For the other, in case a man hath not to pay, he proving the same, it shall be a good
plea in Law, against which these considerations are offered. First, that in way of trade
there is a necessity of giving credit far above the stocks of men who set up trade, usually
to four or five times the money they begin with, and it money be demanded when
due, the return must either be in money or in specie, if in the latter, as it's possible, the
dammage may be such as to bid the Merchant to trust no more, Secondly, If the
debtor have a minde to deceive, he may legally sell his goods, and that money make
use of for his own and childrens good, and yet plead, I have not wherewith to pay or
he may imbeazle it by whering, gaming, prodigality, possible in a way of simplicity,
and this intend before he taken up the commodity: Besides, a young Gentleman who
hath only an annuity from his tather, may the next houre after he is possest of a Trades-mans
goods, plead non ability, and daily cheat men. Thirdly, It were a strang thing
that a deboyst man should plead non ability, and then come and rail, jeer, scorn, and
affront him that he owes, money unto: It's confest, there is no reason that the punishment
be imprisonment, whereby the party is put in impossibility ever to pay or to maintain
his Family, if he have one, but on the other side, there is a necessity that somwhat
be done to terrisi men from offending: It's a good caveat to consider that to this
day the Law doth not provide a remedy for those whom the hand of God hath made
poor, whether by first, shipwrack, of the wickednesse of others, which could former
Parliaments have done, and not have thereby made a gap for others to cheat and couzen
by, they would no doubr.
But to intelligence, and first take
A more exact relation of the late great Sea fight between the Venetians
and the Turks, promised in the last.
THe greatnesse of this Victory, after to many losses suffered by the Venetians, (having
rendered the truth suspected to many) wee shall here deliver the confirmation,
and because it's such as heightens exceedingly the former receiv'd
insomuch, that this may (as it were) passe for a second victory. Not to hold the
Reader in preludiums; As the Ottoman Armies have used nothing but fraud and
jngling since they were raised against the Venetians, so they have received much confusion
in their enterprizes, during the whole course of the War, a fruit answerable
to the means, God almighty being as mercifull as just, chastising people for their
sins without abandoning them altogether, whereas threating in[unr]rigour his enemies
he daily shews us the formidable effects of his wrath; which Sultan Ibrahim the late strangled
Grand Seignior nor considering that to give a good success to a designe, equity
ought to be its foundation, hath seen his Armies defeated in the attach of the Kingdom
of Candi[unr], the death of many of his Bassaes and Captains, the desolation of
his Countrey and subjects in Dalmatia and Bosnia, and at last himselfe felt, the stroke
of Divine justice, dying by the hands of his own Souldiers, this his injustice passing
of which the late advantage of the Venetians against him is not the least.
Gi[unr]como de Riva Gen: of the Venetion Gallions full of zeal, and affection to his countrey
lying at the Daixlanels, or the ancient Hellespont, with twelve Vessels, to draw the
Turks to combate, being seconded by Bertucci Ciurano, second, Captain of the Army,
who brought seven ships by order from Mossinigo, out of Candia, the sixth of May, the
Turkish Navie commanded by the Baffa Gen: tooke the occasion of a calme to come
forth, and coast toward Greece under the defence of two strengths, without design of
fighting the Venetians, because he believed not they would receive him, being but 19 in