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A90833 The poore committee-mans accompt, avouched by Britannicus. 1647 (1647) Wing P2861; Thomason 669.f.11[68]; ESTC R210615 1,018 1

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The poore Committee-mans Accompt avouched by BRITANNICUS O Yes Behold here 's my accompt I 'm ready for to make it If any man who loves the King will please to come and take it I am not as the Cavaliers are pleas'd to call me Traytor I am a poore Committees Clerke a simple harmlesse Creature That this is true you need not doubt examine Mr. Needam Hee 'l tell you true and sweare it too 't is for the Kingdomes freedome Free Pole-money free money lent upon the Propositions Free money rais'd for Irish Lands but God knowes the conditions Free money lent on Ordinance free Subsidies full fifty If our Committees grow not rich I le never think them thrifty That this is true c. The fift and twentieth part Excise Customes and Sequestrations The Kings Revenues too we have besides the great Taxation And that great taxe is monthly laid upon the associated Which comes to threescore thousand pounds a month if rightly stated That this is true c. But O! that Tophe●Goldsmiths-Hall where men make composition Which gets they say the devill and all that Spanish Inquisition If any Dives should fall sicke and dye as men are sickly They would his heire a Lazarus make and they would doe it quickly That this is true c. They say they fourescore thousand had some make it up a hundred Suppose foure hundred pound a man a sum scarce to be numbred The Bishops Lands are but a toy with such great summes compared Yet those we hope will one day come amongst us to be shared That this is true c. Ship-money was a hideous thing these payments are but trifles That was injoyned by the King all Law and Justice stifles These toyes the Parliament injoynes therein all Subjects share too Yet they who at the Stern doe sit for this will take a care too That this is true c. Alas why should such men pay debts the Cavaleeres did plunder If not yet they their charges beare then is it not a wonder The wicked should say they grow rich who but contrive the payments And of the publike stock take care their gains scarce finds them rayments That this is true c. These men defie all wicked tongues that challenge close Committees Let thē throw stones have don no wrong is 't not a thousand pitties Such carefull pious men as those who have done their endeavors To purge the Church and wicked state should now be thought deceivers That this is true c. Suppose they have a publick stock sure that must be concealed It was but for the publike rais'd and it shall be revealed We know that were the stock as great as Dávids which amounted To such a summe we have such men it need not to be counted That this is true you need not doubt examine Mr. Needame Hee 'l tell you true and sweare it too 't is for the Kingdomes freedome