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england_n	burgundy_n	duke_n	king_n	3,065	5	4.4393	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34889	A summary of certain papers about wooll as the interest of England is concerned in it by W.C.	Carter, W. (William)	1685 (1685)	Wing C677; ESTC R4126	7,641	14

this Matter I should be silent but observing the Nature of this National Mischief of exporting Wooll and the necessity of preventing it that the greatest Strength of the Nation in People the greatest Power upon the Seas in Shipping the greatest Revenues of his Majesty being his Customs do all arise from Clothing And considering these great Advantages are endeavour'd to be gained from us by a powerful Neighbour abroad while some at home are not only reasoning but appear in Print for it and others despairing upon a preposest opinion that all endeavours to recover our selves will be rendred fruitless and vain The consideration whereof hath prompted me to use the utmost of my little Skill that the threatned Ruine of all may be prevented and some good part of that which is lost may be recovered I shall therefore in this Discourse relate very little more than Matter of Fact the Wooll of England before King Edward the 3d's time was always of great accompt and esteem abroad sufficiently testified by the great Amity which it begat and for a long time maintained between the Kings of England and the Dukes of Burgundy only by the great advantage from that Commodity did accrue to those People who at that time had the sole Manufacturing of Wooll in so much that they received the English Wooll at 6 d. per l. and returned the Cloth made thereof into England at 10 s. per yard whereas Wooll now worrh 10 d. per l. will not make Cloth worth above 6 s. per yard to the great inriching of the Burgundian State both in the advancement of the Revenues of their Dukes and in a full Employment of their People whereby the Merchants of England were occasioned as a People unwilling to be wholly dispriviledged of so great abenefit to transplant themselves with their Families in great numbers into Flanders from whence they held a constant Commerce with most parts of the World this Amity continued without intermission between England and Burgundy until King Edward the 3d. made his mighty Conquest over France and Scotland and during his residence in Flanders where he acquainting himself with the Flemings Affairs and obtaining then by his assistance in their War with France thereby gained a good opinion amongst them and he in order to draw over the Woollen Artificers into England represented to them the danger they were in by the bordering Wars with France and the peaceable condition of England and freedom of the People that are Subjects here propounds an Invitation for them to come over hither wherein he promises them the same Priviledges and Immunities with his own Subjects which they accepted and came over and brought their families with them and the said King most Royally performed those promises and by it also replanted many of his own Subjects in England who had been long setled in Flanders and in a short time by Act of Parliament prohibites the exportation of Wooll the advantage whereof hath been very great to this Nation thereby for some hundred years past by the vigilancy of the Government and the protection of its Laws in the careful execution thereof upon Offenders but so it is for some years past the French by their Diligence to enrich themselves upon us hath so far exceeded our Care to preserve our selves that its come to if not beyond a question who may have the greatest benefit of the Manufacture of English Wooll they who have no right to it or they to whom of right it doth belong That this is so will appear that not only Holland hath for a long time been Rivals with us in our Trade But France is like to be too hard for us also for the reasons before given besides our damage in putting that value on the French Fancies by giving them double the worth for the same Manufacture which we our selves make of our English Wooll so much have we been deceived in this matter that whereas in the time of the late War with the Dutch and French that French Druggets and other Stuffs not coming so freely from France some English broad Cloaths striped at 10 s. per yard were rent in 3 parts Viz Breadths and put in the form of French Druggets and each part sold for 8 s. per yard which makes that one yard come to 24 s. which as English Cloth was sold for 10 s and the like Fancy many have for Dutch Black Cloth if it have the name of Dutch tho' of our own Make this is real matter of Fact To return it 's aver'd that the Exportation of English and Irish Wooll is of a Dangerous and Destructive Consequence to the very Being of our Trade and to the riches and strength of this Kingdom and to his Majestie 's Customes notwithstanding the Objections produced against it with respect to the Graziers Advantage thereby supposing as before at large premised that 40 s. upon a Pack of Wooll was advanced for a year or two by Exportation yet other things would be lessned by it it being not to be denyed at the same time that the poore and laborious People can be employed as to have money to buy them Bread Beef much less Mutton the want of which must of necessity fall the price of all manner of Victuals and if we name only Mutton which is relative to our subject and that be sold but 6 d. per quarter the less which being 2 s. in the carkass which comes to 10 l. for 100 Sheep they producing a Pack of Wooll which at that rate is the value of the said Pack modestly computed But then for Beef and Corn if that be lesned proportionable it must be of course a greater damage to the Farmer and Grazier it being reckoned three times the value of Wooll throughout the Nation one with another And supposing there should be grown yearly in England Fourteen Hundred Thousand packs of Wooll one year with another And supposing that once in foure years the sheep were all kill'd Viz 25 yearly which 25 Sheep valued so low as 10 l. which is the value of the Wooll yearly shorn It may therefore prevaile upon us to beleive that Beef and all sorts of Corn must be of a far grater value than Mutton and consequently of Wooll because the greatest number of People by far are the poor and labourious People which consume Beef Bread and Bear and few of such do often buy Mutton or at at least any quantity proportionable to other provision and therefore whatever some others think that a Country can be inriched without the poor laborious People I am of another opinion For it 's matter of Fact that in England it self in those parts where the inhabitants are thin and the Countries not full of People that the Land in those parts will not yeild much above half the value as Land of the same goodness will yeild near Townes well Inhabited or Countries where Trade is good and if thus in England it 's much less in Ireland which