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A20017 A true declaration of the state of the manufacture of gold and siluer threed, from the beginning of the making thereof here in England, vntill this present 1623 (1623) STC 6456; ESTC S116738 4,303 5

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A true declaration of the state of the Manufacture of gold and siluer Threed from the beginning of the making thereof here in England vntill this present AFter many trials for the making of gold and siluer Threed time at last made discouery thereof according to the maner of Millain in Italy where it is thought to be one of the most beneficiall mysteries in that Nation consisting of so many parts imploying by computation 40000 persons wherewith they haue heretofore serued Christendome and thereby enriched themselues Henry the 4. of France a Prince as well prouident in peace as warre had such a sence thereof that besides his princely patronage hee gaue 60000. French Crownes to helpe their proceedings which by his vntimely death came not to perfection The laudable practise hereof together with apparant hopes of benefit both to the vndertakers and the State the commoditie not being worth in the Materialls the one moitie it was vsually sold for leauing the rest behind where it was made was a iust motiue to vndertake the same whereby the profit might rather accrew to our selues then to forreigne Nations viz. that which vsually cost 5 s̄ 6. d. is not worth aboue 2 s̄ 8 d. or thereabouts the rest being gained by the Manufacture and therfore was set on foote the 8. yeare of the King The labour was difficult dangerous and so chargeable to be effected that the aduenture required a time of priuiledge to recompence the Industry of those that vndertooke the same wherefore it pleased his Maiestie at the suite of the late Lord Io. Harrington the elder and the Countesse of Bedford to grant a Pattent for the sole exercise thereof for a time In the passing of which Pattent 3. especiall things presented themselues to the consideration of the State which were referred to the examination of the Lord Treasurer Salisbury and others First whether it had been a former Trade here or no. Secondly the consumption of Bullion And lastly his Maiesties Customes For the First by report of Goldsmiths Imbrotherers and Silkemen it was not found to be any former Trade For the consumption of Bullion it was supposed that the benefit of the Trade far oueruallued that consumption For the maintaining of his Maiesties Customes the Pattentees gaue securety and paid accordingly This Pattent continuing vnder these examinations and tryalls almost one whole yeare past the 9. yeare of the King with approbation and so continued vntill the 13. without opposition by which time persons employed who were many and of seuerall quallities comming to some reasonable perfection by chargeable experience to the Pattentees were for a greater recompence enticed and imployed by strangers and others in corners hauing by this time found out cauells against the Kings Grant for want of words which being heard at a Councell Table was ouer ruled and a new Pattent granted with more ample words the better to expresse his Maiesties pleasure and a Proclamation published to this effect which gaue a present shew of remedy but fell out otherwise for that this Trade comming to a further veiw of perfection certaine Gold-wierdrawers for purls plates oes spangles c. being free of the Goldsmiths Company layd a title or claime thereto as a part of their Trade and although before the Lord Chancellour Ellesmere and others of his Maiesties Priuy Councell and Commissioners they were heard and determined not to intermedle they ceased not to continue either to make the commoditie or to prepare the Materialls in drawne wyer to sell to poore people of a desperate condition who venting the same dayly to Silke-men and Lace-makers for present ready money were forced to sell their labours so cheape as vrged their necessities to seeke for new seuerall fraudulent deuises for benefit which hath since dayly increased So this mischiefe increasing and the error in beleeuing in the valliditie of the Kings Grant and not considering the great benefit of the meanest subiects liberty inforced vs to seeke new wayes of remedy by executing of warrants and Commissions wherein they either exceeding or not proceeding with that discretion and iudgment as was requisite drew on many seuerall complaints to the last Parliament who conceiuing them iust agrieuances both in matter and maner the Pattent by his Maiestie 〈…〉 was condemned but the Manifacture it selfe by reason of the Parliaments sudden dissolution left vnregulated by which meanes the abuses no wayes diminishing but rather increasing and the inconueniences of the great wast of Bullion more plainely appearing his Maiestie with the Lords and others of his Priuy Councell taking it into their consideration vpon mature deliberation thought the most present remedy was vtterly to suppresse the said Trades and all vnlawfull melting and fining of gold and siluer according to a Statute in the raigne of Henry the 7 and other Statutes both formerly and since to that effect But this prohibition by his Maiestie and the Lords was so farre from taking any effect either in the Finers obedience who are the maine offendors or in the inferior workers by reason of continuall buyers and receiuers of the commodity as it grew vp to a far higher inconuenience then euer and was impossible to reforme by suppression the multitude being so great of inferior necessitated people the consideration hereof moued his Maiestie and the Lords to compassionate the cause and vpon the humble petition of diuerse conformable persons then in exercise of the said Manufacture a Charter of Incorporation was granted vpon these ensuing propositions For the regulating of the gold and siluer thread businesse and to giue a remedy to the inconueniences aswell by consumption of Bullion thereby as by other vses of the like nature arising besides the losse that may be of his Maiesties Customes by that to be made here your Lordships humble petitioners vndertaking the said Manufacture humbly desire consideration and allowance of the propositions following viz. 1. To haue a Corporation and allowance of power conuenient to examine find out and punish the abuses aswell in others as those of the same Companie practising the vnlawfull melting and fining of gold or siluer for the making of gold or siluer thread and drawing of wier for that or any other vse whatsoeuer as for purles plates oes spangles for damasking and inlaying wyer for wyer for cloth of gold and siluer and such like and to haue power to make lawes and orders amongst themselues as in that case is vsuall and to suppresse all others that are not allowed to be of the same Company 2. That one place onely be appointed and authorized and that within the Tower of London or in the Hall of the said Company whether all such siluer ought to be brought to be prepared or made fit to be sold for the making of gold or siluer wyer for all the aforesaid vses that the quantety may appeare what is yearely expended 3. That a Standard be appointed of the finesse of Sterling money with the remedy of two penny waight 4.