mooible to conceive the Number of Inconceo zi ette. Borrowing be Cramped. Cven base of the Aborting of is Idle. al fans me one Kinder Rate, St is the Open be fent to robia. cát a f me £firman and Röglement How de Dronnines of it may be beft Inner retained It appeares Loe i Jantza, and Difcommodities of In Tase to be Reconciled The one, ze a I Tanz be grinded that it bite not Tema The deere bee left open a I a Vocered Men, to lend to the kemus ir the Coccing and Quickning 30 of

This can be done, except you introduce,

and SriTAK, and a Greater. For fra mame Fan, to cne Low Rate, it will LEX CHar & Brower, but the Merchant wil *ress ir Money. And is to be noted, that Tax & Kerania, being the most Lucratiue, men fy a good Rate; Other Contracts

anions the way would be briefly tere be Toy Rates of Vfury, The one ir A: The other vnder Licence Prim and in Certaine Places of $herefore, let fury, in generall, Fuen the Endre: And let that Rate be Free and Current; And let the

an Laxy Sa Commercian intercidat aut languescat, NX & rest or grow slack'

Jemnice, be permitted.'

Faces & Kechudang rice locis, ubi Mercatura VIA San viers commerce is brisk.'

J.

1625.

æt. 65.

State 36 fhut it felfe out, to take any Penalty for the fame.37 This will preferue Borrowing from any generall Stop or Drineffe.38 This will ease infinite Borrowers in the Countrie. This will, in good Part, raise the Price of Land, because Land purchased at Sixteene yeares Purchase, wil yeeld Six in the Hundred, and somewhat more, whereas this Rate of Interest, Yeelds but Fiue.39 This, by like reason, will Encourage and edge, Industrious and Profitable Impiouements ;40 Because Many will rather venture in that kinde, then take Fiue in the Hundred, especially hauing beene vsed to greater Profit. Secondly, let there be Certaine Perfons licenfed to Lend, to knowne Merchants,42 vpon Vfury at a Higher Rate; and let it be with the Cautions following. Let the Rate be, euen with the Merchant himselfe,43 fomewhat more easie, then that he vsed formerly to pay: For, by that Meanes, all Borrowers 44 shall haue fome ease, by this Reformation, be he Merchant, or whofoeuer. Let it be no Banke or Common Stocke, but euery Man be Master of his owne Money: Not that I altogether Mislike Banks, but they will hardly be brooked, in regard of certain fufpicions.45

36 State. Princeps sive Respublica, prince or state.' 37 Shut it selfe ... same. Mulcta omni renunciet, renounce all fines.' 38 Drinesse. Difficultate majore, 'greater difficulty.' 39 Because Land

but Fiue. Quandoquidem annuus Valor prædiorum, hic apud Nos in Anglia, excedet illam Fænoris, ad hanc Proportionem redacti; Quantum annuus Valor sex Librarum, excedit illum quinque tantum, since the yearly value of land, with us here in England, will exceed that of interest, reduced to this rate: as the yearly value of £6 exceeds that of £5.'

40 Industrious and Profitable Improuements. Industrias Hominum, ad utilia et lucrosa Inventa, 'the industries of men to useful and profitable inventions.'

41 Fiue in the Hundred. Lucro tam exili, quale diximus, ex Vsuris, such a small profit, as we have said, from usury.'

42 After Knowne Merchants. Et non aliis quibuscunque Hominibus, 'and to no other men.'

48 Euen with the Merchant himselfe. Omitted in the Latin,

44 Borrowers.

Omitted in the Latin.

45 Let it be no Banke

certain suspicions. Omitted in the Latin.

V.

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æt. 65.

Let the State 46 be answered, some small Matter, for the Licence, and the reft 47 left to the Lender: For if the Abatement be but small,48 it will no whit discourage the Lender. For he, for Example, that tooke49 before Ten or Nine in the Hundred, wil fooner defcend to Eight in the Hundred, then giue ouer his Trade of Vfury; And goe from Certaine Gaines, to Gaines of Hazard.50 Let these Licensed Lenders be in Number Indefinite, but restrained to Certaine Principall Cities and Townes of Merchandizing: For then they will be hardly able, to Colour other Mens Moneyes, 51 in the Country: So as the Licence of Nine,52 will not fucke away the current Rate of Five: For no Man will fend his Moneyes farre off, nor put them into Vnknown

Hands.

If it be Obiected, that this doth, in a Sort, Authorize Vfury, which before was, in fome places, but Permiffiue: The Answer is; That it is better, to Mitigate Vfury by Declaration, then to fuffer it to Rage by Conniuence.53

16 State. Princeps sive Respublica, 'prince or state. 47 The rest. Reliquum Lucri, 'the rest of the profit.'

48 Abatement be but small. Lucrum Fæneratoris leviter tantum minuatur, the gain of the lender be only slightly lessened.'

49 Tooke. Quotannis accipere solebat, 'was wont to take yearly.' 50 Goe from Certaine Gaines, to Gaines of Hazard. Certa cum Incertis 51 Colour other Mens Moneyes. Prætextu Licentiarum, Opportunitatem tunity, under the pretext of their licence, of lending other men's money as non habebunt, Pecunias aliorum pro suis commodandi, 'will not have oppor

commutabit, change certainties for uncertainties.'

their own.'

52 Nine. Novem aut octo Librarum Proportio, Licentia munita, 'the

rate of 69 or £8 fortified by a licence.'

53 If it be Obiected

Conniuance. Omitted in the Latin.

V.

任

Oufes are built to Liue in, and not to Looke on: Therefore let Vse bee preferred before Vniformitie;2 Except where both may be had. Leaue the Goodly Fabrickes of Houfes, for Beautie only, to the Enchanted Pallaces of the Poets: Who build them with fmall Coft. Hee that builds a faire Houfe, vpon an ill Seat, commiteth Himfelfe to Prifon. Neither doe I reckon it an ill Seat, only, where the Aire is Vnwholfome; But likewife where the Aire is vnequall; As you shall see many fine Seats, fet vpon a knap of Ground, Enuironed with Higher Hilles round about it: whereby the Heat of the Sunne is pent in, and the Wind gathereth" as in Troughes; So as you fhall haue as great Diuerfitie of Heat and Cold, as if you Dwelt in feuerall Places. Neither is it ill Aire onely, that maketh an ill Seat, but Ill wayes,7 Ill Markets; And, if you will confult with Momus, Ill Neighbours. I fpeake not of many More: Want of Water; Want of Wood, Shade, and Shelter; Want of Fruitfulneffe, and mixture of Grounds of feuerall Natures; Want of Prospect ; Want of Leuell9 Grounds; Want of Places, at some neare Distance, for Sports of Hunting, Hauking, and Races: Too neare the Sea, too remote; Hauing the Commo

DE. Variations in posthumous Latin Edition of 1638.

1 TITLE. De Edificiis, of buildings.'

2 Vniformitie. Pulchritudini, 'beauty.'

3 For Beautie only. Que Admirationem incutiunt, which strike us with admiration.'

Fine Seats. Edes, 'house.'

5 Enuironed. Cincto undique, more Theatri, 'girt on all sides like a theatre,'

6 Gathereth. Variis æstibus reciprocantur, ‘are moved backwards and forwards in various tides.'

7 Wayes. Viarum et Adituum Incorimoditas, 'inconvenience of roads and approaches.'

8 Shelter. Focum, 'fuel.'

9 Leuell.

Plane et aquabilis, 'level and even.'

dizel of Nazigable Rivers, or the difcommoditie of ther Quadowing: Too farre off from great Cities, woon may binder Fotinete: Or too neare them,

Lukket i Frocitions and maketh euery

Betre: Where a Man bath a great Living laid gettent and where he is feanted: All which, as it simpelte perhaps to finde together, fo it is good to know them, and thinke of them, that a Man may me as he can And if he haue feuerall Ovalings that he fort them fo, that what hee wanteth

ne bee may finde in the Other. Lucullus ivand Fry well; Who when hee saw his Stately Galleries and Roomes to Large and Lightfome, in ze of his Hagen, faid: Sure, an excellent Place for Sanner, but we be you in Winter? Lucullus univered: 76 fr. doe you not think me as Wife, as N Fall bra tilt ever change their Aboad towards The ?

To pale from the Sef, to the House it felfe; We 12 die as Cheery doth, in the Oratours Art; Who tes Bockes De Cratore, and a Booke entitled Men Whereof the Former delivers the Precepts of Se det: And the Latter the Perfection. We will therefore defcribe a Prinzly Pallaz, making a briefe Modell therect For it is strange to fee, now in Furope fich Huge Buildings, as the Vatican, and Park and Some Others be, and yet scarce a very Faire Roome in them.

Find therefore, I fay, you cannot haue a Perfect

» Hing the Commodite. Nalacommoditas, no commodity." reat Living had together. Linhxdia ampla possideat, aut acqui22 pues quire large estates.

Pounas extendere nequeat, cannot extend his wings.' VALLAs it is impossible...many as he can. Que singula minime ❤ NĚHU COAMenimis, às Comus aliqua kis Incommodis omnibus vacare ASLD-Term 12 2012 LIDs reitemus, quot evitari concedatur, which we have not cuterated, as if any house could be without all these disadvantages, be that we should avoid as many of them as possible."

Hoe seueral Prelings Domes plures adificet, 'build several