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A retrospect into the Kings certain revenue annexed to the crown under the survey of His Majesties court exchequer : with the proceedings upon two sevral petitions presented to His Majesty, concerning the chauntry rents, &c. and the first fruits, and tenths of the clergy ... / by George Carew.
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Carew, George, Esq.
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Wing C550; ESTC R24253
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A RETROSPECT INTO THE KINGS CERTAIN REVENUE ANNEXED TO THE CROWN Under the SURVEY of his Majesties Court of Exchequer WITH THE Proceedings upon two several Petitions Presented to his MAJESTY Concerning the Chauntry Rents c. And the First Fruits and Tenths of the CLERGY AND Several Considerations Offered to the High Court of Parliament shewing how all the Kings Rents above twenty Shillings a year may be more speedily brought into His MAJESTIES Coffers without Charge according to the Antient Course of Exchequer and the Laws of ENGLAND WITH Some Reasons and Arguments given for the due payment of Tythes Annexed Inseparably to the Office of the Ministry With further Perswasions to the Bishops and the Rest of the Clergy to render the just Proportion of their Livings and Spiritual Promotions according to the improved Value due to the King as Supream Pastor and Governour of the Church AND Divers Observations concerning the Rights and other Revenues of the CROWN Demonstrating the several Conditions and Qualities of those men that Diminish the KINGS Tributes Quisquis Deum reveretur Regem honorat diligitque proximum is Deo quae Dei sunt Caesari quae Caesaris denique revera suum cuique tribuit By George Carew of Grayes Inn Esq. LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1661. TO THE Right Honourable EDWARD Lord HYDE Baron of Henden Lord Chancellour of England THOMAS Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England And the Rest of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Right Honourable I Observe in the Act of Free and General Pardon passed at the Parliament begun at Westminster the 25 day of April in the 12th year of the Raign of our most Gratious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second That in the very next Clause of Exception after Offences for Conjurarations Witchcrafts and Charmes are Rancked Accomptants Receivers and Collectors that detained the publike mony of the Nation in their hands The Antient Genious of our Fore-Fathers in Framing the Court of Exchequer with that Policy and Art was such That all parts of the World admired that Court for the Excellency and Invention of it wherein was observed a Method that although Land and Mony there was ever in plenty Ebbing and Flowing Yet the Prodigal Coveteous and Ambitious Minister Receiver or Accomptant with all his Sleights and Stratagems could not deceive the King without Discovery The Course of that Court being altered upon the Dissolution of Abbies there followed great Losses to the Crown and many Inconveniencies and Grievances to the People In the Imperiall Chambers abroad The publike Books of Revenues lies open to the view of all people that any kind of Fraud may be discovered or better advantages found out for the Imperial Estate My Lords I am confident your own Honours binds you beyond all other Obligations in the world to Promote those things that may be for the Preservation and Improvement of the Kings Prerogatives Honours and Revenues Annexed to his Crown wherein truly consists the Happiness and Glory of the whole Kingdom There be two Contradictions used amongst men easily Reconciled by your Lordships Summa ratio est summum jus and Summum jus summa injuria In Extraordinary matters not properly relieveable in any other Court The Lords in Parliament have the Prerogative for their Excellency in Knowledge and Wisdom to Determine such Cases by their own Power May it please your Lordships I am Intrusted as an Executer to pay several Portions and Legacies to Hospitals Free-Scholes and poor Children out of mony left in the hands of Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pinder who parted with it to the late King upon his Letters Patents and other Assignments out of the Revenue in the Exchequer before the late War Not doubting the Credit of the great Seal of England and payment of the Exchequer I took upon me the Execution of the Trust and paid some part of the Legacies out of my own Estate And notwithstanding I have used my indeavours with others to get in the said Debt yet I am daily sued by the Legatees for not recovering the Money charged upon the Revenue wherefore I humbly conceive that such Accomptants and Receivers which Convert the Kings Revenue to their own Use do not only Wound the King in Cheif but the whole Nation in General and those poor Hospitals and Orphans in particular that I am troubled for All which I submit to your Honours Considerations and Subscribe my self April 20. 1661. Your Faithful Servant THOMAS GOULD THE PREAMBLE IT was the Practice of former Ages when they met in Parliaments to examine the Causes of the Kings Necessities and to make those that were not Faithfull in their Offices to Relieve the King as they did by Hugo de Burgo and the Accomptants of the Revenue in HENRY the thirds time King JAMES and King CHARLES the first of ever Blessed Memory were both Large-Hearted and as Princes naturally are inclined very Bountiful Q. ELIZABETH left a Plentiful Revenue to the Crown of England King JAMES in Favour of the People sold most of the Lands in Fee-Farm An Invention found out to prevent an Act of Resumption The Flowers of the Crown ever since have been gathered by those that gave the King onely the Stalks which brought the King into many great Debts that stand Charged upon the Revenue left unsold And it so happened I became Intituled to a Considerable part of the Mony and in Prosecution of the said Debt by Administring upon some Estate I was Involved with a Corporation of Creditors that were likewise Concerned for divers Summs of Mony which Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pinder had lent to the King This gave me Occasion to look into the Revenue of the Crown and to make several Applications to Committees in the Violent and Distempred times for satisfaction of the said Debts but I could have no other Tearms offered then Allowances as Debentures towards purchasing Crown Lands Bishops Lands or Delinquents Lands so called which I utterly refused Since his Majesties Restauration the Creditors have been more earnest upon me some crying out I should appeal to the King The Mirrour of Justice Others to the Hierarchy of the Church and perswade them to render that Part of the Revenue due to the King improved to their hands with the Creditors money by those Men that obstructed the Payment of the Kings Debts Others to the Lords that have a great Sence of the Kings Honour and the Regalia he lately parted withall Others to the Commons that hold the Purse-strings of the Nation have been pardoned great Arrears and Accompts which should have satisfied the Creditors Demands Being so divided in their Judgements and Opinions they brought me several Papers of perplext Notions concerning the Revenue of First Fruits and Tenths of the Clergy belonging to the King for his Supream pastoral Charge and Government of the Church with several Observations on that and the rest of the Revenues shewing how the King was made insolvent