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A31619 The Constitution of the Office of Land-Credit, declared in a deed by Hugh Chamberlen, Senior ... and others ... ; inrolled in chancery, Anno Dom. 1696. Chamberlen, Hugh. 1696 (1696) Wing C1871; ESTC R8410 26,929 18

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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ffice of Land-Credit DECLARED IN A DEED By Hugh Chamberlen Senior M. D. and Others Joynt Undertakers and Managers thereof Inrolled in Chancery Anno Dom. 1696. 1. TO all to whom these Presents shall come Hugh Chamberlen Senior of Essex-street in the Parish of St. Clement-Danes in the County of Midlesex Doctor in Physick And as Honorary Managers of the Undertaking herein and hereby Mentioned and Intended viz. The Right Honourable Charles Earl of Monmouth Arthur Earl of Torrington Henry Earl of Romney Charles Earl of Arran of the Kingdom of Ireland and Baron of Weston in England Robert Lord Viscount Lisle Son and Heir Apparent to the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Leicester Thomas Lord Wentworth Baron of Raby Almeric Lord De Courcy Baron of Kinsale of the Kingdom of Ireland Hildebrand Lord Allington Baron of Killard of the Kingdom of Ireland The Honourable Peregrin Bertie Esquire Vice Chamberlain to his Majesty And William Bridgeman Esquire Secretary to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty And likewise as Undertakers and fixt and constant Managers of the said herein and hereby mentioned and intended Undertaking viz. The Honourable Charles Egerton of Lincolns Inn in the said County of Middlesex Thomas Aston of Aston in the County Palatin of Chester John Weston of Ockham in the County of Surry Peter Smith of the Parish of St. Ann in the Liberty of Westminster in the said County of Middlesex Oliver Salusbury of the middle Temple London Richard Robinson of the Parish of St. Giles in the Feilds in the said County of Middlesex Esquires Andrew Prime Senior of London Merchant Samuel White of Lincolnes Inn aforesaid Gent. William Prewett of the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields in the said County of Middlesex Charles Nicolas Eyre of the Parish of St. James in the Liberty of Westminster aforesaid and Peter Chamberlen of Essex-street aforesaid in the aforesaid Parish and County Esquires Send Greeting 2. Whereas the use of Credit in Trade and Dealing hath by insensible Degrees much obtained Especially for an Age last past or there abouts throughout Europe and most of the Civilized and Trading part of the World to the very great Benefit Ease and Convenience of no small part of Mankind 3. And whereas Notes or Bills of Credit have by experience been found of very great use and being well secured by a good Fund are properly accepted and taken as Ready Money and being preferable to the usual Money in many and equal to it in all Respects may therefore justly be accounted a Superior Species of Money 4. And whereas the said Hugh Chamberlen for above Thirty Years last past having taken into Serious Consideration the nature of Banks and of Credit in general and the necessary convenient and various uses and kinds thereof in divers Kingdoms and States as also here in England and observing the great Utility of sound and good Credit and the deplorable and many Mischiefs frequently resulting from uncertain mistaken personal and precarious Credit to the utter Ruine of multitudes and sometimes to the indangering the publick Safety 5. And further Considering that Lands and Hands are the Material and Efficient causes of all true genuine and natural Riches and that Money as such tho' very good and useful in its first intendment however since Subjected to Abuses is but imaginary or at most but political Wealth and therefore inferior to natural Riches and consequently as such ought to attend the service of Land and Trade and not prey upon both the Lords of the Soil and the Industrious Merchants by that corroding and destructive Canker Usury 6. And the said Hugh Chamberlen also further reflecting that Credit rightly founded upon Land must evidently be more secure than any other sort of Credit And that since Gold and Silver are not of the product of this Kingdom they might by foreign Orders by Edicts of Princes or States by a wrong Ballance of Trade or by other Artifices or Incidents thereof or by some other uncommon Accidents become scarce and rare in this Kingdom which could not happen but to the very great damage of the Publick as being the common Measure Medium Pledge and Account of Trade 7. The said Hugh Chamberlen upon these and other such Reflections and with an earnest desire to serve his Native Country in so great and general a Good applied himself with the utmost intensness of mind to contrive a general Credit to be so founded upon Land as to give it the greatest Safety and Convenience that in its own nature it is Capable of and to make a Credit that should not only be a Succedaneum to Money but in divers respects more noble and useful and indeed a Superior Species indued with all the Uses and Excellence of Metaline Money and in several Regards exceeding the same and particularly herein that in its own Nature it should be Local without the Restraint of Laws 8. And whereas the said Hugh Chamberlen at divers times Communicated these his Conceptions and Designs to divers persons and in particular to the Lords and Gentlemen herein before mentioned in order to Mature and Ripen such his Thoughts and make them more Effectual for the Common Avail 9. And whereas the said Hugh Chamberlen hath made several Attempts and Essaies to bring his said Thoughts and Intentions into Practice for the Common Good but by reason of the great and many Difficulties that generally Accompany all great and good Designes hath not hitherto been able to effect the same but yet the long many repeated and unwearied Attempts and Endeavours of the said Hugh Chamberlen and those at Sundry times Conjoyned wirh him therein have so far awakened this Nation at first and long by him Experienced to be wholly averse to thoughts of this sort that within the Reign of his present Majesty several Banks have been set up and attempted tho' all of them on a far less Basis both as to Extent and Benefit than what hath been divers times offered and Endeavoured by the said Hugh Chamberlen And indeed all the said Banks as can well be made out manifestly owing themselves to the Models frequently proposed and attempted both in Print and Manuscript and publickly and privatly and freely imparted by him to all that thought fit to Inform themselves 10. But for as much as Men Naturally Embrace the greater Good rather than the less as soon as they distinguish them aright and since the Land Credit Proposed and Intended by the said Hugh Chamberlen and his present Friends Associates and Joynt Undertakers therein can be Demonstrably made out to be far Superior to any other sort of Credit in being or attempting in the World And since divers Noblemen Gentlemen Merchants and others have been so far Sensible of the great and general good of the hereby intended Credit of its great extent and Advantage to Trade of its manifest Tendency