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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04013	A letter written to a Christian friend, and one of the Parliament men. Proposing the groundlesness of the plea for tyths, impropriat [sic] tyths, or tyth as a revenue due to the magistrat.		1653 (1653)	Wing L1767A; ESTC R179629	12,558	15

God can be maintained without them We never reade nor finde any of these used in Christs and his Apostles times and yet Gods worship purely maintained and therefore carnal fears and it being Iewish Popish and unjust undenyably I shall beg that as you gave it not its birth so let it have neither breath nor being But you will say It is unjust Impropriators should lose their Purchase Indeed it is a very proper name and suits their Title well it is fitly so called and were his Holiness the Pope now keeping house here in England he would soon curse all such Children as have committed such Sacriledg as thus to rob his Church It is unjust for any man to pay any therefore unjust for him to force to pay or receive any it was never raised at the first to put in his Purse he doth nothing at all for it therefore no shadow of truth in it why he should enjoy it it was first unjustly raised then diverted from the use given and still is unjustly payd and never will be just till it go back to the Landlord who is the tru Owner thereof for he bought the Land and if any Commodity be found in the Land and Purchase more than the Seller and Purchaser were aware of whose is it but the Purchasers as in all other Contracts and Bargains we take them at all adventures somtimes they prove better somtimes worse than expected Again it will be sayd then you will wrong and perhaps undo many who have bought such Impropriat Tithes and payd largely for them Indeed we fear many are wronged but who hath deceived them Not you the Keepers of our Libertyes and Ministers of Justice your duty is to defend the good and clear Title and not else neither hath the Seller for the Title was well known to be what it is a Badg of Tyranny for so Samuel perswades Israel ● Sam. 8. to avoyd that tyranny and have no King for he will have the Tyth of all and it shall be for a Judgment ye shall cry out in that day because of your King In Henry the third's time there was granted to him two shillings out of every Plough-land and in another Kings Reign there was granted the Eights of every City and Burrough and Twelfths out of the Countrey and is any grieved because this being established by a Law is layd aside Whether did King Henry the sixth alienate Tyth or take it away by Law or not We affirm Kings at their Coronation are sworn to govern according to Law why were not Monopolyes and Ship-money willingly received under our late King No we cryed out he was a Tyrant ruling by a Prerogative Power Was not King Henry's Act the same he was in a rage and had a lust to do what he did and ever since Custom and the gain thereof hath caused that unlawfull Act to stand in force and therefore why should not all the Patentee-men be satisfied King Charls had as much Law on his side as King Henry it is the duty of a Subject of a Nation to know the Laws thereof that they may be sure to have Law on their sides for want of the knowledg hereof many have lost thousands of Pounds and for redress have thrown hundreds after and what recompence should these men have Surely none unless they can summon their Deceivers to keep a Court of Conscience And for Impropriators I am not against their having some satisfaction it is but Equity and Justice they should have some recompence but not from them which have not hurt them unless they will I wish they may finde good mercifull men and if it were a forced Salary at the first it being unequal for proportion with other mens Estates and unjust because ye received the Tenth of the Increase and the Tenth of the Stock as was made appear and because it was gathered to uphold a Popish worship it ought to fall with the worship again grant it were a free Gift at the first and suppose all to be in the Donors power to bestow which I do question how he could give any other than his own viz the Tenth of his Land yet being taken away from the use for which it was given and converted to no such end but sold away for gain imployd to particular mens benefit this implyes the Donor had no Power yea was not capable of a Gift if he were capable to give a Gift such a Gift then that Gift was lawful and then who had power to sell such a Gift and divert it from that use but if the Magistrat say the use was unlawfull then I say the Gift was an unlawfull Gift and the Boons return from whence it came Indeed it is unavoidable some late Purchasers will be Losers by it unless the Charity of the men of the place or the Seller or the State will as an Act of their Grace and Mercy give some Gratuity to such as have little else which they are to acknowledg to be a free Gift if they receive any thing but some have kept it long and bought it for a small matter and have so employd it that when they give it back again it will not ow them a Penny also this sort of men or the greatest number of them will be Gainers in their other Land more than this comes to if Tyths fall and indeed they must will fall ere long and I perswade my self if the Parliament will not honor themselves so far as to throw them down the People will dishonor themselves so much as to pay them with great unwillingness We are declared to be a free Nation and the Magistrat professing to take off all burdensom Yoaks whereof Samuel the Prophet cals this one in the place before named and these are they that eat the fat and best fruit in many places they have the chief Tyth and perhaps the Minister hath left him some Tyth Egs and the rest of all the small Tyth not enough to maintain many of them in a mean sort And for encouragement to all Impropriators consider I pray you what Amaziah did 2 Chron 25. he made but a bad Bargain to lose his money and have nothing for it because willing to take counsel of the Lord so do ye restore back again openly rather than wrong thy self and neighbour by a Law I would have them consider what that Traitor Judas did read you never after he was convicted of sin taking unlawfull wages for unlawfull work sayth he Take the thirty Pieces of Silver again But it is affirmed by some the national Ministers have an equitable and unquestionable right to Tyths as any man hath to his Free-hold but I think they are deceived see Fox Acts and Monuments Volume 1. pag. 604 632 669. and he that robs them in Tyths and Offerings may as well take away any mans Free-hold I take it a man holds his Free-hold either by Purchase or Gift or is Heir by descent but they cannot claim