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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59752	A discourse of the rise & power of parliaments, of law's, of courts of judicature, of liberty, property, and religion, of the interest of England in reference to the desines of France, of taxes and of trade in a letter from a gentleman in the country to a member in Parliament.	Sheridan, Thomas, 1646-ca. 1688.	1677 (1677)	Wing S3225; ESTC R16270	94,234	304

to make good all Horses stolen out of their Stables or Pastures An Imposition on all Stage-Coaches Carts Waggons and Carriers set aside for the wel ordering the Roads woud be of general Advantage as woud a Tax upon Periwigs forving in part as a sumptuary Law A year or half a years Rent charg'd upon all the new Buildings since 1656 woud not only much oblige the City of London enabling them by the Difference of Rents to Let those many wast Houses which now to the Ruin of Trade remains un-tenanted also gratify the Kingdom by easing them from the common thredbare Land-Tax I do not question but in this Conjuncture the Wit of Men wil be contriving new Ways to supply the present occasions of a War for that a Land-Tax is slow and unequal and I am apt to fancy that of the Poll-Mony wil be pitcht upon as the most speedy Levy but must not be too great As to my self I am not sollicitous what Course they take but wish it such as may be equal and so wil be pleasing to most But be it great or smal the King as formerly wil be agen defrauded unless there be special care taken The way I apprehend is That for twenty-one Years to com neither Plaintif nor Defendant be allow'd the Benefit of the Law without producing an authentic Acquittance or Discharge that they have paid this Pol-Mony and averring the same in their Actions or Pleas. That the Ministers be forbid to Marry within that space any who do not Women as wel as Men produce such Certificats That none be admitted to any Office or Command Civil or Military Administration or Executorship Freedom or Privilege in Town City or Corporation or receiv'd into any of the Public Schools Inns or Universities if of the Age limited by the Act except they make out the said Payment which in three months after ought to be Registred with the persons Names and Qualities Now in regard that England is already very much under-peopled and wil be more so if there be a War To provide against those Evils and to obviat in som measure the Loosness and Debauchery of the present Age I have thought of a sort of Tax which I believe is perfectly new to all the World and under which 't is probable if it takes I have made Provision for my own Paying the Crown no inconsiderable Sum during my Life 'T is a Tax upon Caelibat or upon unmarryed People viz. That the Eldest Sons of Gentlemen and other Degrees of Nobility upwards shoud Marry by twenty-two compleat all their Daughters by Eighteen and Yonger Sons by Twenty-five All Citizen's Eldest Sons not Gentlemen by Twenty-three all other Men by Twenty-five All the Daughters not Servants of all Men under the Degree of Gentlemen to marry by Nineteen all Maid-Servants by Twenty That all Widdowers under Fifty Marry within Twelve Months after the Death of their Wives all Widdows under Thirty-five within two Years after their Husband's Decease unless the Widdowers or Widdows have Children alive I allow the Women as the softer and better natur'd more time to lament their Loss That no Man marry after Seventy nor Widdow after Forty-five That all Men cohabit with their Wives That the Eldest Sons of Gentlemen and all other Degrees of Nobility upward and all other Persons not Married by the times limited as afore-said shal pay per annum a peece these following Rates viz. Dukes Marquesses and their Eldest Sons Forty pound other Lords and their Eldest Sons twenty Pound Knights Barronets ten Pound Esquires eight Pound Gentlemen five Pound Citizens three Pound all other Retailing Trades-men two Pound The Yonger Brothers or Sons of all the fore-going Persons respectively half so much and likewise the Maiden Daughters or rather their Fathers or Gardians for them All Servants Laborers and others six Shillings eight Pence All the above-said Widdowers or Widdows not marrying again under the Age afore-said half but marrying again after the Ages above limited double according to their Qualities respectively and all marryed Men not cohabiting with their Wives to pay quadruple You may perceive I do not forget in this Scheme to practice som of the Courtesy of England towards the Women That in regard it is not fashionable for them to Court an hardship Custom and their own Pride has foolishly brought upon them they are Tax'd but at half what their Elder Brothers are These things I do not set down with a Design of giving People a Liberty of playing the Fool as now in Matters of Fornication under those Penalties For all single Persons that do so I woud have oblig'd under an indispensible Necessity to Marry one another And coud wish a further severity of Punishment were inflicted upon Adultery by the State since 't is so much neglected by the Church It woud also be of great and public Advantage that all Marriages were Celebrated openly in the Church according to the Canon or Rubric and the Banes three several Sundays or Holy-days first published But if this must be stil dispensed with that then all Dukes and Marquesses and their Eldest Sons shoud pay twenty Pound all Noblemen and their Eldest Sons fifteen Pound every Knight and his Eldest Son seven Pound ten Shillings every Gentleman or others five Pound to the King as a Public Tax for such License over and above the present establisht Fee in the Consistory Court That if all Children may not be Baptized openly in the Church the Births of all even of the Non-conformists may be duly Registred the knowing the exact Numbers of the People woud be of great Advantage to the Public-Weal and conduce to many good and noble Purposes which for Brevity sake I omit to mention This Course may perhaps prevent many Inconveniences that young Men and Women bring upon themselves and the Public And since the Concubitus Vagus is acknowledged to hinder Procreation the Restraint thereof wil be one Means of advancing Trade by adding more People to the Common-wealth which perhaps in the following Particulars you wil find to be the greatest occasion of its Decay An Inconvenience by all possible means to be removed For that Trade is the Support of any Kingdom especially an Island enabling the Subjects to bear the Taxes and shewing them wayes of living more agreeable than those of the Savage Indians in America whose condition is but few Degrees distant from that of Brutes Since then it is so necessary it deserves the Parliaments best Care to restore it to what it has been or make it what it shoud be The first thing to be don is The Erecting a Council or Committee of Trade whose Work shoud be to observe all manner of things relating thereunto to receive Informations of all Trades-men Artificers and others and thereupon make their Observations To consider all the Statutes already made and out of them form such Bil or Bils as shal be more convenient and present them to the Parliament to be enacted There are

need the Kingdom being so far from wanting that it is rather Overstockt in every Faculty with such as make Learning a Trade and the intercourse of our Affairs almost necessitating all others to Read and Write I hold it convenient to take it quite away not only because useless but because it is an encouragement to many to trangress the bounds of the Law That all of what degree or condition soever Men or Women literat or illiterat convicted of any of the Crimes for which Clergy is now allow'd be condem'd to the Work-Houses for Seven Years or pay to its Use sixty Pounds or more according to their Qualities By what I have already said you see I am no friend to Pardons but if any must still be granted that then any not a Gentleman obtaining one pay Twenty Pound a Gentleman Forty Pound an Esquire Sixty Pound a Knight-Batchellor Eighty Pound a Baronet or other Knight One Hundred Pound a Lord Two Hundred Pound a Marquess or Duke Four Hundred Pound The Eldest Sons of every of these to pay equal with the Fathers And in case after all this People shoud be wanting Ireland may furnish yearly Hundreds or Thousands of its Children which will prove not only advantageous for Encreasing the Wealth of England but also for securing the Peace and Quiet of that Kingdom by making so many of the Natives one and the same People with us which they will soon be if taken away so Young as that they may forget their Fathers House and Language And if after seven eight or nine Years when Masters of their Trade return'd into their own or suffer'd to abide in this Country I will not trouble you with recounting in particular the many advantages that wou'd soon flow thro all the Tracts of this Land from this source of Industry if thus supply'd with Mony and Hands All Trades and useful Manufactures of Silks Linnen Canvass Lace Paper Cordage for Ships Iron Tin c. may be there set on foot and carryed on to a far greater profit than single men can drive them In this Work-House shoud be Taught the knowledg of Arms and the Arts of War on all Festivals and Holy Dayes and the lusty young Fellows sent by turns to Sea for a year or two of the Time of this their State-Apprentiship By this means the King woud be enabled at any time without Pressing to draw out of this great Seminary a sufficient Army either for Land or Sea-service The wayes methods and orders for Regulating the several Work-Houses I coud fully demonstrat did I not think it needless at present 'T is enuf that I here Promise to do it at any time when the Great Council shall think fit to take this matter into Consideration or when you please to impose your further Commands But give me leave to say That laying aside all other Reformations of the State this alone woud secure our Lives and Fortunes from Violence and Depredation not only increase our Wealth and Power beyond what now it is but make them far exceed whatever any of our Neighbors are possest of and consequently establish a firm and lasting Peace at Home and make us terrible to the Nations abroad This great Happiness is the Wish of every tru English-man but can only be effected by the Care and Wisdom of the King and Parliament to whom I most passionatly recommend and humbly submit it I have now at length run thro all the parts of my uneasy Task you wil say I doubt not very Slubberingly to be before hand with you I do confess it I never undertook any thing more unwillingly therefore have perform'd it not only il but carelesly studying nothing so much as to com quicly to an end which indeed was my greatest Labor the fields you commanded me to take a turn in were so spacious that being once enter'd considering how short a while you oblig'd me to stay I coud not easily find my way out again which put me to a necessity of running and the hast not giving me leave to see the Rubbs in my way forc'd me to stumble What I have don can serve to no other purpose than for hints to enlarge your better thoughts upon Had these Papers bin Worthy I woud have presented them by way of New-years Gift but that was not my fault most of what you meet with here we have often discoursed with our You must not read them to any other For I am perswaded they woud tel you the Man was Mad Perhaps I was so for Writing but I am sure I have yet madder thoughts For I do seriously believe all I have here said is tru and this to boot That the World is a great Cheat That an honest man or a good Christian is a greater Wonder than any of those strange ones with which Sir H. B. has often entertain'd us This you are sure of I have spoken nothing for Interest I am but a bare stander by no Better and therefore neither win nor loose let the Game go how it wil. But to trifle no more I am not concern'd what any think I live to my self not others and build not my satisfaction upon the empty and uncertain Vogue or Opinion of men If I did I should put into their Power to make me unhappy when ever they please To conclude The Result of all I have here said is That England might be the happiest Country in the World if the people woud be content to make a right use of their Power that is to Act by the Rules of Reason on which their own Constitutions are founded For since they have the power of Reforming the old and enacting new Laws in which every man the poorest that is worth but forty shillings per annum has his Vote no man can be offended with his own Act But if he be the Remedy is at hand So that here every one living according to Reason and that making every man a Iudge all must see to their great Comfort That the Interest of the King and People is really one and the same That the Common good is every single mans And that who ever disturbs the Public injures himself which is to the whole the greatest security imaginable and to every privat man a lasting Happiness That the Laws are not exact because the Parliament harken to the Counsel that not the Lawyers but their Interest dictates neglecting to follow that advice which they may have for nothing viz. Let the Counsel of thine own Heart stand for there is no Man more faithful unto thee than it For a Mans mind is wont to tell him more than seven Watch-men that sit above in an high Tower That is consult with no Man who advises with regard to himself which is plain from these Words Every Counsellor extolleth Counsel but there is that counselleth for himself beware therefore of a Counsellor and know before what need he hath for he wil Counsel for himself lest he cast the Lot upon