Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	estate_n	land_n	tenant_n	4,546	5	9.9060	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92999	Severall proposals for the generall good of the Common-wealth. With the grounds and reasons thereof. Seriously propounded out of a reall desire of a firm establishment of the peace and liberties of the Common-wealth.		1651 (1651)	Wing S2800; Thomason E624_7; ESTC R206442	11,476	16

And that speciall care may be taken for the erecting of Schools in places convenient and for the admitting to Scholerships and Fellowships in the first place the children of the poorer sort whose ingenuities shall make them capable thereof And that the yearly allowance of the govenours of Hospitalls and Colledges may be so moderated that they may not exceed in wealth by the poores revenues and that the surplusage of their revenues may either be imployed for increasing the number of the Poor or Scollers in the respective Hospitalls and Colledges or augmenting their allowance where they have not sufficient maintenance or for the erecting of free Schools in places convenient for the fitting of Schollers to supply the vacancies in the respective Colledges those Schooles shall be appropriated unto And that a severe course may be taken against the buying and selling of Scholerships and Fellowships by inflicting penalties upon both buyers and sellors thereof 7. That Tithes which are found by sad experience to be oppressive to many people may be taken away and care taken for the satisfaction of such impropriators at a generall charge and that a strict inquiry may be made therein for many are usurpt by severall patrons without any colour of a title to them and that some other unoppressive way may be appointed for the maintenance of a faithfull Ministry in some measure suitable to their deserts and the greatnesse of the charge they undertake And that each Congregation may be restored to the election of their Ministers with certain rules and cautions prescribed for the more orderly proceedings therein and for the casting out of such as shall be scandalous and unfit for the work of the Ministry 8. That care be taken for the ballancing of Trade with forreign States and making the Coin here currant equall in allay and value with the Coine of other States that this Common-wealth may not be impoverished by forreign Merchants gaining the Trade and by the transportation of Coine And that forreign Nations may be prohibited the fishing upon the English Coast that so the people of this Land might reap the profit thereof unto themselves and not be forced to buy their own Fish of forreiners And that customes may either be moderated or taken away unles it may be a policy in State to continue the paiment of customes upon all commodities brought in by forreign Merchants for if the yearly income accrewing to the State by customes should be compared to the vast sums the people pay by the exchantment of the price of all commodities passing through many hands before they come to be made use of the disproportion would seem almost incredible for every Trader looks to gaine aswel by the sum he paies for Custome as by the sum he first disbursed for the commodity which carries with it an increase of gaine through every hand it passeth so that the people who are necessitated to make use of those commodities pay much more then comes in cleerly to the State besides the sums expended in collecting of it in Fees to the severall Officers imployed therein for remedying of which inconvenience and lessning of the peoples burthens such a course may be taken that all monies to be raised for the publick use may be leavied by an equall rate proportionally to mens reall and personall estate without exemption of any Land from the paiment of its due proportion if the people would consider the benefit they should reap thereby and therewith rest contented untill the great affaires of the Common-wealth would permit a relaxation of those taxes which are the easier to be born in regard they are brought in at a certaine and cheap rate and the collectors thereof more subject to a strict accompt 9. That care be taken for the encouragement and encrease of Trade throughout the Common-wealth by prohibiting the transportation of such commodities which may any waies prejudice the manufactures of this Land that so there may be imployment in profitable Trades for all those that being willing to work are now ready to perish for want of work and imployment And for the avoiding the many misdemenours committed daily by persons of dissolute life and conversation care to be taken for the compelling such to work and punishing those that shall refuse and spend their time and estates in Innes and Alhouses for prevention of which inconveniences the licensing and suppressing of Taverns Innes and Alehouses may be referred to the discretion of the Justices of peace in the●… severall Limits whereby the number of such houses being lessned those that continue may the better maintain themselves without disorder And that some stricter course may be taken for the freeing this Land from that cursed crew of Rogues and Vagabonds which spend asmuch or more then would maintain the poore and renders this Land the scorn and derision of other Nations who might more profitably be set on work at home or being incorrigeable transported into other plantations abroad And that the number of labourers may not encrease beyond the portion of work that may conveniently be provided for them care be taken for the prohibiting the building new cottages in Burroughs and Market Townes without laying some considerable portion of Land thereunto and that no new Cottage may be erected out of Market Towns without laying thereunto a double portion of Land required by the statute and the like portion of Land to be laid to all Cottages already built where the owner of such Cottage hath sufficient Land in the same Parish to make up that proportion for where Cottages depend wholly upon their labour and have neither Corn not Cattell to supply wants through siknesse or other casualties they soon are brought to poverty And whereas the owners of Cottages by the excessive rents reserved upon them do often cause their Tenants to be chargeable to the respective Parishes where they live such care may be taken therein that the Landlords may be compelled to allow such a proportion of their Rents to their decaied and impoverisht Tenants as may free the Parish from the burthen of maintaining them 10. That confederation may be taken of the sufferings of Coppy holders by the excessive fines and Heriots taken at every change according to the will of the severall Lords which coppyholders are often also enforced by the exactions of their Lords to renew their estates for yeares instead of lives which Leases once expired their coppyhold estate is quite extinct and so those Lands become wholly at the Lords dispose The condition also of the severall Tenants to corporations and companies in Cities and Burroughs is grown of late as miserable as the other whose Tenants having estates for lives or yeares have expended large sums of money in building and other improvements of the Land they held in hope of having their estates renewed at the usuall rates upon the expiration of their severall termes but of late such excessive Fines have bin imposed upon them that they have been uncapable