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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28355	Trade revived, or, A way proposed to restore, increase, inrich, strengthen and preserve the decayed and even dying trade of this our English nation, in its manufactories, coin, shiping and revenue whereby taxes may be lessened if not totally taken away, to the great content of the people : as also a way shewed how the duty of excise may be regulated for the ease and incouragement of this nations commerce, both for the outward exportation and inward consumption of all sorts of commodities : and likewise, certain ways propounded for the raising of considerable sums of money to maintain the charges of the government,without prejudice of the people, as also for the payment of all the souldiers just arrears, and the peoples just publique faith debts / set forth by a wel-wisher to the nation and its prosperity ...	Bland, John.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3158; ESTC R11152	85,589	65

bear his own damage The Commissioners to be Judges herein The second means to ease and incourage trade is to have the Duty of excise regulated The equallest way to raise a Revenew in a Nation The duty not so burthensome as the irregular collection thereof The Excise the most easiest way to raise mony for the Publike use It s born by all in proportion rich and poor It 's the most equitablest way and beyond any other tax and freest from envy and malice All contribute in Excise according to their expence but the usuver The Misers posterity makes good what he saved It is the most constantest Income of any to a Nation The way proposed to collect the Excise with ease and advantage Two ways by which Excise is raised 1. On imported Commodities 2. On our Native Commodities The first proposition stated under two qualifications Of persons to be trusted with the Excise Of persons not to be trusted It s easy to secure the Excise in the hands of persons to be trustrd The accompts to be kept with them Exemplisied by the importing a parcel of wines The accompt of all other Commodities stated The way to secure the Excise from persons unknown To pay Custom and Excise together Ten per cent to be allowed for advance of their Excise Known persons will gladly imbrace that allowance The advantages lately arising 1. Receipt of present mony 2. The securing the Duty 3. The ease of Commerce 4. The salary of so many uselesse Officers will be saved 5. Tedious accompts will all men excuse except such as are trusted who will be but few An Objection The Publike may hereby be defrauded Answer To have but one Officer for Excise and Custom and he well paid The Officer abusing his trust to lose his place without readmssiion The Merchant to lose his goods and totally consiscated If the Merchant do save part of his Duty yet no losse to the Revenew The Reason why Not one in a hundred will adventure it What is saved by a Merchant is but to inlarge his trade The advantage of the Customs with the seisures and confiscations will be more than the losse The Merchant that saves Custom to be connived at before any and why He Inriches the Nation advances the Revenew maintains Commerce Therefore the ease of the Commerce is to be preferred above all The only gainers by Excise are the Ingrossers and Shop-keepers as it s now established The Shopkeepers increase of their Stock by Excise destructive to the Nation The second proposition for the raising Excise by goods wrought in the Nation To take rise from the maker of them To have set places for the sayl of all goods and there to be entred What is bought to be consumed in the Land to pay Excise and what for exportation to pay none Or else the goods bought to export to pay Excise and reallowed when shipped out Herely the Publike will be advanced and the Merchant not damnified For ease ●f the Commerce to have Custom and Excise in one place and managed by one 〈◊〉 f●r imports and exports For inland trausactions some particular Ossice for the Excise to easethe people One of the Custom House Commissioners to attend by turns for dispatch The third means to incourage trade N● Seaman to be prest out of Merchants ships till they have sinished their voyages Many ships hereby have been lost and Merchants undone Prevention of this mischief the Captains of such men of War to make good all damages what they can not the Publike to answer it for them The 4th means to incourage trade That Convoys be constantly sitted out for the preservation of Merchants ships To secure them from Enemies and Pirats No Convoy 〈…〉 lade out of home any Merchandise A prohibition penalty and punishment for any that shall Else the disadvantage will be greater than the advantage All men would lade their fine goods in men of warr The Seamen would never fight but suffer the Merchants ships to perish The fifth means to incourage trade That no bills of entry be delivered out of Custom House A prohibition for the future made therein The Projectors Patent taken from him and he punished What he hath got to be imployed thereby to Publike use Entrees delivered out of the Custom House a very great discouragement to trade Advantageous only to Lugrossers and monied men Disadvantageous to all in general The disadvantages herein follow 1. All mens negotiations discovered to ignorant men The ingenious mans trade thereby ruinated 2. The Ingrosser and Retayling Shopkeepers make what Markets they please on the Seller as well as on the Buyer to the prejudice of the Nation If Entries were not seen by any necessitated men would advance their goods as well as others 3. The general Commerce at home suffers extreamly 4. The Trade beyond Seas is destroyed and ingenious men ruinated in their designs and Forein Nations advantaged 5. The makers of our Native Commodities are ruinated and discouraged 6. The secret of all trade is laid open and so becomes its one Executioner trade ever thriving when most privately managed Let bills of Entry be once ●rohibited from being made Publike trade will soon revive E●●ecially when men by their own hands or by a Brokers may without discovering their wants dispose of their goods 7. By not publishing the Entries at Custom House the Publike Revenew will be increased The sixth means to ease and incourage trade Is to remove the Exorbitance of wharfingers Porters and Carmen For the ease and Incouragement of Merchants The Publick authority to establish a rule for them The ways to regulate them are To mannage it by a Publick hand The Government of the City to be the Proprietors to all the wharfs The institution of Companies Porters of excellent use The ticket Porters only disturbers of the Commerce The Government of the City to be Proprietors of the Cars No goods can be landed on any Key but must pay what the wharfingers please Advantage is taken by reason men are inforced to land their goods near the Custom House The Government ought to regulate and set rates on such thingt to incourage Merchants The abuses of the ticket Porters to be rectified The abuses of the Carmen to be redressed That Merchants may be free to imploy whom they please and to land and ship their goods where they please In Leghorn an excellent way for landing and shiping goods The seventh means to incourage and ease trade That there be but one sort of weight measure throughout England and its Dominions The eighth means to incourage trade That all Merchants paying 300 l. per annum custome outwards upon our own manufactories to be exempted from all other personal taxes And upon forein goods imported 1000 l. per annum The ninth means to incourage and ease trade That in every factory of trade setled Consuls be established To protect from injury For deciding of differences arising among themselves For the regulating of the

England and its dominions or in any other Princes dominions and Ports if any English ship be there to be fraighted 2. That all persons of our own Nation and its dominions as well as any other Princes or States Subjects whatsoever importing among us or exporting from us any sort of merchandise in any vessel not properly belonging to this Nation of England and its dominions and sailed by an English Commander and the major part English men to pay double Custome for all his Goods and Merchandise so brought in by forein ships or shipped out in them and if that double Custom may not be thought enough upon some sort of Goods to impose treble Custom on such as may require that charge 3. That in Contra to the foregoing Article all strangers of what Nation soever that shall bring into this Nation or export any Commodities hence in the ships bona fide and properly belonging to this Nation and its dominions to pay no more Custom upon the Goods so imported or exported in our ships than an English-man The advantages arising hereby to the Commerce of this Nation are as followeth 1. All forein Nations will make use of our ships by reason of their strength and force able to secure their Goods from Enemies and Pirates as likewise for the advantage they will have in bringing their Merchandise to us and obtaining thereby the benefit of paying no more Customs than our selves which will be very easie to them 2. Forein shipping although they bring their Goods in reference to fraight cheaper than our ships do yet they will not forestall our fraight in regard what is saved in the fraight by such as fraight them will be inhansed upon them again by their paying double Customes 3. We our selves in our own ships shall hereby be inabled to bring our Goods to market as cheap as any forein ships can do by reason of the easiness of our Customes 4. No strangers by this course will be able for to under-sell us because their Goods will stand them in as dear as ours and so we shall trade with them upon equal terms for undoubtedly when all the difference that will be betwixt the stranger and us who it is that shall purchase his Goods at the best hand we shall be both as able diligent and quick as they 5. That great obstacle or Remora which our Navigation is stopt with of the Hollanders sayling cheaper in their ships than we do in ours and so by their easie fraight are capable to under-sell us in all places will be quite taken away and laid aside for by this way and course we shall be equal with them 6. That great trade which the Hollanders do carry on with us now from Norway and East-land in Timber Deals Masts Hemp Pitch and Tarr will be ours And whereas now we do want ships for the management of that trade our own shipping being generally unfit in a short time we walking in this prescribed path all their Prames and Fluts will become ours and their very Seamen for want of imployment will remove to us naturalizing themselves meerly to get imployment from us that they may have bread to eat and feed their otherwise starved bodies who must perish as well as their ships the one unless they do come over to us for imployment and the other unless they be sold to us then by their Seamens coming over to us we shall be fitted with people understanding in the management of the fishing trade a thing so considerable for the inriching this Nation and that is in a manner the sole maintenance of the Hollanders trade Seamen and shipping 7. Hereby in the Levant and Mediterranean Seas the Hollanders ships will be slighted and rejected and want their imployment from all Nations in those parts who will strive to have their Merchandise conveighed only in our English vessels 8. By this Act our English shipping will gain such repute in all parts that it will infinitely increase them both in number as well as strength and burden 9. Hereby our shipping will never want imployment and good fraights for what we our selves cannot lade strangers will supply by reason of their security and advantage which thereby they will receive And whereas our great ships have even lost their wonted esteem and so we have been forced to send them out upon long and desperate voyages they will regain it again and being imployed neuer hand be ready at all summons to supply the Publick when ever any occasion may offer to make use of them The ninth meanes to increase and nourish the trade of this Nation is that some way may be found out to agree with the Spaniard for the baying up the Wool of his Country prohibiting all other Nations besides the English to transport from Spain to any other people or place any of the said Wool but for England The Advantages that would arise hereby unto our Nation and its Commerce are these 1. It would very much improve our Manufactories and make our Nation the Staple for all sorts of woollen Commodities throughout the World 2. The Hollander would be utterly disabled from counterfeiting our Woollen-Draperies and all his subtleties would come to nothing which through our neglect of compassing this work and suffering him to get into his power the Spanish Wool he hath even eaten us out of our fine Cloth trade 3. It would be a meanes infinitely to imploy our own people and to set them at work and thereby keep the fabrick of these sorts of Goods in our own Dominions 4. It would occasion the imployment of much shipping to setch these Wools from place to place and afford owners of ships good fraights to the great incouragement of building ships 5. It would notably advance the Spanish Trade giving the Traders that way a most large meanes for to make returns from thence when other wayes may fail and that not only to the Trader for the North parts of Spain but to the Trader for the South likewise It having been in agitation heretofore between the two Nations even within a very little of being settled had not the unhappy warr in the bowels of this Nation fallen out which frustrated the compleating this so noble a design which was not misliked by the Councils of both Nations who were very well satisfied therein and of the great benefit that would have arrived thereby to each other It being my judgement if we were settled in peace within our selves and this negotiation of the Wools set afoot again by some judicious person with the Publick approbation and support there might be meanes used to compass the same and such terms proposed between us and the Spaniard that might be approved of to the liking of them and us and therefore to be wished that a work so advantagious to this Commerce were estected The tenth meanes to nourish increase and revive