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HEREAS many are forced to pay $1/10$ of their whole Estates towards the raising of but 70000l. per Mensem, besides what they pay more insensibly and directly , as Customs, Excise, Chimny-Money, &c. (viz. in London, they pay 2d. per Mensem per Pound Rent, that is 2s. per Annum, or $1/10$ of the whole.) It must come to pass, that the same Persons must from Christmas, 1665. pay ⅓ of their whole Estates, if the War with Holland continue two years longer, at the value of the last years Expence, provided His Majesty be kept out of Debt. |2|

2. But if the Publick Charge were laid proportionably, no Man need pay above $1/10$ of his whole Effects, even in case the Tax should rise to 250000l. per Mensem, which God forbid.