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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B10272	An answer to a scandalous and deceitfull pamphlet: entituled, Considerable queries humbly tendred touching reducement of the excise to the customs; published by necessity.	Wattes, Jeremiah.	1653 (1653)	Wing W1153A; ESTC R186315	15,904	24

not the other viz. Alderman Tichborne I dare assure you no Act was ever done in order to the management of the Customes but by and with consent and concurrence of the whole or major part although it may be signed or pronounced by one for orders sake they Register all their proceedings and can give an account out of their diaries of all they ever did as Commissioners I wish you did observe the like order for your own and the Common-wealths sake The reason then is plain that the whole drift of your Pamphlet reports it fawning and scraping to be continued in your office and are affraid to name Alderman Titchborne being a member of Parliament But you can mildly take your fellow servants by the throat of their reputation and falsly accuse them unto their masters having herein neither as a wise man or a Christian well informed your self nor considered with them for satisfaction information or reformation as it ought to be done But as the love of money is the root of all evill so it is the root of that evill will you shew against your brethren the fear of losse of your gainfull trade makes you imitate Demetrius and his Coppersmiths they cry up the greatnesse of their Goddesse and make a tumult and would seem devout observers of that deity and inrages the people against the Apostles But that which troubled them was lest he should lose his gainful occupation so your jealousie lest your craft should fail and your gain lessen hath put you upon this unchristian uncharitable behaviour so dishonestly to bespatter these wourthy religious and Godly persons Could you not consider they were too well known for you to get any Credence by a bare generall accusation All men of any eminent trade and businesse knows Coll. Harvy who never obscurely lived being borne bred in the City had a considerable estate left him and when he traded as a Silk-man or Merchant had one of the greatest trades in London had the repute of a fair dealer and was a man of great businesse in honourable imployment in the service of his Country and quit himself like a man of worth and valour as a Captain a Major a Collonell and Major Generall after served in Parliament and a Commissioner of Customes with so much industry and fidelity as a man unwearied with businesse that to speak ingenuously I know but few men that can and will take the pains which I dayly see him undergoe being naturally inclin'd to go through with what he undertakes and this with his impartiall dealing hath sufficiently irritated many men that would be ready to worke him a displeasure but God who gave him a heart to act by a principle of grace and true love to piety hath carried him on in his worke that malice it self hath not had any just charge against him And as for the other Commissioners if wisdome her self had been set a work curiously to search she could not have found men more single hearted upright fearing God and eschewing evill men that desire in all good conscience to discharge their duty to the trust reposed in them And I dare say it is beleeved by all that know them they are such and I can with truth and boldnesse affirme it and add this to them all in generall that discreeter juster abler and men according in one minde and judgement with love and respect to one another and all with whom as to their imployment they have to do as Commissioners never yet such were known to me and I am perswaded it will be hard to finde such an agreement for so long a time by any four men in the world in so eminent an imployment Yet Necessity stigmatizeth them with the blackest marks of infamy as grand obstructers of the publick revenewes violation of trust defrauders of the Common-wealth concealers of the duty of Excise And yet again another charge for obstructing the receipt pag. 6. They constantly grant Sufferances It 's not true that they constantly grant them but in one of these cases following 1. By way of exportation and only on such goods where the halfe subsidy is to be drawn back and the whole Excise only for accommodation of trade that they may be shipped and not passe Graves-end untill a Cocket be passed and the Excise officers have certified they are satisfied 2. When Custome is paid and Excise certified to be satisfied for small parcels sufferances are granted to bring up the said goods in Wherries which otherwise traders are obliged to do in Lighters 3. For the landing Graff and bulky goods as Deals Masts Spars Pitch Tar Hemp c. which ever were granted and without which Merchants could not trade in those commodities the lawfull Keys if four times as many being too few to take up and store the same 4. Sufferances are granted to land such goods as no Merchant comes to claime and to put them inthe Common-wealths warehouse till the Merchant comes to demand them which goods are not delivered without a warrant passed by the Commissioners of the Customes which they never passe till the Customes be first paid and never suffer the same to be executed untill they have certificate from the Excise officer that Excise is satisfied 5. And lastly Sufferances are granted for landing goods transported from other ports of this Nation to the Port of London and they are either goods Exciseable or free from Excise as Sea-coles Corne Butter Cheefe Wool c. For such goods as are Exciseable there is never any Sufferances granted untill first the Excise officers hand be subscribed and these are the Sufferances this empty headed man makes such adoe about accusing the Commissioners of Customes for granting sufferances without any Excise officers hand subscribed when as they never grant any of the aforesaid sufferances except that for exportation and goods not Exciseable but when they have first granted a warrant and they never grant a warrant but they first have the Excise officers hand to certifie he hath received satisfaction and that this is the constant practise at the Custome-house as is dayly manifested and all this they are authorized to do by the Parliament for avoiding unreasonable inconveniences to the Merchants And for the goods not liable to Excise as Sea-coals c. You cannot forget if you have not quite lost your memory that about two years since the Cōmissioners of Excise desired a conference with the Commissioners of Customs concerning sufferances by them granted where you would needs shew how ignorant you were in the businesse you would pretend so much knowledg in and did there sputter out a deal of nonsense insomuch as your brethren were ashamed of you and like discreet men did informe you in good words you understood not the thing you spake of were not many officers of Customes and Excise witnesses of your pertinacious cariage in managing that debate and were much grieved that a Common-wealth abounding with many excellent men of parts and integrity