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The Advantages which will manifestly accrue to this Kingdom by abatement of interest from six to four per. Cent.
- 1. It will inviolably Establish the Crown of England, By
- The Advancement of his Majesties Customs
- The Ease of his Majesties Subjects.
- The making of lands wch are in safe hands the over-ballancing Scale of Wealth and Power.
- 2 It will accommodate his Majesty in his present wants even by a Land Tax if better Expedients be not offered▪) which the Owner may well afford to admit of (at least pro hâc vice) being eased a∣nother way; The slie Usurer (who could never yet be met with) in Effect contributing as much as he.
- 3. It willl in short time pay the debts of the whole Gentry, by timely sales, And yet leave them (one with another) richer than they are.
- 4. It will make Money so Easie to be borrowed, That even the Lender will shortlie pay the
Broker and Coveyancer, By
- Diminishing the Number
- Enlarging the Securitie
- 5. It will speedilie double, if not treable, the Yearly Fruit, and Product of our Lands, (the only so∣lid Basis of our Wealth and Trade) by enabling, encouraging, and even forcing improvements of all kinds, whereby we may afford to under-sell our Neighbours, who now under-sell us.
- 6. It will revive our dying Manufacture, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 making the stock of it cheap, and the Market quick.
- 7. It will plentifully relieve the Poor, by setting all our Heads and Hands to work, in the Countrie, for improvement of Lands; In Cities and Towns by way of Manufacture.
- 8. It only can preserve the utter destruction of our Timber.
- 9. It only can re-build London speedily, as to the Publick, Profitably as to the Builder.
All which Assertions I am ready to prove to any Man, that Will discourse it with me fairly, closely, and methodically.
T. C.