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A90881	The key of wealth or, A new vvay, for improving of trade : lawfull, easie, safe and effectuall : shewing how a few tradesmen agreeing together, may both double their stocks, and the increase thereof, without 1. Paying any interest. 2. Great difficulty or hazard. 3. Advance of money. 4. Staying for materialls. 5. Prejudice to any trade, or person. 6. Incurring any other inconvenience. In such sort, as both they and all others (though never so poore) who are in a way of trading, may 1. multiply their returnes. 2. Deale onely for ready pay. 3. Much under-sell others. 4. Put the whole nation upon this practice. 5. Gain notwithstanding more then ordinary. 6. Desist when they please without damage. And so, as the same shall tend much to 1. Enrich the people of this land. 2. Disperse the money hoarded up. ... 23. Incorporate the whole strength of England. 24. Take away advantages of opposition. All which in this treatise in conceived by judicious men to be fully proved, doubts resolved, and objections either answered or prevented.	Potter, William.	1650 (1650)	Wing P3034; Thomason E1067_2; ESTC R210385	101,225	101

to testifie your acceptance of my reall intentions in these my poor indeavors as notwithstanding either the prolixity thereof or the multiplicity of your other publique affaires to spare a little time and pains in some serious manner for perusing the fame and then I hope that God by your due consideration of and sympathizing with the distressed condition of this Nation through the decay of Trade will move your hearts to improve your present call and trust by the speedyest and utmost promoting of whatsoever just proposals shall conduce to publique advantage for the reliefe of this afflicted people And if I may here ad some few lines by way of digression I am much the rather incouraged to expect a blessing upon your actings in order to the advancement of Trade in regard that the generality of the people of this generation have made such an Idoll of him who was guilty of the blood of so many thousand Saints and others as I am confident many of those wretchs though they had certainly known by testimony from heaven that God had hated his proceedings yet they would still rather have bin on his side then on Gods So that if God by his just providence should now in spight of all their maledictions for that which they would have as murder to be revenged from heaven by evill successe blesse this nation with greater riches and prosperity then ever before even under that very same Authority who were the instruments of doing justice upon him what a testimony would it be of Gods high displeasure against such obstinate Idoliters Whereby though in that condition they have no hope but in this life yet so great is their malice as they would accompt all their own shar in earthly blessings proceeding to them by meanes of such instruments to be more greevous then the greatest adversity whatsoever which amongst many other arguments doth induce me verily to believe that God as he hath with a high hand justified the Parliament against such vain expectation of heavens revenge upon their pretended murder in the late unparrelleld successes of our armies will not fail still marvellously to prosper the same Authority by making them the Instruments of wealth as well as conquest to the yet greater vexation and astonishment of all such unplacable and malicious enemies to God and his people If therefore in this hopeful attempt God shall see good to make you thus Instrumentall it will be a special means whereby amongst a multitude of other considerable advantages mentioned throughout this Treatise the Parliament to the honour of this Counsell will in great measure gain the Peoples affections And by encouraging such undertakings as this every one willing to spend time strength and estate upon things publickly useful will find it not to be in vain which that it may effectually appear is my earnest desire who I trust am with all due respects to this Honourable Councell no lesse in affection then duty Devoted to the publique W. P. FINIS THe mistakes in printing being many whereof most such as every mans reason will inable him to correct in the reading I shall here for brevitys sake note only those which do either alter or much darken the sense Errata Page 2. line 22. for bring read bring in p. 13. l. 6. exclude of and l. 33. exclude thereby p. 15. l. 26. for at all can 1. cannot at all p. 19. l. 40. for 5 r. neer 5. p. 20. l. 26 for bad r. great p. 26. l. 20 21. for they who r. that which p. 27. l. 24. exclude left p. 39 l. 3 for his r. this p. 42. l. 3. for of money r receiving of money p 44. l 32. for when r being p. 47 l. 2. for the r. be l. 35. for or r. to p. 50. l. 50 for 22 s.r. 2 s. p. 67. l. 40. for them r. the p. 68 l. 23 for cause r. course p. 69. l. 29. exclude a p. 70. l. 5. for tall r. triviall p. 74. l. 20. exclude the whole parenthesis beginning though p. 77. l. 29. for secrety r. society Page 60. line 3. read 4 Without staying for materials There being no materials necessary except paper and other things useful for printing with fit place and accomodations for an office all which may be easily and speedily procured

scruple in the minds of any I have studied to proceed in order beginning first with those things which are most liable to vulgar observation being as the grounds and foundations whereupon the whole Edifice is erected which I observed not only for Method but necessity Considering that in teaching any Art or Faculty it would be very preposterous to begin with things most difficult and furthest from common reach As in teaching Arithmetick to begin with Fractions Cossick Numbers or the finding of Square and Cube Roots before the learner bee skilled in Addition Or as in teaching Navigation to begin with shewing the nature of the Rumbes in respect of the various Circulation of those Lines which each Rumbe by making equall angles with every Meridian doth describe upon the superficies of the earth and Sea even before the Student be perfectly grounded in the cleare and distinct knowledge of the severall points of the Compasse or in brief as if in teaching the word of truth the Preacher should immediately go forwards to perfection as the Scripture saith without first laying the foundation Now courteous Reader for these reasons not having put that in the first place which happily thou mightest have expected I earnestly desire thee to exercise so much patience and diligence as to read this book throughout in such order as it is composed otherwise I cannot but fear that by misapprehensions through want of necessary preparation in things as essentiall to this discovery as the principles rules and beginnings of any Art are to the utmost perfection thereof thou wilt be ready either to condemn or at least to slight what else upon due consideration thou wilt be forced to acknowledge is amongst earthly things one of the most necessary and desireable both to thy self and thy Countrey Yet in regard that according to what hath been already hinted many men look upon all Inventions whilst they are new though never so needfull or profitable as meer conceipts or whimsies as they are pleased to call them in respect whereof I conceive it necessary to vindicate this and all sober attempts from such aspersions before I proceed to the matter it self I must therefore in few words intimate some things here which may serve to demonstrate the folly of all those who suffer themselves to be infected with this strange kind of humour In order to which let it be observed that Arts being no other then the fruits of human reason applyed to the discovery of things profitable cannot receive their birth without Invention so as whatsoever is spoken to the disparagement of Invention doth tend to blemish not onely any one Student or Professor together with his enterprise but even laies the axe to the root of Art it self and by consequence to all manner of learning Which brings to my memory what a worthy Author testifies concerning such as did professe themselves to be skilfull and experienced Navigators that it was usuall with them in a jeering manner to call those men Sun-shooters whom they perceived to observe the Latitude at Sea by taking with an instrument the Suns Meridian Altitude before the practice thereof was common yet not long afterwards to their great disparagement they were forced to proclaim their own folly a punishment not unsuitable to the offence by submitting to practice themselves that which at first they so unadvisedly scoffed at in others And what think you would even the same Sea-men have said if they had been privy to his device who first thought of the making of Ships like houses to ride upon the Sea with such huge Masts and Sails as to abide therein would seem if the contrary were not daily experienced a far more desperate adventure then to dwell in Mansions built with high and large extent in the upper parts upon a foundation more fickle then that of Sand Yet how not only practicable but profitable the use of shipping is to the service of mankind would require a volumne to explicate And if Invention whensoever it produces any thing New must needs be condemned for presenting the world with Toyes and Guegawes what shall we say then of him who first busied his brains to devise that admirable and fundamentall Art the reducing of all articulate sounds to Letters and Letters to writing the rare effects whereof as is reported makes the savage Indians to be exceedingly amazed In brief were it not madnesse to condemn either the finding out of Printing and Weaving or of those curious instruments of Art such as Clocks Mills Cranes Pumps with many such like divers whereof cost men addicted to Invention no smal pains to make practicable because at first the use no doubt of such artificiall devices amongst those whose dull capacities like Carriers horses are unwilling though the case be never so extraordinary to be beaten out of the common roade of such apprehensions to which they have been long accustomed seemeth for the most part strange if not idle and foolish who having their opinions in these particulars not governed by sound and solid reason must needs herein be left to the misguidance of such fantastick dreams as they Father upon the Authors of those excellent Arts. For is it not manifest that the only reason why we in these parts of the earth so long inhabited do so much despise the rude kind of life incident either to the first ages of the World wherein Men differed little from Beasts living upon Roots and Acornes or now to the brutish people of America Is it not I say meerly because we are by Art furnished with those Accommodations which nature alone without improvement by the use of mans Reason could never have affoarded unto us But Courteous Reader having too long detained thee in the Entry I therefore abruptly desist and refer thee to the Treatise it self being really Thine as thou art the Common-Wealths VV. P. In Commendation of this Enterprize AS Stories fain'd by wit delight the Eare and Shew's without the substance please the Eye So Musick may the Fancy something cheare but these to means of life are not set by If Art by which the Quantity is known of Land be Judg'd a skill of high account That Art which mak's such measur'd Land mens own must needs then sure the other far surmount What doth the Practice of Physick availe Though Doctors do in knowledge much exceede If persons sick for want of means should faile Bread to obtain in their extreamest neede So Logick Grammer and Philosophy Arithmetick and Rhetorick also How fruitless if such Learning never be applyed as meanes some further good to shew So that if Arts derive their Worth from such effects alone to which they be ordain'd And if the end excell the meanes so much as that without such end ther 's nothing gain'd Then truely may I stile this rare designe which shews at full how Peace and Plenty each Are got with ease passing a Golden Mine The worthiest Art attain'd by human reach Therefore let all such men