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An essay on the coin and commerce of the kingdom trade and treasure (which are twins) being the only supporters thereof next to religion and justice.
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Praed, John.
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1695
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Wing P3163A; ESTC R221798
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elegantly goes on begirt with Walls whose Bullder was the hand Heaven whereon there daily rides a Navy Royal whose unconquerable Power proclaims her Prince invincible and whispers sad despair into the fainting heart of Foreign Majesty Het Prince might say to us concerning the Empire as Joshua did to the Children of Israel concerning Canaan How long are you slack to go to possess the Land which the Lord God of your Fathers hath given you IX But there are three principal things which in Martial as well as civil Policy are first to be better regarded than they are viz. Religion Trade and Justice By Religion I mean that which so effectually provides for all those advantages to Mankind Dec. of Piet. P. 2. which the wisest of Men's Laws have in vain attempted That Christ came to introduce Religion which consults not only the co-eternal Salvation of Men's Souls Sermon on Luke 9. v. 55 56. but their temporal peace and security their comfort and happiness in this World and as Mr. Fleetwood saith in his Sermon against Clipping if there appears but little Christianity in such a Sermon it will be to such as consider not how great a Part Justice and Honesty and fair and righteous dealing make up of Divine Religion Sir Walter Rawleigh saith In his Rules for preserving the State that The first and principal Rule of Policy is the practice of Religion and the Cardinal de Richlien in his Political Testament calls it the Establishment of the Reign of God By Trade I mean such a free and full manufactured Trade which the Romans by all possible Arts ascended to e'er they ascended to the heighth of Empire whose Steps the French lately endeavoured to follow by all means imaginable and for the self same end and not such a Trade for which this Nation became so renowned as Glaucus is in Homer for changing Armour with Diomedes with such palpable disadvantage that Proverbs came of it And by Justice I mean not summum jus summa Injuria but * the Policy of English Government Prol. to Hist Disc which so far as is praise worthy is all one with Divine Providence Such Justice as honours the Religion and advanceth the Interest and Trade of the Nation that is such Righteous Judgment as God Almighty himself at first commanded Judges and Officers shalt thou make such as shall judge the People with righteous Judgment The summum jus of this Nation is of Humnut and I think of Norman Institution and it is yet known and perhaps may never be forgotten that from the fury of the Normans was added to our Ancestor's Common-Prayer against Plague Pestilence and Famine William the Conquerour Jehu like drove out the Laws of King Edward then in use Bak. Chron. Pag 28. contrary to his Coronation Oath and in their stead brought in the Laws of Normandy commanding them to be written in French as also that all Causes should be pleaded and all matters of Form disputized in French upon a pretence to dignifie the French Tongue but it was with a purpose to intrap Men through the Ignorance of the Language as indeed it did And whereas before P. 29. the Bishop and the Aldermen were the absolute Judges to determine all business in every Shire and the Bishop in many Cases shared in the benefit of the Mulct with the King he confined the Clergy within the Province of their own Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction And whereas the Causes of the Kingdom were before determined in every Shire and by a Law of King Edward in a Conventicle held Monthly in every Hundred he ordained that four times in the Year for certain days the same business should be determin'd in such places as he should appoint And finally he ordained his Council of State his Chancery and his Exchequer X. But Edward III. the most Generous Magnanimous Honourable and Heroick Prince of all his Race and Predecessors having due regard to Religion Grievances Trade and Justice and therein to Martial Policy and Discipline ordain'd and in some Respects contrary to his Interests That no Peter pence should be paid to the Pope of Rome that the Service of God being perfect freedom his People of England might say their Pater-noster without paying the Penny for it That no Wool growing within this Realm should be transported but that it should be made into Cloth in England That the Walloons should be permitted to Live Work and Trade amongst us and be naturalized against the Act. That 〈…〉 which weâ—â— before in French should be made in English that the Cliche might understand the Course of the Law A blessed Act saith my Author and worthy so great a King who if he could thereby render it also perspicuous plain easie and short it would be a Work of Eternal Honour to him and everlasting Interest to the Nation XI But our People being a Rebellious People and undeserving of such excellent Princes as Edward III. Henry V. and Queen Eliz. by the Providence of God took from them as it did from Judah and Jerusalem the Mighty Man the Man of War the Prudent the Elegant Orater the Cunning Artificer the Counsellor and the Judge so that the People were oppressed every one by another and every one by his Neighbour and their Tongues and their doings being against the Lord the Reâ—â—â—â—d of their own hands was given unto them XII Yet still the Providence of God espousing us as it did the Jews or rather as Dr. Soâ—â—â— saith as Socrates espoused Xantippe to exercise his Patience without He hath now sent us a King of Kings who at his first coming to the Imperial Crown of England proposed against his own present and private Interest the Balance of the Trade of this Nation well knowing the nature of this Kingdom for advantageous Commerce and that a good Father of his Country as well as of his Family will be Vendacem and not Emâ—cem as Sir Robert Cotton saith of him And indeed so much and much more were in Civil Opinion and Martial Policy to be expected from such a Puissant Prince whose Godly Generous Noble and Resolute Race especially from William I. to William III. hath been a successful Series of essential Sincerity towards Religion Grievances Trade and Justice XIII His late Princely and Pious Consort now a Queen of Heaven was an enamoured Lover of Religion and Justice to the eternal Honour of her Majestick and Immortal Memory And since she had laid such excellent Designs for both I hope the Omnipotence of God Almighty will see them finished by means of her Royal and most excellent Survivor for his Name sake XIV The Seat of Government is upheld by the Two great Pillar thereof Rawl Remark P. 153. Civil Justice and Martial Policy which were framed out of the Husbandry Merchandise and Gentry of this Kingdom They say that the goodliest Cedars which grow on the high Mountains of Libanus thrust their Roots between the Cliffs of hard Rocks the better
scandalous Titles or Opinion but should receive all Encouragement imaginable When Rome was in a rising condition those that Informed in her favour were looked on as Men of Honour but as she went to ruin and was exposed by the Soldiers who should preserve her to the Sale of who gave most the Informers were looked upon to be only famous for Infamy as they are now in other declining Countries VI. Resolved That it is the Opinion of this Committee That it be Penal on any Person to Export English Bullion and the proof to lie on the Exporter I was extreamly glad when I read this Resolution for it will by some kind of necessity put us upon gaining the over balance of Trade which is the only thing next to Religion and Justice which we want to gain the Empire of the Vniverse as well as that of the Ocean Religion in Britain hath hitherto been for the most part Hist Disc maintained by immediate Influence from Heaven And the way of Justice and Gentleness hath had more Force in Britain than Arms. Under the wise Government of Aurelius the Emperour mounting into the British Throne crowned Lucius first of all Kings with the Royal Title of a Christian And he was not so much a Vassal as a Friend and Ally to the Romans And perceiving the Empire to be past Noon and their Lieutenants to comply with the Christians began to provide for future Generations and according to the Two grand Defects of Religion and Justice applyed himself to the establishment of both Which Act of Lucius so advanced him in the Opinion of Writers that they knew not when they had said enough of him Whereas before Britain was become a Glut of Wickedness and a Burden that God would endure no longer The Kingdoms of Christendom now in being had their rising from the fall of Rome and Vortigern a Native of this Isle first established here a free Kingdom four hundred and fifty Years after Christ and so left it to the Saxons So England hath a great Precedency in respect of the Antiquity of the Kingdom which as Beda observes was always a Monarch in a Heptarchy So it hath the Precedency likewise in respect of the Antiquity of the Christian Religion Joseph of Arimathea planted the Christian Religion immediately after the Passion of Christ in this Realm And Aristobulus one of them mentioned by St. Paul Dorotheus Rom. 6. was Episc Britannorum and likewise Simon Zelotes yea St. Peter and St. Paul himself as Theodoretus doth testifie The first Christian King in Europe was Lucius Surius And the first that ever advanced the Papacy of Rome was the Emperour Constantine born at York Edward the Third King of England was Anno 1338 created by the Emperour Vicarius Perpetuus Imperii And William the Third King of England may be the greatest Emperour that ever was if we are not wanting to him when he is not to us This Kingdom is held of God alone Cottoni Posthuma p. 87. Hist Disc p. 3. acknowledging no Superiour It was long before the Son of God was enwombed and whilst as yet Providence seem'd to close only with the Jewish Nation and to hover over it as a choice pick'd Place from all the Earth that with a gracious Eye surveying the forsaken condition of all other Nations it glanced on this Island Both Thoughts and Words reflected on Isles Isa 42.4.31.3.60.4.66.19 Isles of the Gentiles Isles afar off as if amongst them the Lord of all the Earth had found out some place that should be to him as the Gem of the Ring of this terrestrial Globe And if the ways of future Providence may be looked upon as a Gloss of those Prophecies we must confess that this Island was conceiv'd in the Womb thereof long before it was manifested to the World No sooner was the Scepter departed from Judah but both it and the Law-giver came hither as if we were the only White that was in God's Aim VII And shall we after all this for the sake of Self-interest be any ways wanting to Albion which God hath so highly honoured and so bountifully bless'd above all the Kingdoms in the World No sure for there is nothing expected from our Gratitude towards God and our Duty towards the Nation but what the Honourable Representatives thereof may make practicable by means of their principal Commitees of Religion Grievances Trade and Justice and the Power they have of sending for Persons Papers and Records VIII And since they are as deeply engaged as they are highly concerned to regulate the Coin of the Kingdom and to turn our Dross into Silver again I hope they will raise no small Fund or Sum of Money for it * In a printed Paper entituled Reasons for not laying any farther Impositions upon Coals there is this Particular Which in things of Choice and Luxury may be tolerable but in Cases of Necessity must be extream grievous especially to many Trades-men out of the Causes and Effects of Extravagancy and Covetousness I mean such Extravagancies for the most part as promote excessive and consumptive Importations And such Covetousness as makes against the Laws of God and the World Twelve and sometimes Twenty per Cent of Money by Interest Procuration Continuation c. It is the Opinion of some others as well as my own That all Masters of English Ships should be Taxed abroad together with the Factors for they are come now to act in half Commissions c. with the Factors And to speak with all Modesty they gain above 12 per Cent. more than the Merchants do by more advantageous Trading And there are a great many concern'd in this Craft that should refund a great deal for the present Occasion IX And if our Trade and Justice be regulated together with our Coin and Religion honestly and 〈…〉 our King 's most excellent Majesty may use a greater Style of Soveraignty than this of King Edgar wherewith and with a few other Words I conclude Ego Edgarus Anglorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnicumque Regum Insularumque Oceani Britannici circumjacentium cunctarumque Nationum quae infra eam includuntur Imperator ac Dominus And now I think from what hath been said or rather shewn it may be seen a little how much God and Nature have done for us more than we endeavour to do for our selves And I wish that any part of this Enterprize may answer the Ends for which the whole was design'd with all Sincerity and Good-will For else I would have robb'd and stollen from the Authorities I have acknowledged transmigrated their Dispensatâ—â—iâ—s into the Wrong Appropriation and made those Doctors Opinions pass for my own who am the most unfit Person to prescribe any thing for the Distempers of State in a Corrupted Time FINIS