ACOB became not a sovereign
Jby getting the birth right, 198
powerful, just as a farmer
James 1. (king of England) his ABOUR, much more owing
to it than to nature, 361-3
must be understood of silver without the alloy, Money, why so much was coined in queen Elizabeth's time, and after, 130 how it answers all things, 139 the denomination alters not the intrinsic value, ibid. lessening its real value is worse than clipping, 146 its being current only for its weight, is the most effectual way to stop the mischief of clipping,
147 it is necessary in proportion to the plenty of it in neighbouring nations, 148
it will always be of equal va- lue with the same weight of standard silver,
158 what causes the exportation of it, 160 it ought not to be made lighter, though silver were grown dearer, 164 lessening it would be a gain to money hoarders, but a loss to others,
166 by making it one-fifth light- er, creditors and landlords lose 20 per cent. 168
and labourers also lose by it, unless they have one-fifth more wages, 170 the change of its name will
not alter its value,
177 the insignificancy of lessen- ing, explained by familiar simi- litudes, ibid.
if a crown of it (e. g.) be called 75 pence, it will buy no more goods than if it be called. 60 pence, 180 lowering its value will not render it more generally use. ful, ibid. it cannot be of the full price of bullion, because of exporting the latter, 184
the true raising it is by put. ting more silver in it,
how it has been altered in
former times, 185,- -and the most probable occasion of it, 187
REBELLION, the word some.. Rimes used for a lawful war,
473, 474 the best means to prevent it, is good government,
ibid. governors may be guilty of it as well as the governed, ib. Rents, the advantage of paying them quarterly, or weekly, 27 the causes of their falling, 69, 70 Representatives of the people, how sometimes very unequal, 432,-
433 corrupting them, or pre- engaging the electors, tends to dissolve the government, 470 Resistance of tyranny, when it is lawful, 476 when it is lawful to be ibid. it is warrantable to use it, for repelling illegal force, 482
the end of it is the pub- ibid.
who may judge concern- ing the right or wrong use of it, 438
if people are injured by it, they may appeal to heaven, 439
Price of things not always propor- tionable to their usefulness,
of foreign commodities ad vances by being taxed, but that of home ones falls,
the reason of this, ibid. Property, how men come to have 361, 367 how it is naturally bound-
368, &c. in land and other things, at first acquired by labour, ibid. how this is a common ad- vantage, 364 — it was at length settled by law, 371 cannot be rightly taken from any, without their con- sent, 422 Providence, the bounty of it, in making the most useful things commonly the cheapest,
BYE AND LAW, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN'S-SQUARE, CLERKENWELL.
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