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cause_n	day_n	defendant_n	plaintiff_n	1,434	5	10.7453	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34002	A plea for the bringing in of Irish cattel, and keeping out of fish caught by foreigners together with an humble address to the honourable members of Parliament of the countries of Cornwal and Devon, about the advancement of tin, fishery, and divers manufactures / by John Collins.	Collins, John, 1625-1683.	1680 (1680)	Wing C5379; ESTC R18891	30,333	42

agreed and drawn up by a Council of Trade in Ireland and if we had enjoyed a good one continually in England with proper instructions I believe the Nation might have been twice as rich and much stronger at Sea than now it is I my self about three years since drew up a Draught of instructions such as do not interfere with the work of the present Committee of his Majesties most honourable privy Council for Trade with a Narrative of the losses of our English Fisheries in all making about 7 Sheets of Paper and intend to publish the same after it hath obtained License from one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State for there are some things in it of a private Nature and others that much concern the advancement of his Majesties revenue and prevention of frauds The preamble is this That as soon as such Council shall be constituted and their House agreed upon that it be declared to all the Nation in the Gazets and upon the Exchange That his Majesties Gracious intentions in erecting the same is to encourage the Manufactures and employ the poor of the Nation And that hereupon all Merchants Trades-men Corporations Counties and places be invited and desired to send up their Complaints and aggreivances about Trade and Manufactures or any Act relating thereto to the Secretary who is to Collect and draw up out of all Papers sent in or otherwise procurable all that can be pertinently said on any argument of Trade by way of Debitor and Creditor all that can be said pro on one side or the left hand Page and all Contra on the right hand Page observing the like Method in Replies and Duplies The first of the Inland instructions was about the Irish Act to consider some Laws in being whether they hinder or encourage Trade particularly the Irish Act about Cattel And to be the better satisfied about the same to send to all Counties and Corporations for their sentiments therein how much they conceive they are benefited or damaged thereby and to give an account of how much feeding and breeding grounds they have and thence accordingly to state an Accompt and Report in readiness when called for the like for the Act of Navigation and whether our Trade to the Sound be not obstructed thereby and the building of Ships and Vessels for the Norway and Fishing Trades hindred and what the Annual damage may be And the first Instruction about Forreign affairs was That whereas suits of Law in Chancery about Merchants Accompts depend long there to the great trouble of the Court the vexation of the Masters to whom the same are referred and in the event to the ruine of the Parties concerned to prevent which the Instruction is to obtain the Constitution of the Court of Merchants in Holland for ending Suits of that nature and to consider whether the like may not without inconveniency be put in practice here and what additional Laws Constitutions and Instructions will be necessary for the setling thereof The Reasons of such Instruction Mr. Baker thus renders That tedious Law Suits create great Expence which otherwise would go in Trade to the benefit of the whole Nation the makers of the Law not understanding Accompts could not provide for the same and the Councellors having their Study by the Law and they and the Judges having no experience in Merchants affairs or skilled in Accompts they cannot be so competent Deciders and Judges thereof and great inconveniencies come unto all Traders for want of such a Court where rhe Parties alone and their Witnesses should be heard spending both their Monies and their time in Law and after many years of Contest for the most part their business is referred out of Chancery to Merchants or ended at Law as it were at hit or miss when very often both Parties have spent more than double the value of the thing they contested for being necessitated for every motion or tryal to have many Lawyers on both sides Whereas in Spain and other parts there can be admitted for each Party but one Lawyer nor can there be more present in any of the Courts where the Causes are tryed than one Lawyer for the Plaintiff and another for the Defendant and to the eminentest of them 20 s. is an extraordinary pay when he shall attend purposely for the hearing of that one Cause several days To which may be added that it discourages Merchant-Strangers to live and trade with us Being loth to omit mentioning such an Aggreivance I come now to give the Reader a Copy of a Paper formerly drawn up to assert that the Royal-Fishery Company when well filled and constituted are proper to be rendred A Council of Trade but with this limitation That it be not hence concluded that none but the Fishery Company nor all of them ought to be concerned in such a Council nor that others shall be excluded the Regulation and Choice as to Number and Persons is most humbly submitted to His Majesty's grave Prudence who by adding some eminent Persons to such a Company may have the more frequent Informations how such Affairs move on The REASONS are 1. Such Company did of late and 't is hoped will again consist of Members enough to wit Nobles Gentlemen and Merchants where out at all times to have a sufficient Choice 2. Such Company connot thrive at least in its Infancy without good Encouragements from the Crown or the Nation by its Representative in Parliament and therefore in lieu of such Encouragements may be put on Duty to earn the same 3. In regard of the Capacity the Members thereof are proposed to be in to wit of obtaining the Honour of being of the number of such Council it will excite many who aim at His Majesty's and the Nation 's welfare to become Adventurers in such Company which in probability may in some time become as splendid as either the East-Indian or African Company who thrive already without any such Encouragements 4. If such Company at least for some years be allowed House-Rent by His Majesty and Salaries to their Officers for doing the work of the Fishery and withall that of the Council it is as good as so much given to the said Fishery Company whereas to settle it on any other Constitution were to put His Majesty to a needless Charge 5. Yea and it may be suspected to almost a fruitless Charge for it is not reasonable to expect that eminent Persons named to be Members of such Council shall be so diligent in attending an Affair whereby they have no profit nor no particular concernment of their own as wherein they have especially if their House have an inconvenient Situation 6. If a War break forth and hinder Fishery Affairs the Company must then lose House-Rent and Officers Salaries which would be a discouragement to them and may by this means be prevented 7. The main work of such Council will be first to call for and receive the Complaints Sense and Informations of