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A26836	The merchants remonstrance published in the time of the late warre, revived and inlarged : wherein is set forth the inevitable miseries which may suddenly befall this kingdome by want of trade and decay of manufactures : with copy of a letter to the Kings Majestie presented unto him at Hampton Court, October 30, 1647 : shewing, 1, the want of such a due regard as was fit for the preservation of trade in the time of the late warre, 2, some of the bad effects it hath since produced, 3, the offer of the authors opinion what may best bee done for remedy : also, a letter to the Right Honourable the two Houses of Parliament, to the army under the command of His Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax, and to the rest of His Majesties subjects in generall : whereunto is annexed a discourse of the excellencie of wooll, manifested by the improvement in its manufactures, and the great good thence arising before the late warre / by John Battie ...	Battie, John.	1648 (1648)	Wing B1158; ESTC R2591	27,839	48

THE MERCHANTS REMONSTRANCE PUBLISHED In the time of the late Warre Revived and inlarged Wherein is set forth the inevitable miseries which may suddenly befall this Kingdome by want of Trade and decay of Manufactures With Copy of A Letter to the Kings Majestie presented unto Him at Hampton Court October 30. 1647. SHEWING 1. The want of such a due regard as was fit for the preservation of Trade in the time of the late Warre 2. Some of the bad effects it hath since produced 3. The offer of the Authors opinion what may best bee done for Remedy ALSO A Letter to the Right Honorable the two Houses of Parliament To the Army under the command of His Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax And to the rest of His Majesties Subjects in generall Whereunto is annexed A Discourse of the Excellencie of Wooll manifested by the Improvement in its Manufactures and the great good thence arising before the late Warre By JOHN BATTIE of London Merchant Published by Authority London Printed by Ric. Cotes for William Hope at the Vnicorne in Cōrnehill neare the Royall Exchange 1648. To the Reader READER MY Profession being that of a Merchant thou must expect the Language and stile in this REMONSTRANCE answerable thereunto Let thy thoughts be upon the matter it selfe weigh it well for it is of such concernment to the welfare of the whole Kingdome that it must stand and fall with it Farewell John Battie To my much esteemed Friend Mr. Battie SIR I Perused with no lesse profit then pleasure your manuscript wherein you discourse with so much judgement of Trade discovering the causes of the present impairment thereof and how it may be improved hereafter Whereby I find that a publike soule and the affections of a good Patriot dwell in you things God-wot which are rarely found now in England such is the hard fate of the times wherein men scrue up their braines and stretch all their sinews to draw water to their own Mills only though to the prejudice of the Common-good But they are much out of their account who think that private fortunes can long subsist if the publike begin to languish unlesse a care be had of Ware River Middletons pipes will run but poorly and every one will find it in his private Cisterns This Tract of yours may serve for a true prospective to the English Merchant to see the visible calamities that are already upon him as also for a Larum bell to awake his slumbring spirits to a timely prevention of farre greater And well fare your heart for it So I rest Your faithfull friend to dispose of Iames Howell To the Reader OUr worthy Merchant shewed hath the pare Of a good Subject and his Countries friend And as a knowing man a man of Art He hath prescrib'd a way Trade to amend Let us the counsell then of Battie take It may revive us All and happy make A dang'rous wound admits not long delay Lest it prove mortall so may't be with Trade Whilst time is offered and when we may Let us apply the * Mea'cine he hath made Or rather us advis'd Trades wounds to cure Nothing in reason so certaine so sure However let 's unto our Merchant give Due thankes and praise for this his good respect Unto our Trade he showes how it may live Whilst many carelesse are and it neglect Of such wish we had lesse of Batties store And so farewell good friend I 'le say no more T. D. To the Reader PHysitian-like Battie showes the cause Of a disease that 's great 't is Trades defect Then he prescribes a medicine the knowne Lawes Which might it helpe then let 's not it neglect The like unto 't is not under Heaven Let 's pray and pray that it may be given And having thus prescrib'd a med'cine right On his discourse on Englands Gemme doth fall Whose splendour is so fulgent and so bright That dazle well it may the eyes of All Excelling all Gemmes else without dispute Let 's doe our best to keepe it in repute And to good Battie we are All much bound For the discov'ry he hath for us made Till then it seemed hidden in the ground Now let 's looke to 't the way he having laid In his small booke which great in worth doth show All which distressed England ought to know F. N. To Mr. Battie the Author IUdicious Friend thy Booke I viewed have The lines are few the matter much I finde And of such consequence that it doth crave The eares of All and All oblige and binde Their best assistance to afford and give It to observe All may the better live And live in peace abhorring thoughts of wars The spoyle of * That thou seekest to maintaine And free the Kingdome from unhappy jars Producing pounds of losse no penny gaine Profit and losse accompt doth tell us so But thou advisest a gaining way to goe Thankes we thee give thou showest still thy care Of this poore kingdomes welfare and it 's good And as before so now thou do'st declare Thy selfe for peace an enemy to blood At first thou sayd'st it would be Traffickes bane Together with this Kingdomes long wonne gaine And now good friend take this for a farewell That when pale death thy life hath ta'ne away This thy small Booke shall after Ages tell Thou did'it thy part to help our Trades decay Good men will joyne with thee they 'l not sit still But ready be to stop so great an ill R. P. To all the Merchants of England IN this small booke our friend doth open lay The cause the bad effects and onely cure Of a Disease that 's bad it 's Trades decay Me thinkes you should it feele and not endure So great an ill but presently extend Your utmost helpe and force it to amend For you my noble friends may well discerne Nothing is better for this Kingdomes good But you in speciall it doth concerne 'T is your chiefest welfare your livelyhood If you be forc'd from Traffick to desist How then will you be able to subsist And of our Merchant have a good esteeme He it deserves for he his part hath done This Kingdomes Trade and Commerce to redeeme From losse and keepe the gaine it hath long wonne And so my Merchants I bid you all Adieu Wishing good may of this Advice ensue G. T. To the Reader THis I le post over and you shall surely see That which our Nation wants it's excellency Commerce its welfare is the kingdomes gaine See Battie cares for All from King to Swaine He shall admired be in after times He proves our Fleece above great Philips Mines And when our Nation shall with Peace be blest The King and People live with joy and rest A due remembrance let of him be made He did his utmost to preserve our Trade He loves His King the Lawes Concord and Peace Knowing they are the meanes of Trades Increase When from these principles you start aside Let Plunder Famine

earnest and longing desire of a speedy settlement of these unhappy differences well knowing that the continuance will on all sides be destructive to the well being of this Kingdome especially unto Trade 'T is not very improbable notwithstanding His deepe insight in ma●ters of Estate which are so obscure and intricate that 't is impossible for the wisest States-man on earth of himselfe yea I may say hundreds of States-men joyned together to foresee and know all the mischiefes which occurre and happen in an Estate or may befall it without the helpe and information of others but more especially of or from such men that have either a present sense thereof in their owne particular or in regard of their Negotiations at home or abroad in forraigne parts besides His Majestie neither hath been nor is in such a capacitie or condition as formerly to receive such intelligence as was or is fit for the prevention of such evills as may befall an Estate 'T is not I say improbable but that small information which His Majestie had from mee by my weak● pen without vaineglory bee it said shewing not onely the great sufferings of this Kingdomes Trade by the present decay of our Woollen Manufactures but also the danger of losing hereafter the totall vent of all or most of them in forraigne parts might bee some motive unto Him so speedily to send unto the two Houses of Parliament so gracious a Message though His Majestie indeed needs not the least quickning to the effecting of any thing which He conceives may conduce to the welfare of His subjects but whether or no that which was made knowne unto Him by me was any motive unto Him His Majestie being as have said very ready to afford His assistance to the good of Trade and to the rectifying of what else is amisse mee thinkes you should the sad condition not onely of Trade but all things else considered forthwith joyne with Him And I beleeve that you of the two Honorable Houses of Parliament as also divers of you of the Army with many more of His Majesties Subjects are very inclinable so to doe but that some feare of future safety as I conceive of the which is neare and deare unto you possesseth you in regard of the bad effects farre beyond your expectation or the least of your thoughts which the wayes you have taken to rectifie what before this Parliament was amisse have produced But admit you should run some hazard of losse the ancient-Romans may be a good president for you to follow Their Histories tell us they wa●●ed all private interest for the publique good not any thing was so neare and deare unto them so great was their respect and love unto their Countrey having stillin their thoughts non nobis na●i sumus But be assured you have no just cause of any such feare as you may fancy unto your selves 't is true indeed the disaffections of many men one unto another are very great in regard of their manifold sufferings by adhering to this or that side but not the least doubt but that His Majestie would first on His part be unfaignedly reconciled with you He hath often declared it and then would be so forward and carefull as could be desired to reunite the so much disunited affections of His subjects and no doubt but would take effect All men except such as have their subsistence by divisions greedily thirsting after a quiet settlement of these unhappy differences and that an inviolable peace may follow so hatefull now unto them are differences and dissentions whence their sufferings have been so great and right well know that the continuance would make them at last so insufferable that they should be enforced into a desperate condition and not care in the end how or in what manner they might free themselves But I have done onely desire I may first have leave to adde that which followes though perhaps it may at first sight bee thought by some impertinent to Trade yet if well weighed it may be judged otherwise hope however it will not give offence And that is in point of this Kingdomes Honour in the person of the King which by the Lawes of God and man we are all bound to maintaine If the King the life as it were or fountaine of Honour lose His due respect disrespect on all sides will follow viz. to the Nobilitie Gentry Magistrates and to all men in authoritie and command even to masters of private families and Commanders or masters of Ships it is already too too apparent wee have the sad experience of it not onely at home but also abroad in forraigne parts Secondly if Honour be taken from the King it 's taken from His hopefull Progeny the like Kingly Issue not knowne at this day on earth so that the Blood Royall of England in times past so famous and so highly esteemed both at home and abroad will come to lose its respect and at last become so contemptible that not any Prince of worth will match with us but if by us kept up and maintained in its ancient repute and esteeme the greatest Prince or Princes in Christendome will bee ready to match with us which may prove many wayes very advantagious to the Crowne of England Hereunto is annexed a Discourse of the improvement of Wooll in our Manufactures which may well deserve the notice of all His Majesties Subjects in generall A briefe Discourse of the Excellency of Wooll manifested by the Improvement in its Manufactures and the great good unto the Kingdome thence arising before the late War THat if I should say our Wooll was so rich a Jewell before the late War being as it were the Basis or foundation upon which the Frame of Englands Trade did stand and that it exceeds in worth the Spanish Silver Mines in West India and that Spaine might farre better want those Mines then England could Wooll I should not say amisse for that Spaine without the Silver issuing from the said Mines would be able to draw Trade unto it from forraigne Parts in respect of the native fruits or commodities it affords which England if Wool be wanting could not in any considerable measure doe It is not its Lead Tin and Coales would doe it these three would beget very little Trade and consequently little employment And that it is such a Jewell as I say or of so much worth unto this Kingdome may bee demonstrated partly by the imployment of people in and about the Manufactures And partly by the Improvement by or in its Manufactures And first for Employment The Spanish West India Mines were not in a manner comparable unto i● by many degrees it may bee rather said there could be no reasonable comparison between them for admit that in the Mines are or were fiftie thousand men employed they are of the meanest sort of mankind most of them Negro's brought as Merchandize out of the parts of Africa into India Heathens unlesse since their comming thither