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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	find_v	great_a	1,620	5	2.4967	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41903	The great loss and damage to England, by the transportation of wooll to forreign parts		1662 (1662)	Wing G1708; ESTC R223653	15,012	23

hand if the City should be forced to keep so many thousands when all their work is done as is now in the Building it would be a great burden so the case is in England in this particular where great Trade have been formerly kept and drawn several Families thither and have raised Commodities there but when it fails it is a miserable state and condition those places are in To return in short there is such Connextion and Dependancy one upon another in England that if one fail all the rest more or less either more near or remotely are concerned as in the natural body when any Member fails the whole suffers thereby and as all Trades and Degrees of men may suffer by one failing in Trades and in none more probably I will say then this of Wooll as Merchant Articificers Farmers Sea-men Fisher-men being the people which by their study and labour do principaly if not only bring in or give occasion to the bringing in of Wealth to the Nation and other kind of people viz. Nobility Gentry Lawyers Physicians Schollars of all sorts Shop-keepers are they that receive from these and distribute it again and all are consequently concerned in this rich Treasure of Wooll because this being a Manufacture at home sets more hands at work than half the Nation May I not with modesty and within Compass say three parts of Laborious and Industrious People Considering that most of the Shipping is imployed in this Affair and also so many Trades that depend immediately upon this of Cloathing that most of other Trades are but for Provision either in Food or Conveniencies for Cloathing and so from his Majesty to the meanest all are more or less concerned The King mostly not only in that his People are by that most imployed and provided for nor in that such a Staple Trade the like whereunto the World hath not maintained with so good Advantage but because so great a Revenue comes directly into him upon the Trade occasioned thereby Thus as the King gains or suffers most so the persons that have the greatest Estates or Trades and so all proportionable to the Beggar And also considering that an accustomary thing begets such an habit that is hard to reduce as in our rough and undrest Cloath to Holland so it will be with all our Manufactures in France nay I am informed that the French hath not only imposed a great Tax upon our Woollen Manufactures from twenty to fourty per cent but have also as is affirmed besides that their Imposition absolutely prohibited our Cloaths coming there I am the more large in the Demonstration of this affair not only because this hath cost me many years labour and study to consult all sorts of concerned persons besides mine own experience about it nor because it is so hard to convince people of the meanest capacity but some of the wiser sort how to cure this dismal malady which some despairing of have rather thoughts of setting up some other Manufacture in Lieu of endeavours to prevent the exportation of Wooll and Manufacturing of that at home looking thereon as a thing not to be overcome as that of Linnens in some capable parts of England and a better improvement in the product of Forreign Plantations which may also be set upon together herewith as an Addition so as several sorts of Persons maybe set better on work not capable of this employment and yet no prejudice to this of Cloathing For all other Countries have the Advantage of England or are equal to us in other Manufactures proper to their Countries but not in this of Cloathing and it will be found that all Trades in England wholly distinct from this of Cloathing bring not the tythe of Advantage that this doth Since men cannot rationally believe the effects to be greater than the cause the most of other Manufactures either is in being or brought to use by the Manufactures of Wooll even from the Farmer to the Merchant all are concerned in this of Wooll as may hereafter more appear It now remains that we sum up Englands Loss by the Exportation of our Wooll to Forreign Parts not only in the Advantage we might have by the Manufacturing thereof here in England as formerly noted but also in the importing of Dutch Cloath and more in French Manufactures because England improves not their own Wools and of the humour of English people in putting such a value upon French Fancies when themselves are in a better capacity if improved to produce the like or better and save the following Sums 1. One Million of Pounds Sterling yearly in the Exportation of our Wooll 2. Five Hundred Thousand Pounds in Rough Cloath which is but half what Sir Walter Rawleigh observes in his time 3. Many Thousands of Pounds by the Importing of Dutch and French Woollen Manufacturies And lastly the evil consequences thereof in loosing our Shipping which would be encouraged thereby and are the strength or Walls of our Kingdom as more particularly doth appear hereafter Having now discovered the Dammage it is to England in the transportation of Wooll from the King to the meanest I shall endeavour also to discover the methods how it is done before I shall prescribe a Remedy for it is not enough to know Distempers especially such that are so Consumptive it is requisite to know the Cause of these Distempers or else the supposed Remedies will in time come to be a disease as it is too much in this case at this day in England Where the Causes are mistaken the Remedies are consequently misapplyed whereby a disease in supposition becomes one in Fact the methods or ways of this evils are First in Rumny-Marsh in Kent where the greatest part of rough Wooll is exported from England put aboard French Shallops by night ten or twenty men well Armed to guard it some other parts there are as in Sussex Hampshire and Essex the same methods may be used but not so conveniently The same for Combed Wooll from Canterbury they will carry it ten or fifteen miles at Night towards the Sea with the like Guard as before but for other parts it must be done partly by the Remisness of the Officers of his Majesties Customs and easie Composition for the Forfeitures of the Bonds as more shall appear anon And then for Combed Wooll in other Parts some is Shipped off from London for Bales of Drapery nay some at Lime and also at Exon where there is ten thousand Pounds Sterling weekly laid out in the woollen Manufactury which is most for Workmens Wages I know no place clear and then another reason why persons are not detected is because all the Wools that have been taken in those Parts where most hath been exported have been suffered to go off at the same place after Judgments past and by the Officers to the same Persons at a low rate being under rated to those very men that intended to Ship it at first so that the evil is never like