AN
ANSWER
TO
A
Scandalous
and
Deceitfull
Pamphlet
:
ENTITULED
,
Considerable
Queries
humbly
tendred
touching
Reducement
of
the
Excise
to
the
Customs
;
Published
by
Necessity
.
BY
a
lover
of
truth
,
and
discoverer
of
fawning
cringing
companions
,
who
having
little
wit
and
much
confidence
;
a
large
proportion
of
ignorance
in
affaires
they
entermedle
with
;
blinded
with
desire
of
Gain
,
and
large
Salaries
,
pretend
the
Common-wealths
good
,
while
they
only
aime
to
inrich
themselves
,
and
by
base
flatteries
,
love
lobby
attendances
,
and
other
sneaking
applications
;
thinke
by
fair
words
to
deceive
men
into
a
good
opinion
of
themselves
,
and
would
make
men
beleeve
they
are
necessitated
to
confirme
them
in
their
imployments
,
or
transfer
them
to
better
places
,
where
money
is
stirring
and
gain
coming
in
,
and
then
their
worke
is
done
:
whether
the
worke
of
the
Common-wealth
be
done
or
undone
,
sink
or
swim
.
Which
presumptuous
boldnesse
,
and
immodest
cariage
,
proceeds
from
a
hope
they
have
upon
Unkles
,
or
Cozens
in
the
Parliament
,
as
Necessity
who
had
a
Kinsman
by
his
endeavours
so
powerfull
as
to
make
a
thin
Lawyer
,
and
slender
Souldiers
,
instantly
became
a
sound
,
substantiall
experienced
Excise
man
,
and
a
Cozen
Commissioner
,
although
he
scarce
knew
Straw
from
Hoppes
,
or
Sattin
from
Buckram
,
as
if
there
was
a
communicative
power
by
the
laying
on
of
his
Kinsmans
hands
,
to
ordain
him
and
infuse
new
principles
of
understanding
;
and
in
an
instant
to
make
him
know
the
mysteries
of
all
Trade
,
and
Commerce
,
the
kinds
,
values
,
and
denominations
of
all
Goods
and
Merchandize
,
and
to
indue
him
with
qualifications
that
might
fit
him
to
purse
up
money
sufficient
for
himself
and
Ordinary
,
and
yet
all
this
to
be
accounted
no
fimony
.
It
is
almost
to
be
wondered
,
that
the
influence
of
a
malevolent
Planet
whose
motion
is
so
near
the
earth
,
by
his
favorable
aspect
should
have
such
operation
on
so
dull
a
body
:
That
he
who
had
not
the
audacity
to
come
within
a
mile
of
a
Corporation
where
Bayliffs
held
jurisdiction
,
should
now
be
so
presumptuously
bold
to
take
upon
him
to
Excise
and
Judge
the
people
,
conceiting
that
the
world
is
not
governed
by
so
much
wisdome
,
as
many
Sage
men
have
thought
;
and
being
thus
steeld
,
dare
openly
appear
at
the
Parliament
door
,
setting
forth
self
in
Print
,
yea
printing
himself
a
considerable
fellow
;
yea
more
,
that
the
Brats
of
his
own
braines
lately
wet
and
squeesed
,
are
so
consderable
as
to
be
fit
for
the
guidance
of
the
Parliament
.
By
this
it
's
apparent
how
little
braines
and
great
Salaries
worke
together
;
but
such
persons
I
hope
will
be
soon
espied
and
rejected
;
especially
such
,
as
being
intrusted
and
impolyed
by
the
Parliament
,
and
think
it
no
crime
to
be
ignorant
and
neglectfull
of
their
own
duty
,
and
upbraid
and
scandalize
those
that
are
knowing
and
diligent
in
their
trust
,
shall
not
onely
be
judged
unfit
for
any
other
imployment
,
but
as
unprofitable
and
unfaithfull
servants
be
thrust
out
,
and
wiser
and
honester
men
imployed
in
their
rooms
.
Such
men
make
a
dust
,
lest
their
want
of
ability
should
be
discerned
;
and
puddle
the
waters
,
that
you
may
not
see
the
shallownesse
of
their
understanding
,
and
how
inconsiderately
they
manage
the
trust
reposed
in
them
;
like
Lapwings
to
draw
you
from
their
nest
,
make
most
noyse
where
there
is
least
cause
.
Pag.
1.
He
saith
the
receipt
of
the
Excise
is
300000
l.
per
an
.
notwithstanding
the
great
obstructions
,
and
is
dayly
increasing
.
Answ.
There
will
,
and
needs
must
be
great
obstructions
,
whilst
men
of
no
better
abilities
and
insight
into
Trade
,
have
the
management
thereof
;
for
what
can
be
expected
from
men
that
know
nothing
of
regulating
matters
of
Commerce
and
Trade
?
Merchants
and
Traders
that
understand
all
the
wayes
,
and
by-wayes
of
Trade
,
will
easily
out-wit
ignoramusses
,
and
inferiour
officers
can
easily
see
their
Mr.
Commissioners
ignorance
,
and
although
in
words
they
applaud
him
,
yet
may
play
their
games
with
the
Merchants
,
and
other
Traders
to
their
advantage
,
whilest
such
a
Commissioner
is
blinded
with
a
notion
of
his
deserving
into
that
he
never
knew
nor
understood
.
And
for
the
dayly
increase
of
that
revenue
;
I
cannot
but
wonder
at
the
ignorance
of
the
Author
,
for
many
years
past
,
when
warres
were
in
the
Land
,
and
the
Parliament
had
not
the
whole
Nation
under
their
power
,
yet
the
Excise
was
then
about
400000.
l.
and
now
it
is
about
300000.
l.
per
an
.
this
is
the
growing
receipt
like
a
Cowes
tail
downwards
.
It
's
true
for
two
years
last
past
,
some
seeming
small
improvement
hath
been
in
the
receipt
of
the
Excise
,
but
if
the
same
be
examined
it
will
appear
to
be
only
by
farming
it
out
,
whereby
the
people
have
been
most
miserably
exacted
upon
and
opprest
,
not
only
by
a
due
taking
the
utmost
for
Excise
of
Commodities
,
but
also
forcing
Inn-keepers
and
others
to
pay
an
Annuall
sum
for
above
what
their
Annual
Excise
would
come
to
,
or
else
by
the
frowns
and
favours
of
them
or
their
unreasonable
farmers
,
to
put
them
into
a
worse
condition
by
fines
and
seizures
of
their
goods
;
procuring
Licenses
for
Alehouses
to
be
taken
on
their
owne
termes
,
or
if
the
parties
consent
not
they
are
supprest
,
and
a
number
such
shirking
trickes
,
grievous
to
the
people
.
All
which
I
hope
the
Parliament
will
not
only
reforme
,
but
also
punish
the
Authors
of
such
exorbitances
.
It
is
true
as
Necessity
saith
,
the
Receipt
of
the
Customes
is
a
vast
receipt
,
and
he
might
have
said
a
growing
receipt
,
for
it
hath
advanced
under
the
Management
of
the
present
Commissioners
.
That
in
every
one
of
these
foure
last
yeares
they
have
accompted
for
between
three
and
four
hundred
thousand
pound
per
an
.
although
in
every
one
of
these
years
,
such
hinderances
have
happened
,
that
have
much
prejudiced
that
Receipt
,
as
in
former
years
have
not
been
known
.
As
first
,
the
prohibition
of
French
Wine
,
which
if
imported
as
formerly
would
have
added
40000.
l.
per
an
.
to
the
receipt
.
The
Portugal
Trade
about
30000.
l.
per
an
.
The
Levant
and
Turky
Trade
,
about
40000.
l.
per
an
.
The
Barbadoes
and
other
American
Trade
about
30000.
l.
per
an
.
all
of
which
have
been
wanting
to
the
receipt
of
Customes
,
in
some
of
those
years
,
and
some
of
the
most
considerable
of
them
wanting
still
.
And
although
the
trade
of
Portugall
be
come
into
the
receipt
of
late
,
yet
not
in
that
proportion
as
was
heretofore
.
The
trade
of
Barbadoes
and
other
Islands
are
now
added
to
the
receipt
;
yet
there
wants
the
trades
of
Muscovia
,
Holland
,
and
the
east
Country
,
whereby
it
is
much
lesse
then
otherwise
it
would
be
;
as
also
,
the
French
,
Levant
and
Turkey
trade
,
are
lost
to
that
receipt
.
Undoubtedly
if
such
a
free
trade
were
now
in
England
,
as
was
in
Anno
1648.
or
any
year
before
,
the
receipt
of
the
Customes
would
rise
to
500000.
l.
per
an
.
if
managed
with
the
same
or
the
like
judgement
,
care
,
skill
,
and
industry
,
they
now
are
by
the
present
Commissioners
and
officers
.
In
the
same
Page
Necessity
further
saith
,
the
Excise
is
a
full
check
to
the
Custome
,
and
the
Customes
a
full
check
to
the
Excise
;
if
ignorance
were
not
the
mother
of
this
,
he
would
never
have
published
;
there
sits
an
honourable
Gentleman
in
Parliament
,
who
is
one
of
the
checks
to
the
Customes
,
and
can
informe
how
true
this
assertion
is
.
But
if
the
Customes
be
a
full
check
to
the
Excise
,
why
is
not
that
receipt
bettered
by
that
check
of
the
Customes
?
For
it
is
evident
that
of
those
Commodities
imported
,
which
are
most
unlikely
to
be
conveighed
away
without
payment
of
Custome
and
Excise
,
the
Commissioners
of
the
Customes
do
Annually
receive
above
double
as
much
money
as
the
Commissioners
of
Excise
for
the
same
Commodities
,
due
regard
in
this
calculation
being
had
as
well
to
the
values
set
,
or
taken
for
the
said
goods
on
the
duties
payable
to
the
respective
receipts
,
as
also
deduction
for
any
of
them
exported
.
And
since
Necessity
asserts
from
his
own
mouth
,
that
the
Excise
is
a
full
check
to
the
Customes
,
and
the
Customes
to
the
Excise
;
why
then
should
not
the
Parliament
(
I
hope
they
will
on
Englands
behalfe
)
command
both
the
Commissioners
of
the
Customes
,
and
Commissioners
of
Excise
,
to
give
in
their
severall
accompts
perfect
,
for
what
hath
been
collected
for
every
distinct
kinde
and
sort
of
goods
imported
,
and
if
either
of
them
have
been
deficient
,
that
they
will
see
the
Common-wealth
righted
,
out
of
the
estates
of
such
as
are
culpable
?
And
this
seems
but
just
in
respect
each
set
of
Commissioners
have
considerable
Salaries
,
viz.
the
Commissioners
of
Customs
4
d.
in
the
pound
for
their
Salarie
,
and
for
securing
to
the
Common-wealth
the
whole
receipt
of
the
Customes
every
24
day
of
June
,
how
much
soever
stands
out
unreceived
,
or
is
lost
by
the
insolvency
or
non-performance
of
any
Collector
,
as
also
to
forbeare
all
manner
of
trade
as
Merchants
,
and
to
pay
out
of
the
said
4
d.
per
l.
some
additionall
Clerks
,
and
to
satisfie
the
incident
charges
expended
for
the
better
management
of
that
affair
,
as
appeareth
by
the
Contract
betwixt
the
late
Parliament
,
and
the
present
Commissioners
of
Customes
,
extant
in
the
Records
of
Parliament
.
And
the
Commissioners
of
Excise
have
3
d.
in
the
pound
for
their
Salarie
,
without
any
ingagement
for
debts
,
or
incident
charges
.
The
least
of
which
Salaries
is
a
sufficient
reward
and
consideration
either
to
the
aforesaid
accompt
or
satisfaction
.
There
is
an
old
proverb
,
whem
Gamesters
fall
out
true
men
come
by
their
goods
;
and
Necessity
hath
put
me
upon
the
discovery
of
such
ajust
experiment
,
as
may
deter
weak
unskilfull
men
from
their
bold
attempts
,
for
the
same
or
like
places
of
profit
.
And
as
it
's
fit
to
recompense
men
of
parts
and
abilities
,
that
serve
the
Common-wealth
well
,
and
profitably
,
so
it
is
just
to
punish
such
as
dare
take
upon
them
publick
trust
,
without
skill
,
or
ability
,
to
manage
the
same
sutably
to
the
duty
incumbent
on
them
.
It
's
man-like
to
beat
a
quarreller
with
his
own
weapon
,
the
say
Necessity
will
make
a
man
fight
,
and
it
will
not
be
amisse
to
turne
the
mischief
he
intends
to
others
upon
his
owne
pate
,
that
so
he
may
do
no
more
hurt
with
his
penne
,
then
he
could
formerly
doe
with
his
Pike
.
Some
men
are
opinionated
they
are
fit
for
every
imployment
,
able
to
undertake
any
businesse
,
and
would
have
others
beleeve
them
to
be
the
only
useful
men
in
peace
and
warre
.
And
when
men
of
parts
after
long
experience
,
great
travell
,
and
diligent
study
,
with
much
hesitation
,
are
hardly
perswaded
to
take
a
command
,
or
any
other
imployment
of
charge
,
doubting
their
sufficiency
,
you
shall
have
a
confident
pettifogger
turn
his
buckram
bag
into
a
snapsack
,
and
instantly
become
a
Colonell
,
and
Commander
of
a
garrison
,
where
he
may
have
little
to
do
,
and
lie
far
enough
from
his
enemy
,
&
never
attempt
any
thing
worthy
the
name
of
a
Souldier
;
yet
there
is
necessity
he
be
paid
as
well
as
he
hath
hazards
his
life
daily
.
And
when
the
wars
are
done
,
at
first
dash
can
have
wit
enough
,
with
help
of
friends
,
to
be
a
Commissioner
of
Excise
,
although
a
place
that
would
require
more
solidity
,
&
better
experience
then
he
could
finde
either
in
his
snapsack
,
or
buckram
bag
;
yet
is
so
bold
to
put
himself
in
print
,
and
thinks
all
mens
understandings
are
shallow
as
his
own
,
and
hopes
to
raise
so
much
mud
at
the
Custome-house
,
that
you
shall
never
see
what
water
runs
besides
the
mill
at
the
Excise
:
pag.
1.
he
asserts
the
Receipt
of
the
Excise
annually
to
be
300000
l.
and
pag.
3.
he
saith
the
annuall
Receit
of
native
Commodities
to
be
150000
l.
then
it
must
follow
that
the
Receipt
of
imported
goods
,
is
the
other
moity
and
but
150000
l.
And
I
do
not
beleeve
upon
examination
it
will
appear
to
be
so
much
,
and
that
the
Receipt
of
the
Customes
for
the
same
is
double
as
much
.
And
yet
the
charge
of
collecting
the
Excise
,
is
much
more
as
he
confesses
,
pag.
1.
to
be
about
2
s
in
the
pound
,
which
he
calculateth
upon
the
whole
Receipt
of
Excise
;
as
well
for
goods
imported
as
for
native
commodities
:
the
last
of
which
were
for
the
most
part
farmed
,
and
so
bring
no
charge
,
except
3
d.
per
l.
to
the
Commissioners
.
And
if
Necessity
understood
the
businesse
of
the
excise
,
he
might
have
told
you
,
that
the
sums
of
money
raised
by
farming
the
Excise
without
charge
by
the
pound
,
other
then
is
aforesaid
,
being
deducted
from
the
sum
collected
for
goods
imported
,
and
other
native
goods
not
farmed
,
and
the
whole
charge
of
officers
,
and
other
incident
charges
being
proportioned
,
as
in
right
it
ought
to
be
at
the
latter
end
of
the
charge
of
collecting
the
Excise
,
doth
amount
unto
about
3
s.
8
d.
or
4
s
in
the
pound
,
for
goods
imported
,
but
when
gain
is
the
end
,
mists
and
dark
clouds
are
the
way
.
I
observed
before
that
Necessity
concludes
the
Excise
,
a
full
check
to
the
Customes
,
as
they
now
stand
,
and
yet
within
four
or
five
lines
,
he
saith
it
was
once
a
perfect
Check
:
I
would
gladly
know
by
what
Logick
,
he
can
distinguish
between
full
and
perfect
,
in
that
sense
wherein
they
are
applyed
.
In
the
end
of
the
1.
pag.
he
saith
the
Officers
of
Excise
formerly
put
aboard
ships
,
and
at
water
side
,
were
taken
off
by
the
Committee
of
Regulation
of
Excise
:
which
,
he
saith
,
was
done
to
save
charges
,
and
the
issue
of
it
is
,
that
few
rich
goods
are
entred
either
in
Excise
or
Customes
,
and
both
duties
lost
.
Ans.
The
Officers
of
Excise
on
ship-board
and
at
water
side
were
a
great
Charge
to
the
State
,
and
those
aboard
were
a
great
grievance
to
the
owners
of
shipping
lying
there
at
their
charge
for
meat
and
drink
,
and
no
benefit
at
all
,
for
they
only
joyned
with
the
Officers
of
the
Customes
on
board
to
take
the
numbers
and
marks
and
outward
formes
of
goods
and
come
along
with
the
Lighters
to
the
Keyes
:
but
whether
they
were
silk
or
thrums
,
full
or
empty
,
they
knew
not
;
and
such
officers
were
very
like
to
make
Necessities
full
Check
to
become
a
perfect
Check
;
whereas
nothing
could
come
as
perfect
from
the
Tidesmen
,
but
must
be
expected
from
the
Land-waiter
,
the
main
and
chief
end
of
Tidesmen
being
aboard
is
to
prevent
any
goods
fromm
being
delivered
without
due
entry
.
But
it
is
apparently
known
,
that
what
through
the
meannesse
of
the
salary
those
tidesmen
had
,
and
what
through
want
of
care
and
conscience
,
not
only
in
the
chief
Officers
in
choosing
them
,
and
the
behaviour
of
these
tidesmen
,
they
trusting
to
the
Officers
of
the
Customes
,
and
the
Officers
of
Customes
trusting
to
them
:
it
did
plainly
appear
they
were
more
burthensome
then
profitable
,
for
Mr.
Samuel
Moyer
and
others
sitting
in
Mincing
Lane
London
,
authorised
for
regulating
the
Officers
,
and
management
of
the
Customes
,
gave
it
as
their
opinion
,
that
thenceforth
all
the
Officers
of
Excise
imployed
on
shipboard
,
and
at
the
water
side
,
should
be
dismissed
;
and
that
the
sole
management
for
importation
,
exportation
,
and
transportation
,
should
be
in
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
and
their
Officers
.
And
it
was
ordered
accordingly
:
by
which
dismission
the
Common-wealth
saved
a
large
sum
of
money
Annually
.
Since
which
time
the
Customes
have
been
advanced
to
(
neer
or
altogether
)
double
what
they
then
were
.
And
yet
there
is
no
entry
for
landing
goods
passed
by
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
,
untill
the
Deputy
of
the
Commissioners
of
Excise
do
certifie
that
they
are
satisfied
for
the
Excise
due
thereupon
;
and
yet
Necessity
saith
the
Custome
is
lost
and
Excise
too
.
That
the
custome
is
not
lost
appears
by
the
advance
thereof
:
but
that
the
Excise
is
lost
appears
is
manifest
by
the
declension
of
that
Receipt
,
whilest
the
Deputy
for
Excise
certifies
he
is
satisfied
,
and
Necessity
saith
it
is
not
paid
.
It
's
manifest
then
how
he
manages
the
Excise
;
heretofore
one
of
the
ablest
of
the
old
Commissioners
,
did
sit
in
the
Excise
Office
at
the
water
side
,
but
of
late
no
such
thing
.
And
indeed
it
matters
not
,
if
there
be
no
wiser
among
them
then
Necessity
,
who
could
not
tell
what
to
do
,
if
he
were
there
.
And
therefore
pag.
2.
he
saith
,
Attendance
at
the
Custome
house
is
the
least
work
of
the
Excise
Office
.
And
so
the
work
too
mean
for
a
man
of
his
worth
:
whereas
it
's
known
to
all
experienced
men
,
that
it
is
the
very
key
of
the
work
,
and
the
foundation
for
a
true
Receipt
,
for
Goods
inported
,
and
as
this
is
well
or
ill
done
,
so
it
saveth
or
loseth
the
duty
;
for
by
this
they
can
oly
call
men
to
accompt
,
and
compell
payment
for
goods
imported
when
they
are
sold
.
It
's
manifest
that
the
decay
of
Excise
is
the
deceiving
the
Common-wealth
;
for
if
the
Custome
be
paid
and
due
entry
made
,
and
the
entry
certified
by
the
Excise
Officers
,
that
they
are
satisfied
for
Excise
,
it
will
be
no
hard
matter
to
finde
where
the
fault
is
.
And
I
dare
affirme
,
if
the
Parliament
will
please
to
command
an
accompt
of
the
Commissioners
both
of
Customes
and
Excise
as
aforesaid
,
it
will
appear
that
Necessity
doth
not
well
(
or
knowes
not
how
to
)
manage
such
a
Receipt
:
and
therefore
he
is
troubled
,
that
any
wiser
then
himself
are
imployed
in
publique
Receipts
,
as
appears
in
the
bottome
of
his
first
pag.
where
speaking
of
the
Committee
for
Regulating
the
Excise
,
he
writes
(
not
prints
)
Colonell
Harvey
one
of
the
Commissioners
for
the
Customes
was
a
powerfull
Member
.
For
my
part
I
conceive
it
was
well
for
the
Common-wealth
he
was
a
Member
of
that
Committee
,
and
a
Commissioner
of
the
Customes
;
for
all
that
know
him
do
know
him
to
be
experienced
in
all
manner
of
Traffique
,
and
Commerce
,
of
a
quick
understanding
,
industrious
,
and
excellent
in
dispatch
of
businesse
,
and
I
hope
truly
honest
;
one
made
up
with
qualifications
fit
for
a
publick
Receipt
.
I
might
say
more
,
and
God
knowes
I
flatter
not
,
but
speak
what
I
know
,
and
Necessity
constrained
me
to
say
something
,
because
he
is
named
so
emphatically
with
Necessities
own
hand-writing
(
if
I
mistake
not
)
but
whether
to
commend
or
defame
him
I
know
not
,
he
comes
off
so
sneakingly
.
The
rest
of
his
Pamphlet
is
stuffed
with
such
reason
as
he
can
devise
to
shew
his
fear
,
lest
the
Excise
be
brought
to
the
Customes
,
and
managed
by
one
and
the
same
number
of
persons
,
and
this
alteration
he
knowes
may
undoe
him
,
and
therefore
is
in
a
bodily
fear
,
not
having
a
friend
in
Parliament
to
cover
his
black
head
with
a
white
lock
,
and
is
like
to
want
that
fine
dresse
of
commendations
whereby
he
was
so
well
set
out
by
his
Unkle
,
that
he
became
one
of
the
Parliaments
darlings
,
and
an
Officer
in
so
great
a
trust
.
And
therefore
now
laies
about
him
,
throwes
dirt
in
some
mens
faces
,
frowns
on
others
,
growes
sawcy
with
his
Masters
,
swels
high
in
his
own
imagination
,
offers
the
example
of
Holland
and
Leghorne
,
to
abate
the
ancient
and
solid
revenue
of
the
Customes
,
and
to
inhaunce
the
new
(
and
it
is
hoped
not
intended
to
be
long
continued
)
Receipt
of
the
Excise
,
as
p.
4.
which
last
was
set
on
foot
only
in
times
of
extremity
and
expected
to
cease
when
the
pressing
occasions
of
the
Nation
will
permit
.
I
cannot
easily
passe
by
his
argument
,
to
expell
pride
,
luxury
,
and
drunkennesse
,
by
making
proud
,
luxurious
,
drunken
persons
pay
more
for
their
sinnes
.
If
the
man
did
but
know
what
necessity
he
hath
to
study
his
own
businesse
,
for
which
he
is
so
well
(
if
not
too
well
)
paid
,
he
might
be
able
out
of
his
own
experience
to
tell
others
,
that
Wines
and
silk
were
never
known
so
dear
as
of
late
times
,
and
is
there
any
lesse
will
or
desire
to
the
excessive
use
of
either
?
And
doth
not
daily
experience
manifest
,
that
drunkards
will
have
drink
,
set
what
rate
you
will
upon
it
:
and
are
there
not
many
that
can
hardly
get
7
s.
a
week
by
hard
labour
,
that
will
spend
4
,
or
5
s.
in
a
day
though
wife
and
children
starve
at
home
?
Solomon
saies
,
a
rod
for
he
fools
back
,
it
's
not
pecuniary
mulcts
,
but
corporall
punishment
that
must
deter
men
from
such
sins
.
I
do
not
a
little
wonder
that
any
dares
in
a
Christian
Common-wealth
propound
such
a
motion
,
as
if
we
should
imitate
the
whorish
Court
of
Rome
,
who
allowes
common
Stewes
because
they
fill
the
Popes
coffers
and
so
increase
their
treasure
with
the
hire
of
a
Whore
,
or
as
the
Russian
,
when
reproved
for
drunkennesse
,
replies
,
Oh
its
good
for
my
master
the
Emperour
,
he
being
the
great
Merchant
of
Strong-Waters
,
and
cares
not
to
punish
that
sin
because
it
brings
in
profit
.
But
I
hope
there
will
be
no
Necessity
to
plead
against
such
abominable
gain
,
for
you
shall
finde
him
in
the
lower
end
of
that
page
,
talk
a
little
goodish
,
he
speaks
of
reformation
,
but
it
's
not
a
throughout
reforming
he
aimes
at
,
(
the
Excise
are
perfect
already
)
but
it
's
to
passe
upon
the
Custome
Officers
before
such
reducement
.
If
it
were
good
for
the
Common-wealth
to
make
any
such
reducement
,
(
as
in
my
opinion
it
is
not
,
but
more
for
the
publick
advantage
to
keep
the
Receipts
apart
)
good
reason
might
be
for
some
variation
of
Salaries
:
but
I
know
that
is
not
his
drift
to
observe
,
nor
mine
to
reply
;
yet
let
me
tell
him
,
that
the
salaries
that
now
are
,
were
setled
to
the
Officers
of
the
Customes
upon
very
great
judgement
,
and
prepared
,
and
proposed
by
persons
of
unquestionable
abilities
,
skill
and
experience
,
honesty
and
good
affection
,
viz.
The
Committee
of
Merchants
then
sitting
in
Mincing
Lane
,
authorised
thereunto
by
Act
of
Parliament
,
Anno
1648
,
ad
49.
of
which
Mr.
Samuel
Moyer
,
and
Mr.
Richard
Hutchinson
were
two
,
with
many
other
choice
and
select
persons
,
who
first
presented
them
unto
the
Committee
of
the
Navie
and
Customes
,
who
reported
the
matter
to
the
Parliament
then
sitting
,
and
was
by
them
confirmed
:
and
dares
he
blunder
out
questions
whether
it
be
fit
or
unfit
?
And
then
from
quarrelling
at
their
salaries
,
he
fals
upon
their
persons
,
and
in
generall
termes
,
charges
many
with
trading
as
Merchants
and
Factors
,
and
indefinitly
accuses
all
with
obstructing
the
Excise
,
violation
of
trust
,
concealing
and
defrauding
the
State
their
dues
.
Doubtlesse
it
was
a
more
then
ordinary
passion
that
urged
Necessity
thus
to
lay
about
him
and
spare
none
:
Why
man
,
is
there
never
an
honest
man
at
Custome
house
,
not
Alderman
Titchbourne
,
nor
Mr.
Samuel
Moyer
?
you
made
a
criticall
distinction
betwixt
full
and
perfect
:
why
are
you
now
so
indefinite
,
sure
you
never
observed
that
rule
in
Logick
,
that
every
indefinite
proposition
must
be
construed
universally
;
and
if
so
,
thou
hast
then
comprehended
them
with
the
rest
.
But
I
dare
undertake
you
did
it
unwittingly
,
or
without
wit
,
otherwise
you
would
never
have
adventured
to
run
the
hazard
of
their
displeasure
,
and
go
against
a
known
rule
to
speak
evill
of
dignities
,
but
you
may
hope
they
have
greater
businesse
then
to
trouble
themselves
with
a
—
whose
tongue
is
no
slander
,
and
so
forgive
,
though
I
know
not
how
they
can
forget
because
you
have
given
them
a
remembrance
in
print
.
Had
it
not
been
better
policy
to
have
hid
your self
behinde
your
large
salary
and
vast
ignorance
,
and
have
blessed
your self
;
you
were
so
inconsiderable
as
not
to
be
thought
on
,
these
being
not
times
for
men
of
poor
parts
and
rich
places
to
be
rampant
,
when
they
have
to
doe
with
an
Eagle-eyed
State
.
You
say
many
of
the
Custome
Officers
trade
as
Factors
,
it
's
strange
you
can
name
none
but
one
long
since
thrown
out
of
his
imployment
;
it
's
not
saying
but
proving
they
trade
,
that
makes
them
punishable
.
And
amongst
the
many
crimes
you
lay
to
their
charge
in
defrauding
the
Excise
,
you
instance
only
a
case
near
two
years
since
of
one
Opye
of
Plimouth
,
who
was
detected
and
cast
out
of
his
Collectors
place
,
although
he
had
many
friends
in
the
Parliament
,
and
divers
eminent
Officers
of
the
Army
,
applyed
in
his
behalfe
to
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
,
yet
so
just
and
unbyassed
were
they
to
their
trust
,
that
no
courtship
could
prevail
with
them
.
I
could
tell
you
of
many
more
in
the
port
of
London
,
and
elsewhere
,
whom
they
have
cast
out
for
the
like
offences
,
and
it
might
have
had
some
seeming
shew
of
honesty
if
you
had
named
any
at
present
in
imployment
that
had
been
guilty
,
which
the
Commissioners
have
winked
at
:
nay
I
am
confident
that
upon
the
exactest
inquiry
it
will
not
be
found
that
they
ever
indulged
any
proved
guilty
of
this
or
the
like
misdemeanors
,
either
in
his
place
or
conversation
.
And
truely
I
conceive
if
you
knew
any
such
thing
by
any
Officer
,
there
lay
a
Necessity
upon
you
to
have
discovered
it
to
the
Commissioners
of
Custome
,
wherein
you
could
not
have
failed
of
a
fair
acceptance
,
and
a
due
proceeding
against
the
offender
according
to
justice
.
Although
Necessity
have
no
law
,
yet
he
might
have
had
some
modest
shame
,
every
ingenuous
man
will
say
these
are
unhandsome
,
illegall
,
uncharistian
like
proceedings
;
and
that
you
rather
intend
to
calumniate
then
reforme
:
I
wish
the
Parliament
would
inforce
you
to
make
good
your
charge
,
and
if
you
do
not
,
I
shall
be
inforced
to
say
Necessity
hath
no
honesty
.
And
in
this
Necessity
hath
shewed
himself
a
very
busibody
,
quick
●ighted
abroad
but
dull
at
home
;
he
can
spie
a
moat
at
Custome
house
,
and
sees
not
a
beam
at
the
Excise
,
you
might
have
reckoned
divers
amongst
your
Commissioners
and
Officers
that
keep
their
trades
,
and
deal
in
many
Exciseable
commodities
,
did
Mr.
Morice
Thomson
,
M.
Boner
,
Mr.
Thomas
Lentall
,
with
others
,
as
also
divers
inferior
Officers
give
over
their
trades
?
And
is
there
not
the
like
order
of
Parliament
against
Excise
officers
trading
in
Commodities
Exciseable
?
is
not
this
thy
complaining
upon
others
and
neglecting
reformation
at
home
,
base
hypocrisie
?
doth
not
this
render
thee
one
that
keeps
not
company
with
a
good
conscience
and
understanding
?
&
doth
not
thy
affirming
many
to
be
guilty
,
and
particularly
naming
but
one
(
and
he
long
since
thrown
out
of
his
imployment
)
throw
dirt
in
the
face
of
all
,
even
Commissioners
,
Clerks
,
and
al
other
Officers
?
And
yet
I
am
of
opinion
,
that
in
your
own
conscience
you
acquit
every
one
in
the
port
of
London
,
and
know
not
any
thing
of
guiltinesse
elsewhere
:
yet
with
an
impudent
face
you
charge
the
Officers
with
concealing
goods
Exciseable
,
and
defrauding
the
Excise
,
due
upon
conviction
of
offenders
for
non
entry
of
goods
.
It
is
true
,
the
Excise
may
not
be
paid
,
but
it
's
through
your
own
negligence
,
or
ignorance
,
or
unfaithfulnesse
,
and
it
seems
you
bring
not
such
sums
to
accompt
;
but
I
shall
tell
you
,
and
make
it
good
,
that
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
cause
all
goods
seized
,
to
be
brought
into
the
Common-wealths
warehouse
,
and
the
Excise
officers
are
acquainted
with
them
;
whence
they
are
not
delivered
before
composition
,
or
condemnation
,
or
order
of
Parliament
,
nor
before
due
entrie
be
made
of
the
same
,
and
Custome
paid
and
certified
to
be
satisfied
for
Excise
by
your
hand
and
eyes
,
indeed
your
skill
,
wisdome
and
experience
,
viz.
Mr.
Tho.
Lenthall
and
Mr.
Jo.
Crue
.
And
of
these
as
also
for
all
other
goods
have
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
such
Certificates
and
fair
accompt
kept
thereof
,
that
when
this
shall
be
inquired
into
,
as
I
hope
it
will
,
and
am
assured
you
know
will
be
proved
;
I
wish
you
be
able
to
answer
the
Common-wealth
for
the
sums
that
they
will
prove
you
have
certified
to
have
received
:
and
yet
you
now
assert
you
have
not
,
but
that
they
are
lost
to
the
Receipt
.
Beleeve
me
,
they
that
have
found
them
,
or
kept
them
back
,
or
concealed
them
from
the
Common-wealth
,
it
's
just
they
should
be
compelled
to
vomit
them
up
again
.
Well
Necessity
,
I
perceive
you
can
play
the
Orator
(
or
he
that
comprised
the
Book
,
did
it
for
you
)
to
end
highest
at
last
:
pag.
5.
&
6.
You
fall
upon
the
Commissioners
themselves
,
yet
have
learned
so
much
wit
in
your
anger
as
to
charge
but
some
of
them
[
and
then
it
followes
in
written
hand
]
Commissioners
for
Customes
,
viz.
Col.
Harvy
,
Mr.
Hildersly
,
and
Mr.
Taylor
have
themselves
strongly
obstructed
the
receipt
of
the
Excise
,
&c.
Pray
,
what
Necessity
was
there
to
charge
three
Commissioners
and
not
the
other
,
viz.
Alderman
Tichborne
?
I
dare
assure
you
no
Act
was
ever
done
in
order
to
the
management
of
the
Customes
,
but
by
and
with
consent
and
concurrence
of
the
whole
or
major
part
,
although
it
may
be
signed
or
pronounced
by
one
for
orders
sake
;
they
Register
all
their
proceedings
,
and
can
give
an
account
out
of
their
diaries
of
all
they
ever
did
as
Commissioners
:
I
wish
you
did
observe
the
like
order
,
for
your
own
and
the
Common-wealths
sake
.
The
reason
then
is
plain
,
that
the
whole
drift
of
your
Pamphlet
reports
it
fawning
and
scraping
to
be
continued
in
your
office
,
and
are
affraid
to
name
Alderman
Titchborne
being
a
member
of
Parliament
.
But
you
can
mildly
take
your
fellow
servants
by
the
throat
of
their
reputation
,
and
falsly
accuse
them
unto
their
masters
;
having
herein
neither
as
a
wise
man
or
a
Christian
well
informed
your self
,
nor
considered
with
them
for
satisfaction
,
information
,
or
reformation
as
it
ought
to
be
done
.
But
as
the
love
of
money
is
the
root
of
all
evill
,
so
it
is
the
root
of
that
evill
;
will
you
shew
against
your
brethren
,
the
fear
of
losse
of
your
gainfull
trade
makes
you
imitate
Demetrius
and
his
Coppersmiths
,
they
cry
up
the
greatnesse
of
their
Goddesse
,
and
make
a
tumult
and
would
seem
devout
observers
of
that
deity
,
and
inrages
the
people
against
the
Apostles
;
But
that
which
troubled
them
,
was
,
lest
he
should
lose
his
gainful
occupation
:
so
your
jealousie
lest
your
craft
should
fail
,
and
your
gain
lessen
,
hath
put
you
upon
this
unchristian
,
uncharitable
behaviour
,
so
dishonestly
to
bespatter
these
wourthy
,
religious
and
Godly
persons
.
Could
you
not
consider
they
were
too
well
known
for
you
to
get
any
Credence
by
a
bare
generall
accusation
.
All
men
of
any
eminent
trade
and
businesse
knows
,
Coll.
Harvy
,
who
never
obscurely
lived
being
borne
&
bred
in
the
City
,
had
a
considerable
estate
left
him
,
and
when
he
traded
as
a
Silk-man
or
Merchant
,
had
one
of
the
greatest
trades
in
London
,
had
the
repute
of
a
fair
dealer
,
and
was
a
man
of
great
businesse
in
honourable
imployment
in
the
service
of
his
Country
,
and
quit
himself
like
a
man
of
worth
and
valour
,
as
a
Captain
,
a
Major
,
a
Collonell
and
Major
Generall
,
after
served
in
Parliament
,
and
a
Commissioner
of
Customes
with
so
much
industry
and
fidelity
,
as
a
man
unwearied
with
businesse
,
that
to
speak
ingenuously
,
I
know
but
few
men
that
can
and
will
take
the
pains
which
I
dayly
see
him
undergoe
,
being
naturally
inclin'd
to
go
through
with
what
he
undertakes
,
and
this
with
his
impartiall
dealing
hath
sufficiently
irritated
many
men
that
would
be
ready
to
worke
him
a
displeasure
:
but
God
who
gave
him
a
heart
to
act
by
a
principle
of
grace
and
true
love
to
piety
,
hath
carried
him
on
in
his
worke
,
that
malice
it self
hath
not
had
any
just
charge
against
him
.
And
as
for
the
other
Commissioners
,
if
wisdome
her self
had
been
set
a
work
curiously
to
search
,
she
could
not
have
found
men
more
single
hearted
,
upright
,
fearing
God
and
eschewing
evill
,
men
that
desire
in
all
good
conscience
to
discharge
their
duty
to
the
trust
reposed
in
them
.
And
I
dare
say
,
it
is
beleeved
by
all
that
know
them
,
they
are
such
,
and
I
can
with
truth
and
boldnesse
affirme
it
,
and
add
this
to
them
all
in
generall
,
that
discreeter
,
juster
,
abler
,
and
men
according
in
one
minde
and
judgement
,
with
love
and
respect
to
one
another
and
all
with
whom
as
to
their
imployment
they
have
to
do
as
Commissioners
,
never
yet
such
were
known
to
me
,
and
I
am
perswaded
it
will
be
hard
to
finde
such
an
agreement
for
so
long
a
time
by
any
four
men
in
the
world
,
in
so
eminent
an
imployment
.
Yet
Necessity
stigmatizeth
them
with
the
blackest
marks
of
infamy
as
grand
obstructers
of
the
publick
revenewes
,
violation
of
trust
,
defrauders
of
the
Common-wealth
,
concealers
of
the
duty
of
Excise
.
And
yet
again
,
another
charge
for
obstructing
the
receipt
,
pag.
6.
They
constantly
grant
Sufferances
.
It
's
not
true
that
they
constantly
grant
them
,
but
in
one
of
these
cases
following
.
1.
By
way
of
exportation
,
and
only
on
such
goods
where
the
halfe
subsidy
is
to
be
drawn
back
and
the
whole
Excise
,
only
for
accommodation
of
trade
that
they
may
be
shipped
and
not
passe
Graves-end
untill
a
Cocket
be
passed
,
and
the
Excise
officers
have
certified
they
are
satisfied
.
2.
When
Custome
is
paid
and
Excise
certified
to
be
satisfied
for
small
parcels
,
sufferances
are
granted
to
bring
up
the
said
goods
in
.
Wherries
,
which
otherwise
traders
are
obliged
to
do
in
Lighters
.
3.
For
the
landing
Graff
and
bulky
goods
,
as
Deals
.
Masts
,
Spars
,
Pitch
,
Tar
,
Hemp
,
&c.
which
ever
were
granted
,
and
without
which
Merchants
could
not
trade
in
those
commodities
,
the
lawfull
Keys
,
if
four
times
as
many
,
being
too
few
to
take
up
and
store
the
same
.
4.
Sufferances
are
granted
to
land
such
goods
as
no
Merchant
comes
to
claime
,
and
to
put
them
inthe
Common-wealths
warehouse
till
the
Merchant
comes
to
demand
them
,
which
goods
are
not
delivered
without
a
warrant
passed
by
the
Commissioners
of
the
Customes
,
which
they
never
passe
till
the
Customes
be
first
paid
,
and
never
suffer
the
same
to
be
executed
untill
they
have
certificate
from
the
Excise
officer
that
Excise
is
satisfied
.
5.
And
lastly
,
Sufferances
are
granted
for
landing
goods
transported
from
other
ports
of
this
Nation
to
the
Port
of
London
,
and
they
are
either
goods
Exciseable
,
or
free
from
Excise
,
as
Sea-coles
,
Corne
,
Butter
,
Cheefe
,
Wool
,
&c.
For
such
goods
as
are
Exciseable
there
is
never
any
Sufferances
granted
,
untill
first
the
Excise
officers
hand
be
subscribed
;
and
these
are
the
Sufferances
this
empty
headed
man
makes
such
adoe
about
,
accusing
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
for
granting
sufferances
without
any
Excise
officers
hand
subscribed
;
when
as
they
never
grant
any
of
the
aforesaid
sufferances
except
that
for
exportation
and
goods
not
Exciseable
,
but
when
they
have
first
granted
a
warrant
,
and
they
never
grant
a
warrant
but
they
first
have
the
Excise
officers
hand
to
certifie
he
hath
received
satisfaction
,
and
that
this
is
the
constant
practise
at
the
Custome-house
as
is
dayly
manifested
;
and
all
this
they
are
authorized
to
do
by
the
Parliament
,
for
avoiding
unreasonable
inconveniences
to
the
Merchants
.
And
for
the
goods
not
liable
to
Excise
,
as
Sea-coals
,
&c.
You
cannot
forget
,
if
you
have
not
quite
lost
your
memory
,
that
about
two
years
since
,
the
Commissioners
of
Excise
desired
a
conference
with
the
Commissioners
of
Customs
concerning
sufferances
by
them
granted
,
where
you
would
needs
shew
how
ignorant
you
were
in
the
businesse
you
would
pretend
so
much
knowledg
in
,
and
did
there
sputter
out
a
deal
of
nonsense
,
insomuch
as
your
brethren
were
ashamed
of
you
,
and
like
discreet
men
did
informe
you
in
good
words
,
you
understood
not
the
thing
you
spake
of
:
were
not
many
officers
of
Customes
and
Excise
witnesses
of
your
pertinacious
cariage
in
managing
that
debate
,
and
were
much
grieved
that
a
Common-wealth
abounding
with
many
excellent
men
of
parts
and
integrity
,
should
be
served
in
so
high
an
imployment
by
a
supercilious
conceited
pragmatick
busibody
,
that
pretends
to
finde
holes
in
other
mens
coates
,
when
he
might
have
work
enough
to
imploy
more
wit
then
the
shallow
pan
of
his
brains
can
hold
,
in
searching
out
the
leaks
whereby
so
much
treasure
slips
beside
the
receipt
of
the
Excise
,
and
so
begin
reformation
at
home
.
But
to
proceed
,
after
your
wiser
brethren
had
perswaded
your
imperiousnesse
to
admit
of
a
debate
between
them
and
the
Commissioners
for
Customes
,
it
was
concluded
for
goods
Exciseable
from
the
Coast
,
that
the
ancient
and
uninterrupted
way
of
sufferances
granted
joyntly
by
the
Commissioners
of
the
Customes
and
Excise
should
be
continued
,
but
as
for
this
new
device
of
your
brain
for
such
an
injunction
for
goods
that
owed
no
Excise
,
they
all
except
your self
(
wiser
in
your
own
conceit
then
seven
men
that
can
render
a
reason
)
could
see
no
cause
for
,
yet
you
could
not
rest
with
this
,
but
about
a
moneth
after
your
survayour
or
deputy
came
to
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
to
let
them
know
,
it
was
expected
that
sufferances
for
goods
that
owed
no
Excise
,
should
be
signed
by
the
survayour
or
deputy
for
Excise
,
as
well
as
by
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
;
whereupon
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
readily
complied
(
although
they
knew
it
uselesse
to
the
State
)
and
gave
order
to
their
Clerks
to
prepare
and
order
accordingly
.
But
the
Masters
trading
to
Newcastle
,
and
other
parts
,
refused
to
go
to
the
Excise
officers
for
any
such
sufferances
,
saying
,
they
were
English
men
and
by
law
not
enjoyned
thereunto
;
and
that
those
things
required
were
inovatious
and
troublesome
,
and
they
could
not
write
the
bills
well
enough
to
please
the
Excise
officers
;
and
therefore
were
necessitated
to
get
the
Deputy
or
some
other
Clerks
of
Excise
to
write
,
and
so
on
every
entry
to
pay
for
two
lines
writing
6.
d.
or
4.
d.
which
upon
so
many
thousand
entries
would
amount
unto
a
vast
sum
of
money
,
meerly
cheated
out
of
their
purses
,
and
thereupon
the
Ship-masters
resolved
to
land
their
goods
upon
tender
of
their
Cockets
unto
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
,
as
by
law
they
were
injoyned
;
which
the
Commissioners
well
weighing
,
and
knowing
by
law
no
more
was
injoyned
,
did
desire
the
Survayor
of
Excise
to
acquaint
the
Commissioners
of
Excise
therewith
,
that
except
they
did
shew
reason
to
the
contrary
,
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
ought
and
would
proceed
to
grant
sufferances
by
themselves
for
all
goods
not
Exciseable
.
But
the
Survayor
of
Excise
answered
,
that
the
Commissioners
of
Excise
did
adhere
to
their
former
resolution
,
whereupon
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
did
again
confer
with
the
Commissioners
of
Excise
,
and
found
but
one
of
them
ingaged
with
the
Deputy
,
and
the
rest
declared
they
were
put
upon
it
by
the
Deputy
.
And
I
am
perswaded
it
was
only
Necessity
put
him
upon
it
,
and
had
it
been
caried
on
their
parts
,
it
would
have
made
a
good
revenue
for
themselves
by
a
multitude
of
six-pennies
or
groats
,
which
it
seems
they
had
projected
to
have
received
:
a
meer
oppression
and
exaction
as
ever
was
thrust
upon
a
people
.
Which
caused
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
to
send
for
the
Surveyor
or
Deputy
of
Excise
T.
L.
and
plainly
tell
him
,
that
they
now
discerned
the
reason
of
his
strong
endeavours
for
this
innovation
being
of
no
use
but
to
vex
the
ship-masters
,
and
traders
,
and
bring
money
to
his
office
,
and
supply
Necessity
.
And
therefore
this
goes
so
neer
the
heart
of
this
Miser
,
that
he
complaines
pag.
the
6.
lin.
10.
And
one
of
them
did
sharpely
rebuke
the
Surveyor
of
Excise
for
discovering
their
misdemeanors
to
the
Commissioners
of
Excise
.
But
consider
this
jugling
Necessity
had
urged
the
Surveyor
or
Deputy
T.
L.
upon
a
foul
misdemeanour
,
for
which
he
was
worthily
reprehended
by
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
.
And
now
this
shitlecock
cries
whore
first
,
and
layes
misdemeanours
upon
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
;
who
,
as
I
have
said
,
are
men
of
unquastionable
integrity
and
ability
to
manage
their
trust
;
yet
he
hath
the
impudence
to
do
what
he
can
to
blush
their
reputation
:
But
they
are
above
the
aire
of
his
stinking
breath
,
nor
can
his
black
mouth
bespot
their
innocence
,
and
those
sharp
arrowes
his
bitter
words
,
will
retort
upon
his
own
soul
either
to
humble
or
terrifie
him
.
And
yet
he
hath
one
envenomed
dart
which
he
would
stick
in
their
very
hearts
,
and
charges
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
that
they
have
unduely
maintained
persons
detected
of
defrauding
the
Excise
;
the
Devill
himselfe
would
have
been
ashamed
to
have
printed
such
a
lie
,
it
's
true
he
is
the
Father
of
lies
,
and
skilfull
in
making
lies
,
but
he
was
so
carefull
in
delivering
his
oracles
that
they
should
have
some
colour
of
truth
in
them
,
and
would
so
contrive
his
answers
that
whatsoever
the
event
was
,
yet
he
would
shew
so
much
wit
as
not
to
be
found
in
a
lie
;
but
though
you
cannot
out-wit
him
,
you
will
out-lie
him
,
take
heed
he
be
not
too
wise
for
you
at
last
;
how
can
you
thinke
ever
to
be
beleeved
by
honest
men
?
they
say
,
what
is
bred
in
the
bone
,
will
never
out
of
the
flesh
,
your
first
trade
in
drawing
Chancery
bils
wherein
men
take
liberty
to
lie
at
large
,
hath
begotten
in
you
such
a
custome
that
you
cannot
leave
it
.
You
might
have
done
well
to
have
named
some
of
those
detected
persons
,
that
so
there
might
have
been
some
colour
of
truth
,
and
that
Knaves
might
be
known
from
honest
men
;
but
you
throw
your
dirt
at
randome
,
and
care
not
who
you
daube
,
and
deprave
a
great
many
better
men
then
your selfe
,
and
till
you
make
good
your
charge
,
they
cannot
but
think
as
bad
of
you
as
you
write
of
them
.
But
what
persons
did
your
wisdome
ever
detect
?
I
can
instance
many
discoveries
that
have
been
made
by
the
wisdome
and
insight
of
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
,
of
several
frauds
whereby
the
Common-wealth
was
basely
cheated
,
as
that
of
counterfeit
warrants
,
which
all
your
skill
could
not
finde
out
although
it
was
chiefly
in
defrauding
the
Excise
,
whereby
the
Common-wealth
was
wronged
of
many
thousand
pounds
,
and
was
but
newly
begun
to
be
practised
in
the
Customes
,
but
the
Commissioners
there
discovered
and
found
out
those
unworthy
officers
of
your
putting
in
,
or
continuance
.
Witnesse
also
that
notable
combination
of
your
dearly
beloved
Pratt
with
Ludlow
and
Welden
Custome
officers
,
what
deceitfull
practises
were
by
them
discovered
:
I
might
instance
in
many
more
,
wherein
by
the
prudence
and
vigilant
inspection
of
the
Commissioners
of
Customes
,
such
persons
have
been
detected
,
and
imprisoned
,
and
cast
out
,
and
made
uncapable
of
any
preferment
where
they
have
to
doe
,
and
yet
this
pertinacious
peece
of
confidence
sayes
,
they
maintain
persons
detected
,
&c.
They
say
that
the
receiver
is
as
bad
as
the
theef
,
if
you
knew
this
why
did
you
not
reveal
it
?
if
you
were
privy
to
such
unjust
practises
,
you
did
not
well
to
conceale
them
;
how
have
you
discharged
your
trust
for
these
many
years
?
why
did
you
not
complain
before
?
the
law
upon
conviction
would
punish
such
with
imprisonment
,
and
forfeiture
of
double
value
of
the
goods
that
the
Excise
amounted
unto
,
and
could
your
fellows
be
all
this
while
silent
in
a
matter
of
so
great
concernment
?
and
now
as
if
on
a
sudda'n
your
conscience
were
awakened
,
you
shew
your self
to
do
something
to
be
talked
of
,
as
if
you
were
the
only
man
that
did
all
businesse
,
and
they
all
stand
for
ciphers
;
But
they
know
,
and
I
know
,
and
all
the
world
(
that
have
to
do
with
you
)
knows
you
to
be
a
shatterbraind
,
ratle-headed
man
,
altogether
unfit
and
unworthy
the
place
you
hold
,
and
those
that
act
with
you
,
know
my
words
to
be
true
,
and
would
be
able
to
give
a
better
accompt
of
their
businesse
,
if
you
were
out
.
I
have
heard
and
beleeve
it
,
that
when
you
crept
into
this
imployment
,
you
were
presently
so
elevated
,
that
having
the
luck
(
as
you
know
who
hath
the
best
)
to
be
named
first
in
the
Act
of
Parliament
,
you
began
to
look
big
,
and
would
take
the
first
place
,
and
thought
your self
the
best
man
;
and
it
seems
you
persist
in
this
conceit
:
your
brethren
like
wise
men
follow
their
own
businesse
endeavouring
to
discharge
their
trust
,
whilest
you
neglect
to
sweep
your
own
door
;
are
raking
in
other
mens
sinkes
,
and
hope
to
domineer
every
where
as
you
do
in
your
office
,
to
put
in
kindred
into
imployments
,
and
will
suffer
nought
to
be
done
without
applications
in
private
be
made
to
your
worship
,
and
be
it
right
or
wrong
,
nothing
must
be
done
but
according
to
your
own
sense
.
But
the
last
,
though
not
the
least
thing
that
troubles
Necessity
,
is
a
Reducement
;
and
this
his
fear
hath
occasioned
all
that
he
hath
written
before
:
for
here
he
shewes
pag.
6.
what
is
his
main
drift
,
In
case
Reducement
of
Excise
to
the
Custome
be
adjudged
advantagious
to
the
Common-wealth
,
may
not
not
both
receipts
so
reduced
be
managed
by
persons
versed
in
both
imployments
,
that
have
suffered
in
their
estates
for
the
Common-wealth
,
and
are
of
approved
integrity
,
at
the
salary
of
three
halfe
pence
poundage
?
Poor
man
,
thy
qualfications
have
undone
thee
,
it
will
be
to
great
a
work
for
your
brains
,
nor
are
you
capable
by
your
own
words
:
you
say
well
that
there
should
be
respect
had
to
men
that
have
suffered
for
the
Comm-wealth
;
but
all
that
know
you
can
tell
you
have
been
a
gainer
not
a
loser
by
the
Common-wealth
,
having
had
divers
good
warme
places
,
wherein
you
have
not
been
wanting
to
make
the
uttermost
;
and
having
learned
to
make
advantages
of
places
,
you
are
now
loath
to
be
left
out
,
and
then
you
would
imagine
your self
into
the
opinion
of
good
men
,
that
you
are
one
that
seeks
the
welfare
of
the
Nation
.
And
(
good
soul
)
art
grieved
to
see
the
publick
treasure
so
miscarry
,
and
like
Absolom
,
O
that
I
were
Judge
in
Israel
!
So
,
if
I
had
the
management
of
both
receipts
of
Custome
and
Excise
!
and
so
by
glavering
words
and
scraping
officious
attendances
,
you
trust
to
get
into
an
Office
which
will
require
a
more
able
,
solider
,
and
better
qualified
man
,
then
one
so
low
puzed
as
you
set
your self
out
to
be
;
you
see
Absalom
he
had
a
designe
or
end
he
aimed
at
in
his
flattering
the
people
,
and
so
have
you
,
and
for
ought
I
know
it
might
be
better
for
the
Common-wealth
you
had
Absoloms
end
,
then
your
own
;
but
you
hope
to
speed
by
offering
your
service
cheaper
then
others
will
do
it
for
;
but
I
hope
all
wise
men
know
,
better
give
2
s.
*
a
day
to
a
workman
,
then
12
d.
a
day
to
a
bungler
:
can
it
be
imagined
that
it
is
good
to
trust
two
such
receipts
in
the
hands
of
those
who
is
like
to
bring
a
Noble
to
9
d.
I
have
many
more
things
to
write
,
but
I
shall
reserve
them
till
I
come
to
rejoyne
with
you
.
Jeremiah
Wattes
.
FINIS
.