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A37224 An answer to those printed papers published in March last 1640 by the late patentees of salt in their pretended defence and against free trade composed by Iohn Davies. Davies, John, Citizen and fishmonger of London. 1641 (1641) Wing D387; ESTC R26077 9,480 27

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AN ANSVVER To Those Printed Papers published in March last 1640. by the late Patentees of Salt in their pretended defence and against free trade Composed by IOHN DAVIES Citizen and Fishmonger of London a well-wisher to the Common-wealth in generall Sal sapit omnia Ne scis quid valeat Printed in the yeare 1641. To the Honourable House of COMMONS now assembled in PARLIAMENT THe ensuing Treatise concerning the opposing of the project and Patents for Salt tending to the good of his Majesty and of the Subjects in generall wherein all faithfull endeavours on the Authors part are performed is most humbly presented praying that if any error is therein committed whereof he is not conscious may by this Honourable Assembly be pardoned An Answer to those Papers falsly intituled A true Remonstrance of the state of the Salt businesse c. lately published in print in March 1640. by the Projectors of the first and second Patents for Salt in their owne pretended defence and against the free trade of all Merchants Navigators and Traders for Fish and Salt of the City of London and all other Ports and of all Salt makers and Salt refiners and of all other his Majesties Subjects within the extent of their severall Patents between Barwicke and Weymouth as followeth IN this Answer it will not be necessary to bee limited within the strict time where the Projectors began which was in Anno. 1627. thereby to serve their own occasions but is intended to declare the truth of the most usuall and constant prices of Salt at the City of London as it hath beene sold for 40. yeares last past as in the sequell shall appeare That in Anno 1600. even till the latter part of the yeare 1627. the most usuall price either of white or bay Salt was neare about 50. s. or 3. l. a Wey and often sold under that price as can be sufficiently proved That in the said yeare 1627. the Warres began betweene the Kings Majesty of Great Britaine and the French King and the King of Spaine in which time till the peace was concluded betwixt those Kings the commoditie of Salt was very deare and scarce especially French Salt which was at 6. s. or 7. s. a bushell at the City of London which came to passe in regard the Salt-workes in France were destroyed First at the I le of Ree by the Duke of Buckinghams designe Secondly by the French King himselfe in the warres when he tooke in Rochel And thirdly by intemperate Raine which fell that time in France So that the Kingdome of France it selfe which was wont to supply many other parts as England Ireland Holland the Eastland and Germany was thereby necessitated with want of that commodity for its owne occasion And therefore not to be admired that the French King made an Edict in Anno 1630. that no Salt should bee exported out of his Kingdome untill his store should bee supplyed againe Which scarcity in France for that present forced all men to send into Spaine for Salt and thereupon a great number of Ships from all parts arriving there at one time gave the King of Spaine occasion to make use of the present necessity and layd a great Impost on the Salt that should bee transported from thence The very same cause also moved the Kings Majesty of Great Britaine and the Lords of the Councell to order in that time of scarcity of Salt by meanes of a Petition exhibited to the Lords by the Lord Maior of the City of London and divers other Ports in Anno 1630. that no Salt should be transported into any forraigne parts which was effectually granted them by the Lords But when in one or two yeares after and that in France there were erected Salt-workes and Salt was made plentifully againe as in the yeare 1632. then by the Edicts of the said Kings the great imposition of Salt in Spaine and France ceased and Salt became cheape againe and Trade free as in former yeares as about 3. l. or 3. livre. 10. s. per Wey for English or French and 4. l. per Wey for Spanish Salt at most which continued till December 1634. So that the cause of the dearth of Salt in France Anno 1628. till Anno 1632. hapned through Warre and intemperate Weather as before is specified and not by the pleasure of Princes by laying of a great Impost upon it as they the Patentees falsly pretended but the Projectors were desirous to make that an occasion of bringing their covetous desires to effect and about that time they beganne to devise to bring an Impost on the English native Salt which was and is dearer to the makers of it then any other salt spent in this Kingdome For French and Spanish Salt being made onely by the heat of the Sunne stands not the makers of it in above 10. s. or 20. s. or 30. s. a London Wey at the most according to the drinesse or the wetnesse of the Summer whereas the English Shields Salt at 1. d. per Gallon which is the cheap price the Patentees boast of stands the makers of it in 53. s. 4. s. the like Wey at least being also the weakest Salt of all other by one third part and therefore cannot beare any Impost without destroying the English manufactures as these Projectors have all this time practised to the destruction thereof although they pretended the contrary It is to be observed that a Wey of Salt at the City of London containeth 40. Bushels and every Bushell 10. Gallons which is the right measure according to the Statute from which in most other Ports it much differeth That in December 1634. the first Projectors consisting of twenty two in number whereof five were Knights the other seventeene had the titles of Esquires and Gentlemen having determined and practised formerly to doe mischiefe in this Land wherein they were borne and bred and being all or most of them unexperienced in the matter they tooke in hand devised and obtained this Monopoly of Salt mis-informing his Majesty and the Lords of the Councell that it would be a great benefit to this Kingdome of England and that of Scotland to erect workes for the making a sufficient quantity of Salt c. and at a certaine moderate price as they so termed it not exceeding 3. l. a Shields Wey which is after the rate of 5. l. 12. s. for a Wey delivered at London which is an intolerable exaction upon a native manufacture made and spent in this Kingdome as by their Patent more fully doth appeare although the Salt pannes in those places were erected long before and not by these Patentees Which Patent being obtained by them they practised to oppresse the Subject from January 1635. untill August 1638. all which time the first Patentees having made a Monopoly in taking all the old Workes and Pannes at the Shields into their hands forced white Salt at the City of London to the price of 4. l. 15. s. per Wey and for