English inquisition [electronic resource] : or, Money rais'd by the New Secret Extent Law, Without Act of Parliament. Wherein It is prov'd that an Arbitrary Power tolerated in these Realms, gives up to be sacrific'd at Pleasure, every Man's Right and Property; in Defence of which near a Hundred Millions of English Money, with a Sea of Christian Blood, have been expended since the Revolution. In the Treatise is enter'd An Account of Seven Persecutions rais'd by the Whigs put into Posts of Profit, against one Subject that has done a piece of Service for this Government, which Five Hundred Thousand Pounds might not have purchased. I. Persecuted with Calumnies, by false Wits, even to the sacrificing his Reputation. II. Persecuted with Imprisonment for writing in Defence of King William III. III. Persecuted by being obliged to pay wrongfully Ten times the Taxes charg'd upon Dr. Welton. IV. Persecuted with the Dammage of 2100 l. to discharge one of His Majesty's Debtors. V. Persecuted for giving up 1000 l. to keep the Romish Host out of the Establish'd Church. VI. Persecuted with the Loss of an Undertaking worth 1000 l. per An. for raising the Revenues of the Crown. 30000 l a Year. VII. Persecuted for losing 1000 l. in striving to obtain the Two present good Parliaments in Great Britain and Ireland. .