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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	fall_v	great_a	lord_n	1,398	5	3.5077	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35160	Truth brought to light, or, The corrupt practices of some persons at court laid open whereby Their Majesties and the kingdom have been prejudiced near one hundred and fifty thousand pounds this year; besides other evils that have and do attend it.	Crosfeild, Robert.	1694 (1694)	Wing C7247; ESTC R29667	14,344	32

their Majesties do making the most modest Construction of their Actions sacrifice the Publick Interest to their own Private Lucre. This by the Blessing of God I doubt not but evidently to make appear And I am no ways unsensible of the Danger I undergo by this my Undertaking and that I run a greater Hazard than he that engages in Battel but I know not why I should be afraid having Truth and Justice on my Side And in former Ages however this may be degenerated it was ever accounted an Honour for a Man to venture his Life for the Publick Good At the first opening of the last Session of Parliament I published a Book entituled England's Glory Reviv'd which I dedicated to their Majesties and both Houses of Parliament but it was never presented to the Parliament occasion'd I being ill by the Timorousness of the Bookseller who was oblig'd so to have done There are several things therein proposed which are now put in practice as shall be made appear in the ensuing Discourse And that the not rewarding Persons that do things which contribute to the Publick Service is a real Injury to the Kingdom but at present I shall wave that and fall upon other Matters I had observ'd that the Collecting the Land Taxes was a great Charge to the Crown the greatest part of which I conceiv'd might be sav'd and the Receiver-Generals wholly laid aside so all that Poundage they were allow'd might accrue to the Government Upon which having made a Proposal presented it to the Right Honourable the Lords of the Treasury in the Month of December last And at the same time I deliver'd it did acquaint their Lordships by Letter that I did then wait their Commands and desired to be heard But they took no notice thereof which I attributed to their multiplicity of Business so conceiv'd my self obliged to give farther Attendance which I did and humbly desir'd I might be heard upon those Proposals This I did for many Days and prest as much as in Modesty was fit to do that I might be heard but all to no purpose for I found it was not grateful to them and that they were no ways inclin'd to hear me Then conceiv'd I had no other way but to petition his Majesty in Council which I accordingly did and delivered it to Mr. Bridgman in Secretary Trenchard's Office with the Proposal annexed that so my Proposal might be read and referred to the Lords of the Treasury which was the Prayer of my Petition and when Council-Day came I was with him again and he told me it was transferred to the Council-Office where I found it and the Gentleman to whom I apply'd my self promis'd me it should be carried to the Council-Chamber And when the Council was actually sitting I went to him and he inform'd me my Petition and Proposal were before the Council And being afterwards to examine whether I had a Reference granted found my Petition had not been read Upon which I asked the foresaid Person what was the meaning that a Matter of so great Moment to the King should be so little taken notice of His Answer was he knew not and said he had faithfully carried it to the Council it being all was requir'd of him and that he should not fail to do the same next Council-Day After this manner was I serv'd several Council-Days and never could obtain my Petition to be read and found all I did was but Labour in vain and conceiv'd I had just reason to believe that some Persons endeavour'd to stifle it Upon which I addrest my self to the Earl of a Privy-Counsellor to whom I presented a Copy of my Proposal and sometime after was to wait on him and his Lordship's Answer was The thing he lik'd well there could nothing be objected against it but said he durst not meddle in it it would create him so many Enemies But notwithstanding all this I was resolv'd further to prosecute the Matter and being acquainted with the Duke of his Chaplain by his means presented his Grace with a Copy of it Whose Answer to it was that were he a Privy-Counsellor he would prosecute the Matter but as he was not he durst not meddle with it it would create him so many Enemies From all which I may conclude and say it 's too evident that there is a Corrupt Party at Court which yet shall be more fully made out that carry on a separate Interest from that of their Majesties and the Publick and are grown to that height that Persons of great Honour and known Loyalty dare not encounter as knowing they will not leave them till they have thrown them out of all Employments and so for the future incapacitate them to serve their Majesties And however I may be censur'd by some for what I do yet I have the Satisfaction in my own Breast that I have done nothing but what my Duty obliges me to and doubt not but I shall have the Concurrence of all true Englishmen The Proposal is as follows A Proposal humbly offer'd for laying aside all the Receiver-Generals IT 's undeniably their Majesties and the Kingdom 's Interest which are inseparable that what Money is given for Publick Uses should be apply'd to that End and to have all unnecessary Officers laid aside and none are so useless as the Receiver-Generals there being no manner of occasion for them for the Collector of the Excise in each County is every way capable of acting the same thing and with greater Ease to the County and more Satisfaction it would be to the Subject to see the Money imploy'd to Publick Uses to which it was primarily intended And I shall be as brief in the Matter as possibly I can and so shall bring but one Instance which I humbly conceive will fully demonstrate what I assert Viz. The Receiver-General for the County of Hertford goes to four Places as Hertford c. and no more and by his Circular-Letters to the High-Constables of the several Hundreds the Collectors of the Tax meet him at the Day prefix'd and pay in the Money which creates much Trouble to some of them who bring it a great Way although it be a small County which they need not undergo which I shall evidently make appear for the Collector of the Excise for the said County is oblig'd to go to all Market-towns through the whole Shire and there are eighteen in the County and it may with much Facility and Ease be so order'd that at the same time he may receive the Quarterly-payment for the Land-tax according to the Districts of the said Towns as they are now settled in the Excise But if it be found that Method will not do they can then but take the same Measures the Receiver-Generals now do which they will be both willing and able to perform There can no Objection be made against this being put into practice other than that it 's a great Trust and the Collectors have not given sufficient Security