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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	henry_n	king_n	write_v	2,731	5	6.3020	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

crafty Trades men soddering up themselves again by a composition or three or four shillings in the pound can tell on which side the loss and hazards do lye And the grand increase of Trade appearing by the Custome house books and the overstocking of Trade by so great numbers applying themselves unto it may declare that there is no defect in our Laws which may deserve such a scandal or needless reformation which will bring upon the people greater mischiefs or inconveniencies then it pretends to prevent or avoid when the loss of money by reason of the failings of securities or the insufficiency of Debtors by the pride and luxury of the times so greatly gone beyond that of former years or ages will appear to be more the cause of it then any the defects in our Laws and that the cry and clamour not unlikely to be designedly raised concerning the loss of debts and increase of suits and actions at Law is more than needs when if it shall as it may be evidenced upon search enquiry that of some thousands of writs and actions made out by our Courts of Justice amongst such a multitude of people and their variety of affairs that there are more then one half of them ended in one Term or two and a very few of the remainder unless for difficulty or by reason of the peevishness of some of the parties do seldome last to the years end and that if all the Commissions of Bankrupts taken out for seven yeares last past and the number of prisoners for debt which have layne a year undischarged in the Prisons of the Kings Bench and the Fleet Marshalsea the two Compiers in London and all the County and other prisons in England were taken it may give all unbyassed men cause and reason enough to believe that there is no such danger or loss in lending of money or getting it in again or that it is the cause of many suits or actions when if there could be any such fear of frauds they may without such mischiefs and inconveniencies better be secured by a short Act of Parliament to ordain all intails deeds of uses and Mortgages to be inrolled in His Majesties high Court of Chancery and that whosoever shall fraudulently Mortgage any land or wittingly conceal any former Mortgage thereof shall incurr the pains and penalties ordained in case of Praemunire or a forfeiture of the double value to the party grieved That Extremities will drive and necessitate men to seek releif and difficulties of Justice or obtaining it make a temptation of giving or taking bribes now put into a new disguise or Periwigg and called gratifications That the bringing down of money to 6 per Cent. hath as frequent Experiences may inform those whose Estates have been sucked into a Consumption by it made too many refuse to lend money without as much brocage as hath amounted unto 8 or 10 per Cent. and taught them to prey and work upon mens necessities by denying to lend money without Rent charges or Annuities which may bring them 12 or 14 per Cent. and hath brought into a kind of trade and improvement of mony that horrid usury and brocage now practised by taking of pawns and loan of money at 60 40 30 or 25 per Cent. which like Locusts and Caterpillers devouring every green thing have almost covered this impoverished Nation And that the hardning of mens hearts by such an inspection into all mens Estates and creating them by that means as many advantages as they please will when people cannot borrow moneys as formerly upon reasonable securities cause an increase of the Trade of Tally men who do now gain a great deal more than Cent. per Cent. by furnishing the Market-women and Heglers and the Cryers in the Streets and other necessitous people with Clothes Houshold-stuff or other necessaries and lending them money at 12 d. a week for every 20 s. That the nature of the Scots much differing from that of the English and the general poverty of that Nation causing the stricter tyes in their Bonds and Obligations and the grand severities used in them may be more agreeable to the Laws and Constitution of that people than the more rich and tender hearted English That the Laws and Customs of Holland and the United Provinces where they have few Gentry little Land many Burgers Towns and Corporations and where the Husband Wife Children and Servants do continually busie themselves in Trade and Merchandize may better endure the Notarial Acts not much used amongst them conveyed unto them by the Civil Law and the Registrings which the 200th penny paid to their States upon the sale of Houses doth in a manner necessitate but cannot amongst a people whose Trade and Stocks are ever busily imployed in their Herring-Busses or are ever sending out or taking in their personal Estates in Money or Goods to or from all the parts of the habitable World admit or give them so clear a Perspective as our men of the Registring Reformation dream of and yet when they are best of all pleased with it they as well as the Spaniards and other transmarine Nations are to confess that they have more Appeals and Staires of Contention to climbe in many of their Suits and Actions than we have in England and are not without as many Actions and Suits proportionably to the small extent of their Dominions and their many little Judicatories That those who alledge that our Laws are undervalued and slighted in the parts beyond the Seas and believed to be defective may well allow us to think well of our own and blame such opinions of Foreigners who censure our Laws when they do not understand the Language they are written in and when our learned Fortescue whose Exile in France in the latter end of the Reign of our King Henry the 6th gave him the opportunity of comparing the excellency of our Laws very much since adorned with an addition of many good Statutes and Acts of Parliament and the defects of the French did write his Book in the praise of ours and the dispraise of theirs That the Decrets of France and ringing out of a Bell in some parts of the United Provinces for a confirmation of Titles and quieting of future Claims do not operate so much or strongly as our Recoveries and Fines with Barres upon Non-claims do with less noise and disparagement And that if it were fit or could be reasonable for the people of England to experiment all those mischiefs and inconveniences which may as certainly as sadly happen to us as it did to the well-wishing Daughters of the aged Pelias who destroyed him against their will by letting out his old blood in their hopes of new yet the Registring Reformers can never arrive to any other end of their Proposals than that of getting Offices and Imployments to ruine or perplex the people When as that which they would undertake will prove to be impossible and unpracticable unless they