To the honourable, the knights, citizens and burgesses, in Parliament assembled It is now almost seven years since I endeavoured to set right his Majesties revenue of excise, both as to the management of, and accompting for it; ... Farthing, John. 1696 Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A40970 Wing F534 ESTC R215408 99827298 99827298 31716 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A40970) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 31716) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1907:16) To the honourable, the knights, citizens and burgesses, in Parliament assembled It is now almost seven years since I endeavoured to set right his Majesties revenue of excise, both as to the management of, and accompting for it; ... Farthing, John. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1695-1696] Signed at end: John Farthing. Title from caption and first lines of text. Suggested imprint from Wing. With a docket title: "The original is delivered to the right honourable Paul Foley, speaker of the honourable House of Commons. Touching several hundred thousand of pounds paid by the subject, but diverted from their proper channel.". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. 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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Excise tax -- England -- Early works to 1800. 2006-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-11 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-12 Pip Willcox Sampled and proofread 2006-12 Pip Willcox Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion TO THE HONOURABLE , THE Knights , Citizens and Burgesses , in Parliament Assembled . IT is now almost seven years since I endeavoured to set right his Majesties Revenue of Excise , both as to the Management of , and Accompting for it ; but hitherto have met with many obstructions , which almost discouraged me from ever medling any further in it : But having observed in his Majesties most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament , at the opening of this Session , that his Majesty takes notice that the Funds already established are deficient some Millions , I am induced to offer to this Honourable House to discover some hundred thousands of Pounds paid by the Subject for Excise of Beer and Ale , which are diverted from their proper Chanel , into private Pockets ; And if I shall be required thereunto , and Encouraged by this Honourable House , I will shew by whom , and upon what Pretence these Summs are so diverted , and are still like to be , if proper means be not applied ; which I think my Duty at such an Exigency of Affairs humbly to propose to this Honourable House , having been Employed in the Excise , not only as a Sub-Commissioner , but also spent many years study as well as Considerable Summs of Money in the improvement of that Revenue . The Consideration of this is humbly submitted to this Honourable House , by John Farthing , late of Long Ditton in the County of Surrey , now of Chelsey in the County of Middlesex . Subscribed , John Farthing .