Corrupt Ministers, the Cause of Publick Calamities, Or, The Interest of the King and His People, One: Being a Brief Relation of Some Publick Crimes Committed in the Government During the Late War ...booksellers of London and Westminster, 1701 - 26 pages |
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... Service to the King and King- dom , of which 1 fhall give a brief Account before- I proceed to the Matter in Hand . First , I propofed an Act of Tunnage for fix Pence per Tun upon all Coasters , & ربوع the the was ind ( 5 ) was paffed ...
... Service to the King and King- dom , of which 1 fhall give a brief Account before- I proceed to the Matter in Hand . First , I propofed an Act of Tunnage for fix Pence per Tun upon all Coasters , & ربوع the the was ind ( 5 ) was paffed ...
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... Service ( and gave my Reasons to prove the Feasiblenefs , E- ore quity and Juftice thereof ) which fome time after was also paffed into an Act , upon which is founded the Revenue of Greenwich Hofpital , which owes its Being and ...
... Service ( and gave my Reasons to prove the Feasiblenefs , E- ore quity and Juftice thereof ) which fome time after was also paffed into an Act , upon which is founded the Revenue of Greenwich Hofpital , which owes its Being and ...
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... Service to the King and Kingdom , and prevented a great deal of Fraud and Wickednefs , which was then on foot , and has fince involved the Nation in Debt , and brought an univerfal Poverty upon the Trading part of the Nation , and that ...
... Service to the King and Kingdom , and prevented a great deal of Fraud and Wickednefs , which was then on foot , and has fince involved the Nation in Debt , and brought an univerfal Poverty upon the Trading part of the Nation , and that ...
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... service done , being in all about Eight Pound , which he paid him , but dropt the Note in the King's Yard , and when my Articles were under Examination before the Commiffioners , for ftating the Publick Accounts , was Mr. Bizil fum ...
... service done , being in all about Eight Pound , which he paid him , but dropt the Note in the King's Yard , and when my Articles were under Examination before the Commiffioners , for ftating the Publick Accounts , was Mr. Bizil fum ...
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... 'd to be much furpriz'd . But to fecure and make all faft , they took the principal Witneffes that proved the Fact , into his Majeftics Service , fo the matter was was hushed up , but a further Evil attended this ( 18 )
... 'd to be much furpriz'd . But to fecure and make all faft , they took the principal Witneffes that proved the Fact , into his Majeftics Service , fo the matter was was hushed up , but a further Evil attended this ( 18 )
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