Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	chancellor_n	lord_n	treasurer_n	4,725	5	10.9378	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64908	An essay, for regulating of the coyn wherein is also set forth, I. How we have lost that import of plate and bullion we formerly had, II. What is become of the great quantities of money coyned in the reign of King Charles II and the preceeding reigns, III. The necessity there is at this time to rectifie the present coyn of the kingdom, IV. By what methods the charge of calling in the present mony, and bringing it to a designed standard, may be accomplished, V. Whether the method proposed for the advancing of our mony (and the bullion of which its made) be convenient or inconvenient for the trade of the nation..	A. V. (A. Vickaris)	1695 (1695)	Wing V337A; ESTC R18695	23,153	38

AN ESSAY FOR Regulating of the Coyn Wherein also is set forth I. How we have lost that Import of Plate and Bullion we formerly had II. What is become of the great Quantities of Mony coyned in the Reign of King Charles II. and the preceding Reigns III. The necessity there is at this time for to rectifie the present Coyn of the Kingdom IV. By what Methods the Charge of calling in the present Mony and bringing it to a designed Standard may be accomplished V. Whether the Method proposed for the advancing of our Mony and the Bullion of which its made be Convenient or Inconvenient for the Trade of the Nation The Second Edition With an Additional Proposition for the Regulating the Coyn. By A. V. Merchant LONDON Printed for Richard Cumberland at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard MDCXCVI To his Excellence Sydney Lord Godolphin One of the Lords Justices of England c. AND To the Right Honourable Charles Montegue Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer Sir William Trumbold Knight one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State Sir Stephen Fox Knight and John Smith Esquire Lords Commissioners for the Executing the Office of Lord high-High-Treasurer of England and of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council May it please your Excellence and your Honours WHEN I consider what Occasion there is for the exhausting and what Disadvantages we are under by the defacing of our Coyn though I have but one Myte I would gladly cast it into the Treasury My Offering is not considerable for Value but I hope it will be found to be of just Weight And since your Lordships are the Keepers of CAESAR's Purse I promise my self you will vouchsafe to look upon my Penny To which if your Lordships will give your Stamp I doubt not but it will pass for Sterling I know the Metal I bring is Course but I must leave it to better Artists to Refine I bring it to your Lordships as we are wont to do our Gold and Silver to the Assay Masters that if it bears your Touch it may be Coyned if it proveth Counterfeit it may be Suppressed I am my Lords Your Lordships Most Obedient Servant A. U. THE PREFACE TO THE READER AS it was not the Esteem I have of my own Capacity to manage so intricate a Subject that first ingaged me in it so it s not the Opinion I have of my own Performance that persuades me now to Publish it I know others are better furnished for such an Vndertaking and if what I have written may but provoke them to it I shall have my End tho' it be accomplished by another Hand That it is the Value of our Coyn that hath occasioned it's being Melted down Clipped Transported and Counterfeited I hope I have sufficiently proved and if you will but allow me this Foundation I promise my self you will not quarrel with the Superstructure which tho' not built according to Art yet I hope it will prove agreeable to Reason Septemb. 2. 1695. A. U. CHAP. I. Setting forth how we have lost that Import of Plate and Bullion we formerly had THat we have had not that Import of Plate and Bullion doth proceed chiefly from the present War we are ingaged in and that wherein the Spaniards were with the French before us which now for these 15 years past hath put a stop to the regular Proceedings of the Fleets they used to send annually to the Vera-Cruz Cartagena Porto bello Hunduras Rio de la Plata Havana Marracaya and other places in their West-Indies whither they carried great quantities of our English Manufactories as well as of most other Countries and those Ships in former times used to make a Voyage in 12 14 and 16 Months and bring to Spain among them above thirty Millions of Pieces of Eight in Coyn or in Bullion which is above six Millions of Pounds Sterling and since their War with France and the daily apprehension they had thereof it hath been sometimes three or four Years Interval between their coming home and going out which hath obstructed a great part of that Consumption we used to have of our Manufactories and the return that used to be made for them in Plate and Bullion And the French Dutch Genouese Italians and Portugueses have been proportionable Sufferers by it also It hath likewise had an influence on our Turkey East-India Barbary and Guinea Trade the said Fleets taking off great quantities of Wax Blacks Mohairs Carpets Callicoes Silk-stockings made of Turky-silk Another Reason why we have not that Import of Bullion and Coyn proceeds from the charge of our Fleet abroad the proceed of those Goods that used to be sent home in Plate and Bullion is now diverted to supply them Another Reason proceeds from a greater than usual Import of Spanish and Portugal Oyl and Wines since the War that we used to have from France and Italy before in return for our Manufactories which hath also obstructed the Import of the Plate and Bullion Now this extraordinary Import of Spanish and Portugal Oyls and Wines proceeds the latter from the Expence of them in room of those we used to have from France before from the extraordinary Hazard and Charge it would be to the Importers of Oyls to bring from Mayork and Gallipoly more than it is to bring them from Portugal Sevilla or Malaga the further they fetch it the greater is the Freight as is the hazard and of consequence the Insurance so that the Merchant Importers can and do from these Considerations give a better price for Oyls in Portugal and in any part of the Kingdom of Spain as high as Malaga and thereby we lose the Sale of many of our own Manufactories that used to be truck'd for Oyls or that proceed imployed therein and now being brought in greater quantities from Portugal and Spain which the Importers pay for in Mony obstruct the Importation of so much as they Import or of Bullion or at least increases our Debt on the ballance of those Trades Another Reason that hath prevented that Import of Plate and Bullion proceedeth from the little Incouragement that hath been given to Trade in General and the little care had to our Manufactories in particular the returns of which would have supplied us with Bullion enough from those Countries that take off the Product of ours to carry on a Trade with those that do not But we have lost the Expence of many of them by not keeping them up to a Standard as the Colchester Bays are or ought by Law to be every one making our Serges Says Stuffs and Stockings of less goodness each day than other so that of late years they have come to Foreign Markets so bad that other Goods of other Countries have been introduced in the room of them And the making of our Silk-stockings of East-India Silk that used to be of Turky we have thereby lost the Expence of them in Spain and in the Spanish West-Indies for which Markets I have known