Majesty may plainly see the constant Incom of your Customs and so ordered that your Majesty shall yearly see the ballance of Trade whether you import more forein goods then you export English and how the stock of the Kingdom in money decreaseth 2. In order to this Regulation it is absolutely necessary that no person be admitted into your Majesties service in any employment in the Custom house but such as have estates and also do give good security by sufficient bond-men to make good any error or fraud in accounts or whatever other deceipt or damage in Customs they shall knowingly suffer to be committed 3. That no man be admitted to compound for forfeited goods or have any writ of delivery out of the Exchequer under any pretext whatever but that such fines and further punishments be inflicted as shall be necessary to deter them stealing or for the future owning what shall be discovered to have been stoln 't is so at Venice in Spain and elswhere and the sharper the law is it is the better for honest Merchants that make a conscience to steal Custom there are many Merchants that never stole Custom in their lives 4. That the Receivers Treasurers Controlers and their Clarks even their accounts twice a week at least and that the Commissioners of the Customs do ballance their accompts with the Lord Treasurer every month the first day of every month to give up a new accompt the ballance of the accompt to be delivered to his Majesty signed by all the Commissioners by which means your Majesty will see every day and month in the year your Revenue and also the great mischief in not keeping the ballance of Trade will be as easily remedyed in having distinct books and accompts unmingled severally kept of exportation by themselvs and importation by themselvs when all Custom accompts be kept after the Italian way every charge given to have his counter discharge declaring the grounds and reasons of either This may be throughly examined to all particulars and that future order be taken that the Customs and moneys