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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	pay_v	say_a	treasurer_n	832	5	12.1707	5	false

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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

monies with interest money over and above their Bonds they have paid in to the Commissioners and Treasurers appointed to receiv their payments My humble Quere is Whether all such interest money received by any Commissioner as aforesaid ought not all to bee accompted for by every Treasurer upon oath and whether a fifth part of the said discovery shall bee paid to the Discoverer 8. Whether the Treasurers for Charitable uses as Redemption for Slaves Plymouth Duties for redee●●ng of Captives from Argier Tunis and Tipolis c. Collections for the Relief of Ireland Tanton and all other Charitable Uses of that nature bee within the cognizance of your Commission and that a fifth part shall bee allowed to any person that can and will make discovery in whose hands any summ of money is collected as aforesaid and not truly accompted for to his Highness 9. Whereas several Lands have been illegally and unduely sold viz some before a survey or This is a particular Charge against the Commissioner as Drury-hous for several great abuses and frauds practised by them to the great dammage of your Highness and contrary to their Trust and Oaths particular returned contrary to the Commissioners instructions And also by their Commission no Lands ought to be sold till a certain set number of Commissioners were met together which number made them a Committee and under that Committee the said persons could not legally act as Commissioners nor had a lesser number then was appointed them by their Commission power to sell Lands or Gods appertaining to the Common-wealth and the Commissioners to take a Corporal Oath before they could act as Commissioners not to act contrary to their Directions and Rules set them notwithstanding the aforesaid Rules and Instructions appointed unto the Commissioners and Trustees by the Parlament and his Highness and contrary to their Oaths several great quantities of Lands have been sold by some few of the Commissioners privately before the said Commissioners number was full or the Trustees fully impowered to sell any Lands appertaining to the State for many dayes meeting and contracting for Lands and Houses when there were not so many Commissioners met together as to enable them legally to bee a Committee according to their Commission and Instructions thereupon My bumble Querie is to know Whether these Sales are good in law being sold contrary to their Instructions and by a lesser number of Commissioners then were appointed to sell the Lands So that many thousand pounds yearly of Delinquents Estates have been sold in reversion which ought to have been sold in possession And great and vast summs of mony have been reprised by some Commissioners and the Contracters contrary to their Trust have received seueral summs of money indirectly of several persons for their actings as aforesaid and have sold Lands at under-values viz. When one man hath bid 25 years value and could not have it but hath gone without it another that hath been a friend hath bought the same Land for 13 years value to the great prejudice of the Commonwealth I humbly crave your Opinions Whether all the aforesaid frauds or any of the said misdemeanors are within Cognizance of your Commission And the Discoverers to have a Fifth part for all Summs of mony that shall bee caused to bee brought in to the Exchequer upon these Discoveries proposed in this Article 10. Whether it bee within the Cognizance of your Commission to take an accompt of all summs of monie that have been collected in the City of London and Lines of Communication for furnishing the Cittie with Coals and where that Stock remains for though some men received back their monies without their Interest after they had been deluded many years Yet there is many thousand pounds at this verie daie in the Treasurers hands And whether all the Treasurers living since 1644 within every County City and Borrough and have been appointed to receive great summs of monie and other Provisions for the relief of Ireland building of Churches mending High-waies redeeming of slaves and other Charitable uses bee within the Cognizance of your Commission and the Discoverers to have a fifth part 11 Whereas great summes of monie remain in mens hands that have stoln Custom and Excise and also in several Committees hands within this Nation upon the Accompt of the publique I late of the Nation and several Taxes viz. of 60000l 90000l 120000l a Moneth and all other Parlament-Taxes whereas greater summs of monie have been by vertue and colour of the said Ordinance collected upon the severall Inhabitants of the City of London and Lines of Communication and in other parts and Counties of this Nation which monies have been levied by the Pettie-collectors and paid in to the great Collectors and Treasurers and great quantities of these monies remain in several persons hands unaccompted for to the great Damage of his Highness and the Publique I humbly desire to know whether this Discovery bee within the Cognizance of your Commission And the Discoverers to have a Fifth part of all summs of monie that shall be paid into the receipt of his Highness's Exchequer And how I shall bee secured of my Fifth part upon all or any the aforesaid Discoveries in the aforesaid Articles Which I humbly propound unto your grave Judgment and crave your Orders and Directions thereupon it tending to and being highly for his Highness 's service to have all the aforesaid Frauds strictly examined and found out I shall and do attend this business and when I shall receive your Commands or Directions how I shall steer my self in the Prosecution of this business And know from you whether all these Discoveries are within the Verge of your Commission That then the Discoverers of all or any the offenses aforesaid shall have one full Fifth part for his Discovery of all summs of money due unto his Highness and unlawfully detained as aforesaid I shall upon yours Honors answer unto mee put in several Claims to all these several Branches aforesaid May it pleas your Honors SEverall persons have withheld from his Highness and the Commonwealth in Lands Tenements Debts Duties Monie Mertchandize Assessments Goods and Chattels the several Summs hereunder named which several summs of monie they have in their hands or have converted them to their own Uses I have thought it convenient to conceal their name and not print them but to print the Summs by the Numbers and leav a space for the names Numbers Pounds I. 01500 II. 01000 III. 02000 IV. 04000 V. 10000 VI. 16000 VII 20000 VIII 06000 IX 02000 X. 20000 XI 10000 XII 06000 XIII 15000 XIV 10000 XV. 20000 XVI 02000 XVII 04000 XVII 04000 XIX 06000 XX. 04000 XXI 15000 XXII 05000 XXIII 20000 XXIV 06000 XXV 20000 XXIV 04000 XXVII 15000 XXVIII 12000 XXIX 12000 XXX 16000 XXXI 04000 XXXII 02000 XXXIII 02000 XXXIV 06000 XXXV 0●000 XXXVI 02●00 XXXVII 08000 XXXVIII 06000 XXXIX 02000 XL. 03000 These are the Summs of money which several