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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01791	Britania expirans or, A brief memorial of commerce humbly offer'd to the Parliament,	England and Wales. Parliament.	1699 (1699)	Wing B4813B; ESTC R217700	15,726	25

I. in the First Year of his Reign Repeals all sumptuary Rules Anno primo Jac. I. cap. 25. and let loose the Reins to Excess in Apparel and Wine in Favour of Scotland He likewise Repealed the Law against Hawkers and Pedlers cap. 33. made in the Reign of Edward the Sixth and gave Liberty to Transport our Wooll under the Custom of Thirty three Shillings Four Pence of every Merchant born Denizen for a Sack which contain'd Eighteen Score and Three Pound Six Shillings Eight Pence for every Merchant Stranger not born Denizen And I think I need not spend time to shew how this Physick work'd by degrees amongst our English Subjects but am well assured by one Misselden a Merchant that wrote in the Year 1622 a little Tract upon the Decay of the Trade in England That Indian Commodities was got into England as much in those Days as in ours which he then urged as the chief Cause of the Scarcity of Money in England at that time In the Seventh Year of this Reign we had an English Parliament sate which gave a Subsidy to the King out of all Goods and Merchandizes of Two Shillings and Eight Pence in the Pound to be paid by every Person born within this Realm of England and Five Shillings and Four Pence by every Alien and Stranger born out of the King's Obeisance Four Shillings in the Pound out of all Land in the Hands of all Persons born under the Kings Obeisance and Eight Shillings in the Pound out of all Lands in the Hands of Aliens Denizens or not Denizens born out of the King's Obeysance How sar this distasted the Court at that time I can't tell but no Parliament was called until Fourteen Years after Foelix quam faciunt c. Charles the First did nothing in Trade for the good of his Subjects Oliver Cromwell put out a Proclamation upon the Thirteenth Day of May 1655 to support the Merchant-Adventurers of England in their Trade and particularly Established a Staple for English Goods at Dordrecht in Holland which place was agreed upon between the Fellowship of the Merchant-Adventurers of England and the Magistrates of that City he strictly forbad any English Woollen-Manufactures to be carried to any other Parts of Holland and at this time our East-India Trade was quite sunk Lands in England was never higher than at this time nor ever a more general Imployment for our Poor which brought much Riches in few Years into this Kingdom and gave such satisfaction to our Artificers that those times are still remembred with Veneration to this very day Charles the II. laid the Foundation of our Misfortunes in Trade by the Settlement of the Book of Rates so much in favour of France and our East-India Company particularly upon the Article of Linnens which is a Commodity of great Use in England and our Plantations and natural to be rais'd in France Flanders and Germany which three Places stand in Competition with this Commodity and the least favour in Customs given to any one must needs distance the other Flemish Gentish Isingam Overisils Rouse Brabant Embden Frieze-Cloth Bag-Holland Brown Holland all Flanders Linnens was charg'd at three pence per Ell Custom Fine Broad Dowlas of France the Piece containing one hundred and six Ells was charged at Five Shillings a little above one half-penny per Ell and all other sorts of Linnen in like proportion a piece of fine Lawns containing thirteen Ells of Germany Linens was charged at six Shillings Custom a piece of fine Muslin or Callico from the East-Indies six-pence per piece This impoverisht the Linen-Manufactures in Flanders and Germany and as much advanc'd the French which made way to the French Conquests in those Parts As the Consumption of Flanders and Germany Linnens lessen'd in England the consumption of our Woollen-Manufactures sunk in a like proportion in those Parts which in the Year 1663 made the Woollen-Manufacturers Petition the Parliament against the Merchant-Adventurers having large Stocks of Cloth upon their hands which they could not Sell the Parliament at that time Addresseth the King to make a Trial of a Free-Trade which was then seconded by some other English Merchants who were not Free of that Company who prevail'd and with strained false Cloth made some advantage to themselves in Flanders and Holland at the first time but this Gap being open'd to the Hollanders the English Interlopers were totally rooted out by the Dutch and other Nations and Agents for them settled in England which is well in Memory Wooll sunk from twenty five shillings per Todd to fourteen and the other produce of Land in like proportion and this un-easiness gain'd another Advantage to the French and Dutch In the twenty fifth Year of King Charles II. a Law was procured to take off Aliens-Duties which was the Fatal Stroke to our English Merchandize and Navigation which by this Means was preserved from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth It is well remembred how all French Commodities were encourag'd in England Linnen Clarets Brandy Silks Gauzes nay Druggetts made of our own Wooll c. The French could now turn their Clarets and Brandy into Perpetuana's and Colchester Bays and send them to Spain upon as good Terms as any Englishman and have Home Pieces of Eight in Return and Spanish Wooll in a settled Course of Trade which the King of France improved to the very utmost and upon a Modest Computation above a quarter part of the Wooll of this Kingdom was carried into France James the II. did nothing relating to Trade in his Reign His Martial Genius led him to the execution of that which was prepar'd in the last And upon this foot we stood at the Revolution at which time we could not reasonably promise our selves any safety without lessening the power of France who by the enjoyment of these advantages in Trade ever since the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the Second was come to a prodigious heighth The stop of our Wooll the Improvement of our Manufacture English Merchandize and Navigation the natural supply of our Treasure to a thinking Politician might have been a good help to the attainment of this End but nothing alas of this could be done without touching the Interest of Holland and in the heat of these Affairs the Vogue of a free Trade a free Trade Lil-ly Bullero a free Trade so much prevailed that instead of making up our Mounds which were pull'd down in K. Charles II's Reign like the inconsiderate Trojans we pull'd down our Walls to let them in and usher'd in a Clause by way of Rider in a pretended Bill to prevent the Exportation of Wooll to the Destruction of our Factories abroad the Father destroy'd his own Son and all opposition to this Interest in Trade has hitherto prov'd ineffectual A numerous Petition the very next Year to prevent the Transportation of Wooll by taking off the Felony and to redress some Grievances in Trade from a County then declining in