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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90754	The profitable intelligencer, communicating his knowledge for the generall good of the common-wealth and all posterity. Containing many rare secrets and experiments (having reference to a larger book) which being well observed, and industriously practised, according to the directions therein by all the inhabitants of England in generall, will recover the wealth of the kingdom now so miserably wasted by these unnaturall wars, and make it the most flourishing countrey in the world, and cause more naked to be clothed, more hungry to be fed, more poore virgins to be preferred in marriage, more sick to be healed, then Suttons Hospitall the Savoy, and all the hospitals and liberall gifts in England have ever performed, by certain wayes which require no charge nor labour, but what every active person shall be double payed for. A copie of the letter, wherein the discourse entituled, Mercurius Lætificans, was sent enclosed to the authors most worthy, and highly honoured friend, Mr. Samuel Hartlib.	Plattes, Gabriel, fl. 1638-1640.	1644 (1644)	Wing P2414; Thomason E52_1; ESTC R12431	8,905	9

The profitable INTELLIGENCER Communicating his Knowledge for the Generall good of the Common-wealth and all Posterity Containing many rare Secrets and Experiments having reference to a larger Book which being well observed and industriously practised according to the Directions therein by all the Inhabitants of England in generall will recover the Wealth of the Kingdom now so miserably wasted by these unnaturall Wars and make it the most flourishing Countrey in the world and cause more naked to be clothed more hungry to be fed more poore Virgins to be preferred in marriage more sick to be healed then Suttons Hospitall the Savoy and all the Hospitals and liberall Gifts in England have ever performed by certain wayes which require no charge nor labour but what every active person shall be double payed for A Copie of the Letter wherein the Discourse entituled Mercurius Laetificans was sent enclosed to the Authors most worthy and highly honoured Friend Mr. Samuel Hartlib SIR YOur cordiall love to the Kingdoms good being so clearly expressed to the world not onely by your pen but also by your constant practise in promoting of all good designes which tend to the generall good of the Common-wealth hath emboldned me to send you this enclosed Copie desiring that you will be pleased to take care that it may be forthwith Printed and published together with this Letter which may be all contrived into one sheet of paper if the Printer he skilfull neither the Printer needs to fear any losse nor you any dishonour by promoting of this laudible designe for I have shewed the Copie to the learned as well as the unlearned to the rich as well as the poore and all approve of it and desire to have it as soon as it shall be published they think it is a fine experiment to make good bread of an old shooe and though they differ in opinion concerning other affairs yet they all love to eat bread with one consent and if they shall agree to practise according to their profession which is to do their best endeavours to further the good of the publick then certainly the cards will turn and we shall all win our money again by concord which we have lost by discord yea and twice as much more And though many of these things which I would have to be put to the best uses seem to be triviall that is for want of understanding in the Readers for in Genoa as I have been credibly informed it is an usuall practise to buy barren land for little or nothing and to carry good earth to it and cover it so deep as a spade or a plough may work upon it but this practise would never countervail the first charge unlesse they did usually practise another strange work which is so common there that if an horse or a beast do dung in any street or high-way it is a marvell if some boy or girle do not take it up before it be cold so carefull are they that the fertilitie of the Kingdom should not be diminished And though these boyes and girles get nothing but pinnes and points or some other trifles yet in the generall the whole Countrey is made rich and plentifull Even as we see in a Bee-hive though every Bee bring but a drop of honey at a time yet it maketh up a weightie masse and many of those masses put together do make up the great masse which I have seen at Sturbridge Fayre which is able to amaze a man that beholdeth it When this Book is published then I desire you to think of the best way you can possibly imagine that all the Inhabitants of the whole Kingdom may have knowledge of it generally for knowledge that concerneth the publick good ought not to be concealed in the brests of a few As for the large Book to which this little one hath relation there is no thinking of publishing of it till we have obtained a Committee to examine witnesses and to print their Depositions in it for Project●rs have cast so many bitter things into the publick Fountain whereof all have drunk and their minds are so poysoned that there is no other way to unpoyson them but to win their beleef and willingnesse to practise by such depositions of Gentlemen of qualitie which know the same as well as I my self and some of them have taught me and I have taught others severall Secrets and some few I know my self still and no man else in the Kingdom for ought that can be proved all which reserved Knowledge in particular Brests is against the Wealth of the Publick and therefore ought to be made common to all or else this Designe cannot prosper nor the Kingdom flourish according to my desire As for your particular Encouragement I need say no more but that by furthering of this friendly Advertisement and the perfecting of the Books to which it belongeth you shall become a Furtherer of the most Charitable Designe that is now on foot in England besides the great and manifold Benefit that shall redound thereby to the Common-wealth For I dare undertake that by the right Improvement of the severall Directions and Experiments that shall be discovered you shall undoubtedly cause more naked to be cloathed more hungry to be fed more poore Virgins to be preferred in marriage then Suttons Hospitall the Savoy or all the Hospitals or Liberall Gifts in England have ever performed So I rest Your Bounden Servant Gabriel Plattes Westminster this 14. of May. 1644. WHen I perused the severall Mercuries which go abroad to wit Mercurius Civicus Merc. Aulicus Merc. Britanicus Merc. Coelicus Merc. Veridicus Mercurius Vapulans c. I was sorry that so much Wit Labour and Study should be so slighted and produce no better effect for I have seen them before they were a week old to be carelesly hurled up and down and sometimes torn in peeces to light Tobacco and other uses not fit to be named Whereupon I resolved to try a Conclusion to write a Mercurie that no man should so abuse but he that is an enemie to himself and to the Common-wealth And therefore I have ordered the matter so that no man in the Kingdom which hath so much learning as to read it or so much understanding as to hear it read with attention but he may learn to gain a thousand times the price of it to himself besides the generall good to the Publick But before I tell my Readers what lasting and particular Benefit they are to expect if they will follow those Directions which shall be given them by the following Discourse Let all men that love themselves or the Common-wealth and Posteritie take speciall notice of a certain Book of Husbandry intituled The Treasure House of Nature unlocked and set wide open to the world c. where they may plainly see that as God is infinite and men are infinite by propagation so the fruits of the Earth for their food and cloathing are infinite if men will