THese Kingdoms may be Exceedingly increased in Riches and Power , by the industrious Labours of the multitude , carefully , and diligently Employed , to preserve , Improve , and increase , their most profitable native Produce , Manufactures , and Shipping , for by Improving and Increasing them , our Exportations will be much Increased .

2. But our Exportations may be very great , and yet these Kingdoms may in a short time become very poor , weak , and contemptible , if there should be more goods Imported , and consumed in these Kingdoms , then the yearly values of our Native Produce , and of our Manufactures Exported , shall amount unto .

3. For the vain and excessive wasting of the inhabitants ( especially upon Forreign Growth , and Manufactures ) maintains their poor ; and Exports our Stock , and discourageth , and Impoverisheth our Poor , and our Artificers , who leave us , and Inrich Forreigners . And these are the true causes of the want of Money in these Kingdoms .

4. For though all our Exportations and Importations in Trade will be near equal in value , accounting the values in Forreign parts ( first deducting the charges there ) of what is Exported ●… her , or imported from thence by us , and accounting the charges , and values in these Kingdoms , of what is Imported or Exported by Forreigners .

5. Yet if the values Exported , be more then of Goods Imported and consumed , the Remainder ( to make it equal in value ) will be Imported in Bullion , Plate , Money , or Jewels , or will be converted ●… to a Trading Stock for the future benefit of these Kingdoms . For the yearly increase thereof will be so much added to our Exportation .

6. Though therefore particular persons should be much Impoverished , by idly mispending too much time , and Money , in Gaming , and Drinking , or in Plays , Shews , and such like divertions , or by ●… igious , unprofitable Law-suits , occasioning the neglect of grater concernments , or by being cheated , by Thefts , Lotteries , excessive usery , by Extortions , or by colour of office ,

7. Yet if ( by Increasing the profitable labours of the Inhabitants , and moderate using them ) our Exportations should be much increased , and if by our forbearing excessive Consumptions of the forreign ●… oduce , and Manufactures , our Importations should be decreased , then would the Merchants bring into these Kingdoms as much in value ( to increase the Riches and strength thereof ) as our Exportati●… s are more then our Consumptions of the said Forregin , Produce , and Manufactures .

To Export more then we Import and Consume .

8. Our Exportations should be Increased , and our Importations diminished ; which may be effected by the industrious Inhabitants diligently , and profitably imployed , to Increase and Improve their most ●… ofitable Native Produce , manufactures , and Shipping ; and to invite in useful Forreigners to assist us therein ; and by forbearing Forreign superfluous trifles ; and moderate using their more necessary goods .

To Increase our Exportations . May Increase and Improve Their Native Produce . By being Industriously , diligently , and Artificially Imployed , to increase , preserve , and improve , the most profitable , and useful of them , and by spending frugally out of them , And what may ( by frugality ) be spared there out , might be Exported , and vended , at seasonable times , upon reasonable restrictions , and customs first paid . Manufactures By making them good , to increase their esteem , Imploying none to make any for Forreign sail , but such as are approved of , to be able Artists . Punishing those that make them Defective . If the Cities , and Corporations , most conveniently seated for cloathing should , have the searching , and sealing of them ( the Kings Aulnager being first satisfied ) then if they seal any Defective Clothes , they might forfeit the values according to the Statute of the 4th and 5th . of Phil . and Mary , Chap. 5. Rewarding those that make them best . These Cities , and Corporations would emulate , and strive to excel each others in making good Clothes . By affording them cheapest to increase their vent . By the diligent industry , and frugality , of those that are imployed therein ; and by lessening the superfluous Excess , and number , of Forreign retailers , By inhabiting the cheapest ( convenient ) places for making them , and by Exporting them from The nearest Ports , ( not to the next ) but best markets . By using all advantages of Arts , Ingins , and creatures , to spare the labour of carriage , and of doing that by many , which may as well be done , by a few . By paying small Interest for money . Whereby they that take up Money to imploy in Increasing , or improving , our Produce , or Manufactures , and the Merchants that take up Money to Trade with , may afford them cheaper : Onely plenty of Money makes Interest low , Et contra . But Erecting Lumbards , or bancks of charity , would much help the indigent , industrious poor , and abate the Extorsive Usury , practised on them . By small Taxes upon such of the Inhabitants as are imployed in making Manufactures and in the most profitable Labours . By small customs on such wrought goods Exported as Forreigners can as well make , and on such unwrought goods Imported , as are useful to us . By using them our selves . Prohibiting the Importation of Destructive , or needless Manufactures , such as would serve but to corrupt the natives . Putting great Customs on wrought goods Imported ( if Bulky ) and unwrought goods Exported . All concerned in the making , or Disposing of them ( especially our factors ) should , by their Examples , invite others to use them . And Shiping By Building in the cheapest , and convenientest places , such great Ships , and Busses , as may be most servicable for the Voyages , Ports , and Fishings , for which they are intended . By Increasing and Incouraging . Merchants , By special priviledges , and Immunities . To delight , and become Expert in Merchantdising , and in Building Ships rather then Houses . To gain most of the Exportation , Importation , and Transportation , to themselves . By erecting four or five Companies , and Counsels for Trade , to whom all Ports may be free for Goods Imported by them tell sold , and who by other special priviledges might be encouraged and inabled . To govern and regulate skilfully , our Manufacture . To imploy , and improve , the Kingdoms Stock , and publick Bancks , in Trade , To increase , improve , and settle , our Plantations . To enrich these Kingdoms , by increasing , and improving , our most profitable fishings . By suffering them to trade to any of our Plantations , and ( as freely as any Forreigners ) to any part of the world , they imploying ( most , of ) our native Seamen Seamen . By some convenient free Ports for his Majesties Subjects ( imploying most the Native Seamen ) to increase , our Transportation . By freeing their Persons from Imprisonments , for small debts , or in Personal Actions , between private persons . By imploying them in Land Services , or Southerne Voyages , or the Coal-Trade , or in fishing in Pinks , &c. in the winter . May invite Foreigners . To labour for our benefit . As a considerable in number , of Seamen , and Fishermen , and such as might be usefully imployed , to increase the vast Trades , of Transportation , and Fishing . And such Artists as are best skilled , in building Ships , or Busses , &c. and in the Linnen , woollen , and Silk , Manufactures . To imploy our Natives . As all Merchants , and others , that will Trade , or imploy their stocks , in our Ships , or Companies , or in their Banks . All industrious persons ( conforming to the Government of our Plantations ) might profitably be admitted , to Plant , in any of them . To diminish our Importations . May forbear to Import , or exceed in , Forreign Lace , Ribonds , Pictures , or such like unnecessary , and useless Trifles . May moderately use . Meat , and drink ; laying greater customs on wines fruits , spice , Suger , and Tobacco , and on other unnecessary Forreign Superfluities . Cloathing ; settling constant decent frugal fashions according to the several qualities of persons , consuming therein sparingly , Forreign Manufactures . Building ; prohibiting Building for seven years upon any new foundations , excepting Sea Port Towns , or near some Navigable River . Furnitures , the usefulness should be more regarded therein , then the costliness . May lessen the excessive number of Coaches , able Idlers ; and Idle debauched Servants . Such servants should be taught Trades , at Idle times , to prevent their future beggery .

Thus by our diligent care , and labour , in increasing and improving our useful Native Produce , Manufactures , and Shiping , and by our frugal , and careful , use of them , we may benefit our selves , and ●… ld , for supplying their wants we may enrich our selves , and by being useful to them , may increase their friendship to us , and dependance upon us .

And ( although it is of greatest concernment to these Kingdoms so much to improve , and increase , our Produce , Manufactures , and Shipping , wherein our wealth , and safety consists , that there should 〈◇〉 want inhabitants for these profitable Imployments , then Imployments for the Inhabitants ) yet if any of the Inhabitants should not be fully Imployed therein , it would be advantageous , to imploy 〈◇〉 mending High-ways or in making Bridges or Causwaies , that thereby the Portage of Goods may be easier , and cheaper , or in making Keys , or Moles for Shipping , or in mending Harbours , or in ●… ing Sea Ports , or in setting up Land Marks , or in such like Imployments , for the security of Shipping .

Or it would be safer , more profitable , and less chargeable , to these Kingdoms to imploy the poor , that want other Imployments , in making Inclosures , or Fortifications , or in planting Trees , or in ●… g Store-Houses , or Work-Houses , or other publick structures , then to suffer them to be idle , and take ill courses .

The better to explain these assertions , it may be considered , that fruitful Countreys , so well provided with all necessaries for Food and Rayment , &c. that they can Export more of them to strangers , the●… ●…ed to Import , and consume , may preserve themselves from being Impoverished , though they should have little or no Forreign Trade , and may maintain themselves with necessaries , though half ●…●… nts , that are able and fit to work should be idle or unprofitably imployed .

These three Kingdoms are such , and therefore if eight Millions of the Inhabytants thereof are able to work , four Millions of them are sufficient to provide necessaries for them all .

And though two Millions of the other four were imployed in providing for the superfluous delights , and pleasures , of the Inhabitants , yet if they would exceed no more then the value of what the tw●… 〈◇〉 can provide , any part of the other two Millions might be imployed in the warrs , or in any other publick imployments , and these Kingdoms would not be impoverished by maintaining them .

This will hold proportionably to the number of Inhabitants that are really in these Kingdoms , so that a fourth part may well be imployed , by his Majesty , or his Subjects in the warrs , or towards the i●… 〈◇〉 the strength ; and Riches , of these Kingdoms ;

Then his Majesty doth not imploy the tenth part of those he might well imploy without Impoverishing these Kingdoms , if the idleness ; and excess , of the Inhabitants did not hinder .

We may likewise consider , that if the Riches and consequently the strength of these Kingdoms are decreased ( as certainly they are ) it is not the greatness of Taxes which ( being well expended ) is b●… ●… uting of it by those that are rich to those that are poorer amongst us ) that causeth the decrease ; but because the greatest part of those that are able , and fit to work , are idle ; or labour in vain , by spen●… ●… e only in providing to maintain , the excessive , and wastful , Expences of themseves , and of the other Inhabitants , and such do no more increase the Riches , and strength of these Kingdoms , 〈…〉 ●… ased by them , if they remained idle .

For these Kingdoms are at as much charge to maintain such , as live idly , or are imployed only in providing to maintain the excessive expences , of themselves , and the rest of the inhabitan●… 〈…〉 ●… r more impoverished by maintaining them , then they would be if they paid so much in Taxes as would maintain as many Souldiers though their poverty comes more incensibly upon 〈…〉 ●… paing Taxes .

That customs , and import excise may be so laid on , and ordered , that the inhabitants of these Kingdoms , may grow richer by them , then they would , if they were wholy taken away .

And ( though Land Taxes were more then double what they are now ) the Inhabitants of these Kingdoms , may be so imployed , that most may find plenty , and few want , and these Kingd●… 〈…〉 ●… y be made the Richest , the most powerful , and flourishing , Kingdoms , and his Majesty may become the most Powerful , and the Richest Monarch , in the World , without any injustice to 〈…〉 and with little effusion of Blood . All which , and much more shall at convenient opportunities ( God willing ) be fully Demonstrated , By J. H. Esq ;