This manufacture hath already been remarkably favoured by the Clergy, who have hitherto been generally content with less than half—some with sixpence a garden—and some have taken nothing.
Employments they say have been taxed, the reasons for which taxation will not hold with regard to property, at least till employments become inheritances.
The Commons always have had so tender a regard to property; that they never would suffer any law to pass, whereby any particular persons might be aggrieved without their own consent.
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AN ESSAY
ON THE
FATES OF CLERGYMEN.
NOTE.
This essay was first printed in Nos. v. and vii. of "The Intelligencer"
(Dublin, 1728). In that periodical it bore the title: "A Description of
what the World calls Discretion;" and had the following lines from Ben
Jonson as a text:
"Described it's thus: Defined would you it have?
Then the World's honest Man's an errant knave."