But what then is the true effect of forbidding to build upon new foundations? I answer to keep and fasten the City to its old seat and ground-plot, the which encouragement for new Buildings will remove, as it comes to pass almost in all great Cities, though insensibly, and not under many years progression. 9. The reason whereof is, because men are unwilling to build new houses at the charge of pulling down their old, where both the old house it self, and the ground it stands upon do make a much dearer ground-plot for a new house, and yet far less free and convenient; wherefore men build upon new free foundations, and cobble up old houses, until they become fundamentally irreparable, at which time they become either the dwelling of the Rascality, or in process of time return to waste and Gardens again, examples whereof are many even about _London_. Now if great Cities are naturally apt to remove their Seats, I ask which way? I say, in the case of _London_, it must be Westward, because the Windes blowing near 3./4. of the year from the West, the dwellings of the West end are so much the more free from the fumes, steams, and stinks of the whole Easterly Pyle; which where Seacoal is burnt is a great matter. Now if it follow from hence, that the Pallaces of the greatest men will remove Westward, it will also naturally follow, that the dwellings of others who depend upon them will creep after them. This we see in _London_, where the Noblemens ancient houses are now become Halls for Companies, or turned Into Tenements, and All the Pallaces are Gotten Westward; Insomuch, As I Do Not Doubt but That Five Hundred Years Hence, The Kings Pallace will be near _Chelsey_, and the Old Building Of _Whitehall_ converted to uses more answerable to their quality. For to build a new Royal Pallace upon the same ground will be too great a confinement, in respect of Gardens and other magnificencies, and withall a disaccommodation in the time of the work; but it rather seems to me, that the next Palace will be built from the whole present contignation of houses at such a distance as the old Pallace of _Westminster_ was from the City of _London_, when the Archers began to bend their bowes just without _Ludgate_, and when all the space between the _Thames_, _Fleet-street_, and _Holborn_ was as _Finsbury-Fields_ are now. 10. This digression I confess to be both impertinent to the business of Taxes, and in it self almost needless; for why should we trouble our selves what shall be five hundred years hence, not knowing what a day may bring forth; and since ’tis not unlikely, but that before that time we may be all transplanted from hence into _America_, these Countreys being overrun with Turks, and made waste, as the Seats of the famous Eastern Empires at this day are.