Many People complain of the Poverty of the Nation, and the Weight of the Taxes.  Some do this without any ill Design, but others hope thereby to become popular; and at the same time to enforce a Peace with France, before that Kingdom be reduced to too low a Pitch:  fearing, lest that King shou’d be disabled to accomplish their Scheme of bringing in the Pretender, and assisting him.

Now altho ’tis acknowledg’d, that the Taxes lye very heavy, and Money grows scarce; yet let the Importance of our War be considered, together with the Obstinacy, Perfidy, and Strength of our Enemy, can we possibly carry on such a diffusive War without Money in Proportion?  Are the Queen’s Subjects more burden’d to maintain the publick Liberty, than the French King’s are to confirm their own Slavery?  Not so much by three Parts in four, God be prais’d:  Besides, no true Englishman will grudge to pay Taxes whilst he has a Penny in his Purse, as long as he sees the Publick Money well laid out for the great Ends for which ’tis given.  And to the Honour of the Queen and her Ministers it may be justly said, That since England was a Nation, never was the publick Money more frugally managed, or more fitly apply’d.  This is a further Mortification to those Gentlemen, who have Designs in View which they dare not own:  For whatever may be, the plausible and specious Reasons they give in publick, when they exclaim against the Ministry; the hidden and true one is, that thro the present prudent Administration, their so hopefully-laid Project is in Danger of being blown quite up; and they begin to despair that they shall bring in King James the Third by the Means of Queen Anne, as I verily believe they once had the Vanity to imagine.

INDEX
OF THE
CHAPTERS

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CHAP.  I.

The State of Gaul before it was reduced into the Form of a Roman
  Province.

CHAP.  II.

Probable Conjectures concerning the Ancient Language of the Gauls.

CHAP.  III.

The State of Gaul, after it was reduced into the Form of a Province
  by the Romans.

CHAP.  IV.

Of the Original of the Franks, who having possessed themselves of
  Gallia, changed its Name into that of Francia, or Francogallia.

CHAP.  V.

Of the Name of the Franks, and their sundry Excursions; and what time
  they first began to establish a Kingdom in Gallia.

CHAP.  VI.

Whether the Kingdom of Francogallia was Hereditary or Elective;
  and the Manner of making its Kings.

CHAP.  VII.

What Rule was observed concerning the Inheritance of the Deceased
  King, when he left more Children than one.