Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	famine_n	joseph_n	pharaoh_n	1,487	5	10.4663	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54682	The antiquity, legality, reason, duty and necessity of præ-emption and prourveyance, for the King, or, Compositions for his pourveyance as they were used and taken for the provisions of the Kings household, the small charge and burthen thereof to the people, and the many for the author, great mischiefs and inconveniences which will inevitably follow the taking of them away / by Fabian Philipps.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1663 (1663)	Wing P2004; ESTC R10010	306,442	558

to be by an invadeing of the peoples Rights and Properties in their moveables or immovables but a receiving or imposing of that which publick welfare and the contracts or respects of Subjects in general or particular have for benefits received and to be continued reduced into reasonable Customs and made to be as a most ready and willing Tribute Oblations or Duty to their Kings and Princes may go as high as Filial duty and Paternity and a retribution or gratitude for the peace and plenty which their Subjects and people enjoy under their Government Love Honor and Reverence for their Protection and self Preservation publick weal and safety and of every mans particular included in the General and was to be found in the morning of the world as well as in the afternoon and evening of it when as Joseph relieving the Egyptians necessity which a national Famine had brought upon them gave them Lands and Seed-Corn to sow it that they might have food for their Housholds and little ones and made a Law over the Land of Egypt to this day that the King should have the Fifth part of the yearly profits except the land of the Priests only which became not Pharaohs And in the Reign of King David when the Moabites being become his Subjects sent him Guifts and Shobi the Son of Nahash and Rabbab of the Children of Ammon and Machir the Son of Ammiel of Lodebar and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim in his sorrowfull march against his Son Absolom brought Beds and Basins Earthen Vessels Wheat and Barley Floure Parched Corn Beans Lentils Parched Honey Butter Sheep and Cheese of Kyne for David and the people and in all or most of the Circumstances of what was lately used in England was no stranger in the happy and famous Government of King Solomon the wisest of men whose wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the East Country and all the wisdom of Egypt for besides the Victuals and Provision which his twelve great Officers or Socage Tenants provided for him and all that came unto his Table all the Kingdoms which he reigned over from the River of Euphrates unto the Land of the Philistines and unto the border of Egypt and all other his Dominions brought Presents unto him and his prouision for one day was thirty measures of fine Floure threescore measures of meal ten fat Oxen Twenty Oxen out of the Pastures and an hundred sheep besides Harts Roe Bucks Fallow Deer and fatted Fowl And all the Earth sought to Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart and they brought every man his present Vessels of Silver Vessels of Gold Garments Armour Spices Horses and Mules a rate year by year And he raised a Levy out of all Israel and the Levy was thirty thousand men and sent them to Lebanon as workmen ten Thousand a month by course and two months at home and Judah and Israel were many as is the sand which is by the Sea in multitude eating and drinking and making merry and dwelt safely every man under his own Vine and under his Figg Tree from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba all the days of Solomon and as Josephus saith had Tribute Gatherers over the Syrians who brought him Provision towards the keeping of his house horses Mesha King of Moab rendred unto Ahab King of Israel a Tribute of one hundred Thousand Lambs and an hundred Thousand Rams with the wool some of the Philistines brought Jehosophat King of Judah Presents and Tribute Silver and the Arabians brought him Flocks seven thousand Rams and seven hundred Hee-goats And in the measure and description of the Holy City shewed to the Prophet Ezekiel in the Twenty Fifth year of Jehoiakims Captivity a portion of the City and Suburbs and Oblations were appointed for the Prince Which custom or right due to the Kings or Governors was not after the long and lamentable Captivity of the Children of Israel at their return and building of Jerusalem either forgotten or thought fit to be laid aside when as the Righteous Nehemiah considering the necessities of the people refused the bread of the Governor and that which was prepared for him daily which was one Oxe and six thousand sheep and also Fowls and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine Nor was that usage and way of remuneration to Superiors confined only to the pedagoguie of the Jews under the Severities of their Mosaical Laws or their being so much weaned from avarice or selfishnes by their remissions in their years of Jubile their many oblations free-will offerings and chargeable Sacrifices and no less a penaltie then death ordained for not obeying their Princes or Magistrates but was by a light of nature and emanation of right Reason some way or other brought or carried to the Greeks no despisers of wisdom or prudential imitations Agamemnon at the siege of Troy was able to treat the chief of the Grecian Army in his Tent with all fitting provisions And Eustathius the Scoliast saith that the King had at the devision of any spoils an extraordinary share assigned him for such entertainments The Spartan Kings had in all Sacrifices the Chynes and the skins for their honorary Fees as amongst the Hebrews the Priests had the shoulders and in that popular rustick and unmanerly Commonwealth of the Lacedemonians their Kings even in the time of their insolent Ephori who dominered over them and when they lived and were maintained ex publico out of the publick could not be denied by the Laws of Lycurgus in egressibus their marches or progresses capere quaecunque pecora libuerit to take what Cattel they pleased Et singulis quoque Calendis mensium singula pecora eis è publico data fuerint And in the Calends of every month the people gave or presented Cattel unto them Apollini immolanda to sacrifice to Apollo and when their Pythii or those two whom the Kings did use upon occasions to send to Delphos to consult the Oracle were publickly to eat with them Regibus ad Caenam non euntibus binae Chaenices id est Semimodia Farinae uni singulae Cotylae i. e. sextarii presentibus dupla data fuerint if the Kings for sometimes they had two came not to the place appointed to eat with the Pythii certain large proportions of meat wine and other Provisions were sent them and when they did come had a double proportion more then the Pythii allowed them The Athenians whilst they were a Republick highly valuing and carefully preserving their Liberties had their Tolls and vectigalia publica their Senators as well as their Judges having an allowance or pensions out of them and their Sitophilaces and Frumentatores or Overseers of the Corn were able to take care of the Provision of Corn quod in atticum emperium adveheretur duas partes in urbem mercatores deferre cogerent that two parts of the Corn which should be brought

have made in overplus and spare money and that Paul Bayning an Alderman of London could about the same time besides an Estate in Land of inheritance of almost six thousand pound per annum make a totall of his personal Estate of about one hundred and fourty thousand pounds which was as much or more then many thousand men in the County of Essex could above their necessary expences make in ●n overplus or sum of money And that if money were in England as plentiful as it was in Jerusalem in the happy Raign of the wise King Solomon when it was said to be in as much abundance as the stones in the streets yet if Corn Cattel and food should be scarce the greatest plenty of money we can imagine would not deliver us from that dearth which was in that Kingdom not many years after when Samaria was besieged making the excessive rates of an Asses head and a Kab of Pigeons Dung and whether money be scarce or plentiful if there should be a famine as it was in Israel when there had been no rain in three years when the heavens were as brass and the fruits of the earth failed no man can with any reason believe that the great rates or prices of Corn Victuals and houshold provisions were because there was plenty of Gold Silver for if there be a scarcity of the thing to be bought it must be the want of that and not the abundance of money that makes the dearness which if it be never so much cannot increase that little that is of the Commodity or thing to be bought nor the want of money make it to be any cheaper the want or plenty of it contributing in such a case nothing at all to the making that to be dear which when there is more of it will be sold at a cheaper rate for a little money whether they that are to buy it have little or more of money the want of money constraining him that sells to sell cheaper and the great store of money sometimes but not often or generally perswading the buyer to give more then one that hath not so much will be d●awn to give for it For as it is true that in Virginia where their principal Barter or Exchange is by Tobacco instead of money and is there many times used as their Coyn or money that where any man there is in want of Tobacco and must needs have it he will be willing to give more Beavers Skins or any other commodities which he hath for it then he would otherwise do if Tobacco were more plentiful or easier to be had And as certain likewise that when there is great store of Tobacco and it is in the language of Merchants and Tradesmen but as a Drug and of little price or value there will not be so much of other things or commodities given for it So it will be as true and certain that there is in no Kingdom or Country of Christendom especially in our Brittain and other world where howsoever some Cosmographers and Chartes or Mapps would by a great mistake make Gold to be a Native the Sun is not so amorous as to beget us Mines of Gold nor is there any probability that there ever were any neither is there any Tagus or River bringing any golden Sands along with it And that which we have of Silver is but rarely and seldom intermixed and lurking in our Mines of Lead there can be no ground for our belief or reason that there should be such a disesteem or under valuing of Gold and Silver in regard of any plenty of it as was amongst the Americans or West Indians when they would give great quantities of it for Knives Beads or other Toys which the novelty of them or their desires to have them made to be pretious or that there should ever be such a surfet of Gold and Silver which most of the sons of men do desire to get or keep as to make all things dear which are to be bought with it or to hinder that cheapness of things to be bought with it which will be of necessity where there happens to be an abundance which is the true and never failing cause of cheapness abstracted and altogether a stranger to any supposed plenty of money neither the want of money or plenty of it being generally any sole proper or efficient cause of cheapness or dearness which residing in the commodity to be bought or fold tanquam in subjecta materia as in its matter or subject regulates and makes the price when there are no fraudes or Artifices to disturbe it according as there is a scarcity or plenty of that which is to be bought or sold which is the cause that the scarcity of money hath not in all ages made or enforced a cheapness of commodities or houshold provisions to be bought with it nor a plenty of money made a dearness or enhaunce of prices nor any thing like or within many degrees of that which is n●w or ●ath been within forty years last past and they therefore will err toto Caelo who by misplacing th● cause would make the plenty or scarcity of the mensura or money to be either the cause of the scarcity or plenty dearness or cheapness of the Mensurata or things to be bought with it as by a retrospect into the course of former times and ages may be plainly manifested Where we may find the Britaines when the Barbarians drave them back to the Sea and the Sea put them back to the Barbarians grievously tormented with a famine and mortality which raged in the Land and with great desolations wrought by that dearth and after they had by repressing their enemies gained some peace and that produced such a plenty and abundance of all things as the like before no age had seen to have faln into great Riots and Excesses plenty of money there being then none or little in the Land not being any cause of the dearth or scarcity nor scarcity of the mony of the plenty of provisions The Saxons being oppressed with the invasion of the Danes and enforced to pay them a Composition of sixteen thousand pounds shortly after twenty thousand pounds afterwards twenty four then thirty and lastly fourty thousand pounds untill all the Land was emptyed of all her Coyne did not find their Victuals to be cheap in regard of their want of money but Victuals and all things to be bought with it to be dear by reason of the spoil of wars and Murrain of Cattel And they having in Anno Domini 1066 met with Talions Law and the Divine vindicta or punishment for their perfidiousness to the Britaine 's hastened by their excess of pride the women wearing as Ordericus vitalis a contemporary of William the Conqueror tells us far longer Trains or Garments then was necessary and the men striving to overtake the pride and vanity of Absolom in his hair or Bush of Excrement and so