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Perhaps, this was the chiefest Complaint made of the Hearth-Money, and the chiefest Cause likewise, that that Tax was laid aside: For perhaps, if a small Regulation in the Assessing and Collecting of that Duty, had been made, upon a narrower Inspection, that Tax will not be
found to be so very unreasona∣ble, as some have rashly conclu∣ded; for whatever Tax is atten∣ded with this sort of Trouble, will always cause great Murmur∣ings, especially in the poorer sort of People; Who were those that chiefly complained against the Hearth-Money. For when People part with their Moneys, especially the poorer sort, they are ready to find fault, and mur∣mur, on the least Occasion; there∣fore, regard ought to be had, to avoid as much of that sort of Trouble, as possible may be; tho' to give no Trouble at all of this kind, is not, perhaps, possible.