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A31591 Englands wants, or, Several proposals probably beneficial for England humbly offered to the consideration of all good patriots in both houses of Parliament / by a true lover of his country. Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703. 1667 (1667) Wing C1839; ESTC R24257 15,973 43

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ENGLANDS WANTS OR SEVERAL PROPOSALS Probably beneficial for ENGLAND Humbly offered to the Consideration of all Good Patriots IN BOTH Houses of Parliament By a true lover of his Country LONDON Printed for Jo. Martyn 1667. ENGLANDS WANTS OR Several Proposals probably beneficial for England humbly offered to the Consideration of all good Patriots in both Houses of Parliament ALthough the Kingdom of England doth abound with many blessings which other Nations want yet doth it want many which others enjoy It is recorded That an eminent foreign Ambassador after a long Residence in England sayling homeward did cast his eye back upon this Land and said in his own language O Isola felicissima c. The happyest Country upon the face of the Earth did it not want publick Spirits amongst them The want of publick Spirits hath occasioned the want of many Publick works of Peity and Charity works necessary or commodious for the people or of ornament for the Kingdom I. To supply this want That by such easie wayes and means as are hereafter mentioned there may be raised a publick Stock to be put into the hands of Commissioners nominated by both Houses of Parliament approved by the King and accountable to them for the same II. For raising such publick Stock it is proposed first That according to the practice of neighbour Nations upon all such Commodities as occasion either Excess or Luxury Wantonness Idleness Pride or Corruption of Manners there may be laid a large Impost as upon all Wines all strong Drinks Tobacco Coffee Chocolatte Sugars Spices Plums all sorts of Sweet-meats Oranges c. Upon all Silks Laces Ribbons Jewels Feathers Perruques Fringes c. Upon all fine Linnens Camolets upon Cards Dice Tables Bouls c. upon all Coaches Chariots Litters Sedans upon all Pictures Perfumes Paints for the Face c. Moreover a third part of all the gettings of Comedians Ropedancers Mountebanks Lotteryes Shewes c. III. That according to the practice of the Primitive Christians whose Devotion was such that they thought no Testament well made unless some considerable portion was thereby added to Christs Patrimony that no Testament henceforth should be valid unless a 20 th part of the Legacies were given to these after-named publick and pious uses IV. That for these uses there may be reserved as was anciently practised in the Roman State a tenth part of the profit of all Lands given by the Husband to the Wife or coming from the Wife to the Husband there being no Issue between them alive V. That a 40 th part of all things recovered by Law may be as once among the Romans assigned for publick usses VI. That there be paid out of all marriage Portions Six pence in the Pound and something proportionably paid at the death and birth of every person not living on Almes VII That every one to be made free of a Trade or licenced to practice in Law or Physick may pay proportionably to these publick uses VIII That all Contracts in Writing all Decrees Judgments c. may have a small Seal on the top as is practised in divers other Countreys for which a smal Tax to be paid c. IX That in all Churches as in Holland at every solemn Assembly the Churchwardens with a long Staff Bag and Bell during the Sermon receive the charitable benevolence of the whole Congregation where every person that desires to honour God not onely with his Soul and Body but with his Substance as God commands and the primitive Christians punctually observed at their Church-meetings throwing in but his Mite it is incredible by this constant course at every Assembly to what a sum it will amount in one year Now the Moneys of this publick stock may be employed in these publick uses following X. For building Work-houses in all convenient parts of this Kingdom for making Rivers navigable for building or repairing Bridges Highways Sea-banks Havens Moles Land-marks Aquaeducts for setting up poor Youths after an Apprentiship served for marrying poor Maids for relief of aged impotent decayed People for maintenance of sick and maimed Souldiers for redemption and relief of Captives and Slaves in Turky for building and repairing of Churches whereof there is great want in this Kingdom more especially in the Suburbs of London where not a fourth part of the Parishioners can at once enter into their Parish Church at least not well hear Divine Service to the great shame of the Protestant professors who since the Reformation have as our Adversaries observe erected scarce one considerable solid Structure for the worship of God For repairing the Mother-Church of the Mother-City of this Kingdom to the Glory of God and Honor of this Nation for the speedy promoting whereof both King and Parliament City and Country Clergy and Laity High and Low stand all engaged to lend their helping hands For erecting in London and other great Cities banks or mounts or Piety as have been long used in Italy in Flanders and other Countreys whereby the intollerable oppression of publique and private Brokers and Pawn-takes that grinde the faces of the poor scruing out of them 40 or 50 per Cent. may be utterly abolisht For erecting Hospitals in London and other Citys as there is at Paris and Rome for to receive all little Infants exposed or found whereby many poor Innocents destroyed in the womb or at the Birth might be preserved from Murder as well as the unnatural Mothers from hanging For building of Hospitals to accommodate therein all poor Women as is done at Paris neer the time of their Travel to enter and there to be carefully delivered and remain afterwards till they are in a condition to return home and follow their work For providing stipends for Physicians Surgeons and Apothecaries as at Rome to give gratis their Advice Pains Medicines and Salves to poor sick or wounded people allowed in forma pauperis to require their assistance who otherwise perish for want of timely and due helps For erecting Colledges in London as is done in Holland where old men deprived of Wife and Children may for a reasonable sum of Money be neatly accomodated during life with Diet and Lodging and pass the rest of their days without care or trouble in a comfortable society with men of like condition and age And the like for old Women For erecting Colledges wherein Virgins and Widows of the Protestant Religion resolving not to marry as the Begains in Holland Brabant Flanders c. may for a certain summe of money deposed be maintained and live in a retired vertuous and religious Society their Teaching and Educating in Vertue and Piety the Female youth of this Nation whereof there is now more need then ever and such young Virgin-Scholars may there remain constantly till their marriage day before which time very many by too much liberty are now corrupted and debauched and that the said Virgins and Widows of the Society may with the forfeiture of the said Money deposed and leave