An Act for the granting a present Ayd to Their Majestyes. [Chapter III Rot. Parl. pt. 1. nu. 3.]

Wee the Commons Assembled in Parlyament haveing entred into a due and serious Consideration of the extraordinary Occasions which oblige our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queene to a greate and present Expence have chearfully and unanimously Given and Granted unto our said Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queene the Rates and Assessments herein after mentioned.

II. Grant of £68,820. 19s. Id. per Month for Six Months, by Two Quarterly Payments.
And wee doe most humbly beseech Your Majestyes that it may be Enacted And bee it Enacted by our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queene by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by [the (fn. 1) ] Authoritie of the same That the Summe of Sixty eight thousand eight hundred and twenty pounds nineteene shillings and one penny by the Month for Six Months the First of the said Monthes beginning from the Five and twentyeth Day of March in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred eighty and nine shall be Assessed Taxed Levyed and Paid by two Quarterly Payments in the severall Countyes Cityes Burroughes Townes and Places within England and Wales and the Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede according to the Rates and Proportions following (That is to say) For each Month of the said Six Months








...And to the intent that the said Receivers Generall may Returne a true Account into His Majestyes Court of Exchequer of such Summes of Money as shall be Received by them and every of them their and every of their Deputie and Deputies Bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That if any such Receiver Generall shall Returne or Certifie into the said Court any Summe or Summes of Money to be in Arreare or Unpaid after the same have beene received either by such Receiver Generall or by his Deputie or Deputies or any of them or shall cause any person or persons to be sett insuper in the said Court for any Summe or Summes of Money that hath beene soe Received That then every such Receiver Generall shall be lyable to pay to every person and persons that shall be Molested Vexed or Damaged by reason of such unjust Certificate Returne or setting insuper the Damages that shall be thereby occasioned The said Damages to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And shall alsoe forfeite to His Majestie His Heires and Successors double the Summe that shall be soe unjustly Certified or Returned or caused to be sett insuper...

Just goes on and on and on and on and on....I'd be for a bit of insurrection as well.