England's improvements in two parts : in the former is discoursed how the kingdom of England may be improved ... : in the latter is discoursed how the navigation of England may be increased and the soveraignty of the British seas more secured to the crown of England ... / by Roger Coke.

Prop. 11. Theorem 10.

The free Admission of Forreigners to work Woollen and other Manufactures in England, may encrease the value of the Land of England.

2 Ax. 1. For in every thing, the Effects will be as the Causes are.

6 Pet. 1. But Lands are valuable as the Trade of the place is.

6 Prop. 3. And the free Admission of Forreigners to work Woollen and other Manufactures in England, may encrease Trade in England.

Therefore it may encrease the value of the Lands of Eng∣land.

Coroll. 1.

By the same reason, the free Admission of the Natives of England to work Woollen and other Manufactures in England, may encrease the value of the Lands of England.

6 Pet. 1. For Lands are valuable as the Trade of the place is.

Coroll. 3. Prop. 10. And the free Admission of the Na∣tives of England to work Wollen and other Manufactures in England, may encrease Trade in England.

Annot. upon this Prop. and Coroll.

So that though the Benefits which the Nation will reap by the free Admission of Forreigners and the Natives of England to work Woollen and other Manufactures, would begin at Corporations, yet would they not end there. For

Lands are onely valuable as the Crop or feeding Cattle on them finde a Market; and therefore no man will Plow, Sow, or seed Cattle, when he cannot hope for a Market; and by consequence, Lands are of little or no value, where the people are few or none; or if the people be poor, they are of a poor value. But both ways, the free Admission of Forreigners and the Natives of England to work Woollen and other Manufactures, will not only encrease the Markets with more people, but also enable them to give the Farmor so much better prices for his Commodities, as their Employ∣ments are better; and therefore the Interest of the King, Nobility, Gentry and others, who are owners of Lands, are so much concerned herein, as the value of their Lands would be hereby improved.

Coroll. 2.

By the same reason, the free Admission of For∣reigners to work Woollen and other Manufactures in England, may encrease the value of the Revenues of the Church.

7 Pet. 1. For the Revenues of the Church of England are valuable, as the Lands of England are valuable.

Prop. And the free Admission of Forreigners to work Woollen and other Manufactures in England, may encrease the value of the Lands of England.

Coroll. 3.

By the same reason, the free Admission of the Natives of England to work Woollen and other Manufactures in England, may encrease the value of the Revenue of the Church of England.

7 Pet. 1. For the Revenues of the Church of England are valuable, as the Lands of England are valuable.

Coroll. 1. And the free Admission of the Natives of Eng∣land to work Woollen and other Manufactures in England, may encrease the value of the Lands of England.

Annot. upon the 2d & 3d Corollaries.

As this free admission would encrease the value of the Revenues of the Church of England, in reference to the Glebe-Lands, and the Tythes of the Crops renewed upon the Lands in Villages; so would it encrease the value of the Revenues of the Church in Corporations, by how much the places would be better and more built, and inhabited by a richer and better sort of Inhabitants. And as this Ad∣mission may encrease the value of the Revenues of the Church, so it may the Revenues of the Crown, not only in the value of the Lands of the Crown, but in the consumption of Beer, Ale, and all other Exciseable Commodities in Eng∣land; which will be so much more, as the Forreigners by this Admission are more; and may be so much more, as the Na∣tives by this mean may be better enabled to eat and drink more and better.

Coroll. 4.

By the same reason, the free Admission of For∣reigners to work Woollen and other Manufactures in England, may encrease the strength of England.

4 Pet. 1. For greater numbers of People encrease strength.

23 Pet. 3. And the free admission of Forreigners to work Woollen and other Manufactures in England, will cause so much greater numbers of People in England, as the Forreign∣ers are more.

Annot.

Though Tradesmen and Artificers make not so good and

hardy Souldiers as those who live in the Country, and are of more robust lives, yet I am sure they are better than none: and the late King found by woful experience, that the Compa∣nies made up of the Apprentices and Tradesmen of London, were very good Souldiers; and by good experience found, that both were very serviceable to him.