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cause_n	court_n	king_n	parliament_n	2,759	5	6.7580	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91327	Of a free trade. A discourse seriously recommending to our nation the wonderfull benefits of trade, especially of a rightly governed, and ordered trade. Setting forth also most clearly, the relative nature, degrees, and qualifications of libertie, which is ever to be inlarged, or restrained according to that good, which it relates to, as that is more, or lesse ample. / Written by Henry Parker Esquire.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1648 (1648)	Wing P414; Thomason E425_18; ESTC R203127	31,727	50

little difference betwixt them and her own Subjects I hope this will be a sufficient justification of our English Trade and now since it appears that this opposition was procured to us by strangers and enemies that sought not to reduce us to a fair Trade but to eject us out of all Trade me thinks it should be very unworthy of any Englishman to make use of the same Objections 3. Arg That Trade which is not onely complained of by Strangers but Natives also and in all ages has encountred with so many Complainants is likely to be a Monopolie or some private anticipating indirect way of commerce but such is that of all Merchants incorporated by particular Charters c. All priviledged Merchants especially the Adventurers of England whose priviledges are lookt upon as so ample have had Adversaries alwaies to wrestle and contest with both abroad and at home yet this may be truly said of them as of Cato they have been as often absolved as accused and their Patrons have ever been far more honorable then their Adversaries Clothiers Interlopers some Officers of the Outports and Court projectors have molested them on the one side but on the other side Parliaments Kings Privy-Councellors and the wisest of Statesmen have protected them and their Cause and upon a full and due hearing it continually appeared that their friends had honourable but their opposers dishonourable ends As for the Clothier He stomacks much that He must be so strictly held to the Statute and may not digresse from the just weight and measure that is there set for his Clothes The Interloper takes offence that without contributing for Himself He may not injoy the benefits of that policy which is maintained at other mens charge that the same hedges which keep other men from trespassing him should keep him from trespassing other men The Outport Officer is prevented of some bribes for stolne customes false-colour'd goods c. by the regular shipping of our Merchants and by our Ministers which keeps too severe a check upon him and therefore his indignation is raised In the mean time the begging Courtier He finds it profitable for the Common-wealth that accusations should be favoured and that all Complainants should be heard for whether the Complaints be true or false just or unjust profit comes in to Him both wayes and the Innocent must gratifie him for his quietus est as well as the nocent for his impunity King James anno 1613. found that his Progenitors had been deceived in their Grants to us and therefore suspended and sequestred our Priviledges but in anno 1616 and 1617. after that the Merchants had been drained of 20 or 30000 l. and Cockayns new project so obstructive to Trade was falne to the ground of it self the same ancient Charters and Liberties were revived with more honourable testimonials then ever the Courtiers were again sensible that King James and his Progenitors had been well advised in their Grants The Merchants Adventurers long before the Art of Endraping Cloth was introduced into England had Priviledges abroad from the Dukes of Brabant and other Potentates Edw the 3d. having transplanted the Manufacture out of the Netherlands for the better watering and cherishing of it confirmed to the said Adventurers whatsoever had been granted in the yeer 1248. by John D of Brabant Hen the 4th seeing the good effects of his grandfathers indulgence added a more beneficiall and large Charter of priviledges in Feb 1406. H. 5. H. 6. Edw 4. and R. 3. were followers of that good example by severall ratifications But H. 7. seeming to transcend all his Predecessors in policie and desiring to testifie the same by his care of Merchants proceeded further to dilate their priviledges and preeminences Polydor Virgil gives him this Encomium Mercatores ille saepenumerò pecuniâ multa data gratuito juvibat u● Mercatura A●s una ●n●ctis aeque mortalibus tum commoda tum necessaria in surregno copiofier esset In his Reigne enmities and hostilities interrupting our commerce with the Burgundians we had a Staple provided for us at Calais and then under our own Soveraigne within our own Dominions we saw our own fellow Subjects as tenderly entertained with divers Franchises and Indulgences as if they had capitulated with a strange Prince Since H. 7. all his Successors have confirmed or inlarged what was granted before within few yeers also this King and since that this Parliament in 1643. have added strong ratifications and that not without honourable acknowledgements of this famous Companies services to the publick Moreover in the times of Hen 4. and Hen 7. some Complaints were preferred by Clothiers c. against the Merchant Adventurers but after due examination and hearing the Company had a favourable issue and not onely obtained a fuller establishment of former Charters but also new expresse clauses against stragling Merchants and all other intermedlers that might empeach or disturbe their Trade Other Informations were under Edw 6. exhibited against the same Company by some of their own Brethren but after the Councell Table had taken a full cognizance thereof the two chief of the Informers were committed to the Fleet and the rest were Fined and more strictly injoyned to submit to the Companies Orders for the future The same Informers also not so acquiescing made new addresses to the Parliament held after by Queen Mary but the busines was soon quashed there also and the accusers without further remedie dismissed The like or more grievous Complaints were revived by the Clothiers c. in Queen Elizabeths dayes but what event did attend them after that the Cloth Trade was set at liberty for a while after that the George at Westminster was made as free a Mercat for Cloth as Blackwell-Hall in London and upon triall the poore people of Wiltshire Glocestershire c. saw their miseries not relieved but increased by dissolving the Company of Merchant Adventurers The Lords of the Councell anno 29. Eliz to prevent mutiny in those parts were fain to send for the Merchant Adventurers and desire them cheerfully to proceed in their Trade to which no countenance nor assistance from them should be wanting for the future Alderman Cockayns Project in King James his dayes was guilded over with a more specious pretext then that in Queen Elizabeths and when our Company was at that time dissolved Trade was not absolutely layd common as before without all manner of regulation but to prevent general confusion which had proved it self continually so fatall a new Company was erected and incorporated yet neither so could this project prosper or subsist King James in his Proclamation Anno 1617. publisht for the restitution of our Company and its and 〈◊〉 Priviledges after that the consumption and miserable languishment of Trade for above two yeers space had better instructed him attestated to the world the excellent method and discipline of our ancient Corporation and now ineffectuall his 〈◊〉 looser jurisdiction had proved for the vending of