VERBUM SAPIENTI.
THE
INTRODUCTION.
1.WHEREAS many are forced[1] to pay 1⁄10 of their whole Estates towards the raising of but[2] 70000l. per Mensem[3], besides what they pay more insensibly and directly[4], as Customs, Excise, Chimny-Money, &c. (viz. in London, they pay 2d. per Mensem per Pound Rent, that is 2s. per Annum, or 1⁄10 of the whole.) It must come to pass, that the same Persons must from Christmas, 1665. pay ⅓ of their whole Estates, if the War with Holland continue two years longer, at the value of the last years Expence[5], provided His Majesty be kept out of Debt. |2|
2. But if the Publick Charge were laid proportionably, no Man need pay above 1⁄10 of his whole Effects, even in case the Tax should rise to 250000l. per Mensem, which God forbid.
- ↑ S omits 'are forced to.'
- ↑ D, 'but of.'
- ↑ 13 Charles II., stat 2, c. 3 imposed an assessment of £70,000 per month for 18 months, beginning 25 December, 1661.
- ↑ D, 'indirectly.'
- ↑ Apparently an allusion to the assessment of £68,819. 9s. per month for 36 months granted by 16 & 17 Charles II, c. 1, beginning 25 December, 1664. To this 17 Charles II., c. 1 added £52,083. 6s. 8d. per month for 24 months beginning Christmas, 1665.
