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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Tax protests and appeals -- Great Britain. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. 2002-08 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2002-09 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-10 Chris Scherer Sampled and proofread 2002-10 Chris Scherer Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE SPEECH OF Sir CHARLES SIDLEY IN THE House of Commons . WE have provided for the Navy , we have provided for the Army , and now at the latter End of a Sessions here is a new Reckoning brought us , we must provide likewise for the Civil List : Truly , Mr. Speaker , it is a sad Reflection that some Men should wallow in Wealth and Places , whilst others pay away in Taxes the fourth part of their Yearly Revenue for the Support of the same Government ; we are not upon equal Terms for his Majesties Service , the Courtiers and great Officers Charge as it were in Armour , they feel not the Taxes by Reason of their Places , while the Country Gentlemen are shot through and through with them . The King is pleased to lay his Wants before us , and I am confident expects our Advice upon it : We ought therefore to tell him what Pensions are too great , what Places may be extinguish'd during this Time of War and Publick Calamities . His Majesty is encompass'd with , and sees nothing but , Plenty , great Tables , Coaches and six Horses , and all things suitable ; and therefore cannot imagine the Want and Misery of the rest of his Subjects : He 's a Wise and Virtuous Prince , but he is but a Young King , encompassed and hemm'd in among a Company of Crafty old Courtiers , to say no more of them , with Places , some of three thousand , some of six , and some of eleven thousand : I am told the Commissioners of the Treasury have three thousand Pound a Year a Piece : Certainly such Pensions , whatever they may have been formerly , are much too great in the present Want and Calamities that reigns every where else , and it is a general Scandal , That a Government , so sick at Heart as ours , should look so well in the Face . We must save the King Money where ever we can , for I am afraid our Work is too big for our Purses , if things be not mannaged wi●… Thrift imaginable . When the People of England see that all is saved that can be saved , that there are no exorbitant Pensions nor unnecessary Sallaries , that all is applved to the Use for which it was given , we shall give and they will cheerfully pay whatever his Majesty can want to secure the Protestant Religion , to keep out the King of France , I , and King James too : Whom , by the way , I have not heard named this Session , wheter out of Fear , Respect or Discretion I cannot tell . I conclude , Mr. Speaker , Let us save the King what we can , and then let us proceed to give him what we are able . LONDON , Printed for L. C. near Fleet-bridge . 1691.