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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90752	A description of the famous. Kingdome of Macaria; shewing its excellent government : wherein the inhabitants live in great prosperity, health, and happinesse; the king obeyed, the nobles honoured; and all good men respected, vice punished, and vertue rewarded. An example to other nations. In a dialogue between a schollar and a traveller.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.; Plattes, Gabriel, fl. 1638-1640, attributed name.	1641 (1641)	Wing P2409A; Thomason E173_28; ESTC R16655	6,863	19

A DESCRIPTION OF THE FAMOUS KINGDOME OF MACARIA SHEWING ITS EXCELLENT GOVERNMENT WHEREIN The Inhabitants live in great Prosperity Health and Happinesse the King obeyed the Nobles honoured and all good men respected Vice punished and vertue rewarded An Example to other Nations In a Dialogue between a Schollar and a Traveller LONDON Printed for Francis Constable Anno 1641. TO THE HIGH AND HONOURABLE COURT OF PARLIAMENT WHereas I am confident that this Honorable Court will lay the Corner Stone of the worlds happinesse before the final recesse thereof I have adventured to cast in my widowes mite into the Treasurie not as an Instructer or Counsellour to this Honourable Assembly but have delivered my conceptions in a Fiction as a more mannerly way having for my pattern Sir Thomas Moore and Sir Francis Bacon once Lord Chancellour of England and humbly desire that this honourable Assembly will be pleased to make use of any thing therein contained if it may stand with their pleasures and to laugh at the rest as a solace to my minde being enclined to doe good to the publick So humbly craving leave that I may take my leave I rest this 25. of October 1641. A DESCRIPTION OF THE FAMOUS KINGDOME OF MACARIA SHEWING ITS EXCELLENT GOVERNMENT Traveller WEll met sir your habit professes scholarship are you a Graduate Schollar Yes sir I am a Master of Arts. Trav. But what doe you heare in the Exchange I conceive you trade in knowledge and here is no place to traffick for it neither in the book of rates is there any imposition upon such commodities so that you have no great businesse either here or at the Custome-house Come let us goe into the fields I am a Traveller and can tell you strange newes and much knowledge and I have brought it over the sea without paying any Custome though it bee worth all the merchandize in the kingdome Schol. We Scholars love to heare newes and to learne knowledge I will wait upon you goe whither you will Trav. Well we will goe into Moore fields and take a turne or two there we shall be out of this noise and throng of people Sch. Agreed but as we goe what good newes doe you heare of the Parliament Trav. I heare that they are generally bent to make a good reformation but that they have some stops and hinderances so that they cannot make such quick dispatch as they would and if any experience which I have learned in my long travels may stand them in stead I would willingly impart it for the publick good Sch. I like that well I pray you declare some good experience that I may say that I have gained some thing by the company of Travellers Trav. In a Kingdome called Macaria the King and the Governours doe live in great honour and riches and the people doe live in great plenty prosperitie health peace and happinesse and have not halfe so much trouble as they have in these European Countreyes Sch. That seemeth to me impossible you Travellers must take heed of two things principally in your relations first that you say nothing that is generally deemed impossible Secondly that your relation hath no contradiction in it or else all men will think that you make use of the Travellers priviledge to wit to lie by authority Trav. If I could change all the minds in England as easily as I suppose I shall change yours this Kingdome would be presently like to it when you heare the manner of their government you will deeme it to be very possible and withall very easie Sch. I pray you sir declare the manner of their government for I think long till I heare it Trav. As for brevitie in discourse I shall answer your desire They have a Great Councell like to the Parliament in England but it sitteth once a yeer for a short space and they heare no complaints against any but Ministers of State Judges and Officers those they trounce soundly if there be cause Besides they have five under Councels to wit A Councell of Husbandry A Councell of Fishing A Councell of Trade by Land A Councell of Trade by Sea A Councell for new Plantations These sit once a yeere for a very short space and have power to heare and determine and to punish Malefactors severely and to reward Benefactors honourable and to make new lawes not repugnant to the lawes of the Great Councell for the whole Kingdome like as Court Leets and Corporations have within their owne Precincts and Liberties in England Sch. I pray you sir declare some of the principall Lawes made by those under Councels Trav. The Councell of Husbandry hath ordered that the twentieth part of every mans goods that dieth shall be employed about the improving of lands and making of High-wayes faire and bridges over Rivers by which meanes the whole Kingdome is become like to a fruitfull Garden the High-wayes are paved and are as faire as the streets of a Citie and as for Bridges over Rivers they are so high that none are ever drowned in their travels Also they have established a law that if any man holdeth more land than he is able to improve to the utmost he shall be admonished first of the great hinderance which it doth to the Common-wealth Secondly of the prejudice to himselfe and if hee doe not amend his Husbandry within a yeares space there is a penalty set upon him which is yeerely doubled till his lands be forfeited and he banished out of the Kingdome as an enemy to the common-wealth In the Councell of Fishing there are lawes established whereby immense riches are yeerly drawne out of the Ocean In the Councell of Trade by Land there are established Lawes so that there are not too many Tradesmen nor too few by enjoyning longer or shorter times of Apprentiships In the Councell of Trade by Sea there is established a law that all Traffick is lawfull which may enrich the Kingdome In the Councell for new Plantations there is established a law that every yeere a certaine number shall be sent out strongly fortified and provided for at the publike charge till such times as they may subsist by their owne endevours and this number is set downe by the said Councell wherein they take diligent notice of the surplusage of people that may be spared Sch. But you spoke of peace to be permanent in that Kingdome how can that be Trav. Very easily for they have a law that if any Prince shall attempt any invasion his kingdome shall be lawfull prize and the Inhabitants of this happy Countrey are so numerous strong and rich that they have destroyed some without any considerable resistance and the rest take warning Sch. But you spoke of health how can that be procured by a better way than wee have here in England Trav. Yes very easily for they have an house or Colledge of experience where they deliver out yeerly such medicines as they find out by experience and all such as shall be able