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A60933	The political mischiefs of popery, or, Arguments demonstrating I. that the romish religion ruines all those countries where 'tis establish'd II. that it occasions the loss of above 200 millions of livres ... to France in particular, III. that if popery were abolished in France, that kingdom would become incomparably more rich and populous ..., IV. that it is impossible that France should ever be re-established whilst popery is their national religion / by a person of quality.	Souligné, de.; Ridpath, George, d. 1726.	1698 (1698)	Wing S4719; ESTC R25778	81,776	162

broke so that there 's no safety in lending it to private Hands besides they are affraid of the Species being cry'd down the same having been augmented one 6th part during the War Th●…n the Interest is upon the foot of twelve fourteen eighteen or twenty years purchase more or less and most of those Persons live at Paris on those Revenues Here I shall take notice by the way that above two thirds of all the Kingdoms Money Plate and Jewels are at Paris and that there was plenty of Money in France 15 years ago as 't is necessary for Trade in a Country where the half of all Estates are in Mainmort We must suppose that Court was perswaded that the last War was just and necessary and that the Kingdom was in great danger had it not been for the help of such Methods and they reasoned as that Man who said formerly Praestat aliquam habere Rempublicam quam nullam that is 't is better to have some Republick than none And we must think also that they thought the Kingdom was able soon or late to pay and reimburse all those Loans both Principal and Interest and that the Money was useless during the War in the hands of private Men who had it or might even be prejudicial to the Kingdom if the Owners had applyed themselves to Usury as 't is in such Circumstances in some Countries So that 't is no wonder that the Court having such an Authority made use o●… such Ways and Means How then can all those Publick Debts old and new be paid without abolishing Popery How can those who have bought their Places of whom three fourths at least must be Cashier'd be otherwise reimbursed and this last alone may amount perhaps to a thousand Millions besides what is due to those who have purchas'd Augmentations of Salleries and Titles of Nobility which together with other Priviledges sold also must be abolish'd or how can the Interests of all those Debts be paid seeing the Kingdom is every day more and more dispeopled for there 's at least three Women for one Man and by consequence there are but few Marriages and more People die than are born What hopes then can that Ki●…gdom entertain from Trade and Husbandry when they have no Men to manage them And besides the continuance of the Persecution will more and more alienate the Hearts of all True Protestant Strangers who either will not Travel or at least not stay any long time in France where so much Perfidiousness and Cruelty abounds against their Brethren and where they cannot promise safety to them●…elves for ei●…her ●…hey are in hazard of being knock'd on the head by the Furious and Idolatrous People if they don't kneel before their breaden God in the Streets or are always at the Mercy of their Landlords Masters of Exercises or Idolatrous and Bigotted Physitians c. for it is now the mode in France to be mad Bigots and if they fall sick there they will be persecuted to the death in order to make them abjure their Religion Nor can they have leave to eat Meat for six Months almost in the Year without buying Permission of the Priests for they are now more ridiculous in France in those matters than at Rome it self Because the Pope is well satisfied to draw Strangers thither and to have their Money and that France should lose so much by it So that the great pro●…it which the Kingdom of France did ordinarily reap from Protestant Strangers must reasonably be supposed to diminish considerably There will happen also another Inconvenience by the abating of the Value of Money which must yet of necessity be done and will occasion abundance of disorder in the Kingdom I confess that the abolishing of Popery which we have demonstrated to be so necessary cannot prevent that diminution of the Value of the Coin which is so just but it would occasion that that loss and all the rest would be nothing so sensibly felt by the Kingdom because the Affairs of the King and the Subject both would be abundantly better'd by it I think it necessary to observe here that the Rents of the Town-house of Paris before-mentioned consist in Taxes laid upon all sorts of things that are exported or imported into that City for the use of Man and Beast as Provisions Cattle Corn VVine Cloaths Firing Hay Straw c. Nor is there any thing but what is liable to this Impost whether it be the product of the Kingdom or of Foreign Countries and it is the same as to all manner of Goods Exported from Paris as Manufactures all sorts of things ●… la mode for Dresses either of Men or Women and whether it be to the Provinces of France or to Foreign Countries so that there 's nothing but what pays the very Herbs and Flowers not being excepted About 20 years ago the King had at least 20 Millions of Livres or above a Million and a half Sterling yearly by this Impost but it is without all doubt much diminished at present The Salt alone which is sold at 14 and 15 d. per Pound did formerly yield 1800000 Livres per Annum which was appropriated for the Use of the Kings Table and those of the Officers of his Houshould tho' Paris be nothing near so Big Rich and well Peopled as London and by consequence spends much less Then besides the Tax on all things Imported into that City for the use of Man and Beast which pay by the Gross either at the Ga●…s the entrance of the Suburbs or to the Pataches on the River which are Boats with Officers of the Custom-house and Guards to levy the said Tax on all things Imported or Exported by Water there is moreover a Tax laid upon every thing that is retail'd within the City and Surburbs and because that this Revenue must necessarily fall in proportion to the Decrease and Poverty of the People the Court who are unwilling that it should do so augment the Tax on every thing to make up what they lose by this fall of the Revenue which occasions abundance less to be consumed and this Branch of the Revenue to fall more and more and People to suffer Extremly by it Those Taxes are so many that there are several Books writ for ascertaining them It is the same in several of the biggest Towns of the Kingdom and 't is at present the best par●… of the K●…ngs Revenues bec●…use the great Cities are not so Depopulated as the Country But let 's return to our Subject I shall suppose here the Popish Religion to be Good as to its Doctrine and Wo●…ship and the Protestant Religion False yet the King of France by embracing the latter should be ●…ssoon saved if he paid his Debts reliev'd his People from their Pressures and his Kingdom from a Foreign Yoke which ruines it if he labour'd incess●…ntly to Re-establish and Re-people his Kingdom doing Justice to all rewarding such as have been undone by his Service in

the Monks and the Jesuites will render themselves Masters of all under a weak Prince and the Kingdom will be more expos'd to the Cheats Impostures and Scandalous Vices of the Clergy than ever The King of France should hereby gain the Affection of all Protestant Princes and States intirely which would be much more useful to him than that of the Popish Princes because they are honester in their Treaties and at present much more powerful especially by Sea and more able to hurt or help him And moreover France cannot subsist without Commerce with them and the King knows very well that they have no thoughts of regaining any thing from France as the Popish Princes have because she hath never taken any thing from them nor have they any thoughts of making Conquests upon him as being more Sage and Judicious than that comes to Neither has he any reason to fear that the Court of Rome will employ them to do Mischief to France as they have imployed and may still imploy Popish Princes to do But if France neglect such a fair opportunity as this is to shake off the Yoke of Popery when there is such an Indispensible Necessity ●…o do it for the fafety of the Kingdom which must otherwise perish after having seen so evidently that Popery is the ruin of States and by consequence a false Religion all the World will have reason to believe that His Majesty does not only hate the Protestant Religion but the very Persons of all Protestants especially if he does not Re-establish his Subjects of the Reformed Religion in the free Exercise of the same and in a full and entire Liberty in all Respects as his other Subjects and with all possible Assurance for time to come seeing no Man can reproach them with Disloyalty towards the King nor on the account of their Doctrine which the most Learned of the Papists themselves acknowledge to be very Sound and Conformable to the Scripture and make their boasts that they believe the same things as they do having nothing else to reproach them with but only that they don't believe enough because they don't believe Transubstantiation nor fifty other Fooleries of the like Nature nor adore the half of one of the two Sacraments which has not so much as the Honour to be Bread but is only an Elil Elilim a Nothing an Idol which according to St. Paul is a meer Nothing of this number of Learned Men is the Bp. of Meaux as appears by his Exposition of the Catholick Doctrine Without ●…his Reformation France will become as desolate in 30 years time as Spain and Portugal is at present though there should be a continued Peace all that while For the Women and Girls who are at present three thirds of the People of France will for the most part be dead without Children because there are not Men enough at present to Marry them so that this want of People will be much more apparent then than now It may very well be said that the Kingdom of France hath for 30 or 40 years had a great Ascendant over all the other Nations of Europe by means of the Kings Vigour and Absolute Power But the Kingdom will lose that Ascendant come to nothing and be despicable to all the World and especially to the Court of Rome without hopes of being ever able to recover it self if such a Reformation be not made And I dare venture to say that without this the Kingdom is in danger to be torn into pieces by Civil Wars ere it be long or involved in short in another new War on the account of Religion by the Jesuites at the secret Suggestion of the Pope who are still afraid of that Kings great Authority tho his Kingdom is ruined There 's no other Method left as I have intimated already to put the King in a condition to pay his numerous Debts but this Evangelical Reformation and because diverse Persons of great Merit have desir'd of me to give some Account of the Ways and Means they take to find Money to borrow and Places to sell in a Kingdom so much ruined as France I could not refuse to obey them in imparting what is publickly known of that Matter in France therefore I shall here make a little digression We must observe then that the Court entertains a great number of People in Provinces and Towns who make it their business to discover those who have yet any Money left ' em Whereupon the Intendant Governour or other Chief Men of the Place have orders either to call for such Persons or to go to their Houses and tell them that the King has a mind to sell such and such new Places or Augmentations of Salleries to all Civil Officers who are already in Place or Letters of Nobility to Commoners or some other Priviledges or to create Rents upon the Town-House of Paris or to alienate the Revenues of the Post-Office or some part of his Demain c. Then they are acquainted Civilly that they will oblige the Court to lay out their Money on such thing●… and do a piece of good Service to the State that their Principal and Interest will both be sure and their gain considerable If they answer that they have no Money after being desir'd thus to lay it out then they find it to be as Tacitus says Preceserant sed quibus resisti non poterat They were Prayers indeed but such as they could not resist Those Officers inform themselves more partic●…larly of the Sta●…e of their Affairs from Scriveners and Notaries who are oblig'd to tell all they know of it After this they proceed to threaten the Persons that so they may squeeze Money out of them But there are few who let it come to this extremity because they see so many Examples before them of People ruined by such Refusals for either they are tax'd extraordinarily as rich Persons or are accused that either they themselves or their Friends whose Estates they Inherit robb'd the Publick when they were in Office and thereupon despoil them of their Estates Otherwise all the Actions of their whole Life are Canvass'd or if that fail the Conversations of their Children and other Relations are enquired into on purpose to vex them and their Tenants are over-whelm'd with Impositions or Quartering of Soldiers There are a hundred other such Methods and their Children and Relations are never advanc'd neither in the Church in the Army nor otherwise And they are besi●…es accounted at Court Enemies to the Government sometimes imprisoned and if they have any Suit at Law the adverse Party is sure to find favour c. It 's true there are some who are known to be extreamly Rich or in great business ●…hat prevent ●…he Court on purpose ●…o gain Favour and lend their Money upon the Town-house of Paris nor do they know how to dispose of their Money otherwise Trade being quite ruined Houses and Land being of no value and all people almost being