To the honourable, the knights, citizens and burgesses, in Parliament assembled It is now almost seven years since I endeavoured to set right his Majesties revenue of excise, both as to the management of, and accompting for it; ... Farthing, John. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A40970 of text R215408 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing F534). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A40970 Wing F534 ESTC R215408 99827298 99827298 31716 2240873472

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A40970) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 31716) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1907:16) To the honourable, the knights, citizens and burgesses, in Parliament assembled It is now almost seven years since I endeavoured to set right his Majesties revenue of excise, both as to the management of, and accompting for it; ... Farthing, John. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1695-1696] Signed at end: John Farthing. Title from caption and first lines of text. Suggested imprint from Wing. With a docket title: "The original is delivered to the right honourable Paul Foley, speaker of the honourable House of Commons. Touching several hundred thousand of pounds paid by the subject, but diverted from their proper channel.". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Excise tax -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo To the honourable, the knights, citizens and burgesses, in Parliament assembled. It is now almost seven years since I endeavoured to set right his Maj Farthing, John 1696 1 278 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2006-11 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-12 Sampled and proofread 2006-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO THE HONOURABLE , THE Knights , Citizens and Burgesses , in Parliament Assembled .

IT is now almost seven years since I endeavoured to set right his Majesties Revenue of Excise , both as to the Management of , and Accompting for it ; but hitherto have met with many obstructions , which almost discouraged me from ever medling any further in it : But having observed in his Majesties most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament , at the opening of this Session , that his Majesty takes notice that the Funds already established are deficient some Millions , I am induced to offer to this Honourable House to discover some hundred thousands of Pounds paid by the Subject for Excise of Beer and Ale , which are diverted from their proper Chanel , into private Pockets ; And if I shall be required thereunto , and Encouraged by this Honourable House , I will shew by whom , and upon what Pretence these Summs are so diverted , and are still like to be , if proper means be not applied ; which I think my Duty at such an Exigency of Affairs humbly to propose to this Honourable House , having been Employed in the Excise , not only as a Sub-Commissioner , but also spent many years study as well as Considerable Summs of Money in the improvement of that Revenue .

The Consideration of this is humbly submitted to this Honourable House , by John Farthing , late of Long Ditton in the County of Surrey , now of Chelsey in the County of Middlesex . Subscribed ,

John Farthing .