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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81848	A declaration concerning state-farthings; or, Certain remonstrative reasons for the allowance thereof; wherein is comprised, 1 the honour of the states vindicated, 2 the peoples hearts contented, 3 the Common-wealths good propagated, 4 the relief of the poor increased. By Thomas Dunstervile, citizen of London.	Dunstervile, Thomas.	1654 (1654)	Wing D2619; Thomason E732_18; ESTC R206887	7,298	17

very dishonorable to the State to allow so great an evil These things then being so cleare doth it not visibly appear that these intrinsical petitionary pretenders of the Commonwealths good do only intend themselves they would very fain cure a wound in the thigh or leg and make a mortal wound in the head of the State and Commonwealth it is a great curtesie from which good Lord paeserve us I wonder they are not ashamed at their own understandings except they could draw some reasonable arguments in defence of themselves which I am confident they cannot Oh yes one boasts of powerful friends another of his great service he hath done and that the State oweth him four or five thousand pounds Methinks these are but weak props for can any reasonable man think that his Highnesse and the Councell who have hazzarded their lives and fortunes and all that is pretions to their Honors to regulate all abuses and qualifie as much as in them lyes all the distempers of the nation wil wonnd their owne Honors to the worlds end and to allow an order to any man to have the making of farthings ether in regard of a near relation or otherwise it being so pernitious and destructive as it clearly appears no no do not believe it that God that hath made them honorable will doubtlesse cloath them with integrity which wil ballance a iust and innocent cause against all powerfull opposers But stay a little I had like to have forgot the Gentleman that presented the white artified Mettal Sir I pray you pardon me I must and wil tel its faults it is as bad as bad may be Sir that mettal will be a rare mettal to make counterseit two-pences and pence which are now too many abroad who would not only convert farthings into twopences and pence rather than twopences and pence into farthings and indeed Sir your mettal is for the present so like these counterseited two pences that what mischief it would bring with it and hurt to the Com-wealth my pen is not able to express therefore I conceive not worth the owning Thus I have according to my duty to the State and love to the Commonwealth shewed the inconveniences that wil arise by any common mettal or any mettal that is easie to be counterfeited by your favor I shal humbly offer to you a mettal made up by art and it is such a mettal as the earth it self cannot affoord in nature neither was it ever Kalender'd in any Chronicle or History that such a mettal was ever made before Give me leave first to tel you the properties of it 1. It beareth in it two colors the one a pale fac'd red imbodied with Azure throughour ' so that it is different from all sorts of mettal in color 2. It is hard and beautiful like silver in its own kind 3. It is in color as durable as silver 4. It is much easier to counterfeit silver than the same mettal which last wel weighed wil take off the fear of counterfeiting Farthings because I conceive no man wil counterfeit farthings that can counterfeit silver with more ease provided the State make a penal Order against it as in like cases it is for silver and gold The properties thus opened give me leave to shew the inconveniences that wil if allowed come with it And 1. I wil make it appear clearly to be no Monopoly but that it wil be honorable to the State profitable to the Commonwealth and generally good to all people 1. I wil make it appear to be no Monopoly and that in a threefold consideration 1. Consider it in its essentiallity 2 In its materiallity 3. In its adjuncts 1. Consider it in its essentiallity it is shapeless and immaterial and therefore can be no Monopoly 2. Consider it in its materiallity and it is a new invention which differs from all sorts of mettal and it cannot profit or disprofit any man to have it or to be without it as it is simply material it is not common but a new invention and therefore in that regard good for nothing but farthings and yet if it were common as copper and brass is it would be good for several things but then it would not be good for farthings because it would be a mettal made up to all mens hands that would counterfeit the Commonwealths coyn so likewise it is no monopoly in regard of its materiallity neither was it ever known that any new invention could be a Monopoly Lastly consider it in its adjuncts it wil be honorable to the State profitable to the Commonwealth harmles innocent generally good to all 1. It wil be honorable because that if his Highnesse the Councel please to allow it for farthings it wil set foath to the world how willing his Highnesse and their Honors are not only to preserve good Laws but to confirm them such an Act of Grace was made in the one and twentieth of the Reign of James concerning new Inventions and in a nother kinde confitmed upon George Manby Ano 1650. which Acts are extant concerning new Inventions which Statute Law is so clear so honorable so just and grounded on such good reasons as namely to cherish arts especially when these Arts conduce to the States Honor and the Publike good therefore I hope I shal finde the like favor in the behalf of the Commonwealth Secondly it wil be honorable because it wil be profitable as appears before it is the honor of a State to have the Publike Treasure flowing and running over it is likewise profitable to all forts of men for the benefit it wil bring to the publike Treasure wil ease impositson of taxes which otherwise it would fal more heavy on every man so that it is clear this is harmlesse innocent hurtful to none but generally good to all High and Low Rich and Poor then if a Monopoly be generally cvil and this generally good this can be no Monopoly I have no more to say but I pray the eternal God the mighty Lord the great Counseller of the whole world to infuse such wisdom into the hearts of his Highness and Councel that they may act without delay those things which may most conduce to Gods glory the States honor and the Commenwealths good and I believe when it shal please their Honors once really to consider of this very thing it is a business of such honorable and necessary concernment to the Commonwealth that their Honors wil bee loath to lose a day in the promoting of it for sure it would be a day of Glory to God a day of Honor to the State a day of gladness and rejoycing to the poor and a day of content to all people In fine the allowance of State-farthings wil cut off those pernitious abuses practised against the States honor and Commonwealths good I wish that it may be fix'c where the merrit of the cause most depends and no otherwise FINIS