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A26573	No post from heaven, nor yet from hell but a true relation and animadversions, written and sent as an antidote to all unbelieving Brownists, prophane Anabaptists, schismaticall monsters, and such like incendiaries of the state : proving by histories, records, and examples that His Majestes taxations have not been unusuall, nor his government tyrannicall, though falsely so imputed, invented, divulged and scattered abroad / collected by Sir Robert Cotton ; and now put to presse and dedicated to His Sacred Maiestie, by G.A., Gent.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.; G. A., Gent.	1643 (1643)	Wing A8; ESTC R11162	23,326	35

exported Le solid de cinequantes with many other which for brevity I passe over that are laid and leavyed upon the Subjects by the absolute power and prerogative of the King Spaine The next is Spain where there is a generall Imposition by the name of Alcavala imposed aswell upon the Nobility as the Commons which was at first raysed by Alphonsus the twelfth to expell the Moors but afterwards it was made perpetuall and is now a principall part of the Royall patrimony Guttieres de Gabellis this imposition was at first but the twentieth part but afterwards it was raysed to the tenth part of every mans estate which doth farre surmount the highest imposition that ever was layd in England by the Kings prerogative without consent of Parliament This Alcavella is an imposition within the Land but the imposition upon Merchandizes exported and imported are farre more higher for upon the In-gate of Indian spices into Portugall the King of Spaine laid the greatest rates that ever were set in Christendome although upon the out-gate they were more moderate Italy In Italy the Impositions and Gabell set upon every kind of thing by the States and Princes there are intollerable and in especiall upon the Towns and Territories that are subject to the great Duke of Tuscany where there is not a root nor an herbe nor the least thing that is necessary for the life of man bought or sold in any Town but there is a Gabell or Imposition payd for it where no Inne-holder Baker Brewer or Artificer can exercise his trade but the great Duke wil share with him in his gain where no man can travaile by Land or by Water but at every Barge at every Ferry at every Wharf or Key and at every gate of a Town the Gabeller arrests him and is ready to set upon him naked to search what goods he hath about him for which he ought to pay a Gabell The Popes Territories In the Popes Territories the impositions which his Holinesse doth lay upon his Subjects as a temporall Prince are as many and as heavy as those that are leavyed by the Duke of Tuscany I will therefore omit to speak of the Exactions of the Court of Rome which are infinite and in another kind which long lay heavy upon all the Western Countries of Christendome untill of late yeares some nations did free themselves thereof by rejecting the yoke of the Bishop of Rome The Seigniorie of Venice In the Seigniory of Venice the Gabells upon the Land are more moderate than in other parts of Italy wherein they observe a profitable and politique course for upon the commodities of other nations which are of goods in their Common-wealth they lay the easier impositions sometimes five sometimes seven sometimes ten in the hundred and upon all Manufactures imported out of other Countries they do lay fifteen shillings of the hundred which doth exceed the highest imposition in England five in the hundred at the least The grand Seignior of Turkey The grand Seignior of Turkey doth impose sometimes ten sometimes twentie of the hundred upon Merchant strangers who trade into the Levant And I could speak of his other Exactions and impositions upon his vassalls But that I think it not meet to compare that Regions Tyrant with the States and Princes of Christendome Denmarke I could speak of the great Toll which the King of Denmarke taketh of every ship that passeth into the Sound whereas the King of England being the undoubted Lord of the narrow seas might take the like Toll and by the same right of prerogative if it pleased him The Low-Countries And last of all for the Low-Countries those Impositions which they call Excises payd by the Retailor of Wines and other Commodities and not by the Merchant are the highest and heaviest in all Christendome yet grow they rich and therefore to draw trade and to invite all nations to commerce with them and so to make their Countrey a staple store-house or Magazine for all Europe They doe set but easie rates upon Merchandizes imported but when they have once gotten the commodity into their Countrey if any Merchant or other will export the same againe he shall pay a greater custome Thus may it evidently be seen by these forraigne examples and comparisons that his Majesties taxations have been far short of these designes although I must confesse that his Majestie of England is as absolute a Monarch as any Emperour or King in the world and hath as many prerogatives incendent and adherent unto his Crown than any whatsoever yet doth he not hold his Subjects fit to be beaten with Rehoboams rod and esteemeth them too good to be whipt with Scorpions And therefore God be blessed we have not in England a Gabellor standing at every Towns-end we have not a Publican in every Market neither do we pay for every bunch of Radish or branch of Rosemary sold in Cheap-side Neither have we any of those devouring Harpies amongst us which doe swarm in other Countries Nam sordidum putandum est Aurum quod est lachrimis Oritur And thus having now at length both by forraign and domestique examples as well out of Historie as Record plainly proved and made clear that his Majesties Taxations neither were unusall his proceedings illegall nor as hitherto his government tyrannicall Let us I pray you search a little further and see if we can find that wedge of gold or that Babylonish garment that throws him into this contempt and renders him thus odious in the eyes of his too too zealous people for true Subjects I dare not call them Mee thinkes I heare some lost wretch say Religion and Liberty Rebellion I must confesse had never but two Engines to put in practice their wicked and facinorous designes and these are they which Machiavillian-like under the shadow of feares and jealousies draws the giddy-headed multitude unto them to their owne confusion for it hath alwayes been a rule in reason a tryall in experience and an authority confirmed by the best that Rebellion produceth horrible effects for men that are weak in wisdome violent in will weary of quiet and desirous of change are easily made serviceable to every aspiring mind But let us see in which of them or of the breach of which of them his Majesty may be found guilty of 1. Liberty And first for Liberty whose sheep or Oxen hath he injuriously taken away whole Vineyard or possessions hath hee wrongfully detayned whose wise or daughter hath he ravished or defloured or whom hath he wittingly or willingly put to death Nay hath not in a manner the very sword of lustice been snatched from him and he enforced perforce to yeeld to that which upon my very soule his owne heart now lamenteth for Hath he any wayes infringed your Magna Charta Hath hee trampled upon your Fundamentall Lawes or customes Hath he removed your Land-marks or demolished your buildings Is not your Meum Tuum in your goods your Lands and your

received either service or contribution This tenure now esteemed a thraldom began upon a voluntary submission and therefore respecting their first immediate dependancy upon the Crown which is a great part of the Kings honour their duties and escheats a great benefit and their attendance by tenure in war at their nown charge to the number of 60216. at the least for the Knights sees in England are no lesse a great case and strength to his State for they are Totidom hostagia as Bracton sayth It were a thing perillous now to alter after such a current of time and custome He in the beginning of his Reigne took a Scutage whereof there is no record But the second Scutage which was in Anno quinto amounted to 124 Millia Librarum Argenti which reduced to the Standard of our monies to 5. s. the Ounce whereas that was not five groats will amount to neare 400000. l. In Anno the 7. Scutagium fuit Assessum and duas Marcas which if summed up by the received number of Knights sees being 60216. in the hands of the Layety cannot be lesse than 250000 l. The like in the next year and in An. the 11. there was an ayd of two pence de unaquaque Libra And quatuor sequentibus Annis de singulis libris singulas denarias was taken of all men and their estates and full fortunes being delivered upon their oaths And in the 14. year a Scutage was assessed ad marcam unam de singulis feodis And in the 18. year Scutagium pro quolibet Feoda And in the 35. of his Raigne a tenth of all mens moveables was granted In which dying 900. Millia libr. in Auro Argento praeter utensilia Jocaliaretulit Richard the first RIchard the first in the beginning of his Reigne besides Scutagium Walliae assessum at ten shillings leavied as in the succour of the holy Land a Subsidy out of all the moveables in the Realm to his owne use Et Eleeno sine titulo vitium rapacitatis inclusit A Coutribution there was in his sixth year of 150 Millia Marcarum Argenti to pay his ransom as also a Scutage assessed at 20. s. And in the 7. year he imposeth a contribution called Tenementale extremity inventing Nova varia praedandi vecabula and this was 2 s. of every plough-land from the husband-man and from the gentry nobility the 3. part of their Militarie service He enforced the Cistertian Monks to redeem their Wools sine Coriaria assessed a Scutage at 20 s. and four years after of every plough Land 5 shillings and of every Burrough and City Duos Palfridos totidem summarias and of every Abbot halfe asmuch than loosing of purpose his great seale proclaimed that Omnes Chartae Confirmationes quae Prioris sigilli impressione roboraverat should be void whereby he drew from all men a composition of their Liberties This fashion was afterwards taken up by some of his successors as in the eleventh of Henry the thirds raigne and therefore some reason Richard had in the end to become a gatherer that had not long before by accompt of his Chancellor Hubert then Archbishop spent Intra biennium undecies centena millia Marcarum argenti de regno Angliae King Iohn HIs Brother King Iohn succeeding took in the first yeare of his raigne a Scutage assessed at two marcks for the two next yeares three shillings of every plough-Land and the yeare following besides a Scutage the fourtieth of the revenues of the Clergy and laity In the fourth yeare he took the like Scutage and the seventh part of the Moveables of the Barons and Clergy and in Anno quinto a Scutage assessed at two marcks The like in his six and seventh yeares twenty shillings Scutage and the thirteenth part of the Moveables aswell of the Clergy as the laity in the yeare following In Anno the ninth he exacted by redemption of the concubines of the Clergy a great sum and in the eleventh Extorsit tributum grave videlicet 140 millia librarum à viris Ecclesiasticis Clericorum horreum invadit In the 12 a Scutage assessed at two marcks besides the exaction of 22000 l. from the Cistertians He took in the 13 yeare a Scutage of 20 shillings In the yeare following from the Ministers of the Church 40000 marcks And in the 16 yeare Scutagium assessum ad tres Marcas Thus in the space of 17 yeares was the State delivered but thrice from impositions Henry the third ANd now for Henry the third there was in his time assessed upon the Clergy Nobility and Gentry fifteen Scutages one at ten shillings two at 20 shillings eight at two marcks and foure at fourty shillings the Knights see The Land of the Inferior were twice taxed at half a marck the plough and two tallages upon the Land of the Crown From out of the moveable goods of the lay Subjects have been taken five times as sometimes the fourtyth thirtyth twentyth and fifteenth parts and once the sixteenth of the Clergy for this King He likewise imposed nine times a tenth upon the Church six times for a yeare only and by it self once accompanyed with the first fruits once for three yeares and once for five besides two Aides the one Moderate the other called gravis Exactio and that worthily if to the eight hundred marcks imposed upon Saint Edmonds-Bury all the other Abbyes were rated accordingly And by the accompt of William de Middleton he received in the time of his governement de exitu Scutagium foure millions and 20000 l. And as in all the 56 yeares of his raigne excepting five either the Church or Common-wealth were charged with contribution and taxes so were they grieved with other exactions either for carriages victualls or personall attendance For in his sixteenth yeare the inhabitants of Winchelsey were enjoyned ut providerent decem bonas naves magnas And at another time for twenty Dunwich and Ipswich five a peece and all the ports proportionably at their own charge And in the same yeare there was taken and transported 100000 quarters of wheate 5000 of oates and many Bacons the Church not forborne in those charges for from Winchester was taken 2000 quarters of wheate and oares and 10000 of Bacons the other Bishops and Clergy bearing their charges of victuals in the like taxations comming ut unda supervenit undae ac si esset Anglia puteus inexhaustus And in the twelventh and fourteenth the King levieth Souldiers for his wars beyond Sea collecting Pro runcata sui de singulis duobus hidis curi and to bring secum victualia and those that were dispenced withall to contribute for victualls to those that went for fourty days commanding the Sheriffes to sweare all Ad arma c. as were sworn in the time of K. Iohn his Father by wth ordinance all able Subjects from youth to