For the good of the publick A True Method, shewing All Ranks and Degrees of Men, How to purchase an Estate, Or make Provision for Posterity, out of idle Expences: and How a Gentleman may advance the Fortune of his Children, without impairing his Estate; and how a Tradesman may do the like for his, and never miss it out of his Stock; and how that None can be so poor, but that they may be Purchasers. Also Ways and Means discovered to enlarge Trade and Commerce, and the Improvement of Navigation, and the Advancement of the King's Revenues, plentifully supplying the poor; and for the common Good of all Merchants and Traders, either by Sea or Land. Recommended to all Cities and Corporations in Great Britain and Ireland. By John Middleton, Esq - Middleton, John 17th/18th cent (printed for the author, and are to be sold at the Union-Crown-Fire-Office, in the Head of the Canongate, 1720)