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A57113	The true English interest, or, An account of the chief national improvements in some political observations, demonstrating an infallible advance of this nation to infinite wealth and greatness, trade and populacy, with imployment and preferment for all persons / by Carew Reynel, Esq.	Reynell, Carew, 1636-1690.	1674 (1674)	Wing R1215; ESTC R36784	29,224	118

Marble by a new Mill expeditiously by Major Calthrop several Engines for making Rivers Navigable by Mr. Lee of the North and Mr. Baily the bringing in of Saffron Liquorish Xantfoigne Clover Lucerne and of late the Saffe Flower that dies Scarlet and of very great gain to the planter as twenty or thirty pounds per annum an Acre above all charges the making of Latton is found out also if encouraged an excellent Sider Engine that both grinds and presses Apples and will make you by it ten Hogsheads a day found out by Mr. John Worlidge of Petesfield Also an excellent invention of late for whitening black and brown Hair so as to make light coulored Periwigs Many such useful Inventions and Discoveries would daily be produced if Rewards and Encouragements or Pensions were appointed for the Inventors 31. Of Plantations IT concerns the English to Plant and fix Colonies only in the chiefest and most considerable fastnesses for Trade and Design and not to waste men in large and unprofitable Territories which hath ruin'd the Spaniard Most of our Plantations in the West-Indies except Jamaica and Barbadoes are but unprofitable And Barbadoes is small but Jamaica is the place that will turn to a great advantage to the English on many accounts as by lying so near the Isthmus of Panama and for several other advantages which I shall not now mention But the very scituation of this 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 studyed an Age to six in a place where we might Center the richest Treasure and Trade of the Indies here it must be for Jamaica is scituated so well for Trade or conquest of the Main if there be occasion that no Island in the World lies 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 an hundred Leagues and against it on the North lie the two great Islands of Cuba and Hispaniola and a little be-hither Eastwards are the Caribbee Islands but this lyeth 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 as they have now But of this in another place Concerning our Plantations in America the Southern Plantations are the most advantageous to us and it were well hereafter we planted no more behither Jamaica but settled and removed if possible rather our Northern Colonies more forward And these now insignificant Islands to us of Nevis Mountserat Antego and St. Christophers if removed more Southwards might prove very advantageous to us For our North Colonies as those of New England and the rest afford only such Commodities as we have our selves and so breed no good Commerce besides they hinder Trade to our Southern Plantations by supplying Barbadoes Jamaica and the rest with such things as we do so that they take the bread out of our mouths and are ●●ther a disadvantage than advantage to us whereas if they had been at first planted near the Bay of Mexico they would by this time have run down as far as the Silver Mines by course of ordinary populating and besides breed so much Trade that they would have taken off all our Commodities we had to spare I could easily demonstrate if it were required a more particular account of the West-Indies of the Spaniards Interest and ours and what great advantages we might have there if we pleased But I shall refer this to a more seasonable occasion In conclusion no opportunity should be slighted but that we fix Colonies of our own People abroad in the chiefest fastnesses and most considerable places of Trade and absolute advantage Yet the whilst encouraging populacy and Manufactures at home by priviledging the best Foreigners and Artificers and Tradsemen countenancing them as our own with all manner of promotion to bring in their Colonies hither for 't is observed that those sober Trading People encrease wealth extreamly and have none that want amongst them but contrariwise set on work all the Industrious round about them and so we should by this means of countenancing all the Ingenious and Industrious have no poor or idle persons amongst us but be full of people wealth and riches full of all Trades and Arts whatsoever Land at thirty years purchase and Employment and Preferment for all persons FINIS Reader THere is now newly Printed that most excellent piece of Daily Devotions or the Christians Morning and Evening sacrifice Digested into Prayers and Meditations for every day of the week and other occasions with Directions for a Godly Life By John Collet D. D. Dean of St. Pauls and Founder of that famous School near adjoyning the last Edition with a brief account of the Authors Life by D. T. Fuller There is now ready for the Press a Relation of Two Voyages to New-England Performed in the years of our Lord 1638. and 1663. With a Chronological Tableof the most remarkable passages since the first planting of New-England by John Josselyn Gent. Advertisement THose Famous Lozenges for the Cure of Consumptions Asthmaes Phthisicks Colds new and old Hoarsness and Obstructions of the Stomach Also a Soveraign Antidote against the Plague and all other contagious Diseases they are a great Cordial and fortifie all the Spirits both Animal Vital and Natural And whereas formerly I made use of Mr. Richard Lownes at the White Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard for the dispersing of them These are to certifie the World that I have taken them from him to prevent any further abuse that may arise by those that have or shall hereafter Counterfeit my Lozenges to the fraud and abuse of so famous a Medicine and whereas formerly I put my own Coat of Arms on the top of the Paper These are to certifie that I now put the Queens Arms upon the top of the Paper and at the end with my own Coat of Arms in Red wax The price is two shillings and six pence the Paper They are to be had at Mr. Giles Widdowes Bookseller at the Green Dragon in St. Paul's Church-yard whom I have deputed to be the whole disposer of them Edmund Buckworth Physician to the Queens most Excellent Majesty

THE True English Interest OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE Chief National Improvements IN Some Political Observations Demonstrating an Infallible Advance of this Nation to Infinite Wealth and Greatness Trade and Populacy with Imployment and Preferment for all Persons By Carew Reynel Esq LONDON Printed for Giles Widdowes at the Green-Dragon in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1674. THE PREFACE GReat-Britain is acknowledged by all the world to be Queen of the Isles and as capable to live within it self as any Nation Having not only all things necessary for the Life of man but also abundance of materials and store of Manufactures and Commodities to a superfluity for Transportation And is so incomparably situated that Trade offers it self to all its Ports and Harbors The Soyl of the Country rich abounding with much Grain Horses Beefs and Sheep that wear the Golden Fleece and other Traffick Also Mines of Tin Lead and Sea-Coal unexhaustible and no Nation in the Universe but partakes of its wollen manufactures Its Seas every where filled with shoals of Fish that are as good as ready silver to fetch in all manner of Foreign Commodities Now it is a very hard case if the Heavenly Bounty shall by nature thus furnish us with so great assistances that we should not add to it and give some advance by our own Art and Industry bringing in whatever foreign Arts Trades or Husbandries 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 Luxury Get first but Trade and People which will produce riches and then pleasure will come of course Riches are the Convenience of the Nation people are the strength pleasure and glory of the Nation But Trade preserves both And if we be but industrious no Nation can exceed us either in a home or forreign trade For at home we have so many materials to employ people and men hardy and ingenious enough to work and raise all sorts of manufactures within our selves which we have now from abroad yet we make not our own Silks we wear our own houshold-furniture I mean Tapistry nor our own shirts to our backs which three manufactures if we had them full stockt would make us infinitely rich and populous to Eternity And for foreign trade and commerce this Island lies so surrounded with our neighbour nations and those of the chief concern and so near them that it seems designed for all manner of riches and the seat of Empire Being a Land also pleasant and its Metropolis London so great and glorious that it invites all people that come over to stay here So that the Country being thus accomplished powerful and substantial already as to fertility and ingenuity of the natives a little help and inspection will make it the most glorious place in the world and his Majesty the most potent Prince in Christendom I have hinted here at the chief advancements we are capable of and those I am sure will do the work effectually if encouraged for though we are a Nation already pretty substantial yet it 's easie for us to be ten times richer and that in the third part of an Age if we will set aside some portion of our time and mony for publick actions and such contrivances that may be for the general good We are come to this Improvement that we are not so much by the indulgent care of rich men as by the wants of some ingenious persons forcing them to improve themselves for a livelihood But what perfection should we arrive to if in imitation of his Majesty and Royal Highness who much incourage Trade Ingenuity and Discoveries even beyond any former Princes other great and rich persons would set about the work and private persons would get publick spirits to labour after things so beneficial not only to the nation in general but to every man in particular We take up our time about little businesses and it may be factious discourses when the whole profit of the nation which is properly a nation of trade lies unregarded And half the charges that were spent in the last Rebellion would have brought the Gold of Guiny and Riches of the Indies to us Free Naturalization and some kind of general Indulgence the Bug-bear of former Ages is now by Statists found to be the great security and cement of Society as well as the Aggrandizing of them to vastness of Trade Riches and Populousness What hath made the Hollanders to bid defiance to the most potent Princes of Christendom but this which now is plain to all the world and legible to the most obstinate And when other Princes are at loss for trade men mony and vent for their commodities they abound in all these and though a small Country not much above the bigness of York-shire yet is the richest most populous and most trading spot of the Universe although they have no Timber of their own nor any grain or manufacturing materials yet they have more plenty of Ships and all other Commodities and reasonabler than any part of Christendom And though they have already ten times as many people as their native Country will maintain yet the great freedom and trade they have makes people of all nations flock thither as to a refuge and sanctuary So that they carry all before them like a mighty torrent Amsterdam declaring freedom to all the world to come and dwell there with equal liberty and priviledges as themselves and might have still so continued had not their ingratitude engaged his Majesty to make them a little more civil to him whose Predecessors first set them up All of us both Country and City should be endeavouring how they may do good in their generation and be beneficial to the publick For if we were once full of people and full of trade rents of Lands would quickly raise the Kings revenue would be greater the Nobility and Gentry richer the Commonalty more substantial and the poor be all employed to advantage We want people and yet as the case stands we want means to maintain them when if we please we may increase our people by multitudes and grow infinitely rich by them too For it is a sad case there should be so many lusty poor about every where and yet so many manufactures want to be brought in which would set at work millions of people more than we have to spare For it is manufactures must do the work which will not only increase people but also Trade and advance it It saves likewise mony in our purses by lessening importation and brings mony in by exportation How many decayed Gentry also of good families that want bread and are dispatcht beyond Seas

live where they are most secure Besides coming in by degrees they would not be considerable And generally they that come over are men that would Marry English Women so are English presently and are good Preferm●nt to ordinary Women being generally tradsemen and Manufacturing men as we see in many French and Dutch already that are perfectly English However in half an Age they would be as much English as our selves The old stock going off and the Children being born in England supplying their places and however at present live as quietly and are good Subjects and as great lovers of us and the Kingdom as others or else they would never leave their own Nation so formally to Inhabit here for all that do so leave their Country shew an extraordinary affection unto this place and so are by all means to be received and countenanced What ever they are before when once they come here to be under our Laws Customs and Government they are soon all one with us By this means also we should draw back our own English from Holland and all Europe esides and many of our Plantations also this and the Fishery would bring in an infinite Trade to England and so drein Holland of her Men Money and Merchandise that we should leave them bare of every profitable thing And no way can we be too hard for them like this for the Fishing Trade is that which clearly sets them up the one gets them great Numbers of People the other abundance of Money or exchange for all manner of Merchandises by this they get so much wealth from all Places Now if matters were regulated aright we should very much out do them in their own way this Island lies much better for Trade and is a much more pleasant and capacious Country for Inhabitants for they themselves had rather live and purchase Land here than there Land being cheaper more Seats to be bought and every thing more convenient for such Merchants that have gotten Estates in their own Country And if once they were settled and fixed here they would bring over millions of Money and many trading people also if they may be free Denizons with a toleration and priviledges sutable Another way of being populous is countenancing Marriage and a settled Life giving it many Priviledges more than either single or debauched persons and that none but Married persons be capable of any profitable Office or Preferment This is the very Original of the well being and continuance of Nations Upon this property Families and civil Government depends also Trade Riches Populacy and without this a Nation crumbles to nothing Besides Married People are more honest oeconomical and Industrious By the Laws of Lycurgus elderly Batchelors were banished the company of all civil and honest people Where a Nation is given to be Licentious they breed but few Children Lewd Women make away their Children or order it so they never have many And it is an ill Custom in many Country Parishes where they as much as they can hinder poor people from Marrying for at present they are the very stock and seminary of the Kingdom they marry apace and get a laborious hardy Generation which is best for a Nation They value not Portions so they are able to serve work or any way earn their living which is a brave humour For we ought to encrease the world for the publick good and to be contented in a mean and not sacrifice our thoughts to Ambition and were it not for these poor honest people we should be almost desolate Strictness of Matrimonial Laws and Penalties against lewdness breeds constancy and pleasure in lawful ties and hinders the very thoughts of loose designs making people follow their callings quietly and soberly when the pain of the Penalty spoils the sweet of Luxury and every honest man would be glad that by this means himself is also kept from such Vices otherwise he would be apt to commit There is a great complaint of many people flocking out beyond Sea to Plantations why is it not prevented it cannot be done by force for who can keep in such that are ready to starve for want of Bread wherefore it must be done by raising of Employments Professions and Trade for young persons and Children which would encourage People to get them For by that means we may employ twice the number of People that we have What makes New England Jamaica and the Plantations abroad increase so fast but because they have Employments and Estates for all People and no poor among them which encourages People to come from abroad and their own People to Marry and get Children when they know as soon as they are grown up they can give every Child an Estate by setting them out so many Acres in a fresh Plantation so they increase ad infinitum till they have stockt the Islands and Country full as they have in Barbadoes which Island being not above twenty eight Miles long and fourteen Miles broad yet by relation contains fifty thousand English besides twice as many Blacks And if we did set up Manufactures and inclose the Forests we should populate as much we having several Forests bigger than the Barbadoes And great Estates should not be desired to leave Children but so much as to help Industry Why should not Ingenious persons by publick establishment be allowed forty or fifty Acres to a Family out of these Lands which are now more charges than benefit How brave a provision this would be for ruined Families and improvement to the riches populacy and grandeur of the Nation Who can blame people to go beyond Seas when they cannot live here it is meer need and force that drives them out of the Kingdom And it is a sign of great Ingenuity that they will go and strive to live any where England is not half Peopled and yet we find not employment for those we have Therefore judge you how it would encrease people and employments if the Forests were inclosed and how many people lie wanting now that this would help and relieve 25. Kings Revenue Taxes Customs IT is a great strength and advance also to a Nation to allow the Prince a considerable Revenue for so will he be able to countenance his Subjects and defend them from all assaults And the keeping a plentiful Court some small Forces and Navy gives good Preferment to the Subjects but Taxes were better raised any way than from the Land for that drives the Money out of the Country which seldom or never returns And is hard to be got to it upon any occasion but it would be great advantage to his Majestie and gratifie his Subjects infinitly if he could get a considerable Revenue some where from without by which means his own people might be eased at home which would bind them to him Eternally besides the great advantage it would be to the Nation by such a yearly Income of Silver continually and questionless the King of England might have