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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62780	To the King's Most Excellent Majesty, together with the Honourable Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament the husbandman's advocate.	Husbandman's advocate.; William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1690 (1690)	Wing T1557; ESTC R16806	5,162	8

TO THE King's Most Excellent Majesty Together with the Honourable Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament The Husbandman's Advocate Most Excellent CAESAR AND Most Honourable and Renowned Senators of England UNder God you have saved Your Selves and Your Country and as many of us as have learn'd to distinguish between the True and the Living God and those false Deities which grow in our Woods and our Quarries we return you our due and eternal Thanks Under God you have secur'd us from Popery and Slavery Secure us but once more from Poverty and your Work is done Present His Majesty as Long and as Much as your Wisdom shall think sit our Purses are open and our Hearts are so too Only permit the Honest Husbandman's Advocate like a Publick Mercury to point out the way how to obviate the Inconveniencies of too much Plenty This Paper humbly presents That the Price of Land and the Product of it is now so very low is the common Grievance and Complaint the Speculation whereof is very nice and strange whenas Plenty shall be accounted a misfortune and full Barns an inconvenience They that look into the Causes some lay it upon the Interest of Money some upon the paucity of our Inhabitants occasion'd by War and Plague and so many Foreign Plantations and Colonies others upon the extraordinary Improvement of Husbandry and breaking up so many Parks and Chaces and dreining of Fens and they that say we spend too much Wine and exotick Liquors besides the dry Drunkenness of Tobacco do think they are not altogether mistaken not to mention the too good Opinion of the Manufactures of Strangers and too little Kindness for our own Whether these or any or all of these do contribute to this Epidemick Evil is not now the Subject of this present Paper but that such a mischief there is gradually crept in upon us and like a sly Hectick Feaver hath seized upon the very Vitals and grown almost past recovery before discern'd That the Soil we tread upon is not shrunk in its Dimensions but in its substantial Value and Reputation is too well known especially to the unfortunate Seller and made use of by the indigent and crafty Tenant who either demands deep Abatements or else threatens to throw up your Lands The Country man tells us and we see it with our Eyes How he neither spares his Pains nor Sweat endures the Cold and Heat of both Seasons contents himself with his Country-fare and Russet The Dews of Heaven fall upon him and his Fields do laugh and sing with Plenty and yet for all this when he casts up his Account at the years end it betides him alike with the Prodigal and the Slothful he looks into his hand and there is nothing and the cause of all is That the Fruits of his Ground and Labours afford no Price no Profit proportionable to his Rent and Charges and to what he might justly expect as a Reward of his Industry From whence how long and how sad a Chain of Miseries must inevitably ensue we need neither Prophet nor Diviner to inform us Many honest Essays indeed and ingenious Idea's how to obviate this General Poverty have come out of late but alas with so little success because they are either too short or too narrow or else attended with other Inconveniencies as obnoxious almost as those they pretend to remove Now then to make haste to the Mark we aim at This New Evil is curable by the Royal Hand If it would please the August Government of England to deal with the Fruits of the Earth as the King doth with Men and Metals both which tho' of mean Extraction he advances many times to Honour and Reputation meerly upon the Account of his Sovereignty The One he advanceth to Dignities and Places of the greatest Trust and the Other he enobles with his own Royal Effigies and as an Instrument of all Commerce and Traffick he makes it countervail whatever the World produces If the Government would be pleased to advance the Price of our own Native Corn the business would be done in a moment and all things reduc'd to the most flourishing Condition that either We or our Forefathers were wont to glory of If Wheat might not be sold under Two and thirty Shillings a Quarter nor Barley under eighteen immediately our Lands Farms Farmers Landlords Noblemen and so to the upmost Rounds of all Orders the King himself would be by one Fourth-part at least Richer than now they are And to prevent all Objection let the Nation be cast into Three Ranks of Men that is to say The Noble the Middle and the Lowest sort No man can suppose that those of the highest Order can dislike the Design but rather infinitely desire and abet it as being all Landlords As for the Middle sort most of them are Farmers themselves or such as have a great dependance upon them so that when that day comes they will doubtless keep it as a Jubile to all Generations And for the Lowest they are such by Age and Infirmity or some other unseen Misfortune and for these the Laws and Christian Charity hath provided But for the Lazy and the Spendthrift their Objections will best be answered at the House of Correction Now if any morose man shall hastily cry out That this Design is not practicable because without a Precedent and so with one froward Negative be their Own and their Countreys Enemy so far let them know they are mistaken as not understanding the True Nature and Power of Sovereignty What will they say when they hear or read That the Roman Senate to ease the publick Necessity by a Decree made the Half-pound of Copper as much worth as the Pound and a while after the Quarter and at last the Ounce was valued as high as the Pound was at the first and this applauded and consented to by the Tribunes What shall we say of the Persian Sophy who by virtue of his Sovereignty annually sets the Price upon his Pearl being the product not of a Whale or of a Leviathan but bred and born in the Belly and Cottage of an Oister Can the Chinese so mightily magnify his Thee or the Japonian his Cha of shrubby off-spring the latter of which if Tulpius was not misinformed hath been sold for a Hundred pounds the pound Who knows not how great an estimate the French King puts upon his Salt-pits and how much his Lillies did once flourish upon it even to a fault Do we not see Stones and Shells made dayly the Ornament and Companion of Princes not for any intrinsick value of their own but only by the Indulgence of our Fancies Natura Lapides fecit Opinio Gemmas Shall such things as these made more for Delight than Necessity and which the World could spare Salt only excepted Shall such little gay things weigh down our Gold and Silver and sit so high in our opinions And shall Bread which is the staff of our lives and the happy