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U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
April 24
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paying the least regard to any one of the many Material objections
pursuant to their request so long before by this House pointed out
to them; had these Lower Houses been so Earnestly desirous to
raise Supplies for His Majestys Service would they so repeatedly
have sent up the same Bill for that Purpose without any one material
Alteration in the Plan or in any of the material parts of that Bill,
would they not had they been really desirous of Granting his Majesty
the demanded Supplies, have given some Indications of that desire
by their Conduct in taking the proper measures to adapt a Bill for
that purpose to the approbation of the upper House without whose
Assent, they could not be so Ignorant as to Imagine it could pass
into a Law or why did not that Earnest desire and those repeated
professions of Loyalty towards his Majesty produce some other
plan than that of a Confused, Absurd, Unjust, Unequal, and op-
pressive assessment were those Houses so barren of Invention or
Genious as to be Incapable of forming any other, this was not the
Case, why then when other plans more just and equal less Intricate
in their nature liable to fewer Objections and infinitely less Danger-
ous to the undoubted prerogatives of the Crown and the rights and
Liberties of the People than your favourite assessment Bill were
formed and propoised to those Houses why were they no sooner
proposed than voted out, But that whatever were their professions
the[y] had no Intentions of raising Supplies for his Majestys Service,
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nor of affording this House an Oppertunity of Coming to an agree-
ment with them at a less expence than that of his Majestys preroga-
tives and the Peoples liberties by a total Subversion of our present
Constitution, and lodging the Several powers thereof now equally
destributed for the preservation of the whole in their hands and if
their warmest professions appear thus destitute of Truth and Can-
dour what regard are we to pay to those so often repeated by
your Selves
Give us leave therefore Gentlemen to say you could not flatter
your Selves that the Message accompanying your assessment Bill to
this House would have produced an agreement between the two
Houses about the manner of raising Supplies for his Majestys Ser-
vice because amongst other reasons you express your fear that it
would not have that effect but if you were afraid of the Success of
this Method why would you offer it surely a Real Concern for his
Majestys Service would have Suggested some other Method but
altho you might fear you were far from being Satisfyed we would
not Pass that Bill; And pray Gentlemen why were you not Satisfyed,
Or what will Satisfy you, if eight Successive refusials of such a
Bill will not Could you have any reason to expect or even to Enter-
tain the most distant hope that the Ninth offer of the like Bill could
have better Success than the 8 preceeding, But you were not Satis-
fyed that we would at this time Obstinately Adhere to Objections
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