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An essay on the coin and commerce of the kingdom trade and treasure (which are twins) being the only supporters thereof next to religion and justice.
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Praed, John.
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1695
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Wing P3163A; ESTC R221798
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that spread Nets upon the Water shall languish that the great Sea business of Fishing be not forthwith set forward May it please your Majesty P. 203. I have the rather undergone the pains of looking into the Policies of the Dutch and French because I have heard them profess they hoped to get the whole Trade of Christendom into their hands And how near the French had got the Trade and Holland into the Bargain let them judge that best understand the Advantage we have by the present War IV. The French King hath been disciplining a victorious Britannia Languens p. 207. and mighty Army and exhausting us by his Trade with a great addition of loss by his Capers and at last hath as it were forced a General Peace Wherefore in order to our future Safety it is indispensibly 276. and speedily necessary to improve and regulate our Trade to the utmost And a compleat regulation of our Trade would render it prodigiously beneficial perhaps 286. more than all the Trade of Europe besides considering how our Advantages in Trade will reduce the Trade of our Neighbours as ours does improve If our Trade had been regulated 291. the very Dutch would have forsaken those Provinces for England or if they had remained they would have been Carriers for the English as they have been to the French and will rather be so for the future The Trade of the World have long courted England P. 301. but never with so much importunity or with so much advantage as now This great Lady affecting Freedom and security hath no inclination to continue under the Arbitrary Power of the French With France she hath resided only as a Sojourner but is ready to espouse our Interest and Nation and with her self to bestow upon us the Treasure of the World But if we will still continue inexorable and stubborn things are grown to such a Crisis that we may have reason to fear that this is the last time of asking And that she may suddenly turn this kindness for the Kingdom into such a fury as we shall not be able to withstand Shall we then embrace so advantageous overtures or shall we proceed in our present Methods I shall leave it here to be computed P. 279. how near a Million per An. our French over-balance hath been ever since the Prohibition not forgetting the courtesie of our Merchants who hearing of the Prohibition imported of French Goods to the value of about a Million V. Besides those fruitfull Islands Speed 's Chron. P. 1. that dispersedly are scattered about the Main like to beautifull Pearl that incompass a Diadem the Isle of Great Britain does raise itself first to our sight as to the body of that most famous and mighty Empire whereof many other Kingdoms and Countries are Parcels and Members being by the Almighty so set in the Main Ocean as that She is thereby the High Admiral of the Seas and the Terrestrial Globe So seated as that She is worthily reputed both the Garden of Pleasure and the Store-house of Profit opening her Havens every way sit to receive all Foreign Traffick and to utter her own into all other parts and therefore as the Sovereign Lady and Empress of the rest deserves our description in the first place And Mr. Reynell saith thus of Jamaica Jamaica is the place that will turn to a great Advantage to the English on many Accounts English Interest p. 83. as by lying so near the Isthmus of Panama and for several other Advantages which I shall not now mention But the very Situation of the Island is extraordinary remarkable and it was the greatest Blessing imaginable that we left the Enterprize of Hispaniola and set on this Island For if we had studied an Age to fix in a place where we might Center the richest Treasure and Trade of the Indies here it must be For Jamaica is Situated so well for Trade or Conquest of the Main if there be Occasion that no Island in the World lyes like it for Advantage it being the Key of the Indies and naturally the Seat of Riches and Empire So that if they had but a Trade once with the Indies adjoyning they have no way to avoid being the richest Colony in the Indies it being wholly surrounded with the main Land and Islands lying in the very Belly of all Commerce in the In-land Sea of Porto Bell which is in the heart of America and near the Mexican Gulph between Peru and Mexico facing to the South and West the richest Continent in the World from which not distant any where much above 100 Leagues Against it on the North lie the two great Islands of Cuba and Hispaniola and a little behither Eastward are the Caribbee Islands but this lieth in the midst of all as Queen of the Indian Isles and no Ship that comes from the West Indies but must pass by one End of this Isle before they come to the Gulph of Florida which place all Ships must pass that come for Europe And had we but a Trade with the Indies so near Neighbours to us we should vend more Commodities than we could send them and have in Exchange store of Silver 'T were the Spaniards Interest also to let us have a free Trade and share with them of some few Port-Towns on the Continent to maintain a Trade and Neighbourliness between us so should we not endanger them but equally defend the Indies with them and they by our means have twice the Riches yearly come home to Spain that now they have Now saith the same Author in his Preface it is a very hard Case if the Heavenly Bounty shall by Nature thus furnish us with so great Assistances and we should not add to it and give some Advance by our own Art and Industry bringing in whatever Foreign Arts Trades or Husbandry may be profitable to us ☜ For doubtless we may Aggrandize our Trade to an inestimable Account if we would our selves and make our Territories as rich and populous as we please under so Glorious a King and Government as we have had we but that publick Spirit as we ought and gave Countenance to brave Actions and industrious Men and minded the Business of Trade and Populacy as much as we do Pleasures and Luxuries And if we were but Industrious no Nation can exceed us in a home or foreign Trade and for foreign Trade England lies so surrounded with our Neighbour Nations that it seems designed for all manner of Riches and for the Seat of the Empire VI. The Kingdom of Heaven saith my Lord Bacon in his Summary Treatise to King James the First touching the enlarging of the Bounds of Empire is compared not to an Acorn or Nut but to a Grain of Mustard-seed which is one of the least Grains but hath in it a Property and Spirit hastily to get up and spread it self So are there Kingdoms and States in Compass and Territories very