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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79815	The city alarum, or The weeke of our miscarriages, which have hitherto obstructed our proceedings, and will now retard them, if not speedily removed. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the excize.		1645 (1645)	Wing C4346; Thomason E292_12; ESTC R200147	23,518	36

hath been my maine intention But before the voyder come give me leave instead of a Dessert to serve you with one caution more That as we have new modelized our army and ought to new modelize our excise so if we really aime at a speedy period of our miseries we must new Modelize something else of greatest concernment If we looke into the Venetian government we shall find their so much admired durability and prosperity to flow from the frequent redintegration of their severall Committees or Councells by their grand Counsell Thus precedent Counsells were obscured by the Septemviri and these againe by the Decemviri who beare an annuall magistracy and are accountable at the years end to be according to their merits either punished or rewarded In the Infancy of the low-Country Common-wealth their chiefe Counsell was that of State wherto both Governour and Generall had and have admittance but soone after apprehending the danger wherto they exposed themselves by revealing the misteries of their State to strangers and yet not daring openly to disgust the English they ordained another supreme Councell whereto their Generall hath no admittance whereby they satisfied the Earle of Leicester and secured themselves When our forraign friends saw us begin the yeare so resolutely with execution of Delinquents and removall of remisse Agents they verily thought the houre of our deliverance come and expected we should have stopt at no mediums but gone roundly on to the end proposed What meane then al these rubs and suddain stops which come upon us like fits of the falling sicknesse The ice is broken and we on the other side of Rubicon by the cure of our feet and reformation of our armies The restoration of our withered hands is the worke of another Sabbath of such a day of rest wherewith God hath now blessed us and is accomplished by opening the palmes of all receivers whereof enough hath been said if rightly too much if slightly understood But both these remedies are insufficient as long as the same evill spirit that possessed heretofore the executive now torments the directive power When the feet are lame there is help by crutches when our hands faile us others may feed us but the distraction of the head hath an influence upon all the senses It lies neither in the forepart nor in the hinderpart it is in vertice The only mean to chase away this evill spirit is the harp of David i.e. the slip of unity grafted in the stock of honesty a true harmony between all the honest both in Parliament and City Seeing God hath abounded in mercy towards you be not wanting to your selves when God goes before he expects you should remoove your tents and follow him and that not halting but running Wherefore either let former successe animate you or abundance of future feare drive away all present feare Relapses are dangerous and therefore as the disease diminisheth so care of the patient ought to be augmented I desire peace no man more yet let me tell you those who have drawne their sword against their Prince rational men wil understand me in a vulgar sence I wil not say with Alexander of Parma should fling away their scabbard but surely should be cautious upon what tearmes they sheath it The Key of the Kings Cabinet as it hath unlockt the mistery of former Treaties so I hope it will locke up our minds from thoughts of future A Treatise of Excise SInce there is no Peace without a previous War nor war without stipends neither stipends without taxes and since this is especially remarkable in the United Provinces whose severall Signories are bound to a yearly tribute for defence of the common Cause it will not be amisse to looke more narrowly into the Collection of those riches which have rendred Holland the miracle of this latter age Tributes here are of two sorts some ordinary others extraordinary Ordinary are those which once imposed are ever after exacted Extraordinary such as according to the vanishing or imminent necessity of the Common-wealth are sometimes exacted sometimes remitted I find three sorts of extraordinary taxes the first is of every head the second of every Chimney the third is upon the whole bulke of a mans wealth and possessions balanced together That is called Head-money the other Chimney money and this the two hundreth penny The Poll-money consists in two shillings which the Common-wealth hath for every head within it Which how it swels their Treasurie is easie to conjecture by the infinite frequency of its Inhabitants Yet men of meanest condition are exempt from this burden and those accounted such who shame not to professe their extreme poverty before the Censors This hath been but once that ever I could heare of exacted with great reluctancy of the people whereof some apparently withstood it which may be the reason of its intermission Chimney-money is nothing else but a tribute which owners of houses whether in Countrey or City pay in behalf of their Chimneys for every one two shillings Herein the Spaniards in the Kingdome of Naples preceded the Low-country men for this Custome is yet there observed The two hundreth part is assessed upon the whole bulke of a mans substance so that whoever is worth two hundred shillings or pounds payes in one to the Treasury for foure hundred two and so proportionably but may some say How can the Magistrate make a true estimate of every mans private fortunes Since none easily betray their opulence or indigence Whence may be infer'd that the Magistrate often declines the way of equity seeing it cannot be but that some will passe for poorer others for richer then indeed they are This difficulty is prevented by a prudent temper and moderation For the custome is that in imposing this two hundreth the Consuls and other City Magistrates according to publick fame of every ones wealth and fortunes exact from some more from some lesse as they are vulgarly esteemed wealthy or needy whereby no man is forced to reveale his riches which are rated at the arbitrement of the Magistrate and common rumour Notwithstanding if any will upon oath affirme himselfe over-rated what is just and equitable is detracted In which proceeding this is observable that most men being ambitious and affecting the repute of opulent many from whom the Magistrate exacts too much chuse rather to pay then proclaime the slendernesse of their fortunes So that vice it selfe supports vertue and reall profit is reaped from wealth imaginary This tribure is for the most part trienniall Ordinary taxes are manifold I will only hint at the principall Salt Excise is thus exacted The City Magistrate useth to view each family and the persons thereof and according as the family is lesse or more numerous a greater or lesser measure of Salt is presumed to be annually spent and proportionably a greater or lesser summe imposed In some Cities there is a certaine price appointed to every great and small measure which the buyer payes in