A Probable Calculation of the Annual Income To be RAISED by a Tax on Marriages, Burials, and Legacies.  
COmputing there be Free-Holders in England and Wales, 466716. who have Votes for Knights of the Shire: And that those who have no Votes are 26 to One, there are subject to these Casual Payments 12134616.  
Marriages, If Yearly Married Peers, and others, computing one in One Hundred, at 121346. paying one with another 20 s. per Annum. 121346 l. Burials, At 10 s. as a Medium one with another, computing 242692. at one in Fifty Persons being butted, is the same Sum of 121346 l. Legacies, Allowing one in Two Hundred, in a Year, at 10 s. per Legacy 60673 l. 1 s. 7 d.   So as the Annual Revenue will be 303365 l. 1 s. 7 d.   Whereout if there be allowed for Collecting and loss 13365 l. 1 s. 7 d.   There will come clear into the exchequer, per Annum 290000 l.   Which in Ten Years time amounts to Two Millions and Nine Hundred Thousand Pounds 2900000 l.  
These Payments are easy, for that no Person pays bat when is gained or saved.  
The Collection is so much the more easy, for that registering of Marriages and Buryals are already in Use, and all Wills registered in Ecclesiastical Courts; and there may be a Clause in the Bill, that this New Duty being paid, shall be a Discharge to any Person not taking licence or Faculty, or Publishing their Baines, by which will be saved 16 s. and 8 d. by the one, and 1 s. by the other.  

The particular Rates of every Person subject to this Tax.    Marriages. Burials. Legacies.   l. s. d.     Of every Arch-Bishop, Duke, or marquis 50 0 0 The like, except such Person as shall wear Badge or Livery, or is butted without Fees, or at a public Charge. For any sum or value of any device or Bequest which shall exceed the value of 4 l 12 d. per. l. Every duchess, or Marchioness the like.       Every Earl 30 0 0 Every Countess the like.       Every Viscount, Bishop, and Baron 20 0 0 Every Viscountess and Baroness the like.       Every Banneret, Baronet, Knight of the Bath, and other Person( not Noble) taking place of them 10 0 0 Every Lady 10 0 0 Every Esquire, or Reputed Esquire 5 0 0 Every Son or Daughter of such Esquire 2 0 0 Every Gentleman, Merchant, Mayor, or Bailiff of a Town or Corporation, Master of any Guild or Fraternity 2 0 0 Their Son or Sons, Daughter or Daughters 1 10 0 Every other Person having Forty Shillings per Annum, or any Trade or Profession requiring any Stock 1 0 0 Every Son or Daughter of such Person 0 10 0 Every other Person not taking Alms, or wearing Livery 0 10 0 Every other Person whatsoever 0 2 6