434 ADVICE TO SIR GEORGE VILLIERS. 



24. If God shall bless these endeavours, and the 

 king return to his own house in peace, when a civil 

 war shall be at an end, those who have been found 

 faithful in the land must be regarded, yea, and re 

 warded also ; the traitorous, or treacherous, who have 

 misled others, severely punished ; and the neutrals 

 and false-hearted friends and followers, who have 

 started aside like a broken bow, be noted &quot; carbone 

 nigro.&quot; And so I shall leave them, and this part of 

 the work. 



VI. I COME to the sixth part, which is trade ; 

 and that is either at home or abroad. And I begin 

 with that which is at home, which enableth the 

 subjects of the kingdom to live, and layeth a foun 

 dation to a foreign trade by traffic with others, which 

 enableth them to live plentifully and happily. 



1. For the home trade, I first, commend unto 

 your consideration the encouragement of tillage, 

 which will enable the kingdom for corn for the 

 natives, and to spare for exportation : and I myself 

 have known, more than once, when, in times of 

 dearth, in queen Elizabeth s days, it drained much 

 coin of the kingdom, to furnish us with corn from 

 foreign parts. 



2. Good husbands will find the means, by good 

 husbandry, to improve their lands, by lime, chalk, 

 marl, or sea-sand, where it can be had : but it will 

 not be amiss, that they be put in mind thereof, and 

 encouraged in their industries. 



3. Planting of orchards, in a soil and air fit for 



