A PROPOSAL For Raising a FUND for Supply of the Deficiency of the clipped MONEY, on Houses, Buildings, &c. which is hoped may be found more Equal than by that of the Windows; Humbly offered to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons.  
  l. s. d. I. THERE being, according to Houghton( Quoted in Chamberlain's Present State of England) 1175951 Houses in this Kingdom, which may no doubt be very well computed( from the Palaces and Seats of the Nobility and Gentrey; The Houses in all Cities and great Towns to the meanest Cotts) to have Five Rooms or Distinct Apartments( such as Shops, Kitchens, Parlours, Withdrawing Rooms, Chambers and Garrets) each one with the other, will Amount to 5879755 Rooms, which at One Shilling each Room for one Year, to be paid by the Inhabiter, Renter or Occupier of the whole House, comes to 293987 15 0 Of the foregoing may be Exempted all Receiving Alms, Hospitals, spitals, Houses Un-tenanted, the Cottages of all who live barely by Husbandry, such as Hedgers, Ditchers, Thrashers, Common Day Labourers, and Common sailors, or more especially of the latter, those in His Majesties Service, Suppose these Exemptions Amounts to ⅙ part of the whole, the Rebate Amounts to 48997 16 8 Remains 244989 18 4 II. All Lodgers or Indwellers in particular Rooms in Houses, to pay 1 s. each Room per annum, to be received of the said Lodgers at their first Entrance into each respective Lodging, by those who let the said Lodging Room or Rooms; and those so Receiving the same, to be accountable to the Collectors of this Tax; which supposing of the 8000000 of People computed in England, there be but 400000 Lodgers in all the Cities and great Towns in this Nation at 1 s. each per annum, over and above the Rate payable by the Renter of the whole House for One Year, Amounts to 20000 00 0 Travellers on the Road, in Inns or other Victualling-houses, may be here, without prejudice to the above Computation, Exempted, Except such as Reside One Month in the above Houses without a Horse.       III. All Servants( Receiving Diet and Wages) for their own Lodging Rooms may pay 6 d. each Person per annum, which Computing one Servant to one House one with the other, Deducting the ⅙ part, as by the Exemptions in the first Article, the Number will be 979960 Servants, which at the Rate above, Amounts to in One Year, over and above the Masters Tax, 24499 00 0 IV. 

All Stabling in England, supposing there are 25000 Stables, thus Charged, 2500 capable of Entertaining, or that do frequently Entertain 20 Horses or upwards at 4 l. per Annum each, Amounts to 10000l.  
5000 Capable, or that do frequently Entertain 10 Horses at 2 l. per Annum, for one Year is 10000l.  
12500 Capable of, or that do frequently Entertain 4 or 5 Horses at 1 l. per Annum each for one Year, Amounts to 12500 l.  
Of these latter, all Private Stables, where a Pair of Coach Horses are kept for private Use, each 2 l. per Annum, In the whole, supposing them but 2500, the Overplus Amounts to 2500 l.   35000 00 0 V. All cellars and Vaults under Ground, with Warehouses, supposing there are ¼, the Number of Houses is 293987 at 2s . per Annum each for one Year, Amounts to 29398 14 0 Of these, all Merchants and Vintners, &c. Large Arched Vaults of Brick or ston, may pay 1 l. per Annum, over and above the 2 s. or 10 s. Overplus.       VI. Of the Rooms abovementioned, one Common Dining, or public Room of Resort in all Taverns, Inns, Victualling Houses and Coffee Houses of 〈…〉 l. per Annum Rent or upwards, and one public or Work Room in the Houses of all handicrafts, such as Weavers, Taylors, Shooemakers, Hatters, Throsters, &c. where Six Persons or more do frequently Work together, and the Rent of 〈…〉 l. per Annum, supposing there be but 20000 of all the beforementioned in the whole Kingdom, each Room at 1 l. per Annum, over and above the 1 s. Amounts to for one Year 20000 00 0 VII. All Houses or Buildings Erected on purpose, or set apart for the Manufacturing or Working of all English or Foreign Goods or Merchandises, that have been Wrought in for Three Months before the Commencement hereof, such as Glass-houses, Iron-Mills, Lead-Mills, or Blowing-houses for the Smelting of led, tin or Copper, copperess, Callamint, alum and Salt Workhouses, Dye-houses, Brew-houses, Mault-houses, Distilling-houses,( of the Four latter, double in London to others in the country, viz. 5 l. each, in other Cities and Great Towns 2 l. 10 s. each, in the country 1 l. 5 s. each) Sugar-houses, Water-houses, Rope-Yards, Tann-Yards, Coal-Yards, Vinegar Yards, Shipwrights Yards and Docks, Deal or Timber Yards, Fulling-Mills, Powder-Mills, Paper-Mills, and all other Mills that go by Wind or Water, or in actual Use,( except Grist Mills) All public Halls of Companies, Colleges and Corporations at 10 l. per Annum each, all wharves and Keys, or Places for public Shipping and Unloading of Goods and merchandises that are of 〈…〉 l. per Annum Rent and upwards, supposing of all but 5000 each, one with the other at 5 l. per Annum, is 25000 00 0 Total for one Year 398887 12 4 Which Sum laid for Four Years, will Amount to 1595550 09 4  
and will, no Question, Answer the Vote of 1200000 l. or if any Doubt should arise on the Sufficiency of the aforementioned Particulars, or any ranted too high, it may be lessened and made up by the following Supplements, viz. 

All Common Bakers Ovens at 5 s. each per Annum.  
All the Rooms in the Inns of Court and Chancery, in the Colleges of Both Universities.  
All Writing Desks or Seats in all the public Offices in England, at 1 s. per Annum each.    
Which is Hoped may be a more Equal Lay, than by the Windows, by which many would happen to pay double, to some of it may be Six times their Substance.  
Now by the foregoing Proposal, as it is most fit that all who are any way able to Pay, should bear a Suitable proportion towards the Redress of so General a Calamity; so on the contrary, it is as necessary, That the Miserable and Indigently Poor should be Exempt, as is hereby Represented. The Consideration of all which, is humbly offered by the Proposer.