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First, The Customs and Impositions upon all forts of Merchandize and Traf∣fick is to be looked unto and advanced.
Secondly, The excessive eating of Usury must be suppressed.
Thirdly, All supersluous Charges and Expences are to be taken away.
Lastly, The doings and accounts of Ministers are severally to be exammed.
Touching the matter of Custom and Impost thereof, assuredly a great Prosit is in every State to be raised;
chiefly where Peace hath long con∣tinued, and where the Country af∣fordeth much plenty of Commodities to be carried out, and where Ports are to receive Shipping.
The moderating of Interest is ever necessary, and chiefly in this Age, by reason that Money aboundeth in Eu∣rope; since the Traffick into the In∣dies; for such Men as have Money in their Hands great plenty, would in no wise imploy the same in Merchan∣dize, if lawful it were to receive the utmost Usury, being a Course of most Profit and greatest Security.
The taking away of superfluous Expences is no other thing than a certain wise and laudable Parsimony; which the Romans and other well go∣verned States did use. These Expen∣ces consist in Fees, Allowances, and Wages granted to Ministers of little or no Necessity; also in Pensions, Rewards, Entertainments and Dona∣ries, with small Difficulty to be mo∣derated, or easily to be suppressed.
* 1.1 By abridging or taking away of these needless Expences a marvelous Profit will be saved for the Prince; but if he continue them, and by impo∣sing upon the People do think to in∣crease his Treasure or Revenue, be∣sides the loss of their Love, he may also hazard their Obedience, with ma∣ny other Inconveniences.
So Henry the Fourth of France by putting his Courtiers to Board∣wages was said to make Money with his Teeth.