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A63134 An essay to the restoring of our decayed trade wherein is described the smugglers, lawyers, and officers frauds, &c. / by Joseph Trevers. Trevers, Joseph. 1677 (1677) Wing T2130; ESTC R23763 38,985 66

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transgress the Kings Laws in transporting Wooll c. to forreigners destroy as much as in them lyes the happiness of a whole Kingdome and are the procuring causes and Instruments to bring many thousands to great miseries and languishing deaths There were many good Laws made for the setling the Aulingers Office and preventing frauds and deceipts in work in all sorts of Drapery both old and new which are too redious to recite though many of them be very necessary to be observed for the credit and reputation of our Manufacture but I shall only set forth where they are to be found and refer the ingenious and judicial to the perusal of the Statutes themselves which are the Statutes concerning Wooll and clothing 25. of Edw. 3. Cap. 4. 27. Ed. 3. Stat. 4. 50. Ed. 3. Stat. 7. and 8. 3 Ric. 2. cap. 2. Stat. 7. Ric. 29. 13. Ri. 2. Stat. 10. 13. Ric. 2. Stat. 11. 17. Ric. 2. Stat. 2. and 13. 13 Hen. 4. Stat. 24. 9 Hen. 4. Stat. 2. 11 Hen. 4. Stat. 6. 11 Hen. 6. Stat. 9. 4 Ed. 4. Stat. 1. 7 Edw. 4. Stat. 2. 17 Edw. 4. Stat. 3. 7 Edw. 4. Stat. 5. 1 Rich. 3. Stat. 3. and 4. 3 Hen. 7. Stat. 7. and 71. 3 Hen. 8. Stat. 7. and 8. 5 Hen. 2. Stat. 8. 1 Hen. 8. Stat. 11. 6 Hen. 8. Stat. 9. 25 Hen. 8. Stat. 18. 27 Hen. 8. Stat. 11. 6 Hen. 8. Stat. 9. 25 Hen. 8. Stat. 18. 27 Hen. 8. and Stat. 13. 33 He. 8. Stat. 3. 33 Hen. 8. Stat. 19. 4 Eliz. 6. Stat. and 2. and 5. 3 Phil. and Mary 11. 4 and 5 Stat. 3 Phil. and M. Stat. 4 and 5. 5 Phil. and Mary Stat. 5. and 8. 7 Eliz. Stat. 12. 33 Eliz. Stat. 9. 27 Eliz. Stat. 18. 39 Eliz. Stat. 11. 29 Eliz. Stat 20. Cards for Wooll were prohibited to be brought out of other Countries into England or Wales none were to transport sheep beyond Sea without the King's Licence there was a limitation upon keeping Sheep and an appointment how many sheep each man should keep upon the penalty of 3 Shill 4 pence for every sheep more than his number And if it be as the Company of Silk-Weavers and Ribbon-weavers say as doubtless it is there are an hundred thousand people small and great that depends upon that trade in and about the City of London then how many may be supposed rationally to be in the whole Kingdome that have their dependance on the trade of clothing in the old and new Drapery and other Trades which have a dependence upon or relation unto the Trade of Clothing and which know not how to earn a penny any other way since that trade is in a great measure lost and lest off but these poor people live idly and go a begging for their bread among which also are many children from 8 years of age to 15. which can very well get a living about the trade of clothing for that they can sort Wooll mixit Spole Quil Pick Teasels prick Cardwiers c. and which in the time of good trading could constantly earn eighteen pence twenty pence or two shillings a week but now very few of them have any imployment as aforesaid and if I should suppose but a Million of such poor people throughout the Kingdome which should every one Loss by the Poor not set at w●●k get his eighteen pence a week it would amount to Three Millions nine hundred thousand pounds in a year which is so much clear loss to the Kingdome besides I know that there are many hundred thousands more of such people which live idly and get nothing Since we have left off so much of the Clothing trade in England as hath been already intimated the evil effects and consequents thereof I humbly desire to leave and commit to the consideration of those that are more judicious in the Political affairs of the Common-wealth to have suitable Remedies as to their grave wisdeme and Prudence might seem to be meet and necessary I endeavouring only to be a layer open of the sore and refer to the skilful Chyrurgeon for a healing Plaister And if our Parliament men and Ministers of State should take into their serious consideration the great troubles that are multiplyed upon those that endeavour faithfully to prosecute the execution of the King's Laws against the Offenders ●aw●s to be Prosecuted cheifly intending thereby a future prevention of their fraudulent dealings and threatning practices and would give incouragement to such publique spirited men by some especial care taken for the preservation of their Credits and Reputations and their persons from troublesome Arrests and vexatious Suits and molestations which the Delinquents do multiply against them by false and feigned Actions and those coloured over with very specious pretences but the truth and reality of their intentions and designs is to ruine and destroy the Reputations Estates and Families of such as shall discover them or appear against them This I say viz. the countenancing and encouraging of all faithful Officers and others would strike a kind of terrour to these transgressors Smugglers and others that do deceive his Majesty of his due Customes and be a great means to keep them in awe and good order and encourage all men to be ready to discover such Offenders as they night any way find them out by their opportunities being abroad early and late and to add to this that there should be very severe Prosecutions P●nishm●nt of Offenders against such Offenders and let them be abated nothing of the Justice of the Law which is in such cases provided and established throughout the Nation for now it is a sufficient crime as the case of late hath stood to be by such branded with the ignomy of an Informer or an Informing Knave though he discover nothing but what doth immediately concern the King's Interest and publique good And by these Smugglers and their Companions he shall be reputed and said to be a troublesome fellow an evil nei hbour a disturber of the Peace among friends c. because he doth faithful service according to his Duty Conscience and Office in labouring to prevent their Frauds and abuses as frequently by them practised as they can And if such Officers in the Customes Atturneys and Clerks which do connive or comply with such Offenders were removed from their Places and Offices and severely punished the publique good would be much preserved Trading greatly advanced and thereby Gentlemens Estates largely augmented in their yearly value of Rents I shall now give a brief description of several Springs that fill our Kingdome with Prohibited goods and of several Leaks that empty the Kingdome of other sorts of our goods which are prohibited to be Exported out of the Nation As our Wooll and Fullers Earth formerly spoke to which are by stealth carryed out of the Kingdome to the great damage and prejudice of the Nation and many Forreign Prohibited Injury to the Silk-weavers