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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60593	The golden fleece. VVherein is related the riches of English wools in its manufactures Together with the true uses, and the abuses of the aulnageors, measurers, and searchers offices. By W. S. Gent.	Smith, W., gent., attributed name.	1657 (1657)	Wing S4255CA; ESTC R221504	43,793	137

THE Golden Fleece VVherein is related the Riches of English Wools in its Manufactures Together with The true Uses and the Abuses of the Aulnageors Measurers and Searchers Offices By W. S. Gent. Pecunia à Pecude Guic. Plin. lib. 33. Omnes veterum divitiae in re pecuniari â consistebant LONDON Printed by J. G. for Richard Lowndes at the white Lyon in S. Pauls Church-yard neere the Little North-doore 1657. A Preface to the Reader THere is neither House nor City nor Country nor the universall Being of Mankind nor the course of Nature nor the World it selfe which can subsist without Government saith Cicero in his Discourse upon Lawes which Government intends and includes these two Fundamentals or corner stones Povver and Obedience by which as the Regiment of every Common-wealth doth stand so the flourishing Trade of England under Societies and Companies doth manifest the same to the whole world Neverthelesse as in generall all men cry up Liberty so in particular each respective man desires that freedome gratis though it cannot be granted without those contributary services which maintain that Government The Seas exhale their Vapours to the Heavens from whence they descend in Showers upon the earth which being impregnated by their fertility doth gratefully dismisse them again to the Ocean Natures Store-house for the like coursary services Alterius sic altera poscit opem et conjurat amice The regulated government of Merchandice performeth all this by which it beautifies the Earth and Seas giving intercourse and combination supplies and riches to each industrious part of the world It procures Amities Leagues Confederacies Conjugall and Consanguinary Alliances between Princes and all by the necessary productions which one Nation wants of anothers abundance the purchase whereof to each others occasions nourisheth and beautifies each others People How then should not Merchants be of principall renowne to themselves and their Country which with great hazards both of person and estate they do so faithfully and profitably serve We have a Record which doth worthily recite the ingenious expressions of a young Florentine Gentleman called Cosimo Ruchelli who dying about the age of two and twenty years bewayled not his departure from his Kindred and Friends nor from the riches of his Family or pleasures of the world but because he was summoned by Death before he had done his Country that retributary service which to it was due for his Being or had gratified his Friends by reciprocall benefits for that they had bestowed upon him nourishment and education Another Author gives us a quite contrary opinion of one Theodorus who thought and taught it to be great injustice that a wise man should in any case hazard himselfe for the good or benefit of his Country which he said was to endanger his wisdome for Fooles now though each of these mens fancies had a rationall foundation upon their respective principles one to gratify and serve the world the other to despise and reject its vanities yet Natures positive doctrine to all her Children is Non nobis solum nati sumus God made the world in number weight and measure because he would have it so preserved and by that President he appointed man to govern both it and himselfe for as in Order there is beauty and continuance each part in its proportion so supporting another as with comlines it hath durance so in government amongst men that which we call Justice is in its distribution the glorious preservation of the whole which it intends to govern and that is Honeste vivere alterum non laedere suum cuique tribuere and this is the worke of every honest and wise man so it is to follow the primitive un-erring pattern of Number Weight and Measure which was observed by God himselfe Prima sapientiae pars est bene numerare saith Plato and well to number a mans dayes is the ready way to wisdome saith David both these were excellent Divines though not comparatives yet without numbers we cannot so distinguish but that Plato's heathen may claim as great esteeme as Davids heavenly wisdome this gives to one the most excelling finite and to the other the super-excellent infinite measure of his prudence one of them fulfilling the first of the morall and the other of the divine Vertues and from these the equality of measuring between men takes being and is the life-blood of Trade As without a common certainty of measure there can be no intercourse nor transaction of trade between men or Nations so in this of Clothing The glory of England there can be no indifferency rule or continuance without such an establishment of measure and proportion as may satisfy every man in his bargaining bartering buying or exchangeing In the following discourse will appeare a great deviaton from the determined rules of Justiice provided in this case and such a necessity of reformation as Clothing cannot be freed from open or underhand abuses without it nor can this peculiarised blessing of Woolls in its streames of Manufacture answer to the cleareness of the fountaine from whence it springs There are now a Trinity of officers relating to the regulation of Clothing all which were anciently comprised in the Vnity of one mans person these beare the distinct names of Searcher Measurer and Aulnageor which last though it be a tautologicall expression Aulnage and Measure being the same worke denoted in two languages yet the long vsage and custome have brought them to be distinct offices and that which anciently was called Aulnage from whence the Aulnageor takes his name who was no more but measurer in signification is now become Collector of the Subsidy granted to the State by many precise Laws in that case ordained still holding the name of Aulnageor because the collection of that Subsidy was by King Edward 3. committed to the charge of the Aulnageor and he neverthelesse not abridged of his measuring and searching till by his own wilfull neglect they became separated and that by distinct Lawes Insomuch as there is a peculiar Measurer who ought to know and allow the Assize of length and breadth to every Particular Cloth which is made in England and Wales And because the Subjects of this Land should not be abused their grave Senators in Parliaments have also established an office of searching whose Officer ought by his Seales judiciously and diligently affixed to denote the defaults and casuall abuses which each particular Cloth doth contain In the following discourse it will appeare that these offices were all of them under the cognizance of the Aulnageor until they shall be again restored unto his care and that he be as well under strict termes obliged as by competent Salaries enabled to see the duty discharged Clothing in England will be so farre short of recovering its pristine worth and honour as it will undoubtedly run utterly to decay through necessity the materials now forbiden to be transported under the penalty of life and limb must be licenced to