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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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of their Visitor be free to alter their resolutions and quit the Society For erecting in London a Colledge de propaganda Fide as our Adversaries have done at Rome for propagating the Christian Reformed Religion amongst the Americans bordering on the English Plantations where it is shame to this Nation that so few in the space of so many years have been converted to Christianity and for that end to send from time to time persons fitly Gifted for a work so transcendently Pious And because many excelling in the gift of Preaching being now for their Nonconformity laid aside do secretly occasion unlawful Conventicles foment Schisms and hold up the Faction and thereby hazard the disturbance of this Church and State that all they not dissenting from the Doctrine of the English Church may be encouraged by competent allowances out of the said publique Stock or commanded to Transport themselves thither within the space of one or two years For buying in of Impropriations a work not only worthy of a Parliament but to the doing whereof all the Parliaments since 27. H. 8. stand obnoxious saith the learned Bacon and bound in conscience to God whereby the Church might enjoy her own again the Kings Revenue much encreased by Tenths and First-Fruits and the Cures of all those great and populous Parishes hitherto starved for want of Spiritual food be duely served and the foule guilt of that abominable sin of Sacriledge taken off this Nation and off the Protestant Religion Provided that no Impropriator shall take above 10 or 12 years Purchase for any Impropriated Tythes as the Custom usually hath been For making some competent Provision according to the practice of other Reformed Churches for the poor Widows and Orphans of Clergy-men of whom God took special care in the Jewish Commonwealth the Sons there being to inherit their Fathers places and the Daughters to be match'd aswell as their Mothers or else as in other Christian Churches utterly to forbid Marriage to all that shall be in Orders Some other chargeable Proposals probably beneficial to this Nation might be hereunto added by such as have made it their business to observe this and other civil Governments beyond the Seas also some other ways and means of raising moneys without grieving the People which is the quintescence of all State-policy but let those be reserved for another occasion Hereafter follow divers unchargeable Proposals that will require no cost or charges but only the Humble petition of the two Houses of Parliament and his Majesties Royal Assent XI It is an ancient Maxime Interest Reip. ut resua quisque bene utatur It is the Interest of the Common-wealth that every Subject should make a right use of his own Estate wherefore amongst the Fundamental Laws of the Romans those Laws of the twelve Tables observed by them almost as Sacredly as the Two Tables or Ten Commandments by the Jews it is especially provided That a Guardian should be set over the Person and Estate not only of Mad-men but of all prodigal Persons This Law hath been derived from them to all our neighbour-Nations and enjoyed by them ever since they enjoyed Civility even to this very day To England only this Law is wanting not that England is without such unreasonable Creatures for it hath been observed that the English Nation is naturally as much addicted to prodigality as any Nation in Europe the sad effects whereof are every day before our eyes Wives that have brought great Estates left poor needy Widows Children of Noble and illustrious Families brought to a morsel of bread and to do base ignominious things unworthy of their Noble Ancestors and dishonourable to the very degrees of Honour which their Fathers purchased by their Merit and maintained by their laudable Frugality Where this fore-mentioned Law is in use the prodigal person is thus defined Is qui neque modum neque finem habet in Expensis Any man being proved to be such is declared uncapable of managing his own Estate or of making a Will or of entring into Bond or of being a Witness c. And thereupon a Guardian is put over him and his Estate to allow him necessaries out of his own Estate and to preserve the rest to his next Kindred Now the King of England hath his Breve de Inquirendo de Idiota and his Breve de Inquirendo de Furioso and can any solid reason be produced why his Majesty should not have also his Breve de Inquirendo de Prodigo directed in like manner to the Escheater of the County to be tryed by a Jury of twelve men that so a general stop may be put to the wild expences and extravagant profuseness of all English men and more especially as in Spain because the Nobility is esteemed the chief and main support of Monarchy that no Noble man shall have power to waste or alienate so much of his Ancestors Lands as may render him uncapable of serving his Prince and Countrey or to bear the Port of a Noble man XII There is another Maxime Interest Reipub. ut suprema hominum Testamenta rata habeantur secundum veram Testatoris Intentionem It concerns the Common-wealth that mens last Wills and Testaments should be ratified and executed according to the true meaning of the Testator For this purpose was made the Statute of Charitable uses 43 of Q El. to provide against the imbezilling and mis-imployment of Moneys and Lands given to Charitable Uses by giving power to the Bishop and his Chancellour and to some other considerable persons to issue out Commissions for inquiring and ordering the same Nevertheless by the neglect of some and want of zeal in others such Commissions are seldome desired though perhaps not hardly obtained Wherefore that by another Statute it may be provided that every Bishop and his Chancellour together with some other considerable persons as is intimated in the fore-quoted Statute within one year after each Bishops Instalment shall upon a high penalty purchase and execute such Commission throughout his Diocess XIII That according to the Institution of King Edward the First our English Justinian once every three year Justices de Trail Baston may be commissionated to make Inquisition through the Realm by the verdict of substantial Juries upon all Officers Sheriffs Mayors Justices of Peace Coroners Escheators Bayliffs Constables Jaylors c. touching their Oppressions Extortions Briberies Cheatings touching their Malegovernment and neglect of executing the good Laws respectively XIV That the Statutes of 12 Rich. 2. and 5 Ed. 6. against the sale of Offices may be revived that so Vertue and Wisdom long experience and honesty faithfulness and loyalty may no longer be baffled and discouraged by seeing it self vilified and money preponderate all worth and thereby Justice very oft sold with divers other Inconveniences XV. That provision by a Statute be made against that Unchristian and more then barbarous custom and priviledg of Wreccum Maris never allowed by the Imperial Laws or any neighbour