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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43823	The prevention of poverty, or, A discourse of the causes of the decay of trade, fall of lands, and want of money throughout the nation with certain expedients for remedying the same, and bringing this kingdom to an eminent degree of riches and prosperity ... / by R.H.	Haines, Richard, 1633-1685.	1674 (1674)	Wing H203; ESTC R3538	14,848	30

THE PREVENTION OF POVERTY OR A Discourse of the Causes of the Decay of Trade Fall of Lands and Want of Money throughout the Nation with certain Expedients for remedying the same and bringing this Kingdom to an eminent degree of Riches and Prosperity BY Saving many Hundred Thousand Pounds yearly Raising a full Trade and constant Imployment for all sorts of People and increasing His MAJESTIES Revenue by a Method no way burthensome but advantagious to the Subject By R. H. The Rich mans wealth is his strong City the destruction of the Poor is their poverty Prov. 10. 15. LONDON Printed for Nathaniel Brooke at the sign of the Angel in Cornhill near the Royal-Exchange M. DC LXX IV. TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE RUPERT DUKE of CVMBERLAND EARLE of HOLDERNESSE and KNIGHT of the Most NOBLE ORDER of the GARTER and one of His MAJESTIES MOST HONOVRABLE PRIVY COVNCIL c. May it please Your HIGHNESS THE Consideration of my own Unworthiness and obscure Condition would easily check my Thoughts from the Presumption of troubling your Illustrious Eye with these mean Lines did not Your Princely Clemency and the nature of the thing make such Address in some respect necessary For since 't is Eminently known that Your Highness hath not onely by most excellent Conduct and personal Hazards in War given Matchless Proofs of Your great zeal for the Safety and Glory of the English Nation but also by the prudence of Your Counsels endeavoured ever to promote its Welfare by discovering and cherishing useful Arts and profitable Inventions and incouraging all things that tend to its Honour Wealth and Prosperity though tendred by the lowest and never so despicable Instruments for which publick-spirited Generosity Your Highness justly merits much more Honour and Applause than my weak Capacity is able to express Whether then should these unpolish'd Papers wherein I have with more Affection than Encouragement endeavoured to propose some Expedients tending to this Kingdoms future happiness fly for shelter in this slothful envious Age wherein many that will never study any thing for general Good themselves are too ready to crush abuse and misrepresent those that do but to Your Highnesses Protection who are Ennobled with the clearest Judgment to Censure and the most obliging Candor to pardon them At Your Highness's feet I therefore cast them with all humble submission and if in any part they shall obtain the Honour of your Princely Approbation and be thought fit to be Encouraged in the least as conducing to general Good I shall not afterwards fear the Censures of Envy but sit down secure in the Conscience of having endeavour'd to be serviceable to my weak power to my Countrey and the happiness I have hereby to declare my self YOVR HIGHNESS's Most Humble and most Obedient Servant RICHARD HAINES The prevention of Poverty OR A Discourse of the Causes of the Decay of Trade Fall of Lands and Want of Money throughout the Nation with certain Expedients for remedying the same SO general and loud for diverse years past have been the complaints for want of Trade and Money throughout this Nation and so pressing are the Necessities of most men that there is scarce any person can be insensible of it And this is not only in time of War though then more especially but also in time of Peace when the Seas were open and we might promise our selves the largest share of Prosperity Whence 't is evident that the Causes are not wholly Outward or Accidental but rather Internal and as it were in our own Bowels which consume us and have reduced us to such a low Ebb that a general Poverty seems to have invaded the whole Nation Leases being continually thrown up in the Countrey and Tradesmen daily Breaking in the City In brief all conditions of men seem to have chang'd their stations and sunk below themselves the Gentry by reason of the fall of their Lands and uncertainty of Rents being brought to live at the rate of a Yeoman the Yeoman can scarce maintain himself so well as an ordinary Farmer heretofore the Farmer is forced to live as hard as a poor Labourer anciently and Labourers generally if they have Families are ready to run a begging the Poverty of most Parishes being such that they can hardly supply or relieve them The consideration whereof and that no man is born for himself but ought to do what in him lies to promote the publick Good and general Welfare of his Countrey has invited me though uncapable and not sufficiently qualified to do any considerable Service yet however to testifie my well-wishes and throw in my mite into the publick Treasury by endeavouring some Expedients for raising the Trade of the Nation and advancing the temporal prosperity of all its Inhabitants In order whereunto I first applied my self to find out the Causes of such National Poverty which like an armed Enemy hath threatned to invade the whole Kingdom Secondly to discover a Remedy if possible that might not only subdue this potent Adversary but also introduce and maintain a constant stock of Trade and plenty of Money and so consequently Riches and Honour both to King and Kingdom and Prosperity to all Estates whatsoever I do humbly conceive that the General Causes of Poverty unless it be purposed by the Lord by reason of Iniquity are First the daily Decrease of Goods and Commodities of our own Growth fit for Exportation Secondly the double Increase of Forreign costly Goods and Commodities brought over more and more from beyond the Seas viz. Iron Timber Brandy French-wines Linnen-Cloth and other French Commodities and also Mum Coffee Chocolet Salt Salt-petre with many more All which Expensive Commodities have been brought into General Use and Imported in this Nation within the space of Forty years last past or little more Linnen-Cloth and Wine only excepted The value of these Commodities Imported cannot but amount to a vast Summe we may modestly though at rovers guess it Twenty or Thirty Hundred Thousand Pounds every year which mighty Sums of Money thirty or forty years ago were for the greatest part kept at home Now easily observable it is that ever since such prodigious Increase of new Imported Goods our own most great and richest Manufactories have decreased and the Manufactors become impoverished especially in those of Woollen Cloth and Iron and forasmuch as no Commodities answerable have been raised in their stead equally to ballance what we have therein lost of our own Growth and Production It remains then that of necessity those vast Sums of Money aforesaid must every year go out of the Nation to make the Ballance of Trade even and this for the greatest part in ready Coin as may I conceive evidently be demonstrated Thus if Money were not transported then our own Manufactories which are much diminished and become far less than what they were thirty or forty years ago would now find quick Markets and yeild good Prizes to the great incouragement of the Manufactors

but the contrary is notorious wherefore I conclude that according to the present course Money every year must unavoidably decrease amongst us to the great impoverishing of the whole Nation Obj. If it be alledged that I mistake the Cause of this National Consumption and that the great Taxes and many Impositions laid upon the Nation obliging us to part with so much Money for his Majesties uses ought to be assigned as the grand Cause of this great scarcity of Money Sol. I humbly Answer that this cannot be the Cause for this Reason because what Moneys are given by the Representatives of the Nation to his Majesty are but like the Moistures drawn up by the Beams of the Sun from the Earth which soon return down again in showers to refresh the Ground or like the Blood in its Circulation for what is carried out of the Countrey goes but into the City and is there expended again and forasmuch as it goes not beyond the Seas soon returns again So that in the Nation there is not one Groat the less to be bestowed on what the Farmer or any others have to spare wherefore and for that the Publick Coffers do not hoard or keep up any extraordinary Sums I humbly hope I may conclude That this is not the proper Cause why the Nation is so empty of Money and that general want of this necessary thing which beneath Grace and Glory and what is conducing thereunto is most to be desired But doubtless it is the many Hundred thousnd Pounds which our bad Husbandry and ill Conduct sends every year beyond the Seas which we see again no more this is the grand Cause of our Miseries wasting thus our noblest spirits that hath brought the Body Politick into this pining Consumption and makes us so loudly complain of bad Trade and empty Pockets and that the Nation is become thus indigent and discontented But alas what advantage is it only to complain Diseases are not cured with Out-cries but rather increased let us then wipe our Eyes and make use of our Heads and our Hands to get out of this quagmire of Necessity wherein we are unhappily plunged Too true it is that we are very poor and as I conceive 't is no less plain that the reason of it is the necessity of parting every year with vast Sums of Money to make the Ballance of Trade even because we Import much more than we Export and therefore I humbly apprehend the best means to prevent this growing Evil must be First to raise new Manufactures whereby to improve what doth or may arise of our own English Growth by which means our Lands may some other way be imployed besides that of Corn and Cattle And secondly to shut the door of Importation against those new imported Goods especially such as are superfluous and injurious to the well-being of the Kingdom Thus the first Manufacture to be prohibited that may be made of our own Growth and most advantageous to the general Good and Profit of perfons of all Estates is Linnen Cloth for it is most certain that our English Ground will produce Hemp and Flax in such abundance as may make Linnen-Cloth susicient for all occasions whence feverall great Conveniences of much advantage to the Publick will arise As First it will improve the Lands which are proper for Hemp and Flax to that degree that what before was worth but twenty shillings per Acre for Corn or Pasture by this means will be worth forty or fifty sillings the. Acre per annum Secondly great numbers of poor Families who have little to do from the beginning of the Year to the end there of unless some few of them in the Countrey in time of Harvest might hereby most profitably be set to work constantly by raising a continual stock of Imployment not only for Men but alfo Women Boyes Girles that can do little thing besides it whereas for want thereof most of them now are trained up in Idleness and live by the labours of others whose number by computation after the rate of threescore in each Parish throughout the Kingdom doth amount unto five Hundred and Eighty Thousand people and upwards Thirdly by this means every Parish which by reason of Poverty is not able to set up a Manufactory for the imployment of their Poor in making of Wolen Cloth according to the Statute in that case made and provided may easily provide Imployment for them in making of Linnen whereby many thousands that now wholly rely on the Parish wherein they live for maintenance might very well support themselves Fourthly some thousands of wandring persons that go from door to door to the great dishonour disadvantage of the Nation might by this means become Instruments for the enriching of the same And though there be very wholsom Laws in being for preventing this intolerable Inconvenience of Vagrants yet Officers are generally too remiss and to avoid trouble or the imputation of being over-busie and the ill effects thereon depending seldom put the same in execution For this to my knowledge is true that several Officers who willingly would do their Office and put the Laws in Execution have told me that the number of them were so great and dangerous that they were afraid that their Houses and Barns might be set on fire whilst themselves were asleep or that some personal mischief should be done them And indeed no small cause there is for these Jealousies their confidence is so very great for no longer ago than the last Assizes holden for the County of Sussex so impudent they were as to appear in the very face of the Court insomuch as to stand in the sight of the Lord Twisden one of his Majesties Justices of Nisi prius for that Circuit whilst he was giving his Charge and although upon this occasion his Lordship sufficiently and loudly prest for the putting the Laws in execution with severity against them yet notwithstanding the Town was still haunted by numbers of them all the time the Assizes lasted For remedy whereof it might possibly be convenient to propose a sufficient encouraging Reward to be paid every such poor person or persons that shall seize any such Vagrants by the Overseers of the poor of that Parish where they are taken and that a severe Penalty be imposed on Constables and other Officers neglecting their duties when any persons so apprehended are brought to them by which means those many thousands which are idle may be imployed to their own good and the Nations advantage so that in six Months time there might not be a Beggar in the Kingdom if such Enconragement were given Lastly besides all these Advantages several hundred thousand Pounds which are now expended and sent out of the Nation for Linnen might hereby be kept at Home or better Improved to the great advantage of His Majesties Subjects Besides a farther advantage by this planting of Hemp c. will accrue towards making of Sails Cables and other Cordage