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<HEAD>How to Revive the Golden Ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">; With the true Cau&s;es of the vvant of good Trading, and Money, In the&s;e Kingdomes; And how yet to Remedy them, and to make the&s;e Kingdoms exceed all others, in Riches, and Power. <HI>Humbly Pre&s;ented to the Con&s;ideration of the PARLIAMENT.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe Golden Age may be Revived, and the&s;e Kingdoms exceedingly increa&s;ed in Riches and Power, by the Indu&s;trious Labours of the Multitude, carefully, diligently, and hone&s;tly, employed, to pre&s;erve, Improve, and increa&s;e, their mo&s;t profitable Native Produce, Manufactures and Shipping, for by Improving and Increa&s;ing them our profitable Exportations may be much increa&s;ed.</P>
<P N="2">2. But our Exportations may be very great, and yet the&s;e Kingdoms may in a &s;hort time become very poor, weak, and contemptible, if there &s;hould be more goods Imported, and con&s;u|med, in the&s;e Kingdoms, then the yearly values of our Native Produce, Manufactures, and Fi&s;hings, Exported, and the profit of our Shipping, &s;hall amount unto.</P>
<P N="3">3. For the vain and exce&s;&s;ive wa&s;ting of the Inhabitants (e&s;pecially upon Forrein Growth, and Manufactures) maintains their poor, and Exports our &s;tock, and di&s;courageth, and Impove|ri&s;heth our Poor, and our Artificers, who leave us, and Inrich Forreiners. And the&s;e are the true cau&s;es of the want, of good Trading, and of Money, in the&s;e Kingdoms.</P>
<P N="4">4. For all our Exportations, and Importations, in Trade will be near equal in value, accounting the values in Forrein parts (fir&s;t deducting the charges there) of what is Exported thither, or Imported from thence by us in our &s;hips, and accounting the charges, and values in the&s;e Kingdomes, of what is imported or Exported by Forreiners in their &s;hips.</P>
<P N="5">5. And if the values exported, be more then of Goods imported, and con&s;umed, the remainder (to make them equal in value) will be imported in Bullion, Plate, Money, or Jewels, or will be converted into a Trading &s;tock, for the future benefit of the&s;e Kingdoms, which with the increa&s;e thereof (well imployed) will be a mo&s;t profitable inlargement of our forrein Trades.</P>
<P N="6">6. Though therefore particular per&s;ons &s;hould be much impoveri&s;hed, by idly mi&s;pending too much time, and Money, in Gaming, and Drinking, &amp;c. or in Plays, Shows, and &s;uch like diver&s;ions, or by litigious unprofitable Law-&s;uites, occa&s;ioning the neglect of greater concernments, or by being cheated, by Thefts, Lotteries, exce&s;&s;ive U&s;ury, by Extortions, or by colour of office.</P>
<P N="7">7. Yet if (by increa&s;ing the profitable labours of the Inhabitants, and moderate u&s;ing them) our Exportations &s;hould be much increa&s;ed, and if by our forbearing exce&s;&s;ive Con&s;umptions of the forrein Produce, and Manufactures, our unprofitable importations &s;hould be decrea&s;ed; then would the Merchants bring into the&s;e Kingdomes as much in value (to increa&s;e the Riches and &s;trength thereof) as our Exportation<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> are more then our Con&s;umptions of the &s;aid unprofitable forrein Produce, and Manufactures.</P>
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<HEAD>To Export more in value then is imported and Con&s;umed by us in the&s;e Kingdoms.</HEAD>
<P N="8">8. OUr Exportations &s;hould be increa&s;ed, and the Con&s;umptions of our Importations dimini&s;hed; which may be effected, by the indu&s;trious Inhabitants, diligently, and profitably, employed, to increa&s;e, and improve their mo&s;t profitable Native Produce, Manufactures, Fi&s;hings, and Shipping; and to invite in u&s;eful forreiners to a&s;&s;i&s;t therein; and by forbearing forrein &s;uperfluous trifles, and moderately, u&s;ing their more ne|ce&s;&s;ary Goods.</P>
<P>The Inhabitants
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<ITEM>To increa&s;e their Exportations,
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<ITEM>May Increa&s;e and Improve
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<ITEM>Their Native Produce.
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<ITEM>By being indu&s;triou&s;ly, diligently, and Artificially, Imployed, to increa&s;e, pre&s;erve, and improve, the mo&s;t profitable, and u&s;eful, of them, and by &s;pending frugally out of them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>And what may (by frugality) be &s;pared thereout, might be Exported, and vended at &s;ea&s;onable times, upon rea&s;onable re&s;trictions, and Cu&s;toms fir&s;t paid.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Manufactures
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<ITEM>By making them good to increa&s;e their e&s;teem,
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<ITEM>Imploying none to make any for Forrein &s;ail, but &s;uch as are approved of, to be able Arti&s;ts, and &s;uffering none that are defective to be Exported.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Puni&s;hing tho&s;e that make them Defective.
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<ITEM>If the Cities and Corporations, mo&s;t conveniently &s;eated for cloathing, &s;hould have the &s;eaching, and &s;ealing of them, then if they &s;eal any Defective Clothes, they might forfeit the values according to the Statute of the 4th. and 5th. of <HI>Phil.</HI> and <HI>Mary,</HI> Chap. 5. which forfeitures might profitably be imploy'd in improving the fi&s;hing-Trades.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Rewarding tho&s;e that make them be&s;t; Then the&s;e Cities and Corporations would emulate, and &s;trive to excel, each others, in making good Clothes, &amp;c.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>By affording them cheap|e&s;t to increa&s;e their vent.
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<ITEM>By the diligent indu&s;try, and frugality, of tho&s;e that are imployed therein; and by le&s;&s;ening the &s;uperfluous number of Retailers, e&s;pecially of forrein.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By inhabiting the cheape&s;t (convenient) places for making them, and by Exporting them from the neare&s;t Ports, (not to the next) but be&s;t Markets.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By u&s;ing all advantages of Arts, Ingins, and creatures, to &s;pare the labour of carriage, and of doing that by many, which may as well be done by a few.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By paying &s;mall intere&s;t for money.
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<ITEM>Whereby they that take up Money to imploy in increa&s;ing, or improving our Produce, or Manufactures, and the Merchants that take up Money to Trade with, may afford them cheaper: Only plenty of money makes intere&s;t low, <HI>et contra.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>But erecting Lumbards, or banks of Charity, would much help the Indigent, indu&s;trious, poor, and abate the Extor&s;ive U&s;ury practi&s;ed on them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By &s;mall Taxes upon &s;uch of the Inhabitants as are imployed in Manufactures, and in the mo&s;t profitable Labours, and imployments.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By &s;mall Cu&s;toms, on &s;uch wrought goods Exported as Forreiners can as well make, and on &s;uch unwrought goods imported as are u&s;eful to us.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>By u&s;ing them our &s;elves.
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<ITEM>Prohibiting the Importation or u&s;e of De&s;tructive or needle&s;s Manufactures, &s;uch as would &s;erve but to corrupt the Natives, and to impoveri&s;h them;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Putting great Cu&s;toms on wrought goods imported (if bulky) and unwrought goods Exported, thereby endeavouring to inlarge our Manufactories.</ITEM>
<ITEM>All concerned in the making, or di&s;po&s;ing of them (e&s;pecially our Factors) &s;hould, by their Examples, invite others to u&s;e them.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>All Corporations &s;hould be free for all Arti&s;ts imployed in increa&s;ing, and improving, our Manufactures for Exportations, and our Fi&s;hings, and Shipping.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>And Shipping
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<ITEM>By Building in the cheape&s;t, and conveniente&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> places, &s;uch great Ships, and Bu&s;&s;es, as may be mo&s;t &s;erviceable for the Voyages, Ports, and Fi&s;hings, for which they are intended.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By Increa&s;ing and Incouraging
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<ITEM>Merchants.
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<ITEM>By &s;pecial priviledges, and Immunities.
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<ITEM>To delight, and become Expert in Merchantdizing, and in building Ships rather than Hou&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To gain mo&s;t of the Exportation, and the (too much neglected) Trade of Tran&s;portation to them&s;elves, and to the&s;e Kingdoms.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>By &s;uffering them to trade to any of our Plantations, and (as freely as any forreiners) to any part of the World, they imploying (mo&s;t of) our Seamen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By erecting four or five Companies, and Coun&s;els for Trade, to whom all Ports may be free for Goods imported by them, till &s;old, and who by other &s;pecial priviledges might be encouraged, and enabled, exceedingly to inrich the&s;e Kingdoms.
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<ITEM>By increa&s;ing, improving, and skilfully di&s;po&s;ing of our Produce; Manufactures, and Rich Fi&s;hings.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By imploying the Kingdomes &s;tock, and publick bancks, in &s;tores, trading, and good Shipping.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By making new Di&s;coveries, for Trading, or Planting; and improving all for our greate&s;t advantages.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By procuring from forreiners our mo&s;t u&s;eful advantages for commerce, &amp; by preventing ob&s;tructions, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>Seamen.
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<ITEM>By &s;ome convenient free Ports for his Maje&s;ties Subjects (imploying mo&s;t our Seamen) in Exporting goods, to increa&s;e our Tran&s;portations, and fi&s;hings.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By freeing their Per&s;ons from Impri&s;onments, for &s;mall debts, or in Per&s;onal Actions between private per&s;ons, and by erecting Schools for Navigation, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>By imploying them in Land-&s;ervices, or Southern Voyages, or in the Coal-trade, or in fi&s;hing in Pinks, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> in the Winter.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>May invite Forreiners.
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<ITEM>To labour for their benefit.
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<ITEM>As a con&s;iderable number of Seamen, and Fi&s;hermen, and &s;uch as might be u&s;efully imployed, to increa&s;e the va&s;t Trades, of Tran&s;portation, and fi&s;hing.</ITEM>
<ITEM>And &s;uch Arti&s;ts as are be&s;t skilled in building Ships, or bu&s;&s;es, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and in working on Mettles, and in the Linnen, Wollen, Cotten, and Silk, Manufactures.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>To imploy the Natives.
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<ITEM>As all Merchants (and others) that will Trade, or imploy their &s;tocks, in our Ships, or Companies, or in their banks.</ITEM>
<ITEM>All indu&s;triouss per&s;ons (conforming to the government of our Plantations) might profitably be admitted to Plant in any of them.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>To dimini&s;h their unprofitable Im|portations.
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<ITEM>May forbear to Import, or exceed in forrein Lace, Ribonds, Pictures, or &s;uch like unnece&s;&s;ary, and u&s;ele&s;s, trifles; for the&s;e dimini&s;h much the Riches, and &s;trength, of the&s;e Kingdoms.</ITEM>
<ITEM>May moderately u&s;e.
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<ITEM>Meat and drink; laying greater Cu&s;toms on Wines, Fruit, Spice, Suger and Tobacco; and on other unnece&s;&s;ary forrein &s;uperfluities.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Clothing, &s;etling con&s;tant decent frugal Fa&s;hions according to the &s;everal qualities of per&s;ons, con&s;uming therein &s;paringly forrein Manufactures.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Building; prohibiting Building for &s;even years upon any new foundations, excepting in Sea-Port Towns, or near the Navigable part of &s;ome River.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Furnitures; the u&s;efulne&s;s &s;hould be more regarded therein then the co&s;tline&s;s, and herein, and in all other expences, we &s;hould ob&s;erve the Golden Mean.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>May le&s;&s;en the exce&s;&s;ive number of Coaches; able idlers; and idle debauched &s;ervants; Such &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">d be taught profitable Trades at idle times, to prevent their future beggery, and the Pari&s;h charge.</ITEM>
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<P N="9">9. THus by our diligent care and labour, in increa&s;ing, and improving, our u&s;eful Native Produce, Manufactures and Shipping; and by our frugal u&s;e, and careful di&s;po&s;al, of them, we may benefit our &s;elves and the world; for &s;upplying their wants we may enrich our &s;elves; and by being u&s;eful unto them, may plea&s;e and profit them, and may increa&s;e their friend&s;hip to us, and their willing complyance with, and dependance upon us; and then teaching them by our good examples, and precepts, the chiefe&s;t, and mo&s;t u&s;eful, truths, we may re&s;tore the World to their antient integrity, and hone&s;ty, and thereby Revive the Golden Age.</P>
<P N="10">10. That our Southern Plantations are the neare&s;t united, and clo&s;e&s;t tyed to the&s;e Kingdoms, by the Golden Chain of commerce, and have the greate&s;t dependance upon them; and that they are &s;o nece&s;&s;ary for us, that it is impo&s;&s;ible to continue long the Soverainty of the Seas, but by increa&s;ing, and encouraging them, which therefore (by all Lawful ways imaginable) &s;hould be endeavoured.</P>
<P N="11">11. And (although it is of greate&s;t concernment to the&s;e Kingdoms &s;o much to improve, and increa&s;e, our Produce, Manufactures, and Shipping, wherein our wealth and &s;afety con&s;i&s;ts, that there &s;hould rathe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> want inhabitants, for the&s;e profitable imployments, then imployments for the inhabitants) yet if any of the inhabitans &s;hould not be fully imployed therein; it would be advantagious to imploy them in mend+ding the High-wayes; or in making Bridges, or Cau&s;ewaies, that thereby the Portage of Goods may be ea&s;ier and cheaper; or in making Keys, or Moles for Shipping, or in mending Harbours, or in fortifyin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Sea-Ports, or in cutting Rivers, or making any of them more Navigable; or in &s;etting up Land-marks, for the &s;ecurity of &s;hipping, or in &s;uch like Imployments.</P>
<P N="12">12. Or it would be &s;afer, more profitable, and le&s;s chargeable, to the&s;e Kingdomes, to imploy the poor that want other imployments in making inclo&s;ures, or fortifications; or in Planting Trees; or in Erectin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Store-hou&s;es, or Work-hou&s;es; or other publick &s;tructures, then &s;uffer them to be idle, and take ill cour&s;es, and then be forced to cut off the&s;e ill members for want of timely cure.</P>
<P N="13">13. The better to explain the&s;e a&s;&s;ertions, it may be con&s;idered; that fruitful Countries &s;o well provided with all nece&s;&s;aries <HI>for Food and Rayment, &amp;c.</HI> that they can Export more of them to &s;trangers, than they need to import and con&s;ume, may pre&s;erve them&s;elves from being impoveri&s;hed, though they &s;hould have little or no Forrein Trade, and may maintain them&s;elves with nece&s;&s;aries, though half the inhabi|tants that are able and fit to work, &s;hould be idle, or unprofitably imployed; the&s;e three Kingdomes are &s;uch.</P>
<P N="14">14. And therefore if eight Millions of the inhabitants thereof are able to work, four Millions of them are &s;ufficient to provide nece&s;&s;aries for them all: and though two Millions of the other four were imployed in providing for the &s;uperfluous delights and plea&s;ures of the inhabitants; yet if they would exceed no more then the value of what the two Millions can provide, any part of the other two Millions might be im|ployed in the Wars, or in any other publick imployments, and the&s;e Kingdoms would not be impoveri&s;hed by maintaining them.</P>
<P N="15">15. This will hold proportionably to the number of inhabitants that are really in the&s;e Kingdoms, &s;o that a fourth part may well be imployed by his Maje&s;ty, or his Subjects, &s;ome in Military affairs, others in increa&s;ing Riches and &s;trength in the&s;e Kingdoms; and in our Plantations, and in teaching the Indians tho&s;e Golden precepts, which (well kept) would unite the world.</P>
<P N="16">16. Then His Maje&s;ty doth not imploy the tenth part of tho&s;e he might well imploy, without impoveri&s;hing the&s;e Kingdoms; if their idlene&s;s, and u&s;ele&s;s labors, and the exce&s;s of the inhabitants, did not hinder.</P>
<P N="17">17. We may likewi&s;e con&s;ider, that if the Riches, and con&s;equently the &s;trength of the&s;e Kingdoms are decrea&s;ed, (as certainly they are) it is not the greatne&s;s of Taxes which (being well expended) is but a di&s;tributing of it by tho&s;e that are Rich to tho&s;e that are poorer among&s;t us) that cau&s;eth the decrea&s;e; but becau&s;e the greate&s;t part of tho&s;e that are able, and fit to work, are idle, or labour in vain; by &s;pending their time only in providing to maintain the exce&s;&s;ive and wa&s;tful expences of them&s;elves, and of the other inhabitants; and &s;uch do no more increa&s;e the Riches and &s;trength of the&s;e Kingdoms, then it would be in|crea&s;ed by them, if they remained idle, and con&s;umed the le&s;s.</P>
<P N="18">18. For the&s;e Kingdoms areat as much charge to maintain &s;uch as live idly, or are imployed only in providing to maintain the exce&s;&s;ive expences of them&s;elves, and the re&s;t of the Inhabitants, and are more impoveri&s;hed by them, then they would be if they paid &s;o much in Taxes as would maintain as many Souldiers, though their Poverty comes more in&s;en&s;ibly upon them this way, then by paying Taxes.</P>
<P N="19">19. That what&s;oever occa&s;ions the increa&s;e of the con&s;umption of our own Produce, and Manufactures, or of our forrein, by the inhabitants of the&s;e Kingdoms, impoveri&s;heth them, and that only which increa&s;eth the forrein con&s;umption and vent thereof, inricheth them, and that by the continual increa&s;e of Taverns, and of Alehou&s;e-keepers, and of other Retaylers, the charges and Poverty of the&s;e Kingdoms do much increa&s;e.</P>
<P N="20">20. That Cu&s;toms, and Exci&s;e may be &s;o laid on, and ordered as to defray all publick charges, and yet that the inhabitants of the&s;e Kingdoms, may grow richer by paying them, then if they were wholly taken away.</P>
<P N="21">21. But (though Land Taxes were more then double what they are now) the Inhabitants of the&s;e Kingdomes, may be &s;o imployed, that mo&s;t may find plenty and few want; and the&s;e Kingdoms (in a &s;hort time) may be made the Riche&s;t, the mo&s;t powerful, and flouri&s;hing Kingdoms; and his Maje&s;ty may become the mo&s;t powerful, and the Riche&s;t Monarch in the world, without any inju&s;tice to any Prince or Potentate, and with little effu&s;ion of Blood. All which and much more (if accepted before it be too late) &s;hall <HI>(God willing)</HI> be more fully Demon&s;trated, by <HI>JOHN HODGES</HI> E&s;q;</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>H. Bruges</HI> for <HI>G. Widdows</HI> at the Green-Dragon in St. <HI>Pauls Church-Yard;</HI> Where you may &s;ee a farther Di&s;cour&s;e of Trade, Intituled the <HI>True Engli&s;h Intere&s;t,</HI> or an account of the cheif <HI>National Improvements,</HI> demon&s;trating an Infallible Advance of this Nation, to infinite Wealth and Greatne&s;s, Trade and Populacy, with Imployment and Preferment for all Per&s;ons. By <HI>Carew Reynel</HI> E&s;q;.</P>
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