shall sufficiently gather the strength, Riches, Traffick, Havens, Shipping, _commodities_, vent, and the wants and disadvantages of places. Wherein also, for your good hereafter, and for your friends, it will befit to note their buildings, Furnitures, Entertainments; all their Husbandry, and ingenious inventions, in whatsoever concerneth either Pleasure or Profit. For the people, your traffick among them, while you learn their language, will sufficiently instruct you in their Habilities, Dispositions, and Humours, if you a little enlarge the Privacy of your own Nature, to seek acquaintance with the best sort of strangers, and _restrain_ your _Affections_ and Participation, for your own countrymen of whatsoever condition. In the story of France, you have a _large and pleasant Field_ in three lines of their Kings, to observe their alliances and successions, their _Conquests_, their wars, _especially with us_; their Councils, their treaties; and all Rules and examples of experiences and Wisdom, which may be Lights and Remembrances to you hereafter, to Judge of all occurants both at home and abroad. Lastly, for the Government, your end _must not be like an_ Intelligencer, to spend all your time in fishing after the present News, Humours, Graces, _or_ Disgraces of Court, which happily may change before you come home; but your better and more constant ground will be, to know the Consanguinities, Alliances, and Estates of their Princes; Proportion between the Nobility and Magistracy; the Constitutions of their Courts of Justice; the state of the Laws, as well for the making as the execution thereof; How the Sovereignty of the King infuseth itself into all Acts and Ordinances; how many ways they lay Impositions and Taxations, and gather Revenues to the _Crown_. What be the Liberties and Servitudes of all degrees; what Discipline and Preparations for wars; what Invention for increase of Traffick at home, for multiplying their commodities, encouraging Arts and Manufactures, or of worth in any kind. Also what establishment, to prevent the _Necessities_ and _Discontentment_ of _People_, To cut off suits at Law, and Duels, to suppress thieves and all Disorders.