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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

and Kent when Scotts as they tearm them or Water-Taxes are to be Levied to proclaim them three several Sundayes openly in several Churches abutting the Marshes so to give Notice to all concerned to provide for the said Payments And truly I know not why any honest man should be loath or ashamed to have it known That he hath occasion to either ingage or sell Lands for it seems to me all the harm he doth himself is to proclaim himself a just fair and square dealing person and so invites People the more to adventure to deal with him I am sure of late two Great and Honourable Peers the Earl of Huntington and the Earl of Carlile were so upright that their Estates being intailed by Act of Parliament the first no doubt requiring it in his Will and therefore his relict Lady and his worthy Brother the Right Honorable Baron of Loughborough one who as a late Writer says By his Vertues adds to the Dignity of his Extraction both indeavouring it The other himself then alive procured a like Act to have power to sell part of their Estates to pay their Debts And if these Great Parsonages Peers of the Land were so upright and open in their Dealings and no ways ashamed to have their Condition laid open to the Representative of the whole Nation the Parliament nay nor were not I dare say grieved when these things were inserted in the News Books why should forsooth then frivolous and inferiour persons be so extreamly tender of their Reputation Let them Morgage or Sell never so often at length some Body will take place and right and then 't is known nay and wors● themselves known for Knaves If they pretend it will discover their Estates and Conditions I think I answer satisfactorily to that thus Whilst things remain thus occult and obscure we equally may doubt and fear all men the upright man as well as the Knave he that never morgaged nor ingaged as well as him that hath If so then this hinders no particular mans Reputation the truth is our Eyes daily see it we dare not confide or trust one in another without two or three Co-obligees refusing Land security for personal and were this way taken a mans own Estate might be his Security without troubling others And indeed Mr. Hartlib in his Legacy treating about his bank of Lands hints this Self security How ere I am sure his said Bank which were an excellent thing could not stand without this proposed way or the like of mine As the many inconveniencies before the time of King H. 8. procured the fore-recited Act So Oh would the many Frauds the Perjuries in this kind the fraudulent Conveyances the double and treble Morgagings that are and yet may be committed might cause an Act for the future prevention of them One somewhat more passionately then religiously sayes That he thinks Knavery and Cheating the greatest Sin that was if we sin against God saith he we can do him no harm if we Sin against Him and our Selves only as in some sort of sins we hurt not our Neighbours but the Knave hurts all men Other harms may be foreseen but this of Knavery is ushered in by a dark Lanthorn One sayes Fur cursu fugitur vel vi fortasse fugatur Qui fugeris nebulo laqueum positurus in omnes One scapes a Thief by flight or else by force But to prevent a Knave I pray what course And yet this Knave shall scape better notwithstanding the great wrong that he doth then the poor Thief that steals for his Belly The French Poet could many a year agoe complain of this sayes he Le larron d'un escu est pendu par Matheur Le larron de dix mille est appelle Mounsieur The poor unlucky Thief that steals a Crown Is hanged up but he lives in Renown That by worse means hath swallowed thousands down The High-way-man and the Pyrat at Sea bereaves a man only of his present Carriage nay in the latter I have observed a kind of Generosity these although they have mer with Blows yet give good entertainments and welcome and oftentimes make a small Restitution as towards present necessity But this Deceivour of whom I speak brings us into a worse Condition for when he hath undone us yet hath not he done with us we being afterwards plunged into chargable and vexatious Suits and he esteems it a kind of injury that we set not down contented with our wrong but put him as he thinks and calls it to a trouble It is a hard case that when by honest Industry a man shall have got a sum of Money together and is willing to lay it out suppose for a House to lay his head in such a one as he may call his own or to buy Lands thinking them more secure then his Cash he should be eluded and deceived by a Knave and Himself Wife and Children undone and such a Miscreant as did this secure himself in Prison with the Money It is a good way of Justice they have in France if any make a fraudulent Break if taken they are hanged for it if not taken their Effigies is so served and me-thinks there is much equity in it such a one being a Grand Thief trading by whole-sale and those that Robb by the High-way and break up Houses being but Pettifoggers and Retaylers But to return there is in Lands a kind of Excellency above other Possessions not only as I hinted before in the natural and proper stability thereof but also in esteem and reputation It was and is the Guerdon of Gracious Princes to deserving Subjects Thus the Conquerour rewarded his Followers but in particular thus the Ancestors of the Lord Eury were rewarded with Lands in Scotland Subject to Edw. 1. Thus Sir John Copeland that took David le Bruse Stow. King of Scotland was rewarded by Edw. 3. with 500 l. per annum and thus the Lord Audley by the Black Prince nay 't is also Guerdon of Piety and Service towards God and of Temporal Rewards is most especially mentioned in Holy Writ Thus was Abraham assured several times of the Land of Promise and the Psalmist Psal 37. vers 9 11 22 29 34. So often repeats it to the same effect To whom also alludes our Saviour himself in his Sermon upon the Mount Matth. 5. 5. And that this that is so dignified and ennobled should lye open to the misuse and abuse of every base spirited person seems great pity and that there is not a restraint to them A sure caution to it so that what 's in it self to those that have it so great a Temporal Blessing of God might not by crafy unconscionable People be made a Snare and a Curse And truly in the Wish of this I think all sorts qualities and conditions of Men are concerned First Noble men and truly though there be a great Awe and Respect to be used to them above their Inferiours as being Peers and so near