The poore committee-mans accompt, avouched by Britannicus.

The poore committee-mans accompt, avouched by Britannicus.

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The poore Committee-mans Accompt, avouched by BRITANNICUS.

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The poore Committee-mans Accompt, avouched by BRITANNICUS.

O Yes! Behold here's my accompt,

I'm ready for to make it,

If any man who loves the King

will please to come and take it;

I am not as the Cavaliers

are pleas'd to call me, Traytor;

I am a poore Committees Clerke,

a simple harmlesse Creature;

That this is true you need not doubt,

examine Mr. Needam,

Hee'l tell you true, and sweare it too,

'tis for the Kingdomes freedome.

Free Pole-money, free money lent

upon the Propositions,

Free money rais'd for Irish Lands,

but God knowes the conditions;

Free money lent on Ordinance,

free Subsidies full fifty,

If our Committees grow not rich,

Ile never think them thrifty;

That this is true, &c.

The fift and twentieth part, Excise,

Customes and Sequestrations;

The Kings Revenues too we have,

besides the great Taxation;

And that great taxe is monthly laid

upon the associated,

Which comes to threescore thousand pounds

a month, if rightly stated:

That this is true, &c.

But O! that Tophe [...] Goldsmiths-Hall,

where men make composition,

Which gets (they say) the devill and all,

that Spanish Inquisition:

If any Dives should fall sicke,

and dye (as men are sickly)

They would his heire a Lazarus make,

and they would doe it quickly:

That this is true, &c.

They say they fourescore thousand had,

some make it up a hundred,

Suppose foure hundred pound a man,

a sum scarce to be numbred;

The Bishops Lands are but a toy

with such great summes compared,

Yet those we hope will one day come,

amongst us to be shared:

That this is true, &c.

Ship-money was a hideous thing

these payments are but trifles,

That was injoyned by the King,

all Law and Justice stifles:

These toyes the Parliament injoynes,

therein all Subjects share too,

Yet they who at the Stern doe sit,

for this will take a care too;

That this is true, &c.

Alas! why should such men pay debts,

the Cavaleeres did plunder?

If not, yet they their charges beare,

then is it not a wonder,

The wicked should say they grow rich,

who but contrive the payments,

And of the publike stock take care,

their gains scarce finds them rayments:

That this is true, &c.

These men defie all wicked tongues,

that challenge close Committees,

Let thē throw stones have don no wrong

is't not a thousand pitties,

Such carefull pious men as those,

who have done their endeavors,

To purge the Church and wicked state,

should now be thought deceivers?

That this is true, &c.

Suppose they have a publick stock

sure that must be concealed,

It was but for the publike rais'd,

and it shall be revealed;

We know, that were the stock as great as

Dávids, which amounted

To such a summe, we have such men,

it need not to be counted:

That this is true you need not doubt,

examine Mr. Needame,

Hee'l tell you true, and sweare it too,

'tis for the Kingdomes freedome.

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The poore committee-mans accompt, avouched by Britannicus.

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1647

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A90833

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Wing P2861

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Thomason 669.f.11[68]

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ESTC R210615

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99869397

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99869397

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162717

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— The poore committee-mans accompt, avouched by Britannicus.,

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s.n.,. [London :: 1647]. (Imprint from Wing.) (Verse - "O yes! Behold here's my accompt,"...) (Reproduction of the original in the British Library.)

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