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A43803	England's weal & prosperity proposed: or, Reasons for erecting publick vvork-houses in every county, for the speedy promoting of industry and the woollen manufactory, shewing how the wealth of the nation may be encreased, many hundred thousand pounds per annum. And also that many thousand persons may be so reformed, to their own and the whole kingdoms present and future wealth and glory, that there may no more be a begger bred up in the nation. Humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, and presented to the honourable House of Commons. By R. Haines. To which is added A model of government for such works houses prepared by the same author, and printed in the year (79) intended to have been presented to the last Parliament. Pursuant to a breviate of proposals for the promoting of industry, and speedy restoring the woollen manufactory, by him formerly published.	Haines, Richard, 1633-1685.	1680 (1680)	Wing H200A; ESTC R218612	14,626	26

Nations will under-sell us with Cloth they make of French and Spanish Wooll Answ To this I answer this cannot be because the Spanish Wooll is so short and fine and the French so short and course that they will neither work together nor yet apart without a Mixture of ours but upon very unequal Terms The Truth of this is well known and affirmed by Persons of good Judgment and Experience Reason VII That without these Expedients for promoting Industry all the Laws and Statutes now in being can never raise the Price of our Wooll nor keep it up at the price it now yields nor yet have it converted at Home because all the Wooll of England and Ireland is as it were monopoliz'd into the Hands of the Clothiers by Act of Parliament notwithstanding they cannot by their present course of Trade convert it half so fast as it grows which being so they may keep down the price at their pleasure they having Power to hang c. those that Export it from them if they could catch them which intollerable grievance by the Expedients proposed would most happily be removed to the great Satisfaction of all that wish well to the Interest of England Reason VIII Because by these Expedients many Hundreds of well-skill'd but poor decayed Clothiers who have little or no Stock of their own may promote this Manufactory in every County where every one of them may as easily employ 200 People in Work in such a Publick Honse as he could Ten elsewhere Reason IX Because in such Houses a Multitude may be instructed in Art and Skill in short time without Difficulty or Charge For beginning upon the very coursest Wooll there can be no Loss but rather Advantage because as the coursest Cloth is as ready Money as the finest so the greater Quantity is made the greater will be the Consumption of our Wooll But if it be doubted That by reason of our double encrease of Clothing there will be want of Market for our Cloth My Answer in short is That if all the Wooll in Europe were converted in England there would no more Cloth be made than what was before For what Wooll is not converted here is converted elsewhere therefore the Trade for our Draperies will be as good as ever and much better seing by the Expedients and Methods proposed we may make and sell our Cloth cheaper than our Supplanters That we may under-sell them is plain because we have greater Advantages than any of them we having Fullar's Earth they have none Our Wooll is the kindest in the World to be converted without mixture of other but they cannot convert theirs without some mixture of ours unless upon costly and unequal Terms for the Reason before-mentioned Therefore as by the Expedients proposed we may double our O●●●●●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we may under-sell them and encrease and double our Markets proportionably As for the Charge 't is no more than as if every Parish were obliged to that which Law and Reason already requires viz. To provide Habitations and Employments for their chargeable Poor only with this difference that in these Houses far greater Numbers will be employed and to far greater Advantage when under such Government as will teach them Skill and Art administring Councel Encouragement and Correction So that twice the Work will be done and less time spent idly than where they are apart Reason X. Because without these Expedients the Wealth and Strength of the Nation will unavoidably be invaded and destroyed at the pleasure of those that are our Supplanters because the Woollen Manufactory is the grand Support of our Trade of Merchandize For 't is affirmed by some of very good Knowledge and Judgment that if all the Manufactures of England that are exported were divided into Thirteen Parts the Woollen Manufactures would make Ten of the Thirteen So that if the Expedients which may promote and uphold the Woollen Manufactory be rejected and our Supplanters increase in Trade as of late years they very much have done then of necessity our flourishing Trade of Merchandize which alone encreased our Wealth and Treasure must be destroyed together with our Seamen and Navies of Ships to the Hazard and Ruine of the Nation But were it so that we were upon equal Terms with the Dutch in respect of Industry it is easie to be demonstrated that England would excell all Nations in the World in that Trade which is the only Mother and Nurse to bring forth and encrease Riches Seamen and Navies of Ships c. as appears if we consider that the United Netherlands notwithstanding their Provisions for Bread Beer Flesh Clothing Timber Iron Materials for Manufactures c. together with their vast Expence to maintain their Land against the 〈◊〉 All which costs them as 't is adiudged at least ten times more than the Natural Product of their Land is worth yet we know that for Trade Fulness of People Moneys Treasure Seamen and Shipping they are more famous than any Nation in Europe But now put Case their Industry were as little as ours and that they also were to breed up and maintain their Poor for Begging c. as we do in England might we not then infallibly conclude That within one Age nay in twenty years they would be the poorest miserable and most despicable people in all the world Wherefore we having all sorts of provisions for Food and Rayment as it were for nothing several hundred thousand of people to be employed and Materials enough of our own likewise for nothing to make the richest Manufactures Our Industry were it but proportionable to that of the Dutch must needs encrease our Wealth three times more and faster than theirs So that most plain it is that Industry not Money is the Life of that Trade which encreaseth both Money Treasure Seamen and Shipping Furthermore as these Houses are the Mother of Industry so 't is most certain That for want of the same Expedients in every 100 l. worth of Wooll exported unwrought there is 1000 l. losses to the Nation our Wooll being at 6 d. or 8 d. per pound as now it is of which if any be not satisfied they may thus demonstrate it to themselves A yard of Fine Broad-Cloth of 16 s. or 18 s. price will not exceed a pound in weight and the like for fine Worsted Stockins of 6 s. price will not weigh six ounces So that put Case two pounds of Wooll should be allowed for one pound yet still every Shilling in Wooll will amount to more than 10 s. in Cloth and Stockins which is what was to be demonstrated Thus all this which might so have been got by Workmanship c. being ten times the value of the Wooll is clearly lost to the Nation whilest those that might do it are maintain'd for Begging c. Reason XI Because as by these Expedients Industry Trade Treasure Seamen and Navies will encrease so the intollerable charge bred up to such Habit of Industry as to learn