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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95596	Common-good: or, The improvement of commons, forrests, and chases, by inclosure. Wherein the advantage of the poor, the common plenty of all, and the increase and preservation of timber, with other things of common concernment, are considered. / By S.T.	S. T. (Silvanus Taylor)	1652 (1652)	Wing T552; Thomason E663_6; ESTC R203768	31,192	59

to be beholden to them for as Corn which some yeers were we not supplied with from other parts we should be brought to great straits which by Gods blessing on the Husbandmans labour in those rich grounds in many Commons would be prevented And much of that ground which now lieth waste would be very apt for Hemp and Flax commodities too much neglected amongst us and we thereby might employ many hands of our own and be very plentifully furnished with the most needful Linen which now in a great part we have from other Countries As for the benefit which will be to this Nation by drayning and severing the Fenns every one may now see as in the rich feedings the getting of Corn Hemp and Flax the abundance of Oyle and many others all which at the first undertaking was very much opposed by many thousands who do enjoy and can speak of by good experience the great commodities that those Countries receive thereby Another increase of the Native Commodities by inclosing will be in Cattell and Wood for much of those grounds that yeeld but little now other then Mosse Furze Brackin and such unfruitfull matter would then produce fruitfull grasse which would redound much to the increase of all sort of cattell and the increase of timber will not be the least commodity the late decay thereof our enemies did rejoyce in as some can well remember when those notable Popish Politicians Sir ●ohn Winter Sir Bazill Brooks and Mr. Minn Rome's Agents had designed the destruction of those goodly woods in the Forrest of Dean and truly our friends cannot take any great joy in the great wast that hath been made since And what a great strength to our Nation shipping is and what a multitude of people are employed and maintained thereby is very visible to all wise men I dare not enter into particulars for should I they are so many they would make a great volume and my intentions of half an hours reading would be disappointed It is seen by many that Trade and Manufactory doth very much depend upon our preserving and improveing our Native commodities all forreign commodities must be obtained by those of our own Country Now those which chiefly maintain forreign commodities are fish I call it ours for we have had prescription for many Ages that which the Law of Nations if it be granted that there be any doth maintaine as one of its purest begotten Issue Wooll Tin and Lead and although many of our other Native commodities are of more absolute necessity yet these are not to be neglected and it 's not to be doubted but our God who hath so wonderfully blest our faithfull Trustees with wisdome to this day will be still with them in their Christian care and willing endeavours in these so necessary works for the universall good of all the three Nations now united in this our Common-wealth and here though collaterally to my work I must say that that Noble Act of making conquered Scotlond one free body with us and what if our Sea neighbours were thus incorporated a Maxime which the Romane and Venetian States never admitted may be more subservient to common liberty then thirty Armies but enough of this dish at this season SECT IX The way and manner of inclosing Commons MAny will say the work of it self is good if such a way might be found that might preserve each mans right Now if I might have but this granted me that it is but right that the poore ought to be maintained one way or other which surely good men will confesse then do but observe these my humble Proposalls and I doubt not but satisfaction will be given First then for all those Commons in which men have an undivided right for to them only I shall now direct the remaining part of my discourse Let the Commons in England in this I except Wales having for them a further intention be divided into foure equall parts and let one of these four be first set a part for the good of the poor to the uses following Out of this fourth part let the present Cottagers be first provided for and let respect be had to the number of each Family that so allowance may be made accordingly and let twenty thirty or forty Acres more or lesse be laid to every Cottage as for example if there be a Common of twelve hundred Acres out of that let three hundred Acres be allotted for the poor Now suppose you have of poor four Families that are Cottagers the one having four the other six the third eight and the fourth ten persons in their severall Families if it shall be thought fit let there be twenty Acres allowed to the first thirty Acres to the second forty Acres to the third and fifty Acres to the fourth in all one hundred and forty Acres so of the first fourth part there will be one hundred and sixty Acres remaining out of which one hundred and sixty acres it would do well to consider the number of poor that are in each Parish besides those that have Cottages on the Commons and are maintained by the Parish and that one third or fourth part more or lesse be allowed to that Parish for a constant relief of their poor This being done let those Cottagers to whom this land shall ye allotted have a lease thereof for terme of years or for two or three lives and that at a very easie rent not to be more then the fifth part of the present truevalue respect being had to the charges of inclosing and fencing thereof as thus if the Land be worth twenty pence the acre per annum and there be thirty acres laid to a Cottage then let the Cottager pay during his life seven eight or ten shillings yearly at the most and by this means he that is poor this year will be made rich in a very few years after for there will be now employment for the many hands in his Family some digging and planting both in garden and Orchard some ploughing for Corne Hemp and Flax some one way some another all carefully labouring with their hands that so they may enjoy the fruit thereof Ob. But it will be asked how the rent reserved on these Cottages as also the improvement at the expiration of their leases and likewise the remainder of the fourth part of the Common shall be employed An. I answer let the remainder of the fourth part not disposed of to the Cottagers be let by lease or otherwise for a yearly rent and let that rent and the reserved rent on the Cottagers with their improved rent upon the expiration of the leases be imployed in raising work-houses and stock to set the poor on work in those places most needfull which I look on as a living way for the supply of the decaies in stock for lack of which heretofore many worthy undertakings have in a short time fallen to the ground for it is not to be expected that the increase of

Chaces that are now to be sold both quantity quality and value in each division of Forrest and Chace and let the account be brought to those that shall be appointed for the sale thereof Secondly then let it be considered how many ships are fit to be built and charged yearly for thirty or forty years more or lesse and if the number of five six or seven more or lesse are yearly to be built the certain number being known then let the Commissioners of the Navy or some other send unto those which shall be appointed for sale the severall qualities usefull for shipping whether Oak Ash Beech Elme Chesnut or other wood and quantity of each quality proportioning of each quality so many load as in the whole all sorts shall amount unto the full number of loads which yearly must be expended on those ships so ascertained to be furnished out of the Forests and Chaces Then let those that shall be imployed for sale make the apportionment and fix it on each Forest and Chace so much yearly for so many years as shall be appointed for the same and thus apportion'd let the purchaser of those lands give good security by his lands to serve in so many loads yearly of good sound serviceable timber at such Wharf or Wharfs as shall be first agreed upon to be most convenient for the building of the foresaid ships if the State shall think fit this may be a kind of a rent charged on the land for ever If what hath been said be approved of these benefits will ensue as 1. The Navy will be constantly supplied for so many years as shall be agreed on without any farther charge to the State 2. Secondly the purchaser will be incouraged and necessitated to preserve his young timber at least so so much as may inable him to serve the proportion that shall be set upon him by way of Rent 3. The Purchaser will be farther incouraged so to order his land that some may be for Corn some for Pasture and some for Wood. These last Proposalls I thought good here humbly to present not that I like them best but lest the other should be disliked For surely in these weighty businesses the safest way is the best way AN APPENDIX SHEWING The chiefe cause of wandring poor in England and the remedies therof THe two great Nurseries of Idlenesse and Beggery c. in the Nation are Ale-houses and Commons The truth of the first is seen by most and the hurtfull wast that is to the Common-wealth thereby is such that it amounteth to more yearly then any Assessement for one year within these ten years last past and yet the moderate use of the creature whether respect be had to necessity or delight not to be brought into this accompt If there were an exact accompt of all that sell Ale or Beer in England there would be found an hundred thousand And that you may have some little to direct you take here what hath been done in and about London for the knowledge thereof in the yeare 1646. There were then some honest men in each Parish within the Precincts of the Militia of Westminster did bring in the number of all the houses that sold Ale or Beer in each Parish and by conference with some of the ablest to judge in the Tower Hamblets Southwark and the City of London it was judged that there were not then lesse then six thousand within the weekly Bills of Mortality since that we have little cause to believe their decrease And in my observation upon conference with knowing men of most Counties of England whose eyes have been upon this great evill it may be believed that there are not lesse than two hundred thousand in England But lest there should be any mistake in the greater number I will make use of the lesse which is one hundred thousand to measure our wast or losse by And that this may be more than probable viz. that there is no lesse than one hundred thousand houses in which Ale and Beer is sold within this Nation I thus compute it The Cities in England are twenty and six The Market Townes in England are six hundred and forty The Parishes in England besides what are in Cities and Market Townes are eight thousand at least The Cities say I have in them one with another five hundred in all thirteen thousand The Market Townes I judge to have in them one with another seventy five in all forty seven thousand The Parishes one with another have five in all forty thousand so then if this accompt be allowed the totall will be one hundred thousand Having this small measure to judge by which I believe is as small as any measure they sell their Ale by comparatively let it be either the streight laced flaggon or the narrow bottom'd pot the best of them is but the one half it should be and I believe this is the like but however the wise will easily judge of the greater by this lesse I believe there is no man that looks on the many houses that sell Ale or Beer but will say there are too many by the one half and that what is spent in such houses is too much by three parts of four nay many will say by nine parts in ten in this I agree but I will take the thoughts of them that judge the least and so take but the one halfe of what is spent in these hundred thousand Alehouses to be a wast and allow the other halfe to go for what is of necessity conveniency and lawfull delight for it cannot be denied but the calling of it self is both lawfull and necessary And our Innes on great roads in England are not only very usefull but their entertainment such that they are an honor to our Nation and therefore they and such Alehouses as are conveniently placed for the refreshing of the poor Traveller ought to have all due incouragement My endeavour here is only to shew the abuse occasioned by the multitude of unnecessary Alehouses which if considered will be found a great wast indeed I will take the least to number by and be it granted that there are but an hundred thousand houses that sell Ale and Beer besides Tavernes another wast which if considered would be found to be a very great impediment to common good but with them at this time I will not meddle and what is spent in them the one halfe shall be looked upon as wast which every drunkard in a sober fit will allow Now then grant but this that each Alehouse one with another doth sell but two barrells weekly in this I take the least and that each barrell hath three bushells of Barley Malt and each bushell worth three shillings and four pence and this be the charge before it come to be sold for two pence the flaggon then there is spent in each Alehouse weekly twenty shillings of which the wast is ten shillings so the wast in the hundred