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A38631 An essay to a further discovery of terra firma: or A proposal to a more firm ascertaining of title in lands 1663 (1663) Wing E3291A; ESTC R218677 6,474 16

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y related to their Soveraign yet now and then they meet with such presumptuous Ones as dare deceive them Stow Anno 13 Edw. 2. The Earl of Hereford bought of Sir William Bruce Knight a portion of Land in the Marshes of Wales called Gowers Roger Mortimer the Uncle and Roger the Nephew not knowing of the foresaid Bargain had also bought the said Ground of the said William Bruce Also the Lord Mowbray who had married the Daughter and Heir of the said William claiming it by Inheritance of his Wife last of all Hugh Spencer the younger had bought that Land and turned them all out wherefore the said Nobles were sore moved c. Here it is plain that by this covert close underhand-dealing great and wise men were over-reach'd But to return The Nobility have younger Sons for whom they usually purchase This proposed way or some other would also help them into a more secure proceeding in such purchase but however if it doth not concern the Nobility because of their Greatness and a better possibility they have of securing themselves so much as it concerns others yet may they please to remember that who descend from them I mean by their younger Sons and Daughters ●ay Succedenti tempore devolve into but a Parity with the meaner Gentry I am sure in a Forraign Plantation I know a young Gentleman eldest Son to the eldest Daughter of a most great and antient Earl of this Realm in a servile Condition E. Linc. but the good nature of his Master took him from Field-labour presently after he was informed who he was and made him his personal Attendant I say then that it concerns the Nobility remotely and may be a Caveat to persons Eminent whom God and the Princes favour hath raised up from mean degree that they remember that providence can reduce them And if it doth not them yet Sons of theirs to a Parity with the lowest and therefore should when promoted consult Salus Populi which ought to be Suprema lex The Reverend the Bishops they are concerned they are but Tenants for tearm of Life and since the Reformation being permitted Marriage they must in their thoughts reflect on their Issue Neither are they in a Condition of Grandeur so well able to overawe the over-bold presumption of deceiving Knaves as the Peerage being commonly descended of Lower Origos and so their Off-spring being afterwards but ordinary Gentry A modern Author Observes That of all the Clergy mens Sons of England none mounted above the Degree of Knight-hood although of Ireland had their Sons Peers As for the Gentry I need only say thus to them if Lords Spirituall and Temporall be concern'd much more they the Reasons aforesaid serving well also nay more properly to their Condition I come now to the Merchants and Mariners Horace sayes Epistol 1. Lib. Impiger Extremos currit Mercator ad Indos Per mare pauperiem fugiens per saxa per ignes The sedulous Merchant to the Indies hyes Nor fears he Seas nor Rocks nor Sols hot fryes But under Risosque of these hard want he flyes And to no other end but as the Poet saies elsewhere Senex ut in Otia tuta recedat Serm. 1. That being old He may in quiet ease himself upfold But many times it falls out contrary that all this Indeavour gets him money but to buy himself Vexation during life which really is great pity none gaining a Livelihood with greater hazard of Life Health and Means then these last Lastly As to the Commonalty Horace tell us Nil sine Magno Vita labore dedit Mortalibus Satyr 9. Lib. 1. To Mortals frail Nature hath nothing given But what they for with Labour great have striven This hard Dole of Labour falls especially on the Mechanick and Husbandman who most usually have nothing whereon to build themselves save only the sweat of their Brows And truly such as God hath left to their Self-indeavour if honest Industry hath afforded them beyond then from hand to mouth if there be a Curse upon him that removes his Neighbours Land-Mark never so little and leads the blind out of the way how much more upon him that defrauds these wholly of what they thus honestly gain and being dim-sighted in these things unacquainted beyond their Labour and Indeavour shall take an occasion from thence to deceive them leading them into the Woful paths of an utter undoing And therefore the Superiours I have before mentioned being not sibi ipsis solum nati not born meerly for themselves will I hope take notice of this Concernment also in respect of the last mentioned as well as themselves FINIS