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A64608	Logopandecteision, or, An introdvction to the vniversal langvage digested into these six several books, Neaudethaumata, Chrestasbeia, Cleronomaporia, Chryseomystes, Nelcadicastes, & Philoponauxesis / by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie ...	Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.	1653 (1653)	Wing U137; ESTC R3669	114,144	164

the imagination of two had turned to a fornication of four for which though I caused to punish them all the Fantasiasts were thereby totally cured who becomming afterwards Yoke-mates in wedlock to the two servants of our house were in all times comming sound enough in fancie and never any more disquieted with such like apprehensions 79. In these the cure proved easie but in many that kind of disease taketh such deep root that no remedie can prevail I saw at Madrid a bald-pated fe●low who beleeved he was Julius Caesar and therefore went constantly on the streets with a Laurel Crown on his head and another at Toledo who would not adventure to goe abroad unlesse it were in a Coach Chariot or Sedane for fear the heavens should fall down upon him 80. I likewise saw one in Saragosa who imagining himself to be the lawfull King of Aragon went no where without a Scepter in his hand and another in the Kingdome of Granada who beleeved he was the valiant C●d that conquered the Mores 81. At Messina in Sicilie I also saw a man that conceived himself to be the great Alexander of Macedone and that in a ten years space he should be master of all the territories which he subdued but the best is that the better to resemble him he always held his neck awry which naturally was streight and upright enough and another at Venice who imagined he was Soveraign of the whole Adriatick Sea and sole owner of all the ships that came from the Levante 82. Of men that fancied themselves to be women beasts trees stones pitchers glasse angels and of women whose strained imaginations have falne upon the like extravagancies even in the midst of fire fortune and the extremest pains there is such variety of examples amongst which I have seen some at Rome Naples Florence Genua Paris and other eminent Cities that to muitlply any moe words therein were to load your ears with old wives tales and the trivial tattle of idly imployed and shallow braind humerists 83 Thus am I forced to deliver my opinion in opposition to some of our Kirkists who would burden my conscience with more tenets then are fit for it and lighten my estate of more mony then is due to them for proof of the latter whereof as I have already in refutation of their covetous disjoyning of what was legally united and splitting one parish into two deduced three pregnant reasons why the two forementioned Churches should remain as one Church belonging to one parish I will in sequel of the sixth Article of the same book say 84. Fourthly that in the up-lifting of all Taxes and impositions in former times these two pretended Churches have been still rated as one parsonage as the rolls of the stint can sufficiently bear record 85. Fifthly there are in both these pretended parishes not above three hundred communicants so that the great charge of soules needeth not much obstruct the union seeing there is to be found in a shire not far from thence eight thousand parishioners resorting to one parish Kirk 86. Sixthly that the whole parishioners of both nemine contradicente did and doe as yet most unanimously accord to the union 87. Seventhly that to have the union ratified by the Generall assembly of the Land as it was past in the days of King James the sixth I offered if another place might be pitched upon more expedient for the ease of these two half parishes to cause build a church therein upon my own charges 88. Yet for answer to these aforesaid reasons in my opinion relevant enough a decreet by the Commission of the kirk was pronounced against me in favours of the 2 men serving at the cure of that Kirk and chappel providing yearly to each of them 4 chalders victual and 400 marks Scotch in monie besides their Glebe as they call it and vicarage although before that time by reason of the smalnesse of the tiths of the Parish their expectation did never reach to above five chalders rent for both without any monie at all and that they would have been exceedingly well pleased to have accepted of less had they been free of a brotherly suggestion to my prejudice which for fear of deprivation they were forced to lay hold on 89. With this ecclesiasticall pressure whereby my rents are diminished another from the same fountain though of a higher nature was inflicted on me by a kirk-man whose covetousnesse reaching the procurement of an unjust decree through non defence in my absence at an inferiour court against four of my especial tenants for some farmes pretended to be due to his mother as the wife of an ecclesiastical dignary he prosecuted the action with such indignation violence avarice and extortion so prevaricatly and contrarily to both divine and humane Laws that J purposely conceal his name least the divulging thereof should prove scandalous to his fellow Labourers in the spirituall Vineyard for tollerating a man of such oppressive courses to domineer in the Pulpit by vertue of a supposed call from God for the preaching of his word 90. Many things may be spoken of the unstreight carriage of this man who as I am Informed is about as yet to vex my Tenants in Farnesse as formerly he hath done those of my Townes of Davistone and Pettistone which if he doe let him assure himself that I will lay open the wickednesse of his disposition to the view of the whole Isle as perspicuously as his face is weekly apparent to his Parish at Romarkney 91. But for the time I will forbear in hope of his repentance which no sooner can appear then I shall be apt to forgive my humour leading me never to insist in twitting any that is not of an obdur'd spirit nor had these three Ministers against whom I writ in that book of mine entituled Exscibalauron sustained the lash of my pen had they then been sensi●le of the wrong done me or acknowledged their faults as afterwards they did for although I had dissimulation I can upon a cordial remorse for any injurie committed pardon my cruellest and most inveterate enemie 92. Why men that should make profession of Learning doe goe about to vex and disquiet me is most wonderfull seeing it is not unknown to all that are acquainted with me that there is none breathing doth more respect and reverence it then I and that by all appearance I am like by Gods assistance to give greater proofs thereof to posterity then any whosoever that hath been is or will be ready to display open banner again●t me 93. Bavius and Mavius were both envious of the worth of Virgil and covetuous of his means but although the ruine of Virgil had acquired them an Empire yet had not so vast a purchase been able to contrevalue the infamie which by that one Hexameter Qui Bavium non odit amet tua carmina Maevi did redound to them both 94 I will apply nothing it being the readers part some times to

Genealogie of our House lately published is more fully deduced 65. But this other kinde of transgression being in a matter onely twixt subject and subject it follows that the successor of neither the prodigal nor covetous man should eo nomine be punished much less should any for his predecessors covetousness be rewarded nothing more shocking against common sense it self then to make the recompence for vertue be the reward of vice whereby the very pillars of equity would be quite subverted and overthrown 66. How can it then be called Justice that the successor of the Prodigal for no other reason but his predecessors prodigality shall have his whole inheritance discerned to be the inheritance of the son of a covetous man and that meerly for his covetousness the onely recommendable quality for which he obtains it being a constant purpose and resolution to hook his neighbours means unto him by eights and tens in the hundred and other such baits whereby improvident and inconsiderate men of great Revenues are oftentimes entangled 67. Were it not less prejudicial to the Publike and more equitable in it self that a covetous man should forgo both of his principal and interest then that he who is neither prodigal nor covetous should be denuded of the estate of his forefathers which never was acquired by him that contracted the debt 68. Although the Lords of the Session or any other inferiour Judicature were never invested with power to judge otherways then according to the Customs of the Country positively written and Municipal Laws of the Land of Scotland yet the high Court of the Parliament of the Commonwealth by vertue of their Legislative authority may for the weal of the Publike transcend the bounds of any written Law much more that unto which they were never tied and of a stranger-Country now under their command 69. And as it is a common saying Interest Reipublicae nequis re sua male utatur so doth it very much concern the reputation of a Commonwealth that ancient considerable families be preserved from ruine if possible 70. If Creditors say they get injustice done to them by it I answer with Tacitus Dato sed non concesso quod habet iniqui contra singulos ulilitate publica rependitur or with Plutarch A justitia in parvis negotiis deflectendum est si ea uti volemus in magnis 71. For if it be lawful to cut off an arm for the preservation of the body how much more lawful is it to defalk somewhat from the exorbitant sums of merciless Creditors for the preservation of an ancient family in favour of him that never was the debtor seeing the Commonweal for his appearance of good service thereto may be highly concerned in his fortune 72. These few points I have premitted to make those Creditors pliable to Reason in undergoing any such course as it shall please the State to command or perswade them to who as I make account will take them from off my hand and settle me with freedom in the inheritance of my predecessors and that for the reasons formerly mentioned 73. Although the State pay them not to the full or perhaps pay them for so much as concerns me with a pardon yet ought they to be thankful to the State for what is left them and not grumble at the Publike severity that others no less faulty then they have sustained a milder lash seeing as in the Edecimation of Criminal Souldiers the nine associates have no reason to complain of partiality because the tenth escapes unpunished it becometh these aforesaid Creditors to remain contented with that mercy to others which proceeds from those who are just to them although they suffer by it nam plurimis damnum infligitur quibus nulla fit injuria And such of them as are most clamorous in seeking considering what benefit by usurious bargains they had from my father though they neither from the State nor me get any thing at all can be no losers 74. However it go I should not be deprived of my fore-fafathers Lands because of many reasons which I have already deduced Nor is this unwillingness in me to part from my Land a vice as is their tenaciousness in keeping of money for si parva licet componere magnis as the King of Spain spent in the defence of Flanders more Ryals of eight then would cover the face of the whole Country as is commonly reported so to preserve my inheritance whatever it cost it defends the honour and reputation of the House which I represent 75. And ingenuously as when I collationed in the fiftieth Article of this same Book Prodigality with Covetousness viz. that Prodigality whereby one lavishly expendeth his rents and unnecessarily involveth himself into a Labyrinth of debt and not that other which by alienating his Predecessors ancient inheritance destroyeth the whole stock in so far as lies in him I did prefer Prodigality to Covetousness as the lesser vice so should I now compare with the covetousness of an Usurer the profuseness of him that maketh no conscience to dispone unto strangers the Land of his Ancestors I would find his fault a great deal more unpardonable then that of the Usurer 76. For who turnes his Land into money devirilizeth and emasculates what is naturally procreative and by consequence bending his course to what is more imperfect deserveth greater blame then who to the Eunuch and Spadonian money allowes a constant pregnancy by imagining every peny to be both Father and Mother still begetting and still bearing and the child still growing per juxta Positionem whom if the Debtor find not beside the Parent at the semestral period he must educe another of the pre-supposed Bulk or lye by it as one that hath not faith enough because although both be unnatural yet for that the latter aymeth at what is of choicer worth it merits less imputation the intention of making what is barren fruitful albeit impossible to do being more commendable then of exchanging what is by nature fertile for that which produceth and bringeth forth nothing but rust and dross 77. However although by what is already said my declining to pay those men needed not be imputed to me for want of equity towards them in my proceedings they having received much from me and often and I from them never any thing at all my obligations to them being so prescinded from all specialities and particular restrictions that they never could shew neither what nor when nor time nor place nor any other circumstance whatsoever denotating the existence of any thing on earth wherewith to upbraid my acceptance yet I shall wish if so it please the Publike that they be satisfied and reimbursed of what they can with any kinde of reason demand 78. For as Julius Caesar after he had repudiated his wife being desired to call her home because the Judges had absolved her from that adultery whereof

amongst them when they had fondly assured themselves of the truth of my being killed at Worcester-battel and for the gladness of the tidings had madified their nolls to some purpose with the liquor of the grape 23. And how when afterwards they understood the contrary to be verified by Letters under my own hand and that by being no thanks to them in as good health as any of themselves they were like to be disappointed of their abominable and unchristian hopes they then threw in the way of my credit all the impediments that they could to debar me from money that the withholding of necessary helps might if possible snatch away what the sword had spared 24. As also what underhand-dealing there was for arresting of my person at London by men with whom neither my father nor I had ever any dealing notwithstanding of my being a prisoner upon Parole to the Councel of State and likewise what plotting was in Scotland by that fry of men against me after I was allowed by the State the favour of five months time to go thither and return again is well known by those that were employed by them in those unconscionable negotiations 25. What congeeing cringing doffing of hats making of legs and petitioning there was of the Judges of Scotland the Commissioners for the Sequestrations at Leith and others by many of those men that they good souls who have always been found true and trusty to their own profit should not for my lawless and unwarrantable joyning with Charles for so some called him in the invasion of England be debarred from their legal rights to the enjoyment of my fathers lands apprised by them for their most precious and inestimable money is not unknown to any that for business did frequent the Courts of Justice in that Country 26. Furthermore to shew the craftiness subdolous pranks of some of those Creditors of whose discharges I was content some two yeers ago to accept for sums of money I had given them towards the defrayment of certain debts due upon Bonds which they perceiving my forwardness to relieve them and having a further project in their own mindes pretended they were so mislayd that they could not come at them so soon as the urgencie and pressing haste of my then-incident occasions might require did very subtilly or rather knavishly at my last going down to Edinburgh from London demand payment from me by vertue of those Bonds which then they had to shew readily enough thinking the Discharges they had given me had been utterly lost at Worcester and although some of them by means of the clauses of Registration which they contained might have been put upon Record that nevertheless that should help me nothing because the Scotish Registers were removed to the Tower of London and therefore in their conceit never to be exposed hereafter to the inspection of any of the Scotish Nation So cunning this generation of Usurers is of late become in Scotland 27. But when they saw that those their Acquittances which by the discretion of one Captain Goodwin in Colonel Pride's Regiment had been recovered out of the spoil at Worcester were produced before them they then looking as if their noses had been a bleeding could not any longer for shame retard my cancelling of the aforesaid Bonds 28. Who doth not account such a trick a deep piece of iniquity doth not positively know what belongs to sin but who thinketh any more of it and of all the formerly-mentioned abominations then of a Flea-bite to the stinging of a Scorpion in regard of Robert Lesly of Finrasie's far more wicked contrivances against me hath no skill in Comparatives 29. For albeit of all the friends he ever had the most deserving was my father by whose intercession alone he obtained for the space of one and twenty yeers together fourscore pounds sterl a yeer yet for exchange as it seemed then of so great a favour he having lent him eight hundred pounds English money when my father neither needed nor required it and having by mischance on the one side and subtilty on the other got his Bond thereupon he was the first that led apprisings against his Lands and not content with that to the end he might obtain the marrow of his estate to himself procured the most of all his other Creditors to take the same violent course against him 30. And though when in the time of my Lord Montross's over-running of the North of Scotland he knew not what course to take for the securing of his Gold Silver Evidences and other things of value from the hands of the Irish it pleased my mother out of courtesie to take into her own custody the Trunks wherein those things were and place them within my house of Cromartie of all which although she made such a good account unto him that now he hath them at his own disposure yet like that Snake mentioned in the Fable which instead of thanks for the warmth of a good fire bestowed on his almost-starv'd-for-cold joynts without which he had assuredly died did leap up in the face of his Host to destroy him with his whole family he hath ever since applied the utmost of his wit to the undoing both of her and me and the utter subversion of all the remnant of our House 31. That such bad acquitals should have by him been rendred to my father and mother for those so considerable favors of theirs conferred on him who was born a Gentleman for he is the third in descent from Norman Leslie that for killing his Master Card. Retoun was justly forfeited of his estate is truely very strange 32. Strange likewise it is that by the continuance of his miscarriages towards me I should be necessitated in my own defence against him who as if there were a Cannibal-like Leprosie over his heart impeditive of the susceptibility of thanks hath never any way been sensible in the least measure of the several good offices done unto him to afford yet another evidence of the height of his ingratitude which is this 33. When some four yeers ago with all the Horse and Foot he was able to command he came in a hostile manner to take possession of a Farm of mine called Ardoch unto which as Sir Robert Farquhair can testifie he had no more just title then to the town of Iericho mentioned in the Scriptures and that at the offer of such an indignity to our House some of the hot-spirited Gentlemen of our name would even then have taken him with his three sons bound them hand and foot and thrown them within the Flood-mark into a place called The yares of Vdol there to expect the coming of the Sea in a full Tide to carry him along to be seized in a soil of a greater depth and abler to restrain the insatiableness of his immense desires then any of my Lands within the Shire of Cromartie 34. Then when in

Neighbour-hood did unanimously perform but contrary to the homage he did owe unto my Lord and personal good Offices he had received from him adjoyned himself with might and main in both counsel and action to those that had vowed the ruine of both him and his name had plundred his and their Lands dipt their hands in the blood of his servants and burnt some of the best houses of his kinsmen 42. All which things being very well known to the worthy Juncto of the aforesaid Gentlemen his Petition was justly rejected not so much for that in both Consanguinity and Allyance I had unto his Lordship a very near relation or that the Predecessors of us both had for these many hundreds of years kept a most entire and amicable correspondence as that his demands were totally of themselves unreasonable and that although they had been better grounded my Lord was not conceived to be in honour bound to protect him who had infringed his faith and forfeited his loyaltie to him whose Vassal he was 44. Whereas these rubs in the way of a plain-meaning man would have quickly made him to desist from such violent undertakings he on the contrary was by such repulses the more eagar on his game what would have proved discouragements to others did animate him and the greatest spur to his action was the iniquity of the cause he left no Winde unsailed by nor Oar unplyed he could make use of he importuned the Kirk solicited the State courted the Soldierie feasted the Lawyers cajoled smoothed and flattered Gentlemen Merchants and men of all degrees to gain friends both in Heaven and Hell for my destruction and that with such vigilance and circumspection cunning and reservedness without sparing either cost or travel that had the time I was forced to bestow in my own defence on avoyding his grins shunning his traps and with no small charge and trouble preserving my self from his various and manifold snares been spent after the manner I intended I would by Gods assistance in that space of leisure have emitted those things which to the Isle of Britain would have been of greater emolument then all the estate he is worth in the world twenty times told 45. But he mis-regarding these things which did no more relish with him then a French Galliard in the ears of a Spanish Mule and setting at nought my enjoyment of any spare hours upon what occasion soever did even at my last being in Cromartie where I was not to stay above two months by reason of my being engaged to the State upon Parole to return to London at a prefixed day plod and forecast how without offending Authority I being a Prisoner of War he might so secure my person in Scotland as not to be released till he were contented in all his demands 46. In the prosecuting of this Plot by his two elder sons and brother George many of the English Officers both of Horse and Foot together with the Deputy-Governour of that English Garison in my house being most earnestly spoke to he found them of such another temper then the Presbyterian Commanders he had formerly employed against me that neither the beauty of his daughters nor glistering of his gold being able to tempt them to a condescendment to his unjust desires in spight of his way-laying of me and conducing with English Messengers at Elguin in Morray to apprehend me I securely traveled thorow all the best Towns of Scotland and thereby making a safe retreat to London wisht him for the future to employ his Motto of Gripe-fast with the Griffin pounces of his Arms upon some other prey then me who knows him already so well that he being of Normans extraction there can no Proverb be more fitly applied to him then that of Qualis Corvus tale ovum 47. Several Gentlemen of good account and others of his familiar acquaintance having many times very seriously expostulated with him why he did so implacably demean himself towards me and with such irreconciliability of rancor that nothing could seem to please him that was consistent with my weal his answers most readily were these I have see ye many Daughters see ye to provide Portions for see ye and that see ye now cannot be done see ye without money the Interest see ye of what I lent see ye had it been termely payed see ye would have afforded me see ye now several stocks for new Interests I have see ye apprized Lands see ye for these summes see ye borrowed from me see ye now and see ye the Legal being expired see ye now is it not just see ye and equitable see ye that I have possession see ye of those my Lands see ye according to my undoubted Right see ye now 48. With these over-words of see ye and see ye now as if they had been no less material then the Psalmists Selah and Higgaion Selah did he usually nauseate the ears of his Hearers when his tongue was in the career of uttering any-thing concerning me who alwayes thought that he had very good reason to make use of suchlike expressions do you see and do you see now because there being but little candour in his meaning whatever he did or spoke was under some colour 49. For under colour of Religion he did sow the seeds of division betwixt me and the Kirk and devised such abominable lyes of me as the like were never hatcht in Hell under colour of being against Tyranny he sent his sons along with Col. Strachan to the overthrow of Montross whom he called James Graham the c. as now he doth his Master by the name of Charles Stuart under colour of being for Monarchy he hyed away his Eldest Son to Dunbar where being taken Prisoner he was kept fast for a twelve month at New-castle and under what colour soever he can shew himself with the least detriment in publick doth he alwayes with the greatest security drive on his private benefit 50. So that such as talk and discourse with him who goes alwayes Masked and Vizarded with colours and pretences to what he intends not ought not onely to see to see well and better see to see well now and see well then but with all the perspicacy of sight and prying inspection that may be to look upon his concealed Objects pore into them and cast an eye on what from open view he purposely withholdeth to the end that in discovering by such opticks the fallacies of the sight of our mind we be not deluded by finding under the Cloak of Righteousness nothing else but the Babylonish Garment and accursed thing 51. Let the Reader I beseech him excuse my having so long detained him upon the wretched subject of this man who like a Fox in his Den living in my Progenitors Lands of Ethie hides or shews his Pawes as he sees the Prey in a conveniencie to let go or lay hold upon and in compensation seeing contrariorum eadem est ratio I

of so great concernment for the not-performance of so mean a task for when Utility may be obtained with ease and the steps to Profit trod upon with facility it needeth not to be imagined where Wisdom superiorizeth most that such conveniences will be set at nought and omitted In hopes therefore of a gracious retribution and with a strenuous assurance of a plenary discharge of his promise The Author very daintily closing this sixth Book puts a Catastrophe to the whole Introduction the publishing of the Book it relates to depending totally upon the removal of the often-aforementioned impediments then which the Author asks no more for helps for Qui impedimenta tollit praestat adminicula The Sixth BOOK Of the INTRODUCTION intituled Philoponauxesis Or Furtherance of Industry Wherein is evidenced that the grant of the Authors demands will prove besides that of the Universal Language and other kindes of Literature conducible to all manner of other vertuous undertakings whatsoever 1. IF there happen to be any who for the better repelling of my demands would alleadge all other reasons failing them that the grant thereof might prove very damageable to traders in Merchandise whose fortune wholly consists in the frugal managing of their money it may very fitly be answered if they be Scotish Merchants who move the doubt that by casting in such a scruple they most unjustly impute that fault to others whereof themselves are very hainously guilty seeing under the title of Merchant and mask of the honesty thereof they do that which of any thing is to Merchandizing most destructive 2. They lend money upon Usury to none but such as have estates in land without any regard to traffique for whether the intention of the Lender be considered or use that the Borrower commonly puts it to all Mercantil negotiation is exceedingly eclipsed by it 3. There being nothing surer then that for the most part such-like borrowers in Hawks Hounds Wenching Gaming Tipling Swaggering Fidling Rioting Revelling and other such-like profligate courses of a most effusive and vast expence squander away the money so lent without casting an eye to any thing tending to the furtherance of the exchange of Ware towards the necessary use of man 4. And that likewise the Lenders of money unto such men minding chiefly their own ingreatning when they think a competent time hath expired for engendering upon the emitted Coin a progenie numerous enough for their enrichment require from their respective debtors the sum at first so lent with its usurious attendants which if obtained they possibly at the hands of some other no less debosh'd then the former debtors make purchase of some Land if not then are they sure by Decrees of Apprising according to the harsh Law of Scotland to take possession of the land of the debtor 5. So that however the matter go being certainly assured of Land which was the thing they aimed at assoon as they finde themselves invested therewith they cast off the Vizard of Merchant wherewith they cheated the world and turning once landed men they altogether scorn to traffique any longer 6. But the best is that the sons of those because of their fathers having acquired Land though the said fathers by vertue of their long-accustomed parsimony snudge out their own time without any danger of thraldome by debt strive usually to be renowned the better to appear Gentleman-like for such extravagant actions as carrying along with them profuseness of charge occasioned the sale of those lands which by their fathers were purchased 6. And as from the same causes with all their concomitances proceed always the same effects so doth such a course of life as was kept by those that did dilapidate the foresaid lands at first produce an inevitable necessity of redisponing them and that oftentimes to the first abalienators sons who bitten with penury for the lavishness of their fathers become miserable scrape-goods for their childrens subsistence 8. After which manner the generation of one livelihood being the corruption of another the son of the Covetous spending what the father of the Prodigal had gained and the son of the Prodigal re-acquiring what the father of the Covetous had put away Prodigality and Covetousness in this alternative vicissitude were the two master-wheels that hurried Scotland into Confusion and Hypocrisie the Iehu that drove the Chariot with such velocity that since the National subscribing of the first Covenant one and the same estate in lands hath been observed according to the manner of the fore-mentioned circulation of covetous men and prodigals succeeding in the veece of one another to have interchangeably been posses● by four several owners hinc iude the seller being still as it were the buyers predecessor in a diametral line as in a direct one the Prodigal was to the Covetous or inversedly the Covetous to the Prodigal and this not onely in one or two but in above five hundred several parts of the Country wherein what the covetous father of one family had bought from the prodigal-father of another the covetous son of that other did recover from the prodigal-son of the first and that with so little vertue in either that oftentimes the purchase flowed from the greater vice 9. By such a vicious flux and reflux within these ninety yeers upon the chanel of Land-rents so great prejudice hath redounded and daily redoundeth to the worthy profession of Merchandizing the disponer not being accustomed with traffique and the purchaser disdaining any longer to exercise it that all Manual Trades in that Nation are now almost totally failed and have fallen of late into such a palpable decadence that hardly shall a man be found where these men have being that can make a pair of Boots aright or Taylor skilful enough to apparel one in the Fashion although he see the patern before him 10. Other Trades of weaving Silver Lace knitting Silk Stockins sowing of Cut-work with five hundred more depending on the hammer needle or pencil in other Countries as commonly practised as Cookery with us may in Scotland now where-ever the Usurer lives be as well put amongst the antiqua deperdita as the malleability of glass liquability of stone or incombustibility of linen 11. And the reason is Though they had the dexterity to make the ware there is no Merchant to buy it all such being turned by Usury to Mongrel-Gentlemen and all Gentlemen thought unthrifty that turn not Usurers whose both inclinations being to convert all into money save so much victual and clothes as barely may preserve their bodies from starving which a corner of their own Country-farm will sufficiently afford all gallantry of Invention is ruined exquisite Artificers discouraged and Civility it self trod under foot for want of Commerce 12. Thus it being clear that promiscuous Usury the Gentleman being no more ashamed of it then the Burger hath been the overthrow of Merchandise in Scotland which is