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R210615 O Yes! Behold here's my accompt, / I'm ready for to make it, 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. British Library - Thomason Tracts Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 11: 68 The poore Committee-mans Accompt, avouched / by BRITANNICUS. The poor Committee-man's Account, avouched by BRITANNICUS. ?-?

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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, 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, etc. 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, etc. But O! that Tophet 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, etc. 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, etc. 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, etc. 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, etc. These men defie all wicked tongues, that challenge close Committees, Let them 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, etc. 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 Davids, 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, for the Kingdomes freedome.