They are to appoint all publick Disbursements, the Quantity, Time, and Manner of their Payments; the Ufes to which they are to be difpofed; and, if they pleafe, the Officers through whofe Hands it fhall pass. If fo, now is the Time then to appoint fuch Officers of your own, and not fuffer the Nation any more to be cheated by Upftarts, and fuch as have no visible Eftates to come at, when they embezzle the Kingdom's Treafure, as fuch have done for twenty Years laft paft, without any publick Remedy. This requires your publick Amendment; for the War has left us very low in Purfe, the Credit of the Nation almoft eclipfed by the late Miniftry, our Funds anticipated and deficient; and, to compleat all, has left us a new Debt of feveral Millions. Thefe Confiderations will oblige you certainly to prevent the like grand Miscarriages for the future, by appointing, as we hope you will, fuch Gentlemen of Eftates as may give fufficient Security to perform that Trust, which will be so very neceffary for the Kingdom's Prefervation and Benefit in general. 2dly, They are to enquire how fuch Sums have been applied; and if they find any Mifapplication, to bring the Offenders to Punishment: And this is a fecond Reafon why you ought to appoint Officers of your own. For have not your honourable House endeavoured, for twenty Years laft paft, to bring fuch evil Minifters to Account, and how often have you been prevented by cunning Stratagems, and Delays of fome great Perfons, whofe Intereft appeared too great for you to cope with in another Place. 3dly, They are to advife with, and affift the other two Sovereign Eftates in all arduous Affairs, efpecially in making and contriving good Laws, for the Security of our Religion, Liberties and Properties, of which, at this Time, we ftand in great Need; for our occafional Conformists, if not well looked after, will fwallow up our Government by this cunning Hypocrify; which is a villainous Artifice, on purpose to bring in Ruin to the Church and State. 4thly, They are to revive fuch good Laws as are antiquated, and to repeal them, if the Reafon be ceafed, and the Laws themfelves of no longer Ufe and Benefit to the Publick. And, Lastly, They are to protect and preferve entire, the Rights and Privileges of the whole People, whom they reprefent as a third Eftate of the Kingdom. And this loudly calls to you for Amendment; what Infolencies and Affronts have been offered our Church and State, by thofe very tender confcienced. People, our moderate Diffenters? How often have they been for Roafting, Gutting, Dewitting, Mobbing, Hanging, Drawing and Quartering, one poor Prieft of the Church of England, because he preached up Paffive Obedience, a Doctrine of the Church; which, it feems, did a little too much grate upon the fcrupulous Confciences of our tender Brethren, the most religious Diffenters ? I fay, this brought on all thofe Affronts and Infolencies which our Holy Church and Conftitution met with in a late famous Trial, of ever glorious Memory, in which her Majefty did not efcape their vile Tongues in their Imperious Imperious and Rebellious Language. This alfo highly calls for your Amendment, that it may never more be in the Power of fuch Perfons to be fo monftroufly rude and uncivil as heretofore. Now, if fuch Offenders are not corrected according to their Merits, the Lord have Mercy on the Nation; for the Government, both in Church and State, are in a very dangerous Condition, and won't be long before they are brought to Destruction; which God of his infinite Mercy prevent. A Parallel Account of the National Expences, from November 3, 1640, to November 1659; and from November 5, 1688, to Michaelmas 1700. 5 Years Twentieth Parts of Goods, &c. to raise an Army for the Ditto Second Time Weekly Affeffiments towards Payment of the faid Army, Weekly Meal to raise Auxiliaries, fix Years Monthly Affeffiments towards Payment of the faid Army,} two Years Sir William Waller's Army's Weekly Affeffment, 1 Year 50000 O 30000 1200000 Car, over 22399315 13 0 Brought Warwick, &c. affociated 5 Years Brought over 1. s. d. 21399315 13 S. Fairfax's Army's Mo. Affeffment at 363667. three Years 1127526 4 Ditto, at 60000 l. per Mo. for two Years Ditto, at 90000 l. per Mo. for 1 Year, &c. Forces raised on particular Counties, &c. Exon, for five Years, comes to 1620000 O 1890000 0 12000 1900 O 133650 0 28800 O 19200 1000 76800 o Eaftern Affociation, 5 Years 1234962 10 24780 0 270000 38652 119200 13200 115200 Newport-Pagnel, 1 Year, then affociated 49000 O London, &c. 5 Years 5600 0 Hull, 5 Years 46600 0 Chester County and City, 1 Year, then affociated 6944 O Gloucester County and City, 3 Years 163400 0 Pembroke, &c. affociated 3 Years 20090 Salop, 3 Years 57000 Leicester, 3 Years 86400 0 Wilts and Malmsbury, 1 Year, then affociated 2900 O Western, affociated 4 Years 509160 0 51597 O 108000 96000 0 117600 0 48000 O 433831 14 29000 44000 9916 12 30015025 13 0. Brought Brought over New River Water, 8 Years, Tenths of the Clergy, 8 Years Lord Craven and others Eftates, at 13 Years Gifford and others Eftates, at 13 Years Sir John Stawell and others, 5 Years Houses and Caftles of the King's John and Willian, Peter, and divers others, viz. 171 Perfons, their Eftates to pay Prince Palatine of the Rhine 5000 l. in Arrear, and 8000 l. per Ann. Oliver made Capt. Gen. of Fairfax's Forces, and the Af- Affeffiments of 120000 l. per Mo. for the faid Army and 1. s. d. 67568747 11 11 8000 O 1200240 2 O 700000 0 900000 560000 0 56000 0 600000 85000 0 0 2160000 0 0 1440000 900000 O O 1000000 O 0 Drums and Colours 90000 l. per Ann. for 10 Years Oliver voted Protector, and he affeffed for the Army 120000 l. and 90000 /. for 3 Mo. } 630000 6 4320000 Agreed 60000 l, per Mo. be the Pay of the Arms for To defray the Charges of Juftice 200000 l. per Ann. 6 Free Gifts to the Saints in Money 1200000 679800 0 306110 O 189365 0 In Places (excluding the Army and Navy) per Ann. 7 Years In Eftates per Ann. for 11 Years Befides, the House of Commons voted each of their Members 4.1. per Week, and count but 256 Members, and no745472 0 0 more, for 14 Years A general Abstract of Money raised in England by the Long Parliament, from November 3, 1640, to November 1659. |