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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50785	For the good of the publick. A true method, shewing all ranks and degrees of men, how to purchase an estate, or make provision for posterity, out of idle expences ... By John Middleton, Esq;	Middleton, John, 17th/18th cent.	1720 (1720)	Wing M1975; ESTC T174454	10,059	21

For the Good of the Publick A True Method SHEWING All Ranks and Degrees of Men How to purchase an Estate Or make Provision for Posterity out of idle Expences AND How a Gentleman may advance the Fortune of his Children without impairing his Estate and how a Tradesman may do the like for his and never miss it out of his Stock and how that None can be so poor but that they may be Purchasers Also Ways and Means discovered to enlarge Trade and Commerce and the Improvement of Navigation and the Advancement of the King's Revenues plentifully supplying the poor and for the common Good of all Merchants and Traders either by Sea or Land Recommended to all Cities and Corporations in Great Britain and Ireland By John Middleton Esq The first Edition Edinburgh Printed for the Author and are to be sold at the Union-Crown-Fire-Office in the Head of the Canongate Price Sixpence To the Right Honourable the Lord PROVOST BAILIES DEAN of GILD TREASURER and other Members of the Honourable Council of the Ancient and Loyal City of Edinburgh Right Honourable AS it hath been the constant Practice of your noble Ancestors to do Good a Virtue whose radiant Lustre shines no less refulgently in your Honour for which Reason Sir first asking your Honour's Pardon I make bold to shelter this my Labour under the shadow of your Honourable Name not in the least doubting but that you will not only patronize but encourage any Vndertaking that may be for the publick Good and Welfare of all Ranks and Degrees of Men in this ancient and Loyal City of which your Honour fills the Pretorian Chair Nor can I do less than perswade my self but that your Honour and all who bear Office in this ancient Body being Gentlemen of such noble Worth and unblemished Characters placed as Rulers over this honourable Town by the unerring Hand of Divine Providence to defend the Rights of its People by your just Administration of Law and Justice all Men having just Reason to believe you have its Welfare near at Heart will give all suitable Encouragement to promote any Vndertaking that will be for the Good of all Ranks and Degrees of Men. And that every particular Member may not be wanting to carry on so good a Work I do assure them if any of them please to embark in this Vndertaking that a true Method is found out shewing how to purchase an Estate out of idle Expences and to make Provision for Posterity for less than One Peny per Day for 20 Pounds and less than five Pence per Day for 100 Pounds By your most obedient Servant J. M. To the READER Courteous Reader NOtwithstanding there have been several Funds erected in several Parts of this Kingdom in order to promote the Publick Good yet never was any erected which will be so generally beneficial as this because in this every one that enters is sure to be a Gainer so that in this Fund there is no Hazard run upon any Account whatever nor need any be in Fear of entring For this Fund will not only be advantageous and profitable in general but will be a Bank to supply the immediate Exigencies of any of its Members and thereby prevent their being imposed upon for the future by the merciless Cruelty of the gripping Pawn-brokers and ravening Usurers who many times ruine and destroy their Neighbours under Pretence of Friendship by making them pay such extravagant Interest as is no way justifiable by the Laws of GOD or Man I have known several Persons that have been obliged to pay after the Rate of sixty per Cent to these Extortioners which have been the Ruin of themselves and Families by paying such extravagant Interest Now this Bank for the future will prevent all such Misfortunes to every one of its Members for every Subscriber shall have what Money they shall have Occasion for at five per Cent without any Trouble or Charge which most certainly will be a great Advantage Now this Office of Insuring upon Lives and other Insuring Offices are allowed by several Acts of Parliament to be founded upon Truth and Justice and are for the apparent Interest of the Publick settled upon Funds Contingencies answering their Ends whereby the Members will be great Gainers and the Undertaking supported and th Ruin of many prevented The Author having no other Design in promoting this Undertaking but the common Good of all Men as a Duty incumbent upon all and more especially when the Good of the Publick and the Interest of the Poor is so nearly concerned But I hope here will be a Fund where they or their Posterity may be rich which that they may is the Desire of Your humble Servant J. M. T●e Introduction to the Articles BEfore I proceed to the Articles something by way of Introduction will be highly useful for the better understanding of the Articles themselves For here is a noble Prospect before you in which if you please to embark you will be sure to be a Gainer an Undertaking that can never fail of its desired End being settled upon the Foundation of Law and Justice where no Fraud or Deceit can be committed by any nor can the Governors run away with one Peny of the Profit for the Governors will be chosen out of the Subscribers themselves such as take out 10 Bonds and insure upon 10 Lives each and will be elected by the rest of the Subscribers for every Subscriber will have a Right to vote at the Election of their Governors so by this Means the Governors will be Gentlemen or substantial Tradesmen and undoubtedly Men of more Honour than to commit any Fraud for fifthy Lucre's sake And that this Undertaking will be advantageous to all Ranks and Degrees of Men is very demonstrable to the meanest Capacity for here a Gentleman may advance the Fortune of his Children and leave them One or Two hundred Pounds for less than Fivepence per Day for a L. 100 and never miss it at the Year's End and a flourishing Tradesman may do the like by his and never miss it out of his Stock so likewise Mechanicks for less than one Peny a Day may leave their Children L. 20 out of idle Expences and seafaring or labouring Men may do the like and not miss it at the Year's End because it will go out by so small a Matter at a Time Which fully perswades me that there can be none so poor but may be Purchasers in this Undertaking if they please as will appear more fully by the following Articles ARTICLES TO Establish a Company for settling a Bank in Edinburgh by which all Ranks and Degrees of Men may purchase Estates or make Provision for Posterity ARTICLE I. THAT there shall be Five Seven or Nine Governors with the Secretary who shall always be one of the Governors and the rest of the Governors shall be elected annually out of such of the Subscribers as shall insure upon ten Lives each That publick Notice shall be