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A54691 The pretended perspective-glass, or, Some reasons of many more which might be offered against the pretended registring reformation Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690. 1669 (1669) Wing P2013; ESTC R9264 8,649 18

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The PRETENDED PERSPECTIVE-GLASS Or some REASONS OF Many more which might be Offered Against the pretended REGISTRING REFORMATION LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXIX Some Reasons of many more which might be offered against the pretended Registring Reformation IT cannot be denyed by any who have conversed with the right Reason of Laws and Rules of Government That Innovations are more than a little dangerous because there cannot possibly or probably be at once a certain and clear prospect made of all the evils contingencies and unevitable consequences which either will or may happen by it And therefore have adjudged it to be more conducing to the Weal-publick rather to suffer some few or seldom mischiefs not fatal than many Inconveniences Which will not be escaped in such a Renverse or Plowing up of all or the greatest part of the Estates and Credit of the Kingdom and the product of so many sad effects as will attend it And may not be thought to be either a Probleme or Paradox in a Nation harrowed and torn by War and Confusions If it shall be considered That at the end thereof all the Coyn which wore the Harp and Cross being a moiety if not more than the legitimate money of King Philip Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles the Martyr amounted unto did not with much of it which was counterfeited when it was called into the Mint by his now Majesty exceed Two Millions Sterling and an half and that too much of that money and other afterwards Coyned hath been transported melted down into Plate or fooled away by the Consumption of our Gold and Silver to adorn those that should not wear it and that the people of England for above 18. years Civil Wars Plunderings Sequestrations and Free-quarter of Armies and Souldiers and above 20. years very great and various Taxes are so universally indebted as it may rationally be believed that the most part of them live more upon Credit than any certain or real Estate or Subsistence of their own that much of the Lands of England if it should be sold will scarcely pay the Debts which might be charged upon the Owners thereof and that a great part of the City of London now so stately Re-built hath been brought to that perfection by Credit and Money borrowed which would not otherwise have been effected That our Nobility and Gentry the most of which made their Loyalty to their King and their love to the Religion Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom to be their ruine and impoverishment will now by such a Registration be turned out of that Credit which was left to support their feeble and languishing Estates That our Merchants whose Trades have brought Riches and Plenty into their Habitations and to be Inmates and dwell with them are for the most part three parts in four in Credit and an opinion of a greater Estate than they can justly call their own And the Retailers and now more than formerly lofty Shop-keepers who have owed their low beginings to a small Stock and a great deal of Credit and gain so well by it as to afford to give 15 per Cent. to any that will adventure a joynt Trade with them will when they shall be exposed to the jealous eyes of the nice over-timerous and suspicious Usurers or Money-lenders be turned out of all their expectations and made to submit to the devouring and unmercifull Fangs of a Statute of Bankrupt or give over their Trade and be better acquainted with humility The Country Farmers when Corn or Cattel shall in their rates or prices fall short of their hopes to pay their Land-lords Rents shall not now be able to borrow money to pay them if their small Stock or Estates shall not be sufficient to endure the severity of a Tell-tale Registration All Trust and Credit and the Faith Charity and Love of Mankind one to another whereby so many Families have had their rise and foundation and more have gained good imployments will be so enervated and weakned as men shall be affraid of that which they needed not to have troubled themselves withall and make them to be like crafty Banyans and hard hearted Jews each to other The Merchants whose care of keeping their Credits returning Moneys and answeriug Bills of Exchange makes them dread a protest of Non-payment like some Plague or mortal sickness and whose punctual performances makes every day but Sundayes in every year many a score if not hundreds of Bargains for great sums of money and concernments without any Writing Escript or Scrole as the vulgar call it will now have such an Anatomy-Lecture read upon their growing more than certain Estates as all men will not easily or without much search have any thing to do with them All Foreign Merchants will be by such a Registration affrighted and deterred from trafficking with our Merchants without ready money the want whereof hath already by the cunning of the Banks beyond the Sea who are made to rise and fall according to the scarcity or plenty of money put them under great disadvantages in the buying or selling of their Commodities The Dutch and other Nations whose low Interest heretofore brought into England some Millions of Sterling money to put to a more gainfull Usury will by such a Registration not adventure to bring over any more Foreign Princes which are or may be in Hostility with us may by such a means or direction discover the weaknesse of the Nation in their want of money either to offend others or defend themselves Such a Contrivance will lay open and discover the beggery and wents of the People be inconsistent with the humanity and mercy of the God of mercy and Justice who commanded us not to afflict bite or devour one another nor to go into any mans house to fetch a Pledge whereby to disgrace him and will as little agree with our Magna Charta and the Salvo Contenemento of the Gentleman Waynagio of the Country-man or Mercandisa of the Merchant or the mercy and pity of our Laws in extending but a moiety of Lands upon a Judgement and sparing as long as possible the Oxen and Horses of the plow That the Romans when their people mutined and refused to go to War in regard of the oppression of Usury did not offer them such an ill compounded remedy as the intended Registration to publish and lay open their poverty and thereby adde to their misery but did order that no Creditor should take any Interest for certain years then to come Nor did the Scotch after their wars mingled with their own and our factions had greatly impoverished them deeme it to be any good for their people to have the fury of their Registrate Bonds and Horning and Caption let loose upon them but locked up those severities and disgraces by ordaining that no Annual Rent or Interest as they there call it should for certain Years after be demanded or taken That such a device as the Registration