A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions / Shewing the nature and measures of crown-lands, assessements, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c.; with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning warres, the church, universities, rents & purchases, usury & exchange, banks & lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money [&] wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of conscience, &c.; the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
The original text used the long-form s; this has been replaced by the normal s in the etext.
The original text printed ‘ct’ as a ligature, and is displayed simply as ‘ct’ character pair in the etext.
Fractions are displayed as a. b. , for example 3. 4. , similar to the format of the original text.
Whole numbers are always terminated with a period, as in the original text, for example ‘about 1800. is the number of ... ’.
The pound currency sign in the text is l, which looks very similar to the number 1, and the five occurrences have been italicized in the etext. For example one hundred pounds is shown as 100 l. , instead of 100l.
Shewing the Nature and Measures of
With several intersperst Discourses and Digressions concerning
The same being frequently applied to the present State and Affairs of IRELAND.
London , Printed for N. Brooke , at the Angel in Cornhill . 1662.
Young and vain persons, though perhaps they marry not primarily and onely on purpose to get Children, much less to get such as may be fit for some one particular vocation; yet having Children, they dispose of them as well as they can according to their respective inclinations: Even so, although I wrote these sheets but to rid my head of so many troublesome conceits, and not to apply them to the use of any one particular People or Concernment; yet now they are born, and that their Birth happened to be about the time of the Duke of Ormond’s going Lord Lieutenant into Ireland , I thought they might be as proper for the consideration of that place, as of any other, though perhaps of effect little enough in any.
Ireland is a place which must have so great an Army kept up in it, as may make the Irish desist from doing themselves or the English harm by their future Rebellions. And this great Army must occasion great and heavy Leavies upon a poor people and wasted Countrey; it is therefore not amiss that Ireland should understand the nature and measure of Taxes and Contributions.