Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	acre_n	shilling_n	worth_a	1,731	5	10.0348	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52302	The present interest of England, or, A confutation of the Whiggish conspiratours anti-monyan principle shewing from reason and experience the ways to make the government safe, the king great, the people happy, money plentifull, and trade flourish.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1683 (1683)	Wing N111; ESTC R16235	30,815	50

Execrable Conspiracy so miraculously discovered by disabling the King and his Friends and depriving the Government of the Power to oppose them in case they had proceeded to actual Hostilities and Insurrections And now according to my promise I must answer the obvious Objection which the Gentlemen and People of better rank in the Nation will certainly make to this that hath been said they know their Rents are fallen their Lands every day thrown into their hands and that they are forced for want of Tenants to turn Farmers themselves and to stock and employ their own Estates All this is most certainly true and I know it experimentally my self Now will they say This would be very hard upon us to pay the same Rates and Taxes as formerly when our Estates are lessened a third part of their yearly value To this I answer First that admitting what before hath been said to be true and till it is disproved by stronger reason than that upon which it stands it ought to be so esteemed I know no way to raise and increase their Rents in probability like this for upon the circulation of more Money it must certainly be more plentifull and all those little Hoarders and Bankers will be obliged to let some part of theirs circulate who now keep it up and Money becoming more plentifull all Country Commodities will advance in their price the rising of Country Commodities will enable and encourage Tenants to hire Lands and will advance their Rents So that upon the matter the Money granted to the Crown is but the best way of putting out some part of a Man's Estate for die improvement of the rest and like sowing Sain-foin or Clover which from three or four Shillings per Acre will raise the Land to double or treble the value And if there were nothing else in it the Experiment is not so chargeable but that it is worth the Nations trying and I dare presume to say there is scarcely that Gentleman of Estate in England but would upon as slender Inducements venture as great a proportion as his part of any Royal Aid yet granted has amounted to for the improment of his Estate And at the worst should it not succeed yet the Nation has but done their duty to the King and themselves in supplying the Occasions of the Government by parting with some part of their Estates in order to the securing the Remainder from Foreign Force or Domestick Vsurpers so that at most it is but so much Money to insure the Kingdom from the devouring Flames of a Civil or Foreign War But if it should succeed as I cannot see how it can doe otherwise it must make the King the greatest Prince and the Nation the richest People in the World For besides the advantage and security we reap by inabling the Government to protect us in all our just and legal Rights at home against the Machinations of Factious Traytours and Commonwealthsmen this will give extraordinary encouragement and countenance to our Foreign Commerce which is of mighty influence to the Inland Trade by disburthening the Nation of the surplusage of its Native Commodities for how desirous soever any of our Covetous or Ambitious Neighbours may be to spoil our Markets or rob us of our Trade they will difficultly be persuaded to break with us or come to blows for it when they shall see the Crown of England in capacity by strong and powerfull Fleets to give Laws to the Ocean and to redress the wrongs and injuries done or offered to our Merchants though in the remotest corners of the Earth Nay it is more than possible that the Strength Riches and Reputation of England may thereby come to be so advanced as to render it the great Emporium and Exchange of the World But secondly I answer that for my own particular I am for easing the Land as much as is possible and think those Impositions the best which grow and arise upon such things as are least felt such as the duty upon Liquours where the burthen is born by so many and in such small proportions that it is scarcely felt by single persons And possibly it would not hurt the Nation by some Imposition to restrain the excessive luxuriance of buildings near the Cities of London and Westminster which certainly make the Nation weak and Riketty and depopulate the Country and by withdrawing so many hands from Husbandry and Manufactures in the several Counties of England make Tenants scarce and Rents fall But thirdly I am clearly for setting the Saddle upon the right Horse and since the Dissenters have occasioned more than common necessity for the supporting the Crown and securing the Government against their Attempts to oblige them to bear the greatest part of that Charge We have had many boasts from them of late years how considerable they are for number and wealth now since they have by their repeated indeavours made it visible that they would mis-imploy their Strength and Riches to the subversion of the present Government there is all the reason in the world and their own reason too when they had the power that they should bear the Charges which they have created and that the honest and Loyal Party should not be obliged to suffer in their Estates to secure the King and Government against their disturbances and wicked attempts But besides it is not onely reasonable and the practice of all Governments but marvellous just too They cannot complain of Adonibezeck's Law especially since the return will be but to pare their Nails in requital of their cutting off the Thumbs nay the Hands and Heads of the Royal Party They have had their day and took all it is but just the Royalists should have theirs too and take some The Riches they value themselves so much upon what are they but the spoils of the late Rebellion when they grew rich and great by oppressing sequestring taxing and plundring the King the Church and the Loyal Party For when they had the poor Royalists under their power they made them defray the greatest part of the Charges of the Nation out of their Estates and surely they can have no reason to complain if they receive some part of the measure which they then called the highest Justice and did so liberally dispense to others And truly it is but a Pig of their own Sow the Child of their own Politicks for if they can believe it so high a point of Reason of State to keep the King from Money that so he might not be able to traverse their Designs or hinder their Attempts the same and far greater Reason of State lies against them not to permit them to be Masters of so much Money as to be able therewith to hurt the King or disturb the Government And truly it will be a great kindness to them to disable them from doing mischief like the taking of a Sword out of a Madman's hand for fear he should kill himself or some other with it