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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57391	The treasure of traffike, or, A discourse of forraigne trade wherein is shewed the benefit and commoditie arising to a commonwealth or kingdome, by the skilfull merchant, and by a well ordered commerce and regular traffike / by Lewes Roberts ...	Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.	1641 (1641)	Wing R1602; ESTC R15138	44,502	131

THE TREASURE OF TRAFFIKE OR A DISCOURSE OF FORRAIGNE TRADE Wherein is shewed the benefit and commoditie arising to a Common-Wealth or Kingdome by the skilfull Merchant and by a well ordered Commerce and regular Traffike Dedicated to the High Court of PARLAMENT now assembled BY LEWES ROBERTS Merchant and Captaine of the City of LONDON LONDON Printed by E. P. for Nicholas Bourne and are to be sold at his Shop at the South Entrance of the Royall Exchange 1641. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS and COMMONS IN THE High Court of PARLAMENT now assembled PArdon me Right Honourable if amongst your other more serious present affaires I presume to dedicate to your acceptance and perusall this short discourse of forraigne Traffike It hath ever beene accounted a branch of Englands Royall Stem and a commoditie that for many yeeres hath brought a wonderfull Revenue to Englands Diadem It now presseth to your presence as an agrieved weight laden with many setters imposed thereon by the covetousnesse of some and by the Envyers of our prosperous Traffike yet seeing that like religious Pilots you guide the helme of our Kingdome with your hand whilst your eyes are fixed on heaven taking from thence the conduct of your earthly directions it hopes by that your good and gracious aspect to be now freed from them all and florish againe in its fi●st lustre It is now about forty yeares since it began to be ingrafted in our English Climat and ever since found our soyle proper for i●s further grouth but if it find not your Honors favourable protection and future cherishing a few yeares more may see it withr●d and reduced to its first nothing I dare not undertake in this discourse to demonstrate the burthens that cloggeth it in this Kingdome the severall Societies of incorporated Merchants of the Citie of London being called before you will best particularise the same onely I have labour'd to shew what may best gaine it in those parts of this Kingdome where it is wanting and augment that portion thereof in those places where it is settled already Let not then Right Honorable so excellent a Jem and so hitherto profitable and eminent a revenew for want of a little of your helpe die in your dayes nor yet perish in our age but release it from those subtle Gives that cunningly have beene intruded upon its liberties and goes about to kill the root thereof decking it once againe as primarily with some of those lasting beautifull immunities that can and may make it live longer and spred it selfe much fairer that the times to come may deservedly attribute to your names and memory that splendor glory it shall obtain by your benignity so shall the King our gracious Soveraig●e have just cause to commend your care for your preserving to Himselfe and Kingdome this so noble a Royalty your Honours be justly applauded for imploying your industrious hands and heads in pruning and lopping the disordered branches of so excellent a graft and the Merchants of this Kingdome that have hitherto sowne in Expectation live in hope to reape a fruitfull crop of their foraigne adventures and hartily pray for the good successe of all your other weighty affaires and amongst the rest so shall ever ascend the devout Orisons of Your Humble Servant L. R. Merchant of London To The READER COurteous Readers It is needlesse for mee here to tell you how good a common wealths man a Regular merchant is nor yet trouble you in relating the severall benefits accr●●ing to a Kingdome by his adventrous paines and industry this short discourse though unpolished if well considered will I hope sufficiently speake the one and questionlesse make good the other My well-wishes to our Countries present Commerce and the enlargement thereof the great need in the encouragement to the one and the insensible ruine and decay of the latter was herein and still is my greatest hope and obiect I have lately discerned that our industrious Neighbours were ready at a deare rate to purchase that treasure by Traffike which wee our selves by means of the enviers of our Countreys foraigne Trade were ready to yeeld them gratis and as it were unsought and for nothing yet if it may be rightly said as undoubtedly it may be accounted that Englands trade is Englands treasure why should our gracious King and his people lose that so excellent a profit in a moment which cost his Merchants so many yeares to compasse and so many hazards and charges to obtaine and settle a few priviledges and a little protect on a faire aspect and a gentle encouragement from both these honourable assemblies will quickly settle this Kingdomes Traffike and not only preserve it in its present splendour but also easily augment and enlarge it w●i●h will adde a wonderfull honour to our Soveraigns Name throughout the World and an eminent commodity and profit to the subjects of all his Dominions which every true subiect I thinke doth earnestly wish for and every honest Merchant doth truly pray for as doth unfainedly Lewes Roberts Merchant and Captaine of the City of LONDON THE TREASURE OF TRAFFIKE THat we are not borne for our selves is a saying no lesse ancient then true the heathens as well as the Christians have held it a rule worthy to be practised and every good man of what quality and profession soever that will give evidence to the world of his faire intentions for the benefit either of the publike or private are daily seene to follow and observe it The religious Divine that with much labour and long study having learned himself the wayes of Godlinesse is daily noted to take care and pains to instruct others therein the valiant sould●er that weares hi sword to d●fend himselfe yet is ever ready to draw the same in defence of his Countrey the skilfull Lawyer that hath learned by the Lawes to make good his owne interest and right is ever also ready to right the title of others and the judicious Merchant whose labour is to profit himselfe yet in all his actio●● doth there with benefit his King Countrey and fellow Subjects Politicians that have written of State Government have observed three principall meanes wherby a Kingdome may be inriched the first whereof is by arms and conquest but this way must be confessed to be both chargeable bloody hazardable The second is by planting of colonies building of well scituated Townes and the like and this is also accounted uncertain chargeable and tedious But the third and last is by traffike and foraign trade which is held the most certain easiest and soonest way money and time must bee consumed to effect the two former but immunities priviledges and liberties to the Merchant wil not only assure but perfect the latter In the management of these there is required an orderly proceeding and Salomons counsell is the safest that his advice is stil to bee taken who is best versed in the way that is prescrib'd when

and inhabitants thereof wants and such as tend to need or use are still the most desired Graine Bu●t●r Ch●ese and all provisions for food should every where be freely receaved and that without d●ties or customes thereupon as in Leghorne in Tuskanie in Spaine and in many other places The Merchants and bringers in of such have ever a reward allowed them to incourage them to a readinesse at all times to bring in the same againe at another time and season Also all ammunition for the defence of our Country and for the offence of of our enemies as Horses Armes Powder Cannons Muskets Bullets Match and all provision for shipping as Planks Timber Masts Pitch Cordage Iron Saile-cloth and the like are ever to be receaved Thirdly all such commodities as may set the poore or richer sort on worke by making of sundry sorts of Fabrikes either of Linen and Woolen silke or the like as are Cotten Wooll and yarne of which is made Vermillions Fustians Demities such others also fleece-wooll of which is made woollen-cloth Sayes Sarges Perpetuanas Bayes and sundry other sorts comprehended under the name of new Drapery with us also Grogrameyar●●e of which is made Iames Grograms Durettes silke-mohers and many others late new invented Stuffes Flaxe Hempe and the Yarne thereof of which is made all sort of Linens fine and course all Ropes Tackles Cables and such like used in shipping all raw-silke and throwne whereof is made all manner of SilkeLaces Sattins Plushes Taffeta's Cally-mancos and many others all silver and gold in thred and Bullion whereof is made silver and gold Lace Cloth of gold and silver and manie others which may set on worke not onely the poore industrious working Subjects imploy the monies and estates of the rich but also much further Navigation and Commerce and generally inrich the Prince and Kingdome by the second Traffike of these Manufactories Yet many of these commodities and wares are to bee receaved with some certaine restrictions and lamentations according to the Iudgement and discretion of the Soveraigne For if by incouragements or Immunities the Merchant brings in the first materiall ' as I may say Cotten-wooll the yarn thereof may then bee prohibited for thereby part of the poore mans labour is taken away and so in Hemp and Flaxe and the like if it be imported in good aboundance the yarn thereof may be prohibited for the cause before mentioned and so may also such petty manufactories be denyed entrance as playing Cards gold and silver thred and the like whilst wee have the principall materials whereof the same is or may be composed perfitted at home And thus much shall serve to have said concerning what wares may be receaved and what may not be receaved into a Kingdome by the rules of a well ordered Traffike the facilitating and acquisition of this Traffike in a Countrie or place comes in the next consideration to be handled The politike estate of Venetia the Iudicious Duke of Tuskanie the cunning Hollanders the industrious hauns townes and others that much indeavour and studie this point have noted and found out many particular points which they have put in practise as the most effectuall operative and efficient conducing to the facilitating ease and augmentation of Traffike in generall which gather●d out of their practises wee may put in use and applie to our sel●es for the increase of a Countries forraine Traff●ke which principally are these First to further by all meanes the commodious carriage of goods and merchandize both by Land and by water either by Boats Cartage Horses or other such conveiances wherein is considerable as a thing necessary that the Rivers bee navigable or made so if possible by labour Art and industrie then to remove all hindring Mills Bridges fishing weares Bankes Sholds and such like impediments that may any way let or hinder the same Secondly that no Lord or adjoyning commanding borderer impose either custome tolle taxe or duties upon the commodities and wares so carried in Boates Lighters or Barges passing or repassing thereupon or heavie acknowledgements passing over Bridges Caus●yes or the like that may disturbe the publike Traffike or be a charge to the generall Commerce of a Country Thirdly to keepe the Seas and streames free and safe from all Pyrats theeves and robbers as the principall disturbers of the universall Traffike of Kingdomes and nations and the greatest overthrowers of the navigation and Commerce of Cities and Countries Fourthly to safeguard the Ports Harbours Roads and Sea-Creekes from them to maintaine where is necessarie fortified places to defend the pursued and to offend the pursuer to maintaine and conserve the keyes Peeres molds and other places of moredge fastnings anchoredge and the like and to set up and maintaine Beacons Watch-Townes Lights by night Sea-marks and Boyes for the safeguard of Mariners sayling either by night or day Fiftly to keepe the Land wayes and passages free and safe also from Theeves and Robbers to mend Causeys high-wayes and decayed Bridges to build alberges Innes lodgings and places of safety whare none is in fit and commodious places for the reposing and rest of men and beasts of carryage where all accommodation both for men and horses travelling may be had at easie and reasonable rates and prises and where all needfull things may bee obtained for the tr●vailer which he may ordinarily stand in need of Sixtly to maintaine posts and post-horses by Land and post barkes by Sea also all Letter-carriers and such like foot-posts with priviledges and fit stipends for their paines and care therein Seventhly not to suffer any Monopolies Pattents and grants to private men which may hinder the liberty and freedome of Traffike and if such bee discouvered and found out to punish the same rigorously and severely Eightly to invite by priviledges the industrious strangers and Merchants to bring and import unto us the wares a●d commodities which wee cannot want and those whero● the Country it selfe stands in need of and ●hat which may either advantage the publike or the defence of the Countrie it selfe Ninthly to discharge all great custome heavie imposts and duties upon all goods and merchandize or at least wise upon the Subjects goods and upon all needfull and usefull commodities or if the same stand not with the commodity of the Prince yet at least wise so much of these customes c. As the necessity of the state will beare and trade may well permit without overthrowing of the generall Traffike and Commerce of the Country and the dependances thereupon Tenthly to establish such Lawes and ordina●ces for Merchants and merchandizing affaires and Sea causes as that there be not onely faith and assurance preserved amongst all negociators Sea-faring-men and merchants whatsoever but also amongst all manner of buyers and sellers and that there be likewise severe punishments decreed for fraudulent publike dec●avers bankerouts and robbers of the