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id: A32503
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
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title:
  By the King, a proclamation for removing the receipt of His Majesties exchequer from Non-such to Westminster

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id: A32502
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. aut
date: 1665.0
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title:
  By the King. A proclamation for removing the receipt of His Majesties exchequer from Westminster to Nonsuch

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id: A56544
author: J. P.
date: 1695.0
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words: 1909
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title:
  Proposals humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament, to repair the loss by three millions of clipp'd money without any charge to the nation for fifteen years, viz.

summary:
  That a short Day be prefixt to forbid passing Clipp'd Money in payment , and whoever does not bring his Clipp'd Money to be changed by the Day limited , shall lose the benefit of having it changed , and prosecuted as a Clipper if he or she offers any in payment ; by which means the Broad Money may venture safely abroad without fear of being Clipp'd , and will be useful , which now is laid up and becomes useless , both to the Owner and Nation . Proposals humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament, to repair the loss by three millions of clipp'd money without any charge to the nation for fifteen years, viz.


id: A27255
author: Beeckman, Daniel.
date: 1695.0
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sentence: 69
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title:
  To the honourable the Commons of England assembled in Parliament proposals humbly offered to lay down a method which will totally prevent all robberies upon the highway, raise five hundred thousand pounds per annum to the government, and increase dealings of all kinds ...

summary:
  4. AS to the Furnishing the said Chambers with Cash sufficient to answer such Ends , I presume the moneys Collected for the KING's Taxes ; The Excise , and other moneys already Charged , and to be Charged , by Act of Parliament , with Moneys payable for all manner of Goods or Commodities through the Kingdom in parts remote ; being paid into the said Chambers , in each Town or County , as aforesaid , in order to be Remitted to other parts of the Kingdom ; may ( as I humbly conceive ) answer the ENDS Proposed , with all Objections that shall be made against it ; only allowing Petty Chapmen , who shall Travel the Country for some Miles , to lay out moneys in order to buy up Goods ; as Wooll , &c. buying two or three Tod in one place , and three or four in another , where they can meet with them : For it is not to be imagined , such Chapmen as these : shall have their moneys remitted , by reason of the great uncertainty in what place they shall buy their Goods : And they may keep an exact Ballance on all occasions , in all places , and at all times throughout the Kingdom ; by which means each Town may have a Bank of money by them , which , ( as I conceive ) will be no small Increase of Riches throughout the Kingdom , causing all manufacturies to flourish much more than hither to they have done , the failure of which is thought to befor want of Moneys among them , which has occasioned many Country people to try their Fortunes in London , where money is more plenty , which hath much depopulated the Country , thereby damnifying very much both Gentlemens Estates , and done great injury to all Manufacturies .


id: A29534
author: Briscoe, John, fl. 1695.
date: 1694.0
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title:
  An abstract of the Discourse on the late funds of the Million-act, Lottery-act, and Bank of England Together with proposals for the supplying their Majesties with money on easy terms, exempting the nobility and gentry, &c. from taxes, enlarging their yearly estates, and enriching all the subjects in the kingdom. Humbly offered and submitted to the consideration of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled. By J. B.

summary:
  For admit A be Tenant for Life of an Estate of 1000 l. per Annum , the Remainder to B : Suppose A settles the said Estate , and 20000 l. Bills of Credit are issued out thereupon , and lent their Majesties upon the Paiment of 7 l. 10 s. per Cent. per Annum , out of any Parliamentary Fund for 20 Years ; A shall be exempted from Taxes , which is 200 l. per Annum saved to him : The Commissioners who are to receive 1500 l. per Annum Annuity for 20 Years , for the said 20000 l. Bills of Credit , will pay off every Year 1000 l. per Annum in Discharge of the Principal , and the other 500 l. per Annum they may reserve in their Hands for B ; so that if A lives 20 Years , B will have 10000 l. due to him from the Commissioners , which is half the Value of his Estate , and his Estate clear : and tho some may think it unreasonable , that a Tenant for Life should settle the Estate of him who hath the Fee , yet for the Advantage and Benefit of such Person who hath the Remainder , the Parliament may as well give leave to settle such Estates , as they did empower Trustees and Guardians to advance the Money of such whose Estates they had in Trust upon the late Funds , for Benefit of such Minors , &c. And if the Parliament think fit , Gentlemen who have Estates in Land , may easily , and that in a few Years , raise a Bank without any Money , other than by their accruing Profits out of the said Annuities , which Bank will have both plenty of Money , and the Freehold Estates of the Kingdom for a Fund ; which will be the greatest , most famous , and most glorious Bank that is or ever was in the whole World : nor will any Nation in the Universe be ever able to cope with us , or be capable to erect the like . That the said Bills of Credit shall be made from 5 l. to 100 l. value each , and shall be current in Paiment by Endorsement toties quoties ; and any Person who shall take any of the said Bills may renew them once every Month if they please , without Fee or Reward . That these Bills of Credit may be advanced to their Majesties by Authority of Parliament , ( and not otherwise ) their Majesties paying to those upon the Security of whose Estates the said Bills are issued out , 3 l. per Cent. per Annum Interest for the same , out of any Parliamentary Fund settled or to be settled for those Purposes , or upon the Paiment of any of the following Annuities out of some Parliamentary Fund in lieu of Principal and Interest , viz.      


id: A27256
author: Beeckman, Daniel.
date: 1695.0
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title:
  To the Honourable the Commons of England assembled in Parliament proposals humbly offered to raise five hundred thousand pounds per annum, to make good the adulterated and defaced coin of this kingdom without hurting the subject, by drawing it from all parts of the kingdom, dominion of Wales, &c. ...

summary:
  For if A. B. or . C. suffer for not having Returns of Money , according to expectation or desire , certainly the greater part of the Alphabet must sensibly Feel it one way or other : But this Method being taken , It must , by consequence , lessen the Interest of money , highly advance Lands , increase in incom of the General Post-Office , † and preserve many Mens Lives , who frequently Suffer by the Hands of Justice , having so many opportunities of Clipping , and Committing Robberies ; which has much lessoned the Number of People in this Kingdom , who might have been useful to the Government , and more especially during this time of War. The Proposals take as follow : ( Viz. ) WERE there Four Grand Chambers of Accompts Erected in London , ( being the Metropolitan City of the Kingdom ) to answer all Counties in England , Wales , &c. and those nominated the Principal or Grand Chambers of each County , or Division ; and let them have power to fix a Petty Chamber in every Post-Town , or Town of Trade , throughout the Kingdom , &c. Providing for every Principal , or Grand Chamber , a Different Stamp , with Numbers , to be kept with every Petty Chamber , so fixed as aforesaid : And let all Gentlemen , Carriers , Chapmen , and Hagglers , be strictly Prohibited from Travelling with any Sum or Sums of Money ( more than to Defray their Travelling Charges : )


id: A47388
author: Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695.
date: 1663.0
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title:
  A proposal, shewing how this nation may be vast gainers by all the sums of money, given to the Crown, without lessening the prerogative humbly offer'd to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and to the knights, citizens, and burgesses, assembled in Parliament / by William Killigrew ; to which is prefix'd the late Honourable Sir James Sheene's letter on the same subject and the proposer's answer.

summary:
  Let there be an Office erected in the City of London , near the Royal-Exchange ; let the Tax of 300000 l. be paid into the said Office , in the same Species , as they receive it ; Because most of the Taxes will be paid in Money , in small Sums , which they must not change for Bills ; yet they must take Bills , where the Sums amount to so much . A proposal, shewing how this nation may be vast gainers by all the sums of money, given to the Crown, without lessening the prerogative humbly offer'd to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and to the knights, citizens, and burgesses, assembled in Parliament / by William Killigrew ; to which is prefix'd the late Honourable Sir James Sheene's letter on the same subject and the proposer's answer.


id: A28305
author: Blackwell, John, fl. 1695.
date: 1695.0
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title:
  An essay towards carrying on the present war against France and other publick occasions as also for paying off all debts contracted in the same, or otherwise : and new-coyning of all our moneys, without charge to the great encrease of the honour, strength and wealth of the nation : humbly propos'd, for the Parliament's consideration and submitted to their great wisdom and love to their country, etc. / by John Blackwell ...

summary:
  If we have a Sufficiency of these Bills in Our Counting-houses , Pocket books , or Letter-cases , uncounterfeitable , made Current ( as Moneys ) by Act of Parliament : which will answer all our occasions at home , as well as moneys in specie ; and particularly may as well be disposed forth at Interest on Bonds , as Ready-money in Baggs : And consequently we become as rich in these , for all Uses to which we would employ moneys , as now we are ; yea , and much more : Where then Lyes the Force of this Objection ? In short , the whole Nation is almost destitute of Moneys : Not only , For the carrying on the War ( in , or by any Ordinary course of procedure ) but , For Our home Markets : And , Taken off from trade abroad , As , by means hereof , So , Partly by their Losses at Sea ; partly , By the More-advantageous Proposals for Lending or Laying out their Moneys , on the Lotteries , and Other Ways and Means found out , and pitch'd upon , by the Late Parliament , For carrying on the War : And lastly , By the high Exchange of Moneys abroad , for Commodities imported hither ; and paying our Forces there , who must otherwise have had more of our Moneys sent hence to our further streightening .


id: A44642
author: Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.
date: 1681.0
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sentence: 264
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title:
  An account of the state of His Majesties revenue, as it was left by the Earl of Danby at Lady-day, 1679 in a letter to a friend : occasioned by his lordships Answer to An examination of the state of the case of the Earl of Danby / by Sir Robert Howard.

summary:
  'T is set down by the Examiner , and not denied by my Lord of Danby ( pag. 10. ) to amount to the sum of 1485570 l. 16 s. 4 d. excepting one Talley of Mr. Montague's of 2443 l. which he says was paid in his time . The words of the Examiner that are here Transpos'd , is perhaps to try to make it imply , that the Examiner does charge my Lord of Danby with hindring Money to be lent on the Fifth part of Excise ; whereas 't is plain enough , it was for hindring the Money which was lent , to be repaid , according to the Act of Parliament .


id: A52443
author: North, Dudley, Sir, 1641-1691.
date: 1691.0
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title:
  Discourses upon trade, principally directed to the cases of the interest, coynage, clipping, increase of money

summary:
  And now we complain for want of Money in specie , that Bullion is Exported or mis-employed to other uses , than making Money ; and ascribe the deadness of Trade , especially of Corn , and Cattel in the Country , to this ; and hope by a Regulation of the Bullion-Trade , and stinting the Price , except it be in Money , to make a through Reformation , and give new Life to all things , with much more , ejusdem farina , which I do not particularize , this being enough for a taste . That Money Exported in Trade is an increase to the Wealth of the Nation ; but spent in War , and Payments abroad , is so much Impoverishment .


id: A29540
author: Briscoe, John, fl. 1695.
date: 1694.0
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sentence: 444
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title:
  A discourse on the late funds of the Million-act, and Bank of England shewing that they are injurious to the nobility and gentry, and ruinous to the trade of the nation : together with proposals for the supplying Their Majesties with money on easy terms, exempting the nobility, gentry &c. from taxes, enlarging their yearly estates, and enriching all the subjects in the kingdom ... / by J.B.

summary:
  They could not object against my proposed Fund , for that would have brought an old House upon their Heads , to maintain that a Fund payable out of the Excise , is more valuable than a Fund settled upon the security of Gentlemens Freehold Estates ; nor could they therefore maintain that any Man might be injured by taking these proposed Bills of Credit , secured by such a Fund : it was also no less evident that it is better for the Nation to have their Majesties supplied with Money , at 3 l. per cent . per annum , who do now pay the Bank above 8 l. per cent . per annum , and that there would be occasion for fewer Funds , and that it must needs be a great Ease and Satisfaction to the Nobility and Gentry to be excused from Taxes , and to have a considerable Addition to their yearly Estates : nor can they deny but many a poor Soul would be relieved by this proposed Method , whose Estates are intangled , and who between the Taxes and Interest-Money , are reduced to such straits that they even want Bread for their Families : nor is it less obvious that there are many who are pinch'd in their Fortunes , and cannot spare their Children any thing while they live , but are forc'd to turn them adrift into the World without a penny to help themseves , that by my proposed Method , would be enabled to provide for their Children plentifully with a very small dimunition of their yearly Estates : and they must be forc'd to acknowledg , that it will be a great encouragement for Merchants and Traders to have Money to trade with at 3 l. per cent . per annum ; and that the Trade of the Kingdom would be very much enlarged thereby . The Annuity on the Lottery-Act is not so disadvantageous to the Nation , because it is of a shorter Continuance ; yet the whole Million advanced being paid in about nine Years time , with Interest , and Interest upon Interest , the 140000 l. per annum must notwithstanding be continued to be paid for seven Years longer , after the Contributors shall be repaid the whole advanced Million , with Interest , and Interest upon Interest , as aforesaid , which amounts to 1129174 l. 5 s. 2 d. so much being given for an Encouragement to advance one Million of Money for 16 Years .


id: A54694
author: Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.
date: 1662.0
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title:
  Restauranda, or, The necessity of publick repairs, by setling of a certain and royal yearly revenue for the king or the way to a well-being for the king and his people, proposed by the establishing of a fitting reveue for him, and enacting some necessary and wholesome laws for the people.

summary:
  And may in a legall and well pleasing way to the people without the unwelcome raising of the Tenths of the Abbie and religions Lands to the present yearly value , which may be of dangerous consequence , and the Tenths and First-fruits of the Bishops and Clergy of England , who have been over much pared already , or a Resumption of the Crown Lands which unless it be of such wherein the King or his Father have been grossely deceived : and the first money paid for the purchase upon an account of the mesne profits , and interest satisfied , will hugely disturb the Interest and House-gods of too many of the Nobility , Gentry and rich men of the Kingdome , and without any new or forreign devices or Talliages , to raise monies , and Fricasser , or tear in pieces the already too much impaired estates of a Tax-bearing tired people , which that Monarch of virtues and blessed Martyr King Charles the first did so abhorre , as he caused Mr. Selden & Mr. Oliver St. John to be imprisoned in the Tower of London , & a bill to be exhibted in Star-chamber against them and the Earl of Clare , and others , for having only in their custody , and divulging a Manuscript , or writing of certain Italian projects proposed to him by Sir Robert Dudley a Titulado Duke in Tuscanie , and with out the gawling , grating , and most commonly unsuccesfull way of Projects , which if set up will be thrown down again by the after Complaints and discontents of the people , or hunting and vexing them with informations or calling their Lands and Estates in question to the ruine of them and their Families upon defective Titles , or by Monopolies or a trebling abuses by pretending to reform them ; or Essayes of new wayes of profit framed or found out by such as designe more to themselves then for the good either of King or People , and either know not , or cannot , or will not , foresee the many evills and sad consequences which may as effects from causes , fatally and unavoidably follow such or the like attempts , which the necessities of Kings , or want of competent revenues , may either put them or their servants and followers upon . All which with the Escheats and Forfeitures of the Terra Normanorum in England , upon the losse of Normandy by King John unto the French , confiscated Lands of a great part of the English Nobility and Gentry , after the misfortune of Henry the Third , in the unquietness of many of his Barons and People , his better fortune in the battel of Evesham , and subduing them in the forty ninth year of his Reign , the accession to the Crown of the Earledoms of Derby , Leicester , Salisbury , and the County Palatine of Chester , with the vast Territories and Estates which belonged unto them , and many other lesser Escheats and Forfeitures ; the Forfeiture of Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk and his Earldome , and great Possessions with divers other Escheats and Forfeitures , the Principality of Wales and the Conquest of Scotland in the Reign of King Edward the First , confiscating of the lands of inheritance ( for from the making of the Statute de Donis or Entails in Anno 13. of Edward the first , untill Anno 5 & 6 of Edward the sixth , Lands entailed were not forfeited for Treason ) of Thomas Earl of Lancaster , Lincoln and Derby ; Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex ; of the Lords Clifford , Warrein , Lisle , Tutchet , Cheney , Mowbray , Teyes , Aldenham , Badlesmere and Gifford , and many other men of great note and eminencie to King Edward the second , the lands of Mortimer Earl of March , Edmund Earl of Kent , and the Escheat of the great Estate and Inheritance of Hastings Earl of Pembroke to King Edward the third , with several other confiscations and forfeitures , and his Conquest of a great part of France , the forfeitures of Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland , Michael dela Pooli Earl of Suffolk , of the Duke of Gloucester , Earles of Arundel and Warwick , and divers other great Inheritances to King R. 2. the marriage of John of Grant fourth son to King Ed. 3. to Blanch the sole daughter and heir of Henry Duke of Lancaster , Earl of Derby , Leicester and Lincoln , making that of Lancaster to be as a Principality or little Kingdome , which by Henry 4 , 5 , 6 , and 7th Kings of England coming afterwards to attend the Royal Dignity , accompanied by the forfeitures of the Dukes of Exeter and Albemarle , Mowbray Earl Marshal , Earles of Kent , Salisbury Huntington , Northumberland , Stafford , March and Worcester Owen Glendour ; Lords , Hastings , Despencer , Falconbridge , Bardolph , and many others to King H. 4. and the lands of the Earldome of Oxford long detained by him , confiscation of the lands of the Prior Aliens , and all France conquered and in possession , and many other great Estates coming to Hen.


id: A54625
author: Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
date: 1662.0
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title:
  A treatise of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of [brace] crown-lands, assessments, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c. : with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning [brace] warres, the church, universities, rents and purchases, usury and exchange, banks and lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money/wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of conscience, &c. : the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland.

summary:
  Nevertheless if we consider how easie it is to elude the Laws of man , to commit unproveable crimes , to corrupt and divert Testimonies , to wrest the sense and meaning of the Laws , &c. there follows a necessity of contributing towards a publick Charge , wherewith to have men instructed in the Laws of God , that take notice of evil thoughts and designs , and much more of secret deeds , and that punisheth eternally in another world , what man can but slightly chastise in this . And yet on the other hand there is no Pseudodoxy so great , but may be muzzled from doing much harm in the State , without either Death , Imprisonment , or Mutilation : To make short , no opinion can be more dangerous , then to disbelieve the immortality of the Soul , as rendring man a beast , and without conscience , or fear of committing any evil , if he can but elude the penalties of humane Laws made against it , and letting men loose to all evil thoughts and designs whereof man can take no notice : Now I say , that even this Misbeliever may be adaequately punished if he be kept as a beast , be proprietor of nothing , as making no conscience how he gets ; be never admitted in Evidence or Testimony , as under no Obligation to speak truth ; be excluded all Honours and Offices , as caring onely for himself , not the protecting of others ; and be withall kept to extream bodily labour , the profit whereof to the State is the pecuniary Mulct we speak of , though the greatest .


