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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29540	A discourse on the late funds of the Million-act, and Bank of England shewing that they are injurious to the nobility and gentry, and ruinous to the trade of the nation : together with proposals for the supplying Their Majesties with money on easy terms, exempting the nobility, gentry &c. from taxes, enlarging their yearly estates, and enriching all the subjects in the kingdom ... / by J.B.	Briscoe, John, fl. 1695.	1694 (1694)	Wing B4745; ESTC R25299	46,507	61

A DISCOURSE ON THE Late FUNDS of the Million-Act Lottery-Act and Bank of England SHEWING That they are Injurious to the Nobility and Gentry and Ruinous to the Trade of the Nation Together with PROPOSALS for the Supplying their Majesties with Money on easy Terms Exempting the Nobility Gentry c. from Taxes Enlarging their Yearly Estates and Enriching all the Subjects in the Kingdom Humbly offered and submitted to the Consideration of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled By J. B. London Printed in the Year MDCXCIV TO THE KING QUEENS Most Excellent Majesties May it please your Majesties THE present Enjoyment of our Religion and Liberty being wholly owing under Heaven to your Majesties and the Preservation of them having engaged your Majesties in an expensive War with the most powerful Enemy to the Religion and Prosperity of this Nation It is become the Duty of every particular Person as well as of the whole Body of the People to contribute his Endeavour for securing and perpetuating those inestimable Blessings This Consideration engaged me upon those Thoughts which I have digested in the following Treatise and now m●st humbly present to your Majesties Wherein I principally aim'd to furnish your Majesties with the Hearts and Purses of your Subjects by proposing such a Method for the Supply of your Majesties that it shall be their very Interest to support your Majesties and the Government whether in Peace or War It is the peculiar Felicity of our Constitution that makes this Design practicable only in England for no People under an Absolute or Arbitrary Government is capable of it and if my Zeal does not blind my Judgment I think I have laid a Foundation for this Nation 's Greatness and Riches which none of our Neighbours are capable of disturbing or arriving to themselves That your Majesties may long enjoy the Fruits of it and the Nation long enjoy the Happiness of your Government is the hearty Prayer of Your Majesties most obedient and most faithful Subject and Servant J. BRISCOE THE PREFACE WE generally suspect that Person to be in a declining Condition who pays extravagant Interest for Money to support his Credit or whose Bills or Notes under his Hand are refused to be discounted by monied Men unless for more than an ordinary Premium or Consideration and it cannot but trouble every true English Man who hath any Esteem for his Country to see the Nation not inferiour in Riches to any in Europe treated like a Bankrupt the Nation 's Bills if I may so call Exchequer Tallies Debenters and Sea-mens Tickets sign'd by their Majesties Commissioners being less esteem'd than a Note under the Hand of an ordinary Tradesman to the no small Diminution of the Honour of the Nation and the great Discouragement of our English Sea-men who hazard their Lives in Defence of their Country and their Majesties are obliged to pay Extortion for almost every thing they buy and none for that Reason will trust the Publick but upon the Prospect of most extravagant Profit and Advantage And if we would enter into the Account of it do not these Losses fall upon the Nation If their Majesties must pay three Millions for what might be bought with ready Money for two Millions must not the Nation pay one Million in three extraordinary out of their Estates more than is necessary for want of taking other and better Measures The War it self must needs be very expensive and ought we not then to exercise all the good Husbandry we can to make the Taxes as easy as may be to the Subject Was there ever so great a Complaint of the Scarcity of Money as now there is It would be endless to show the many Hardships and Pressures which many of the Subjects labour under all which is charg'd to the Account of the Government as if their Majesties were the Occasion of them when the real Causes proceed from our selves as will appear in the ensuing Treatise A most unworthy and disingenuous Requital to their Majesties who have been the Instruments under God to restore our expiring Liberties when we had scarce any thing left of our antient Rights I must confess I do not delight to think of these things but heartily wish all were buried in Oblivion could it be and we not forget who were our Restorers It is therefore my Duty to do their Majesties that Right as to let the Subjects know where a great part of the Money goes which they pay for the Vse of their Majesties and that their Majesties have the least part of it to carry on the War And therefore if any of the Subjects be grieved it is fit they should be acquainted that their Pressures if any are upon them proceed not so much from the Taxes as from other Causes which if not removed will in a few Years ruin the Kingdom I have it 's true declared my Opinion against the Manner of raising Money upon the late Funds I mean of the Million-Act Lottery-Act and Bank of England and I believe when my Arguments are well weighed it will appear not to be without Reason I doubt few have entred into the Account of it but whoever lives but a few Years will find them if some other Methods are not taken to prevent it like a Canker which will eat up the Gentlemens Estates in Land and beggar the Trading Part of the Nation and bring all the Subjects in England to be the monied Mens Vassals Some probably may think I am for destroying the Settlements made on those Funds wherein the Parliament have been pleased to invest the several Contributors with a Property whereas I am not for destroying them but for preventing their destroying others and am content that they continue till Time wears them out so that a Stop be put to the raising more Money after the like manner so pernicious to the whole Nation and therefore I hope none need to be offended if I lay before the Great Council of the Kingdom the many Evils that of Necessity do and will attend the great Encouragements given those who advanced Money on the said Funds which are already too visible nor that it will be look'd upon as a Presumption in me if I humbly propose to their great Judgments other Methods of raising Money for the future so far from being grievous that they will be for the Ease Satisfaction and Advantage of the Subject It is likely that some may wonder that the Parliament should pass the said Acts seeing they ever had a very great Regard to keep up the Value of their Lands and for the sake of which they were pleased to prohibit the importing of Irish Cattel which some are of Opinion was no small Advantage to the trading Part of the Nation whereas if it be well examin'd it will appear that the Encouragement given to Persons to advance Money on the said Funds will be more ruinous to Gentlemens Estates than would have been the bringing in Irish