Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	kingdom_n	majesty_n	5,039	5	6.1083	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57437	Englands safety in trades encrease most humbly presented to the high court of Parliament / by Henry Robinson ...	Robinson, Henry, 1605?-1664?	1641 (1641)	Wing R1671; ESTC R10720	51,162	64

much more for the good government and husbanding their estates a thing not dishonourable for any to bee well vers'd in his owne businesse which caused the Italian proverb Mais ' imbratta le mani confari fatti sua A man never foules h●s hands with doing his owne businesse and everie one whether he will or no is a Merchant for what he buyes or sels be it lands houses or whatsoever else and more gentile it is to sell Cloth Silk Sattins Iewels c. as meere Merchants doe than Cattell Hay Hides Wooll Butter C●eese as Countrey Gentlemen and others of best note and worth And besides it may be observed that Merchants for most part are of the same stock and Familie for Gentry though the younger branch and many perhaps wanti●g means to blazon it in due equipage and colors to the world became in a short time very unable to give any account of it at all which disasters many younger brothers of England have been subject to till advancing by Merchandizing their estate and fortunes above the elder brothers the H●raids made them beholding to them for their own birthright if as in Italy especially the States of Florence Sienna Pisa Genua and Lucca where they continue Merchants from one generation to an other we should do the like in England the greatest part of the whole Kingdome and riches would quickly belong to Merchants and although by this course the feate of Merchandizing would questionlesse be much improved by long experimented observations conve●d unto posterity from Father to Son successively which would not onely enable them to deale and better countermine the craft and subtilties of forraign Nations but hinder in a great part such often failings and bankrupts yet since as I conceive the greatest cause which makes many noble families in Italy so to continue Merch●nts is that countries being so populous abounding with monies little land to purchase neere one halfe of the whole Territory belonging to Monasteries Covents and other Ecclesiasticall Fraternities which may in no wise be alienated so I conceive it more laudable and agreeing to make a flourishing Kingdome and Common-wealth for a Merchant being blessed with a competent estate to retire himselfe from the cares and troubles of the world which certainely a Merchant of great dealings is of all others most subject to the better to spend the remainder of his dayes in thankfulnesse to that God who even then had an eye over him when perhaps little thought on undoubtedly not so much as should have bin as also that young Merchants I meane younger brothers or such as have little or no meanes may come forward which cannot possibly be if the whole trade bee engrossed onely by men of wealth and their posteritie And now having run over these particulars which prove more then I expected and somewhat further prosecuted then I at first intended though not well to bee omitted in regard they may for this cause oppresse the memorie give me leave to adde those fewe words as it were for burthen of the whole That unlesse the fishing imployment and East India traffique be followed and enlarged other Nations will gaine upon us our trade infallibly decline daily and the whole State with the same speede and paces post on to poverty and utter ruine Thus then though I knew well sundry had writ more largely and worthily of this subject yet was I moved to give a touch in briefe as you have se●ne perswading my selfe though there were nothing newe herein which yet cannot be justly sayd by what I ever met with either in manuscript or Print some fewe might turne it over beeing short that could nor would not bee troubled with a volume and hereby be prevailed upon to move this High Assembly for imploying some du● proportion of their grave wisedome in consultation establishing and enlarging trade which next to the businesse of Religion and our Lawes well hoped to be by them both religiously legally provided for may perh●ps justly claime the third place whereby not onely the Kings revenues will bee encreased but in time his Majestie come to need no other revenues nor the Kingdome other securitie or Bulwarke Here I would have put a period but perceiving there are many well acquainted with these affaires who attribute the decay of trade to the overballancing of it and the Merchandizing exchange give me leave to passe a word thereon By overballancing of trade is meant that wee bring into and consume in England forraigne commodities for a greater valow then we send and sell of our Native Commodities abroad by which means we come indebted to forrain Nations and have no other way to pay or exting●ish it but by transporting of our moneys which will utterly ruine a trade and Kingdome in the end For answere whereunto it may bee said that though greater quantities of forrain wares toe be brought in then we send out of Native yet it doth not follow necessari●y that our gold and silver must goe to pay for them in regard that Italian Spania●d French and Dutch doe many times freight English ships whereby good soms of money are yearely raised by our Nation abroad and may serve to pay for the advance of forrain commodities that we● bring in at least for such a proportion as this fraight money impo●ts which is to a consisiderable vallew But for my part though in this point I have not declared my selfe throughout this short d●scourse my opinion is that our trade of Native commodities is not overballanced by the forraigne nor gold and silver conveyed out unlesse first b●ought in in so large manner as is supposed for there being no Mines in England that produce any store and wee having likely at present though conceald as much ready money as ever at lest before our intestine broyles dispers'd th●m and never more riches in plate if a●y coyne either gold or silver hath beene carried out as questionlesse there hath being to be seene apparantly both in France and the Low Countries yet that silver and gold was first brought into England for it growes not here and then though some proportion be exported yet if a greater bee first imported which hath certtainly beene so for otherwise we should have none at all left by this time the ri●hes of the Common-wealth will not decline though they might flou●ish more if the exportation could totally bee hindred and howsoever this will be found a taske most difficult yet it is the course which we are likeliest to prevaile with For since the Chaos and whole body of trade is not managed joyntly but by the particular Merchants and members of it one whereof sends out native Commodities and brings his returnes home in Bullion or by Exchange another brings in forraine commodities making over monies by Exchange to pay for them and a third exports native commodities and imports forraine too if when there should be a ballance made hereof and our importation of wares found to exceed