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and hanged if they cannot afford it. And, lest the 
people should think you cannot possibly go any fur- 
ther, pass another solemn declaratory act, ‘that 
King, Lords, Commons had, have, and of right ought 
to have, full power and authority to make statutes 
of sufficient force and validity to bind the unrepre- 
sented provinces in all cases whatsoever. This will 
include spiritual with temporal, and, taken together, 
must operate wonderfully to your purpose; by con- 
vincing them that they are at present under a 
power something like that spoken of in the Scrip- 
tures, which can not only kill their bodies, but damn 
their souls to all eternity, by compelling them, if it 
pleases, to worship the Devil. 
11. To make your taxes more odious, and more 
likely to procure resistance, send from the capital a 
board of officers to superintend the collection, com- 
posed of the most indiscreet, ill-bred, and insolent you 
can find. Let these have large salaries out of the 
extorted revenue, and live in open, grating luxury 
upon the sweat and blood of the industrious; whom 
they are to worry continually with groundless and 
expensive prosecutions before the above-mentioned 
arbitrary revenue judges; all at the cost of the party 
prosecuted, though acquitted, because the king is 
to pay no costs. Let these men, by your order, be 
exempted from all the common taxes and burdens 
of the province, though they and their property are 
protected by its laws. If any revenue officers are 
suspected of the least tenderness for the people, dis- 
card them. If others are justly complained of, pro- 
tect and reward them. If any of the under officers 
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