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and hanged if they cannot afford it. And, lest the
people should think you cannot possibly go any further,
 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 unrepresented
 provinces in all cases whatsoever. This will
include spiritual with temporal, and, taken together,
must operate wonderfully to your purpose; by convincing
 them that they are at present under a
power something like that spoken of in the Scriptures,
 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, composed
 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, discard
 them. If others are justly complained of, protect
 and reward them. If any of the under officers

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