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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39787	Two discourses concerning the affairs of Scotland, written in the year 1698	Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716.	1698 (1698)	Wing F1298; ESTC R6685	36,673	107

stocks in Trade or Husbandry and much more that those who are absent upon a publick account should be obliged to have any stock imploy'd that way since they cannot inspect either The small possessors by this Project are not wrong'd in any thing for if they are obliged to pay a Rent to others they receive the value of it And this Rent will put them in mind not to live after the manner of men of great Estates but as Husbandmen which will be no way derogatory to their Quality however antient their Family may be The method to put this Project in execution is first to enact That Interest for Mony should fall next year from six per Cent. to five and so on falling every year one per Cent. till it cease And to make a Law that all those who at present possess Lands under the value of 200 pounds Sterling clear profits yearly should cultivate them by Servants and sell the half of the clear profits at twenty years purchase to the first Minor woman unmarried or person absent upon a publick account who should offer Mony for them and in default of such persons presenting themselves to buy they should be obliged to sell such Rents to any other persons qualified as above and likewise to make another Law that whoever possesses Lands at present to the value of 200 l. Sterling clear profits yearly or more should at least take so much of them as may amount to that value into their own hands This being done the yearly falling of the Interest of Mony would force some of those who might have Mony at Interest to take Land for it Others calling for their Mony would buy estates of the landed men who are to sell all except so much as they cultivate themselves and the prohibition of Interest producing many small possessors would afford abundance of Rents upon Land to be bought by rich men of which many might probably be paid out of those very Lands they themselves formerly possessed So that all sorts of men would in a little time fall into that easy method for their Affairs which is proposed by the Project What the half of the yearly clear profits of any small Possessors may be the usual valuation of Lands in order to publick Taxes which because of improvements must be frequently made will ascertain But it will be said that before any such thing can every where take place in this Nation all Teinds or Tithes and all sorts of Superiorities must be transacted for and sold that the Tenures of all Lands must be made allodial to the end that every man may be upon an equal foot with another that this Project in order to its execution dos suppose things which tho perhaps they would be great blessings to the Nation upon many accounts and in particular by taking away the Seeds of most Law-suits and the obstructions to all sorts of Improvements yet are in themselves as great and considerable as the Project it self Indeed I must acknowledg that any thing calculated for a good end is since we must express it so almost always clogged with things of the same nature For as all bad so all good things are chained together and do support one another But that there is any difficulty to a Legislative Power that is willing to do good of putting either this Project or the things last named in execution I believe no man can show Sure I am that it never was nor can be the interest of any Prince or Commonwealth that any subject should in any manner depend upon another subject And that it is the Interest of all good Governments at least to encourage a good sort of Husbandry I know these Proposals by some men who aim at nothing but private Interest will be looked upon as visionary it is enough for me that in themselves and with regard to the nature of the things they are practicable but if on account of the indisposition of such men to receive them they be thought impracticable it is not to be accounted strange since if that indisposition ought only to be considered every thing directed to a good end is such Many other Proposals might be made to the Parliament for the good of this Nation where every thing is so much amiss and the publick Good so little regarded Amongst other things to remove the present Seat of the Government might deserve their consideration For as the happy situation of London has bin the principal cause of the Glory and Riches of England so the bad situation of Edinburgh has bin one great occasion of the poverty and uncleanliness in which the greater part of the people of Scotland live A Proposal likewise for the better education of our Youth would be very necessary and I must confess I know no part of the world where education is upon any tolerable foot But perhaps I have presumed too much in offering my opinion upon such considerable matters as those which I have treated Since I finished the preceding Discourses I am informed that if the present Parliament will not comply with the design of continuing the Army they shall immediately be dissolved and a new one called At least those of the Presbyterian perswasion who expect no good from a new Parliament are to be frighted with the Dissolution of the present which has established their Church-government and by that means induced to use their utmost endeavours with the Members for keeping up the Army and promoting the designs of ill men But I hope no Presbyterian will ever be for evil things that good may come of them since thereby they may draw a curse upon themselves instead of a blessing They will certainly consider that the interest which they ought to embrace as well upon the account of prudence as of justice and duty is that of their Country and will not hearken to the insinuations of ill men who may abuse them and when they have obtained the continuation of the Army endeavour to perswade his Majesty and the Parliament to alter the present Government of the Church by telling them that Presbyterian Government is in its nature opposite to Monarchy that they maintain a rebellious principle of defensive Arms and that a Church Government more sutable and subservient to Monarchy ought to be established Now if at this time the Presbyterians be true to the Interest of their Country all those who love their Country tho they be not of that perswasion will stand by them in future Parliaments when they shall see that they oppose all things tending to Arbitrary Power But if they abandon and betray their Country they will fall unpitied They must not tell me that their Church can never fall since it is the true Church of God If it be the true Church of God it needs no crooked Arts to support it But I hope they will not deny that it may fall under persecution which they will deserve if they go along with the least ill thing to maintain it FINIS