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A34856	England's interest asserted, in the improvement of its native commodities; and more especially the manufacture of wool plainly shewing its exportation un-manufactured, amounting unto millions of loss to His Majesty, and kingdom. With some brief observations of that worthy author Sir Walter Rawley, touching the same. All humbly presented to His Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament. By a true lover of His Majesty, and native country. Licensed by Roger L'estrange.; Englands glory.	Carter, W. (William); Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1669 (1669)	Wing C673; ESTC R204217	42,697	60

the rules of the Law provided for them for which there is Law and new Laws where they are wanting nevertheless holds not in all points For instance the Law empowers the Merchants and Drapers to be their own Searchers and to punish the Cloathiers Purse as they find his works to be faulty and so they do to the no small grief of the Cloathier but the Retayling-Buyer is not hereby at all relieved the Draper selling to him these faults for which he was before paid by the Cloathier the Merchants do the same by causing their Cloathiers to bring their Manufactures into the Merchants private Ware-Houses where their own Servants are Judges who upon searching the Cloath do make and marke faults enough for which they have reparable abatements but themselves again do practise all fraudulent wayes they can to barter and exchange those faults away without giving any allowance for them I speak not of all but some and though sometimes they be detected yet find they means to save their purses whilst their Nation suffers in honour and the Laws are vilified to Foreiners who stain the Justice of the Nation with weakness and fraud True it is that in the Netherlands where their cunning is as piercing as their practice is common they even every buyer do search with diligence and make themselves reparations first to the Merchants great loss and so in course to the Cloathiers no small dammage But in all this the State remains much dishonoured by the scandal and rob'd of those Fines which the Lawes in punnishment do give to the publick Revenue which if they were rightly and legally attended would render a vast gain to the Common-wealth by a general Reformation Now in finding out the causes why Manufacture in Cloathing becomes so abused there may be good use of the Drapers and Merchants knowledg and skill yet the application of the remedy is a work of State and Policy in making and executing the Laws proportionable to the grievance in which instance it doth not hold for though the Merchants and Drapers be able Searchers of the abuses yet they are not competent reformers of the grievances because they are interested in participating of those gaines which the faults occasion and intend Therefore it is requisite that both Cloathiers Merchants and Drapers may be joyned by the Magistrates approbation Nor is this all the abuse for in such parts of the world as the Buyers are not in ability of knowledg like the Dutch who make Cloaths themselves and especially in those parts where the difference in Religion is so great as it is between Christians and Turks there the corrupt Merchant causeth the Name of God to be Blasphemed for when those people whose eye and judgment gives them not so good information as doth their proof and wearing do find themselves cheated in their Garments they presently conclude that there is no fear of God in that place nor obedience to their Rulers for Conscience which must assuredly procure much scandal to Christian Religion It hath been noted that the original of money was from sheep affirming that the Antient Signature upon money was a Sheep and its further observed that Mercandizes were the cause of money and there being no greater Merchandize than are from the Sheep it is evident that there is nothing more requisite towards the enriching this Nation whose peculiar blessing rests in Sheep than strictly to hold the Manufactures to the letter and rule provided for their just making and that the Laws be unpartially executed and it being apparent that this Nation cannot be rich without a constant utterance of Cloathing nor can that be done without a perfect reformation in the particulars of the works It doth undeniably follow that Cloathing must be purged from its Corruption or England must be poor It is therefore the Manufactors which abuse the Wool and thereby improvidently give advantage to the Dutch whereas a perfection in the making of Cloaths in England will capacitate the English to undersel the Dutch Now for a true Reformation and Regulation of those dammages that have befallen England by the false and deceptious Manufacturing of Wools and to bring the Trade to its primitive worth we must rightly understand the cause of those defects or else we can never prescribe suitable remedies as before but the contrary the supposed remedy will be worse than the disease The principle or grand cause of all our misery in all these things formerly spoken to both in Transportation of Wool and the bad Manufacturing thereof is by that division in Trade both in Merchant and Cloathier by which meanes it falls out that by the consequence of one mans single Act a thousand persons may be undone this I have observed in several persons in this Kingdome and I know no way so profitable to prevent at least some of that mischief as by incorporating the Manufactures and faithfulness therein as witness Norwich and Colechester the misery is the liberty taken in that which is of necessity a Union as before by a Law and more liberty by a Law for some in matters of Conscience for compulsion can never make that unity as the Law of that Relation doth require in this as in all others things to do to others as we would have others do unto us which is the Royal Law of Heaven The great and main inducement to these two things as good reason if we will have Trade to observe the Dutch in both these things as not the least cause of their riches having nothing of their own growth comparatively with England yet are a Rich people and much by our Commodities whilst we are disputing whether it be good for us And I cannot pass by what I have heard of the Follies of the Indians that will part with a rich Treasure for a Trifle so we are to the Dutch and French by their policies and circumventing practices which draw from us and still covet to exhaust the Wealth and Coyne of this Kingdome and so with one Commodity as formerly the Wool to weaken us and finally beat us out of our Trades in other Countreys and thus they do especially the Dutch more fully obtain their purposes by their convenient priviledges and settled constitutions by which they draw multitudes of Merchants to Trade with them and many other Nations to inhabit amongst them which makes them populous and there they make Store-Houses of all Forein Commodities wherewith upon every occasion of Scarcity and Dearth they are able to furnish Foreiners with plenty of those Commodities which before in time of plenty they Engrossed brought home from the same places which doth greatly augment Power and Treasure to their Stocks besides the Common Good in setting the Poor on work as in several particulars mentioned by Mr. Child 1. By having in their greatest Councils of State and Warr. Tradeing Merchants that have lived abroad in most parts of the world who have not only the Theoretical knowledg but the Practical

not fit that a State-Merchant be settled within your Dominions which may both dispose more profitably of the Riches thereof and encounter Policies of Merchant-Strangers who now go beyond us in all kind of profitable Merchandizing 2. Whether it be not necessary that your Native Commodities should receive their full Manufactury by your Subjects within your Dominions 3. Whether it be not fit the Coals should yield your Majesty and Subjects a better value by permitting them to pass out of the Land and that they be in your Subjects Shipping only transported 4. Whether it be not fit your Majesty presently raise your Coyn to as high rates as it is in the parts beyond the Seas 5. Whether it be not necessary that the great Sea-business of Fishing be forthwith set forward If it please your Majesty to approve of these Considerations and accordingly to put them in a right course of execution I assure my self by Gods help in short time your Majesties Customs and the continual coming into your Coffers will be exceedingly encreased your Ships and Mariners trebbled your Land and Wast-Towns which are now run out of Gates better replenished and your people imployed to the great enriching and honour of your Kingdom with the applause and to the comfort of all your Loyal Subjects May it please your Majesty I have the rather undergone the pains to look into their Policies because I have heard them profess they hoped to get the whole Trade and Shipping of Christendom into their own hands as well for Transportation as otherwise for the Command and Master of the Seas to which end I find that they do daily encrease their Traffick augmenting their Shipping multiplying their Mariners Strength and Wealth in all kinds whereat I have grieved the more when I considered how God hath endued these Kingdoms above any three Kingdoms in Christendom with divers varieties of Home-bred Commodities which others have not and cannot want and endued us with sundry other means to continue and maintain Trade of Merchandizing and Fishing beyond them all whereby we might prevent the deceivers engross the Commodities of the Engrossers inrich our selves and increase our Navigation Shipping and Mariners so as it would make all Nations to vail the Bonnet to England if we would not be still wanting to our selves in imployment of our people which people being divided into three parts two parts of them are meet spenders and consumers of a Common-wealth therefore I aim at these Points following To allure and encourage the people for their private gain to be all Workers and Erectors of a Commonwealth To inrich and fill your Majesties Coffers by a continual coming in and make your people wealthy by means of their great and profitable Trading and imployment To vent our Home-bred Commodities to far more reputation and much more profit to the King the Merchant and the Kingdom To return the Merchandizes of other Countreys at far cheaper rates than now they are to the great good of the Realm in general To make the Land powerfull by increasing of Ships and Mariners To make your peoples takings in general to be much more every day than now they are which by Gods help will grow continually more and more by the great Concourse and Commerce that will come by settled Constitutions and convenient Priviledges as in other parts they do by this their great freedom of Trade All this and much more is done in other Countreys where nothing groweth so that of nothing they make great things Then how much more mighty things might we make where so great abundance and variety of Home-bred Commodities and rich Materials grows for your people to Work upon and other plentifull means to do that withall which other Nations neither have nor cannot want but of necessity must be furnished from hence And now whereas our Merchandizing is wilde utterly confused and out of frame as at large appeareth a State-Merchant will roundly and effectually bring all the premisses to pass fill your Havens with Ships those Ships with Mariners your Kingdom full of Merchants their houses full of Outlandish Commodities and your Coffers full of Coyn as in other parts they do and your people shall have just cause to hold in happy memory that your Majesty was the beginner of so profitable praise-worthy and renowned a Work being the true Philosophers-Stone to make your Majesty a rich and potent King and your Subjects happy people only by settling of a State-Merchant whereby your people may have fulness of Trade and Manufactury and yet hold both honourable and profitable Government without breaking of Companies And for that in the settling of so weighty a business many things of great consequence must necessarily fall into consideration I humbly pray that your Majesty may be pleased for the bringing of this great Service to light to give me leave to nominate the Commissioners and your Majesty to give them power to call before them such men as they shall think fit to conferr with upon Oath or otherwise as occasion shall offer that the said Commissioners with all speed for the better advancement of this honourable and profitable Work may prepare and report the same unto your Majesty Having at large treated about the damage it is to England about the Non-improvement of the Native Commodities it is requisite to adde something about the Hands to be imployed therein THE Manufactors of Wool with many other Tradesmen many of them that are conscientious in their Imployments lye under heavy discouragements not having assurance of Liberty in the matters of Worship hence many transplanted themselves into Holland about the year 35. to the great advantage of the Dutch and of late times many others both of Merchants and Clothiers by the severity used in that matter of Worship alone have consulted and were preparing to transplant themselves had not that Indulgence his Majesty hath been pleased to exercise prevented for what person that can raise a Trade and live as well in another Countrey being here not secured in the matter of his Conscience without which he cannot have the benefit of his Imployment will either stay to his hazard or if he do can he be so profitable while he stays in fears either to himself his Countrey or his Majesty as otherwise he might be Many also there are that for reasons of this kind are necessitated to lay down or draw their Trades into a narrower compass who have formerly been considerable Benefactors to their Countrey some of them having hundreds some a thousand depending on them whose livelihood stands or falls with their Liberty or Imprisonment Moreover I have observed that many of his Majesties Subjects of whose fidelity I have sufficient experience hereby have by some persons been greatly mis-represented which is a matter of no small moment by this means 't is plain such persons have been the occasion of many groundless offences jealousies and murmurings with great cost charge and undoing of many Tradesmen which are of