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A47319	Sir Walter Raleigh's observations, touching trade & commerce with the Hollander, and other nations, as it was presented to K. James wherein is proved, that our sea and land commodities serve to inrich and strengthen other countries against our owne ...; Observations, touching trade & commerce with the Hollander, and other nations	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Vaughan, Robert.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1653 (1653)	Wing K391; ESTC R9825	21,246	92

Majesties most loyall and true-hearted Subject THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT That the Seat of Government is upheld by the two great pillars thereof viz. Civill Justice and Martiall Policy which are framed out of Husbandry Merchandize and Gentry of this Kingdome THey say that the goodliest Cedars which grow on the high mountains of Libanus thrust their roots between the clifts of hard rocks the better to beare themselves against the strong storms that blow there As Nature hath instructed those Kings of Trees so hath Reason taught the Kings of Men to root themselves in the hardy hearts of their faithfull Subjects And as those Kings of Trees have large Tops so have the Kings of men large Crowns whereof as the first would be soone broken from their bodies were they not under-borne by many branches so would the other easily totter were they not fastened on their heads wi●…h the strong chaines of Civill Justice and Martiall Discipline 1. For the administration of the first even God himselfe hath given direction Judges and Officers shalt thou make which shall judge the people with righteous judgment 3. The second is grounded on the first Lawes of the World and Nature that force is to be repelled by fo●…ce Yea Moses in the 20. of Exodus and elsewhere hath delivered us many Law●…s and Polices of Warre But as we have heard of the neglect and abuse in both so have we heard of the decline and r●…ine of many Kingdoms and States long before our day●…s for that Policy hath never yet prevailed though it hath served for a short season where the counterfeit hath been sold for the naturall and the outward shew and formality for the substance Of the Emperor Cha●…les the Fourth the Writers of that Age witnesse that he used but the name of Justice and good order being more learned in the Law than in doing right and that hee had by farre more knowledge than conscience Certainly the unjust Magistrate that fancieth to himselfe a sollid and untransparable body of Go●…d every ordinary wit can vitrifie and make transparant pierce and discern their corruptions howsoever because not daring they cover their knowledge but in the meane while it is also true that constrained dissimulation either in the proud heart or in the oppressed either in publike estates or in private persons where the fear of God is not prevalent doth in all the leisure of her lurking but sharpen her teeth the voluntary being no lesse base than the forced malitious Thus it fared between the Barons of England and their Kings betweene the Lords of Switzerland and their people betweene the Sicilians and the French betweene the Dolphine and John of Burgoign between Charles the ninth and the French Protestants and between Henry the third his Successor and the Lords of Guise and hereof in place of more particulars the whole world may serve for examples It is a difficult piece of Geography to delineate and lay out the bounds of Authority but it is easie enough to conceive the best use of it and by which it hath maintained it selfe in lasting happinesse it hath ever acquired more honour by perswading than by beating for as the bonds of Reason and Love are immortall so do all other chains or cords both rusty and rot noble parts of their owne royall and politick bodies But we will forbeare for a while to stretch this first string of Civill Justice for in respect of the first sort of men to wit of those that live by their owne labour they have never been displeased where they have beene suffered to injoy the fruit of their owne travells Meum Tuum Mine and Thine is all wherein they seek the certainty and protection True it is that they are the Fruit Trees of the Land which God in Deuteronomie commanded to be spared they gather honey and hardly injoy the wax and breake the ground with great labour giving the best of their graine to the easefull and idle For the second sort which are the Merchants as the first feed the Kingdome so do these inrich it yea their Trades especially those which are forcible are not the least part of our Martiall policy as hereafter proved and to do them right they have in all ages and times assisted the Kings of this Land not only with great sums of money but with great Fleets of Ships in all their interprises beyond the Seas The second have seldome or never offended their Princes to enjoy their trades at home upon tolerable conditions hath ever contented them for the injuries received from other Nations give them but the Commission of Reprisall they will either right themselves or sit downe with their own losse without complaint 3. The third sort which are the Gentry of England these being neither seated in the low●…st grounds and thereby subject to the biting of every beast nor in the highest mountaines and thereby in danger to bee ●…orne with tempest but the valleyes between both have their parts in the inferiour Justice and being spread over all are the Garrisons of good order throughout the Realm OBSERVATIONS Concerning The Causes of the Magnificency and Opulency of CITIES THat the onely way to civillize and reforme the savage and barbarous Lives and corrupt Manners of such people is 1. To be dealt withall by gentle and loving conversation among them to attaine to the knowledge of their Language and of the multitude of their speciall discommodities and inconveniences in their manner of living 2. The next is to get an admired reputation amongst them upon a solid and true foundation of Piety Justice and Wisdome conjoyned with fortitude and power 3. The third is discreetly to possesse them with a knowledge of the condition of their owne estate Thus Orpheus and Amphion were said to draw after them the beasts of the field c. And this must be first wrought by a visible representation of the certainty truth and sincerity of these together with the felicity of a reformed estate All which is but to give foundation bottom and firm footing unto action and to prepare them to receive wholesome and good advice for the future profit and felicity of themselves and their posterity For the more commodious effecting of this Reformation in a rude and barbarous people they are to be perswaded to withdraw and unite themselves into severall Colonies that by an interchangeable communication and commerce of all things may more commodiously be had and that they may so live together in civility for the better succour and welfare of one another And thereby they may more easily be instructed in the Christian Faith and governed under the Magistrates and Ministers of the King or other superiour power under whom this Reformation is sought which course the Stoick tells that Thesius took after he had taken upon him the Government of the Athenians whereby he united all the p ●…ple into one City that before lived dispersedly in many villages The like is put in practice at this day by the Portugalls and Jesuits that they may with lesse difficulty and hindrance reform the rough behaviour and savage life of the people of Brazeel who dwell scattered and dispersed in Caves and Cottages made of boughs and leaves of the Palm-trees Alexander the Great built more than seventy Cities Seleucus built three Cities called Appanice to the honour of his wife and five called Laodicea in memory of his mother and five called 〈◊〉 to the honor of himself Safety for Defence of the People and their goods in and near the Towne IN the situation of Cities there is to be required a place of safty by some naturall strength commodiousnesse for Navigation and Conduct for the attaining of plenty of all good things for the sustenance and comfort of mans life and to draw trade and intercourse of other Nations as if the same be situate in such sort as many people have need to repaire thither for some naturall commodity or other of the Countrey which by traf●…k and transportation of commodities whereof they have more plenty then will supply their owne necessity or for receiving of things whereof they have scarcity And much better will it be if the place afford some notable commodity of it selfe from whence other Nations may more readily and at better rate attain the same Likewise and withall be so fertile pleasant and healthfull of it selfe that it may afford plenty of good things for the delight and comfort of the 〈◊〉 In former times great Nations Kings and Potentates have indured sharp conflicts and held it high policy by all meanes to increase their Cities with multitudes of inhabitants And to this end the Romans ever furnished themselves with strength and power to make their neighbour people of necessity willing to draw themselves to Rome to dwell and overthrow their Townes and Villages of mean strength downe to the ground So did they for this cause utterly destroy many Cities bringing alwayes the vanquished Captives to Rome for the augmentation of that City Romulus after a mighty fight with the Sabines condescended to peace upon condition that Tacius their King should come withall their people to dwell at Rome Tacius did accept and made choice of the Capitoll and the Mount Quitinalis for his seat and Pallace The same course held Tamberlaine the Great whereby he inlarged the great Sarmacauda still bringing unto it the richest and wealthiest Citizens he had subdued And the Ottomans to make the City Constantinople rich and great brought to it many thousand Families 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of the 〈◊〉 Cities 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Great from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the First from Cairo and So●…n from 〈◊〉 Authority and necessity without the consideration of the conveniences and 〈◊〉 of situation above-mentioned are of small m●…ment in the 〈◊〉 of a City thereby only it would be unlikely either to grow or 〈◊〉 in magnificency or opul●…ncy for if profit height and delight go n●… companions therewith no authority or necessity can retain much people or wealth But if the pl●…ce whereupon a City is to be founded be commodious for the aforesaid conveniences which help greatly for the felicity of this life then no doubt the same is likely to draw much abundance of people and riches unto the same whereby it may by the help of Arts and 〈◊〉 in time become magnificent and glorious FINIS

most by the Hollanders and other petty States into the East and North-East K●…ngdomes of Pomerland Spruceland Poland Denmark Sweathland Leisland and Germany and the Merchandizes brought from the last mentioned Kingdomes being wonderfull m●…ny are likewise by the Holland●…rs and other petty States most transported into the Southern and Westerne Dominions and yet the situation of E●…gland lyeth far better for a Store-house to serve the Southern East and North-East Regions than theirs doth and hath far better meanes to doe it if we will bend our course for it No sooner a dearth of F●…sh Wine or Corn here and other Merchandize 〈◊〉 forth with the Embdoners Hamburgers a●…d Hollanders out of their Store-houses lade fifty or one hundred ships or more dispersing themselves round about this Kingdome and carry away great store of coyne and wealth for little commodity in those times of dearth by which meanes they suck our Common-wealth of their riches cut down our Merchants and decay our Navigation not with their naturall commodities which groweth in their own Countries but the Merchandizes of other Countreys and Kingdomes Therefore it is farre more easier to serve themselves hold up our Merchants and increase our Ships and 〈◊〉 and strengthen the Kingdome and not onely keep our money in our owne R●…alme which other Nations still rob us of but bring in theirs who carrie ours away and make the banke of Coyne and Store-house to serve other Nations as well and far better cheap than they Amsterdam is never without seven hundred thousand Quarters of Corn besid●…s the plenty they daily vent and none of this groweth in their owne Countrey a dearth in England France Spaine Italy Portugall and other places is truly observed to inrich Holland seven yeeres after and likewise the petty States For example the last Dearth six years p●…st the Hamburgers Embdeners and Hollanders out of their Store-houses furnished this Kingdom and from Southampton Exeter and Bristow in a yeare and a halfe they carri●…d away near two hundred thousand p●…unds from these parts onely then what great quantitie of coyns was transported round about your Kingdome from every Port Towne and from your City of London and other Cities cannot be esteemed so little as two millions to the great decay of your Kingdom and impoverishing your people discredit to the Company of Merchants and dishonour to the Land that any Nation that have no Corne in their owne Countrey growing should serve this famous Kingdome which God hath so inabled within it selfe They have a continuall Trade into this Kingdome with five or six hundred Ships yeerly with Merchandizes of other Countreys and Kingdomes and store them up in store-hous●…s here untill the prices rise to their mindes and we trade not with fif●… ships into their Countrey in a yeare and 〈◊〉 said number are about thi●… R●… every 〈◊〉 winde for the most ●…rt to lade Coales and other 〈◊〉 Unlesse there be a scarcity 〈◊〉 dearth or high prices all Merchants doe forbeare that place wh●…re great impositions are laid upon the Merchandize and those places slenderly shipp●…d ill serv●…d and at deer ra es and oftentimes in scarci●…y and want imployment for the people and those petty States finding truly by experience that small duti●… imposed upon M●…rchandize draw●…th all Trafficke unto them and free liberty for strangers to buy and sell doth make continua'l Mart therefore what Excizes or Impositions are laid upon the Common-people yet they still ease uphold and maintaine the Merchants by all possible meanes of purpose to draw the wealth and strength of Christendom to themselves whereby it appeareth though the duties be but small yet the customes for going out and comming in doth so abound that they increase their Revenues greatly and make profit plenty and imployment of all sorts by Sea and Land to serve 〈◊〉 and other Nations as is admirable to behold And likewise the great commerce which groweth by the s●…me meanes inableth the common people to bear their burthen laid upon them and yet they grow rich by reason of the great commerce and Trade occasioned by their convenient priviledges and commodious consti●…utions There was an intercourse of Traffick in Genoa and there was the flower of commerce as appeareth by their antient Records and their sumptuous buildings for all Nations traded with Merchandize to them and there was the store-house of all Italy and other places but after they had set a great custome of xvi per cent all Nations left trading with them which made them give themselves wholly to usury and at this day wee have not three ships go●… there in a yeare but to the contrary the Duke of Florence builded Ligorn and set small custome upon Merchandize and gave them great and pleasing priviledges which hath made a rich and strong City with a florishing State Furthermore touching some particulars needfull to be considered of the mighty huge fishing that ever cou'd be heard of in the world is upon the coasts of England Scotland and Ireland but the great Fishery is in the Low-Countries and other petty States wherewith they serve themselves and all Christendome as shall appear In four Towns in the East Kingdoms within the Sound Quinsbrough Elbing Statten and Dausick there is carried and vented in a yeere between thirty or forty thousand Last of Herrings sold but at fifteen or sixteen pounds the Last is about 620000. l. and we none Besides Denmark Norway Sweathen Leifland Rie Nevill the Narve and other Port Townes within the Sound there is carried and vented above 10000. Lasts of Herrings sold at fifteen or sixteen pounds the Last is 170000. pounds more yeerly in such request are our Herrings there that they are oftentimes sold for 20. 24. 30. and 36. pound the Last and we send not one barrell into all those East Countreys The Hollanders sent into Russia neare fifteen hundred Lasts of Herrings sold about thirty shillings the barrell amounteth to 27000. pound and we but about twenty or thirty Lasts To Stoade Hambrough Breame and Embden upon the River of Elve Weaser and Embs is carried and vented of Fish and Herrings about 6000. Lasts sold about fifteen or sixteen pound the Last is 100000 l. and wee none Cleaveland Gulickland up the River of Rhine to Cullen Frankford or the Maine and so over all Germany is carried and vented of Fish and Herrings neare 22000. Lasts sold at twenty pound the Last is 440000. l. and we none Up the River of M z●… Leigh Mastrith Vendlow Sutphin Deventer Campen Swoole and all over Lukeland is carried and-vented 7000. Lasts of Herrings sold at twenty pound the Last is 140000 pound and wee none To Gelderland Artois Henault Brabant Flanders up the River of Antwe●…p all over the Arch Dukes Countreys is carried and vented between eight or nine thousand Lasts sold at eighteen pound the Last is 171000 l. and we none The Hollanders and others carried of all sorts of Herrings to Roane only in one yeere 〈◊〉 all other