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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96937	The advocate	Worsley, Benjamin.	1651 (1651)	Wing W3611B; ESTC R230918	9,417	28

answerably diminishing the Stock and Treasure of this Nation and by laying it so as it run thus in a Circle each part of it as wee said strengthening another part it would unavoidably have tended to a greater and greater disenabling us to hold anie Trade with them and to have made themselvs for Wealth and Shipping the Masters over us Of sufficient testimonie of which over and above what wee have said also wee might further see in the actual progress that they had gained upon us in our Shipping For 1. In our Trade of East-land whereas wee did use formerly to send thither 200 Sail of Shipping in a year wee now did not send 16 Sail The Hollanders in the mean time employing not less then 600 Sail thither and whereby had not a good Providence crossed or hindered a strict Alliance and Conjunction between som of those Eastern States and them wee must soon have given them their Price and been at their disposing for all Commodities belonging to Shipping and then it had been too great an hazard for us by anie Law made here to have recovered our Trade from them 2. In our Plantations they had three if not four Sail of Ships for our one whereas they never suffered us so much as to Trade at all in any place or Plantation settled by them 3. In India they have 20 Sail and above for our one 4. At Spain Canaries Zant with several other places in the Straights where they formerly rarely laded hither one ship of Goods they now lately laded hither more then wee And thus in the waie and manner of the managing the Trade in their shipping laie much of their vigilancie to gain their advantage and design upon us A second Cours therefore whereby they do and have upheld their Advantages above us is The greatness of the Stock they imploie which as wee now intimated was more and more increased by the wisdom of this their Method in Shipping And which on the other side as it did encreas and grow great did enable them the more to give the Laws of Trade to us both in the Government of the Exchange and of the Markets abroad for Forreign Commodities A third Cours for the gaining and upholding their Advantages of us was The singular and prudent care they took in preserving the Credit of most of those Commodities which are their own proper Manufactures By which they keep up the Repute and Sale of them abroad taking hereby a very great advantage of the contrarie Neglect in us and by this means likewise very much damnifying and spoiling us Which that wee may clearly see of what Import this one thing alone is to us wee shall here set down certain general Canons or Rules belonging to Manufactures 1. That although Divine Providence in the greatness of his Wisdom hath placed natural Commodities som here som there yet no Manufacture or artificial Commoditie but may possibly bee had or transplanted into anie Countrie 2. That all Manufactures especially such as are of Necessitie if they are of a certain goodness They are like Coin of a certain value and price also and so on the contrarie 3. That two persons selling or making Commodities of a like goodness hee shall have the preference of the Market that will sell them the cheapest And so two Nations likewise 4. That the Cheapness of Manufactures and artificial Commodities doth altogether depend upon the plentie and cheapness of the matter and upon the like cheapness of price for Handie-labor And these though few beeing unalterable Laws in all Manufactures it cannot but bee acknowledged that it is through our want of the like Care as our Neighbors and onely through that that the Hollander hath anie kinde of Woollen Manufacture For 1. The matter of no Woollen Manufacture groweth in his Countrie at all but hee is forced to fetch it from other places whereas wee have it here within this Nation plentie 2. The price of labor depending much upon the price of victuals hous-rent and other things necessarie It is certain especially to anie that know both Countries that all this is much cheaper with us then with our Neighbors and are like so to bee 3. Our Nation as they were heretofore the onely workmen of these Commodities so none can excel them for Art Skill or Goodness were but encouragement given them and an Order Regulation and Government of the Manufactures settled among them And therefore It is not our Neighbor's singular Industrie above us as it is the Carelesness of this Nation in keeping our Manufactures to their due contents weight and goodness Their Neglect in settling a Regulation Government and Superspection over them and in Inflicting due and just punishments for the fals-making of them That is humbly conceived to bee much the Caus of the so great thriving of our Neighbor's Cloathing and of the so great Ruine and Decaie on the contrarie of our own Woollen Manufactures and of the people depending upon them A fourth Course taken by our Neighbors Is The Improvements of Trade that they have made by their Treaties or Articles of Confederations with other Princes and by making this their Care and Protection of Trade abroad in all places their Interest of State Thus taking hold of the Juncture of Circumstances and making use of the Necessitie of the King of Denmark they have farmed the Sound of him Thus also at the Treatie of Munster have they reserved a power of shutting us out of the Scheld and have carefully in that Peace concluded on several other Articles and Provisions in order to the securing and promoting of their Traffick And thus c. A fifth Cours and not the least means for the upholding and encreasing their Trade Is The smalness of their Custom or Port-duties also their prudent laying on and taking off Impositions for the furtherance of their own Manufactures and for the Incouragement of bringing in som and Discouragement of bringing in other Commodities and of which they have given us two ill Instances The one in laying on a great Tax upon our English Cloths and Manufactures The other in forbidding our Cloths wholly to bee imported if drest or died in the Cloth of both which wee have had som caus to complain long as beeing plainly an Inhibition of Commerce and if not strictly against the Laws of Nations yet at least against the Cours of Amitie Alliance and Friendship A sixth Cours hath been The Constant Reward and Incouragement given to persons bringing in Inventions making of new Discoveries and propounding things profitable for publick and common Interest which how little a thing soever it may seem to som yet it hath ever been and is constantly a very great spur to Industrie And these are humbly asserted to bee the principal Causes of their so much greatness and flourishing in Trade above us Other Causes that have been less principal and accessarie to these are 1. The Easiness or Lowness of Interest in that Countrie 2. The great facilitating

of their Trade by a Bank 3. And last of all the onely thing proper to them the dearness and scarcitie of Land and the dividing their Estates equally to their Children whereby Trade is as it were continued in a Line without Interruption the contrarie beeing customarie with us Animadversion All which Discours beeing onely an Evidence given in from matter of known fact It will as is humbly conceived manifest it self I. That our Neighbors have no such extraordinarie advantage in matter of Trade either through their Countrie its Situation or otherwise as is proper or peculiar to them onely beyond all other Nations as hath been long the opinion of som but it is the manner of their Care and of the Government that is among them and the meer vigilancie of the Method observed by them For If the Nature of those Courses which they have taken and pursued for the Incouragement of Trade bee looked into and considered as they are obvious to any other that will pleas to heed them it cannot bee imagined but they shall make any people great rich and flourishing in Trade and therefore that they will do the like in anie other place as well as in Holland if put in execution especially if it bee a place seated for Trade and the people of the Countrie apt for it II. It is presumed That our Neighbors would not think it Just if wee should condemn them meerly for the taking these good Courses for themselvs or becaus they have given all Incouragements that were requisite to their Trade in their own Countrie Much less then would they exspect that wee should actually impute these things as Crimes to them or ground hence anie occasion to Estrange our selvs or make a Breach with them Nor will they therefore as it is hoped take it more ill from us if wee having now likewise recovered our Liberties see the Necessitie of providing for the Defence of this Common-Wealth by Shipping as beeing Islanders or if wee take up som of the like Courses as They for the Incouragement of Trade among us As without which indeed Shipping can neither bee had or mainteined which now also to neglect were a very great Carelesness and would indeed bee an Argument rather of our beeing to bee Blamed then otherwise having been so well taught even by their own Example and Practice That 1. It is by Trade and the due ordering and governing of it and by no other means that Wealth and Shipping can either bee encreased or upheld and consequently by by no other that the power of any Nation can bee susteined by Land or by Sea It beeing not possible as is humblie thought according to the Cours of humane affairs for anie Nation having no Mines to supplie it self to make it self powerful in either of these that is either Monie or Shipping without Trade or a thorow Inspection into Trade and the Cours of it 2. That it is by a Knowledg of Trade and Commerce and the Cours of it that one Nation or State know's perfectly how to straighten and pinch another and to compel a Compliance from them which may bee Either By debarring or deriving the Cours of som necessarie Commodities from them as for War for Shipping for Food c. Or By obstructing the Sale or Vent of the Native Commodities belonging to them Or By weakening their Shipping and dreyning them by degrees of their Treasure and Coin By any of which Courses if not spied or when spied if not able to bee prevented a People or Nation must at length bee straightned and subjected and every one of which Inconveniencies wee were very manifestly liable unto as appear's by the foregoing Narrative through the Advantages our Neighbors had over us and through the Wisdom of those Courses they had laid in their Trade with us wee beeing so near pinched that it had been very hard fairly to have wrested our selvs out of the Nets of our Neighbors had Sweden been as much shut to us as Denmark and that the King of Poland likewise could have exercised his Arbitrarie Power on us at Dantzick And had not at length that Cours about our Shipping and Navigation been so happily and timely established by the Parlament which as the Necessitie of it could not suddenly bee so well judged of by those that had not considered or been acquainted with the substance of the foregoing Relation So certainly beeing laid upon so equal and Necessarie Grounds if continued to bee exercised It will bee a means in som measure to recover us For besides what wee said of the Constraint that for the foregoing causes laie upon us It must even from the Primitive grounds of Reason bee acknowledged That a Common-Wealth cannot bee enriched nor the People thereof provided for by any other means then by reducing those very Courses into general Practice which are used by Private men And Therefore as Private men that buie and sell to sute the Conveniencies of others as well as themselvs do Constantly observ these or the like Rules 1. To buie at the first or best hand or there where they may have the Commoditie cheapest Answerable to which Is To fetch Commodities at the Immediate places of their Production or Growth 2. To carrie Commodities to places where they are most needed Answerable to which Is To send all Native Commodities to their farthest or utmost Market where they yield greatest price So these Canons and Rules must bee as inviolably observed also by any Nation who will pretend an Interest hope or benefit from Trade otherwise they may justly bee reproved of less Care and Knowledg then common or ordinarie Shop-keepers Which Rules notwithstanding are not to bee pursued nor can bee imitated without giving all the possible Indulgence and Incouragement that may bee to Shipping And this whole state of things and these reasons that have been produced beeing all of them duly and equally considered It is hoped little will remain of Dis-satisfaction or Objection upon us about the PARLIAMENT's late Act for the Incouragement and Increas of our Navigation Which was indeed the Thing principally propounded to bee here Argued and the Censure of which is therefore freely Submitted FINIS