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Rh in Religion; Taxes; Alteration of Lawes and Customes; Breaking of Priviledges; Generall Oppression; Advancement of unworthy persons; Strangers; Dearths; Disbanded Souldiers; Factions growne desperate; And whatsoever in offending People ioyneth and knitteth them in a Common Cause.

For the Remedies; There may be some generall Preservatives, whereof wee will speake; As for the iust Cure, it must answer to the Particular Disease; And so be left to Counsell rather then Rule.

The first Remedy or prevention is to remove by all meanes possible that materiall Cause of Sedition, wherof we spake; which is Want and Poverty in the Estate. To which purpose serveth the Opening and well Ballancing of Trade; The Cherishing of Manufactures; the Banishing of Idlenesse; the Repressing of waste and Excesse by Sumptuary Lawes; the Improvement and Husbanding of the Soyle; the Regulating of Prices of things vendible; the Moderating of Taxes and Tributes; And the like. Generally, it is to be foreseene that the Population of a Kingdome, (especially if it be not mowen downe by warrs) doe not exceed the Stock of the Kingdome, which should maintaine them. Neither is the Population to be reckoned onely by number; For a smaller Number, that spend more and earne lesse, doe weare out an Estate sooner then a greater Number, that live lower and gather more. Therefore the Multiplying of Nobilitie and other Degrees of Qualitie, in an over Proportion to the Common People, doth speedily bring a State to Necessitie; And so doth likewise an overgrowne Clergie, For they bring nothing to the Stocke; And in like manner, when more are bred Schollers then Preferments can take off.

It is likewise to be remembred that, for as much as the increase of any Estate must be upon the Forrainer, (for