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soul_n	body_n	call_v	natural_a	3,680	5	6.6307	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54635	Britannia languens: or, A discourse of trade shewing, that the present management of trade in England, is the true reason of the decay of our manufactures, and the late great fall of land-rents; and that the increase of trade, in the method it now stands in, must proportionably decay England. Wherein is particularly demonstrated, that the East-India Company, as now managed, has already near destroyed our trade in those parts, as well as that with Turky, and in short time must necessarily beggar the nation. Humbly offered to the consideration of this present Parliament.	Petyt, William, 1636-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing P1947; ESTC R218978	144,323	343

Country by which the common-people are debauched made impious poor and effeminate all which mischiefs do in union cause the vast increase of new Buildings in and about London for most of the Offices are in London or there to be gotten there is also the ready access to Church-preferment and the best and most easie Imployments for Lawyers Solicitors Scriviners Physitians and such others and the rather because the publick Taxes and Importing-trade drawing the mony up to London it will there be stirring as long as we have any in the Nation whilst the Country is left poorer and barer every day and therefore besides these higher ranks of men the ordinary People who used heretofore to begin upon Farming or Manufacture hearing of mony in London do post from the starving Country and apply themselves to the selling of Ale Brandy Tobacco Coffee Brokery of all sorts letting of Lodgings in or about London and such like Imployments which too commonly end in Bawdery and the Gallows by which there is room made for new Comers and Tenants I have heard it said that Madrid is grown much bigger and more Populous of late years From these and other sorts of People both in City and Country we have more and more Criminals of all the sorts and species mentioned before our Goals are fuller and fuller great numbers of which are yearly executed or transported vast numbers of others have betaken themselves to voluntary exile from this their Native Country in hopes of a better condition rather than to endure certain poverty or persecution for Conscience at home besides those gone into Ireland and the Plantations there are many thousands of Protestants gone from us into the Low Countries into France into Germany and into Poland where being Woollen Manufacturers they have taught and set up this Manufacture and thereby helped to work our ruine These being of the most strong and able part of our People leave their Wives and Children and other impotent and lazy People at home And thus shall a Nation be inevitably dispeopled as well as impoverished by a consumptive Trade Nay it shall hinder the ordinary increase of People by procreation especially in a Nation where venereal sins are become general habitual and shameless for the People being poor or vicious or both dare not or care not to engage in the charge or virtuous Obligations of Marriage unless here and there where a man gets a Catch with a Wise which shall be equal to an Office but will rather use unlawful promiscuous Copulation which breeds no Children but infinite Claps and Poxes to the common weakning of Posterity and present scandal of a Nation thus have our Women also lost their choice of Chapmen for Husbands how many of our most beautiful Women which might have made good and vertuous Wives and brought forth numbers of as beautiful Children are for want of convenient Matches tempted or forced for a little mony to sell their souls to the Devil and their delicate bodies to lust and rottenness nay to the Gallows when proving with Child the remains of their natural modesty will not in their extremities permit them to call Witnesses of their shame whilst the Gallants which beget them go free and glory in their great performance All which mischiefs of a consumptive Trade are yet more fatal because the growing vice and poverty which attends it will generally bring a languor and difficulty on mens understandings as men sink in their Estates their Spirits and Thoughts will be lower and narrower and their Minds clouded with anxieties and cares this with the common disability of making advantages upon Forreigners in the course of Trade leads them into a kind of unhappy Cunning consisting in the over-reaching of one another at home and he will be accounted wise who by any means can shift himself out of the common wants nor will he think his own happiness small especially if his beginnings were low when like one standing on the Sands he can behold the Shipwrack of others SECT IX That a Consumptive Trade must render a Nation still weaker and weaker How far the meer establishment of Absolute Power or meer Liberty and Property may alter the Case FRom what hath been said in the first Section and since it must also follow that a Consumptive Trade must render a Nation still weaker and weaker First because it must still exhaust more and more of the National Riches and sink the value of Mens Estates If the value of private Stocks or Revenues are contracted Men will be less and less able to pay publick Taxes it is impossible for these that have no Money to pay Money or for those that have less to pay as much as those that have more and less Taxes must then also be more grievous than greater were before if a Man having 100 l. per An' or 100 l. Stock sink 40 l. per Cent. of his Revenue or Stock it is equal to any direct Tax of 40 l. per Cent. and then if a Tax or publick Charge of 5 or 10 l. be super-added it is equal to a former Tax of 45 or 50 l. per Cent. It must also disable a Nation to continue the Charge of a War because the quantity of Money diffused amongst the People will sooner be drawn out of the Home-Markets and then they can no longer raise Taxes and when the Taxes fail what hope or dependance can there be in the courage of Officers Soldiers or Sea-men or how shall the continual Supplies of Warlike Provisions of all sorts be purchased at home or abroad There are yet other Concomitants of a growing Poverty which must render any Nation much the weaker viz. discontents uneasiness and heart-burnings which when begun are easily fermented into Convulsions by which a Nation may be disabled to exert even its remaining strength 2. Perfidy and Treachery amongst all sorts needy Men are readily tempted to make a Merchandize of their own Souls and other Mens Lives and Estates and those who will betray one another for Money at home will be equally wrought upon by forreign Money and then may be brought to barter of both Princes and Countries for being once corrupted they must like Women for ever remain slavishly true to the Intrigue lest the Gallant should tell of which Histories give us many sad Examples But in a Nation where the value of Land or Home-Commodities are risen 40 per Cent. he that had 100 l. Revenue or Stock paying 40 l. Tax retains what he had and if the National Treasure be much greater it will support the charge of a War much longer and can hardly ever be totally exhausted where there is a considerable Annual Increase of Treasure by Forreign Trade This exuberance of a National Treasure will also generally support and secure the Spirit and Fidelity of all sorts of Men. It must therefore be of most dangerous consequence to a Nation impoverished by Trade if any other neighbour-Nation hath at the same time grown much richer