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Harth-money is of the same nature with simple Poll-money, but both are rather Accumulative Excises. 45 [64]

Grants for publick Lotteries are Taxes upon the people. Ibid. [64]

Why Lotteries ought not to be allowed but by good authority. Ibid. [64-65]

Raising of Money by Benevolence is a real Tax. 46 [65]

Three cases where the way of a Benevolence may be made good. Ibid. [65-66]

Several reasons against it. 46, 47 [66]

The several species of Penalties. 47 [67]

A doubt whether the Penalties set down in Moses Law ought to be inflicted now. 47 [67]

The proper use and reason of every sort of Penalty. 48 [67]

Perpetual Imprisonment is a kinde of slow death. 49 [68]

In what case death, mutilation, imprisonment, disgrace, &c. ought to be commuted for pecuniary mulcts. Ibid. [68-69]

The meaning of the double and multiple Restitutions mentioned in the Law of Moses. Ibid. [69]

Of the wayes for punishing or permitting Heterodox Believers in Religion. 50 [70]

That the Sovereign may do either. 51 [70]

That all Pseudodoxies whatsoever may be safely muzzled from doing harm by pecuniary mulcts. 51, 52 [71]

That the Sovereign by punishing them with death, mutilations, or imprisonments, doth therein punish himself, and that too re infecta, very often. 51 [71]

That the Pastours ought in some measure to be punished for the errours and defections of their Flocks. 52 [72]

The true use of the Clergy is rather to be patterns of Holiness then to teach men variety of Opinions de rebus divinis. 53 [73]

The substance of all that hath been said in this whole discourse about the Church. Ibid. [73]

The abuse of Penal Laws. 54 [73]

Of Monopolies. Ibid. [74]

The use and reason of instituting Monopolies. 55 [74-75]

A Digression about new Inventions, and the vexations incident to the Projectors of new practices. Ibid. [74-75]

Offices instituted by the State, with Fees of their own appointment, are of a parallel nature to Monopolies. 56 [75-76]

Why the Fees of Offices were great heretofore. Ibid. [76]

How Offices are become as a saleable Commodity. 57 [77]

Why many superfluous Offices are not abolished. Ibid. [77]

A description of Tythes in several particulars. 58 [77-78]

The causes why Tythes encrease. Ibid. [78]

The Rent of the Lands of England is but a quarter of the Expence of the people. 59 [78]