Solon his follie, or a politique discourse, touching the reformation of common-weales conquered, declined or corrupted. By Richard Beacon ...

CAP. 12. The ready wayes and meanes to remoove alocca∣sions of declining.

BVT now let vs close vppe this long discourse with one pol∣licy vsed by the Romaines, which being rightly applyed maie remoove all occasions of declining: for after they had subiected Macedony vnto their rule and governement, for the better pre∣venting of all occasions of rebelling, they devided the kingdome into fower provinces, with a capitall punnishment to be imposed vppon such, as should wander and travell from province to pro∣vince, or should chaunge their habitation, or contract affinities, or vse marchandise with those of other provinces, by which course of governement, they did eftsoones remove all occasions of de∣clining and rebelling: for traytours and rebels having once incur∣red

the penalty of lawes, may finde no safety but in wandering from province to province; their broken and decayed forces may not be repayred, but by contracting of affinities with such of other provinces, which they finde to be of strength and force; and sometimes vnder the coulour of merchandise, they transporte letters, importing and nourishing thereby a generall combina∣tion; by which meanes Shane Oneile attainted, sometimes labou∣red the corruption of all the West partes of Salamina, as in the statutes of his attainder it doth lively appeare: and by the like pra∣ctises before remembred, did the late Burkes and Orurkes of Co∣nought nourishe for a long time all their wicked rebellions. And therefore Mummius Consul Achaeis victis, quo minus rebellarent, cae∣tibus ac societatibus interdixit, Corinthum quae duo maria brevi terra∣rum intervallo iungebat, disturbavit.