The Exchequer was ordered to furnish such returns as might enable the House to form estimates of the public expenditure and income.

In the meantime, liberal provision was made for the immediate exigencies of the state.

An extraordinary aid, to be raised by direct monthly assessment, was voted to the King.

An Act was passed indemnifying all who had, since his landing, collected by his authority the duties settled on James; and those duties which had expired were continued for some months.
Along William's whole line of march, from Torbay to London, he had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the intolerable burden of the hearth money.

In truth, that tax seems to have united all the worst evils which can be imputed to any tax.