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tificate of registry to the Bank of England, or to Overend 

 and Gurney's, and to discount it at 3 per cent. So much 

 for landlords. 2nd. For tenants he has public grana- 

 ries, in which they are to deposit their corn, and to receive 

 for it corn-notes ; these will pass from hand to hand " ac- 

 tually equal to cash," which, consequently, can never be 

 scarce. 3rd. Manufactures are to be encouraged by a strict 

 monopoly of the home market. He concludes thus : "If 

 any gentleman, or other, please to put pen to paper, in 

 opposition to what is here asserted, I shall give him a civil 

 return, bound up with the second part, where these seven 

 heads shall be treated on " two will suffice : 



" 3rdly. Demonstrate and make it appear how Ireland 

 may be brought to twenty years' purchase, and made as 

 useful to England, and of as great strength, as Norway is 

 to Denmark." 



" Gthly. How to employ six thousand young lawyers and 

 three thousand priests for the good of the public and 

 mankind." 



This second part we have unfortunately been unable to 

 discover. We beg pardon for digression, but we could riot 

 wholly pass by remedies so admirably suited to our own 

 wants and times. 



Our copy of the first edition of Walter Blith's book is 

 without date, but it was evidently published before Charles 

 and the House of Lords were set aside, for in the title- 

 page it speaks of the " Kingdome," and it is addressed to 

 the two Houses of Parliament. A large type, a wide mar- 

 gin, and a liberal incorporation of Tusser's Rhymes, only 

 extend the work to the modest size of J 68 pages. But in 

 1652 matters are much changed. Walter Blith, " a Lover 

 of Ingenuity," has become Captain Walter Blith. The 

 word " Kingdome " is dropped out of the title-page. The 

 "third impression, much augmented," is dedicated to "The 

 Right Honourable the Lord Generall Cromwell." The 

 author's ideas, as well as his book, have evidently expanded 

 at the rapid rate then in fashion. He thus describes the 



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