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england_n	elizabeth_n	queen_n	time_n	3,803	5	3.2767	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55725	The Present war no burthen to England		1692 (1692)	Wing P3277; ESTC R36684	4,113	11

of Peace There being not one Forreign Commodity of any kind wanted here amongst us nor any of ours that our Friends are not supplyed with And which is Remarkable Trade is not thus generally increased but notwithstanding our many and so much talk of Losses 't is much better than in time of Peace it being Noted that since the War not above four or five Merchants of any Name have gone off th' Exchange whereas there yearly broke some dozens if not some Scores in Peaceable times And although the Ships our Enemies have taken from us be many which there is good ground to hope by our late Signal Victory at Sea and the burning of so many Enemies Capital Ships will in a good measure be prevented for the future 't is certain that most of them have been Re-taken by us or by our friends for if it be true that the French have little Trade and few Ships of their own how doth it happen that our Privateers and those of Zealand Ostend Brandenbourg and Biscay have taken so many prizes as amount to no less than Twenty Five Hundred Ships unless we have Re-taken our own And indeed the French do little brag of their Profits by Sea there being Letters writ from France and writ very feelingly too that say those damn'd Zeelanders have not left us one Ship to Trade withall And if I am rightly inform'd although their Trade be small Shipping however is so very scarce amongst them that they want Vessels to carry on that inconsiderable Trade they have and upon the least Occasion must hire Danes and Suedes and sometimes force them too to Carry their Goods and provisions from one Port of France to the other If from Trade we turn our thoughts to other parts of the Nation is there any Sort or Rank of People that can complain they suffer The Wages and Salaries of labouring-men are rather higher than in time of Peace The Handycraft-men want no Work and vend it easily and at good Rates Nay several Handycrafts are set up by the War which are needless in times of Peace The Farmer sells his Corn his Timber his Hops his Cattel better than at any other time and thereby is enabled to pay better his Rent The Shop keeper h●th as good and as great a Retail The Rich-mony'd-man an Opportunity of Lending his Money to a better Advantage The Land-man indeed must pay Taxes and if the Tax were equally laid a small Share of his Revenue which is the only visible hardship but in lieu thereof how many Gentlemen are there that have Imployments and by those Imploys get more than they give towards the War What Family is there that hath not either a Brother a Son or some other near Relation in the Fleet or in the Army And thereby is put in a Capacity not only of maintaining but of raising it self Many a Younger Brother that in time of Peace had been ready to starve hath now by the War Hundreds to spend a year Nay many Vagabonds and other idle people of the Nation have by the War an Opportunity of Honestly and Lawfully getting a lively-hood in the service of their Country War is said to be a Curse to a Nation 't is true but 't is only so where the Seat of War is where all is Committed to Plunder Rapine Fire Flames and utter Desolation But how many Nations have Raised their Name and Rendred themselves Famous and Rich by War The Persians Macedonians Romans Suedes are Memorable instances of it who all grew Great Potent and Rich by their Wars The Dutch when they form'd themselves into a Common-wealth were a handful of people and had neither Ships Money or Strong Towns to boast of but under the ever Auspicious Conduct of the Princes of ORANGE and by a fourscore years Spanish War They grew to that vast Wealth and Immense Grandeur we have seen them arrived at And what have not Advantagious Wars brought into this Nation Our Conquests in the West Indies have for certain advanced our riches The Fifty years War of Edward the Third against France cost England an immense Treasure and yet all our Chronicles say England was never so rich as in his time Our great Queen Elizabeth had not always a peaceable though a happy and a golden Reign Oliver was not in Peace whilst he govern'd but no body then complained the Nation grew poor every body was sensible it grew Rich And had not the Richards the Henries and others our Heroick Princes Render'd by their Wars abroad the English Name formidable throughout the world I don't know what our last Thirty-years-peace would have brought us to and whether we had been not the prey of a Neighbouring Prince otherwise greedy and Powerful enough but who perhaps was daunted by the remembrance of our Ancient Valour and the glorious Atchievements of our Ancestors FINIS