The following proposalls are humbly offered the honorable House of Commons, as funds on which to raise the sums voted for the civil list and relief of the French refugees This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84658 of text R177145 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing F1402A). 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. 1 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 A84658 Wing F1402A ESTC R177145 99895500 99895500 152946 2240944628

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84658) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 152946) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2335:9) The following proposalls are humbly offered the honorable House of Commons, as funds on which to raise the sums voted for the civil list and relief of the French refugees 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London? : 1696] Identified as Wing F1402A, reel 2335, of the UMI microfilm set "Early English books 1641-1700". Cf. Wing F1402A, which has "proposals" in the title. Imprint from Wing F1402A. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Tax collection -- England -- Early works to 1800. France -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides eebo The following proposals are humbly offered the . . . Commons . . . relief of the French refugees [no entry] 1696 1 195 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. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-10 Sampled and proofread 2007-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The following Proposalls are Humbly Offered the Honorable House of Commons , as Funds on which to Raise the Sums Voted for the Civil List and Relief of the French Refugees .

I. THat every Anual Parish Officer as Constable , Church-wardens , Overseers of the Poor , and High-ways , Thirdboroughs , &c. Pay each yearly , the Sum of five Shillings . That they have leave to put this Tax into their Accounts , to be allowed them by the place in General for which they Serve .

This will not at all Interfere with the Four Shillings Tax , as not affecting Landlords , but the present Occupiers of Land . Parish Duties being paid by such .

II. That there be paid for every one who shall after the First of May 1696 , be put to any Trade or Profession , the Sum of twelve Pence for every twenty Shillings which the Master takes for Instructing such in any Trade , Art or Profession . The Master to be accountable for the Duty .

III. That twelve Pence in the Pound be paid by Servants for their Wages .