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A95984	The advancement of merchandize or, Certain propositions for the improvment of the trade of this Common-wealth, humbly presented to the right honoroble the Council of State. And also, against the transporting of gold and silver. / By Tho. Violet of London goldsmith.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1651 (1651)	Wing V578; Thomason E1070_1; ESTC R208173	121,676	189

and interests of the parties grieved as well of the said Judges as against the Laws and Atturnies injoining all Sergeants everie one of them in their turns to assist to bee present at the daies and hours in which the Court of the said Prior and Consuls useth to bee kept there to command silence and to put in use and execution their Orders and Commands and to give them such honor and reverence as they owe unto Magistrates injoining all our good Subjects to do the same And if there shall arise a Dispute or Controversie whereby the Merchants shall conceiv they have not justice of the Prior and Consuls for the time beeing then all such Merchants that have been Priors and Consuls and are remaining in the Citie of Roan without they bee hindred by sickness or other just excuse shall make a Court of Merchants and there after they have taken an Oath to do equal justice they shall give the sentence which shall bee binding to all parties irrevocable for the time to com This Court is at this daie in use in many great Cities in France by which means Law-suits are speedily dispatched to the great eas of all Merchants both Natives and Strangers and they finde the good and speedie justice which all men have there I humbly desire that the principal Merchants in London might bee consulted withal and their humble desires concerning a Court of Merchants which may bee settled amongst them which will bee a great eas and benefit to the Merchants and to all honest-minded men that are Traders to have their Suits for Merchandize and Traffick determined amongst themselvs to have their differences speedily dispatched and not delaied as it hath been to the ruine of many Families in this Citie and Nation To the Honorable the Council for Trade The humble Petition of Thomas Violet Sheweth 24. THat your Petitioner seeing in the Journal Books of the Parlament an Order referring the East India Companie 's Petition which they made unto the Parlament for obteining of a Licence to transport twentie thousand pounds of Forrain Bullion beyond Seas to this Council for Trade to give their opinions concerning the said Petition And your Petitioner having perused the late Act for the advancing of Trade whereby you are made Commissioners and a standing Council for regulating of the Trade of this Common-wealth whereby you are autorized not onely to receiv all such Propositions and Overtures for the well regulating and benefit of Trade which shall bee offered unto you by any person whatsoēver but you have likewise full power and autoritie to view all Books Records and Writings of Publick use which you shall finde needful for your better information your Petitioner having for these sixteen years been emploied about stopping the transporting of Gold and Silver out of this Nation and so having many opportunities offered unto him to know many things that may bee secrets to this Council his humble praier to You is that before you make your Report to the Parlament you would bee pleased to take these his humble Propositions into your serious considerations beeing highly for the benefit of the Common-wealth 1. That this Council require the East India and Persia Companie to bring in their Charter whereby you will inform your selvs with what privilege they have granted them and upon what conditions and restrictions 2. That you would bee pleased to require an accompt of the East India and Persia-Companie of all the summes of monie Gold or Silver either Forrain or English which they have sent into India and Persia ever since Julie 1620. this is no new thing for they did in 1620 give an accompt as will plainly by their Books appear that from the Original and first foundation of their Trade in Anno 1601 to Julie 1620. they had shipped away for India onely 548090l sterling in Spanish monies and som Flemish and Germane Dollars which accompt was presented in Parlament at that time 3. Your Petitioner desire's you to take notice that if the State in Parlament were then so careful in times of peace and the Trade of the Nation flourishing to call the East India Companie to an accompt for twentie years and to caus them to make their accompts plainly to appear by their Books for twentie years surely I humbly conceiv this Honorable Council will exspect for the service of the Common-wealth to have an exact accompt of all the Treasure the East India and Persia Companie have exported and to have them to produce a just accompt what quantities of Gold or Silver they have bought in Holland and in other Forrain places immediately upon their proper accompt and what quantities of English melted Silver in Bars they have bought of Goldsmiths in London what quantities of Gold in Bars they have bought of the Guinie and Barbarie Companies what quantities of English coined Gold they have sent into the East Indies and to Persia what quantities of Cardquess Rex-Dollars Rials of Spain or any other Forrain Silver they have bought up in Londou of Merchants Goldsmiths or others which without the East India Companie so buying would have been brought into the Mint and coined to the great augmentation of the stock of this Nation And that they bee required to give you an Accompt of what qnantities of Spanish Pistollers Dutch Riders Hungarian Duckets Gold Gilders Gold Albertus of Flanders Italian Pistolets Turkie Sultels and all other Forrain Gold and Silver they have bought up in London of Goldsmiths Merchants Natives and strangers which have not been members of their Companie and transported to India and Persia within thirtie years all which I am sure they have perfect Accompts of And that the aforesaid Companie bee required to send you in all the Warrants and Licences for their doing of the same and for a true discoverie of the premises 4. That you would require the Books of Invoies of the Lading of everie ship of all the Gold and Silver in Bars or Coin that hath been sent to the East Indies and Persia since 1620. for by them you shall see what Gold and Silver each ship carried and the Ships Factors and Master's names and to what Factorie in Persia or India and the several years and so you will quickly see the just quantitie to a pennie what they have transported and in what sort of Coin either English Gold or Silver or Forrain Gold or Silver for these thirtie years the giving you a true accompt thereof will bee of great concernment to the Common-wealth in many respects 5. That you would appoint a Committee to view over the Journal Books for out of them there will bee gathered businesses of great concernment to the Nation and if som able Book-Keepers bee appointed with mee to take out what I shall observ in them it will tend highly to the service of the Nation and give a stop to great mischiefs that is daily practised on the Common-wealth 6. If you pleas to inform your selvs by this

waie you will see clearly many other secrets upon perusal of these Books then I will speak of and so you will bee able to rectifie settle the Trade in a flourishing condition that it may bee beneficial to the Common wealth and all the Adventurers whereas heretofore now as it is managed none getteth by it but the Committees of the said Companies and the Companie 's Factors and their Officers The Adventurers having been blinded ever since it was a Companie and led by the nose by their servants or els how could their Factors and servants bee so rich and the Companie 's stock so poor 7. I humbly conceiv upon the Examination of all the premises when that the Books of the Companie are examined it will bee found that the East India Companie hath sent away the Common-wealth's Coin both in Gold and Silver I am the more encouraged to speak this plainly to you becaus I know there is now no Lord Treasurer no Lord Privie Seal no Bed-chamber-men nor Privie Council to bribe nor as I hope any els to bee bribed to take off and suppress the just examination of abuses in Companies which heretofore have been proved to have been a common Trade w●th som Companies to keep up their Letters Patents to the high deceit of the Nation having given great summes of monie for Bribes to have libertie to oppress the good people of the Nation and to have Licence with Autoritie to deceiv the Common-wealth all which abuses I praie God may by the wisdom of this Council bee carefully found out and presented to the Parlament and such Order and Regulation made for the future for all Traders as may bee most for the prosperitie of this Nation in general without any regard to particular Interest when it shall bee found destructive to the Common-wealth Septemb. 11. 1650. Signed Tho. Violet Die Mercurii Sept. 11. 1650. At the Council for Trade at White-Hall Ordered THat the East-India Companie bee desired to produce their Original Charter before this Council Ordered THat the East India-Companie bee desired to bring in to this Council what Licences they formerly have granted them for the Transportation of Bullion or Coin since the year 1620. Ordered THat the East-India Companie bee intreated likewise to produce the direct and true Accompts of all the several summes of Bullion and Coin in any specie to the full that have been yearly transported by them since the year 1620. Ex. Ben Worslie Secret THat your Honors would bee pleased to move effectually in the Hous for a positive Order to require the East India Companie to give obedience to the Order of the Council of Trade dated 11 of Septemb. 1650. And that the East India's and Persia Companie 's Books of Invoices may bee brought forth to the Council for Trade and not to accept of the Accompt what they have Registred in the Custom-Hous but what shall appear really upon their Original Books of Invoices in the Companie 's custodie which they have sent really to everie Factor yearly in Persia and India for they enter at the Custom-Hous but what they pleas but the truth must appear by the Companie 's Original Books the Dutch East India-Companie as I am credibly informed have since their first stock made everie hundred a thousand to the Adventurers and as this stock hath been managed in England the Adventurer get's nothing but the private Officers I humbly desire for the service of the Nation in general the truth of all these proceedings may bee truly stated that so the Council may bee enabled when they see their Accompts justly and clearly by their own Books to give the Parlament their opinion concerning the East India-Companie's request and for the regulating that Trade for the future for the best advantage of the Common-wealth beeing a business of great concernment to the wealth and honor of the Nation May it pleas your Honors I am of old Mr Carmarthen's minde which was an Officer in the Custom-Hous in Queen Elizabeth's time hee would speak a truth though many of the great Officers of the State Merchants Customers were against him for it yet by his vigilance constant perseverance the truth came to the Queen's ear and shee checked her Treasurer and Leicester and commanded them to bring Carmarthen to her when Burlie and Leicester had laid him in the Fleet for a busie fellow shee would hear for all their words what that busie fellow said though much against her great Counsellor's minde and then the Queen found upon examination that her great Officers were bribed And the conclusion was Carmarthen raised the Queen's Farm in few years to double the monie it made afore and made Customer Smith paie it and in despite of the Lord Burlie and Leicester Carmarthen had the Queen's thanks For though in other things shee would hear them yet when it concerned themselvs and upon the point of her Revenue shee would not trust wholly the greatest of her Officers but had her instruments to give her true Information a sure waie for a State never to bee deceived and a rule fit for these times This storie is much after this manner recorded of Queen Elizabeth for a piece of high Prudence Justice and Bountie shee making Carmarthen and his son Surveyor of all the Customs and Customers in which place they continued above 50 years and this Carmarthen's son died but three years ago in the same office the Queen gave his Father for this service These Propositions in these several Heads beeing set on foot by the Parlament I humbly conceiv is another manner of service for the State then Carmarthen's both in point of profit honor and safety and though som private men for private Companies may bee avers against what I have here said in these particulars it is their self-interest that make's them so I am an humble suitor to your Honors that the Act against transporting Gold and Silver culling and melting the currant Coin of the Nation which hath laien so long committed may forthwith pass into an Act for till that bee don your Mint will bee obstructed and to transport all the Gold and Silver and coin none what the end of such things will bee I am enforced to speak 1. For I see there are som which either out of spite to the welfare of this Nation or by the subtiltie of the transporters of Gold and Silver and cullers out of the heavie currant Coins of this Nation have engaged themselvs to obstruct this great Service that so the Common-wealth may bee circumvented of his surest strength Monie which is the sinews of war and strength of the Nation and those people that abound with it are able to command all things in the world And that Common-wealth and Familie that is without it is made uncapable of doing any great action Besides by this dangerous Maxim as much as in them lie's they labor to darken and weaken the splendor and strength of your Armie which