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A52534	Campania fœlix, or, A discourse of the benefits and improvements of husbandry containing directions for all manner of tillage, pasturage, and plantation : as also for the making of cyder and perry : with some considerations upon I. Justices of the peace and inferior officers, II. On inns and alehouses, III. On servants and labourers, IV. On the poor : to which are added two essays : I. Of a country-house, II. Of the fuel of London / by Tim. Nourse, gent.	Nourse, Timothy, d. 1699.	1700 (1700)	Wing N1416; ESTC R30752	181,404	370

greatest Maturity and Duration are longest in their Concession But suppose we after all that it should be found by Experience that Sea-Coal in the present Case should be more Advantageous than Wood-Fuel and that Wood-Fuel thereupon should be rejected the Gentlemen notwithstanding who had undertaken to plant the Wast-Grounds and Heaths in the Neighbourhood of London would still be great Gainers their Ground being rendred of Thrice or Four times more Value than it was at before which would be a good Return for their Money Likewise the Kingdom in General would have the Advantage in having such Nurseries for Timber and so commodious for use So that no Damage could accrue by the Attempt but there would be great Certainty of Advantage in many respects tho' it should fail in the Main Design which in all Projects whatsoever is a very rational and sufficient Ground for Trial. FINIS BOOKS Printed for and Sold by Tho. Bennet at the Half-moon in St. Paul 's Church-yard Folio FAther Malebranch's Treatise concerning the Search after Truth The whole Work compleat to which is added his Treatise of Nature and Grace being a Consequence of the Author's Principles contained in the Search together with F. Malebranch's Defence against Mr. de la Ville and several other Adversaries All English'd by T. Taylor M. A. of Magdalen Colledge Oxon. The Second Edition to which is Added a Treatise of Light and Colours Communicated by the Author to a Person of Quality in England And not before Published in any Language Athenae Oxoniensis or An exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the University of Oxford from 1480 to the end of the Year 1690 giving an account of the Birth Fortune Perferment and Death of all those Authors and Prelates the great Accidents of their Lives with the Fate and Character of their Writings The Work so compleat that no Writer of note of this Nation for two hundred Years is omitted In two Volumes A compleat History of the Canon and Writers of the Books of the Old and New Testament by way of Dissertation with useful Remarks on that Subject in two Volumes by L. E. Dupin Doctor of the Sorbon and Regius Professor of Philosophy in Paris Done to English from the French A new Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam by Monsieur de la Laubiere Envoy Extraordinary from the French King to the King of Siam in 1687 1688 wherein a full and exact account is given of their Natural History as also of their Musick Arithmetick and other Mathematick Learning illustrated with Sculptures Done out of French by Dr. P. Fellow of the Royal Society Dr. Pocok's Commentaries on Hosea Micah Malachy and Joel printed at the Theatre Oxon. The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley the 9th Edition To which is added the Cutter of Coleman-street with some Poems never before printed Quarto A Critical History of the Texts and Versions of the New Testament in two parts by Father Simon of the Oratory A Discourse sent to the late K. James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion by Sam. Parker late Bishop of Oxon. To which are prefixed two Letters the first from Sir Lionel Jenkins on the same Subject the second from the Bishop sent with the Discourse All printed from the original manuscripts A Sermon before the King and Queen about Reformation of Manners by Edward late Lord Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of Chester's Charge to his Clergy at his primary Visitation Of the Reverence due to God in his publick Worship A Sermon before the King and Queen at White-Hall March 25. 1694 being the fifth Sunday in Lent by Nicholas Lord Bishop of Chester Two Sermons one on a Thanksgiving before the House of Commons in November 1691 the other before the Queen in November 1692. by Dr. Jane Dean of Gloucester Three Sermons before the Queen by Dr. Resbury Four Sermons one on a Thansgiving at Worcester the second before the Queen the third upon the Occasion of a publick Charity The fourth before the King on the 5th of Nov. 99. By the Right Reverend William Lord Bishop of Oxon. Two Sermons by Mr. Adams one before the Lords Justices upon the taking of Namur the other before the House of Commons Nov. 5. A short defence of the Orders of the Church of England by Mr. Milbourn Certain Considerations for the better establishment of the Church of England with a Preface by James Harrington Esq Five Sermons on several Occasions by Mr. Francis Atterbury A letter to a Lord in answer to a late Pamphle● An Enquiry into the Causes of the present fears and dangers of the Government in a Discourse between a Lord Lieutenant and one of his Deputies A Sermon at the Funeral of John Melfort Esq by Mr. Easton A Sermon at the Funeral of Sir Willoughby Chamberlain by Dr. King 1698. Two Sermons the first of Anger before the Queen the other before the Lord Mayor by Mr Blackburn Chaplain to the Bishop of Exeter Two Visitation Sermons at Guildford in Surrey in 1697 the first on Enthusiasm the other of the Necessity of Reformation and an holy Life by W. Whitfield M. A. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty Octavo and Twelves Thirty Six Sermons upon several Occasions in three Volumes by Robert South D. D. the second Edition Sermons and Discourses upon several occasions by Dr. Stradling Dean of Chichester together with an Account of the Author by James Harrington Esq Sermons and Discourses upon several occasions by Dr. Meggot Dean of Winchester The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Roman Emperor Translated out of Greek into English by Dr. Causabon with Notes To this Edition is added The Life of the Emperor with an account of Stoick Philosophy as also Remarks on the Meditations All newly written by Monsieur and Madam Dacier Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God patchetically discoursed of in a Lettet to a Friend by the Honourable R. Boyle The eighth Edition with some Additions Academy of Sciences being a short and easie Introduction to the knowledge of the Liberal Arts and Scinces with the Name of such Authors of note as have written on every particular Science By Dr. Abercromley A Letter to a Divine of the Church of England concerning the composing and delivery of Sermons The Inspiration of the New Testament asserted and explained in answer to the Six Letters of Inspiration from Holland c. By Mr. Le Moth. Cardinal Bona's Guide to Eternity English'd by Sir R. L'estrange Remarks on some late Writings of the English Socinians in four Letters done at the Request of a Socinian Gentleman by Mr. Luzancy Minister of Dovercourt and Harwich The Lives of all the Princes of Orange from William the Great Founder of the Common-wealth of the Vnited Provinces to which is added the Life of his present Majesty King William the Third from his Birth to his Landing in England By Mr. Tho. Bro●n together with all the Princes Heads taken from Original Draughts by Mr. Robert White Monsieur Bossu's Treatise of the Epick Poem con●aining many curious Reflections very useful and necessary for the right understanding and judging of the Excellencies of Horace and Virgil. Done into English from the French together with some Reflections on Prince Arthur To which are added An Essay upon Satyr by Monsieur Dacier and a Treatise upon Pastoral Poetry by Monsieur Fontanelle A Comparison between Pindar and Horace written in French by Mr. Blondel Master to the Dauphin English'd by Sir Edw. Sherburn Monsieur Rapin's Reflections upon Aristotle's Poetry containing the necessary rational and universal Rules for Epick Drammatick and the other sorts of Poetry with Reflections on the Works of the Antient and Modern Poets and their Faults noted Translated by Mr. Rhymer by whom is added some Reflections on the Poets of the English Nation A Voyage to the World of Des Cartes translated from the French by T. Taylor M. A. of Magd. Coll. Oxon. Memoirs of the Court of France written by the ingenious French Lady English'd by Mr. Thomas Brown A Discourse of Religious Assemblies wherein the Nature and Necessity of Divine Worship is explain'd and asserted against Negligence and Prophaneness For the use of the Members of the Church of England By George Burghop Rector of little Goddesden in Hertfordshire A Conference with a Theist in four parts by W. Nicholls D. D. Rector of Sels●y in Sussex The Certainty and Necessity of Religion in general or the first Grounds and Principles of Human Duty establish'd In Eight Sermons preached at St. Martins in the Fields at the Lecture for the Year 1697 founded by the Honourable R. Boyle Esquire By F. Gastrel B. D. Preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn The Certainty of the Christian Revelation and the Necessity of Believing it Established in opposition to all the Cavels and Insinuations of such as pretend to allow Natural Religion and reject the Gospel by F. Gastrel B. D. Preacher to the Honourable Society ●f Lincons-Inn Aeschinis in Ctesiphontem Demosthenis de Corona Oratio Gr. Lat. Interpretat Lat. Vocum Difficilimum explicationem adjecerunt Per P. Foulkes J. Friend Aedis Christi Alumni Aesopicarum Fabularum Dilectus Gr. Lat. The Rights Powers and Priviledges of an English Convocation Stated and Vindicated in Answer to a late Book of Dr. Wake 's Intituled The Authority of Christian Princes over their Ecclesiastical Synods Asserted c. and to several other Pieces Jacobi Patriachae de Shiloh Vaticinium a depravatione Johannis Clerici in Pentateuchum Commentatoris Assertum Opera Studio Sebastiani Edzardi Accedit Ejusdem Dissertatio de nomine Elohim Auctori Judicii de R. Simonii Historia V. Test Critica opposita

People receive double Dammage not only in being forced many times to be sur-charg'd with that which perhaps they have no great need of but being ignorant likewise of the Quality and Value of such stale half-rotten Ware they dare not make their Terms with Men who have the Power of their Purse but must submit themselves to the Conscience and Honesty of a Shop-keeper's Word which upon my word too will many times ply and enlarge it self not to the Necessity of the Buyer but to the Interest of the Seller The Persons who are the greatest Objects of Charity are young Orphans or the super-numerary Children of Poor People or Labourers as likewise expos'd Children sick and maimd People and such as are broken with Age or such as are reduc'd to Want by the Accidents of Fortune and perhaps are asham'd to expose their Misery as having liv'd sometimes possibly in some Credit and Fashion There are another sort of Poor likewise which ought truly to be provided for I mean our lusty sturdy vagrant Beggars of both Sexes These rambling from House to House are constant Retainers to all lousie Inns and Ale-houses and are the best Informers that Highway-men and Burglares can rely upon and many times pick a Pocket break a House steal a Horse and cut a Throat with as much dexterity as the best Professors of these Arts. They colour their Rogueries under the Disguise of Tinkers Crale-Carriers Ragmen Inkle or Starch-Sellers Net-weavers Travellers c. For whom our Laws 't is true have made some small Provision but for want of a just distribution such pilfring Vagabonds are found to swarm every where It would be much better if an old Law of Valentinian the Emperour were reviv'd by which Every such Vagabond as was able to work became Prize to the next Freeman which met him and was enroll'd amongst his Servants or Slaves to Till his Ground during life to the end he might not cheat others by his Impostures and pretended Beggary Such a Law as this would be of more advantage to this Nation than any possibly now extant there being no place left for Remisness Affection or Partiality for if one should suffer such an Errant-Merchant to go free another would not fail to apprehend him and where a Man 's own Private Interest is a Law it can never happen that such a Law should want its due Execution Under this Head likewise we may reduce those whom we commonly call Egyptians or Fortune-Tellers They are called Egyptians I suppose from their dark tawny Complexion or from their pretended knowledge of the Heavens and their Destinies In Foreign Parts they are called Zingars which Name sounds as tho it were of a Tartar Extraction These People like the Tartars always professing a wandring Life Tho by the Vulgar they are called Gypsies a Gypso from that sooty Wash or Paint with which they stain their Hands and Faces These impudent Vagabonds have for a long time rambled over all parts of Christendome and as for those of this Tribe in England they are generally Broom-makers Sweep-Chimneys and the like and chiefly such as inhabite the Borough of Southwark who in the Summer-time for want of Employment wander about the Country having their King over them who commonly is some Broken-Merchant or well-experienced Pick-Pocket But this kind of Vermin or Insects does not swarm so much now-a-dahs as in former Ages To return therefore to such as are truly Poor 'T is certainly a very good work and very acceptable to Almighty God to relieve their Necessities but 't is without Dispute a better Work to prevent Men from falling into Poverty For Poverty in it self is a kind of Curse and is attended with Misery He who repairs a broken House deserves doubtless a good Reward but he deserves better from the hands of the Lord thereof who frames such a Building as shall never fall into decay The Dutch in this particular are well worthy our Imitation for by building Publick Work-houses whether of Correction or for the Education and Employment of Children they make the corrupt and excrementitious parts of the Body Politick as I may call them to contribute to their own support as well as to that of the Government Little Children which are either poor or expos'd are committed to Publick Work-houses as to Cloisters or Colledges and their tender Fingers are taught to work before they can well use their Tongues and being thus inur'd from their Infancy their Hands are much more ready and nimble whilst Labour and Industry grows up and augments with their Nature Even the Blind the Lame and the like have Works to be employ'd about For a blind Man may use his Arms in turning of Wheels or Grinding and he that is lame in h●s Legs may follow such Work as consists with si●ting as sewing knitting weaving and the like as he likewise who is maim'd in his Arms may be able to get his Living by the use of his Feet And let not such impotent People lie bawling in the Open Streets as they do continually in the Capital City of this Kingdom many of which Beggars get more Money and fare better than others by their honest Labour and Industry As for lesser Criminals as Pick-Pockets Petty-Larceny Pimps Common-Whores Sheep-Stealers Coney-Catchers Hedge-breakers and other the like Offenders whose Crimes deserve not Death 't were very good they were condemn'd to Bridewel for a Year or two or more as the Nature and Circumstances of their Crimes do require For by this means they would be made profitable to the Commonwealth whereas Whipping or Frizzing them a little in the Fist is a Punishment of no great Pain and of a short continuance and such cauteriz'd or Case-hardned Rogues as soon as out of Jayl are but the more confirm'd in their former Practices Some few indeed are secur'd to Transportation 'T is pity but there were more of them made to travel the same Road tho the best wa● I say would be to keep them to work in Houses of Correction since we have not Galleys as in other Countrys wherein to bestow such useless Lumber And here I cannot but think our Laws a little too merciful likewise in punishing Robbers on the High-way and Murderers For what by the Intercession which is made commonly for the pardoning such Offenders which indeed is no defect of the Law and what by the Contempt which a more obdurate Felon has of hanging so it is that such kind of Villains are always numerous Breaking upon the Wheel has been found in other Countries to be the best Expedient to diminish the number of Malefactors 'T is true this sort of Punishment carries the face of Cruelty in respect of him who suffers where a Man's Bones are broken to pieces and his Nerves and Sinews beaten to a Pulp which must needs be very dolorous and to continue so for twenty four hours or more perhaps must needs be very grievous to him who suffers and fearful to the Spectators But after

Office are often subject viz. Partiality in the Administration of Justice which proceeds sometimes from an irregular Affection but more frequently from Bribery and Covetousness This is an Epidemical Distemper which has reign'd in all Ages Places and Persons almost and will continue to the End of the World so that a Magistrate many times like the Balance the Symbol of his Office inclines to that side where most is receiv'd So that a small quantity of Metal if of the heaviest kind especially will quickly turn the Scales Demosthenes was a Man of great Boldness of excellent Parts and for a great while an uncorrupted Patriot of his Country's Liberties and Properties no doubt for by the Force purely of his Speeches he kept the Athenian Senate steady to their Interest against all the Intrigues and Insinuations of a subtile and aspiring Prince who under shew of defending the Weaker against the Stronger actually enslav'd most of the Grecian Republicks But no soft cankery Speeches of Philip could move Demosthenes for he was as good or better at that Trade than the King But Alexander his Successor took another Method For sending Harpalus his Embassador to Athens with a vast Treasure and Presents of inestimable Value many of the Senate were debauch'd by these means the chiefest of which was Demosthenes their Orator upon the Wheels of whose Tongue their Government seem'd ●● turn For as the Embassador was putting his Retinue and Baggage ashore Demosthenes cast his Eye upon a certain Vessel curious for the Workmanship as well as the Matter of which 't was made which the Orator could not forbear to admire and commend which Harpalus observing and judging by his Eye the Pulse and Bent of his Heart sends it him secretly at Night full of Gold the Lustre whereof could not be withstood by our Orator But his Treason being discovered he was brought before the Areopogites and condemn'd to pay Fifty Talents and to be sent to Prison from whence he escap'd by Flight The same Orator at another time was brib'd by the Meleteans and being call'd upon to harangue publickly against them he entred the Senate with his Neck wrapp'd about with a great many Cloths of Flannel pretending that he had a Quinsie or Soreness in his Throat whereupon some made this S●rcasm that it was not the Angina or Quinsie but the Argentingina a Word ever after us'd for Bribery which took away his Speech From whence we may observe that in the best of Times and of Governments there were some who pretending to be the Defenders of their Country's Liberties turn'd Pensioners to those who would have undermined them Amongst the Roman Worthies whose Works or Monuments are at this Day extant there is none more eminent than Seneca famous for his Excellent Books of Morality a Profess'd Stoick or one who placed Happiness in the Exercise of Vertue and in the Subjection of our Passions and famous likewise for his Death which he receiv'd by the Command of Nero whose Tutor sometimes he had been And yet we find this Man of Morals to have been accus'd for Bribery or perve●ting the Publick Money for he was Quaestor or Treasurer and that he was banished by Claudius for the same And truly if we consider the vast Treasure which he scrap'd together and which was seiz'd upon and confiscated after his Death which if some Reports be true amounted not to much less than to a Million of our Money I know not how we shall preserve a due Honour for the Memory of this Great Man unless we say That Seneca the Philosopher was a very good Man but that Seneca the Courtier was a suspected Person To pass by Themistocles and others of the Ancients who were tainted with this Contagion we have an Example of one in our own Kingdom who had the Misfortune to fall under the The Lord Chancellor Bacon like Suspicion one who was great for his Place and Figure in the Government but much more great for his Learning and was remov'd from his Employment upon the like Charge of Corruption So that this great Personage seems to tell us in an Epistle-Dedicatory to Bishop Andrews that his Case had in some measure a very near Resemblance to that of Seneca But when we consider the manner of Life in this Excellent Writer being wholly immers'd in Philosophical Studies and Publishing of Books leaving the Management of Business for the most part to his Under-Officers and other Domesticks upon whose Informations he might depend it may reasonably be imagin'd by any Ingenious and Impartial Considerer that many things might be carried on under his Authority which he was not privy to However so it happens oftentimes that the Master suffers in his Reputation for the Faults of his Servant and yet the Master himself is not without Fault but is guilty of great Imprudence and Breach of Trust in leaving that to others which he ought in Duty to execute by himself so that Bookish Men seldom make good Men of Business the former sitting down in their Studies are taken up with the Pleasures of Reading and of a Contemplative Life whilst the latter are in a perpetual Hurry and Noise and if Publick Ministers importun'd with infinite Petitions and intangled with Intrigues Nor can there be any thing so irksome to a Man in his Closet and amidst the innocent Refreshments of Meditation and Reading as to have his Door still thrash'd at by multitudes of Complainants a thing which might easily tempt a Man to remit the troublesome part of his Charge to Deputies that he himself might pursue the more natural and pleasing part without Disturbance and Distraction and be knock'd on the Head possibly like Archimedes in the midst of his Theorems and sandy Demonstrations And truly amongst those who are destin'd to the lesser Wheels of Business 't is not rare to find one here and there of mean Fortune but of a meaner Spirit who covets to be in an Office which he manages with that Prudence as never to want small Timber for house-keeping some likewise there are of this Tribe who if a Complaint be brought against an Inferior-Fellow by one of a better Degree 't is five to one but he shews Indulgence towards the meaner Person This at first blush looks like Clemency and Moderation when in reality it 's his sorded Interest which tempts him to this Method For by this means he has a Creature always at his Devotion to help him possibly in Harvest or upon some other Occasion Or if an Artificer he must be always at his Beck and work at lower Rates Besides a kindness shewn to an Inferior-Fellow makes a great Noise and is in all Mens Mouths so that a firm Interest is by this means Coveted in all others of the same level which is a Thing very Advantageous to make a Man Popular especially in matters which are carried not by Weight but by Numbers whilst one of higher Order when he has an award owes no Thanks and