A GOODWORK FOR BAD TIMES, Or a WAY to Make ENGLAND Rich and Happy SHOWING How the CHARGE of the WAR (if it should continue) may be Born without any TAX or PRESSURE to the SUBJECT.  
AND ALL THE Poor and Idle Persons In this NATION May be EMPLOYED or Set to WORK, by which the Nation will Gain more than Double the CHARGE of the WAR, as is herein plainly set forth; And the Poor of all Sorts that are not able to Get their Living by their Work, may be Better Maintained than now they are, without Begging; And the Children be Brought up to Work, and Taught to Read, Writ, and cast Accounts, and be Virtuously Educated, so as they may be Serviceable to the Nation; And also MONEY will be made Plenty, and TRADE Brisk: And some (amongst a great many) of the vast Advantages that will Accrue to the Nation by it, are here set forth. Most humbly Dedicated to the Consideration of His MAJESTY and the PARLIAMENT.  
By G. MALKIN.   

THE PREFACE.  
IT is well known that the Poor in this Nation, have a Greater Revenue than any Incorporate Body or Society of Men in the Whole Kingdom have; and yet they are so far from being Maintained or Relieved by it, That they daily Increase in their Numbers; the Cause of which, some impute to the Defect, some to the Non-execution of the Laws already in Force, others to the Misapplying and Mismanagement of the Money yearly Raised; For any or all which Grievances, This here proposed, will be a certain Remedy (if His Majesty and the Parliament in their Great Wisdom, do think fit to digest it into a Law) so as it may not be Stifled, but throughly Executed, for the Good of the Whole Nation; For it is well known that in Foreign Countries, no people are suffered to Live idle and to Beg, as they are in England; altho' the English Nation hath more of its own Growth and Product, and might Employ them to more Profit and Advantage than any Kingdom or Country in Europe can Employ their Poor; And therefore it is hoped, That His Majesty and the Parliament, when they do seriously Consider the same, will provide such Remedies, that all the idle People in the Nation may be Employed, so as that they may Earn their own Living by their Work, without the Poor's Rates, or Begging, or Stealing. To set forth a way for the doing of which, is the Intent of the Author in publishing this Little Book; which, if put in practice will effectually do it; so as that in few Years there will be no Beggars, or scarcely a Thief in England; for their being bred in Idleness whilst young, is the Cause of there being so many both Thiefs and Beggars: But by this here Proposed, all Children will be Bred up to Work from their Infancy, so as they will know how to get their own Living, without Begging or Stealing; and besides there will be always Work ready for them, or for any that want Work, or will come to work; so that none can excuse themselves by Saying they cannot get Work, or else they would not do as they do; which is now the common Excuse of most Beggars,   

TO THE Courteous READERS.  
GENTLEMEN,  
THESE few following Lines are Published by the Author, to show to the Commonalty of England, That there is a way to make the Nation Rich, notwithstanding the War, and all the present Wants and Pressures it now groans under for want of Money (by which Trade is Decayed) and also by reason of the heavy Taxes which do now lie upon it; all which, by the Ways herein mentioned, will be taken off and amended, and the Army and Navy will be better Paid than at any time yet they have been, altho' the War do continue for several Years longer; and all this may be done without any Tax upon the People, but only the Rates that are now paid to the Poor; and which will continue ever to be paid, except the Nation by this Means be Eased of them; which if the Ways hereafter set down, be put in Practice, it will in a few Years be; and also the Nation will Gain by it near Double to what the Charge of the War is, as will appear by this Little Book. And the Author doth not doubt but that he is able to give Rational and Satisfactory Answers to all the Objections that can be made against any thing herein Proposed, if the Objectors please to own their Objections, either in Print, or cause them to be sent to Him in Writing, with their Names to them; And the Author hopes the Readers will not so much Censure him for want of Method, rudeness of Phrase, or blunt Expressions in this Book, as they will be ready to excuse Him for endeavouring to show his Love and Duty to the Public good of the Kingdom, by adding his Mite to the Treasury: And that all that truly wish the Prosperity of the Nation will put their helping Hand to so good a Work, by Rectifying (rather than Condemning) what is herein amiss, and by adding to it what is wanting.  
And the Author desires all Courteous Readers, That they will please to Read this Book throughout Considerately before they condemn it; and He humbly begs of the Right Honourable House of LORDS, and especially of the Representatives of the Nation, the Honourable House of COMMONS, that they will please throughly to consider it; and that all private and particular Interest being laid aside, they will so Act as may Raise the drooping Spirits of this Nation, and be for the Public Good; and then he hopes the Almighty will give a Blessing to their good Endeavours, which is and shall ever be Prayed for by  
G. M.   

A GOODWORK FOR Bad Times, etc.  
WHEREIN A Plain and Easy Method is set forth to Employ the POOR and IDLE People in England, and thereby to Enrich the Nation.  
WHereas the Poor of this Nation have the greatest Revenue of any Body of Men, yet they are so far from being Maintained by it, that they rather daily Increase in their Numbers and Miseries, to the Great Nuisance as well as Danger of the Public; To demonstrate which: The Poor's Rates about the End of King Charles the II. were Computed, and then were 665 thousand Pounds a Year; and it is too well known, that they have increased ever since, and that in the last four or five years they are increased in some Places one Half or more (and particularly in Parishes in the Liberties of Westminster) So that the Poor's Rates may now (modestly) be thought to be Eight or nine hundred Thousand Pounds a Year (if not a whole Million) by which it doth appear, That no Incorporate Body or Society of Men in this Nation have half so much in Revenue as the Poor have; And if His Majesty and the Parliament please to pass into a Law, what is here Proposed the Nation, after a few Years, will save all that Money which is now paid to the Poor; and not only that, but will Gain by the Employing of the Poor and Idle People, more than Ten times so much Clearly; as the Proposer doubts not but to make appear plainly in this Little-Book.  
For if His Majesty and the Parliament, please to Establish a Bank for the Use of the Poor, and Benefit of the Public (in which private and particular Interest that clasheth with the Benefit of the Public, may have no place, and this Bank to be under the Government and Direction of Commissioners) appointed by His Majesty or the Parliament; which Commissioners may be accountable to His Majesty and Privy Council, or to such other Superintendants as shall be Appointed by His Majesty in Parliament, as often as shall be thought fit; and that the Commissioners may incur a Praemunire, if they Issue out more Bills, or Employ them otherwise than Appointed; And besides the Account given to the Superintendants appointed, the Commissioners may at all times be liable to give an Account of all things done by them, to the Commons Assembled in Parliament: And that these Commissioners may be Employed, (First) To issue out Bills to the Value of Twenty Millions for the Use of the Poor, to be Employed as hereafter mentioned, and Ten Millions, or more, or less for the Use of the War, as shall be needful, or thought fit by His Majesty and the Parliament, the Thing holding good in proportion to a greater or less Sum; But because of Assertaining the Particulars hereafter mentioned. There may be supposed to be Thirty Millions Raised in the aforesaid Bills for the Use of both Poor and War) and the Poor's Rates may be supposed to Amount to 900 thousand Pounds a Year) which Bills may, by the Sanction of a Law, pass Current in all Payments, Barters and Bargains betwixt Man and man as Money doth, with a Penalty laid upon such as shall Refuse to take the same; which Bills may be made from a Half Crown to Twenty shillings, and no one Bill for any greater Sum; and then these Bills will serve all People's Occasions to pay any Sum whatsoever, as well as Half Crowns, Five Shilling-pieces, or Guineas do now; For if these Bills pass Current by Law, so that none can Refuse to take them for any Debt, or Goods sold, than they will be as Good to every one as Silver or Gold) for although they will not melt into Plate, they will purchase Plate.) And there hath been a time in England (as may be seen in Chronicles, when there was none but Leather Money in the Nation, and that Served all People's Occasion (it passing Current) as well as Silver or Gold doth now; And we know in our own Memory, That there were Brass Bodles set forth by Tradesmen, all over England, and passed for Halfpenny apiece, which did the same Service in Paying any small Sum, as either Gold or Silver would do, till such time as the Government thought good to Prohibit them from passing any longer: And there will be no danger of any Man's Losing by these Bills; for there will be a Sufficient, and the best Fund that is in the World settled, to pay them all off in a certain Time, as hereafter will appear; And these Bills will be of the same Use (till Paid, Cancelled and Destroyed, as hereafter mentioned) and as Good to all Men as any Money; For if a Man take a piece of Parchment or Paper, Tinn, Copper, Led or Leather, for a Debt owing, or for Goods, or Estate sold, or for Rent to the value of Five shillings (or for a greater or less Sum) and that piece of Parchment or Paper, Tinn, Copper, Led or Leather, will pass from him to pay a Debt, or purchase any Thing that he wants of that Value he took it for, than no Man can deny but that such a piece of Parchment, etc. is as good for his Use, as so much Coined Silver; And if the Proposed Bills be made to pass Current by a Law, they will do it; For it is nothing that makes Money pass now at a certain Rate as it doth, but a Law, Silver and Gold being a Commodity that rises and falls, like other Goods; which we have lately had Experience of in Guineas (to some Men's Loss) That it is only a Law that can Regulate Money to pass as it doth, and consequently a Law will make the Bills here proposed to do the like.  
And if His Majesty and the Parliament shall think good to pass this Proposal into a Law, than every Parish in England and Wales, may have so many of these Bills Appropriated to it, as such Parish Rates to the Poor amounts to in Sixteen Years: which Sums may be laid out in Building one House in every Parish, where all the Poor and Labouring People that want Work (whether Men, Women or Children, may at any time Resort and be Employed in such Work as each of them is most Capable of, and at such Rates as is usually given in that Country or Place; So that none will need to be Idle or to Beg by reason they can get no Work, as now is the common Complaint of most Beggars, which generally say, If they could but get any Work, they would not Beg: And in each of the said Houses there may be Conveniences, wherein the Old, or Indigent Poor, or Children may be Lodged and Provided with all Necessaries; and also may be Employed in doing something, according to their several Abilities, there being few or none (above five Years old) but what are able to Earn something by their Work towards their own Living; And all Children that are put into these Houses to be Maintained, may be kept there till they be Fifteen or Sixteen Years of Age, and be employed, so that they may Learn to Work well, and in that Time they may also be Taught to Read, Writ, and Cast Accounts, and be Virtuously Educated, so as they will be Serviceable to the Kingdom in their Generation; whereas now they are only bred up in Vice, or at best in Idleness and Begging, which makes them grow so many as they are, and will certainly in time, be the Ruin of the whole Kingdom, if they be not better Employed and set to Work, whilst Young, to prevent it.  
And in every of the said Houses, there may be laid in a Stock of Wool, Hemp, Flax, Iron, or any other English Manufacture, according to the Genius of the People, or the Employment that is used most in that Country or Place; sufficient to Employ all in that Parish that want Work, or any that will come to Work; And after such Houses shall be Built, and such Stock laid into them; as the Building and Stock will amount to sixteen Years Value of all the Poor's Rates (which if in England and Wales, they amount to 900 hundred thousand Pounds a Year and no more) it will be 14 Millions, and 400 thousand pounds; and then there will remain of the 20 Millions of Bills proposed for the Use of the Poor, Five Millions, and Six hundred thousand pounds; which Sum of five Millions, and Six hundred thousand pounds, if it be laid out in Land at 20 years' Value, will purchase 280 Thousand pounds a Year; but if the Poor's Rates amount to more than 900 Hundred thousand pounds a Year, than there will more go in Building and Stock, and there will be less to purchase Land; and then these Bills will be sooner paid, Cancelled, and Destroyed, as hereafter will appear.  
Now it may reasonably be supposed, that one eight part of what is to be Employed in Building and Laying in Stock for Trade, will be fully sufficient to Build all the Houses (there being no need to build a House in every little Parish; but that a small Parish, where there is but a very few Poor, may in this be joined to the next Parish to it, to save the building of a House; So that if there go an eight part of the Whole in Building, than there will be Twelve Millions and Six hundred thousand pounds, to be employed in Stock for a Trade, except some small part to pay Wages with, until such time as part of the Goods laid in are Wrought-up, and fit to be Sold to Raise Money to pay Wages, and the Charges of the Undertaking, and to Maintain the Indigent Poor, and Children, and to purchase other Goods to keep up the Stock:  
Now the Trade of these Work-Houses or Colleges, may in some Countries be in Working-up to the height and increasing our Woollen Manufacture, which is now Transported before it is near Wrought to perfection, which is to the Great Loss of the Nation, as may easily be made to appear; and in some places it may be in the Linen Manufacture, in Making Linnen-Cloth, such as is Necessary for the Use and Wear of the Nation; and in Making Canvas for Sail-Cloth; and in Making all Sorts of Cordage, Line, and Twine for Ships; and in Making Yarn and Thread for Nets; and in Making Nets for the Fishery: And this will in a great Measure encourage the Growth of Hemp and Flax in this Kingdom, the Neglect or Want of which, is a Great damage to the Nation, by reason of the Consumption of our Money to Fetch it in; altho' at the same time we might have it as Good and Cheaper, of our own Growth, if Industry were Countenanced and Encouraged amongst us, and Idleness and Vice decried; And the Trade in some places may be in Ironwork, in Making Nails and Bolts for Ships, both for His Majesty's Yards, and Merchant's Ships; and in Making all Sorts of Edge-Tools and Nails, and all other Iron Commodities, both for Use here, and for Transportation: Any, or all which Trades will be vastly beneficial to the Nation, if they be Encouraged and ordered by a Law, so as to be Managed to the best Advantage for the Public Good.  
Now the Benefit that will accrue to the Nation, only out of the Profits of this Trade or Trades, will be more than Two Millions a Year, as may be thus Demonstrated: All Tradesmen know well, and it is matter of Fact, so that all People may know it, if they will take Notice, That a Tradesman of any Trade, that hath 500 l. Stock to Begin with, can, and doth out of the Profits of a Trade, driven by that Stock (if he understand his Trade, and be careful and diligent in it) Maintain his Family better, wear better , spend Higher, and have more Money always at Command, than a Gentleman of 100 Pounds a Year Estate in Land; and besides, can commonly give his Children better Fortune than a Gentleman of such an Estate; and therefore, such Tradesmen must needs get much more than a Hundred pounds a Year by such a Stock, or else it were impossible for him to do it: And if the Stock in Trade in these Houses do Gain the like in Proportion; and in all Probability it will Gain much more, it being a maxim in Trade, that great Stocks gain far more in proportion than small ones do; then if there be but Twelve Millions in Stock for Trade, the Gain by the Trade will be Two Millions and Four hundred thousand pounds a Year; which, added to what is hereafter set forth, will be Eight or Ten Millions a Year, clear Profit to the Nation.  
And that there may be a certain Fund and Security, That the Bills so issued shall be paid in a short time, so as none can doubt there can be any Loss by them; The Poor's Rates, and the Rents of Land here proposed to be bought, and all Profits arising by the Trade (after the Old, and Indigent Poor and Children, that are not able to Earn their whole Living by their Work, are provided for, and the Charges of the Undertaking paid) may be settled to be paid yearly into the hands of the Commissioners aforementioned (in Bills or Money) and the Commissioners may be obliged to pay off, Cancel, and destroy so many of the said Bills yearly, as such Sums so paid to them either in Bills or Money, will amount to.  
By which Payments all the Bills for the whole Sum of thirty Millions will be paid off, Cancelled and destroyed, in less than ten Years, as may be thus demonstrated; The profits of the Trade, as before shown, will amount to Two Millions and Four hundred thousand pounds a Year, the Rents of Land proposed to be bought, will amount to Two hundred and eighty thousand pounds a Year, the Poor's Rates are Nine hundred thousand pounds a Year: All which Sums, added together, make three Millions and five hundred and eighty thousand pounds a Year; and it is reasonably to think that 200 thousand pounds a Year of that Sum, will Maintain the Poor what they will want more than they can Earn by their Work, and pay the Charges of the Undertaking; but if Three hundred and eighty thousand pounds a Year, be allowed to do this with, there will then remain Three Millions and two hundred thousand pounds a Year, which will pay all the Bills in nine Years and half; And it may be thus made to appear, That there will not need so much as 380 thousand pounds a Year, as afore-allowed to pay the Charges of the Undertaking, and to maintain the Old, and Indigent Poor, and Children; for there is no Old or Lame people so weak, nor no Children of five years Old or upward, but may be Employed and Taught to Earn very near enough to Maintain them with, by Sorting, Locking, and Picking of Wool, or by Spinning of Linen or ; or by Winding, Doubling or Twisting Yarn, or by Knitting of Nets or Stockings, or by some other such kind of easy Work; in which the Blind may also be employed, and those that are strong, tho' they are Blind, may be employed in other Works.  
Now to set forth and make appear some part of the vast Benefits that will accrue to the Nation by putting this in Practice; they are as followeth, and is thus made Plain; There are in England and Wales more than Ten thousand Parishes, now supposing that these Parishes one with another, have but fifty a piece of Men, Women and Children, that now are Unemployed, and live by Alms, Begging and Stealing (and I believe all people will Conclude, that the Poor get five times more by Begging and Stealing, than the Parish Rates come to) which fifty in a Parish, one Parish with another, are much fewer than they can be thought to be; it being certainly known, that in Parishes in some Cities and great Towns, there is more than Five hundred in a Parish; but at fifty in a Parish, one with another, they will amount to Five hundred thousand people, and if they one with another, Live now of Sixpence aday, which they now get out of the Parish Rates for the Poor, and by Begging and Stealing, the whole will amount to above four Millions and half a year: All which will be saved to the Nation by Employing them, and they when they are Employed and set to Work, will not earn so little as Sixpence apiece a day, which will amount to four Millions and a half more a year. So that there is Nine Millions a year saved and got to the Nation by Employing them, and two Millions a year as afore-shewed by the Profits of the Trade; all which amounts to Eleven Millions a year; Besides what the Nation will Gain by having our Commodities, for all or most uses made amongst ourselves, and by Working our own Manufacture to perfection, which will much Encourage the Merchants to bring dying Stuff, and other Things necessary to do it with; And if the  Manufacture be wrought to perfection before it be sent out, it will bring in double the Profit to the Nation, it now doth; And such a Trade will Employ and set to Work all other Trades, by Reason it will make Money Circulate plentifully, which is the Life and Vigour of all Trade: Besides, after the Bills are paid, the Poor's Rates will for ever Cease to be paid any more, so that the Nation clearly Gains them, and there will be the Work-Houses and the Stock in them, with all the Profits that arise by the Trade, and the Rents of Land bought all Remaining, which will be so great a Revenue as will mightily enrich the Nation, and enable it to do very Great Things for the Good of the Public in a few Years; and many other Commodities will arise to the Nation by it, too long here to insert; But these already mentioned, the Author hopes are Sufficient to induce all those that desire the prosperity of the Kingdom, to set to their helping-hands to so good a Work; For by this means there will be Money Speedily dispersed into every Parish in England, and there it will be presently Laid out in Building and Stock, to set the Trade a going; So that the whole Nation will be plentifully Supplied with Money in a short time, the want of which is now so great a burden, that it makes the Nation to groan under the weight of it; and it cannot so well and so soon be Remedied by any other Way or Means whatsoever, as it will be by this.  
But here some objections that I have already met with against this Undertaking, requires an answer; The which objections, I will here assert in their full force, and as near as I can, in the same Words I Received them, which the Gentleman that made them will know that I do.  
First, It is objected that although these Bills do pass for Current Money in England, and so may pay the Navy and the Soldiers that are in England, and may Provide all Stores and Necessaries both for the Navy and the Army, that the Nation affords; yet they will not pay the King's Army that are beyond the Seas.  
Answ. These Bills passing Current for Money here, the Merchants may as well make Returns by them, as if he had the Money in Gold or Silver, these Bills paying any Debt, or purchasing any Thing in the Kingdom as well; but if Returns should be Scrupled by reason of the Bills, than there may be allowed two or thee per Cent. for the Return, and that Gain will cause Merchants to be Willing and Ready to Return as much as will need; And His Majesty and the Kingdom, may very well give it His Majesty, having his Money always Ready without delays, or the Trouble of Borrowing, or the Charges of paying Interest, and will have it at all times when wanted; So that the Country nor the Soldiers will not suffer as they have done for want of Pay; which things have been far greater Damages to His Majesty and the Nation, than the paying of Returns will be.  
Obj. These Bills will hinder the Merchants from bringing in Foreign Commodities, because they cannot carry Them beyond Seas to pay for others.  
Answ. If Merchants bring Foreign Commodities to us, with an intent to Carry away our Money in Specie for them, than the Nation had much better be without them than have them; And if it be not to carry away the Money, but to Lay it out here in Goods; then these Bills will be as good as Money, they passing in all Payments, and purchasing all sorts of Goods as well; And this will cause more of the Product and Manufacture of the Nation to be Transported: For now the Merchant can carry away Money to Advantage; but then there will be a Force upon them to lay out all the Bills here, because they will go in no other Country, which will much Advance our own Manufacture and Trade, altho' the Merchant may be displeased at it.  
Obj. 3. If the Parliament should attempt to raise so Great a Sum as Twenty or Thirty Millions, and the Thing should miscarry, it would be a Loss past Remedy; therefore best to begin with some small Sum upon some other Fund, for His Majesty's Use, and try what that will do before they undertake so much.  
Answ. If the Parliament do begin with a small Sum upon another Fund, altho' neither that or this can miscarry, being settled by a Law; yet people would be apt to fear they might be served by it, as they have been by the Bank already Settled; but few or none that throughly understand This, will fear the like by this, by reason all the Money Raised by this, is wholly employed for the Public Good, and not to the particular or private Interest of any Man disjointed from the Public as that is: And if Ten Millions of it be employed for the Use of the War, it saves the Nation from paying so much, which they must else do, if the War continue; and the other twenty Millions will be wholly in their own hands, being dispersed into every Parish in England and Wales, where the Fund also will be to pay the Bills with; so that none can fear to lose by the Bills, for they may pay them themselves, by every Parish paying so many Bills into the Office Yearly, as the the Poor's Rates of that Parish, and the Profits in Trade do amount to until there be none left, and by that means only all the the Bills will return to the Office, and be Cancelled and destroyed in nine or ten years: And if the King and Patliament please to let the Bank already settled be paid off by this, than the Nation will save all the Money that now pays the Interest of that Bank; and that Interest so saved, will pay off all the Bills that pay that Bank, in 12 or 14 Years at most; but if it do go on as it is now Settled, it will be as far from being paid at the end of that time, as it is now; and this will enliven Trade at once all over England and Wales, and set all People to Work, which will make the whole Natien brisk and industrious, when they see that there is Riches 10 be got by taking Pains.  
Obj. 4. But who can tell whether this Trade here spoke of will gain so Great a Sum as proposed, or whether it will gain any thing at all; for there must be a great many employed about the Managing of it: So that the People employed may eat out all the Profits, and then how will the Bills be paid?  
Answ. It is true that no man can tell what any Tradesman or Trade will Gain, before it be set a going and tried; and yet this doth not discourage or hinder any Man from putting his Child or Children Apprentice, or Setting them up when they come forth of their Prenticeships: And we see very few that are Careful, and understand their Trade, and have a Stock to begin with, but what live well by it; And for them employed about this Trade eating out all the Profits: we see no Merchants or other great Traders, that are afraid to employ so many Factors in foreign Countries, and Clerks, and Book-Keepers, and Servants at home, as is necessary to Manage the Trade that each of them drive, without ever fearing the effects of this Objection; and yet we see many of them do grow vastly Rich by their Trade, notwithstanding that they pay all necessary Servants: And why this Trade may not, cannot, or will not do the same, is unaccountable; For there is no particular Tradesman in England, that will have the Tenth (or I believe the twentieth part of Stock to manage his Trade) with that this Trade will have; and than if the Maxim be true, That great Stocks do gain more in proportion than small ones do, than this Trade will gain vastly more in proportion to the Stock, after all Servants and Officers are paid which will be needful to be employed about it; But if it should gain nothing at all, as is objected, but only employ the Poor, so as to get their Living by their Work, yet the Nation will gain eight or nine Millions a Year by that, as is before-shewed; and the Bills for twenty Millions for the Use of the Poor, will be paid by the Poor's Rates and Rents of Land bought in 17 Years and less; And if ten Millions be employed for the Use of the War, all the Bills will be paid by the Poors Rates and Rent of Land bought, in less than twenty five Years; So that if 10 profits arise by the Stock in Trade, yet the Gain to the Nation by it will be vastly Great, as is before Setforth, by employing the People that now live in Idieness, and by working our own Manufacture, and in gaining the Poor's Rates, and Rents of Land bought, after the Bills are paid, and all the Work-Houses, and Stock in them.  
Obj. 5. If so great a Sum as thirty Millions should be raised in Current Bills, it would be more than would be needful to be employed in Trade, and would make a Glut of Money in the Nation.  
Answ. If there were a hundred Millions Raised, it would be no Damage, but a great Benefit to the Nation; for if Trade did not at first Circulate all the Money raised, yet there can be no Loss or Damage by its lying dead; (but the Nation doth at this time sufficiently feel the Damage that comes by want of Money) and the plenty of Money will be a means to raise the Price of our Homebred Commodities; and that will make people more industrious in Raising and Manufacturing them, and by that the Rents of Land will be heightened, and the Nation generally enriched; And if there were Money sufficient to Build Storehouses in or near all Market-Towns, in Corn Countries, and to purchase and lay-up Corn there, when at Low prices, and to Sell it out again upon a Rise, it would always keep Corn at a moderate Price; and this in Cheap-Times would enable the Farmer to pay his Rent well; and in Dear-Times the Nation would not need to the help of Foreigners, who in Cheap-Times buy-up, and carry hence great Quantities of Corn, and in Dear-times bring it, and Sell it here again, and carry away, very often, more than four times the Money, given at first for it, to the Great detriment and Shame of the Nation; that a Country that hath no Corn growing in it, should be able to Supply us in a Dear-time with our own Corn, which was carried away from hence when it was cheap and laid up; but I hope in time this may be amended.  
Obj. 6. If so many Bills be set and pass for Current Money, it will cause all the Ready Money in the Nation to be Hoarded up or Transported out of the Land; so that when the Bills are paid off and destroyed, we shall be left destitute of all sorts of Money.  
Answ. There can be no just ground to fear that either the Money will be Hoarded up or Transported out of the Nation, ever the more for the Currency of the Bills; for the meaner Sort of People are not able to hoard it up, and Usurers do not care to keep or hoard-up grea●… 〈◊〉 of Money to lie by them and yield no Profit: the Gentry, for the genera●…y of them l●ve so as to be no great Hoarders of Money; so that it will be hard to find out people to hoard it up, especially when Trade is brisk, and that Money may be profited by; And besides that, these Bills when they are issued out, will yearly grow a considerable quantity less: So that people with some Reason may hope that Money which is now so scarce in the Nation may yearly increase, for to Supply the decrease of the Bills, and by that means keep Trade brisk, and the Nation easy: And as to the Transportation of Money, these Bills will not in the least further it; for if the Merchant can transport Silver or Gold to get more by it than by our Homebred Commodities, he will certainly transport it, whether there be Bills or no; And these Bills will cause our Homebred Commodities to be better, and more plentifully wrought-up; so that they will be more ready, and better Traffic for the Merchant than they are now; and therefore they will rather hinder the Transportation of Money than cause it to be transported. All which is submitted to the better Judgement of the Judicious Readers, and the Author hopes he may obtain pardon (from the most Critical) for publishing this, it being really done out of the Desire he hath to serve the Kingdom, and to incite others, either to set this forward, or to produce something that is better for the Public Good.  
FINIS.   

ADVERTISEMENT.  
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