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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35160	Truth brought to light, or, The corrupt practices of some persons at court laid open whereby Their Majesties and the kingdom have been prejudiced near one hundred and fifty thousand pounds this year; besides other evils that have and do attend it.	Crosfeild, Robert.	1694 (1694)	Wing C7247; ESTC R29667	14,344	32

for the same but it 's probable they are capable of so doing if not there 's never a Receiver-General but what will willingly embrace the Opportunity of having the Imploy and give good Security if his Majesty shall be pleas'd to augment the Salary fifty Pounds a Year during the War and when all 's done it will be found his Majesty will be a Saver above Forty thousand Pounds per Annum The Receiver-General for the County of Hertford received in the Year 1692 Sixty odd Pounds for Travelling and other contingent Charges which Money I humbly conceive would fully satisfy the Collector of the Excise were it given him over and above the travelling Charge he 's usually allow'd I have calculated what the Poundage doth amount to that the Receiver-Generals are allow'd which any Man may easily do supposing the Land-tax and Poll-bill to be Three Millions of Money as I cannot conjecture it to be less and it will be found to be Thirty seven thousand five hundred Pounds And I did design to have offer'd some thing more which was this It has always been the Custom to allow the Collectors of the Tax three Pence in the Pound for Collecting and with Submission I conceive if they were allow'd but two Pence in the Pound it would be a full Compensation for the Trouble they undergo It 's no Argument to say three Pence has always been allow'd the Kingdom 's in danger and the Money was given to publick Uses and as they receive no Detriment by what they do it 's but reasonable they should put forth their Helping-hand and I think no good English-Man would grumble at it And by the same Rule this Penny a Pound will be found to amount to Twelve thousand five hundred Pounds So that if the Lords of the Treasury had been pleas'd to have given me a Hearing their Majesties had sav'd Fifty thousand Pounds this Year For the Money that the Receiver-Generals are allow'd for Travelling and other contingent Charges would fully satisfy the Collectors of the Excise as may be seen by the Accompts in the Exchequer But supposing it had not been in their Lordships Power to have made the Collectors of the Excise Receiver-Generals yet with Submission it was their Duty to have propos'd it to the Parliament who would readily have received it that an Act might have past And one thing I observe to be of most dangerous Consequence to the Government considering the Nature of the Quarrel we are engaged in that is the Selling of Imployments It 's too well known it has always been practised so it can be no Scandal to relate it but there are many Evils attend it we have no Shibboleth whereby to distinguish Men whether Friends or Foes and there being now a Competitor for the Crown and a dangerous Faction among us no question but it 's an Inlet to our Adversaries to all sorts of Imployments and by this Means I conceive it may not be difficult for them to get into the Admiralty or Navy-Office Custom-House c. and so may be capable of doing much Mischief as thus Suppose we look back to the Time the Turky-Fleet went out when we received that Loss by the French in the Straits and when the Lords of the Admiralty issue out Orders for the Fleet to sail such a time it 's not difficult for any corrupt Person planted in that Office to get a Sight of it or it 's not improbable but it may pass through his Hands upon which he gives his Correspondents at Plimouth Falmouth c. notice of it and any of them may easily corrupt a poor Fisher-man who sails any where without suspition So our Enemies from time to time soon have Intelligence of all our Proceedings and no doubt we owe our Losses at that time to such like Practices as these And therefore with Submission I conceive there ought to be great Inspection made into all that are in Publick Imploys and to throw out such as are found to be disaffected but then they ought to be Persons of great Integrity that are entrusted in such an Affair otherwise it may be made use of only as an Artifice to get Money and many an honest Man turn'd out that hath it not or is not willing to part with it I shall now proceed to give some Relation of a Matter which has been offer'd to the Government by one Mr. George Everett which he published the last Session of Parliament wherein he proposes to save their Majesties an Hundred thousand Pounds a Year in the Building and Repairing the Royal-Navy and it hath been before the Right Honourable the Lords of the Admiralty who are the proper Judges of it a Year and a half yet all this while they cannot or will not apprehend it there being nothing effectually done in it nay the Author has been brow-beaten by those whose Duty it was to have encouraged him It 's certainly a most ingenuous Thing and not to be confuted and were it put in practice would fully answer what he hath propos'd What is writ is not to cast Aspersions on the Lords of the Admiralty but that the Nation may have Justice done For there 's no Man that reads that Book unless biass'd by Prejudice or Interest but what will be of the Opinion that the Obstruction of that Matter hath been greatly to the Detriment of their Majesties and the Kingdom It has been long since highly approv'd on by many Persons of Honour and Quality the Names of some of which take as follows His Grace the Duke of Leeds Lord President Admiral Russel Lord Lucas Lord Cornwallis Sir John Lowther of Lowther Sir Cloudsly Shovel Sir Henry Goodrick Sir Richard Onsloe Sir Samuel Dashwood Sir James Houblon c. But this is not all for there are several other Honourable and Eminent Persons that they might further so good a Work have been pleas'd to subscribe their Names to several Certificates and which are as followeth We the Lord-Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London whose Names are here-under subscrib'd do approve and conceive that the Methods in this Book for the more speedy and effectual Building and Repairing their Majesties Royal Navy will be very advantagious to their Majesties and the Government if the same be put in practice And we do recommend Mr. George Everett the Proposer hereof as a fit Person to be aiding and assisting in the same William Ashhurst Mayor John Moor Robert Jefferies Thomas Lane Edward Clark Humphrey Edwin Richard Levet Thomas Abney William Hedges William Pritchard We whose Names are here-under subscrib'd do approve and conceive the Methods in this Book c. R. Delaval Berkley Danby Thomas Vernon William Williams William Warren William Sconing Robert Davis Joseph Ashton We the Master and Assistants of the Company of Free Shipwrights whose Names are here-under subscrib'd do approve and conceive the Methods in this Book c. Robert Parsons Charles Pain James Cutler Richard Lucas Jacob Crispin Richard Wooden John