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A34856	England's interest asserted, in the improvement of its native commodities; and more especially the manufacture of wool plainly shewing its exportation un-manufactured, amounting unto millions of loss to His Majesty, and kingdom. With some brief observations of that worthy author Sir Walter Rawley, touching the same. All humbly presented to His Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament. By a true lover of His Majesty, and native country. Licensed by Roger L'estrange.; Englands glory.	Carter, W. (William); Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1669 (1669)	Wing C673; ESTC R204217	42,697	60

Experience of Trade sby whom Laws Orders are contrived and Peace with Forein Princes projected to the great advantage of their Trade 2. Their Law of Gravel-kind whereby all their Children possess an equal share of their Fathers Estates after their Decease and so are not left to wrastle with the World in their Youth with inconsiderable assistance of Fortune as most of our youngest Sons of Gentlemen in England are who are bound Apprentices to Merchants 3. Their exact making of all their Native Commodities 4. Their giving great encouragement and immunities to the inventors of new Manufactures and the discoverers of any new Mysteries in Trade and to those that shall bring the Commodities of other Nations first in use and practice amongst them for which the Author never goes without his due reward allowed him at the publick charge 5. Their contriving and building of great Ships to sayle with small charge not above one third of what we are at for Ships of the same burthen in England And compelling their said Ships being of small force to sayle alwayes in Fleets to which in all time of danger they allow a Convoy 6. Their parcimonious and thrifty living which is so extraordinary that a Merchant of one hundred thousand pound Estate with them will scarce spend so much per annum as one of fifteen hundred pounds Estate in London 7. The Education of their Children as well Daughters as Sons all which be they of never so great quality or Estate they always take care to bring up to write perfect good hands and to have the full knowledge and use of Arithmetick and Merchants Accounts 8. The lowness of their Customs and the height of their Excise which is certainly the most equal and indifferent Tax in the world and least prejudicial to any people as might be made appear were it the subject of this discourse 9. The careful providing for and imployment of their poor which it is easie to demonstrate can never be done in England comparitively to what it is with them while it 's left to the care of every Parish to look after their own only 10. Their use of Banks which are of so immense advantage to them that some not without good grounds have estimated the profit of them to the publick to amount to at least one Million of pounds Sterling per annum 11. Their toleration of different opinions in matters of Religion by reason whereof many industrious people of other Countreys that dissent from the established Government of their own Churches resort to them with their Families and Estates and after a few years co-habitation with them become of the same Common Interest 12. Their Law-Merchants by which all controversies between Merchants and Tradesmen are decided in three or four dayes time and that not at the fortieth part I might say in many cases not the hundreth part of the Charge they are with us 13. The Law that is in use among them for Transference of Bills for debt from one man to another 14. Their keeping up publick Registers of all Land and Houses Sold or Mortgaged whereby many chargeable Law-Suits are prevented and the securities of Lands and Houses rendered indeed such as we commonly call them Real Securities 15. The lowness of Interest of money with them which in peaceable times exceeds not three per cent per annum To Conclude with a short Survey of those things in General seeing my time will not permit to enlarge upon ic particularly according to my purpose nor so to Correct the former Papers for want of time being exposed to much Travel I must humbly beg the Reaners pardon for some Errors passing the Press in my absence The first thing observed in the Dutch is to have experienc'd persons in all Councels skil'd as WelPractical as Theoretical knowledge which is without all peradventure of such advantage that nothing but experience of it can put the value The second I shall not touch The third I have at large toeated viz. of the advantage in exactness in all Commodities of which we have sufficient experience at home as well as abroad that one and the same Commodity for goodness yet if one have the reputation more than the other it shall not only have a quick Market but shall yield 10 or 15 per cent more than the other I speak this of what is matter of Fact in the woollen Manufacture in my own knowledge The fourth is the Incouragement to those that are any way beneficial to the Publick which is contrary in England to its shame as well as to its apparent Losse hence it is that those persons that are imployed in publick affairs that have not principles of honesty are liable to those temptations of Bribery and indirance being beyond my speare Time permits me not to make any further recapitulation But for my Language in the whole the Ingenuous peruser will I trust rather value my serious Intentions while I write no matter of Controversy but what may redound to the Honour and Advantage of his Majesty and Kingdoms than criticize upon my defect of Scholastick phrase or Logical method who being never enriched with opportunities of education thereto yet have so much of a Christian and true English-man as to wish every Reader Happiness both here and hereafter FINIS ERRATA Page 2 l 15 for Land r Band p 5 l 27 for is r by p 10 l 16 insert Advantage of a p 14 l 18 for you r them p 19 l. 15. for Regal r real l 28 for hiasself himself p 21 l 8 for then r there l 15 for bond he given that none be sold to Foreiners r Bank l 25 for Bond r Bank p 24 l 7 for Drapers r Draperies p 25 l 15 fot Manufactures r Manufactors Some Collections of Sir Walter Rawleys presented to King JAMES taken out of his Remains discovering Englands loss for want of due Improvement of its Native Commodities May it please Your Most Excellent Majesty ACcording to my duty I am imboldned to put your Majesty in mind that about fourteen or fifteen years past I presented you a Book of such extraordinary importance for honour and profit of your Majesty and Posterity and doubting that it hath been laid aside and not considered of I am encouraged under your Majesties Pardon to present unto you one more consisting of five Propositions neither are they grounded upon vain or idle grounds but upon the fruition of those wonderful blessings wherewith God hath endued your Majesties Sea and Land by which means you may not onely enrich and fill your Coffers but also increase such might and strength as shall appear if it may stand with your Majesties good liking to put the same in execution in the true and right form so that there is no doubt but it will make you in short time a Prince of such Power so great as shall make all the Princes your Neighbours as well glad of your Friendship as fearful to offend you that

this is so I humbly desire that your Majesty will vouchsafe to peruse this advertisement with that care and judgement which God hath given you Most humbly praying your Majesty that whereas I presented these five Propositions together as in their own natures joyntly de●●n●ing one of a●other and so linked together as the distraction of any one will be an apparent maim and disabling to the best that your Majesty would be pleased that they may not be separated but all handled together joyntly and severally by Commissioners with as much speed and secrecy as can be and made fit to be reported to your Majesty whereby I may be the better able to perform to your Highness that which I have promised and will perform upon my life if I be not prevented by some that may seek to hinder the honour and profit of your Majesty for their own private ends The true ground-course and form herein mentioned shall appear how other Countries make themselves Powerful and rich in all kind by Merchandize Manufactury and fulness of Trade having no commodities in their own Countrey growing to do it withall And herein likewise shall appear how easie it is to draw the Wealth and Strength of other Countreys to your Kingdom and what Royal rich and plentiful means God hath given this Land to do it which cannot be denyed for support of Traf●●ck and continual imployment of your people for replenishing of your Majesties Coffers and if I were not fully assured to improve your Native commodities with other Traffick three millions of pounds more yearly then now they are and to bring not onely to your Majesties Coffers within the space of two or three yours near two millions of pounds but to increase your Revenues many thousands yearly and to please and greatly profit your people I would not have undertaken so great a work all which will grow by advancement of all kind of Merchandizing to the utmost thereby to bring Manufactory into the Kingdom and to set on work all sorts of people in the Realm as other Nations do which raise their greatness by the abundance of your Native commodities whilst we are parling and disputing whether it be good for us or not May it please Your Most Excellent Majesty I Have diligently in my travels observed how the Countreys herein mentioned do grow Potent with abundance of all things to serve themselves and other Nations where nothing groweth and that their never-dried Fountains of Wealth by which they raise their Estate to such an admirable height as that they are at this day even a wonder to the world proceedeth from your Majesties Sea and Lands I thus moved began to dive into the depth of their Pollicies and circumventing practises whereby they drain and still covet to exhaust the Wealth and Coyn of this Kingdom and so with our own Commodities to weaken us and finally beat us quite out of Trading in other Countreys I found that they more fully obtained these their purposes by their convenient Priviledges and setled Constitutions than England with all the Law and superabundance of home bred Commodities which God hath vouchsafed your Sea and Land And these and other mentioned in this Book are the urgent causes that provoked me in my love and bounden duty to your Majesty and my Countrey to address my former Books to your Princely hands and consideration By which Priviledges they draw multitudes of Merchants to trade with them and many other Nations to inhabit amongst them which makes them populous and there they make Store-houses of all Forreign commodities wherewith upon every occasion of scarcity and dearth they are able to furnish Forreign Countries with plenty of those Commodities which before in time of plenty they engrossed and brought home from the same places which doth greatly augment Power and Treasure to their State besides the common good in setting their poor people on work to which privilegdes they add smallness of Custom and liberty of Trade which maketh them flourish and their Countrey so plentyfull of all kind of Coyne and commodities where little or nothing groweth and their Merchants so flourish that when a loss cometh they scarce feell it to bring this to pass they have many advantages of us the ones by their fashioned Ships called Boyers Hoybatks Hoyes and others that are made to hold great bulk of Merchandize and to sail with a few men for profit For example though an English Ship of two hundred tun and a Holland Ship or any other of the petty States of the same burthen be at Danske or any other place beyond the Seas or in England they do serve the Merchant better cheap by one hundred pounds in his fraight than we can by reason he hath but nine or ten Marriners and we near thirty thus he saveth twenty mens meat and wages in a voyage and so in all other their Ships according to their burden by which means they are fraighted wheresoever they come to great profit whilest our Ships lye still and decay or go to Newcastle for Coals Of this their smallness of Custom inwards and outwards we have dayly experience for if two English Ships or two of any other Nation be at Burdeaux both laden with Wine of three hundred tuns a piece the one bound for Holland or any other petty States the other for England the Marchant shall pay about nine hundred pounds custom here and other duties when the other in Holland or any other petty States shall be cleared for less then fifty pounds and so in all other Wares and Merchandizes accordingly which draws all Nations to Traffick with them and although it seems but small duties which they receive yet the multitudes of all kind of Commodities and Coyn that is brought there by themselves and others and carryed out by themselves and others is so great that they receive more custome and duties to the State by the greatness of their Commerce in one year then England doth in two years for the one hundreth part of Commodities are not spent in Holland but vented into other Countries which maketh all the Countrey-Merchants to buy and sell and increase Ships and Marriners to transport them My travels and meaning is not to diminish neither hath been your Majesties Revenues but exeeding to encrease them as shall appear and yet please the people as in other parts they do notwithstanding their Excises bring them in great Revenues yet whosoever will adventure to Burdeaux but for six tuns of Wine shall be free of Excise in his own house all the year long and this is done of purpose to animate and increase Merchants in their Countrey And if it happen that a Trade be s●●●ped by any Forreign Nation which they heretofore usually had or hear of any good Trading which they never had they will hinder others and seek either by favour money or force to open the gap of Traffick for advancement of Trade amongst themselves and imployment of their people and when