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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54621	Political arithmetick, or, A discourse concerning the extent and value of lands, people, buildings ... as the same relates to every country in general, but more particularly to the territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his neighbours of Holland, Zealand, and France / by Sir William Petty ...	Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.	1690 (1690)	Wing P1932; ESTC R17628	42,032	122

or Positions expressed by Number Weight and Measure upon which I bottom the ensuing Discourses are either true or not apparently false and which if they are not already true certain and evident yet may be made so by the Sovereign Power Nam id certum est quod certum reddi potest and if they are false not so false as to destroy the Argument they are brought for but at worst are sufficient as Suppositions to shew the way to that Knowledge I aim at And I have withal for the present confined my self to the Ten principal Conclusions hereafter particularly handled which if they shall be judged material and worthy of a better Discussion I hope all ingenious and candid Persons will rectifie the Errors Defects and Imperfections which probably may be found in any of the Positions upon which these Ratiocinations were grounded Nor would it misbecome Authority it self to clear the Truth of those Matters which private Endeavours cannot reach to THE Principal Conclusions OF THIS TREATISE ARE CHAP. I. That a small Country and few People may by their Situation Trade and Policy be equivalent in Wealth and Strength to a far greater People and Territory And particularly How conveniencies for Shipping and Water Carriage do most Eminently and Fundamentally conduce thereunto Pag. 1 Chap. II. That some kind of Taxes and Publick Levies may rather increase than diminish the Common-Wealth pag. 35 Chap. III. That France cannot by reason of Natural and Perpetual Impediments be more powerful at Sea than the English or Hollanders 51 Chap. IV. That the People and Territories of the King of England are Naturally near as considerable for Wealth and Strength as those of France pag. 64 Chap. V. That the Impediments of Englands Greatness are but contingent and removeable pag. 87 Chap. VI. That the Power and Wealth of England hath increased above this forty years pag. 96 Chap. VII That one tenth part of the whole Expence of the King of England's Subjects is sufficient to maintain one hundred thousand Foot thirty thousand Horse and forty thousand Men at Sea and to defray all other Charges of the Government both Ordinary and Extraordinary if the same were regularly Taxed and Raised pag. 101 Chap. VIII That there are spare Hands enough among the King of England's Subjects to earn two Millions per annum more than they now do and there are Employments ready proper and sufficient for that purpose pag. 104 Chap. IX That there is Mony sufficient to drive the Trade of the Nation pag. 110 Chap. X. That the King of England's Subjects have Stock competent and convenient to drive the Trade of the whole Commercial World pag. 112 ERRATA PAge 7. line 25. read the Rent p. 8. l. 21. r. a part p. 20. l. 3. r. for cheap p. 21. l. 14. r. cold moist p. 26. l. 7. r. that Church p. 32. l. 7. r. yearly profit l. 18. r. to be the value p. 47. l. 4. r. fifty thousand l. 28. r. sixteen thousand p. 49. l. 13 r. the said half together p. 52. l. 6. r. should bring p. 59. l. 24. r. they coast p. 72. l. 8. r. or above p. 91. l. 9. r. Exotic● p. 95. l. 13. r. paying for CHAP. I. That a small Country and few People by its Situation Trade and Policy may be equivalent in Wealth and Strength to a far greater People and Territory And particularly that conveniencies for Shipping and Water-Carriage do most Eminently and Fundamentally conduce thereunto THis first principal Conclusion by reason of its length I consider in three Parts whereof the first is That a small Country and few People may be equivalent in Wealth and Strength to a far greater People and Territory This part of the first principal Conclusion needs little proof forasmuch as one Acre of Land may bear as much Corn and feed as many Cattle as twenty by the difference of the Soil some parcel of Ground is naturally so defensible as that an Hundred Men being possessed thereof can resist the Invasion of Five Hundred and bad Land may be improved and made good Bog may by draining be made Meadow Heath-land may as in Flanders be made to bear Flax and Clover grass so as to advance in value from one to an Hundred The same Land being built upon may centuple the Rent which it yielded as Pasture one Man is more nimble or strong and more patient of labor than another one Man by Art may do as much work as many without it viz. one Man with a Mill can grind as much Corn as twenty can pound in a Mortar one Printer can make as many Copies as an Hundred Men can write by hand one Horse can carry upon Wheels as much as Five upon their Backs and in a Boat or upon Ice as Twenty So that I say again this first point of this general Position needs little or no proof But the second and more material part of this Conclusion is that this difference in Land and People arises principally from their Situation Trade and Policy To clear this I shall compare Holland and Zealand with the Kingdom of France viz. Holland and Zealand do not contain above one Million of English Acres whereas the Kingdom of France contains above 80. Now the Original and Primitive difference holds proportion as Land to Land for it is hard to say that when these places were first planted whether an Acre in France was better than the like quantity in Holland and Zealand nor is there any reason to suppose but that therefore upon the first Plantation the number of Planters was in proportion to the quantity of Land wherefore if the People are not in the same proportion as the Land the same must be attributed to the Scituation of the Land and to the Trade and Policy of the People superstructed thereupon The next thing to be shewn is that Holland and Zealand at this day is not only an eightieth part as rich and strong as France but that it hath advanced to one third or thereabouts which I think will appear upon the Ballance of the following particulars viz. As to the Wealth of France a certain Map of that Kingdom set forth Anno 1647. represents it to be fifteen Millions whereof six did belong to the Church the Author thereof as I suppose meaning the Rents of the Lands only And the Author of a most Judicious discourse of Husbandry supposed to be Sir Richard Weston doth from reason and experience shew that Lands in the Netherlands by bearing Flax Turneps Clover-grass Madder c. will easily yield 10 l. per Acre so as the Territories of Holland and Zealand should by his account yield at least Ten Millions per annum yet I do not believe the same to be so much nor France so little as abovesaid but rather that one bears to the other as about 7 or 8 to 1. The People of Amsterdam are one third of those in Paris or London which two Cities