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understood in former Ages, which will be lost, if this man shall be Excluded from having any benefit of it, or be punished for working in it.
If one Man, or Company of Men, rob another, or more Men, this extends no farther than the Loss of what these were robbed, which it may be is easily Repairable : but for any Man, or Company of Men, to arrogate to themselves a Power of Robbing all others in those Imployments, which they Ascribe to themselves, for ever Ruins multitudes of Men and Families, which might have been imployed in them : And let any Prince consider the consequence of Granting Monopolies to his Subjects; for if any of his Subjects, which might have been imployed, if the Imployments and Trades had been free, shall, to supply their necessities, Steal or Beg; the same Prince hangs and punishes these poor People...
[They] must either seek unlawful Means to subsist, or flee into other Countries to get Subsistance there, which was denied them here...
Besides, Monopolies, I say, are injurious to the rest of the Inhabitants of the Kingdom and Country within, and to the Vent of the foreign Trade of them ; for by their Restraint, the Inhabitants shall pay dearer for worse Commodities, than if the trade were free...