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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57113	The true English interest, or, An account of the chief national improvements in some political observations, demonstrating an infallible advance of this nation to infinite wealth and greatness, trade and populacy, with imployment and preferment for all persons / by Carew Reynel, Esq.	Reynell, Carew, 1636-1690.	1674 (1674)	Wing R1215; ESTC R36784	29,224	118

exacter Method and that there may be one Book that may be composed in each Art and Science that may be absolute and compleat in its kind and those to be written and compiled by men selected for that purpose that are very eminent in such Arts and Sciences that they who have a desire to Knowledge should be able presently to resort to the choicest Book and improvement in any Art or Science And come to knowledge and perfection in study with much less reading and trouble than now Learning might be so reduced that all Knowledge at large might be well bought for three hundred pounds or less which now ten thousand will not purchase And for a contracted Receptory of all Knowledge it were good there were an Enciclopedia or Body of all the Arts and Sciences in two or three Volumes in the Mother Tongue Alstedius hath done very ingeniously in this kind in the Latin but yet is capable of much Improvement and a Book of this nature would be most rare and excellent and if it were exactly performed would give to mankind as much knowledge as were necessary Also store of Libraries in great Cities are very useful they are as good almost as so many Academies for where there is a great concourse of People there are many of extraordinary parts who yet have not abilities to compass a stock of Books which if they had a freedom of access to would of themselves arrive to great knowledge and perfection Much more might be said of this Subject but I refer that to my Discourse of Advancement of Learning 28. Laws and easing of Debtors CAre ought to be had that the property liberty and advantage of the Subject be the especial grounds of Laws and such Laws extreamly promoted that make for a general good and profit to the Publick As for establishing unity in a Nation encouraging Trade giving employment to the People and encreasing populacy and settling Estates the Registers Office to be Erected might be beneficial if well managed And if Usury were abated it would promote Trade advance Lands make men abler to give security encrease common Charity and generally make men more Industrious Taking of Arrests on mens persons would also be beneficial to the Nation And if all Debts under fifty pounds were ended in the Parish where the Debt was by the chief of the Parishoners it were very well And all Debts under a hundred pound were concluded by three the next Justices of Peace it would prove of good consequence Also care ought to be had that men should not be Imprisoned at all for small Debts nor long for any Debt mens persons being not an equal pawn for so vile a thing as Money And for great Debts if the Law and Goods would not satisfie the person should be free for by Imprisoning he is undone that should maintain his Family then all come to beggery So the Nation is prejudiced by the malice of ill Creditors And if men are more in Debt than they are worth they should yet have some small matter as a fourth part unto themselves and Family uncapable to be seized on otherwise the Common-wealth suffers more by the absolute undoing of a man than is countervail'd by so exact Justice besides Religion and the Laws of nature bind us to more Charity and the Creditor that Imprisons and undoeth a man ought to maintain him and his Family if not the Law ought to take care he may without being beholding to the Creditor for 't is better a Rich Creditor should lose something than a Poor Subject be lost or rot in a Prison Also it would be a great advantage to the Publick and Trade one with another and Foreign parts also if Bills of Credit were made to be good in Law and answer Debts which should without ready Money maintain and advance Trade infinitely for these Bills would pass current as well as Money and save also very much the telling and luggage of carrying Money up and down and hinder the loss received by bad or clipt Coin and manage a vast Trade with the tenth part of the Silver now used which would make Money abound every where for the Common uses and the ordinary conveniences of life Many excellent improvements might be made by several new Laws Also how many old Laws are there that bar us of our advantage and how can we expect to thrive till such be repealed We complain of ill rents of Lands and yet barr that which would advance them as planting Tobacco and bringing down the Interest of Money We complain of want of vent for our Commodities and forbid Foreigners ●o Export them but in our own bottoms who will sooner do it than our own and to more advantage to ●s We complain of want of Trade and Manufacturing People and forbid them setting up Trades that have not ●een Apprentice to it Seven years ●pon which account of late many Cloathiers and Serge dealers would ●ave been put down had not the fa●our of the Judges eased them a lit●le for the present Again none can ●e free of Corporations without they have served seven years in the Corporation And also there is a Law to forbid any man to build a House that hath not four Acres of Ground belonging to it And many more old Laws there are that hinder our welfare and improvement and how is it possible for us to thrive if the Laws forbid us 29. Of Navigation and Sea Affairs NAvigation and Sea affairs might be much advanced by having publick Schools of Geography and Navigation and such there may be Erected whereby Youth may be taught in a twelve-months time to conduct a Ship at Sea as if they had been Masters and Pilates many years so that when they come to Sea they are Masters of their Ships at first sight and then their chief business will be to advance the Art of Navigation by continual experience instead of spending their times in common Notions of which they are already sufficiently stored The finding out the Longitudes and making Salt water fresh are two great secrets now in search after and there is great hopes of them which if performed will be very publick advantages so would also Post Ships to Sail with all Winds swiftly which some imagine feazible 30. Of new Inventions and Discoveries THere have been of late many Inventions Improvements and Discoveries very praise worthy the Discovery of Magellan Streights more than ever by Captain Norbury and Hudsons Bay with the Beaver Trade there by Captain Guillam Captain Goosberry and others by his Majesties encouragement also settling of the Guiny Company and the settling of New York by the Duke and Carolina by the Proprietors the discovery of the Isthmus of Panama by the Jamaica men the making of fine China brought in by Prince Rupert the making of fine Glass beyond Venice brought in by the Duke of Buckingham the polishing Glass in the nealing without grinding and the way of cementing Glasses by Mr. Reeves the polishing

five times the Revenue he hath brought yearly to him from the West-Indies when he pleases besides the vast Trade which would ensue by it to all his Subjects However there might be waies found out that no Taxes might ever be laid on the substantial part of the Nation Country or City Land or Houses but only on the Vices of the people as in all Taverns Ale-houses Foreign needless Commodities and on debauched persons and also double Customs on all such Goods brought over that we might make here as Silks Linen Tapistry Lace Gloves Ribands Paper and many things more Also whereas persons design'd to live singly alwaies are debauch'd themselves and great corrupters of others besides by avoiding Marriage they partake not of the common troubles and charges of the Publick as others do but shift themselves and live scandalously spending their Estates idlely It were well that no single person were capable of Preferment and that all persons who Married not at twenty five years old should pay the tenth part of their Estates to his Majesty for they might better spare it than any body For it Engratiates his Majesty extr●amly in the hearts of his People and the generality and sober part of the Nation to be eased from Taxes and all oppressions which ought to be properly the Penalty of Vicious persons which if all things of this nature were discovered would raise a greater Revenue than ever yet hath been known And this done without grievance to the Nation but benefit And nothing advances the King of England more than to be esteemed the Champion and vindicator of the Protestant Religion throughout Christendom and to ballance those Princes that shall seek to disturb them And let this Nation be a Sanctuary for them from all parts so should his Majestie be truly great in himself and in the eyes of all the World and nothing could he desire to be done but would be effected so also should we be silled with Trading and Mercantile people throughout all Europe For it is observed that where the Protestants are countenanced there all manner of Trade and improvement follow more than in other places as well as advancement in Reason and Philosophy Being a rational and industrious people not having their Souls or mannes inslam'd to superstitious Principles which makes them hold to all ingenious prosecutions but having their minds free and ready to embrace any improvement learning or Trade And if his Majesty desires to advance his Empire it is but granting more priviledge to Trade and security to mens persons and properties from Arbitrary power and controul then his fellow Princes and he shall not fail to draw to him all the Hands Hearts and Purses of the neighbouring Nations 26. Of publick maintenance and provision of Charity THere is a great deficient in the Nation which is Employment and aid for young Gentry that have not been bred up in the University or cannot get Preferment thence yet are Learned or Industrious though of small Fortune and again a subsistance for decay'd and meriting men of elder age Also a maintenance for decay'd and sick Souldiery and Seamen likewise a provision for Ingenious Manufacturing men so should Ingenuity be encouraged and complaints of poverty and discontent be taken away from the midst of us And for a way to raise these four Colledges for each of the aforementioned degrees might be founded of five thousand pound per annum Revenue a piece and two hundred persons in each Colledge which would be but twenty thousand pounds a year in all a rent which some one vain person oftentimes confounds in debauchery And yet this would give a small subsistency of Lodging and twenty pound five per annum to eight hundred persons in the four Colledges and as they die others to be chosen in their rooms To effect this a Forest or two only inclosed and well Tenanted to the best advantage would suffice which were a noble enterprise for the generosity of doing good is beyond all other actions nay there is one Foundation which would by relation largely answer all these ends if it were looked into and that is St. Katherines Hospitals in the Tower whose Revenue is said to be above twenty thousand pounds per annum Also there is another near the Bath of above a thousand a year and now turns to no account for the publick considerable And many more doubtless might be found out in the Nation if inspected that are not Alienated but only wrongly executed or lie dormant The advantage of a Nation is to have many Preferments for industrious and necessitous persons though but of an indifferent maintenance for too much many times prejudices people but a moderation comforts and doth much good and 't is pity there is not some way found out that all persons in any calamities may have some comfortable relief And it were well if the Parliament would take this so necessary a thing into consideration what were one Tax of three or four hundred thousand pounds for so great a work as this if it could be done no other way to give Preferments to all sorts of Gentlemen and Scholars According to their better Education and Employment for the meaner sort by planting them in Colledges of Art and Manufactories that there might not be any but may live well one way or other Certainly to so great and good a work all people would joyfully contribute 27. Learning KNowledge in a Nation makes a wise and sober People as well as wealthy and ingenious and apt for every good thing therefore Ignorance ought to be destroy'd all manner of waies and Learning encouraged To which purpose it were well that the Arts and Sciences were taught in the Mother Tongue and all manner of Books of use and Learning in any other Language Translated into our own and that there were a publick maintenance for Professors and Scholars that should teach the Sciences in the Mother Tongue and Accademies erected for that purpose so should youth quickly improve in Knowledge and men be fuller of wisdom then at twenty than now they are at forty yeares of age Not that I would have the Languages neglected but all may learn those as before But that the English Tongue may be promoted and made excellent general and useful in all manner of Knowledge And young Gentlemen that have a mind to it may attend the Sciences without so much trouble and cracking their brains so many years about Learning the Languages This would make the generality of the Nation more Wise Learned and useful one to another both to themselves and Country and our Language would be popular and esteemed in all places For the desire of retaining Languages is only for the Learning contain'd in them which if disclosed without them their extraordinary use ceaseth It were an excellent advantage also to all persons especially Scholars and Students that the Arts and Sciences and all manner of the best Knowledge were reduced into a narrower room and