Excerpt from The Political and Commercial Works of That Celebrated Writer Charles D'avenant, LL. D, Vol. 3: Relating to the Trade and Revenue of England, the Plantation Trade, the East-India Trade and African Trade Good Princes have not only made a diflinelion between what was their own patrimonially, as the civil law books term it, and what the flate had an interefl in; but many of them, as we fhall ibew by and by, in care of the publick, and right economy, have equalled the mof't prudent commonwealths. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.