The six trumpeters..... 7 10
The three drummers........... 2 5

Sum by the week................ L1,850 15

Sum by the year............. L96,239 0

The total of the Senate, the people,

and the magistracy.................... L287,459 15

"The dignity of the commonwealth, and aids of the several magistracies
and offices thereto belonging, bring provided for as aforesaid, the
overplus of the excise, with the product of the sum rising, shall be
carefully managed by the Senate and the people through the diligence of
the officers of the Exchequer, till it amount to L8,000,000, or to the
purchase of about L400,000 solid revenue. At which time, the term of
eleven years being expired, the excise, except it be otherwise ordered
by the Senate and the people, shall be totally remitted and abolished
forever."

At this institution the taxes, as will better appear in the Corollary,
were abated about one-half, which made the order, when it came to be
tasted, to be of good relish with the people in the very beginning;
though the advantages then were no ways comparable to the consequences
to be hereafter shown. Nevertheless, my Lord Epimonus, who with much ado
had been held till now, found it midsummer moon, and broke out of bedlam
in this manner.

"MY LORD ARCHON:

"I have a singing in my head like that of a cart-wheel, my brains are
upon a rotation; and some are so merry, that a man cannot speak his
griefs, but if your high-shod prerogative, and those same slouching
fellows your tribunes, do not take my lord strategus's and my lord
orator's heads, and jolt them together under the canopy, then let me be
ridiculous to all posterity. For here is a commonwealth, to which if a
man should take that of the 'prentices in their ancient administration
of justice at Shrovetide, it were an aristocracy. You have set the very
rabble with truncheons in their hands, and the gentry of this nation,
like cocks with scarlet gills, and the golden combs of their salaries to
boot, lest they should not be thrown at.

"Not a night can I sleep for some horrid apparition or other; one while
these myrmidons are measuring silks by their quarterstaves, another
stuffing their greasy pouches with my lord high treasurer's jacobuses.
For they are above 1,000 in arms to 300, which, their gowns being pulled
over their ears, are but in their doublets and hose. But wh