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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
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<HEAD>Or, The Plain-Dealers Prayer for a Regi&s;try.</HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<HEAD>THE COUNTRY MAN.s. CASE UNCASED</HEAD>
<FIGURE>
<P>plenty</P>
<P>peace</P>
<FIGDESC>emblematic figure holding cornucopia and olive branch</FIGDESC>
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<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="4 letters">her banke for the poore trades man&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="4 letters">arwell griping broker</P>
<FIGDESC>depiction of bank</FIGDESC>
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<SP>
<P>pray Sir Regi&s;ter this honest deed.</P>
</SP>
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<P>A Regi&s;ter will make us all god &s;end one</P>
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<HEAD>His hone&s;t Regi&s;ter</HEAD>
<SP>
<L>your Scrible will not do</L>
<L>.t.will ballance them and you</L>
</SP>
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<SP>
<L>theire is noe jncumbrance on it</L>
<L>i Councell had vpon it</L>
</SP>
<L>nine--Morgages are pa&s;t</L>
<L>now or a &s;ale at la&s;t</L>
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<P>the d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ill take.t. for if that be wee are undone</P>
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<SP>
<L>beleve him What he &s;aith</L>
<L>jle bite yu both i~ faith</L>
</SP>
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<P>knaves Acre nine times Morgaged to foole Acre</P>
<P>morg</P>
<P>morg</P>
<P>morg</P>
<P>morg</P>
<P>Morgdg</P>
<P><FIGURE>
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<P>morg</P>
<P>morg</P>
<P>morg</P>
<P>morg</P>
<P>the Corners only free for our Trader city excelle~t pollicy</P>
<FIGDESC>map with mortgaged plots</FIGDESC>
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<FIGURE>
<HEAD>knavs hall</HEAD>
<P>take this Morgadge and tis Wright or jle be hangd Amen</P>
<FIGDESC>depiction of manor house</FIGDESC>
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<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span"> grainery for the poore and Needy <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span">&s;ent Releife for landlord and tennant</P>
<FIGDESC>depiction of granery</FIGDESC>
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<HEAD>labourer</HEAD>
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<HEAD>farmer</HEAD>
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<HEAD>trades man</HEAD>
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<HEAD>free holder</HEAD>
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<SP>
<L>jle deale noe longer</L>
<L>Would i nere had &s;een yee</L>
<L>for oh the Money i hau<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>lo&s;t betwene yee</L>
</SP>
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<SP>
<L>pay my note on &s;ight</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> When the divils blind</L>
<L>then hone&s;t banker</L>
</SP>
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<HEAD>Continual im+procvration</HEAD>
<SP>
<P>good sin &s;tay</P>
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<FIGURE>
<HEAD>delays and demurers fees and erors</HEAD>
<P>This Indenture made in the year 16<GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="2 letters"></P>
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<P>the &s;plitters ho&s;pitall Who keeps a key him&s;elfe to lett in all he trades with</P>
<P>Reme+mber y^e poor</P>
<FIGDESC>depiction of hospital</FIGDESC>
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</FIGURE></P>
<LG>
<L>AND is the Bill Committed, Heaven be prais'd,</L>
<L>So let all true and loyal <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;ay;</L>
<L>This to the highe&s;t pitch their hopes have rais'd,</L>
<L>Of being happy in an hone&s;t way:</L>
<L>Thanks to our worthy Patriots, Be their Name</L>
<L>Ever Recorded in the Book of Fame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor can they be forgot, our Children &s;hall</L>
<L>Proclaim them ble&s;s'd, when they look back and &s;ee</L>
<L>How bad Men brought their Fathers into thrall;</L>
<L>Plunging them headlong into mi&s;ery.&mdash;</L>
<L>When <HI>Egypts</HI> Locu&s;t made them <HI>Egypts</HI> Slaves,</L>
<L>Betraying all their Fortunes unto Knaves.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then 'twas in vain for them to Plow or Sow,</L>
<L>To ri&s;e up early, or to lie down late,</L>
<L>When none his dear-bought Penny-worth did know,</L>
<L>But like an Almanack that's out of Date</L>
<L>Their Purcha&s;e prov'd; a Prior Morgage &s;hall</L>
<L>Eject the Cullied Buyer out of all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This was the fate mo&s;t commonly of tho&s;e</L>
<L>That tru&s;ted to Conveyance, Oath, or Deed;</L>
<L>For by the Law the Fox no Title knows,</L>
<L>Nor did the way of Banking better &s;peed,</L>
<L>To them who did with Paper-Credit meet;</L>
<L>Their Bags were made their Moneys Winding-&s;heet.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Such was the madne&s;s of that madder Age,</L>
<L>Men &s;tood amazed, knew not what to do,</L>
<L>If by Complaint they thought their grief t' a&s;&s;wage,</L>
<L>'Twas but increas'd, and often laught at too;</L>
<L>Nor did their lo&s;s and mi&s;ery &s;top here,</L>
<L>They'r Jail'd at la&s;t for buying Wit &s;o dear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This made the Money-monger hide his Gold,</L>
<L>For want of Credit, that might Currant run,</L>
<L>Le&s;t he might &s;hare in others fate, when old;</L>
<L>Therefore re&s;olves it &s;hall not &s;ee the Sun.</L>
<L>This quickly brought Con&s;umption to all Trade</L>
<L>And many a thou&s;and Bankerupt was made.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whence Beggery en&s;u'd in every place,</L>
<L>To every Pari&s;h did a Charge become,</L>
<L>And others de&s;perate, devoid of Grace,</L>
<L>Anticipate their Life, the Gallows &s;ome:</L>
<L>Nor could you &s;tep without your Doors but &s;ee</L>
<L>Objects of pity, Souls in mi&s;ery.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hither we have digre&s;&s;ed from the way</L>
<L>We fir&s;t were in, to let you under&s;tand</L>
<L>How we by folly have been led a&s;tray,</L>
<L>Or madne&s;s rather throughout the Land:</L>
<L>What doth remain, is, e're it be too late,</L>
<L>To find a Mean, which may amend our fate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This in the judgment of all &s;ober Men,</L>
<L>Will be this long de&s;ired Regi&s;try,</L>
<L>Upon who&s;e Fund none can be cheated when</L>
<L>They trade, or tru&s;t on that Security:</L>
<L>Which if it pa&s;s as it is now committed,</L>
<L>The Ju&s;t are double ble&s;t, the Knaves outwitted.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">In the Book call'd <HI>Eng|land's Im|provement by Sea and Land,</HI> Printed in the Tear, <HI>1676.</HI></NOTE> To tell the Nature of this Project here,</L>
<L>Is but to hold a Candle to the Sun;</L>
<L>Since 'tis to admiratic a done el&s;ewhere,</L>
<L>By &s;uch an Author never yet out-done;</L>
<L>Who&s;e publick Spirit, for his Country's good,</L>
<L>The Jaws of Death and Envy hath with&s;tood.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet for to gratifie tho&s;e hone&s;t minds</L>
<L>Who never &s;aw that Book, 'tis fit from hence</L>
<L>Some &s;atisfaction they in part do find;</L>
<L>Both of its U&s;e, and of its Con&s;equence:</L>
<L>The want of which, hath been the Traders bane,</L>
<L>So being had will &s;et them right again.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fir&s;t in abundance 'twill increa&s;e all Trade;</L>
<L>The Rich, the Poor, will all be gainers by it;</L>
<L>Witne&s;s our Neighbours who have tryal made,</L>
<L>There's not a Man that can, or will deny it:</L>
<L>For he that doth the Town of <HI>Taunton</HI> know,</L>
<L>Is well convinced that in Fact 'tis &s;o.&mdash;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Their Mannor-Lands under a Regi&s;try,</L>
<L>Not only hath advanc'd them, but hath made</L>
<L>Plenty of Money, which their wants &s;upply,</L>
<L>The very Life and Sinews of all Trade,</L>
<L>By which their Poor are by their Labours fed,</L>
<L>Not one that's fit to work that asketh Bread.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If this be &s;o, as &s;o in truth it is,&mdash;</L>
<L>What's the Ob&s;truction 'tis not &s;o el&s;ewhere?</L>
<L>Is it becau&s;e Men love to do ami&s;s,</L>
<L>Or does old Cu&s;tome plead a Habit there?</L>
<L>Neither's of force to keep them down, would ri&s;e,</L>
<L>But rather Ignorance hath &s;hut their Eyes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then be per&s;waded, try for once Conclu&s;ion,</L>
<L>Dare to be hone&s;t, 'tis be&s;t Policy;</L>
<L>All other Projects have but wrought Confu&s;ion,</L>
<L>Affix your Lands but in a Regi&s;try:</L>
<L>This hone&s;t Credit an&s;wer will your End,</L>
<L>Sooner, and cheaper than the Scriblers Friend.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This brings out all the Money un-imployed,</L>
<L>Which now in Corners hoarded up doth ly;</L>
<L>The Borrower &s;hall never be denyed,</L>
<L>If he have ought within the Regi&s;try:</L>
<L>For none will keep his Money in his Che&s;t</L>
<L>When 'twill be &s;afer here, with Intere&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The very Servants will their Wages bring,</L>
<L>Which they mo&s;t dearly earn, but can't augment;</L>
<L>And 'mid&s;t their greate&s;t drudgery will &s;ing,</L>
<L>When they have Lodg'd it to their hearts content.</L>
<L>Both <HI>John</HI> and <HI>Joan</HI> will lay up all they may,</L>
<L>Where't may be doubled 'gain&s;t a Rainy-day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor is that all, when once abroad 'tis talk'd,</L>
<L>That <HI>Margery</HI> and <HI>Nell</HI> have here a Stock;</L>
<L>They then will pa&s;s for Hou&s;e-wives, Money'd Folk,</L>
<L>And Sweet-hearts will apace unto them flock;</L>
<L>Whence they may pick and chu&s;e, and Husbands take,</L>
<L>Will love them dearly for their Moneys &s;ake.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But above all, from hence will flow a Bank</L>
<L>Of Lumber-Credit, will the Trades-man rai&s;e;</L>
<L>Who&s;e Art and Study's only for a Rank</L>
<L>Of <HI>Egypts</HI> Taskers, they do wear the Bayes</L>
<L>Of all his Labours, and the Arti&s;t's gains</L>
<L>Are only Bread and Water for his pains.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This they pretend, becau&s;e they bear a &s;tock,</L>
<L>Which the poor Trades-man can by no means do,</L>
<L>Nor never &s;hall he by your bit and knock,</L>
<L>When all his profit doth redound to you.</L>
<L>But here's a Salve that cure will this Sore,</L>
<L>He &s;hall have Money on't to pay his Score.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The hone&s;t Farmer al&s;o here will find</L>
<L>Relief and Credit when the Market's dull,</L>
<L>His Landlord may be needy, or unkind,</L>
<L>His Rent is wanting, though his Barns are full.</L>
<L>Money he hath not, &s;ell to lo&s;s he's loth,</L>
<L>Ingage it here, and &s;o 'twill an&s;wer both.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This will prevent the Law-le&s;s Ma&s;&s;ie Bill,</L>
<L>Pretending Law, though in a Tyrants hand,</L>
<L>And keep us quiet &s;ore again&s;t their will,</L>
<L>Who &s;warm like Fle&s;h-Flies all about the Land:</L>
<L>A &s;ort of Vermin haunting every Village,</L>
<L>That do their Food from Country People pillage.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Widow al&s;o, and the Fatherle&s;s,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Fortune's often left i'th hands of tru&s;t,</L>
<L>By his default are oft made Penny-le&s;s;</L>
<L>And then poor Souls they all a-begging mu&s;t.</L>
<L>Thus e're the good Man's cold within his Grave,</L>
<L>His Children's ruin'd by this Tru&s;tee Knave.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Regi&s;try will hinder this abu&s;e</L>
<L>Done to poor Infants when their Friends are gone,</L>
<L>If but incerted here unto their u&s;e,</L>
<L>'Twill be &s;ecured unto every one.</L>
<L>Hark, and be wi&s;e, ye tender Fathers all,</L>
<L>Prevent the Cheats may on your Children fall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Here could I add above an hundred more</L>
<L>That would be happy by this hone&s;t Deed;</L>
<L>For every one I named there's a &s;core</L>
<L>Would find relief and comfort at their need:</L>
<L>Defending thou&s;ands from the Pri&s;ons ill,</L>
<L>And with cheap Bread the hungry Bellies fill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therefore in brief acquit your &s;elves like tho&s;e</L>
<L>True <HI>Engli&s;h-men</HI> who Vertue did imbrance,</L>
<L>No longer be a Prey unto your Foes,</L>
<L>But let them know you'r of that Noble Race</L>
<L>That &s;corn &s;uch Actions might di&s;honour bring</L>
<L>Unto them&s;elves, their Country, or their King.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now to conclude, let all of loyal mind</L>
<L>Humbly be&s;eech the King and Parliament,</L>
<L>That of their goodne&s;s they would be &s;o kind</L>
<L>To pa&s;s this Act our Ruines may prevent,</L>
<L>Grant <HI>England</HI> may a Regi&s;try but have,</L>
<L>None need to fear the double-dealing Knave.</L>
</LG>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the Year, 1678. And are to be &s;old by <HI>John Oliver</HI> in the <HI>Old-Baily,</HI> over again&s;t the George near <HI>Ludgate.</HI></P>
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