First, The Natural Justice that every man should pay according to
what he actually enjoyeth; upon which account this Tax is scarce
forced upon any, and is very light to those, who please to be
content with natural Necessaries.
Secondly, This Tax if it be not farmed, but regularly collected,
engages to thrift, the onely way to enrich a Nation, as by the
Dutch and Jews, and by all other men, who have come to vaste
Estates by Trade, doth appear.
Thirdly, No man payes double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch
as nothing can be spent but once; whereas it is frequently seen,
that otherwise men pay both by the Rent of their Lands, by their
Smoaks, by their Titles, and by Customs, (which all men do, though
Merchants chiefly talk of it) they also pay by Benevolence and by
Tythes; whereas in this way of Excize no man need pay but one way,
nor but once, properly speaking.
Fifthly, By this way an excellent account may be taken of the
Wealth, Growth, Trade, and strength of the Nation at all times.
All which Reasons do make not for particular compoundings with
Families, nor for letting the whole to farm, but for collecting it
by special Officers, who having a full employment, will not be a
fourth of the charge of our present many multiform Levies; for to
put extraordinary trouble and hazzard upon the Countrey Officers,
is a sorer Taxing of them, then to make them pay a small Reward
unto practised Persons to be their Substitutes. All which are the
common Objections against Excize.
13. I should here adde the manner of Collecting it, but I refer
this to the practice of _Holland_; and I might also offer how men
may be framed to be fit for this and other Publick Trusts, as to be
Cashiers, Store-keepers, Collectors, &c. but I refer this Enquiry
unto a more ample and fit occasion.
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Errata.
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1 14 between [_who_ and _spent_] interline [_have_]
5 13 after [_want_] read [_general_] instead of [_more_]
6 19 before [_starve_] interline [_needlesly_]
6 29 before [_cause_] read [_one_] instead of [_the_]
6 30 read [_is_] instead of [_are_]
8 7 read [_them_] for [_him_]
8 8 read [_their_] for [_his_]
17 19 read [_viz._] for [_that is_]
18 3 read [τἁ χρἠϛα] instead of [τἁ χρἠσα]
20 17 read [_Excisum_] not [_Excisium_]
21 7 read [_obligees_] not [_obliges_]
22 12 read [_enhansing_] not [_exhausting_]
22 23 between [_way_ and _Land-Tax_] interline [_of a_]
22 25 deleatur [_sometimes_]
24 25 between [_Rents_ and _we_] interline [_in order to Taxes_]
28 24 between [_seldom_ and _enough_] interline [_rich_]
28 28 deleatur [_with_]
30 11 after [_hazards_] interline [_and_]
14 read [_omitted_]
27 read [_apparatus_] instead of [_appurtenances_]
32 10 after [_the_] interline [_former_]
11 after [_Land_] read [_this latter_] instead [_of the_]
33 26 deleatur [_by_]
31 between [_&c._ and _then_] interline [_could be
fertilized_]
34 36 read [_worth_] not [_work_]
36 16 after [_market_] interline [_abroad_]
37 12 read [_paribus_] not [_talibus_]
39 6 read [_conniving_] not [_coyning_]
39 32 deleatur [_as much harm_]
ibid. between [_of_ and _one_] interline [_the_]
penult. after [_Coffee_] inter [_and_]
40 2 read [_meerly_] for [_merrily_]
ult. before [_certainly_] interline [_case_]
41 13 dele [_out_]
24 read [_so or not_] instead of [_use_]
47 26 read [_on_] for [_of_]
51 3 read [_their_] for [_the_]
15 after [_Heterodox_] interline [_Believer_]
29 read [_wearing_] for [_weaving_]
53 14 read [_defect_] for [_dissent_]
54 36 between [_then_ and _is_] interline [_it_]
56 ult. after [_yet the_] interline [_said_]
57 3 read [_offices_] for [_officers_]
60 2 read [_shared_] for [_shred_]
61 15 read [_consequences_] for [_calamities_]
32 read [_an_] for [_no_]
62 1 after [_plentiful_] interline [_year_]
65 21 read [_medalls_] instead of [_a medall_]
66 10 between [_consisting_ and _great_] interline [_of_]
67 29 read [_d’ Ecus_] instead of [_d’ Esens_]
68 36 read [_abating_] for [_abasing_]
69 11 after [_former_] interline [_better_]
70 12 read [_prices_] for [_proceed_]
71 5 read [_as_] for [_the_]
75 25 read [_families_] for [_faculties_.]
_FINIS._