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An Expedient for Paying, &c.

reason of those that gain by beggaring our heretofore rich and flourishing nation, that the more moneys are sent out of England the more will come in, when it is sent out as fast as it comes in, with much of that which we had of our own before, as if England had mines of gold and silver inexhaustible; as if depths had no bottom, breadths or lengths had nothing to terminate it, but were infinite; and as if our people of England, whose merchants and traders at sea are not one in every thousand of our many people, servants, women and children excepted, were all or the greatest part, as the Dutch, who with their wives and many of their children, and servants, do continually employ themselves in trade; and being the great and common carriers of the world, ingrossers of all the trade thereof, and more cunning traders into all the parts of it, are sure if they carry out their moneys to bring in a great deal more with advantage.

FAB. PHILIPPS^[1].

4 July 1667.

↑ Fabian Philipps was a barrister of the Middle Temple. He was born at Prestbury in Gloucestershire, an. 1601, and died in 1690. See Wood's Fasti. Oxon. f. 3, 4, where is given a list of many of his writings, which were numerous and chiefly political. In the British Museum, Sloane MSS. 970, f. 26, is a Discourfe by him "Touching the Antiquity of the Temple Inns of Court."
Wood describes him as a man of confiderable learning, and much attached to the study of antiquity; and says, "that he was always a zealous asserter of the king's prerogative, and so passionate a lover of king Ch. I. that two days before he was beheaded he wrote a Protestation against his intended murder, which he printed, and caused to be put on posts and in all common places. He was Filacer for London, Middlesex, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire, and did spend much money in searching and writing for the asserting of the king's prerogative, yet got nothing by it, only the employment of one of the commissioners appointed for the regulation of the law, worth £200 per annum, which lafted only for two years."

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[1] Fabian Philipps was a barrister of the Middle Temple. He was born at Prestbury in Gloucestershire, an. 1601, and died in 1690. See Wood's Fasti. Oxon. f. 3, 4, where is given a list of many of his writings, which were numerous and chiefly political. In the British Museum, Sloane MSS. 970, f. 26, is a Discourfe by him "Touching the Antiquity of the Temple Inns of Court."
Wood describes him as a man of confiderable learning, and much attached to the study of antiquity; and says, "that he was always a zealous asserter of the king's prerogative, and so passionate a lover of king Ch. I. that two days before he was beheaded he wrote a Protestation against his intended murder, which he printed, and caused to be put on posts and in all common places. He was Filacer for London, Middlesex, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire, and did spend much money in searching and writing for the asserting of the king's prerogative, yet got nothing by it, only the employment of one of the commissioners appointed for the regulation of the law, worth £200 per annum, which lafted only for two years."

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