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14 How to compare not onely the Money of this present Age with that of the former, but the entire Riches of the present with the former People.

By the numbers of People, and the proportion of Money amongst them, the accidental values of Lands are to be computed.

How to proportion the Rates of a Commodity in one place, unto the Rates of the same in another place.

That the Day-wages of Labourers and several other of the most vulgar Tradesmen ought to be ascertain'd, and well adapted to the changes of time.

That though the difficulty of computing the contingent values of Land be great, yet there be greater reasons for undergoing it.

The nature of Credit, as the said word is commonly used among Tradesmen, and otherwise.

That the Sovereigns exact knowledge of the Subjects Estates would do them no harm.

A description of the Duty of Customs.

A Conjecture that Customs at first were a kinde of præmium for ensurance against Pyrates.

The measures of the said Duty upon exported Goods.

The inconvenience of too heavy Customs.

What Commodities may be forced to pay Customs.

The measures of Customs upon imported Goods.

The inconveniences of raising money, by the way of Customs.

A Proposal, that instead of Tunnage and Poundage upon shipped Goods, a Tunnage were paid out of the ships Fraight.

Or that the Customs were taken as an Ensurance-præmium.

Of prohibited Commodities in general.

Of prohibiting the exportation of Money and Bullion.

The said prohibition of Money serves as a sumptuary Law.

About the exportation of Wool.

The lessening of our Sheep-trade, and encrease of Corn-tillage is an expedient in this case for many reasons.

Other considerations tending to shew, that the too vehement prohibitions of Wool may be ineffectual, or to do more harm then good.

Of prohibiting Importations.

It were better to make and raise Commodities, though to burn them, then not to make them, or let the makers lose their Faculty, and be idle.

Of Free Ports, and in what cases they may do good or harm.

Of Poll-money, and the sorts of it.

The faults of the late Poll-moneys.

Of the most simple Poll-money, where all pay alike, its conveniences and inconveniences.

Of Poll-money upon Titles, Offices, and Faculties.