were enabled to assume to themselves, the power of im
posing taxes on their subjects in Paris, and the Isle of
France, without the consent of the three Estates of the
kingdom, to wit, the Clergy, the Nobles, and the Third
Estate, or the Commonalty.
Reflections on the foregoing Tract, and on the Sketch of an
Act of Parliament therein contained, and on the necessity
of the Authority of an Act of Parliament, to render legal a