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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

Hides and that all their Ports are well stored with Shipping whereby they supply all those Parts with Provision and make their returns with those Commodities the Kingdom can vend which they can have much cheaper than from England and the Surplus plus they return in Money This I take out of a Sheet printed with Allowance by J.B. in 1677. The Particulars following are taken out of a Letter from Ireland printed in 1677. viz. Pag. 8. We find more advantage by Victualling Foreigners than we had formerly by a whole Sale in England Pag. 9. You were provided by a sufficient Act of Parliament to be the only Mart for Wool it being made Felony to transport it into Foreign Parts and Confiscation to import it to you otherwise than crude and unmanufactured Pag. 20. This is not to be exported neither without License paying both the King's Duty and that to the Lord Lieutenant Pag. 9. Which is at least 2 s. a Stone besides Freight Factorage and Market Charges Pag. 20. All exported must be first entred for England and pay these Duties though afterwards it loseth its way at Sea Pag. 11. An Account is given of their Progress in setting up the Woollen Manufacture Much Provisions also and Goods they Ship off to our Plantations from whence 't is probable in time we must export Money for our own supply Against this whole Discourse may be raised the following grand Objection to wit an Opponent may insist that the admission of Irish Cattel causeth Rents of breeding Grounds exceedingly to fall contrary to the Interest of the Owners and Farmers thereof and this is the reason why Cattel in themselves a Blessing are called a Nusance Answ The Objection is granted and comes to pass because we cannot Victual our Neighbours and their Shipping nor most of our own nor is the sale of Flesh much hindred by Fish or Izeland Cod for of late years little or none hath been spent in His Majesty's Navy-Royal But a remedy is propounded On the other side the Owners of feeding Grounds the Merchandizing and Trading part of the Nation or Corporations who bear above two Third parts of the Charge of the Government sustain the greater wrong which in the event will be very prejudicial if not ruinous to the whole I my self have my life in Lands in Marshland in the County of Norfolk which tell from 32 l. to 17 l. a year but is of late risen to 21 l. a year I know some Gentlemen Owners of feeding Grounds in our Midland Counties whose Rents are fallen above one quarter of what they usually made before the Irish Act had a being they know not to what other cause to impute it and I have not liberty to mention particulars Also there is a London Minister who hath Lands in Gloucestershire which fell from 60 l. to 30 l. per annum and both he and som● of the Gentlemen aforesaid are forced to stock their Grounds and keep them in their own hands committing the management to Bayliffs The Author of the Irish Letter pag. 7. saith That if the business were now to tell Counties he hath been lately assured from some in England that those Counties that find not themselves benefitted and those that are really aggreived by this Act do by this time upon Experiment and second thoughts make up the greatest Party And pag. 5. he saith That when it passed it was not without some repugnance at first in His Majesty The Reason is obvious His Majesty could not but foresee some of the ill consequences thereof as namely that it would cause his Duty of Customs to fall lessen our Navigation much increase the charge of Victualling his Navy and disoblige all his British Subjects in Ireland which might be of dangerous Consequence But to restore an Union with them and at home suppose they consent to the terms Propounded in pag. 9 23. Then there will be a considerable Accession made to His Majesty's Revenue in Ireland to wit near the value of all the Commodities exported out of that Kingdom that come not to us and this will help to maintain a Navy there or in the Channel and such help is but highly necessary for one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty was pleased to inform me that 300000 l. a year supposing the same constantly allotted and paid to that use would but defray the ordinary annual Harbour Charges of Repairs Yards Moorage the Wages of Workmen and Labourers the Salaries of Officers and 14 Men of War at Sea Whereas to furnish Stores build a necessary supply of Ships from time to time and maintain a competent Fleet abroad will require a far greater Sum as hath been represented to the late Long Parliament So that I hope if the Irish Act pass it shall not be perpetual and that in the interim our Grandees will propose and receive terms of Accommodation with Ireland If the former Measures take these must be the Consequences 1. The Poor will obtain Employment in other Nations they have been their Renown Wealth and Strength but here on the contrary our Shame Improverishment and Burthen hence to employ the Poor and to render idle beggarly Persons profitable Members to the Kingdom to reclaim Vice and encourage Industry by proper Expedients cannot but be Subjects that may always deserve and expect due encouragement from Authority but more especially now when too too long empoverishments make us groan for Redress which if obtained will be a bitter potion to our too powerful Neighbours abroad 2 Navigation and strength will encrease and if we can be either happy or safe without Navigation and maintain it without a Fishery and mannage it without Pilots 't is well but if not the Fishery is of an absolute and indispensible necessity to the welfare both of King and People 3. The Merchants and Trading part of the Nation will be encouraged and are they not as Writers denominate them The great Revenue of the King the honour of the Kingdom a noble Profession a School of Skill the supply of our Wants the source of Employments the improvement of our Manufactures and cause of our Exportation the Nursery of our Mariners the Walls of the Kingdom the means of our Treasure the sinew of our Wars and the terrour of our Enemies 4. I my self hope through Divine Bounty to obtain a good Employment to sustain a numerous Family having met with great Losses in publick Affairs however if not I have cast in my Mite and I hope a Person whose business and study hath been the Argument of Trade may have as much if not a greater liberty as others to propound how to remove the Encumbrances thereof to the advantage I hope of all Interests Hence if His Majesty and the Nation reap any benefit I have in a great measure obtained my END POSTSCRIPT THis Discourse hath been all penn'd and printed in great hast to wit in about a Fortnight's time and therefore could not be so well digested as were to be

of People in England and Wales as Mr. Graunt Sir William Petty and others on rational grounds suppose and but 1000000 of ready Money as Mr. Mun and others guess these if equally distributed would not be 3 s. a piece As to our Foreign Trade I begin with that of the East-India where the Dutch have not less than 50 or 60 Men of War and such vast numbers of Trading Ships that it 's ordinary to see 140 Sail at a time in Batavia Road from 300 Tuns burthen to 1400 Tuns not to mention 37 Magazines and 20 considerable Forts as we read asserted in the printed Translations of two French Treatises of the East-India Trade How small our number of Trading Ships thither is to wit 15 or 16 and how great our danger I need not to mention As to the West-India Trade they have in a former War got Surinam from us which as the late Lord Brereion affirmed hath sometimes yeilded about 3000 Tuns of Sugar in a year and will yeild as much of that Commodity Tobacco c. as they can get hands to Plant and manage and being on the Main is more free from Hurricanes and more temperate than the Leeward Islands amongst the Westwardmost of which they have one called Curasao the Mart for their Negro's amongst the Eastwardmost they have Tabago and claim two little Islands from us to wit Sabia and Stacia aliàs Eustachia near St. Christopher's which the French took from us in 1666. and by the Treaty of Breda were to restore but baffled us selling them to the Dutch from whom our Governour Collonel Stapleton took them in 1673. and the Dutch under Everson retook them in 1674. he being gone valiant Stapleton retook them the same year and on the Conclusion of the last Peace with the Dutch it not being known as is presumed that they were in our hands we agreed to restore what was taken from them and they what was took from us accordingly they restored to us New York and expect to have Sabia and Stacia from us which if we keep will do us no good but if we restore much hurt for whilst the Dutch had them they framed the Timbers of Sloops in Holland carried them thither in the holds of their Ships and there compleatly built them a Sloop being a Vessel of about 25 or 30 Tuns burthen and with these they went a Trading by stealth to replenish our almost-ruin'd Islands with Negro's in barter for Commodities to wit Cottons Sugar Tobacco Indigo Ginger Fustick and other dying Stuffs and by vertue of such Trade with the French which they allow and with us by stealth or connivance they have some years laden home many Ships as 12 or more of Goods of the growth of those Islands to His Majesty's great loss in the Customs and carrying them home into Holland and thence Exporting most of them to Foreign Markets almost Custom free were capacitated to under-sell us 12 or 15 per cent and 't is their chiefest aim in getting Islands there not so much to Plant as to drive on this kind of Trade How great our loss of Negro's and Inhabitants was in 1666. off the Islands of St. Christophers Montserat and Antego is not so proper to mention as bewail in regard the French have more Islands full Mann'd and a considerable Fleet commonly abroad in those Parts Thus we see the danger of our West-India Trade except that of Newfound-Land for poor Jack in which we are undermined by the French and New Englanders by aid of 1000 of our own Seamen that stay'd there on shoar in 1665. to avoid the Service against the Dutch where in a following years expedition our damage was so much that the Town of Dartmouth alone lost 8000 l. but of this more largely in my Salt Treatise Before I come to our Streights Trade let us consider the Dutch advantages over us at home did they Trade meerly not to export again which are these 1. Their Ships lying for the most part at or near their own Doors or Ware-houses they save Lighterage and Cartage 2. They save Interest of Money not paying Duties there 'till a Sale whereas here we pay Customs upon entry 3. Their 7 Provinces Switzerland and Germany spend more imported Goods than England can spend these Countreys are furnished by Boats and Vessels some of 40 Tuns that go above 500 miles up the Rhine as far as Franckfort which is not now hard to do by aid of towing Engins in Boats The late Lord Brereton affirmed the French make way up the River Rhodanus one of the most rapid hitherto known by a new Invention after the rate of 4 or 5 miles an hour 4. Down these Rivers they are furnished with Rhenish Wines and other German Commodities in large flat-bottom'd Vessels built of great Timber never intended to return out of which they build their Doggers Busses and Fishery Vessels at about half the Rate we can do the like in England 5. Their Bank enables them to borrow Money and to Trade with a dead Stock that is Goods there deposited By aid of such Bank they in former years furnished about 80 Sail of Trading Merchants Ships in the Streights of about 600 Tun and 30 Guns each with a Stock of ready Money to be let out at Bottomree that is to say the Money is lent to Jews upon taking in a Cargo of Goods at one Port at the rate of 10 per cent for Interest and freight less or more according to agreement the Owners to run all hazards whatsoever of Shipwrack Pirates c. and when the Ship arrives at the Port whereto she is bound the Money is received on board before the Goods are delivered on shoar In the mean while the Owners ensure at a moderate rate at home by this means sending out their Ships with East-India and Northern Commodities of Russia the Sound c. they keep them in long Employment abroad I have seen 40 of these kind of Ships at once employed as Men of War in the Venetian Fleet when the English have not had above two or three neither have we the like way of employing our Ships abroad or little practice it 6. The Dutch Trade as Carriers to supply all Foreign Markets with all sorts of Commodities the English Trade chiefly to export their own Goods and furnish Returns for their own Expence And this comes to pass by reason we pay Customs or a Duty when we import Goods and they Excise that is a Duty not paid 'till the Goods are sold for Expence The Disparity is so great that it hath been the prime cause of the greatness of the Dutch Trade Wealth and Power at Sea In 1641. Mr. Lewes Roberts represented to the Long Parliament in his Book called The Treasure of Traffick two Examples thereof to wit suppose two Ships of equal burthen of 300 Tuns each to come out of the River of Bourdeaux laden with Wine the one arrives at London and pays Duties inward the other at