[ 29 ] 



have been reduced thereto from the great 

 reduftions made upon their other Eftates, by 

 Taxes thereon, and divers other neceffaries 

 of Hfe, or from the fruits of their own 

 luxurious living; that is, to be plain, when 

 neither the Lords of the Admiralty, or the 

 great Merchants, and their agents the Tim- 

 ber buyers, no longer have it in their power 

 to take advantage of the remaining Timber 

 fellers. — And how notorioufly this was the 

 cafe of the neceffitous Sellers thereof, after 

 the fall of Southfea Stock, is needlefs for 

 me to fay — But, too many like exigences', 

 tho' from different caufes, are yet remaining. 

 Yet when the Tables come to be turned, 

 and the needy Sellers have done felling — and 

 the other will not part with any but what it 

 is good hufbandry to take down, which will 

 not near anfwer the demands of the Buyers- 

 then fuch neceffitated Buyers muft lie at the 

 mercy of the then Proprietors — And this in 

 all cafes of marketable commodities, is no 

 more than what happens every day in life. 



Among other things, having done with 

 what credenda are at prefent needful ; I pro- 

 ceed next on different Heads, mixt with 

 fome agenda, . 



CHAP, 



