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There having been of late years many inclofures of heaths, commons, 

 and other wafte grounds in England, the poor peafantry or cottagers 

 of feveral counties made a kind of riotous infurrection on that account, 

 which however was foon quelled. 



The Englifli Eaft-lndia company now fent out their third voyage 

 with three Ihips ; but as it would be equally tirefome and unprofitable 

 to relate what is to be found in fo many othep works, it is fufficient to 

 remark that the fuperior induftry of the Dutch in India had already 

 been beforehand. with us at the fpice illands, of w^hich they foon after 

 this time made themfelves fovereigns, as they remain at this day, and 

 that the Portuguefe jefuits at the mogul's court ftill continued equal ene- 

 mies to both Englifh and Dutch in India. 



Under this year Mezeray (though a poplfli author) writing of the 

 reign of King Henry IV of France, highly commends the ftate of Ve- 

 nice for wifely confulting the true interefl; of their people ; for, finding, 

 many inconveniencies from the indlfcreet zeal of perfons, efpecially on 

 their deathbeds, in the year 1 603, they prohibited the building of 

 churches, convents, or hoipitals, v/ithout the fenate's permiflion ; and 

 in 1605 enaded that no ecclefiaftic be allowed to leave, bequeath, or 

 engage any goods to the church ; that none fliould henceforth give any 

 eftate m lands to the clergy, nor to religious orders, without the confent 

 of the fenate, who v/ould allow of it upon good coniideration. And 

 upon the pope's fiorming therear, the fenate anfwered, ' that it was not 

 ■ jufl that fuch lands as maintained the fubjefts, and were to bear the 

 ' charges of the flate, fliould fall into mortmain ;' and they quoted the 

 like pradice of the emperors Valentinian and Charlemain, of all the 

 French kings from St. Louis to Henry III, of Edward T king of Eng- 

 land, of the Emperor Charles V, &c. And (what is moil memorable) 

 although the pope interdidcd the republic and excommunicated the fe- 

 nate, yet many of their bilhops and clergy flood firm to the fenate, in 

 fpite of all the thunder of the Vatican. 



1 60S. — The manufadlure of alum war. now invented and fuccefsfully 

 pradifed in England, being happily encouraged and propagated in 

 Yorklhire by Lord Sheffield, Sir John Eourcher, and other landed 

 gentlemen of that county, to the very great benefit of England in ge- 

 neral, and to the fmgular great emolument of the> proprietors thereof 

 to this day. King James was a great encourager of thefe alum works, 

 having, by the advice of his miniilers, aflumed the monopoly of it to 

 himfelf ; and therefor he prohibited the importation of foreign alum. 



But that king was not at all fuccefsful in his laudable zeal for the 

 propagation of filk in England, in imitation of King Henry IV of 

 France. He this year fent circular letters into all the counties of Eng- 

 land for planting mulberry trees ; for which end he cauied pnntt^d in- 

 flruciions to be publilhed, as alfo for breeding and feedmg iilk-worms> 

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