Sentence:  And there have been Common-wealths that having no more Territory, than hath served them for <WSD>habitation</WSD>, have neverthelesse, not onely maintained, but also encreased their Power, partly by the labour of trading from one place to another, and partly by selling the Manifactures, whereof the Materials were brought in from other places. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.