The· Sa.in·ts J~re The reafons . now, than in former times,it is a cleare and pl~line of_ the hi~her , Cq(e, that the reafon is ; that the great i}ore and pnce oftlungs 1 ] · f r. I · 1· · lk · · h r. · now. · · I p entre o trea1ure w11c 1 1s. wa mg m t • CtC ·, I parts of the worlO, farre more m t hefe our dayes, I thanever our forefathers have feeiie in times pafi. ~ i_Vvbodorhnotundcdl:arid oftheinfinitefiunrnes . i l of ~old and Silver whie~ are gathered from the ~ \Indles~ and other Countnes, and fo yearly tranf– . ported into thefe coafi:s ? And this is confell to · De '1{.ep.lib.6. Cflp,z.. ' I J 1\ be the tru_e caufeof th_e fame una~cient de~rneflc of all thmgs, even in other Kmgdomcs alfo,.. where Popery is profeffed. One Bodin, a.._~re.1.t Po– lititian of France, tels us, thttt the _eo_mmon people are m$tchdecei1-·ed, .rrho thinke that th.epriceof Corne, CM2 tell, and other necejfaries, fhould hold the fame rate it did of old. They doe not underjfand and crmfider, that ·)thepriceofthing.rismore6ytmpart.r (faith he) thaJt I it n'l¥1' anci~nlj,, ly ~etlJi:n of the plenty andaGundancc_of GoldandSzl1-·er, tPhtc!J ubrought oMof the We;1 I'ndteJ· 1 intoEurope, rrhereGy it comes tOfJaJ!e that money idej]e efteemed, for plemy.of any thing lej]ims the e}imati- · c . 0/'3 OJ it. I · Be!ides, forourowne Counrrey, wife men have obfcrved :mother· particular· reafon .. For (fay 1 they} immediately after our coine, in the tin).c of King Hcn~y the eighth, the prices of ail rhiqgs geiieraiiyamong all forts ofpeople rofe; for that . they thinke, that the alteration of the Coine was . . the chiefe and· principail caufe of an univerfall .dearneifeofthipgs. Andwhy our Engli(h Coine -:: being rellorecl byour late ~eene, that ble!Ted . Saint of glorious..memory, to its former purity : and ' _________ _,_......,...;;.;......._ _________ ___... ..
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