scandalous Titles or Opinion but should receive all Encouragement imaginable When Rome was in a rising condition those that Informed in her favour were looked on as Men of Honour but as she went to ruin and was exposed by the Soldiers who should preserve her to the Sale of who gave most the Informers were looked upon to be only famous for Infamy as they are now in other declining Countries VI. Resolved That it is the Opinion of this Committee That it be Penal on any Person to Export English Bullion and the proof to lie on the Exporter I was extreamly glad when I read this Resolution for it will by some kind of necessity put us upon gaining the over balance of Trade which is the only thing next to Religion and Justice which we want to gain the Empire of the Vniverse as well as that of the Ocean Religion in Britain hath hitherto been for the most part Hist Disc maintained by immediate Influence from Heaven And the way of Justice and Gentleness hath had more Force in Britain than Arms. Under the wise Government of Aurelius the Emperour mounting into the British Throne crowned Lucius first of all Kings with the Royal Title of a Christian And he was not so much a Vassal as a Friend and Ally to the Romans And perceiving the Empire to be past Noon and their Lieutenants to comply with the Christians began to provide for future Generations and according to the Two grand Defects of Religion and Justice applyed himself to the establishment of both Which Act of Lucius so advanced him in the Opinion of Writers that they knew not when they had said enough of him Whereas before Britain was become a Glut of Wickedness and a Burden that God would endure no longer The Kingdoms of Christendom now in being had their rising from the fall of Rome and Vortigern a Native of this Isle first established here a free Kingdom four hundred and fifty Years after Christ and so left it to the Saxons So England hath a great Precedency in respect of the Antiquity of the Kingdom which as Beda observes was always a Monarch in a Heptarchy So it hath the Precedency likewise in respect of the Antiquity of the Christian Religion Joseph of Arimathea planted the Christian Religion immediately after the Passion of Christ in this Realm And Aristobulus one of them mentioned by St. Paul Dorotheus Rom. 6. was Episc Britannorum and likewise Simon Zelotes yea St. Peter and St. Paul himself as Theodoretus doth testifie The first Christian King in Europe was Lucius Surius And the first that ever advanced the Papacy of Rome was the Emperour Constantine born at York Edward the Third King of England was Anno 1338 created by the Emperour Vicarius Perpetuus Imperii And William the Third King of England may be the greatest Emperour that ever was if we are not wanting to him when he is not to us This Kingdom is held of God alone Cottoni Posthuma p. 87. Hist Disc p. 3. acknowledging no Superiour It was long before the Son of God was enwombed and whilst as yet Providence seem'd to close only with the Jewish Nation and to hover over it as a choice pick'd Place from all the Earth that with a gracious Eye surveying the forsaken condition of all other Nations it glanced on this Island Both Thoughts and Words reflected on Isles Isa 42.4.31.3.60.4.66.19 Isles of the Gentiles Isles afar off as if amongst them the Lord of all the Earth had found out some place that should be to him as the Gem of the Ring of this terrestrial Globe And if the ways of future Providence may be looked upon as a Gloss of those Prophecies we must confess that this Island was conceiv'd in the Womb thereof long before it was manifested to the World No sooner was the Scepter departed from Judah but both it and the Law-giver came hither as if we were the only White that was in God's Aim VII And shall we after all this for the sake of Self-interest be any ways wanting to Albion which God hath so highly honoured and so bountifully bless'd above all the Kingdoms in the World No sure for there is nothing expected from our Gratitude towards God and our Duty towards the Nation but what the Honourable Representatives thereof may make practicable by means of their principal Commitees of Religion Grievances Trade and Justice and the Power they have of sending for Persons Papers and Records VIII And since they are as deeply engaged as they are highly concerned to regulate the Coin of the Kingdom and to turn our Dross into Silver again I hope they will raise no small Fund or Sum of Money for it * In a printed Paper entituled Reasons for not laying any farther Impositions upon Coals there is this Particular Which in things of Choice and Luxury may be tolerable but in Cases of Necessity must be extream grievous especially to many Trades-men out of the Causes and Effects of Extravagancy and Covetousness I mean such Extravagancies for the most part as promote excessive and consumptive Importations And such Covetousness as makes against the Laws of God and the World Twelve and sometimes Twenty per Cent of Money by Interest Procuration Continuation c. It is the Opinion of some others as well as my own That all Masters of English Ships should be Taxed abroad together with the Factors for they are come now to act in half Commissions c. with the Factors And to speak with all Modesty they gain above 12 per Cent. more than the Merchants do by more advantageous Trading And there are a great many concern'd in this Craft that should refund a great deal for the present Occasion IX And if our Trade and Justice be regulated together with our Coin and Religion honestly and 〈…〉 our King 's most excellent Majesty may use a greater Style of Soveraignty than this of King Edgar wherewith and with a few other Words I conclude Ego Edgarus Anglorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnicumque Regum Insularumque Oceani Britannici circumjacentium cunctarumque Nationum quae infra eam includuntur Imperator ac Dominus And now I think from what hath been said or rather shewn it may be seen a little how much God and Nature have done for us more than we endeavour to do for our selves And I wish that any part of this Enterprize may answer the Ends for which the whole was design'd with all Sincerity and Good-will For else I would have robb'd and stollen from the Authorities I have acknowledged transmigrated their Dispensatâ—â—iâ—s into the Wrong Appropriation and made those Doctors Opinions pass for my own who am the most unfit Person to prescribe any thing for the Distempers of State in a Corrupted Time FINIS
to bear themselves against the strong Storms that blow there As Nature hath instructed those Kings of Trees so hath Reason taught the Kings of Men to root themselves in the hardy Hearts of their faithful Subjects And as those Kings of Trees have large Tops so have the Kings of Men large Crowns Whereof as the first would soon be broken from their Bodies were they not under-born by many Branches so would the other easily totter were they not fastned in their Heads ☞ with strong Chains of Civil Justice and Martial Discipline 1. P. 154. For the Administration of the First even God himself hath given direction Judges and Officers shalt thou make which shall Judge the People with righteous Judgment 2. The second is grounded on the first Laws of the World and Nature That Force is to be repall'd by Force Yea Moses in the 20th of Exodus and elsewhere hath deliver'd us many Laws and Policies of War ☞ But as we have heard of the Neglect and Abuse in both so have we heard of the Decline and Ruin of many Kingdoms and States before our days For that Policy hath ever yet prevail'd though it hath served for a short season where the Counterfeit hath been sold for ☞ the Natural and the outward Show and Formality for the Substance Of the Emperour Charles IV. the Wrâ—â—â—â— of that Age witâ—â—â—â— That he used but the Name of Justice and good Rule and Order being more learned in the Law than in doing Right ☜ and that he had by far more Knowledge and Law than Conscience XV. But we will forbear for a while to stretch this first String of Civil Justice For in respect of the first sort of Men Husband-men P. 156. viz. of those that live by their own Labour they have never been displeased where they have been suffer'd to enjoy the Fruit of their own Travels Meum and Tuum is all wherein they seek their Certainty and Protection But Meum and Tuum is now a long time a trying when the Defendant runs from one Court to another and at last betakes himself to the Resuge or Assylum of Summum Judicium True it is That they are the Fruit. Trees of the Land P. 156. which ☜ God in Deuteronomy commanded to be * And here let me note against the common Policy and Practice of the Nation that the Sea and Land I mean the Land and Navigation ought to be Taxed less and the Faseful and Idle more than any other things in the Kingdom To Tax the Land ever-much and Navigation in never so little is to stop the very Vitals of Trade and by consequence to decrease our Soldiers Sea-men and Treasure The Sea-men and Shipping as they are the Walls of our Nation must be encouraged by all means imaginable And the Land-men must have Stock by them to improve their Lands and their Mansions and to keep Houses of Hospitality Which if they do not they ruin the poor Labourers by not employing them And if they do employ them and keep Houses of Hospitality they will ruin themselves if their Estates be over-taxed So that the Vices the Luxury and Gallantry of the Nation ought to be mostly consider'd in that respect spared They gather Honey and hardly enjoy the Wax and break the Ground with great Labour giving the best of their Grain to the Easeful and Idle For the second sort which are the Merchants Merchants P. 157. as the first feed the Kingdom so do these enrich it yea their Trades especially those which are forcible are not the least part of our Martial Policy And to do them right they have in all Ages and Times assisted the Kings of this Land not only with great Summs of Money but with great Fleets of Ships in all their Enterprizes beyond Sea The third sort which 〈◊〉 the Geâ—â—â—y of England they being neither 〈◊〉 in the lowest Ground and thereby subject to the biting of every Beast nor in the highes◠〈◊〉 and thereby in danger to be torn with Tempests but in the Valleys between both have their part in the inferiour Justice and being spread over all are the Garrisons of good Order throughout the Realm XVI In the Situation of Countries and Cities P. 142. Situation for Safety and Plenty there is to be requir'd a Place of Safety by some natural Strength commodiousness for Navigation and Conduct for the obtaining of plenty of all good Things for the Sustenance and Comfort of Man's Life and to draw Trade and Intercourse of other Nations In former times P. 14. Multitude of Inhabitants great Nations Kings and Potentates have endured sharp Conflicts and held it high Policy by all means to enor ease their Cities by multitudes of inhabitants ☞ And to this End the Româ—â—tâ— ever furnished themselves with Strength and Power to make their Neighbour-People of Necessity willing to draw themselves to dwell at Rome Romulus after a mighty Fight with the Sabines condescended to Peace upon condition that their King should come with all their People to dwell at Rome The same Course held Tamberlane the Great whereby he enlarged the Great Samarcanda And the Ottomans to make the City Constantinople rich and great brought to it many Thousand Families especially Artificers out of the subdued Cities Religion Religion which is of such Force and Might to amplifie Cities and Dominions and of such Attractive Vertue to replenish the same with People and Wealth and to have them in due Obedience as ☞ none can be more For without Adoration of some Deity no Common-wealth can subsist Witness Jerusalem Rome Constantinople and all other Cities that have been famous for the Profession of Religion and Divine Worship Court of Justice with due Execution of the same Justice P. 147. in a City do much enable enlarge and enrich it ☞ For it fastneth a great liking in a City to vertuous Men and such as be wealthy that therein they may be free from the Violence and Oppressions of covetous and wicked Men and there will be rather resort thither to inhabit or traffick there as occasion may minister unto them And 〈…〉 have Câ—use of 〈◊〉 will repair thither ☜ whâ—â—e they may be 〈◊〉 to find Indgment and Justice duely executed where by a 〈◊〉 City must needs be enriched and enlarged For our Lives and Fortunes and all that ever we have in the ☜ World is in the Hands of Justice So that if Justice be not duly and truly and without delay ☜ administred amongst Men in vain is there any Society and Commerce ☜ XVII Put the Case as it is mine That I had been a Factor at Zant and a Merchant in London should give me a Commission to lay out 4000 l. for him on a Cargoe of Currans and to re-imburse my self on him by way of Venice I lay out the 4000 l. and lade the Ship and when the Ship is gone from Zant the Merchant in London writes to his
AN ESSAY ON THE Coin and Commerce OF THE KINGDOM Trade and Treasure Which are Twins Being the only SUPPORTERS thereof NEXT TO Religion and Justice For the Merchandize of it is better than the Merchandize of Silver and the Gain thereof than fine Gold LONDON Printed and Published for the Consideration of the Present and Future Sessions of Parliament 1695. To the High Court of Parliament and particularly to the Grand Committee of Trade appointed Mart. 19 Feb. 94. to sit every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday in the Afternoon and to the Honourable Committee appointed to receive Proposals for prevention of Clipping and Coining SIRS SInce I expose the following Particulars for the Publick Good and do most humbly submit them to your Honourable Protection I hope no particular Person will be displeased with me for relating only what some others think fit to say c. PART I. I. SOmetimes before the late Revolution I have heard the S AVH of some other Countries compare the English in many parallel respects to the Jews and Greeks Two Nations very honourable and brave in their Ancestry but Ignoble and Base in the Degeneracy of their Descendants for which they now both suffer both under a Heathen and a Christian Yoke from which Good Lord deliver us And it should be the oftner in our Litany because the Wise Venetians more worthily than the others do value themselves on a prospect of futurity at a very great distance and will never in their Senate enact any thing as to day until they consider and see what will come of it to morrow c. II. The Form and State of the Jewish Government was often chang'd its Lustre obscured and its Puissance and Grandeur lessen'd and impair'd according to the Degrees of the People's Transgressions Who drew Iniquity with Cords of Vanity and sinned as it were with a Cart-rope For which their Silver was turned into Dross and their Justice into Wormwood their Cities were burned with Fire their Lands Strangers devoured it in their presence the People were oppressed every one by another and the rewards of their own hands were given them And at last they were entirely left without a Sceptre and brought under the Roman Yoke as our Religion had lately been had not the Providence of God protected it by means of his Heroick and most Excellent Majesty and his late most religious and Royal Consort of Famous and Everlasting Memory III. And as the Jews were so were the Greeks who became first so careless of their Honour and afterwards of their Countrey 's minding at last only their private Interest that when they lost Coiro Docastron they laugh'd at it and slightingly said by way of Preface and Introduction to their future Misfortune and Distress That it signify'd but as the words do a Pig-stye But soon after the Turks taught them by woful Experience to understand what it is not to understand and redress Grievances in their prime before they come to an irreparable pass IV. The great Grievances which now we all complain of and not a little but much too late are our Clipp'd Silver and Dross-money and our decay of Treasure and Trade together And since four such sad Calamities have befallen this Kingdom in such a time of War let us first enquire into the Causes of them the knowledge of the Cause being the first step to the Care Now the general Cause of so general a Calamity not altogether unlike that of the Jews and Greeks both in Cause and Effect must needs be first our general Degeneracy and our little regard to Religion Grievances Trade and Justice for which there are appointed four principal Committees at the opening of every Sessions of Parliament V. * And here it may be noted that the Dutch c. have of late Years exhausted both Money and Goods from us and have paid us for both but in our own Coin I mean 〈◊〉 Money as they Coined and Clipped for such kind of Commerce A particular and a very considerable Cause of the decay of our Treasure in general I mean of our Money and Manufacture is the Over balance of Trade which the greatest part of the Wiser World have long since gained from us and whereby they have exhausted our Treasure either in Bills Money Bullyon or Goods which as some of them especially have managed the Matter hath been almost equal gain to them and the like loss to us For if for instance we import one Year with another Goods to the value of Three Millions Sterling and do export Goods but to the value of Two Millions the Nation must yearly lose a Million one way or another and will be in the same State and Condition of a Gentlemen that spends Fifteen hundred Pounds a Year out of a Thousand Pounds per Annum if Matters be not remedied In Edward the Third's time the English had the Over-balance of Trade in their favour and that King having prohibited the Exportation of our Wool ordained new Coin for Conveniency c. having the Advantage of War by that Advantage of Trade and having many Voluntiers for Men's Courage sympathize with their Coin as it is base or noble invaded France with a Valiant and Victorious Army and was the first King that Quarter'd the Arms of France with those of England England under Queen Elizabeth had likewise great Advantages in War with Spain c. by means of the Advantage it then also had in Trade as well as it hath by Nature and Situation But in the four latter Reigns which succeeded hers and preceeded his present Majesty's in a slothful and drowsie Peace as my Lord Bacon calls it in his Advancement of Learning the Princes and their People like one another neglecting first the Reformed Religion next the Justice then the Trade and at last the Treasure of the Nation as well as the State of War which Queen Elizabeth left it in did lose in general not only their Courage but so much of their Coin and other Treasure as would non-plus the Arithmetick of Archimedes who undertook to write the number of the Sands to cast up an Account thereof For the most modest Computations do reckon from Matters of the most Infallible Fact that from the First of King James the First to the last of King James the Second this Nation lost one Year with another above Two Millions Sterling by Trading only with two or three other Nations on unequal and disadvantageous Terms And King Charles the Second was made so sensible by Mr. Fortrey and others of the vast Advantage which the French then had of us by our so disadvantageous Trading with them in particular that he promised the Nation a Council of Trade consisting of some of the Principal Merchants of each Company of some of the best qualified Gentlemen in the Kingdom and for the greater Honour thereof some of His Majesties own Privy Council but he promised like a Merchant c. And if One hundred Pounds As Sir
great and yet not so apt to enlarge their Bounds or Command and some on the other hand that have but a small Dimension of Stem and yet are apt to be the Foundation of great Monarchies And in his Considerations touching a War with Spain He saith to King Charles the First then Prince Your Highness hath an imperial Name it was a Charles that brought the Empire first into France a Charles that brought it first into Spain and why should not Great Britain have it's Turn England being by Nature the Emporium of the World is certainly the fittest Seat for the Empire of the Vniverse as well as that of the Ocean which as my Lord Bacon saith Is the principal Dowry of the Kingdom of Great Britain and is of great Import to us because most of the Kingdoms of Europe are not merely in Land but girt with the Sea most part of their Compass and because the Treasures and Wealth of both Indies seems in a great part but an Accessary to the Command of the Sea and what the Command of the Sea is we may see by the Success of the Battle of Lepanto which put a Ring into the Nose of the Turk by that of the Battel of Actium That decided the Empire of the World and by that of our last Sea Fight with the French VII And as we have a Country so fit for the Seat of the Empire so have we a King as fit to be Supream Head and Governour thereof A Man of War from his Touch up and one that is Master of the Four Mistriss and Moral Vertues Prudence Justice Fortitude and Temperance such a one as Solomon seems to have Prophesied of when he told the World That the Power of the Earth was in the hands of the Lord and he would in due time set over it one that is profitable And since we have such a King and such a Goliah to fight our Battels for us in Person a Man after such a Countries own Heart we cannot but sollicite Heaven and all the Host thereof to send him the Success of David and the Hearts of his Friends as well as the Necks of the Enemies For God hath been pleased in great Pity His Grace the late Archbishop of Canterbury 4 Vol. of Serm. p. 78 79. to this sinful and unworthy Nation to raise him on purpose for it and to that End did in his All-wise Providence lay the Foundation of our Deliverance in that Auspicious Match which was concluded here in England This is that most Illustrious House of Nassaw and Orange which God hath so highly honoured above all the Families of the Earth to give a Check to the two great Aspiring Monarchs of the West and bold Attempters upon the Liberty of Europe To the one in the last Age and to the other in the present As if the Princes of this Valiant and Victorious Line had been of the Race of Hercules born to rescue mankind from Oppression and to quel Monsters The House of Nassaw is without Contradiction Lives of the Princes of Orange p. 9. one of the greatest and ancientest in all Germany For besides its high Alliances the number of its Branches and the Honour of giving an Emperor near Four hundred Years since it has this particular Advantage to have continued ten entire Ages and to boast with the State of Venice as a Learned man saith that it's Government is founded upon a Basis of a Thousand years standing No Age of all Antiquity has produced a more extraordinary Man than William of Nassaw Prince of Orange Speaking of the Life of William of Nassaw Prince of Orange Founder of the Common-Wealth of the united Provinces in the Neitherlands p. 1. Examine all the Heroes of Plutarch and all those great Men who lived since that admirable Historian and it 't will be Difficult to find any upon Record who possessed more eminently all those Vertues and good Qualities that enter into the Composition of a brave Man The Victories and Conquest of Allexander and Caesar do not so much deserve our Admiration the first was Master of all Greece and at the Head of a Warlike and well disciplin'd Army the other absolutely Commanded half the Roman Legions who governed all the World With these great Forces and Advantages they enter'd upon the Stage made their first Victories the Forerunners to the next pursued their Blow and the one overthrew the Empire of the Persians and the other the Roman Commonwealth But Prince William had equall'd the Glory of these great Conquerors by Attacking the formidable Power of King Philip of Spain without any Army or Forces and by maintaining himself many Years against him His Courage was always greater than his Misfortunes and when all the World thought him ruin'd and he was driven out of the Netherlands he entred them again immediately at the Head of a new Army and by his great Conduct laid the Foundation of their Common Wealth A Prince the best qualified for a Throne New State of England p. 122 c. Speaking of his present Majesty being great without Pride true to his Word wise in his Deliberations secret in his Councils generous in his Attempts undaunted in Danger Valiant without Cruelty who loves Justice with Moderation Government without Tyranny Religion without Persecution and Devotion without Hypocrisie or Superstition A Prince undaunted under all Events never puffed up with Success or disheartned with Hardships and Misfortunes always the same tho' under various Circumstances which is the true Symptom of a Great Soul This generous Temper of the King is suitable to his Extraction being descended from an ancient and illustrious Family which seems to have been appointed by Providence ever since the Reformation for the Preservation of God's Church and a Check to Tyranny VIII And this Great King and that Country which is so honoured and happy with him calls to my mind Mr. Quarles's Colloquy with his Soul So now Boanerges and St. Barnabas p. 109. my Soul thy Happiness is entail'd and thy Illustrious Name shall live in thy succeeding Generations Thy Dwelling is establish'd in the Fat of all the Land The best of all the Land is thine and thou art planted in the best of Lands A Land whose Constitutions make the best of Government which Government is strengthened with the best of Laws Good Laws but ill executed A Land of Strength and of Plenty A Land whose Beauty hath surprized the ambitious Hearts of Foreign Princes A Land whose native Plenty makes her the World's Exchange supplying others and able to subsist without supply from them That hath no misery but what is propagated from that blindness which cannot see her own Felicity A Land that flows with Milk and Honey and in brief wants nothing to deserve the Title of a Paradise The Curb of Spain the Pride of Germany the Aid of Belgia the Scourge of France the Queen of Nations and the Empetess of the World And being as he
elegantly goes on begirt with Walls whose Bullder was the hand Heaven whereon there daily rides a Navy Royal whose unconquerable Power proclaims her Prince invincible and whispers sad despair into the fainting heart of Foreign Majesty Het Prince might say to us concerning the Empire as Joshua did to the Children of Israel concerning Canaan How long are you slack to go to possess the Land which the Lord God of your Fathers hath given you IX But there are three principal things which in Martial as well as civil Policy are first to be better regarded than they are viz. Religion Trade and Justice By Religion I mean that which so effectually provides for all those advantages to Mankind Dec. of Piet. P. 2. which the wisest of Men's Laws have in vain attempted That Christ came to introduce Religion which consults not only the co-eternal Salvation of Men's Souls Sermon on Luke 9. v. 55 56. but their temporal peace and security their comfort and happiness in this World and as Mr. Fleetwood saith in his Sermon against Clipping if there appears but little Christianity in such a Sermon it will be to such as consider not how great a Part Justice and Honesty and fair and righteous dealing make up of Divine Religion Sir Walter Rawleigh saith In his Rules for preserving the State that The first and principal Rule of Policy is the practice of Religion and the Cardinal de Richlien in his Political Testament calls it the Establishment of the Reign of God By Trade I mean such a free and full manufactured Trade which the Romans by all possible Arts ascended to e'er they ascended to the heighth of Empire whose Steps the French lately endeavoured to follow by all means imaginable and for the self same end and not such a Trade for which this Nation became so renowned as Glaucus is in Homer for changing Armour with Diomedes with such palpable disadvantage that Proverbs came of it And by Justice I mean not summum jus summa Injuria but * the Policy of English Government Prol. to Hist Disc which so far as is praise worthy is all one with Divine Providence Such Justice as honours the Religion and advanceth the Interest and Trade of the Nation that is such Righteous Judgment as God Almighty himself at first commanded Judges and Officers shalt thou make such as shall judge the People with righteous Judgment The summum jus of this Nation is of Humnut and I think of Norman Institution and it is yet known and perhaps may never be forgotten that from the fury of the Normans was added to our Ancestor's Common-Prayer against Plague Pestilence and Famine William the Conquerour Jehu like drove out the Laws of King Edward then in use Bak. Chron. Pag 28. contrary to his Coronation Oath and in their stead brought in the Laws of Normandy commanding them to be written in French as also that all Causes should be pleaded and all matters of Form disputized in French upon a pretence to dignifie the French Tongue but it was with a purpose to intrap Men through the Ignorance of the Language as indeed it did And whereas before P. 29. the Bishop and the Aldermen were the absolute Judges to determine all business in every Shire and the Bishop in many Cases shared in the benefit of the Mulct with the King he confined the Clergy within the Province of their own Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction And whereas the Causes of the Kingdom were before determined in every Shire and by a Law of King Edward in a Conventicle held Monthly in every Hundred he ordained that four times in the Year for certain days the same business should be determin'd in such places as he should appoint And finally he ordained his Council of State his Chancery and his Exchequer X. But Edward III. the most Generous Magnanimous Honourable and Heroick Prince of all his Race and Predecessors having due regard to Religion Grievances Trade and Justice and therein to Martial Policy and Discipline ordain'd and in some Respects contrary to his Interests That no Peter pence should be paid to the Pope of Rome that the Service of God being perfect freedom his People of England might say their Pater-noster without paying the Penny for it That no Wool growing within this Realm should be transported but that it should be made into Cloth in England That the Walloons should be permitted to Live Work and Trade amongst us and be naturalized against the Act. That 〈…〉 which weâ—â— before in French should be made in English that the Cliche might understand the Course of the Law A blessed Act saith my Author and worthy so great a King who if he could thereby render it also perspicuous plain easie and short it would be a Work of Eternal Honour to him and everlasting Interest to the Nation XI But our People being a Rebellious People and undeserving of such excellent Princes as Edward III. Henry V. and Queen Eliz. by the Providence of God took from them as it did from Judah and Jerusalem the Mighty Man the Man of War the Prudent the Elegant Orater the Cunning Artificer the Counsellor and the Judge so that the People were oppressed every one by another and every one by his Neighbour and their Tongues and their doings being against the Lord the Reâ—â—â—â—d of their own hands was given unto them XII Yet still the Providence of God espousing us as it did the Jews or rather as Dr. Soâ—â—â— saith as Socrates espoused Xantippe to exercise his Patience without He hath now sent us a King of Kings who at his first coming to the Imperial Crown of England proposed against his own present and private Interest the Balance of the Trade of this Nation well knowing the nature of this Kingdom for advantageous Commerce and that a good Father of his Country as well as of his Family will be Vendacem and not Emâ—cem as Sir Robert Cotton saith of him And indeed so much and much more were in Civil Opinion and Martial Policy to be expected from such a Puissant Prince whose Godly Generous Noble and Resolute Race especially from William I. to William III. hath been a successful Series of essential Sincerity towards Religion Grievances Trade and Justice XIII His late Princely and Pious Consort now a Queen of Heaven was an enamoured Lover of Religion and Justice to the eternal Honour of her Majestick and Immortal Memory And since she had laid such excellent Designs for both I hope the Omnipotence of God Almighty will see them finished by means of her Royal and most excellent Survivor for his Name sake XIV The Seat of Government is upheld by the Two great Pillar thereof Rawl Remark P. 153. Civil Justice and Martial Policy which were framed out of the Husbandry Merchandise and Gentry of this Kingdom They say that the goodliest Cedars which grow on the high Mountains of Libanus thrust their Roots between the Cliffs of hard Rocks the better