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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65084	Proposals humbly presented to His Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England, &c. and to the High Court of Parliament now assembled for the calling to a true and just accompt all committee-men, sequestrators, treasures, excize and custom-commissioners, collectors of monthly assessments and all other persons that have been entrusted with the publick revenue or have in their custody any thing of value appertaining to the Commonwealth ... / by Tho. Violet.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing V585; ESTC R23589	138,237	248

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That the Prime Justices of the Peace of every County in England or such other Commissioners your Highness shall appoint may bee authorized by your Highness and the Parlament to meet at the head City or Town of every County and there they or any six of them shall take all the particular presentments of the several parishes and send forth their Warrants to all Committee-men their Clerks Sequestrators Surveyers and others to bring in all the Acts Orders Ordinances Writings c. which impowered them to act as a Committee for the County and impowered them to raise money and sequester Delinquents Estates personal and real and all the Orders Warrants and Proceedings they made as Committee men And to command all Clerks and other persons whatsoever to bring in the said Papers Books and Records which hath been made at any meeting of the Committee without any imbezelment or alteration And the said Commissioners or any six of them to bee impowered to give any Committee-man or their Clerks an Oath to answer to all such Questions concerning any Monies Lands Goods Chattels or other things of value c. as hath come into their custody and to examine them by what Order they paid the same and how much money c. remains in every Committee-mans hands and to return every mans Answer And if any person refuse to deliver the Books and Writings of the Committee or hath imbezled or defaced the same every such person to bee committed to prison without bail or mainprise till his Highness and his Counsels further pleasure bee known 7. The said Justices of peace and Commissioners aforesaid or any six or more of them are to retourn their Certificates of all the frauds abuses failers of Trust c. And what persons they finde upon the particular Presentmens of every Parish that have the Commonwealths monie lands goods chattels c. in their hands where the Justices finde it positively to bee proved to certifie it so where they finde it by circumstances to certifie the same to the best of their skill and knowledg as they will answer their neglect to his Highness and his Counsel 8. The said Justices and Commissioners in every Countie to put up all these Papers Records Writings c. which shall bee Retorned unto them from every Parish severally and safely without any imbezelment in Trunks or Boxes sealed with their seals with their Certificate how they in their Judgments finde the whole Business upon the Presentment of each Parish And a Duplicate of that Presentment to be sent along with the Papers Records and Accounts in general The same to bee sent up to some publique Place that shall bee set down and nominated by your Highness and there to bee safely kept without imbezelment by faithful and trusty sworn persons to bee nominated and appointed for that Service And also several persons of skill and abilitie upon oath to view and audite and inspect into all the said Books and Papers Accompts and Writings concerning the premisses And to give your Highness and your Counsel an accompt upon their oaths concerning the premisses and how they finde each several mans Accompt without fear favor or affection as they will answer it upon peril of their Estates and pain of Imprisonment 9. Where Counties are large the Justices and Commissioners aforesaid to divide themselves into several divisions and to take the several Presentments of Parishes Provided that at the least six Commissioners and Justices bee at the taking up of the Returns of the Certificates of the Parishes and every Parish to keep in their Vestry of their Parish Church safely a perfect Record of the Duplicate attested under the hands often of the ablest Free-holders or others with the Minister and Church-Wardens hands also the day and year they made their Return and the Justices names and place where and to whom they delivered it And this to bee done upon a strict penaltie 10. That whereas there hath been several monethly taxes and voluntary contributions for many years viz. ever since the year 1642. taxed and gathered upon the Counties Cities and Borroughs within England and Wales That diligent Enquiry bee made by the Justices of the peace and Comissioners of each Countie of those that have Assessed the said Monethly Taxes within the Cities Borroughs and Parishes of each respective County And that all the summs of mony received by Order of Parlament or his Highness and the Transactions thereupon for each respective Parish and Countie bee particularly set down the just Summs what was Rated at every one of the Quarter-Sessions or other meetings when they made their Bills and Books of Rates and Assessments and the several Summs they laid upon every Hundred or Parish within every respective County That they present in writing the gross Accompts of every Book of Rates and Assessments since the year 1642 and what Commissioners signed those Books of Rates and who were made Pettie Collectors for each Parish and Hundred for everie respective year and the several Summs rated This to bee don for everie particular Tax which was Rated and who was made the Chief Collectors and Treasurers of each Countie And to set down to what Treasurers at London the Country Treasurers of each Countie paid their Taxes which they levied of each respective Countie or if they paid the monie in the Countrie by Order of the Committee to produce their Original Orders and Warrants and those Warrants and Orders to bee transmitted up to such persons as your Highness shall appoint to bee examined of the legalitie of these Orders And all these Original Assessments made ever since 1642 to bee transmitted up to London to such place or places person or persons as your Highness shall appoint 11. To make strict enquiry what Voluntarie Contributions Summ or Summs of monie Jewels Plate c. have been in each respective Countie City Town Corporate Sea-Ports and elswhere contributed and given towards the maintenance of the late war in defence of the Parlament here in England or for the relief of the Protestants in Ireland and for the Redemption of Slaves at Argier Tunis Tripolis and other places and the Custom Books to bee examined at every Port And who have been by Act of Parlament or Order of any Committee impowered to receive any the abovesaid Premises 12. A convenient reward to bee allowed out of the aforesaid Discoveries made for loss of time charges and pains taken and undergon by any of the persons that shall bee so imployed by the aforesaid Justices of peace in each Countie 13. To appoint sworn Officers and Auditors to Calculate and cast up what hath been levyed since 1642. according to the Returns out of each County in the Nation And what hath been duely and really paid upon true and lawfull Warrants And a select Committee appointed to view and approve of these warrants And upon approbation the Officers to allow it upon every Receivers accompt And if that the Warrants bee not

most excellent Waies and Rules were setled in the Court of Exchequer in all Kings Reigns by the great care of many Ages And the Sages of the Law know there was not a more exact method in the world then the Court of Exchequer was for the just accompting and paying the Kings Dues I have heard my Lord Cottington say in the Exchequer Chamber That no Prince in Christendom had the like exact way as the King of England had by the course of the Exchequer if the Rules set down by the Court bee by the under-Officers duely executed so that whatsoever summ comes in there bee it a million of money must bee duely paid and accompted for or else hee could finde it upon the foot of the accompt if ever it came in charge into the Pipe And if the course of the Exchequer had not been disturbed and the payments of the publick money thrust out of the old Channel it had been impossible to have had so many Treasurers cozen the Common-wealth so grosly and shamefully as they have done And in order and pursuance of calling all Accomptants to a just true and strickt Accompt your Supplicant most humbly presents these ensuing Proposals to your Highness and the Parlaments view and consideration and humbly prayeth that the same may bee put in strickt execution with such alterations and additions as your Highness and the Parlament shall conceive fittest for the good of the Nation in general to ease the people of their Taxes For God defend that the generalitie of the people should contribute their monies and pay it to Treasurers that shall make themselves great and their private posterities after them out of what they have cozened and defrauded the Common-wealth of Therefore I humbly petition your Highness and the Parlament 1. THat an Act of Parlament may bee made and a Proclamation thereupon go forth commanding and requiring all Committee-men Sequestrators Trustees for sale of Delinquents Estates Commissioners of Excize Commissioners of the Customs Treasurers of the publick Plate and all other Treasurers Receivers Collectors and all other Accomptants and persons whatsoever that have been imploied to collect and receiv and have collected and received any the publick monies goods chattels plate c or other things of value throughout England and Wales ever since the beginning of the year 1642. shall within three moneths next after the date of the said Act and Proclamation make up and deliver according to the Laws and Statutes of this Nation made for Accomptants and Accompts into the Exchequer or other place your Highness shall appoint their several just and true Accompts of what Monies Goods Chattels Plate c. or other thing of value they or any for them have received And how and by what warrant they have paid and delivered out the same The same Accompt to bee delivered in upon the particular oath of every such person Accomptant that the same is a just and true Accompt And upon every particular accompt so made to pay in the money remaining in his hands upon his said Accompt if any there bee into the Exchequer or other person and place your Highness shall appoint to receiv the same And upon failer of bringing in their several and particular Accompts according to the said Act and Proclamation that then all such monies goods chattels and other things of value which shall bee found and proved upon Inquisition they have received for the Common-wealth whereof they have not accompted for shall bee levyed and taken upon their estates and their persons imprisoned untill they have justly and truly accompted And if any person or Accomptant aforesaid shall bee dead then the Heir and Executor or Administrator of such person so dying or being dead shall duely accompt for the partie so dying or being dead according to the Laws and Statutes of this Nation 2. That an Act of Parlament may bee made and sent throughout England and Wales to require and impower four of the next Justices of the Peace or such other Commissioners your Highness shall appoint to call a Jury in every Parish of substantial Free-holders or other discreet honest men either of the same Parish or Parishes next adjacent and to call to their assistance all other discreet persons that can and will give them true information concerning any of the premisses in charge And the said Jury so impannelled to make true Inquisition of all such neighbours and persons aforesaid of these particular things following viz. 3 That the Jurie bee impowered to enquire and present all persons men and women and their degree and qualitie that have been sequestred in each respective parish within every County of this Nation and the dayes of the moneth and year when this was done Also they are to enquire and present what stock of Cattel Money Plate houshold stuff c. or other things of value they had taken from them and to set down the particular values thereof Also to set down the values of the Houses Lands and Tenements Woods c. sequestred and into whose hands the same came And to set down the parcels and values distinctly and the several time and times when this was done and by whose order warrants and directions and who received the monies 4. They are to enquire and present in every Parish what Committee-men and Sequestrators and Treasurers are in every Parish their distinct names and qualities who of them are dead and who bee their Heirs and Executors or Administrators And if any Sequestrator Treasurer or Committee-man bee removed out of their ancient abiding places since 1642. to set down to the best of their knowledg or information they can get where every such Sequestrator Committeeman and Treasurer doth live in what Countie and place within this Nation or elswhere 5. They are to enquire in what Places of the Countie the Committee for Sequestrations did usually sit and to certifie the same And that diligent search bee made for all Books of Orders of everie particular Committee That in every Parish twelv able and discreet persons upon oath shall make strict inquisition who received all Rents and Profits of all Lands and Houses of Delinquents in the said Parish and how long every Delinquents lands were under Sequestration before they were compounded for or sold and to present all persons that shall bee proved to have the publick money in their hands and what quantity And this all Juries in every Parish shall swear to do without favor or affection and that some considerable penaltie may bee inflicted on such Juries or the Parties offending amongst them that shall wilfully perjure themselvs in wilfull making false Returns and in wilfull concealing any frauds to the prejudice of the Common-wealth through their connivance or willfulness when the Evidence for the State hath by good and legal witnesses sworn the fact positively and clearly and yet the Jury will not make their Returns according to their Evidence to set a penalty upon all Offenders of this

assistance taken on You the Government of beeing PROTECTOR of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging You ought and are bound both before God and to these Nations to the uttermost of your power to give Protection and equal Justice to all the good people of these Nations that are willing to live under your Protection and to defend them with all your might strength and to use the power God hath put into your hands for those ends to keep your People in peace and safetie against all factious spirits In pursuance thereof You are asmuch as in you lieth to keep from power or publick Imploiment all such as You and your Counsel shall know to bee publick or secret undermining Enemies of the peace welfare of this Common-wealth by what pretences titles or callings soever whether Civil Militarie or Ecclesiastical You and your great Counsell upon my bended knees I say are to have a special care of some men who under the pretence of the Priviledges and Rights of the people in Parlament would upon that popular score vent their own discontents and put all again into a confusion with what spirits some old Members came to serve the Nation in this Parlament was visibly seen to all men that wished the peace of this Nation in some Counties upon their election and in their ordinary conversation and deportment The scope and drift of some mens designes was to make division and faction between the Parlament and your Highness between the City and your Highness and put all things into a confusion this present day to make way for the publick Enemies of your Highness and this Nation This was by some particular persons no doubt intended and all men that studie and love the peace of their Countrey might see it under such cunning undermining questions as was by some discontented spirits set on foot the last Parlament craftily to undermine the very Body and Beeing of the Government and sliely to strike at both your Highness and your Posterities Life Fame and Fortunes and to pluck up by the roots your Highness Counsel and the established Government which your Highness by the Advice of your Counsel had setled witness the many Libells of all sorts and tempers to stir up commotions in several Parts and Parties the Ingredients beeing prepared for all Interests to incense and infuse a hatred and detestation of the present Government and without Gods mercie the intentions of som would have before this time burst out into tumults and insurrections my hopes and praiers are that God by your Highness prosperous government hath prepared better things for this Nation That some factious Cocks which crew so loud in the Countrey now they are kept out of the Pit may return home to their Houses Countrey Capons and sleep quietly in their roosts it will bee a happiness both to themselvs their Countrey their Wives and Children their Friends Tennants Servants and Neighbors if they do so and their not doing of it may bring disturbance on the Nation and a certain ruine upon themselvs their Wives and Children It is an old trick Divide and Rule and many that have had the power will leave no stone unturned to get again into play so they laugh they care not if the whole Nation cries There are many good People who have been misled upon the notion of Libertie and Freedom And if your HIGHNESS and your Supreme Counsel the Parlament do not give a stop by your power and vigilancie even at this juncture of time without Gods mercie things may run into great Disorders Therefore your HIGHNESS and the Parlament I most humbly upon my knees say must build the walls of our Jerusalem England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging as Nehemiah did that of the Jews Your Highness and the Parlament have many Samballats that envies your Building and scorns your Reformation there are many of the Children of Separation and Division in these Lands When a wise man would keep his House from falling that is rent shaken with great tempests he props it up with timber cramps it with Iron bolts and barrs and it may be upon the propping of it to set it upright cracks the seiling and fret-work of the best and stateliest room in his House surely if either the Wife or the Children or the Servants should come and complain to the Owner what dammage this beautifull room hath received the Master of the House and his Workmen have at hand a readie Answer which is Should hee not have propped and crampt the House with Iron bolts and barrs the whole fabrick would have fallen and the House have been made a heap of rubbish both hee and they would have had no place to keep them from the weather By this my propping and cramping up my House saith the wise Master and his VVorkmen I have secured and got my Esse I have kept my beeing when my House is new tiled and tyte to keep out the weather you shall have your desire I will give you all content I will cause Plaisterers to repair and garnish that seiling which you are so much offended with the cracking of I will new gild it and make it more beautifull then ever it was provided you will put to your hands to sweep down the Cob-webbs and carrie away the rubbish and so cleanse and clear my House do this I promise you I will do the other No doubt but a wise and dutifull familie will do it chearfully with thanks for their Esse and beeing hath been preserved through the Master of the families Providence May it pleas Your HIGHNESS I humbly say The good people of these Nations under your protection ought at this juncture of time earnestly to pray to God that the foundations of their Happiness may bee so laid this Parlament as to secure firmly their beeing that they may have an Esse and then comes the Bene that it may bee as firmly setled upon as sure a foundation as a Rock against whom no divisions or force can or shall prevail For the effectual Security of these Nations that this Parlament would bee pleased to erect a high Court of Justice to sweep down the cob-webbs remove the rubbish clear the house and by Justice restrain and if incorrigible cut off unruly and violent spirits Wise men cut their coats according to their cloth and will bee sure to keep themselvs warm before they buy Lace to trimm them Vpon my knees I humbly desire your Highness to put the Nation in a posture of defence against home-bred Traytors and forain Force and then bee pleased to garnish the People with rich and stately Priviledges Security ought to bee provided for before Ornament The Divisions at home are farr more destructive and dangerous than any forain Force or Invasion can bee to this Nation God bee thanked the Sea is a hook in our Enemies nostrils they may bee numerous but they are at a distance I hope this