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Rh Harth-money is of the same nature with simple Poll-money, but both are rather Accumulative Excises.

''Grants for publick Lotteries are Taxes upon the people. ''

''Why Lotteries ought not to be allowed but by good authority. ''

Raising of Money by Benevolence is a real Tax.

Three cases where the way of a Benevolence may be made good.

Several reasons against it.

The several species of Penalties.

A doubt whether the Penalties set down in Moses Law ought to be inflicted now.

The proper use and reason of every sort of Penalty.

Perpetual Imprisonment is a kinde of slow death.

''In what case death, mutilation, imprisonment, disgrace, &c. ought to be commuted for pecuniary mulcts.''

The meaning of the double and multiple Restitutions mentioned in the Law of Moses.

Of the wayes for punishing or permitting Heterodox Believers in Religion.

That the Sovereign may do either.

That all Pseudodoxies whatsoever may be safely muzzled from doing harm by pecuniary mulcts.

That the Sovereign by punishing them with death, mutilations, or imprisonments, doth therein punish himself, and that too re infecta, very often.

That the Pastours ought in some measure to be punished for the errours and defections of their Flocks.

The true use of the Clergy is rather to be patterns of Holiness then to teach men variety of Opinions de rebus divinis.

The substance of all that hath been said in this whole discourse about the Church.

The abuse of Penal Laws.

Of Monopolies.

The use and reason of instituting Monopolies.

A Digression about new Inventions, and the vexations incident to the Projectors of new practices.

Offices instituted by the State, with Fees of their own appointment, are of a parallel nature to Monopolies.

Why the Fees of Offices were great heretofore.

How Offices are become as a saleable Commodity.

Why many superfluous Offices are not abolished.

A description of Tythes in several particulars.

The causes why Tythes encrease.

The Rent of the Lands of England is but a quarter of the Expence of the people.