Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	art_n	cherish_v	encourage_v	2,196	5	12.9115	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43823	The prevention of poverty, or, A discourse of the causes of the decay of trade, fall of lands, and want of money throughout the nation with certain expedients for remedying the same, and bringing this kingdom to an eminent degree of riches and prosperity ... / by R.H.	Haines, Richard, 1633-1685.	1674 (1674)	Wing H203; ESTC R3538	14,848	30

THE PREVENTION OF POVERTY OR A Discourse of the Causes of the Decay of Trade Fall of Lands and Want of Money throughout the Nation with certain Expedients for remedying the same and bringing this Kingdom to an eminent degree of Riches and Prosperity BY Saving many Hundred Thousand Pounds yearly Raising a full Trade and constant Imployment for all sorts of People and increasing His MAJESTIES Revenue by a Method no way burthensome but advantagious to the Subject By R. H. The Rich mans wealth is his strong City the destruction of the Poor is their poverty Prov. 10. 15. LONDON Printed for Nathaniel Brooke at the sign of the Angel in Cornhill near the Royal-Exchange M. DC LXX IV. TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE RUPERT DUKE of CVMBERLAND EARLE of HOLDERNESSE and KNIGHT of the Most NOBLE ORDER of the GARTER and one of His MAJESTIES MOST HONOVRABLE PRIVY COVNCIL c. May it please Your HIGHNESS THE Consideration of my own Unworthiness and obscure Condition would easily check my Thoughts from the Presumption of troubling your Illustrious Eye with these mean Lines did not Your Princely Clemency and the nature of the thing make such Address in some respect necessary For since 't is Eminently known that Your Highness hath not onely by most excellent Conduct and personal Hazards in War given Matchless Proofs of Your great zeal for the Safety and Glory of the English Nation but also by the prudence of Your Counsels endeavoured ever to promote its Welfare by discovering and cherishing useful Arts and profitable Inventions and incouraging all things that tend to its Honour Wealth and Prosperity though tendred by the lowest and never so despicable Instruments for which publick-spirited Generosity Your Highness justly merits much more Honour and Applause than my weak Capacity is able to express Whether then should these unpolish'd Papers wherein I have with more Affection than Encouragement endeavoured to propose some Expedients tending to this Kingdoms future happiness fly for shelter in this slothful envious Age wherein many that will never study any thing for general Good themselves are too ready to crush abuse and misrepresent those that do but to Your Highnesses Protection who are Ennobled with the clearest Judgment to Censure and the most obliging Candor to pardon them At Your Highness's feet I therefore cast them with all humble submission and if in any part they shall obtain the Honour of your Princely Approbation and be thought fit to be Encouraged in the least as conducing to general Good I shall not afterwards fear the Censures of Envy but sit down secure in the Conscience of having endeavour'd to be serviceable to my weak power to my Countrey and the happiness I have hereby to declare my self YOVR HIGHNESS's Most Humble and most Obedient Servant RICHARD HAINES The prevention of Poverty OR A Discourse of the Causes of the Decay of Trade Fall of Lands and Want of Money throughout the Nation with certain Expedients for remedying the same SO general and loud for diverse years past have been the complaints for want of Trade and Money throughout this Nation and so pressing are the Necessities of most men that there is scarce any person can be insensible of it And this is not only in time of War though then more especially but also in time of Peace when the Seas were open and we might promise our selves the largest share of Prosperity Whence 't is evident that the Causes are not wholly Outward or Accidental but rather Internal and as it were in our own Bowels which consume us and have reduced us to such a low Ebb that a general Poverty seems to have invaded the whole Nation Leases being continually thrown up in the Countrey and Tradesmen daily Breaking in the City In brief all conditions of men seem to have chang'd their stations and sunk below themselves the Gentry by reason of the fall of their Lands and uncertainty of Rents being brought to live at the rate of a Yeoman the Yeoman can scarce maintain himself so well as an ordinary Farmer heretofore the Farmer is forced to live as hard as a poor Labourer anciently and Labourers generally if they have Families are ready to run a begging the Poverty of most Parishes being such that they can hardly supply or relieve them The consideration whereof and that no man is born for himself but ought to do what in him lies to promote the publick Good and general Welfare of his Countrey has invited me though uncapable and not sufficiently qualified to do any considerable Service yet however to testifie my well-wishes and throw in my mite into the publick Treasury by endeavouring some Expedients for raising the Trade of the Nation and advancing the temporal prosperity of all its Inhabitants In order whereunto I first applied my self to find out the Causes of such National Poverty which like an armed Enemy hath threatned to invade the whole Kingdom Secondly to discover a Remedy if possible that might not only subdue this potent Adversary but also introduce and maintain a constant stock of Trade and plenty of Money and so consequently Riches and Honour both to King and Kingdom and Prosperity to all Estates whatsoever I do humbly conceive that the General Causes of Poverty unless it be purposed by the Lord by reason of Iniquity are First the daily Decrease of Goods and Commodities of our own Growth fit for Exportation Secondly the double Increase of Forreign costly Goods and Commodities brought over more and more from beyond the Seas viz. Iron Timber Brandy French-wines Linnen-Cloth and other French Commodities and also Mum Coffee Chocolet Salt Salt-petre with many more All which Expensive Commodities have been brought into General Use and Imported in this Nation within the space of Forty years last past or little more Linnen-Cloth and Wine only excepted The value of these Commodities Imported cannot but amount to a vast Summe we may modestly though at rovers guess it Twenty or Thirty Hundred Thousand Pounds every year which mighty Sums of Money thirty or forty years ago were for the greatest part kept at home Now easily observable it is that ever since such prodigious Increase of new Imported Goods our own most great and richest Manufactories have decreased and the Manufactors become impoverished especially in those of Woollen Cloth and Iron and forasmuch as no Commodities answerable have been raised in their stead equally to ballance what we have therein lost of our own Growth and Production It remains then that of necessity those vast Sums of Money aforesaid must every year go out of the Nation to make the Ballance of Trade even and this for the greatest part in ready Coin as may I conceive evidently be demonstrated Thus if Money were not transported then our own Manufactories which are much diminished and become far less than what they were thirty or forty years ago would now find quick Markets and yeild good Prizes to the great incouragement of the Manufactors