a declaration and protestation against the illegal, detestable, oft-condemned, new tax and extortion of excise in general; and for hops (a native incertain commodity) in particular. by william prynne of swainswick, esq; prynne, william, - . this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason e _ ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing p thomason e _ estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; :e [ ]) a declaration and protestation against the illegal, detestable, oft-condemned, new tax and extortion of excise in general; and for hops (a native incertain commodity) in particular. by william prynne of swainswick, esq; prynne, william, - . [ ], , [ ] p. printed for the author, and are to be sold by edward thomas in green-arbor, london; : . annotation on thomason copy: "octob: ". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng excise tax -- england -- early works to . hops -- taxation -- great britain -- early works to . a r (thomason e _ ). civilwar no a declaration and protestation against the illegal, detestable, oft-condemned, new tax and extortion of excise in general; and for hops (a n prynne, william b the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the b category of texts with fewer than defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - angela berkley sampled and proofread - angela berkley text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a declaration and protestation against the illegal , detestable , oft-condemned , new tax and extortion of excise in general ; and for hops ( a native incertain commodity ) in particular . by william prynne of swainswick , esq ; ezek. . , , , , . thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbour by extortion , and hast forgotten me , saith the lord god : behold therefore , i have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain , and at thy bloud , which hath been shed in the midst of thee . her princes in the midst of thee , are like wolves ravening the prey to shed bloud , and to destroy souls , to get dishonest gain : the people of the land have used oppression , & exercised robbery , and have vexed the poor & needy ; yea , they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully . and i sought for a man among them , that should make up the hedg , and stand in the gap before me for the land , that i should not destroy it : but i found none : therefore have i poured out my indignation upon them , i have consumed them with the fire of my wrath , their own way have i recompenced on their heads , saith the lord god . psal. . . for the oppression of the poor , for the sighing of the needy , i will arise ( saith the lord ) i will set him in safety from him that would ensnare him . cor. . , . nay , you do wrong and defraud , and that your brethren . know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdome of god ? london ; printed for the author , and a●● to be sold by edward thomas in green-arbor , . a declaration and protestation against the illegal , detestable , oft-condemned new tax and extortion of excise , in general , and for hopes in particular . we read in the sam. . , . that these were the last words of david , the man who was raised up on high , the anoynted of the god of jacob , and the sweet psalmist of israel ; the god of israel said , the rock of israel spake to me , he that ruleth over men must be just , ruling in the fear of god . what it is for a ruler over men to be just , and to rule in the fear of god , we may infallibly conclude , and learn from three scripture-presidents , and three sacred texts , which may serve as a commentary on it . the first president is that of samuel , sam. . . to . and samuel said unto all israel ; behold , i have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me , and have made a king over you : and now behold , i am old and gray-headed , and have walked before , and a judged you from my childhood to this day : behold here i am , witness against me before the lord , and before his anoynted ; whose oxe have i taken ? or whose ass have i taken ? or whom have i defrauded ? whom have i oppressed ? or of whose hand have i received any ransome to blinde mine eyes therewith ? and i will restore it to you . and they said , thou hast not defrauded us , nor oppressed us , neither hast thou taken ought of any mans hand : and he said , the lord is my witness against you , and his anoynted is witness this day , that you have not found ought in my hand : and they answered , he is witness . that governour or ruler over men , who can make such a challenge and protestation as this , before god and all the people , and receive such a testimony from both , of his integrity , as samuel here did after he had judged israel above threescore years , is certainly a just man , truly fearing god : and what governour this day ruling , though but for a few months or years , can make such a challenge , or receive such a witness as he did from all the people ? the second president is that of king david , a man after gods own heart , who as he would by no means lay violent hands on king saul his soveraign , who hunted him like a partridg , and sought his life , though god gave him twice into his hands , and was perswaded by his souldiers and military officers to kill him ; nor yet usurp the royal throne , or government of gods people , though specially anointed by god long before thereto , without a general call and election thereto by all the tribes and elders of the people ; sam. . & . sam. . . to . so it is recorded of him , sam. . . and kings . . and david raigned over all israel ; and david executed judgment and justice unto all his people ; and david did that which was right in the eyes of the lord , and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the daies of his life , save only in the matter of uriah the hittire ; for which he penned , and left a a penitential psalm on record to posterity , to testifie his unfeigned repentance for that bloody crime . and where can we finde such a david now ? the third is nehemiah , cap. . throughout ; who when the people cried and complained to him of their debts , engages , bondage and oppressions by their brethren , and that others had their lands , vineyards , yea their sons and daughters for servants , for moneys borrowed of them for the kings tribute ; he grew very angry , and rebuked the nobles and rulers for it , and set a great assembly against them , and said unto them : we after our ability have redeemed the jews our brethren , which were sold unto the heathen , and will you ever sell your brethren ? or shall they be sold unto us ? i likewise , and my brethren , and my servants , might exact of them money and corn . i pray let us leave off this usury : restore i pray unto them even this day their lands , their vineyards , and their houses ; also the hundredth part of the money , and of the corn , the wine , and the oyl that ye exact of them . then said they , we will restore them , and will require nothing of them ; so will we do as thou hast said . then nehemiah called the priests , and took an oath of them , that they should do according to this promise : also he shook his lap , and said , so god shake out every man from his house , and from his labour , that performeth not this promise , even thus be he shaken out and emptied ; and all the congregation said , amen , and praised the lord , and the people did according to this promise . after which , he subjoyns this memorable testimony of himself . moreover , from the time that i was appointed to be their governour in the land of judah , from the . even to the . year of artaxerxes the king , i and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governour : but the former governours that had been before me , were chargeable unto the people , and had taken of them bread and wine , besides forty shekels of silver ( what is this to our contributions , excises , freequarter , sequestrations , imposts , &c. ) yea , even their servants bear rule over the people : but so did not i , because of the fear of god . yet also i continued in the work of the wall ; neither bought we any land : and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work . moreover , there were at my table an . of the jews and rulers , besides those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us , &c. yet for all this required i not the bread of the governour , ( that is , his salary , and ordinary allowance , formerly paid by the people ) because of the bondage was heavy upon this people . think upon me my god for good , according to all that i have done for this people . when our late and present governours , and their under-officers , shall imitate samuel , david , but more especially nehemiah , and the nobles , rulers , and officers under him , in making full restitution of all their christian brethrens , and the publike lands , vineyards , oliveyards , houses , goods , possessions , offices , moneys , corn , wine and oyl they have forcibly seized on , without any legal right or title , or gotten by usurious or unrighteous contracts , sequestrations , sales , donations , wiles , disseisins , oppressions , exactions , excises , taxes , &c. give a true and just accompt to our whole nation of the many millions of treasure in few years extorted from them ; and shall neither impose , nor exact from them any more moneys , contributions , excises , corn , wine , or the bread of the governour from the people , because of the fear of god , and because of the bondage that is heavy upon them ; we shall then pronounce them to be just , ruling in the fear of god . but till then , neither god nor men will or can pronounce them such . and upon consideration of these three sacred texts , to omit others . the first is , ezek. . . to . but if a man be just , & do that which is lawful & right , & hath not oppressed any , but hath restored to the debtor his pledg , hath spoiled none by violence , hath given his bread to the hungry , and hath covered the naked with a garment , hath not given forth upon usury , neither hath taken any encrease , hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity , hath executed true judgment between man and man , hath walked in my statutes , and hath kept my judgments , to deal truly ; he is just ; he shall surely live , saith the lord . if he beget a son , that is a robber , a shedder of blood , and that doth the like to any of these things to his brother , and that doth not any of those duties , but hath eaten upon the mountains , and defiled his neighbours wife ; hath oppressed the poor and needy , hath spoiled by violence , hath not restored the pledg , &c. hath committed abomination , hath given forth upon usury , and taken encrease ; shall he then live ? he shall not live , he hath done all these abominations , he shall surely die , his bloud shall be upon him , &c. which is again there repeated , for the greater certainty . if the just men and rulers of this latter age shall be judged and tried by this text , i fear we may take up the words of the prophet micah . . and c. . , , , . the good man is perished out of the earth , and there is none upright among men : they all lye in wait for bloud , they hunt every man his brother with a net , that they may do evil with both hands earnestly ; the prince asketh , and the judg asketh for a reward , and the great man he uttereth the mischief of his soul , ( by coveting fields and houses , and taking them away by violence , because it is in the power of his hand , ch. . , . ) the best of them is as a bryar , the most upright is sharper then a thorn-hedg ; they pluck off the flesh of my people from their bones , they eat their flesh , and flay their skin from off them , and they break their bones , and chop them in pieces as for the pot , and as flesh within the caldron . the second is , ezek. . . to . and ch. . . a portion shall be for the prince , &c. and my princes shall no more oppress my people , and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of israel , according to their tribes : thus saith the lord god , let it suffice you , o princes of israel ! remove violence & spoil , and execute judgment and justice : take away your exactions ( or expulsions of others from their rights ) from my people , saith the lord god . moreover , the prince shall not take of the peoples inheritance by oppression , to thrust them out of their possession . how conscientiously this precept ( and gods own tenth commandment of the decalogue , exod. . . thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house , thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife , nor his man-servant , nor his maid-servant , nor his oxe , nor his asse , nor any thing that is thy neighbours ) hath been observed by such who have made and stiled themselves , not only princes , rulers , governours , officers , but proclaimed themselves the holiest , justest saints , and pillars of justice and righteousness of late years , and all sorts of swordmen , let the world and their own consciences judg . i doubt ovids old poetical description of the iron age a vivitur ex rapto , &c. will suit better with our times and saints of this age , then these sacred precepts , become like old almanacks quite out of date and practise at least , if not quite out of mind : terras astraea reliquit . the third is isai. . . to . behold , in the day of your fast you finde pleasure , and exact all your griefs : behold , ye fast for strife and debate , and to smite with the fist of wickedness : ye shall not fast as ye do this day , &c. is not this the fast that i have chosen , to loose the bonds of wickedness , to undo the heavy burthens ( of illegal oppressions , long-continued taxes , excises , &c. ) to let the oppressed go free , and that ye break every yoke ? is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry , and that thou bring the poor that are cast out ( of their houses , possessions , offices , estates , by violence and rapine ) to thy house ; when thou seest the naked , that thou cover him , and that thou hide not thy self from thine own flesh ? then shall thy light break forth as the morning , and thine health shall spring forth speedily , and thy righteousness shall go before thee , and the glory of the lord shall be thy rereward , &c. and they that be of thee shall build the old waste places , raising up the foundations of many generations , and thou shalt be called , the repairer of the breach , the restorer of paths to dwell in . we have had many publique fasts and mock-fasts of late years , such as god in this text professedly reprehends and rejects ; but never yet such a true and real fast , as he here calls for : and that is one main reason , we are still pulling down , and rooting up the foundations of our church , kingdoms , parliaments , liberties , properties , lawes , and changing from one mishapen form of government to another , instead of building the old waste places , raising up the foundations of many generations , repairing the breaches , and restoring paths to dwell in . o that we might never henceforth mock god or men any more with such hypocritical fasts as formerly ; but that the next prescribed fast by those in power , might be only this , which god here requires ; and that it might be so sincerely , really , effectually performed by the prescribers of it , that god himself , and all the three nations , may joyntly attest of them , that they are just , ruling in the fear of god . on tuesday the of september last , . there was this ticket left at my house at swainswick directed to no particular person named in it , or indorsed on it . you are to appear at the grey-hound in bath , on tuesday next by ten of the clock in the fore-noon , to make entry of what quantity of hops yov had growing this present year , and to pay the dvty of excise for the same . september . thomas peeres , sub-collector . hereupon repairing to the lecture at bath the next morning , and carrying with mee this ticket , and such parliamentary judgments and declarations against excise , as are hereafter specified , which i drew up in writing as here i present them to the publique , i sent for the sub-collector to the inn where the ordinary for the lecture is kept , before the sermon began ; who repairing to me thither , i shewed him the ticket , in a friendly manner , which he owned ; and then informed him it was erronious , and voyd in law , ( because directed to no particular person by name ) in respect of form , which he confessed , saying it was his mans mistake , who had order to set the parties names to every severall ticket he delivered at their houses ; i acquainted him that this being but a circumstance , the end why i sent for him , was to be satisfied by him , touching the substance of his warrant , and that was , to make entry of what quantity of hops i had growing this present year , and to pay the duty of excise for them . for , although i was a lawyer and knew what duties were by law to be paid by my self and others , yet i neither knew nor understood that excise in generall , much less for hops in speciall , was a duty ; and seeing i had many judgements and declarations of parliament against it , as an illegall , execrable innovation , and damning it for ever as such , i could neither in prudence nor conscience pay it as a dvty , till hee could make it appear to mee by some true reall act of parliament to be so : desiring him to shew me what legall or other authority he had to claim it as a duty from mee . to which he answered , that he had nothing else to shew for or claim it by , but a late ordinance of the protector and his counsell at white-hall , continuing the excise till such a month in the year . which he would shew mee if i pleased . to which i replied , that i conceived that this would bee his answer ; which was no satisfaction at all to me ; for i was certain , that by the fundamentall laws and statutes of the realm , and the resolutions of our parliaments in all ages , no king of england , nor his councel-table , could ever in any age make binding laws , or impose any tax , tallage , impost , custom , tunnage , or poundage , much less excise ( a stranger to our ancestors ) on the free-men of england , but only a true and legal english parliament , and therefore those who condemned , suppressed the late king , and his extravagant councel-table as tyrannicall and oppressive to the people , could neither in justice nor prudence arrogate such a supertranscendent jurisdiction to themselves , as to impose such taxes as these on the whole realm , an inseparable prerogative of our parliaments alone , as hath been resolved over and over in all ages by the * laws of king edward the confessor , ratified by william the conquerour himself , and by all our kings since , by a special clause in the very coronation oaths , lex . . . . the great charters of king john and henry the third , c. . . . e. . c. . . . e. . c. . de tallagio , . e. . stat. . c. . stat. . c. . . e. . stat. . c. . . e. . rot. parl. n. . . e. . rot. parl. n. . . e. . stat. . c. . . e. . rot. parl. n. . . e. . c. . . e. . rot. parl. n. . . h. . rot. parl. n. . . r. . c. . . h . the petition of right , . car. the statute against ship-mony , knighthood , customs , . caroli , and all the statutes concerning customs , tunnage , poundage , and purveyors , in all our kings reigns , all unanimously resolving , that no tax , tallage , subsidy , ayd , loan , custom , impost , tunnage , poundage , or any other payment or duty whatsoever , can be imposed on , or leavied from the subject in times of war or peace , upon any pretext or necessity , but only by common grant and consent of the lords and commons in parliament , and so resolved over and over in the parliament of . . jacobi , and of . . & . caroli , by many now in power . and to satisfie him in point of excise , the thing in question , i would shew him some late judgements and declarations of parliament against it , which i presumed would satisfactorily convince him , that it was no duty , but an intollerable oppression , and detestable innovation ; whereupon i read unto him these ensuing judgements and declarations against it . i shewed him , that excise was altogether a stranger , and thing utterly unknown to our fore-fathers , the name and thing being never found in any histories , or records of former ages in this island . the first attempt we ever finde upon record to usher it into , and set it on foot in england , was in the third year of our beheaded king charls his reign , who by the advice of the duke of buckingham , and some other evil counsellours * granted a commission under the great seal of england , dated the last day of february , . caroli , called , the commission of excize , issued to thirty three lords and other of his majesties privie covncel . the commissioners were thereby authorised and commanded , to raise monies by impositions , or otherwise as they in their wisdoms should find most convenient ; the causes wherefore these monies were to be raised were expressed to be these , the defence and safety of the king , kingdom and people , and of the kings , friends and allies beyond the seas , which withovt extremest hazard of the king , kingdom , and people , and of the kings friends and allies can admit of no longer delay . inevitable necessity , wherein form & circumstance must rather be dispenced withall , than the substance lost ; the commissioners must be diligent in the service , and not fail therein , as they tender his majesties honor , and the safety of the king and people . here salus regni periclibatur , the whole kingdom was declared to be in danger , in greater and nearer danger then any now appearing . in the parliament of . caroli , the house of commons having notice given them of this commission , sent for it , and upon debate thereof , without any one dissenting voyce , voted and adjudged it , to be against law , and contrary to the petition of right ( though only sealed , and never put in execution ) and then desiring a conference about it with the lords in the painted hamber ( whereat i my self was present ) sir ed●●rk cook by the commons appointment , after the commission read by mr. glanval , manifesting the illegality strangeness and dangerous consequences of it to the whole kingdom , in an elegant speec● and argument amongst other express 〈…〉 monstrvm horrendvm , info●me , n●●ns ( descanting upon every one of the words ) ye , blessed be god cvilumen ademptum , whose eyes were pulled out by the commons in parliament ( which they hoped their lordships would second ) before ever it saw the sun , or was fully brought forth into the world , to consume and devour the nation . the lords hereupon fully , and unanimously concurred with the commons , adjudging it to be against law , and the petition of right , and fit to be eternally damned ; and upon the lords request to the king , this commission was cancelled in his majesties presence by his command , and brought cancelled to the lords house , by the then lord keeper , and by them sent cancelled to the commons house for their satisfaction ; who returned it back to the lords with their thanks for their care and concurrence with them herein . therefore being thus solemnly damned , and crushed in the shel , by the judgement and unanimous votes of the commons , lords , and king charls himself in that parliament , as against the law of the land , and contrary to the petition of right ( then newly passed in that parliament ) it seemed very strange and monstrous to me , that any pretenders to publik liberty , law , right , or any new governours , and councel-table at white-hall , should presume to revive , and actually impose any such illegal , damned impositions , and monstrous execrable excises on the exhausted people now , upon the self-same pretexts of publique safety , and inevitable necessity . the rather , because i informed him . secondly . that the last parliament of king charles , about yeares after this first judgement had , in four severall printed declarations , remonstrances , votes ( to which most now in power were parties and consenters ) revived , approved , ratified and insisted on this primitive sentence of condemnation against excise , as most illegall and detestable . . in and by the speech and declaration of mr. oliver st. john , his majesties solicitor general , delivered at a conference of both houses of parliament , concerning ship-mony , january published by the commons order , page , , , . i am commanded by the house of commons , ( saith he ) to present to your lordships considerations those things which satisfied the commons . first , the commissions for the peace with the instructions . secondly , a commission called the commission of excise &c. this was dated ultimo febr. . caroli . it was dated after the summons to that parliament . this commission issued to lords , and others of his majesties privy counsell . the commissioners are thereby commanded to raise monies by impositions and otherwise , as in their judgements they shall find to be most convenient . the causes wherefore these monies are to be raised , are exprest to be these , the defence and safety of the king and people , which without extremest hazard of the king , kingdome , and people , and of the kings freinds and allies beyond seas , can admit no longer delay . inevitable necessity , wherein forme and circumstance must rather be dispenced withall then the substance lost . the commissioners must be diligent in the service , and not faile therein , as they tender his majesties honour , and the safety of the kingdome and people . here , salus regni periclibatur , the whole kingdome declared to be in danger , in greater and nearer then in the opinions , the ship-writs or judgements in the chequer . in the parliament of . caroli , this commission was adjudged by the commons to be against the laws of the realm , and contrary to the jvdgement given in the petion of right ; and after a conference with your lordships , your lordships desired his majestie , that it might be cancelled : the then lord keeper brought it shortly after cancelled to your lordships in the house , and there said , that it was cancelled in his majesties presence . you sent it cancelled to the commons to be reviewed , who afterwards sent it back to your lordships . my lords , wee have not cited these presidents of that parliament , out of diffidence that your lordships have forgot them , but because other have ; or that wee distrust your lordships justice , if you had forgot them ; for before these were , your lordships concurred in opinion with your worthy ancestors , that first gave them : their noble blood runs in your veines . it is now to confirm yovr own ivdgement as well as theirs in your lordships brest . there are now the same magazines and fovntaines of honovr and ivstice as was then . these ivdgements and proceedings were the actions of both hovses : the danger by the violation is eqvall . so hee , and the commons then resolved : with what face or color of law and justice then , can any persons revive , impose , exact , or justify this illegall tax and excise , now , ( especially by a meer extrajudiciall white-hall edict , more illegall then that commission under the great seal , by the kings and the whole counsells order ) who thus publikely censured the bare designe of imposing it by the king and his councell-table then , by commission under the great seal of england , which their paper edict wants ? in a remonstrance of the state of the kingdom , december . ( which i then read to the excise-man ) made , printed and published by the whole commons house of parliament , and some of our present grandees , then members of it , exact collection page . . . wherein relating , the pressing miseries and calamities , the various distempers and disorders , which had not only assaulted , but even overwhelmed and extinguisht the liberty , peace and prosperity of this kingdom , &c. the root of all this mischief , wee find ( say they ) to be a malignant and perniciovs designe of svbverting the fvndamentall laws and principles of government , upon which the religion and ivstice of this kingdome are formerly established . the actors and promoters hereof have been . the jesvited papists , who hate the laws , as the obstacle of that change and subversion of religion , which they so much long for ▪ &c. as in all compounded bodies , the operations are qualified according to the predominant elements : so in this mixt party ( let our late and new puny statesmen observe it ) the jesvited covnsels being most active and prevailing , may easily bee discovered to have had the greatest sway in all their determinations ; and if they be not prevented , are likely to devour the rest , and to turn them into their own nature , &c. the first effect and evidence of their recovery , and strength was , the dissolution of the parliament at oxford , &c. the precipitate breach with france , by taking their ships , &c. the peace with spain , &c. the charging of the kingdom with billeted souldiers in all parts of it , and the concomitant design of * german horse , that the land might either submit with fear , or be enforced with rigovr to such arbitrary contributions , as shovld be reqvired of them . the dissolving the parliament in the second year of his majesties reign , the exacting the proportion of five subsidies , after the parliament dissolved , by commission of loan , and divers gentlemen and others imprisoned for not yeelding to pay that loan . an unjvst and perniciovs attempt to extort great paiments from the subjects by way of excize , and a commission given under seal for that purpose ; ( yet damned before put in execution ) the petition of right which was granted in full parliament blasted , &c. and the petition made of no use , but to shew the bold and presumptuous injustice of such monsters , as durst break the laws , and suppresse the liberties of the kingdom , after they had been so solemnly and evidently declared . another parliament dissolved , . caroli ; the privileges of parliament broken , by imprisoning divers members of the house , detaining some of them close prisoners for divers months together , &c. upon the dissolution of both these parliaments , untrve and scandalous declarations published , to asperse their proceedings , and some of their members , to make them odious , and colour the violence which was used against them . * tunnage and poundage hath been received without colour or pretence of law , many other heavie impositions continved against law , and some so unreasonable , that the sum of the charge exceeded the value of the goods . the book of rates lately inhanced to an high proportion , and such merchants as would not submit to their illegal and unreasonable payments , were vexed and oppressed above measure , &c. a new and unheard of tax of ship-mony was devised , upon pretext of guarding the sea , &c. the exactions of coat and conduct mony , and divers other military charges ; the taking away of the arms of the trained bands of divers counties ▪ the restraint of the liberties of the subject in their habitations , trades , and other interest ; their vexation and oppression by salt-peeter-men . great numbers of the subjects for refusing those unlawful charges , have been vext with long and expensive sutes , some fined and censured , others committed to long and hard imprisonments and confinements , to the losse of health in many , of life in some , and others have had their houses broken up , their goods seized . some have been restrained from their lawful callings , judges have been put out of their places , for refusing to do against their oathes and consciences . others have been so awed , that they durst not do their duties . lawyers have been checkt for being faithfull to their clients , &c. new oaths have been forced upon the subjects against law , new jvdicatories erected without law . the covncel table have by their orders offered to binde the subiects in their free-holds , estates , sutes , and actions ; if all and every of these , by the resolution of the whole commons house , and many in late and present power , were the fruits and effects of the most active and prevailing jesuited counsel then , out of a malignant and pernicious design of subverting the fundamental laws and principles of government , &c. what are all and every of these particulars of late years , and still acted over and over again , in a far higher , open , more avowed degree then ever , by persons in greatest power , and parties to this remonstrance , but the very effects and products of the self-same jesuitical prevailing counsels , and those many jesuits now swaying , and sitting in counsel amongst us ( as some grandees have lately averred in their * printed speeches , as well as private conferences ? ) and if the very damned commission of excize before ever it was put in execution , was so many years after thus publickly branded for an unjust and pernicious attempt and result of jesuited prevailing councels , to extert great payments from the subject ; what is the late and present violent illegal imposition , collection , extortion of , from the exhausted people , by excize-men , forfeitures , penalties , fines , confiscations , seisures of goods , and arms , troopers in some eases , and that by a new erected councel-table ordinance ( as they stile it ) presuming not only to make binding orders for private men , but * many and manifold binding lavvs and ordinances for our three whole kingdoms , printed in folio ; and to impose monthly contributions , excizes , customs , tvnnage and povndage on them for sundry months and years yet to come , against the expresse letter of the great charter , the petition of right , all fore-cited statutes , judgements of parliament , and to repeal all these laws , with others at once , as well as to erect new judicatories , and impose such new oathes and restraints on their new modelled parliaments themselves , and the three whole kingdoms , which no english king , nor council-table ever did in any age ? the lord give them , and the whole nation , hearts to consider , repent , reform it , to prevent those * manifold mischiefs and combustions which else may ensue upon it , and the evils such bad presidents may produce in after ages , if not crushed , reversed , suppressed in the shell ; being set on foot by those who professe themselves the greatest patrons and protectors of our fundamentall liberties , franchises , laws , rights , parliaments , which they totally subvert , and the grandest enemies to arbitrary government , tyranny , oppression , and jesuiticall practices , of which they over-much favour ; if this remonstrance of the whole house of commons be judge , and such of themselves who were parties to it . in * a declaration of the commons assembled in parliament , for bringing to condign punishment those that have raised false and scandalous rumours against the house , how that they intend to assesse every mans pewter , and lay excize upon every commodity . ( which i shewed and read to the excize-man . ) die sabbati october . . the commons house in parliament , receiving information , that divers publike rumours and aspersions , are by malignant persons cast upon this house , that they intend to assess every mans pewter , and lay excise vpon that and other commodities , the said house , for their vindication therein do declare , that those rumors are false and scandalovs . and for as much as these false rumors and scandals , are raised by ill-affected persons , and tend much to the disservice of the parliament , it is therefore ordered , that the authors of these false and scandalous rumors shall be scarched and inquired after ▪ and apprehended and brought to this house to receive their condigne pvnishment . ordered by the commons in parliament , that this be forthwith printed and published ( as it was accordingly ) . by this declaration it is most apparent , that the very name and imposition of excise ( condemned so newly and frequently in parliament both by the commons and lords ) was so odious and detestable to the whole house of commons now , that they utterly disclaime in publick by this declaration ( after the warres begun ) the very thought and intention of imposing it on pewter , or any other commodities . that they renounce and brand the very first rumors and reports , that they intended to lay excise upon any commodity , as false rumors and scandals raised by ill-affected persons . that these false reports and rumors tended much to the disservice of the parliament . that the authors of them , should be searched , inquired after , apprehended , and brought to the house as delinquents , there to receive condigne punishment . what punishment then do the imposers , exactors , and levyers of it deserve ? with what face , justice , honesty , conscience , then can any who were parties to this declaration , after this publick disclaimer , lay excise both upon pewter and most other commodities , and justify the levying of it by force and violence , as some of them soon after did , and others have since presumed and continued to do ? verily , as i at first , and ever since this strange imposition , much grieved at , and protested to sundry of them against it in private , from time to time , with all earnestness , and some years since penned a publick protestation against it , with an intent to print it , had it not miscarried ; so i observed , that the laying on of this strange imposition on the people , against this declaration and the other premises , was that which first and most of all alienated the peoples hearts and affections from the parliament , gave greatest scandal to their real friends , and most advantage to their enemies ; and some principal promoters of it were soon after blasted in their reputations , and taken out of the world by death ; and what sad and forcible dissolutions , and unparalleld ruptures , the real , and other fictitious parliaments since have come to on a suddain ( by those they most relied on for protection ) which first imposed , and afterwards continued this and other illegal taxes on the oppressed people against their own delcarations , judgements , and all former laws , and what confusions they have brought on our three nations , instead of peace , ease , settlement , liberty , safety , tranquillity , we have all of late years beheld with admiration and astonishment ? and let others now beware by their examples , how they still continue them on the exhausted generally discontented nation . laesa patientia fit furor , men will not be always mocked , oppressed in this kinde , but will cry out , violence and spoyl , jer. . , . and the burning fire shut up in their bones against it , will breakforth into a fury at last , it will not be stayed or quenched , * but with the ruine of the tax-masters , king. . . to . this imposing of excize , and other taxes against law , and the fore-cited judgements , drew this just censure from the late king , and the lords and members of the commons house at oxford , against the first imposers and exactors of them , in their * letter to the earl of essex the general of the army , janu. . . to which they subscribed all their names , that it were well , as they still presse upon the kings maintenance of the lavvs , they would also know , that their obligation to observe the same is reciprocal , and whiles they here resolve to defend the full power of this parliament ( which in their sense can be no other than the power they have exercised this parliament ) they would take notice , that they are therein so farre from the observation of the lavvs , that they desperately resolve an utter subversion of them ; for what can tend more to the destruction of the laws , than to usurp a power to themselves , without the king , and against his will , to attribute to their orders , or pretended ordinances , the power of lavvs and statvtes , to enforce contributions , loans , and taxes of all sorts from the subiect ; to imprison without cause shewed , and then prohibit writs of habeas corpus for their enlargement . to lay excizes vpon all commodities ; to command and dispose of the lives and estates of the free-born subjects of this kingdom at their pleasure , to impose tunnage and poundage , contrary to the law declared in the late act for tunnage and poundage , and all this done and justified by a legislative power founded and inherent in them ? all which are manifest breaches of the petition of right , and magna charta , the great evidences of the liberties of england ; which charter bounds them by expresse words , as us , though assembled in parliament , as well as the king ; and though it be not now , as heretofore it hath been , taken by solemn oath on the peoples part , as well as on the kings , nor a curse , as heretofore pronounced on the violators ; yet they having taken a protestation to maintain the laws , and liberties , and the properties of the subject , and inclusively that charter , let them take heed whilst they make use of this their pretended power to the destruction of the law , lest a curse fall upon them , and upon their posterity . what a suddain unexpected curse and blow fell upon some of the principall promoters of these illegal taxes , excizes , and innovations first , and upon both houses afterwards , by the army raised for their preservation , for whose support and pay all these taxes were first invented , and imposed by a new way of ordinances ( never * heard of , or used in parliaments in any former age ) we all know by sad experience , and let our present white-hall , and other grandees , who late did , and still continued them in an higher degree with farre less colour of parliamental authority , consider the premises , and their downfall , lest they incur the same , or a worse curse and judgement , for imposing , and continuing still upon the exhausted people , these illegal , unusual oppressions , by as new illegal self-created powers , and pretended necessities , of their own making and lengthening . and if they allege , it is just so to continue excizes on the people , till all the debts secured by them be fully satisfied to such particular persons who took this new revenue for their security . i answer , first , it is the highest injustice to continue an illegall damned detestable publike tax and oppression on the whole english nation , ( specially by as illegall wayes and powers ) to satisfy private mens interests , debts or pretended arreares . secondly , that those who advanced any monies upon such an illegall oft-condemned security , deserve justly to be punished with the losse of their debts , because the cheif instruments of continuing and supporting this heavy greivance to the whole kingdomes injurious oppression . thirdly , that those pretended debts being advanced only for the support and maintenance of those illegall arbitrary powers which impose and dispose of these taxes at their pleasure , not for the publike weal , ease and benefit of the nation ; it is just they only should defray them out of their owne private estates who first made and thus secured these debts , for their owne advantage rather than the peoples : it being a rule in law , and common equity , qui sentit commodum sentire debet et onus . fourthly , the lawes of england will rather suffer a private mischief , than a generall inconvenience : therefore better these pretended debtors should suffer , to teach them more wisdome , and love to their owne liberties , lawes , country , and country men hereafter , than that the whole nation should be still oppressed and robbed by excises and other illegall taxes ; wee must not rob peter to pay paul , much less the whole nation , to pay a few rich vsurers , who have ( most of them ) gotten great estates , by publike brocage , and making the whole nations purse and faith their security and morgage , who never really made any contract with them for any loan of monies , taken up upon their credit , nor entrusted any others with such a power to make them their endless . debtors and pay-masters til doomes-day . as the whole house of commons severally , so it and the house of lords too joyntly , after this , in their second declaration against commission of array , jan : printed and published by it self first , and after in exact collection page , . by their speciall order , recite , approve , ratify and insist on the forecited judgement given against the commission of excise . caroli . where thus they declare ( which i likewise read ) wee shall further clear this our seuse of the petition of right , that it did intend to take away all charges of what nature soever to be imposed on the subjects by the king although for defence of the kingdome in times of danger , by authorities beyond all exceptions , &c. by the judgement of the king , the lords and commons , after the petition passed . there was a commission questioned in parliament , called the commission of excise &c. ( reciting the effect , and ground of it in the words aforementioned , and the necessity so inevitable , that form and circumstance must rather be dispenced with , than substance lost &c. ) in that parliament of carolt , this commission was resolved by the lords and commons to be against law , and contrary to the petition of right ; and upon the lords desire to his majesty , the same was cancelled in his majesties presence by his command , and was brought cancelled to the house of lords by the then lord keeper , and by them afterwards sent to the commons . by all that hath been said , it appeares ; that to defend the kingdom in time of imminent danger , is no svfficient cavse to lay any tax or charge vpon the subiects withovt their consent in parliament : which they further prove by the act then newly passed against ship many . how any who were parties to this declaration ( as some in present power were ) or any patrons or protectors of the lawes , liberties , properties of the subject , or privileges of parliament , can since this , or now , impose or justify the laying of excise or any other impost tax or tallage whatsoever , upon the people , out of parliament , by any white-hall order , upon pretext of any imminent danger or necessity , against this declaration and resolution ; or any under officers of theirs exact excise from me or any other english freeman by their un-parliamentary papers , transcends my understanding to conceive . thirdly , it is declared and enacted by severall printed acts of parliament , made by both houses , and * assented to by the king himself & caroli : that no custome , impost , tunnage , or poundage is due , or can be imposed on any goods or marchandize , imported or exported , without . an act of parliament ; and that all such persons who shall exact or receive the same , without an act of parliament ; and grant and consent both . of the lords and commons in parliament , shall incurre the forfeiture and penalty of a praemunire . this impost of excise on hops , and other merchandize , falls within the generall compasse of these acts . and therefore i advised the excize-man , with all customers , and other officers , to take heed how they demand or take excize , or any other imposts , customs , tunnage or poundage , by colour of a white-hall , or any other ordinance , not made by both house of parliament , and setled by a real act of parliament , lest they incur the penalty of a premunire , and smart for it in conclusion , as some of the late kings officers did , if ever law , justice , or true english parliaments come to take place again in the nation , as no doubt they will in gods due time ; when such illegal paper ordinances , or feigned spurious acts of * illegal parliaments will be no plea to excuse or extenuate their crimes . fourthly , after the late kings beheading , the army , officers , and other commoners who continued sitting at westminster , without the majority of the secured and secluded members , or house of lords , and arrogated to themselves ( beyond all former presidents ) the name and title of the parliament of england , in their declaration of the . martii , . expressing the grounds of their late proceedings against the king , and setling the present government in the way of a free state , p. , &c. ( which i read to the excize-man ) charged the king , as out-going all his predecessors in evil , in that after the loans and other oppressions , which produced that most excellent law of the petition of right , most of them were again acted presently after the law made against them , which was palpably broken by him , almost in every part of it , very soon after his solemn consent given unto it , by his imprisoning and prosecution of members of parliament for opposing his unlawfull will , and of divers worthy merchants for refusing to pay tunnage and povndage because not granted by parliament , yet exacted by him expresly against law , and punishment of many good patriots , for not submitting to what soever he pleased to demand , though never so much in breach of the known law . his design to bring in the german horse to awe us into slavery , and his hopes of compleating his grand project of * ship-mony , to subject every mans estate to whatsoever proportion he pleased to impose upon them . but above all the english * army was laboured by the king to be engaged against the english parliament ; a thing of that strange impiety and unnaturalnes for the king of england , that nothing can answer it but his own being a foreiner , neither could it easily have purchased belief , but by his succeeding visible actions in full pursuance of the same . as the * kings coming in person to the house of commons to seize the five members , whither he was followed with * some hundreds of unworthy debauched persons , armed with swords and pistols , and other arms , and they attending at the door of the house , ready to execute whatsoever the leader should command them ( but yet secured , secluded , or offered violence to none , nor ever entred the house , as the souldiers did both before and since . ) upon all these and many other unparralleld offences , upon his breach of faith , oaths , and protestations , and let all the world of indifferent men judge , whether the parliament ( so they term themselves ) had not sufficient cause to bring the king to justice . it seems strange to me , that any of those who thus remonstrated against the late king , and justifie the bringing of him to justice for all and every of those particulars , should before and since imitate or exceed him in all and every of those particulars ; and more especially in the excise ; so diametrically contrary to the excellent law of the petition of right , as the premises resolve ; which excise he never exacted or put in execution , after the damning of the foresaid commission . and let all the world of indifferent men judge , whether the parliament and people of england , have not as just , as sufficient cause to bring them to justice for it ; as ever they had , or pretended to have , to bring the king to justice for the same : if rom. , , . be either good law or gospel : the rather , because they resolve in that declaration , an unaccomptable officer ( as the king pretended himself ) to be a strange monster in natnre and no wayes to be suffered in any state or government . whereas the excise man , pretended excise for hops , to be a duty by vertue of a white hall late ordinance , as he termed it : i therupon read unto him the articles of the government of the common-wealth of england , &c. viz ; that the laws shall not be altered , ●uspended , abregated or repealed ; nor any new law made , nor any tax , charge or imposition laid upon the people , but by common consent in parliament ; save onely as is expressed in the thirtieth article , viz. that the raising of money for defraying the charge of present extraodinary forces , both by land and sea , in respect of the present warres , shall be by consent in parliament , and not otherwise : save onely that the lord protector , with the consent of the major part of his councell , for preventing the disorders and dangers which may otherwise fall out both by sea and land , shall have power untill the meeting of the next parliament , to raise money for the purposes aforesaid , as also to make lawes and ordinances for the peace and welfare of these nations , where it shall be necessary , which shall be binding & in force , untill order shall be taken in parliament concerning the same . and this clause in the oath , p. . i do swear and promise in the presence of god : that i wil not violate or infringe the matters & things contained therin , but to my power observe the same , and cause them to be observed . and shal in all other things , to the best of my understanding govern these nations according to the laws , statutes and customes . now admit this instrument & saving to be valid and legal ; yet it limiting the whitehall power of raising monies ( and that onely for the forces by land and sea in respect of the warres , which are ended ) till the meeting of their first parliament ( and no longer ) which was past in their accompt dayes before this demand of excise for hops , as a duty ; those very articles of the government discharged me and all others from it ; by vertue of any whitehall power or ordinance . but this saving being contrary to the body of the articles ; to all the forementioned statutes , great charter , petition of right , judgements and resolutions of parliament , and destructive to the priviledges and rights of parliaments themselves , in whom the legislative and tax imposing authority wholly , solely and incommunicably resides , as all our parliaments statutes , law-books , records , histories in all ages have resolved , and the body of these two articles confesse , it must needs be void and nugatory to all intents and purposes in all lawyers , and judicious mens judgements , and can give them no legall or reall authority to make binding lawes , ordinances , or impose any taxes , imposts , or excises by colour thereof . if the parliament it self by speciall act of parliament , should give any speciall committee of lords and commons authority or power to make binding statutes , acts , ordinances , or to impose taxes on the people , or repeal or alter any former lawes and statutes with the kings royall assent , as the parliament of r. . c. , , , , . did ; yet all such acts , ordinances , laws , taxes , alterations , repeals of lawes , would be null and void , though ratified by the kings consent , and ought wholly to be revoked , reversed , voided and undone , repealed and adnulled for ever ; as being in derogation of the state of the parliament , to the great incomodity of the whole realm , and of pernicious example ; and never to be drawn into example in any future time , as is declared , resolved in the printed statute of . h. c. . and more fully in the parliament rolls of . h. . num . . . . . worthy perusall . much more then must the powers granted to any person or persons by this instrument ( made out of parliament , by persons yet unknown for the most part ) to impose any taxes , or make binding laws and ordinance , be null and void to all intents , to oblige our whole three kingdomes , or any one english f●een an , or alter , repeal any former lawes or statutes of the realm by which the people are onely to be governed at all times . the statutes of h. . c. . and h c. authorised the king for the time being with the advice of his councell or the major part of them , to set forth proclamations , ( in some cases onely ) under such pains and penalties , as to him and them should seem necessary ; which shall be observed as thovgh they were made by act of parliament . provided alwayes that this should not be prejudiciall to any persons inheritances , offices liberties , goods , castles or life ; in the passing of which acts , many liberall words were spoken ( against proclamations ) and a plain promise , ( as well as proviso ) made , that by authority of the act for proclamations , nothing should be made contrary to any act of parliament or the common law ; as a stephen gardiner bishop of winchester , records and writes in his letter to the lord protectovr in edward the sixth his reign , yet this power was held so dangerous , that it was repealed by the statute of e. . c. . but never did any parliament grant any king of england , and his councel the least power to make binding laws , and ordinances , or impose taxes , customes , imposts or excises in any age , nor to act any thing against any statute or the common-law ; much lesse against the great charter and petition of right . and therefore this power granted by this new illegall instrument , to all or any at whitehall , to make binding laws and ordinances , and impose any taxes , customes , imposts , or excises , whatsoever is meerly void , null in law to all intents ; and all ordinances , laws , taxes , excises , made and imposed by pretext thereof , wholly illegall , null and ineffectuall to all intents , and fit to be so declared by the whole nation and their trustees , to prevent the dangerous president and consequences of it in future times ) and the monthly contributions , excises , imposts , customes imposed by them for sundry moneths , and years yet to come , against the very letter of thirtieth article , as well as of the forecited acts , declarations , and letter of the oath therein contained ( so soon after the taking of it ) must needs be esteemed and declared void , and no wayes to be owned or submitted to as binding , valid , legall , by my self or any others who have taken the solemn protestation , league , vow , and covenant to maintain and defend the lawes and liberties of the realm , and rights and priviledges of our english parliaments in our several places , and callings , with constancy , faithfulnesse , and sincerity according to our power , and this was that i then alledged against excise in generall . as to the excise for hops in special , and that is to be paid by the owner and grower before any sale , i protested against it , as most unjust , and unreasonable for three reasons . . because men were inforced to pay full monethly contributions ( though illegally imposed ) all the year long to the value of the ground and land whereon the hops do grow , which yields no other crop or benefit , but hops ; out of which both the rent to the landlord , and likewise contribution must be raised : and to enforce men to pay excise out of that for which they pay full contribution , without any deduction for the excise : is a double tax , and oppression for the self same thing , and they may as well exact excise for any sort of corn , and hay , as for hops , without defalcation for the contribution out of the land whereon they grow , there being the self same reason for both . . because hops are a great certain charge , and most uncertain commodity and gain . the last year before this , there was such a blight , that i and others , had not the sixth part of the ready money disbursed out of purse for the dressing and polling of them ; and this year the crop of hops was so small , that it would hardly quit the cost bestowed in dressing , polling , tying , gathering . and to enforce men to pay not onely monethly contributions , but excise likewise , for that domestick native commodity , for which they are out of purse , and so great losers without any gain , is to adde oppression to affliction ; and against all rules of justice and conscience . . because by the common laws of england no toll is due for any native vendible commodity till it be sold by the owner , as is resolved , . h. . . brook toll . and if a man buy hops or any other commodities , for his own private use and family , no toll by the common law . ass . . . h. . brook toll . . therefore to exact excise for hops , before their sale ; before we know when , or to whom , or at what rate to sell them , or if sold to any for the use of their particular families was both illegall and unreasonable . upon all these grounds and reasons , i declared and protested to the exciseman ; that i was resolved upon no terms whatsoever to pay any excise at all for hops ; but to question and oppose it to my power according to my protestation , vow , solemn league and covenant , for my own and the whole nations future case from this oppressing illegal grievance and dutch-devill , as most stiled it ; which i conceived all patrons of publique liberty would now cordially and unanimously joyn together throughout the nation , to conjure down to hell again , from whence it was first raised by those , who formerly condemned and sent it packing thither . the excise-man hereupon answered with much civility and respect ; that he would not have suffered any other , so to dispute the businesse with him as i had done : but his respects towards me were such , having been an eminent sufferer heretofore for religion and publick liberty , for which he well knew i had sustained very great losses in my estate , and being a gentleman whom be truly honoured , that he would by no means bring my name in question ; and and herefore my crop of hops being so mean ( which he wished far greater ) he would demand nothing from me for them and so the minister calling on me , to go to the sermon ; he departed very friendly and fairly to his iune , and i unto the church to the lecture . since which being informed , that other excise-men in glocester shire have most strictly exacted excise for hops from others of my friends by colour of this whitehall ordinance ; and that the buyer will be forced to pay excise for my hops , though nothing be demanded from me ; which will be deducted out of the price : although the value considered in it self will be very small , yet since the consequence of it , is and will be very great to the whole nation , as well as prejudiciall to my self and friends , both for the present and future ; i held it my duty to make this my private declaration and protestation , publick , for the present and future benefit of the whole english nation , to whose judgements , consciences , censures , i humbly submit it , at this season . the rather because it pleased god the very next morning after this my declaration and protestation made to the excise-man , to take out of this vale of misery , my dearly-beloved christian brother , and fellow sufferer , for religion and liberties , doctor john bastwick : and therefore seeing i know not how many dayes or hours i may survive him , or whether i shall have any more time , or so seasonable an opportunity to publish any thing of this subject , or to do any further service in these last and perilous times , for the church and people of god , or my native countrey , by compleating those larger works , intended by me for posterity , if god shall prolong my life , health and liberty , i thought meet , whilst i had life and opportunity , to do what good i could , a whiles it was in the power of my hand to do it ; and whiles i had this by me . it was our saviours own speech and practise , john . . i must work the works of him that sent me , whiles it is day ; the night cometh when no man can work . and it is gods own advice and precept , eccles. . . whatsoever thy hand findeth to do , do it with thy might , for there is no work , nor device , nor knowledge , nor wisdome in the grave , whither thou goest : and therefore lest this small usefull piece , ( as i conceive it ) should dy and perish with me ; i have endeavoured to make it publick , b before i go hence and be no more : and if it please almighty god to infuse such a vigorous spirit into it , and bestow such a transcending blessing on it , as to make it instrumentall by his omnipotency , to give a mortall wound to all those illegall excises , taxes , imposts , &c. under which our impoverished nation hath so long groaned and languished ( in these times of cheapnesse of all corn , and countrey commodities , and scarcity of coyn , is no way able any longer to pay or bear ) or to bring them to , or bury them in the grave of perpetuall obscurity , so as never to rise up again , before i die : i shall then with old simeon joyfully sing a nunc dimittis : and if it stand with gods blessed pleasure ) say with the triumphant prisoner and martyr of jesus christ , saint paul , cor. . , , . i am now ready to be offered , and the time of my departure is at hand : i have fought a good fight , i have finished my course , i have kept the faith : henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousnesse , which god the righteous judge shall give me at that day , in heaven ; after all my bonds , imprisonments , persecutions , sufferings , ingrate requitall of my faithfull services for my god and countrey here on earth . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a e- a sam. . . a pal. . a metamorph. l. . * seldeni no'ae ad eadmerum . p. , . exact collection , p. , . * see the lords and commons j●●●nals , . caroli , exact collection , p. . mr. st. johns speech and declaration concerning ship-mony , p. , . * and have not english horse of late years , and still , been billited in most counties , for this very end ? nota. * and are they not so now by a bare white-hall order imposing them , till . * . septemb. . in the painted chamber . * see the government of the common-wealth of england , artic. . the ordinances printed in folio amounting to near seven hundred and seven , pages . * see . r. . c. , , , . . h. . c. & rot. parl. . h. . n. , , , , , . . h. . c. . . h. . c. . . e. . c. . * exact collection , p. . * see doctor beards theatre of gods judgements , l. . c. to . * a collection of ordinances , p. . * see my irenarches redivinus neor the end , where it is fully repeated . * see exact collections p. , . * see r. . c. , , . h. . c. . rot . parl. n. , , , , , . h. . c. . e. , c. worthy perusal . * now revived and imposed , amounting to forty thousand pound a month. * was it not a thing of more strange impiety and unnaturalness in the general and officers of the parliaments own army , raised , paved , commissioned , sworn , and every way engaged for the defence of the parliament of england , actually to engage and bring up the army again and again , to impeach , secure , seclude , and dissolve both the reall and pretended parliament of england before and since this declaration ? * the officers and armies coming in person to seize forty three members at once , seclude above two hundred more , and the whole house of lords was certainly a farre greater offence , especially after the branding of the kings act , and his repentance for , and disclaimer of it . * but the army officers , with some thousands of the army , better armed and provided . a fox acts and monuments in the oldest edition , p. . see a new discovery of the prelates tyranny , p. , , a prov . . b psal. . . to the supreme authority the parliament of the common-wealth of england some considerations about the excise of s. d. per barrell upon sope, humbly offered by the sope-makers of london, who lately presented their petition to your honors. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) to the supreme authority the parliament of the common-wealth of england some considerations about the excise of s. d. per barrell upon sope, humbly offered by the sope-makers of london, who lately presented their petition to your honors. hayes, john. sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : ] signed at end: john hayes [and others]. imprint from wing. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng soap -- taxation -- england -- london -- early works to . excise tax -- england -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no to the supreme authority the parliament of the common-wealth of england; some considerations about the excise of s. d. per barrell upon so hayes, john. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - elspeth healey sampled and proofread - elspeth healey text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to the supreme authority the parliament of the common-wealth of england ; some considerations about the excise of s. d. per barrell upon sope , humbly offered by the sope-makers of london , who lately presented their petition to your honors . i. that the laying excise upon sope , is a requiring excise for the labor of their hands , they having paid excise before for their potashes , oyl and tallow , being the materials whereof they make their soap , and it hath been always reputed of ill consequence to discourage labour and industry by taking away the profit that the labourer expects . ii. that the sope-makers pay excise for a contingency , a certain profit to the state out of their probable hopes that they shall make some profit of their labour ; so that after they have made their sope , if the price of their materials fall ( as is ordinary ) they then pay excise only because they have taken pains ; for they lose by their sope ; and besides , they run no small hazard in their boyling their sope , which makes their profit the more uncertain . iii. the sopemakers have harder measure ( in paying excise both for their materials , and their sope ) then most of the tradesmen of the common-wealth : most that pay excise for their materials , have the benefit to themselves of their own art and industry , in changing those materials into other forms : now certainly , 't is justice and best policy to lay the burthens of charge upon the people , in such a way , that all men may equally bear their proportion iv. 't is almost impossible to impose the excise upon sope equally upon all sopemakers , because near half the sope that 's now made is boyled in holes and corners in small panns , for which no excise is paid ; and so the burthen lies only upon the most visible traders , whose places of boyling are known and always open ; and hereby those sopemakers that bear the greatest share in other publick payments , have their trades spoiled by those that pay little or none . and this was thought a good ground to take off the greatest part of the excise of gold and silver wyer , for that it was drawn in holes , and little excise paid for it by most . v. the excise of s. d. per barrell upon sope , is a gain so great to those that can boyle privately , and steal it , that 't is worth the cost to erect privat boyling pans wherby they will be more in use daily , and the excise be no considerable advantage to the state , though a destruction to some that have faithfully served them ; and thus it appeared in the case of the refiners of gold and silver , that two thirds of the excise of gold and silver wyer being taken off , there would be more money advanced by it to the state then was before . vi . that since the excise of sope was raised from s. per barrel unto s. d. the revenue of it hath bin less then it was before ; for now men will run more hazard to steal it , and now the trade of those whose boyling is most visible is decayed ; and if this continue , will come to nothing . vii . sope is most necessary for all sorts of people next to victuals , and must be used by the poorest people ; and it hath been thought justice and policy to lay the burden of excise upon such commodities as the poor are least necessitated to use , and not a double burthen upon the most necessary commodities . and though we desire to preserve the trade of the common-wealth and our selves , yet we desire not to diminish the revenue of the commonwealth in the excise , and therefore we humbly propose , that d . per pound may be imposed upon all the imported materials , whereof sope is made ; whereby all that buy the materials , shall equally bear the burden , and those whose names are hereunto subscribed wil ingage , that in case they or some of them , may be intrusted to collect the excise of those imported materials , and have such allowance per pound therefore , as the commissioners for excise confess by their certificate it costs them , then they will advance the revenue of that excise of the materials , to a value equal to what hath bin advanced these two last years from the excise , both of sope & the materials of it . yet they begg not the office , but humbly leave it to the wisdome of the commissioners intrusted therein , to imploy such officers as they think fit to collect it , onely they propose so to ingage to secure the parliament , that they shall suffer no prejudice in their revenue , by condescending to their just desires in taking off the excise of sope , which they humbly crave may be speedily done for the reasons offered . john hayes ia. baker tho. howlett william hester robert burfoote robert drinkwater iohn hutchest iohn hardwicke tho. pulteney roger peares caleb phinnies tho. bromley edw. leader iohn wolcott . iohn lilburne edw. whittwell symon weeden richard cox thomas woodstock edw. halley friday december, . votes of parliament touching the excize of beer and ale. england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) friday december, . votes of parliament touching the excize of beer and ale. england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) printed by john field, printer to the parliament of england, london : . order to print dated: wednesday the seventeenth of december, . signed: hen: scobell, cleric. parliamenti. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng beer -- taxation -- england -- early works to . brewing industry -- england -- early works to . excise tax -- england -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no friday december, . votes of parliament touching the excize of beer and ale. england and wales. parliament. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - elspeth healey sampled and proofread - elspeth healey text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion friday december , . votes of parliament touching the excize of beer and ale . resolved by the parliament , that from and after the five and twentieth day of december , one thousand six hundred fifty one , no beer or ale be excizable , but such as is brewed by common brewers , or else brewed to be sold by vintners , inkeepers , alehouse-keepers , cooks , chandlers , and other persons brewing in their houses , and selling again by retail , or otherwise . resolved by the parliament , that the commissioners for excize , and all sub-commissioners and other officers of excize , be and are hereby enjoyned to take notice hereof , and to take care that the same be put in execution and duly observed , and the committee of the excize are to see the same done accordingly . hen : scobell , cleric . parliamenti . wednesday the seventeenth of december , . ordered by the parliament , that the votes passed on friday last touching the excize of beer and ale , be printed and published . hen : scobell , cleric . parliamenti . london , printed by john field , printer to the parliament of england . . by the king. a proclamation for payment of the duty of excise, together with the arrears thereof england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) by the king. a proclamation for payment of the duty of excise, together with the arrears thereof england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) sheet ([ ] p.) printed by john bill, and christopher barker printers to the kings most excellent majesty, london : . dated at end: given at our court at whitehall the twenty sixth day of september, in the twelfth year of our reign. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng excise tax -- england -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no by the king. a proclamation for payment of the duty of excise, together with the arrears thereof: england and wales. sovereign a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion cr diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms ❧ by the king . a proclamation for payment of the duty of excise , together with the arrears thereof . charles r. whereas divers great sums of money for publique vse and concernment , for the great affairs of the kingdom , have been charged upon the receipts of excise ; and many and great arrears , are due and owing thereupon , as well in our city of london , as in several of our counties , cities , and towns corporate , within our kingdom of england , dominion of wales , and our town and port of berwick upon tweed , the collecting and levying of which hath been of late times much obstructed , and become very ineffectual , through the practises and contrivments of subtil and disaffected persons , for their own private lucre and gain , and forasmuch as by an act of this present parliament , the duty of excise is contitinued , and the arrears thereof directed thereby to be paid : we , at the desire , and by the advice of our lords and commons in parliament assembled , have thought fit , and do by this our proclamation , command , require , and charge , all and every our loving subjects , within our said kingdom of england , dominion of wales , and town of berwick upon tweed aforesaid , who are liable to pay excise , or from whom any the arrears thereof are due and unpaid , speedily and without delay , to conform themselves unto the rules , regulations , orders , and powers , whereby the aforesaid duty or imposition , hath been , or ought to be levyed , not onely for paying the same for the future , as it shall become due ; but also for satisfying all and every the arrears thereof ( which are excepted from pardon by an act of this present parliament , entituled ( an act of free and general pardon , indempnity and oblivion ) to the end the orders and rules made for payment thereof , be not eluded ; and we do hereby straitly charge and command all our iustices of the peace , and other our magistrates and ministers whatsoever , within this our said city of london , and the respective counties , cities , and towns corporate , to whom is committed the care of seeing such of the rules , orders , and powers , as are under their cognizance , executed vigorously , and diligently , to proceed in putting the same in execution , to the end the obstructions and defects of execution , whether in remisness , or neglect , may be removed , and the aforesaid duty of excise , together with the whole arrears thereof , may be duly and speedily levyed and paid in , for the purposes aforesaid . and whereas it was resolved , and declared by the commons in this present parliament assembled , the sixth of september last , that the act for continuance of the excise , doth enable the commissioners therein named , and their sub-commissioners , to act and proceed according to the rates , and rules of the late pretended powers ; we therefore do hereby more particularly require and command our said iustices of peace , to put in full execution , the two and thirtieth article of an act so called , and entituled , an act for the speedy raising levying moneyes by way of new-impost of excise , made and published the fourteenth day of august , one thousand six hundred forty nine : whereby it is mentioned to be enacted , that no vintner ; inkeeper , victualler , ale-house-keeper , or other person whatsoever , that retailes or sells ale or beer , shall brew his own beer or ale , unless he give security to pay the excise thereof ; or otherwise to take all such beer and ale as he shall sell or vtter , of or from some common brewer of ale or beer , in which case upon due proof made , ( as by the said article is prescribed ) before any one iustice of the peace , within the county , city or town corporate , where the party offending doth reside , and dwell , the said iustice of the peace , hath power to impose and levy upon the party so offending , the several penalties and forfeitures by the said article limited . wherefore , we do further hereby straitly charge , and command every such iustice of the peace ( before whom any such proof shall be made , or tendred to be made as aforesaid ) that he do forthwith without delay , proceed against the said party so offending by hearing and determining the said offence , and by the speedy issuing out there warrants , for levying and executing of the several penalties and forfeitures therein limited , according as by the said article is directed and required . and lastly , we expect obedience hereunto , from all and every person and persons whom it doth , or may concern , as they tender our displeasure , and will answer the contemning of this our royal command , at their utmost peril . given at our court as whitehall the twenty sixth day of september , in the twelfth year of our reign . london , printed by john bill , and christopher barker printers to the kings most excellent majesty . . die sabbathi , februarii. . an ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament, for twenty thousand pounds to be paid out of the excise, to the forces raised by the easterne association for blocking up newarke. england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e thomason .f. 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[i.e. ] signed: henry elsynge, cler. parliam. dom. com. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng excise tax -- england -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . newark (nottinghamshire, england) -- history -- th century -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no die sabbathi , februarii. . an ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament, for twenty thousand pounds to be paid out o england and wales. parliament. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread - emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion die sabathi , februarii . . an ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament , for twenty thousand pounds to be paid out of the excise , to the forces raised by the easterne association for blocking up newarke . bee it ordained by the lords and commons in parliament assembled , that the summe of twenty thousand pounds shall be paid for the use of the three regiments of horse , of major le hunt , major gibb , and major haines , and of captaine waylets company of dragoons , raised , sent out , and maintained by the easterne association , lately advanced for blocking up of newarke , and parts adjacent in course , after other affignments already charged shall fall due , out of the receipts of excize by ordinance of the . of september . and the commissioners of excize and new impost , are hereby authorized to pay the same accordingly unto thomas toll esq ; a member of the house of commons , or his asignes , together with interest for the same , after the rate of eight pounds per centum for so long time as the same shall be forborne before it become due as aforesaid , and his or their receipt , to be their , the said commissioners of excize , sufficient warrant and discharge , for the said twente thousand pounds and interest , and every part and parcell thereof ; and that the said thomas toll or his assignes doe pay the money by him so received , to such persons of the severall counties of the said association , as the committee of lords and commons for the easterne association or any five or more of them and as the standing committee of the severall counties of that association respectively or any five or more of them under their hands in writing shall noate and appoint , according to the proportions of horse assessed , and set , upon the counties of the said association respectively . provided neverthelesse , that the charging of the said twenty thousand pounds upon the receipts of the excize , shall not prejudice or post pone the payment of any summes of money charged upon the said receipts by any former order of this house . henry elsynge , cler. parliam . dom. com. london , printed for edward husband , printer to the honourable house of commons . march . . . by andrew fraser (design'd) of kinmundie, sheriff-deput of aberdeen advertisement for collecting his maiesties revenew of inland excyse, within the sheriffdooms of kincardine, aberdeen and bamff. fraser, andrew, of kinmundie. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing f estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) by andrew fraser (design'd) of kinmundie, sheriff-deput of aberdeen advertisement for collecting his maiesties revenew of inland excyse, within the sheriffdooms of kincardine, aberdeen and bamff. fraser, andrew, of kinmundie. sheet ([ ] p.) john forbes], [aberdeen : . signed and dated at end: given under my hand at aberdeen, the twenty eight day of october, years. andrew fraser. imprint from wing. reproduction of the original in the aberdeen city charter room, aberdeen. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng ale -- early works to . tax collection -- england -- early works to . beer -- taxation -- england -- early works to . excise tax -- england -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion by andrew fraser ( design'd ) of kinmundie , sheriff-deput of aberdeen . advertisement for collecting his maiesties revenew of inland excyse , within the sheriffdooms of kincardine , aberdeen and bamff . whereas the high and potent ( his grace the duke of queensburry ) lord high thesaurer of scotland , by his warrant of date the tenth day of october instant , hath commissionat me to regulat and appoint the manner of collecting the in-land excyse of aile , beer , brandie and strong waters to be browen and vented after the last of this instant within the shyres of kincardine , aberdeen and bamff , and to give advertisement that no brewer presume to leave off their brewing and venting upon any pretext whatsomever : and also that i should appoint collectors and overseers , and give them reasonable allowance in each shyre or parts thereof as i shall find needfull , for taking notice of the quantities browen and vented , and in-bringing the excyse thereof to the cass-keeper , not exceeding two merks for each boll of malt browen and vented conforme to the acts of parliament thereanent , and with power to call the present collectors or tacksmen of excyse and others concerned to give a clear account of the condition and state of the current excyse , and that i send parties ( if need be ) for ordering these matters , as in the said commission at more length is expressed : in obedience to which , these are intimating to all brewers and ventners within the said shyres , that they continue their trade of brewing and venting as they will be answerable , wherein if they failie they will be punished to the outmost rigour that law will allow , and to be looked upon as disaffected and seditious persons , and imbaselers of his maiesties revenew : and to the effect they may be incouraged in their brewing , these are signifying that discreet and understanding collectors will be immediatly appointed in each presbytrie , and these collectors will receive such instructions as may be most conduceable for the orderly in-bringing of the excyse , and with most ease to , and equalitie amongst the brewers , who may in this expect as much favour and fair dealing as any others within the kingdom , and judicious persons will be appointed to hear and redress their just complaints if any be : and therefore , seeing that such equal and fair wayes will be taken for stenting and collecting the said excyse in these shyres , and that there is no impediment why the brewers may not take such competens pryces for their aile , beer , and strong waters as may answer the value of the malt , with the excyse and reasonable profit , they can pretend no just excuse for not continuing to brew and vent these liquors , which if they fail to do , it will be inquyred into , and looked upon as contempt of authority in those that give over brewing , or yet shall advyse any so to do : and further , to the effect his grace my lord high thesaurer may be truely informed of the present state of the current excyse , and the manner of collecting thereof at any time thir three years last by past ; therefore these are requyring all magistrats of burghs , all collectors or tacksmen of excyse within the said shyres , that they immediatly bring in to me subscrived lists of all brewers within their bounds , whether those that be ordinarie brewers , or those that be extraordinarie brewers at mercats , weddings , or other publick occasions , and the quota that each brewer payes weeklie , or in set , and after what manner , and to whom , whether it be to the collectors or tacksmen , or to their masters in whose land they dwell , or others appointed for that end , where the excyse is laid upon the land-rent ; and that the lists be so exact as that they may make faith thereon , and that if their books be not clear thereanent they may yet take pains thereon , by calling for lists of their respective parishes within their bounds , and all heritors and others concerned are requyred to give concurse , and that either by themselves or chamberlanes they give up the names of the brewers , and quota of their payments when ever they shall be requyred by the tacksmen and collectors thereanent , and that the whole tacksmen and collectors give account of their diligence to me at my house in aberdeen , betwixt and the twelfth day of november next as they will be answerable , or else parties will be direct for that effect . and that none pretend ignorance thir presents are furthwith to be printed , and published at the mercat cross of the head burghs of the respective shyres , and copies sent to each parish kirk thereof , direct to the conveener and reader of these parishes to be publickly read the next lords day immediatly after divine-service , and that the conveener or reader returne executions of the publications thereof to the nearest collectors of excyse , to be transmitted to me within eight dayes thereafter , as they will be answerable to authority . given under my hand at aberdeen , the twenty eight day of october , years . andrew fraser . a proclamation, for payment of his majesties cess and excise scotland. privy council. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. b ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a proclamation, for payment of his majesties cess and excise scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign ( - : james ii) sheet ([ ] p.) printed by the heir of andrew anderson ..., edinburgh : anno dom. . title vignette: royal seal with initials j r. caption title. initial letter. reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng excise tax -- scotland -- early works to . broadsides -- scotland -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a proclamation , for payment of his majesties cess and excise . jr royal blazon or coat of arms james by the grace of god , king of great-britain , france and ireland , defender of the faith , to our lovits macers of our privy council , and messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting ; whereas , we by our royal proclamation of the third day of october last past , and by vertue of our prerogative-royal , did discharge all personal execution of our laws against any who comes out to our host during their abode therein ; and we understanding , that our said royal favour is so far abused as to be wrested , to hinder the payment of our cess and excise , to the great prejudice of our affairs ; do therefore declare , that it was not our meaning , that the said immunity should any ways be extended to hinder execution for our cess and excise , but that notwithstanding thereof , all lyable therefore , in case they fail of due payment , be proceeded against personally , or otherways , according to our laws and acts of parliament ; and withall , we hereby require all and every concerned in payment of the said publick burden , to pay in the same to our collectors and receivers , as they would be esteemed dutiful subjects to us on the present occasion , and to the end our royal pleasure in the premisses may be made known to all persons concerned , that obedience may be given accordingly , our will is , and we charge you strictly , and command , that incontinent these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and all the other mercat-crosses of the head-burghs of this our kingdom , and there in our royal name and authority , by open proclamation , make publication of the premisses , that none pretend ignorance . given under our signet at edinburgh , the ninth day of november , . and of our reign the fourth year . per actum dominorum sti. concilii . col : mckenzie cls. sti. concilii . god save the king . edinburgh , printed by the heir of andrew anderson , printer to his most sacred majesty , anno dom. . tuesday, may th. . the parliament doth resolve and declare, that all persons whatsoever shall pay, and hereby are required to pay in all arrears and growing duties, for customs, excise and new impost, monethly taxes, and all other moneys due and payable to the common-wealth. ... england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e thomason .f. [ ] estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) tuesday, may th. . the parliament doth resolve and declare, that all persons whatsoever shall pay, and hereby are required to pay in all arrears and growing duties, for customs, excise and new impost, monethly taxes, and all other moneys due and payable to the common-wealth. ... england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) printed by john field, printer to the parliament. and are to be sold at the seven stars in fleetstreet, over against dunstans church, london : . title from first lines of text. a resolution of parliament, calling in all arrears of duties for customs, excise, etc. order to print signed: jo. phelpes, clerk of the parliament pro tempore. annotation on thomason copy: "may. ". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng taxation -- england -- early works to . excise tax -- england -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no tuesday, may th. . the parliament doth resolve and declare, that all persons whatsoever shall pay, and hereby are required to pay in a england and wales. parliament. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread - emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion tuesday may th . the parliament doth resolve and declare , that all persons whatsoever shall pay , and hereby are required to pay in all arrears and growing duties , for customs , excise and new impost , monethly taxes , and all other moneys due and payable to the common-wealth . and all persons imployed for the receiving and collecting the same , are hereby impowred and required to act in their several places for receiving and collecting the same , until the parliament shall take further order . ordered by the parliament , that this vote be forthwith printed and published . jo . phelpes clerk of the parliament pro tempore . london , printed by john field , printer to the parliament . and are to be sold at the seven stars in fleetstreet , over against dunstans church , . die veneris, [o] decembris. . be it ordained by the lords and commons in parliament assembled, that john towse, thomas foot, john kendrick, thomas cullum, and symon edmonds, esquires, and aldermen of the citie of london; ... england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e thomason .f. [ ] estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) die veneris, [o] decembris. . be it ordained by the lords and commons in parliament assembled, that john towse, thomas foot, john kendrick, thomas cullum, and symon edmonds, esquires, and aldermen of the citie of london; ... england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) printed by richard cotes and john raworth, london : . title from heading and first lines of text. signed: jo; browne, cler. parliamentorum. bracketed "o" in title is in superscript. an ordinance of parliament appointing commissioners for the excise of meat and salt. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng excise tax -- england -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no die veneris, ⁰ decembris. . be it ordained by the lords and commons in parliament assembled, that john towse, thomas foot, john kendric england and wales. parliament. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion die veneris , o decembris . . be it ordained by the lords and commons in parliament assembled , that john towse , thomas foot , john kendrick , thomas cullum and symon edmonds , esquires , and aldermen of the citie of london ; john lamot and edward claxton of the citie of london , esquires , the present commissioners of the excise and new-impost , in and thorow the whole kingdom of england , dominion of wales , and town of berwick , shall and may do and execute all and every the clauses , articles , and other thing or things , ordained , mentioned and contained in the ordinance of both houses of parliament , bearing date the ninth of january , . touching the excise of flesh-victuals and salt : as also the ordinance dated the third of august , , entituled , an ordinance declaratory , for the better regulating and levying of the excise of flesh , within the cities of london and westminster , suburbs and lines of communication . which said two ordinances are hereby ordained to stand in force , and be managed by the said commissioners , for one yeer next ensuing the ninth of january , . to all intents and purposes whatsoever ; who shall receive the like allowance of six pence in every pound , for the receipt . and be it further ordained , that as well all and every the said commissioners , deputies and other their officers , as all and every other person and persons which shall do any thing in execution or performance of this present ordinance , shall be therein from time to time protected , and saved harmlesse , by the power and authority of both houses of parliament . jo ; browne , cler. parliamentorum . london , printed by richard cotes and john raworth . . whereas it hath pleased the parliament in and by their act bearing date the th of august . concerning the excise, to appoint the generall of their forces for the time being, to order and enjoyne all collonels ... cromwell, oliver, - . this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing c thomason .f. [ ] estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas it hath pleased the parliament in and by their act bearing date the th of august . concerning the excise, to appoint the generall of their forces for the time being, to order and enjoyne all collonels ... cromwell, oliver, - . sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : ] dated and signed: the eight day of novemb. . o: cromwell. imprint from wing. steele notation (exclusive of order): act diers fit-. annotation on thomason copy: "nouemb. ". reproduction of original in the henry e. huntington library. eng excise tax -- england -- early works to . soldiers -- england -- early works to . great britain -- history -- commonwealth and protectorate, - -- early works to . broadsides -- england a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no whereas it hath pleased the parliament in and by their act bearing date the th of august . concerning the excise, to appoint the gener cromwell, oliver f the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the f category of texts with or more defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread - emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion whereas it hath pleased the parliament in and by their act bearing date the th of august . concerning the excise , to appoint the generall of their forces for the time being , to order and enjoyne all collonels , captaines , officers & souldiers under his command , upon application made to them , or 〈…〉 of them , speedily to suppresse all tumults , ryots , and unlawfull assem●●●●s which shall be attempted or acted , in opposition against the commis●●●●ers of excise , their sub-commissioners , collectors , or officers , in exe●●●●on of the ordinances and acts of parliament for the excise ; and to ap●●●hend all such ryotous and tumultuous persons , that they may be proceed●● against according to law . and whereas it is in the said act further de●●●ed , that no commander , officer , or souldier , shall seize upon , forcea●●● take , or detayne any the receipts of the excise , or protect any person ●●●m payment thereof , or encourage any person not to pay the same . and 〈◊〉 if any commanders , officers , or souldiers , shall notwithstanding seize 〈◊〉 , forceably take , or detayne any the receipts of the excise , protect any ●●●●on from paying thereof , or encourage any person not to pay the same , 〈…〉 proofe made thereof , shall be ( ipso facto ) cashiered , and all his 〈◊〉 forfeited to the common-wealth ; and suffer such other punish●●●● as shall by the said generall or councell of warre , be adjudged fit●● ▪ in pursuance whereof i doe hereby require all collonels , captains , officers , and souldiers under my command , upon application from time to time of the said commissioners of the excise , their sub-commissioners , collectors , or of●●●●● , unto them , or any of them , to be aiding and ●●sisting , as well in prevent●●g of such tumults and ryots , as in the suppressing thereof . and doe also ●●ereby declare , that if any collonels , officers , or s●uldiers shall seize upon , ●orceably take , or detayne any the receipts of the excise , or shall protect any person from paying thereof , or encourage any person not to pay the same , shall be proceeded against , and suffer according as in the sa●d act is expressed . given under my hand and seale the eight day of novemb●● . o : cromwell . die lunæ, aprilis, . an ordinance of the lords and commons in parliament assembled, for continuance of the excise or new-impost for one whole yeer longer, to commence the eleventh of september next, . england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) die lunæ, aprilis, . an ordinance of the lords and commons in parliament assembled, for continuance of the excise or new-impost for one whole yeer longer, to commence the eleventh of september next, . england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) printed by richard cotes and john raworth, loudon [sic] : [ ] signed: joh. browne, cleric. parliamentorum. publication date from wing. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng taxation -- england -- early works to . excise tax -- england -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no die lunæ, aprilis, . an ordinance of the lords and commons in parliament assembled, for continuance of the excise or new-impost for on england and wales. parliament. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread - emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion die lunae , aprilis , . an ordinance of the lords and commons in parliament assembled , for continuance of the excise or new-impost for one whole yeer longer , to commence the eleventh of september next , . whereas the lords and commons in parliament assembled have found it necessary to continue the severall rates and charges of excise and new-impost , mentioned and expressed in an ordinance of both houses , dated the eleventh of september last ; be it hereby ordained by the said lords and commons in parliament assembled , that the said ordinance of the eleventh of september last , and every clause , sentence and article therein contained , and now in force , and the severall rates of excise and new-impost imposed and directed by the said ordinance , or any other ordinance or ordinances concerning the government and ordering of the excise since made , which at present are in force , shall continue and be received upon all and every the commodities therein mentioned and charged , thorowout the realm of england , dominion of wales , and town of berwick , for one whole yeer longer , to commence the eleventh of september next ensuing the date hereof . and it is further hereby ordained and declared , that john towse esquire , alderman of the city of london ; thomas foot esquire , alderman of the city of london ; john kendrick esquire , alderman of the city of london ; thomas cullum esquire , alderman of the city of london ; simon edmonds , john lamott and edward claxton of the said city of london esquires , the present commissioners of the excise , shall remain and continue chief commissioners and governours of the whole office and receipts of the excise and new-impost , in and thorow the whole kingdom of england , dominion of wales , and town of berwick ; and shall and may do and execute , and cause to be done and executed , all and every the clauses , articles and other thing and things whatsoever , ordained , mentioned and contained in the said ordinance of the eleventh of september last , or in any other ordinance or ordinances concerning the excise , which at present are in force , in the same manner and form as they are directed and authorized thereby to do and execute , for and during the said term of one yeer longer , to commence from the eleventh of september next following , as aforesaid ; with the like allowances as at present , of six pence upon every twenty shillings raised and levied out of the receipts of the excise and new-impost . joh. browne , cleric . parliamentorum london , printed by richard cotes and john raworth . die martis, . octob. an ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament; concerning all brewers and makers of beer, ale, cider, or perry for payment of the excise imposed by an ordinance of parliament, before the delivering thereof, upon pain of forfeiture of double the value of the said commodities. england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e a thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) die martis, . octob. an ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament; concerning all brewers and makers of beer, ale, cider, or perry for payment of the excise imposed by an ordinance of parliament, before the delivering thereof, upon pain of forfeiture of double the value of the said commodities. england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) printed [by richard cotes a]nd john raworth, london : . thomason copy imperfect; imprint partially from wing. signed: h. elsynge cler. parl. d. com. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng alcoholic beverage industry -- england -- th century -- early works to . excise tax -- england -- th century -- early works to . a (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no die martis, . octob. an ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament; concerning all brewers and makers of beer, ale, c england and wales. parliament. d the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the d category of texts with between and defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion die martis , . octob. an ordinance of the lords and commons assembled in parliament ; concerning all brewers and makers of beer , ale , cider , or perry ; for payment of the excise imposed by an ordinance of parliament , before the delivering thereof , upon pain of forfeiture of double the value of the said commodities ▪ for further explanation of the late ordinance of both houses of parliament , touching the excise , or new-impost , upon the severall commodities therein mentioned . be it now declared and ordained by the said lords and commons in parliament , for the better inabling and incouraging of the brewers , and makers of beer , ale , perry , and cider , ( who are the parties that are to pay the excise , as by the said ordinance is appointed ) to make due payment thereof accordingly , that no beer , ale , perry or cider , shall be delivered out by the brewer or maker thereof , or any for them , to any retailer or other buyer thereof , till the rate and price which is by them to be paid , for , and in respect of the excise , be paid by the victualler or retailer thereof , to the brewer , or first seller thereof , on pain , that as well the retailer or buyer , as the brewer , or the first seller thereof , shall forfeit for the first offence , double the value of every quantity of beer , ale , perry , or cider , so delivered out , or received by the party so offending , and for the second offence treble the value thereof , and the party so offending , to be disabled from using their said trades or professions , respectively for the space of one whole yeer then next ensuing , the said forfeitures to be levyed and imployed in such manner and to such uses , as by the said ordinance is appointed for the penalties therein mentioned . and be it declared , and further ordained , that the rates set upon every barrell of beer and ale , by the said ordinance , shall be paid for every greater or lesser quantity , proportionably after the same rate ; and be it also further ordered and ordained , that for all beer of four shillings the barrell or under , the excise shall be paid after the rate of six pence for every barrell , and so after that rate for a greater or lesser quantity , under the penalties and forfeitures in and by the said ordinance appointed : provided alwayes , and be it ordained , that no brewers , or retailers of any beer , ale , perry or cider , shall take any more in the price thereof upon the sale of the same commodities , then according to the usuall rates and prices appointed by law for the same ( excepting onely the rate of the excise ) as they will answer their contempts herein to both houses of parliament . and as touching old and new draperies , it is declared and ordained , that the excise due and payable for the same , shall be paid by the shop-keeper , who buyes the same to sell again . h. elsynge cler. parl. d. com. london , printe● 〈…〉 〈◊〉 d john raworth . . a declaration in vindication of the honour of the parliament, and of the committee of the navy and customes; against all traducers: concerning the managing of the navy and customes, and many other weighty affaires of state: faithfully relating what strength of shipping have been yearly employed for the guarding of the seas, and what moneys arising by the revenue of the customes, excise of flesh and salt, and other receits, have been applyed to that use. the rules by which they have been all managed; and a just account how the moneys have been disposed. by giles grene, a member of the honourable house of commons. grene, giles. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason e _ ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing g thomason e _ estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; :e [ ]) a declaration in vindication of the honour of the parliament, and of the committee of the navy and customes; against all traducers: concerning the managing of the navy and customes, and many other weighty affaires of state: faithfully relating what strength of shipping have been yearly employed for the guarding of the seas, and what moneys arising by the revenue of the customes, excise of flesh and salt, and other receits, have been applyed to that use. the rules by which they have been all managed; and a just account how the moneys have been disposed. by giles grene, a member of the honourable house of commons. grene, giles. [ ], p. printed for laurence blaiklock., london, : . annotation on thomason copy: "sept: ". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng england and wales. -- parliament. -- committee of the navy -- early works to . england and wales. -- royal navy -- early works to . excise tax -- england -- early works to . customs administration -- great britain -- history -- th century -- early works to . great britain -- finance -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- naval operations -- early works to . a r (thomason e _ ). civilwar no a declaration in vindication of the honour of the parliament,: and of the committee of the navy and customes; against all traducers: concer grene, giles. c the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the c category of texts with between and defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - robyn anspach sampled and proofread - robyn anspach text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a declaration in vindication of the honour of the parliament , and of the committee of the navy and cvstomes ; against all traducers : concerning the managing of the navy and customes , and many other weighty affaires of state : faithfully relating what strength of shipping have been yearly employed for the guarding of the seas , and what moneys arising by the revenue of the customes , excise of flesh and salt , and other receits , have been applyed to that use . the rules by which they have been all managed ; and a just account how the moneys have been disposed . by giles grene , a member of the honourable house of commons . london , printed for laurence blaiklock . . a declaration in vindication of the honour of the parliament , and of the committee of the navy and customes ; against all traducers . concerning the managing of the navy and customes , and many other weighty affaires of state . there is no truth now more apparent , then that the tongues and pens of many men ; and the presse have in these latter times been so loose and disordered , as that they have been applied too frequently to the scandalizing of proceedings in parliament , and the severall committees , and members by them imployed , in the transacting of the weighty affaires of the kingdome , during the times of these late distempers : that so they might bring them into the disaffections of the people . the truth of this is clearely proved by those severall pamphlets which every day are engendred , and sent abroad into the world : and by the cunning and artifice of severall evill disposed persons , of different tempers , they are made instrumentall for different ends and intentions . and this is perceived by all wise men , so that it is hoped those libells take no impression with them , in regard of the persons scandalized : and amongst others finding the committee of the navy and customes , as they have had no small part of the care and trouble of these weighty affaires , so not to have the least share in those scandalls and reproaches : in discharge of the duty i owe unto the parliament , who when the king deserted them , were necessitated to undertake the government of the navy royall of this kingdome , for the safety and good thereof , and likewise of the customes appointed for its maintenance and support , and also in discharge of that particular duty i owe the committee of the navy and customes , and the gentlemen attending those services , unto whose care and trust both houses of parliament committed that great and weighry charge . and to cleare up the honour , care , prudence , and fidelity of both parliament and committee , against all traducers , in the advantagious and faithfull discharge of the trust for the weale and safety of the people , and all the three kingdomes ; i thought it not the least part of my duty , ( being best acquainted with those affairs ) to make this following declaration of the beginning , progresse , and present state of the same ; relating to the customes and navy ; and by what rules they have been transacted . in the yeare . shortly after the parliament first sate , and before the king deserted them , the house of commons appointed some gentlemen of that committee , and recommended to their charge the discovery of the abuses of the then farmors of the customes , and the examination of their accounts from the first yeare of his majesties raigne , unto that time : and notwithstanding the work was conceived by many worthy gentlemen not to be feazible , yet that cmmittee within few months by their report did so satisfie the house of the whole state of that affaire , as it produced . in fines to the use of the state . this done about the . of may . the house of commons commanded that committee to frame a bill for the legall payment of tonnage and poundage , to continue for a few weeks , untill some difficulties and misunderstandings between the king and parliament were removed ; and upon the same grounds severall other short acts of parliament were passed untill iuly . but the burthens upon merchandize , both forreign and domestick being unequally layd by the old book of rates , occasioned severall complaints and petitions , from merchants , cloathiers , shopkeepers , and others , unto the parliament , for ease of those burthens ; whereupon in the yeare . the house ordered that committee to frame a new book of rates : this proved a work of that travell and consequence in relation to the support of the trade of the kingdome on the one side , and the revenue of the kingdome for support of the navy , the strength of the kingdome , on the other side , as it became full of labour and intricacy to keep the ballance even ; for the encrease of the one , and support of the other , of which the very bare discovery of those rules which the wisedome of that committee found out to the due framing of that elaborate work , will sufficiently satisfie the reader at first view . they first divided all merchandize into domestick and forreign . domestick into commodities totally to be prohibited , or to be transported . transportations into manufactures of wooll , and other staple commodities . the manufactures of wooll , in regard of their generall influence throughout most conditions of men , and hazard of the losse of that trade in forraigne parts so much of late undermined by forraigne manufactures , was much eased of its former imposition . the other staple commodities as tyn , lead , &c. not so subject to danger as the others , were raised to some higher rates , according as the same could well beare . the forraign commodities were divided into necessaries . and superfluities . necessaries , and of certain use , as victualls , and all materialls for to encrease the manufactures of the kingdome were eased . superfluities which might be spared , and were incentives to prodigality , either in apparrall , or diet , food , or rayment , had their full load ; saving that in the very superfluities they found it necessary to make addifference : as , those of bulk , advantagious in the employment of shipping and marriners , in that relation , were somewhat eased . those of small stowage had a full load laid on them . yet in those likewise they made a difference : easing all such as were unmanufactured , burthening the re●t . but the marchants of the kingdome not only suffering under the unequall impositions laid on their commodities , but under the arbitrary power , and undue fees of the officers of the customes , which oftentimes more oppressed them then the payment of the impositions themselves . it was not the least labour of that committee , to dispose of the manner of payment of the duty , and to give such directions therein as by those rules they delivered the merchant , from all occasions of oppression , by the officer , and yet kept up the officer in his due esteeme . in compleating of this great work , the committee proceeded by a further rule , as well to attaine to the knowledge of the value of all commodities , as to their usefulnesse , without which , they could not well agree on the duty : and to that end did make use of the labours and judgements of many merchants of quality , of known integrity , and best experienced in forraigne trade , and importers of the severall commodities , who having with much labour laid the foundation of this great work ; it was also the wisdome of the committee in so high a trust to take advice from the retailors , and severall traders in the respective commodities . and after divers dayes disputes with them , having made their observations in writing of the differences in opinion between the importer and buyer , did referre the whole work together with their own observations , unto the farmours and officers of the customes , who according to their great experience and wisedome , did contribute much unto the compleating thereof : and upon return of their opinions , the committee finding yet further differences ; did after divers dayes spent in conference with the three parties , viz. the importer , the buyer , and the officer , and upon observations from them all , appoint a generall meeting of the merchants , retailors , and officers , acquainted them with their differences in opinion , which were reduced to very few , considering the variety and greatnesse of the work : and after a deliberate debate with them joyntly , the committee did compleat that work ; and so presented it to the house of commons , where it received a generall approbation with very few amendments . the book of rates thus formed , and upon report made to the house of commons thereof , being approved and passed without a contradicting voyce , order was given for the same to be printed and published ; and an act of parliament to be drawn for tonnage and poundage , relating to these rates , which with great deliberation of that committee , and advice with the kings councell , learned in the law , was drawn accordingly , reported and past both houses , and sent to the king then at york , for the royall assent , which his majesty refusing , order was given to that committee to consider of a way how to continue the payment of tonnage and poundage by an ordnance which they did accordingly , which upon report passed both houses : here arose the great difficulty of managing the affaires of the customes , which by ordnance of parliament was committed to the charge of that committee , wherein power was given them to remove and place all officers belonging to the customes , to give orders and directions to the commissioners of the customes as occasion should serve : to heare and decide all differences happening between the merchants and officers in reference to the customes ; and by their orders to dispose of all moneys arising on the customes , for the use of the navie . an imployment of great weight and as great trust , and which they discharged with as much faithfulnesse , wisedome , and advantage to the state , the distractions of the times , the disaffections of many merchants , and the want of a penalty to enjoyn the payment , considered , as ever that affaire was managed sithence the conquest ; which doth manifestly appeare by their saving upward of twelve thousand pound per annum , in the very charge of the commissioners ; and reduced unnecessary officers , formerly employed in the managing of those affaires , and yet encreased that revenue at least one third per annum , in those ports which were still under the obedience of parliament , besides the receits of those out-ports that were regained from the enemy . the distractions of the kingdome encreasing after the kings deserting the parliament : it pleased both houses by ordinance in august . to commit the charge of the navy , and setting forth the yearly fleets to sea for the defence of the three kingdomes , unto the care of that committee of the customes , and so they became the committee of the navy and customes : by which ordinance they had power to order the payments of moneys arising from the customes to the treasurer of the navy , who was a member of that committee , for the carrying on of that work : and the moneys being so setled in his hands , they were all to be issued out by him , by the only order of that committee ; which trust i dare confidently affirm he hath discharged with as much clearnesse and freedome from any corruption as ever treasurer did . and to satisfie the world that this trust was faithfully discharged by that committee , i will here give a short account of the severall fleets set to sea , with their strength and charge . in the year the parliament doubting that forraign force would be invited into this kingdome , commanded that committee that a strong fleet should be set to sea , for that yeare , which consisted of twenty saile of the kings ships , and twenty three merchants ships with . marriners , the charge whereof as well in the summer as winter guard , with other matters incident to the keeping up of the navy , that yeare amounted to two hundred and one thousand , seven hundred sixty one pounds . l. in the year . the parliament having more particular information of preparation of forraign forces to infest this kingdome , there were set forth for the summer fleet of the kings ships , & merchants ships , with marriners , and for the winter guard kings ships , and merchants ships , with marriners , the whole charge whereof with other matters incident to the keeping up of the navie , did amount unto three hundred and thirty thousand three hundred sixty nine pounds . l. in the yeare . there were set forth for the summer fleet , kings ships , and merchants ships , with marriners , and for the winter guard , kings ships , and merchants ships , with . marriners : the totall charge whereof with other matters incident to the keeping up of the navy , did amount unto two hundred thirty eight thousand foure hundred and seventy pounds . l. in the year . there were set forth for the summer fleet , kings ships , and merchants ships , with marriners , and for the winter guard , kings ships , and . merchants ships , with marriners ; the totall charge whereof with other matters incident to the keeping up of the navy , amounted to two hundred twenty five thosand , five hundred forty foure pounds . l. in the yeare . there were set forth for the summer fleet , forty foure kings ships , and merchants ships , with marriners , and for the winter guard , kings ships , and merchants ships with marriners ; the totall charge whereof with other matters incident to the keeping up of the navy , amounted to two hundred ninety six thousand , fifty one pound . l. and this year , there are set forth for the summer fleet of the kings ships and frigats , and merchants ships ; the charge whereof with the frigots now building , furnishing the magazin , and paying the ordinaries , and the other matters of the navy , will per estimate amount unto two hundred thirty three thousand foure hundred and fifteen pounds . l. besides , there have severall years been set out severall ships , by private adventurers by way of reprizall , which have been allowed victuals by the state . in all which expeditions , these particular actions of that committee are remarkable . . that being furnished with this great power and trust , in setting forth of ships , providing of materials and payment of moneys , they took along with them the concurrent advice and full consent of the commissioners of the navy , victulars of the navy , officers of the ordnance , and all other officers of the navy respectively , as fellow servants trusted with them , who by the order and directions of that committee , did with all chearefulnesse and faithfulnesse , for any thing that ever appeared unto that committee , act and execute all things for the greatest advantage of the state , in relation to the honour , safety , and profit thereof . . that with their concurrent advice and help , the severall yards , & store-houses of the navy royal , were so plentifully & seasonably maintained with pitch , tarre , hemp , cordage , planck , timber , and all other materials for shipping : and the office of ordnance so furnished with ordnance , powder , shott , & other gunners stoares , the victualling office so carefully and advantagiously managed , as that there was not one ship of all these severall fleets , but at her setting to sea was compleatly and arithmetically furnished with double equipage , of cordage , sayles , &c. with due proportion of powder , match , bullett , according to the number and dimensions of her ordnance : and with beef , pork , fish , pease , butter , cheese , bread , beere , and all other victuals , and all of the choysest and best , as there was never complaint made to the parliament or committee of any defect of any of these , either for quantity or quality . . that comming in of ships , ( saving in the time of the late commissioners of the customes , who for some reasons best known to themselves , did refuse upon pressing occasions to furnish the parliament or that committee with money or credit : ) the committee took that care for providing of moneys , ( many times with their credit ) as the marriners were so timely paid off , that the state was not at the charge of one dayes dead pay , neither was ever complaint of marriners hard at the doores of the parliament , since the time of these commissioners . . that the whole body of the navy was kept up , in that honour , strength , and readinesse for service , as no age can parallel , there being at this present an increase of above thirty ships and frigats more then they found belonging to the navy royall , whereof some have been taken by reprizall , some bought for money , and some built from the stocks , which are most active nimble vessels , all now in service . . that this great work was so advantagiously carried on , as notwithstanding the state was sometime above three hundred thousand pounds in debt , an● atpresent about two hundred and fifty thousand pound● yet hitherto ( saving in the time before mentioned ) there never wanted monies to carry through all the difficulties of that service . neither was the managing of the customes and of the navy , though two such great workes , the only imployment of that committee : but in the yeare . the parliament having by reason of the great fleetes contracted great debts on the navy , were pleased to put an excise on flesh and salt , the profits whereof they appropriated to the use of the navy , and committed the charge and care thereof to that committee , by whose wisedome and care , with the concurrence of the commissioners of excise , only by changing the manner of the collection , the yearly income was encreased from about seven or eight thousand pound , unto near sixty thousand pound per ann. as by the commissioners of excize accounts will appeare ; all which monies were disposed of by that committee by the same rule of customes . besides , there are severall gentlemen of this committee who being with divers honourable lords , appointed a committee for the excize , have transacted very great matters concerning the regulating of those receipts , and reconciling of differences happening in the same . there was a further charge lay on that committee , which was the managing of the ships , and goods taken by reprizall , which begot not the least trouble to the committee , in regard of the many intricare cases , which fell out , scarce numerable , in so short a narrative , yet was that distracted work with the faithfullnesse , care , and 〈◊〉 of the commissioners and collectors appointed for reprizall goods , carried on with all advantage as was possible for so unhappy a work to bee managed , which proved much the more troublesome and intricate , ( though the cheifest part of that trouble fell to the collectors ) by reason owners of merchants ships and all mariners had shares in all prizes and prize goods taken ; and this is here remarkable , that there is not an owner of shipping , nor mariner in the kingdome that can justly complaine , but that he hath received his full payment of all advantages which have been made in this kind , saving in some cases of late , only for want of a iudge of the admiralty to adjudge the same . beyond all this , it is observeable , that in the first yeare of these unhappy distractions , six of the committee of the navy with three honourable lords , did discharge the office of the lord high admirall , and of the judge of the admiralty : and with unexpressible trouble and care , without the help of the admiralty court , the iudge having deserted it , did by the order of the parliament , wade through those intricare cases which fell out that first yeare . besides this , severall worthy gentlemen of that committee , have for divers years since , together with divers honourable lords , for want of a lord high admirall , by command of both houses , carried on the whole frame of the affaires of the admiralty and cinque-ports . there lay yet a further charge on divers gentlemen of that committee , in regard of those relations which that committee had unto all sea affaires and to trade : it pleased the parliament to joyne them with divers honourable lords as a committee of forreign affaires , who by reason of the variety of complaints , which came from the severall ambassadors of spaine , france , the states , and orhers , of the ships and goods of their masters subjects to be taken in reprizall , by ships imployed by the parliament , were often incumbred with many intricate points of state ; and it was no ordinary service which those noble lords and the rest of that committee , laboured under to defend the just rights of the parliament , upon those severall emergencies which fell out , in speciall , between the ambassadors of the states ; and this committee , who after three moneths debate , did maintaine the actions of the parliament as warrantable , by treaties of state , and by law of nature , and nations ; as by a declaration sent unto the states from both houses of parliament , most clearely appeareth ▪ and this committee held constant weekly intelligence with the parliaments agents imployed in france , flanders , and holland , for the obtaining of justice for those merchants , who were agrieved by the taking or seazure of their ships or goods , or otherwise . there was another burthen lay on that committee , which was the managing of that most christian and honourable work for the redemption of the poore captives from their slavery under the turke , who with the help and unwearied paines of divers worthy merchants of the city of london , did with all advantage carry on that work , which will bee memorable to posterity : the care of the money collected for those uses , and the imployment of them being trusted by the parliament , with that committee , and that trust with all faithfullnesse discharged , so as had not that sad accident happened on the ship honour in the losse of the first cargason at gilbraltar , ( which much increased the trouble of that committee , and those gentlemen ) the work had well neare been finished ; yet blessed be god , two hundred and fifty captives are redeemed and brought home , ten thousand pounds sterling more in peeces of eight sent away for argier , and another cargason of the like value ready to be sent upon the first intelligence from the agent at argier : and care is taken for the redemption of those in tunnis , sally , saphia , and all south barbary . besides all those publick and weighty imployments of that committee , uncessant were their labours in particular businesses referred unto them by the house of commons : as the recovery in of the monyes due on the bonds delivered in by the farmours taken for customes in the time of the late act of parliament : preparing ordinances for the advancement of the trade of severall companys of merchants trading into forreign parts , with limited rules and restrictions ; composing of differences upon severall occasions between merchants and officers of the customes ; and examining , and stating that intricate affaire of the vintners , which subjected them to just fines ; and many other businesses of great weight and intricacy , and were with all cheerefullnesse and faithfullnesse transacted to cleare up the honour and iustice of the parliament : and that without the use of any arbitrary power , but in all cases which they found proper to receive their tryalls in any courts of iustice , were carefull to referr such causes to their proper courts . but the whole former narrative may bee true , yet the honour of the parliament , or of the committee of the navy no way cleared , but rather stands the more deeply charged : for it doth appeare by severall passages in the narrative , that the committee of the navy have executed the power and trust of two great officers of state ; as in the first yeare of these unnaturall distempers , being , the office of the lord high admirall : and from that very yeare to this day the greatest part of the office and trust of the lord treasurert ; these had the power of disposing multitudes of offices , the one in the navy , the other in the customes ; besides great fees and other perquisites of profit and great advantage ; yet the power of the committee rested not here , but the narrative setts forth divers other imployments of trust , whereby great advantages have bin very probably made by that committee or some private gentlemen , as the preferment of persons to offices , and those unworthy or not qualified for such offices , and men of more merit , sufferings and abilities laid by , which doth lay a great blemish on the honour of the parliament , to imploy their own members in such great places of trust and advantage ; and this is visible to all men , that the chaireman of that committee , had five hundred pounds per annum , allowed him , besides all his other great advantages , or otherwise neither he nor some others of that committee would ever have followed the affaires of that committee , with that zeale and paines early and late , that scarce a trades-man in the city , or husband-man in the countrey tooke the like : so that he was thereby brought to such weaknesse at three times , he was at the very gates of death by sedentary diseases . vnto all which it is necessary to give this further account that as to my own particular , i do here in the presence of the almighty god , the searcher of all hearts , and the righteous iudge as well of all mens intentions , as of their actions , protest ; that next that duty i owe unto god , who hath called me to this imployment , and to the parliament , who hath intrusted mee with the same , and to my country , for whose sake and preservation i was sent hither , all irresistable motives to an ingenious and conscionable christian , to make me account no labour too great , nor care too much , to be any way instrumentall in so great and glorious a work as the reformation in church and state , being the main end of the endeavours of the parliament ; i say next the duty i owed to those former relations , i was impatiently studious ( with the help , wisedome , and care of that committee ) to manage those great workes with that advantage to the common-wealth , and with that clearenesse from all private ends , as that on the one side the king , on the other side the people , might be in love with parliaments ; the king that he might see the great difference in the managing of the affaires of state , between the councells of the parliament , and his old councellours , of whom he was so fond , and by most of whom he was so grosly deceived , and the state abused ; on the other side , that the people might see their happinesse under the government of a king directed by the councell of parliament , in receiving redresse of their grievances , releise in their wants , due and speedy justice with all cleerenesse , and without consumption of their time , by long attendance , or of their estates by needlesse and forced expences . and as to the five hundred pound allowed mee by the parliament , towards the defraying of my expences , having my whole estate then under the power of the enemy for above three yeares ; i acknowledge it a great mercy from god , and a great favour in the parliament , to provide so liberally for me : yet i doe professe that those monies have not supplied my necessities , but before the quarters have come about , i have been forced to borrow mony of my children or servants , for to defray my ordinary disbursements ; yet have i not bin profuse either in apparrell or dyet , but have lived in a far lesse plenty then before i came to attend the service of the parliament . and as to the disposing of those severall offices , either in the navy or customes ; i doe make this answer , that it is true , that many hundreds of persons most of them destroyed in their estates by these civill warrs , had their petitions ly before that committee for preferments unto office ; and that committee did accordingly dispose of very many as they fell , wherein they used all possible care that the persons they preferred should be qualified for the imployment , men that had suffered in their estates , and recommended for their integrities ; and to my best remembrance they never preferred any but upon the speciall recommendation and certificate of the members of one or both houses or parliament : all which offices were by that committee conferred with so much care and clearnesse , as what ever was the former practice of officers of state , in disposing of them for money , a thing too apparent , and too great a blemish to those times : yet i doe with all confidence affirme , that neither my selfe , nor any gentleman of that committee ever received one penny for any such preferment ; and that committee in this point have been so exact and tender , in regard of the scandall that might arise to the parliament , by sale of offices , as that they have from time to time taken strict account of the clerks attending that committee , what advantages they made by the disposing of such offices ; and it appeares by their accounts duly kept , they have gotten between them all for orders , warrants , and grants for offices , not full thitty five pound , whereof neare forty places have been customers , comptroulers , and searchers in the custome house , all places of repute and profit , and as to the profits which did arise the first year , for the admirall tenths , and were alwayes by him carefully taken and converted to his private use . i do confesse there were prizses taken that year which amounted unto twenty two thousand pound or thereabouts , whereof two thousand two hundred pound accrued to the tenths , but that neither out of the tenths , nor any other profits whatsoever , i never received one farthing , but all the profits were faithfully converted by that committee to the use of the state . as to the office of the l. treasurer in the disposing of moneys , the last particular , and wherein satisfaction may more especially be expected , of what advantages have been made by the moneys arising by those three springs , or otherwise appropriate to the disposall of this committee . from the customes hath bin ordered unto sir henry vane ( whereof seventy thousand pounds is borrowed ) nine hundred twenty three thousand eight hundred sixty foure pounds two shilling & ten pence half-penny . l. s. d. ●b . from the excise of flesh and salt , one hundred forty five thousand foure hundred seventy one pounds seventeen shillings and seven pence . l. s. d. from prize goods , twenty three thousand nine hundred forty three pounds six shillings six pence halfe-penny . l. s. d. from other hands and receipts being either moneys borrowed , which are since repaid , or otherwise for speciall reasons appointed for the use of the navy , ninety three thousand six hundred pounds three shillings and nine pence . l. s. d. amounting in the whole , l. s. d. to which i say , that as in the case of offices , so in this also , the committee have commanded their clerks to give an account of what hath been given them for the orders signed for moneys ; and it appeares , it hath not been communibus annis , fifty pounds per annum unto each ; yet in orders , letters , &c. twenty reames of paper at least , have yearly been written , besides the journals of the committee , which are with all faithfulnesse and care preserved for the use of the parliament . and to satisfie the world of my own integrity , i do solemnly professe , as in the presence of god , at whose tribunall , i must give an account for all my actions before all men and angels ; that for the appointing of all those moneys disposed of by that committee , i never received , nor any other to my knowledge for my use , any summe or summes of money , not the value of a penny from any person or persons whatsoever as a fee , bribe , reward , or what other name you may give it ; but the same hath in every part been faithfully conveyed from the treasury of the state to the hands of the subject without any advantage made upon them , saving that there was about foure yeares since , three pounds sent unto me from a captaine at sea for a beaver hat , which mony i gave freely away , and was disposed to my best remembrance thirty shillings to the distressed protestants which came from ireland , the other moity to maymed souldiers in the parliaments service : ) nor have i ever received any sume or sums for any other affai●●s of parliament whatsoever transacted by that committee all provocations tending there unto i have avoyded , and declined , i abhorre and from my soule detest the very thought of such proceedings : it is so farr below a gentleman and a member of the high court of parliament . if any man can justly charge me with any such matter , there is a committee appointed by the house of commons for examination of such matters , where he may complaine : and i will give him fouresold reparations ; or further , if any man can make it evident , that he hath given any thing as a reward , gratuity , or such like to my wife , any child , servant , or any other for my use , i will make him reparation to the full value . and for any gentleman , or other person , that hath at any time by way of civility brought or sent me any thing whatsoever , which yet among men is lawfull , and may have in it no dishonest intentions either in the giver or receiver ; i doe hereby invite and desire him to let me know the value of the same , and i will willingly satisfie him for it : and what i have here asserted on my own behalfe , i am confident i may with much freedome assert on the behalfe of those worthy gentlemen of the committee , who constantly attended those services . and now i have done , and by this i hope have 〈◊〉 all modest christians , and stopped the mouth 〈◊〉 slander : whereby i trust i have discharged my first ●●gagement , in clearing up the honour of the parliam●●● and of the committee of the navy and customes , 〈◊〉 their faithfull transacting of all the affaires 〈◊〉 to their trust and charge : that they have been 〈◊〉 not with any base or private ends or advantages , 〈◊〉 with publick spirits to the honour of the parlia●●●● good of the people , advantage and safety of the ●●●dom . by giles grene esquire a member of the honourable house of commons . finis . to the honourable, the knights, citizens and burgesses, in parliament assembled it is now almost seven years since i endeavoured to set right his majesties revenue of excise, both as to the management of, and accompting for it; ... farthing, john. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing f estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) to the honourable, the knights, citizens and burgesses, in parliament assembled it is now almost seven years since i endeavoured to set right his majesties revenue of excise, both as to the management of, and accompting for it; ... farthing, john. sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : - ] signed at end: john farthing. title from caption and first lines of text. suggested imprint from wing. with a docket title: "the original is delivered to the right honourable paul foley, speaker of the honourable house of commons. touching several hundred thousand of pounds paid by the subject, but diverted from their proper channel.". reproduction of the original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng excise tax -- england -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - pip willcox sampled and proofread - pip willcox text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to the honourable , the knights , citizens and burgesses , in parliament assembled . it is now almost seven years since i endeavoured to set right his majesties revenue of excise , both as to the management of , and accompting for it ; but hitherto have met with many obstructions , which almost discouraged me from ever medling any further in it : but having observed in his majesties most gracious speech to both houses of parliament , at the opening of this session , that his majesty takes notice that the funds already established are deficient some millions , i am induced to offer to this honourable house to discover some hundred thousands of pounds paid by the subject for excise of beer and ale , which are diverted from their proper chanel , into private pockets ; and if i shall be required thereunto , and encouraged by this honourable house , i will shew by whom , and upon what pretence these summs are so diverted , and are still like to be , if proper means be not applied ; which i think my duty at such an exigency of affairs humbly to propose to this honourable house , having been employed in the excise , not only as a sub-commissioner , but also spent many years study as well as considerable summs of money in the improvement of that revenue . the consideration of this is humbly submitted to this honourable house , by john farthing , late of long ditton in the county of surrey , now of chelsey in the county of middlesex . subscribed , john farthing . die veneris . junii . ordered by the lords and commons assembled in parliament, that the excise of flesh bee taken off from and after the foure and twentieth day of this instant june, and that from and after the said day the said excise cease and be no longer paid. joh. brown cler. parliamentorum. die veneris . junii . ordered by the lords and commons assembled in parliament, that the excise of salt made in this kingdome bee taken off ... proceedings. - - england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ *]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e n thomason .f. [ *] estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) die veneris . junii . ordered by the lords and commons assembled in parliament, that the excise of flesh bee taken off from and after the foure and twentieth day of this instant june, and that from and after the said day the said excise cease and be no longer paid. joh. brown cler. parliamentorum. die veneris . junii . ordered by the lords and commons assembled in parliament, that the excise of salt made in this kingdome bee taken off ... proceedings. - - england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) printed for john wright at the kings head in the old bayley, london : . two votes repealing excise of flesh and salt. reproduction of original in the william andrews clark memorial library. eng excise tax -- england -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . broadsides -- england a r (thomason .f. [ *]). civilwar no die veneris . junii . ordered by the lords and commons assembled in parliament, that the excise of flesh bee taken off, from and after england and wales. parliament a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion die veneris . junii . ordered by the lords and commons assembled in parliament , that the excise of flesh bee taken off , from and after the foure and twentieth day of this instant june , and that from and after the said day the said excise cease and be no longer paid . joh. brown cler. parliamentorum . die veneris . junii . ordered by the lords and commons assembled in parliament , that the excise of salt made in this kingdome bee taken off , from and after the foure and twentieth day of this instant june , and that from and after the said day , the said excise cease and be no longer paid . joh. brown cler. parliamentorum . london printed for john wright at the kings head in the old bayley . . die martis, . iulii, . whereas the lords and commons assembled, have been necessitated to take up and anticipate severall great sums of mony for the service of the parliament, ... england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e thomason .f. [ ] estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) die martis, . iulii, . whereas the lords and commons assembled, have been necessitated to take up and anticipate severall great sums of mony for the service of the parliament, ... england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) printed by r. cotes, and r. raworth, london : . text from caption and opening line of text. signed: joh. brown, cler. parliamentorum; h. elsynge, cler. parl. d. com. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng excise tax -- law and legislation -- great britain -- early works to . great britain -- politics and government -- - -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no die martis, . iulii, . whereas the lords and commons assembled, have been necessitated to take up and anticipate severall great sums o england and wales. parliament. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - elspeth healey sampled and proofread - elspeth healey text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion die martis , . iulii , . whereas the lords and commons in parliament assembled , have been necessitated to take up and anticipate severall great sums of mony for the service of the parliament , upon the credit of the receipts of the excise established and still in force by severall ordinances of parliament , and upon occasion of such loanes made unto them , have declared that they would continue the same receipts of the excise ; untill principall and interest were fully discharged , which cannot be yet compassed , by reason that the receipts of the excise have for many moneths past been very much obstructed , and so fallen very much short of what was expected , if the same could have been duly levied ; and foreseeing , that besides the satisfying of those engagements , it will be necessary to continue the same receipts of the excise the better to inable them to goe through the great work of establishing the peace of the kingdom , upon which they are at present ingaged ; and for the better easing of the people , upon whom the charge of so great a work must otherwise lye , and be raised with much difficulty and inconvenience , and in a farr more burthensome manner ; the lords and commons in parliament assembled doe hereby ordain , that the severall receipts of the excise and new-impost now in force , formerly appointed by ordinance of the . of september , . commonly called the grand excise ; so much of the ordinance dated the ninth of january , . concerning forain made salt imported ; the additionall excise and new-impost appointed by ordinance dated the eighth of july , . and the last additionall ordinance for the levying excise upon lead , gold , silver , and copper thread , gold , silver , and copper wyer , &c. dated the four and twentieth of november , . and all other orders , declarations and ordinances of parliament now in force , made in explanation , or for the better regulating all and every the said receipts , be yet continued , from , and after the nine and twentyeth day of september in the yeare of our lord untill the nine and twentyeth day of september , which shall be in the year of our lord god . to be managed by such persons , and in such manner as both houses of parliament shall think fit ; whereof , as all persons whatsoever are hereby required to take due notice and yeeld obedience thereunto accordingly , so , the said lords and commons doe declare , that whensoever they shall find the affairs of this kingdom to be in such a condition ( which they shall especially and earnestly endevour ) as may admit of the utter abolishing or lessening thereof , they will upon all occasions embrace the same , and shew how ready they are to give all possible ease unto the people . joh. brown , cler. parliamentorum . h. elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. london , printed by r. cotes , and r. raworth , . die veneris . martii. . whereas it is thought fit, that sixe weeks pay be made to colonell massey, commander in chiefe of all the forces for the westerne association, and the forces under his command ... england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing w thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) die veneris . martii. . whereas it is thought fit, that sixe weeks pay be made to colonell massey, commander in chiefe of all the forces for the westerne association, and the forces under his command ... england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : ] title from heading and first lines of text. imprint from wing. signed: jo. brown. cler. parliamentorum. & h. elsyng cler. parl. d. com. an order of parliament for twenty thousand pounds to be paid out of the excise for the support of the forces of the western association under col. massey. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng massey, edward, -- sir, ?- ? -- early works to . excise tax -- england -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no die veneris . martii. . whereas it is thought fit, that sixe weeks pay be made to colonell massey, commander in chiefe of all the forc england and wales. parliament. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - jason colman sampled and proofread - jason colman text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion die veneris . martii . . whereas it is thought fit , that sixe weeks pay be made to colonell massey , commander in chiefe of all the forces for the westerne association , and the forces under his command . and whereas the committee of lords and commons for the westerne association have reported , that twenty thousand pounds is ( as they conceive ) a fit proportion for that service ; be it ordained by the lords and commons in parliament assembled , that the sum of twenty thousand pounds , for the pay of the said forces , together with interest after the rate of eight pounds per cent . for the same , at the end of every sixe moneths , untill full payment thereof be made , shall be paid in course , out of the receipts of the grand excise , unto such person or persons , their executors , administrators and assignes , who shall lend or advance any sum or sums of money for the use aforesaid ; they paying in the money by them so advanced or lent , to nathan wright , and francis lenthall , appointed treasurers to receive and disburse the same ; which said nathan wright , and francis lenthall , shall disburse the same moneys so lent by warrant of the committee of the west , whose warrant for disbursing of the same , shall be a sufficient discharge to the said nathan wright , and francis lenthall , their executors and assigns . and it is ordained , that the acquittance or note of receipt of the said nathan wright , and francis lenthall , to the person or persons so lending or advancing any sum of money , testifying the loane or advance of the said moneys , entred with the commissioners and comptroler of excise , for the time being , within sixe daies after the date of the said notes , shall be a sufficient warrant to the said person or persons lending the said moneyes , their executors and assignes , to demand the said moneyes so lent or advanced , with interest after the rate aforesaid , from the commissioners of excize for the time being . and it is ordained , that any person or persons who shall advance any sum of money by way of loane , upon this ordinance , or to whom any shall be assigned , his and their executors , and assignes , shall have power to assigne the money to them due , or any part thereof ; and such assignee his executors or assignes , shall be thereby intituled and inabled to demand , receive , and give discharge for so much as is to him or them assigned : and the commissioners of excize shall make payment thereof accordingly . provided that such assignment be made in writing , and entry thereof made with the commissioners and comptroller of the excise , for the time being , who shall at the request of any person or persons , make such entry : and before such entry made , such assignement to be of no force . jo. brown . cler. parliamentorum . h. elsyng . cler. parl. d. com. ordered by the lord and commons now assembled in parliament that one subsidy called tonnage, and one other subsidy called poundage, and those other duties called or known by the name of new impost, shall continue to be paid after the rates, rules and proportions by which they are now due and payable ... england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing e ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) ordered by the lord and commons now assembled in parliament that one subsidy called tonnage, and one other subsidy called poundage, and those other duties called or known by the name of new impost, shall continue to be paid after the rates, rules and proportions by which they are now due and payable ... england and wales. parliament. broadside. printed by john bill and christopher barker ..., london : . title from first lines of text. at head of title: thursday, june . . "thursday june . . ordered by the lords in parliament assembled, that these orders be forthwith printed and published. jo. browne cleric: parliamentorum." identified on film as wing e (number cancelled). reproduction of original in the harvard university library. eng tariff -- law and legislation -- england. excise tax -- law and legislation -- england. a r (wing e ). civilwar no thursday, june . . ordered by the lords and commons now assembled in parliament, that one subsidy called tonnage, and one other subsid england and wales. parliament a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - john pas sampled and proofread - john pas text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion thursday , june . . ordered by the lords and commons now assembled in parliament , that one subsidy called tonnage , and one other subsidy called poundage , and those other duties called or known by the name of new impost , shall continue to be paid after the rates , rules and proportions by which they are now due and payable , and upon the same goods and merchandises whereupon the same are now levied and collected , until the th . of july , which shall be in the year of our lord ; before which time , one act is intended to be passed for the settlement and regulation thereof . ordered by the lords and commons now assembled in parliament , that the imposition of excise shall continue to be paid after the rates , rules , and proportions by which the same is now due and payable , and upon the same goods and merchandizes , whereupon the same are now levied and collected , until the twenty fourth of july , which shall be in the year of our lord , one thousand six hundred and sixty , before which time , one act is intended , to be passed for the settlement and regulation thereof . thursday june . . ordered by the lords in parliament assembled , that these orders be forthwith printed and published . jo : browne cleric : parliamentorum . london , printed by john bill and christopher barker , printers to the kings most excellent majesty . . by the king· a proclamation, for continuing the officers of the excise, during his majesties pleasure proclamations. - - england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing c thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) by the king· a proclamation, for continuing the officers of the excise, during his majesties pleasure proclamations. - - england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) charles ii, king of england, - . sheet ([ ] p.) printed by john bill, printer to the kings most excellent majesty, . at the kings printing-house in black friers, london : [ ] dated at end: given at our court at whitehall, this four and twentieth day of december, one thousand six hundred and sixty, ... steele notation: arms the oners employ-. reproduction of original in the henry e. huntington library. eng excise tax -- england -- early works to . broadsides -- england a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no by the king· a proclamation, for continuing the officers of the excise, during his majesties pleasure. england and wales. sovereign a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion c r diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the king . a proclamation , for continuing officers of the excise , during his majesties pleasure . charles r. whereas by vertue of an act entituled , an act for the continuing of the excise untill the five and twentieth day of december . the same receipt was managed , and the whole work thereof carried on by certain commissioners therein named , called commissioners for the grand excise , and by divers sub-commissioners , and other their inferior officers and ministers not therein mentioned : and by certain other commissioners in the said act also named , called commissioners for appeals and regulating the excise , and their inferior officers and ministers . and whereas part of the said excise , consisting of certain impositions upon beér , ale , cider , perry , and other liquors , is by two several acts of parliament passed upon the four and twentieth day of this instant deeember , granted unto vs , that is to say , one moyety thereof to vs , our heirs and successors , as a perpetual recompence and satisfaction of and for our tenures and purveyance ; and the other moyety thereof as an augmentation of our revenue during our life . in both which acts it is referred unto vs to nominate such persons as we shall think fit to be commissioners and officers for carrying on of that service , which the shortness of time , and other our weighty occasions will not yet give vs leasure to think of . to the intent therefore that our revenue may not suffer any loss or hindrance by this delay , we do hereby publish and declare our royal will and pleasure , that all and every the persons , who upon the four and twentieth day of this instant december , were commissioners for the grand excise , sub-commissioners , or inferior officers relating thereunto , or commissioners for appeals and regulating the excise , shall be and are hereby authorized and required to continue in his and their respective employments , and are hereby declared to be our commissioners for the excise of beer , ale , cider , perry , and other liquors , and our sub-commissioners and inferior officers ; and also our commissioners for appeals and regulating the excise , during our pleasure . and we do hereby enjoyn them to act in their several places and employments according to the rules in the two acts last mentioned and not otherwise , for which they shall receive from vs during their respective employments , like wages and salaries as hath been heretofore used and accustomed . given at our court at whitehall , this four and twentieth day of december , one thousand six hundred and sixty , in the twelfth year of our reign . god save the king . london printed by john bill , printer to the king' 's most excellent majesty , . at the king's printing-house in black-friers . proclamation appointing twenty shillings to be payed for every boll of foreign victual that shall be imported scotland. privy council. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). b wing s estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. b ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) proclamation appointing twenty shillings to be payed for every boll of foreign victual that shall be imported scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign ( - : william ii) sheet ([ ] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson ..., edinburgh, : . caption title. initial letter. title vignette: royal seal with initials w r. intentional blank spaces in text. imperfect: sheet creased with slight loss of text. reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng excise tax -- law and legislation -- scotland -- early works to . scotland -- foreign economic relations -- early works to . broadsides -- scotland -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion w r diev et mon droit honi soit qui mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms proclamation appointing twenty shilling to be payed for every boll of foraign victual that shall be imported . william by the grace of god , king of great - britain , france and ireland , defender of the faith. to macers of our privy council , messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally , specially , constitute greetings ▪ for as much as , by sundry acts of the lords of our privy council , and proclamations formerly emitted by us ; foraign of the continuing dearth of victual in several places of this kingdom , and of the want and distres many of our good subjects ly under there-through ; and that the unseasonableness of the weather threatning a late harvest may make the straits and wants of many , especially of the poorer fort . insupportable before they can be relieved by the present cropt we have resolved to give all incouragement to any who shall import victual to this kingdom from any foraign country during the space after-mentioned . therefore , we with advice of the lords of our privy council , do hereby grant license , and full liberty to all persons whatsomever , foraigners or natives , to import victual or corns of all sorts , either by sea or by land from any other kingdom or country whatsoever , until the first day of october next to come , and that free of custom , excise , or other impossition for all that shall be imported after the day and date hereof during the time foresaid ; and recommends it to the commissioners of our theasaury to discharge the exacting of any such custom , excise , or imposition for the said victual so to be imported , notwithstanding of any act of parliament , or book of rates imposing the same ; and for a farther encouragement , and invitation to all such who shall import and bring into this kingdom , either by sea or land betwixt and the day foresaid , victual or corn of any sort , except malt , we with advice of the lords of our privy council , do hereby appoint , and ordain the sum of twenty shilling scots for each boll of the said foraign victual ( excepting as said is ) to be imported after the day and date hereof , and betwixt and the said first of october , to be given and payed out of our customs to the importer thereof , upon his oath of verity , of the number of bolls imported by him , taken in presence of any of the sheriffs of the several shires of this kingdom , baillies of bailliaries or regalities , stuarts of the stewartries or their respective deputs magistrats of burghs or any of the commissioners of supply , or justices of peace within the same , and subscribed with his hand , and attested by the foresaids judges , and also by the collector of the next adjacent custom-house ; and of which twenty shilling scots , we with advice foresaid require and command the tacksmen and farmers of our customs , and their collectors and other receivers at the respective custom-houses to make present and immediate payment for each boll of foraign victual imported by sea or land to the importer thereof upon his receipt to be given upon the back of the foresaid subscribed oath of the number of bolls imported ; and which receipt we with advice foresaid declare , shall be a sufficient exoneration to the saids tacksmen and farmers of our customs and their collectors of their said tack-duty , and be allowed to them in the fore-end thereof protanto , certifying such of the saids collectors , or other persons imployed to receive money at the respective custom-houses , by the tacksmen and farmers of our saids customs ; that if they shall fail to make due and punctual payment of the said twenty shilling scots for each boll of imported victual , ( excepting as said is ) postpon or delay the importers thereof in the ready payment of the said sum when the said subscribed oath and receipt is offered to them . they shall not only be declared , and ipso facto thereby become incapable to serve , or be imployed by our saids farmers in any office or trust under them in uplifting our saids customs , but be farther lyable in what penaltie and dammages to the party , the lords of our privy council shall think fit to inflict upon them . our will is herefore , and we charge you strictly , and command , that incontinent these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinhurgh , and to the remnant mercat-crosses of the head-burghs of the several shires and stewarties within this kingdom ; and their in our name and authority make intimation hereof , that none pretend ignorance : and ordains these presents to be printed . given under our signet at edinburgh the seventh day of august , and of our reign the eight year . ex deliberatione dominorum secreti concilli . gilb . eliot cls. sti. concilii . god save the king. william r ▪ edinburgh , printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson , printer to his most excellent majesty , anno dom. . die lunæ . martii . an ordinance for the regulating of the rates on the customes and excise of tobacco. england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e aa thomason .f. [ ] estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) die lunæ . martii . an ordinance for the regulating of the rates on the customes and excise of tobacco. england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) by richard cotes, and john raworth, printed at london : . signed: joh. browne cleric. parliamentorum. annotation on thomason copy: " ."; the second in the imprint date has been crossed out. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng excise tax -- england -- early works to . tobacco -- taxation -- law and legislation -- great britain -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no die lunæ . martii . an ordinance for the regulating of the rates on the customes and excise of tobacco. england and wales. parliament. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion die lunae . martii . an ordinance for the regulating of the rates on the customes and excise of tobacco . forasmuch as the lords and commons assembled in parliament , have taken notice of the rates , customes , and excise , laid and imposed on tobacco of all sorts , to bee greater and higher than it will now well beare , in regard of the disturbance of trade in foraign parts , and present distractions of this kingdom : for the regulating whereof , and for the incouragement and ease as well of the importer , as ingrosser , and seller of tobacco ; it is ordained by the said lords and commons , that all tobaccoes of the english plantations , imported or remaining in the hands of the merchant or importer , or the ingrosser or buyer thereof , shall bee liable to such rates for the excise , and such rules observed for the same , as are set down and prescribed in a late ordinance of the . december , . and for all spanish tobacco , not of the english plantation , imported and remaining in the hands of any merchant or importer , or the ingrosser or buyer thereof , at the day of the date of this ordinance , there shall bee paid only six pence for every pound excise for the same . provided alvvayes , that no person shall have any benefit of this moderation , but only such as shall within foureteen dayes after the publication of this ordinance , make his personall appearance at such office of excise , under which his dwelling place shall bee , and there deliver in a true particular account of all such spanish tobaccoes , not of the english plantations , as were remaining in his hands at the date of this ordinance , and for which the excise hath not been paid as a foresaid , and shall presently , according to the respective rate of six pence upon a pound weight , pay and cleare the said duty of excise , for all such tobacco as hee had at , or before the day of the date hereof , remaining in his hands , but bee proceeded against without favour or pardon , according to the said former ordinance of excise of the eleventh september last . and it is further ordained by the said lords and commons , that for all tobaccoes which have not before this ordinance , paid the custome and excise , or shall from the day of the date hereof bee imported by any merchant or others , into the kingdome of england , dominion of wales , and port and tovvn of barwicke , the importer or ingrosser thereof , shall pay custome and excise for the same , as followeth , viz. for all spanish and other tobacco , not of the english plantation , the importer shall pay six pence for every pound weight for custome , and the ingrosser or first buyer , one shilling excise for the same . and for all tobaccoes of the english plantations , which shall bee imported as aforesaid , the importer shall pay one penny per pound custome , and the ingrosser or first buyer , two pence per pound for excise of the same , which respective summes of one shilling and two pence , are to bee paid by the ingrosser or buyer , upon sale thereof , as is prescribed in the said ordinance of the eleventh september last . and lastly , it is ordered and ordained by the said lords and commons , that no part of the customes or subsidy paid by the merchant or other , at the time of the importation of his tobacco , as is expressed in the second article in the booke of rates , shall be allowed by the commissioners of the customes , or other officer or officers of the severall custome-houses , to any merchant or others upon the exportation of any tobaccoes . any order or ordinance heretofore made to the contrary in any wise , notwithstanding : provided that this ordinance shall continue in force for the space of one whole yeare from the day of the date of this ordinance , and no longer . joh. browne cleric . parliamentorum . printed at london , by richard cotes , and john raworth , . die mercurii, januarii, . two ordinances of the lords and commons in parliament assembled, for continuation of the severall ordinances of excise or new-impost untill the of september, england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) die mercurii, januarii, . two ordinances of the lords and commons in parliament assembled, for continuation of the severall ordinances of excise or new-impost untill the of september, england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : ] second ordinance dated february [i.e. ]. imprint from wing. both signed: joh. browne, cleric. parliamentorum. annotation on thomason copy: "[illegible] th .". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng excise tax -- england -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no die mercurii, januarii, . two ordinances of the lords and commons in parliament assembled, for continuation of the severall ordinance england and wales. parliament. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - elspeth healey sampled and proofread - elspeth healey text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion die mercurii , januarii , . two ordinances of the lords and commons in parliament assembled , for continuation of the severall ordinances of excise or new-impost untill the of september , . whereas the lords and commons in parliament assembled have thought fit to continue the severall rates and charges of excise or new-impost already setled and established by authority of both houses . be it hereby ordained by the said lords and commons in parliament assembled , that all and every the ordinances touching the excise or new-impost , and every clause , sentence , article , and other thing and things in them and every of them contained and expressed and now in force , aswell for the governing and ordering of the excise , as for the setling , laying , and imposing severall rates and charges upon sundry and divers commodities , shall , next after their and every of their particular and respective expirations , be , and hereby are continued , prolonged , and to be received in and thorowout the kingdom of england , dominion of wales , and town of berwick , untill the first day of april , one thousand six hundred fourty six . and it is further ordained and declared by authority aforesaid , that john towse , thomas foot , john kendrick , thomas cullum , and simon edmonds , esquires , and aldermen of the city of london ; john lamott and edward claxton of the same , esquires , the present commissioners of excise or new-impost , shall remain and be the chief commissioners and governours of the whole office and receipts of the excise and new-impost in and thorow the whole kingdom of england , dominion of wales , and town of berwick ; and shall and may do and execute all and every the said ordinances , clauses , articles , and other thing and things in all and every the said ordinances contained , mentioned , and expressed , in the same manner and form , and to the same intents and purposes , for , during and untill the said first day of april , one thousand six hundred fourty six , with the like allowance of six pence upon every twenty shillings that shall come in upon the receipts of the excise or new-impost . and it is further ordained , that the said commissioners , and their sub-commissioners , shall make and deliver up their respective accompts in such manner as is directed and prescribed by the ordinance of the one and thirtieth of august last past . and it is likewise ordained , that aswell all and every the said commissioners , their sub-commissioners and officers , as all and every other person and persons whatsoever , who shall do , or cause any thing to be done in pursuance of this ordinance , shall be protected , saved harmlesse and indempnified , by authority of both houses of parliament . joh. brown , cleric . parliamentorum . die lunae , feb. . ordered by the lords and commons in parliament assembled , that the ordinance concerning the receipts and commissioners of excise , passed both houses on wednesday last the nine and twentieth of january , one thousand six hundred fourty four , shall be enlarged , and continue in force in the same manner it now is , untill the eleventh of september which shall be in the yeer of our lord one thousand six hundred fourty six . joh. browne , cleric . parliamentorum . an act for the ascertaining the time of payment of the monies due upon vveavers-hall bills. england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) an act for the ascertaining the time of payment of the monies due upon vveavers-hall bills. england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) printed by john field, printer to the parliament of england, london : . order to print dated: friday the seventeenth of december, . signed: hen: scobell, cleric. parliamenti. with parliamentary seal at head of text. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng england and wales. -- commissioners of excise -- early works to . excise tax -- england -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no an act for the ascertaining the time of payment of the monies due upon vveavers-hall bills. england and wales. parliament. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread - emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion blazon or coat of arms incorporating the commonwealth flag ( - ) an act for the ascertaining the time of payment of the monies due upon weavers-hall bills . whereas the sum of four hundred thousand pounds was secured to several advancers by ordinance of parliament , dated the thirteenth of may , one thousand six hundred forty and seven , to be repaid out of the grand excize in course , among several other securities held forth in the said ordinance , for the better ascertaining the time when the said money shall be paid out of the receipts of the grand excize aforesaid ; the parliament do enact and ordain , and be it enacted and ordained by authority thereof , that the commissioners of the excize for the time being , do out of such monies as shall come into their hands upon the receipts of the grand excize , immediately from and after the one and thirtieth of december , one thousand six hundred fifty and three , make payment of the said four hundred thousand pounds ( or so much thereof as shall at that time remain due and payable ) in such order and form as is directed and appointed by the said ordinance of the thirteenth of may , one thousand six hundred forty seven , together with interest for the same , each six moneths , after the rate of eight pounds per centum per annum , till principal and interest be fully discharged . friday the seventeenth of december , . ordered by the parliament , that this act be forthwith printed and published . hen : scobell , cleric . parliamenti . london , printed by john field , printer to the parliament of england . . a proclamation, for rouping the in-land excise of this kingdom scotland. privy council. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). b wing s ea estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. b ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a proclamation, for rouping the in-land excise of this kingdom scotland. privy council. sheet ([ ] p.) printed by the heir of andrew anderson ..., edinburgh, : anno dom. . title vignette: royal seal with initials wm rr . caption title. initial letter. reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng excise tax -- law and legislation -- scotland -- early works to . broadsides -- scotland -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion monogram of 'w' (william) superimposed on' m' (mary) diev et mon droit honi soit qui mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms a proclamation , for rouping the in-land excise of this kingdom . the lords commissioners of their majesties thesaury , and the lords and others their majesties commissioners of exchequer , taking to their consideration , that it is expedient , for the good and advantage of their majesties service and government , that the in-land excise of this kingdom , due and payable to their majesties , from all malt , aquavitie and strong-waters , browen and sold , from , and after the last day of october ensuing , ( the former tacks thereof then expiring ) be put to farm by roup ; and that intimation thereof be made , to such of their majesties leidges , who are willing to take a lease and farm of the same ; to the end they may , for that effect , attend the saids lords commissioners of their majesties thesaury and exchequer , in the usual place of their meeting ; and there make offer for a farm of the said excise , of the whole shires and burghs of this kingdom , together , or separatly , and pay such sums of money therefore , of yearly tack-duty , as shall be agreed upon . have therefore resolved , that a publick roup be made thereof , upon friday the sixth day of november next to come : and for publication of the premisses , ordains the macers of exchequer , and messengers at arms , to make open proclamation hereof , at the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and at the mercat-crosses of the whole head-burghs of the respective shires of this kingdom , and other places needful . and that these presents be printed . given at edinburgh , the twenty fourth day of july , one thousand six hundred and ninety one years , and of their majesties reign the third year . extractum de libris scaccarii per me , tho : moncreif , cls. scaccarii . god save king william and queen mary . edinburgh , printed by the heir of andrew anderson printer to their most excellent majesties , anno dom. . votes of parliament touching the excize of beer and ale. laws, etc. england and wales. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing e a). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e a estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) votes of parliament touching the excize of beer and ale. laws, etc. england and wales. england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.). printed by iohn field, printer to the parliament of england, london, : . reproduction of original in the henry e. huntington library. eng beer -- taxation -- great britain. ale -- taxation -- great britain. excise tax -- great britain. broadsides -- england -- th century. a r (wing e a). civilwar no friday december, . votes of parliament touching the excize of beer and ale. england and wales. parliament a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - elspeth healey sampled and proofread - elspeth healey text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion friday december , . votes of parliament touching the excize of beer and ale . resolved by the parliament , that from and after the five and twentieth day of december , one thousand six hundred fifty one , no beer or ale be excizable , but such as is brewed by common brewers , or else brewed to be sold by vintners , inkeepers , alehouse-keepers , cooks , chandlers , and other persons brewing in their houses , and selling again by retail , or otherwise . resolved by the parliament , that the commissioners for excize , and all sub-commssioners and other officers of excize , be and are hereby enjoyned to take notice hereof , and to take care that the same be put in execution and duly observed , and the committee of the excize are to see the same done accordingly . hen : scobell , cleric . parliamenti . wednesday the seventeenth of december , . ordered by the parliament , that the votes passed on friday last touching the excize of beer and ale , be printed and pnblished . hen : scobell , cleric . parliamenti . london , printed by iohn field , printer to the parliament of england , . a proclamation, whereas the commissioners of the treasury of the late king james r. england and wales. sovereign ( - : james ii) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing j estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a proclamation, whereas the commissioners of the treasury of the late king james r. england and wales. sovereign ( - : james ii) james ii, king of england, - . sheet ([ ] p.) printed by the assigns of john bill deceas'd, and by henry hills, and thomas newcomb ... , london : / . reproduction of original in huntington library. at head of title: by the king, a proclamation. broadside. at end of text: given at our court at whitehall, the sixteenth day of february, / . contract between commissioners of treasury and certain persons to raise yearly excise tax of £ , . created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng excise tax -- law and legislation -- great britain -- early works to . great britain -- economic policy -- history -- th century. broadsides - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - elspeth healey sampled and proofread - spi global rekeyed and resubmitted - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the king , a proclamation . james r. whereas the commissioners of the treasury of the late king , our dearly beloved brother deceased , sidney lord godolphin , sir john ernely knight , sir stephen fox knight , sir dudley north knight , and frederick thynne esquire , on the fifth day of this instant february , for the better improvement of the revenue arising by the duty of excise , did contract , conclude and agree with sir peter apsley knight , sir benjamin bathurst knight , and james grahme esquire , that they the said sir peter apsley , sir benjamin bathurst , and james grahme , their executors , administrators and assigns , should have , receive , and take the full and whole duty of excise for the term of three years , to commence from the date of the said contract , rendring to the late king , his heirs and successors , the yearly rent of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds payable by quarterly payments , the first payment to be made at the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary next ensuing , under such covenants and agreements for payment and securing the said rent , as in and by the said contract are provided for . and whereas we have been certified by the opinion of our iudges ( whose opinion for our greater satisfaction herein we have required ) that the said contract made by the said commissioners of the treasury of our late dear brother is good and valid in law , and hath continuance during the said three years , as well for that part of the said revenue which was granted to our said dear brother for life , as for that part which was granted to him , his heir and successors , by vertue of the acts of parliament which gave those duties , notwithstanding the decease of our said dear brother ; to the intent therefore the said sir peter apsley , sir benjamin bathurst and james grahme , who have been made such contract with the said commissioners of the treasury , may have no pretence to withhold the said rent from us , and that our loving subjects , who are chargeable with the payment of the said several duties , may not incur the penalties inflicted by the laws of excise , for not making due entries , or non-payment , or concealing of my part of the said duties , during the said term of three years , we do hereby signifie and publish to all , our loving subjects , that our said iudges have certified to us their opinions in law , that the said contract hath continuance notwithstanding the decease of our said dear brother : our will and pleasure therefore is , and we do hereby strictly charge and command all our commissioners and sub-commissioners of excise , and all other our officers employed or to be employed in the collection of the said duties , that they be aiding and assisting to the said sir peter apsley , sir benjamin bathurst , and james grahme , and their assigns , in the collecting and levying of the said duties , during the said term of three years , according to the several powers and authorities placed in them by the several acts for granting of the excise . and that all our loving subjects chargeable with the payment of the said duties do make their due entries and payments , as is provided by the laws of excise , during the said term of three years , upon the pains and penalties to be inflicted thereupon , according to the said laws of excise . given at our court at whitehall , the sixteenth day of february , / . in the first year of our reign . god save the king. london , printed by the assigns john bill deceas'd : and by henry hills , and thomas newcomb , printers to the kings most excellent majesty . / .