The great Designs of Parliaments, have ever been, when Duties are Granted, That the Subjects may have as little Trouble and Disturbance from the Officers and Collectors as is possible: And therefore, the Consideration of what followeth, is Humbly Offered ●●d Presented to the Honourable House of COMMONS, before Passing the Act for a Duty to be laid upon Houses& Windows.  
1. THE Way of Surveying will be as troublesone, and more difficult than that of the Fire-Hearth.  
As for Example.  
The Houses to be surveyed in the Cities of London, Westminster, and all other great Towns and Places in England, we will say, may have the Fronts of those Houses viewed in the Streets; but then the Doors must be opened, and the Surveyors must have leave sometimes to go through Two or Three Rooms into a fine Garden or Back-side, to inspect and take an Account of the Windows in that Part of the House, which will take up no small Time: Then the side Windows in the said House or Houses must, or ought to have a true Account taken of them; some of which looking into the Neighbours Court or Garden cannot be done without Trespassing upon them, or having leave to go into those Yards or Gardens.  
Suppose Storms, or Drunken Fellows, beat down the Windows in the Streets; if so, then the Duty will be paid for nothing, in regard those Windows must be made up again, or the Proprietor have nothing for the same.  
These Surveys will take up a great deal of Time, and give much Trouble( as is Humbly conceived) to the Subjects: Whereas the Duty upon Rooms will not give half a Quarter of an Hours trouble to a Family, if the Duty and House should continue for ever; so that there must be Authority given to the Surveyor, to enable him to make a true Survey, which cannot be done without the Leave and licence of the Neighbours adjoining; and how easy this will prove, we leave to better Judgments to determine.  
Many other Disadvantages and Disputes will happen, if a Survey be made every Year, some Altering, others making up Windows; and it is doubted that Duty will lie very hard upon the Poorer Sort of People: But this Duty upon Rooms, the Owner has always something for his Money; and, for the most part, has all his Money repaid him again, either by Lodgers, or other Advantages, if driving Trades: Nor will the Duties on Houses and Windows, notwithstanding the Trouble, as is said before, bring in near so much Money to the King, as the Duties upon Rooms will; which may modestly be computed to Raise the Sum of Two Hundred Thousand Pounds a Year, and that with as little Trouble as can be thought on.  
All which is Humbly submitted to the Wisdom and Determination of the Great Council of the Kingdom,  
By W. C.  
That if any shall reflect upon the Proposer, as to what is said by him, as in Relation to the Duty on Salt, &c. he Humbly preys he may have leave to answer such Objections as may be made against it; for what he hath alleged is not in Prejudice to any, but that all concerned may have Justice done, as well to the Subject, as the King.