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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42314	A description of the new world, or, America, islands and continent and by what people those regions are now inhabited, and what places are there desolate and without inhabitants, and the bays, rivers, capes, forts, cities and their latitudes, the seas by George Gardyner ...	Gardyner, George.	1651 (1651)	Wing G221; ESTC R7600	50,085	210

in the Plantations with most of the Masters in those places especially in Virginia for besides their being back-beaten and belly-beaten it is three to one if they live out their servitude by reason of the unwholsomenesse of the Countreys In which disasters that happen to our Nation I cannot but condole their misfortunes as if we of all Europe were of the seed of Cham when the Spaniard at the same time managed their businesse so well that scarcely will one of them serve in the Indies except it be the Viceroy or some great Personage and I know that Nation in nothing exceeds us but in their keeping together as one people The third Question Is whether the trade of England may not be increased It is not hard to imagine when we see the greatnesse of Asia and Africa and the little Commerce that we have with them that it may well be increased And although the trade of Europe be much greater the rest yet doth it want much of that exactnesse which we may have in it For where ●● we gain in some parts and lose in others it is possible to assure the Land to gain in all and lose in none The fourth Question Is how it hath been hindred and what is the let in the growth of it The people generally suppose 't is the danger of the seas and the little security in the parts abroad for the Merchants Goods and ships In answer I affirm the trade of the Hollanders never flourished so as in time of War and their enemies were more strong at Sea then ours upon which we may conclude it is not that that is the true cause Wherefore I finde these other causes to be the obstruction in the trade The first is the Companies of our Nation which fort of people I account a benefit of a losse according as they are established and managed in which the Companies of England have been defective which appeareth in the generall damages which themselves and Adventurers have had with them and few publick memorials they have erected at home or abroad that hath appeared a publick good but divers acts have seemed the contrary And on particulars we finde there are five Companies that are well in years amongst us the other which was of later establishment which really was the best the Giney Company is dissolved And to omit the general damage that all the Inland Companies do to our Nation which is from my purpose now to treat of the five Companies of exportation are first the Cloth Company that trade into Holland Hamborough the Baltick Seas and elsewhere with all the white Clothes exported the Kingdome The second is the East India Company the third the Turkey the fourth the Muscovia the fifth the Company of Greenland alias Grinland Of which I conceive the Cloth Company to be the greatest Monopoly for this cause Besides the ingrossing of the commodity of white Cloth to themselves which is a great barre to the priviledge of the Nation The carrying of them out of the Laud is a pernicious thing to five sorts of men Merchants Seamen Cloth-dressers Sheare-men and Diers which last people receive the greatest damage although they were accounted anciently the Staple-manufacture of our Nation The prejudice to the Cloth-dressers and Diers appears in the carrying away from them forty Clothes white more then are worked at home by which it appears that where there is one imploy'd now in that course there might be forty if it were managed at home And all that ever I heard that the Company could say for themselvs is that the trade of making white Cloth would be spoiled for the Dutch and Poles if they could not have it white would forbear buying of it But I am sure the Merchants buy it beyond the se●s for their profit and not to se● their Country-men at worke or else they differ much from them of the Company And if they want it to trade with they will have it as well drest by us as their ow● Nation but if they be obstinate and will not buy it we shall gaine and not lose for our Sea-men and Merchants that make short Voyages with small profit will the● vent it to those parts which now have it at the second hand from them that buy it white from us and so the Merchants will make two profits in stead of one and the Sea-men longer Voyages The East-India Company come home to this question in that it hath lost many advantagious places there and impoverished many that adventured with them giving them after fifteen or sixteen yeares forbearance of their money instead of 70li yearly which the Dutch give most yeares to their Adventurers 70li for their principall● And the Dutch lately to renew their Lease which not long since was neer expired being but for 21 yeares at the first compounded with the States Generall to have it renewed for so much longer for the summe of eight hundred thousand pound paid to them and five hundred thousand to the West-India Company which the States owed the said West-India Company And whereas the Dutch Company hath whole Countries divers Islands Cities Castles Forts c. and all taken in by the sword to the contrary our men hath lost money lost time which was considerable in those actions and divers Countries which they never got but were delivered by the Natives such was Pulway Pullerroon Lantor Rosingen Wayer Timor Tiadore Ternat and the Castle of Amboyna where the Dutch committed the greatest murther that of late yeares hath been heard of upon our Nation by racking torturing by fire and water throwing in dungeons and their easing themselves on them untill their bodies became blistered then drawing them forth and beheading some sawing a-sunder others at other times their cruelty hath been after the same manner and this accompanied with revilling of our Nation which things are in perticular related by them that escaped from those miseries recording before the Tribunall of the late King their sufferings and his dishonour which he heard with as much parience as the losse of the English at the Isle of Ree I know not the hearts of other men but my minde is that all men that acknowledge a Government and subscribe to maintaine it ought to be protected as well abroad as at home There is difference between the bloud of Peace and War as David saith and this was not as the rest of Rochell and the Isle of Ree but by the snare that Joab smote Amasa And upon discourse it will be found that act is justified by that people to this day The cause of the Dutches flourishing our Companies say was there stock exceeding the English But it will appear upon examination that the English Company had sixteene hundred thousand pounds under writ for when the Dutch had but eight The Turkey Company is little before it in goodnesse although men have not so eminently suffered yet some have been inslaved by the Turks of Barbary But the great