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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	emperor_n	king_n	league_n	3,609	5	9.4892	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06789	The maintenance of free trade according to the three essentiall parts of traffique; namely, commodities, moneys and exchange of moneys, by bills of exchanges for other countries, or, An answer to a treatise of free trade, or the meanes to make trade flourish, lately published. ... By Gerard Malynes merchant.	Malynes, Gerard, fl. 1586-1641.	1622 (1622)	STC 17226; ESTC S120064	50,433	116

wherof sheweth that our hearts are ouerfrozen with the Ice of vncharitablenesse which otherwise could not haue so long continued for it prouoketh Gods anger against vs in the highest degree If these men had beene Iewes I might haue bestowed some Hebrew vpon them in detestation of the word Neshech which is nothing else but a kind of biting as a dog vseth to bite gnaw vpō a bone otherwise to vse many languages in a litle Treatise of free trade may seem impertinent The third cause of the decay of Trade he saith is the litigious Law suits which as one way they increase by scarsity of money which compelleth men to stand out in Law for a time when they cannot pay vntill they receiue So another way when moneys are plentifull men care the lesse for money pride causeth them to spend to go to law for euery triflle disputing Delana Caprina true it is that this Law warfare interrupteth trade but to make the same to be one of the efficient Causes of the decay of trade I cannot altogither agree therunto but rather to the Remedies which shal be hereafter declared albeit many men are vexed imprisoned ouerthrowne hauing spent their time means in Law which might haue bin employed in trade for the good of the Cōmon-wealth their owne quietnesse I do likewise omit to intreat of transportation of ordnance munition heretofore permitted mentioned by the said author now preuented in some sort neither was England in the yeere 1588. in such great distresse to be termed in articulo temporis when the merchants Aduenturers did prouide from Hambrough a ships lading with Powder and shot as parcell of their dutie to assist the Kingdome by God only preserued The fourth Cause of the Decay of Trade or to speake properly neglect of Trade is The admitting of forraine Nations to fish in his Maiesties Streames and dominions without paying any thing for the same whereby their Nauigation is wonderfully increased their Mariners multiplied and their Countrie inriched with the continuall labour of the people of all sorts both impotent and lame which are set on worke and get their liuing Concerning this fishing Trade there hath beene a continuall Agitation aboue 30. yeeres to make Busses and Fisher-boats but the Action is still interrupted because other Nations doe finde too great fauour and friends here to diuert all the good intentions and endeuours of such as with the Author of this Discourse haue imployed their Time and good meanes therein for the Merchants Aduenturours the Companie of Merchants Trading in Russia and the East-land Merchants did also oppose themselues against it at the Councell Table and did alleage the reasons following 1. The infringing of their Priuiledges here and beyond the Seas 2. The Interloopers aduantage to interrupt their Trade vnder colour hereof 3. The want of meanes to make Returne both for Fish and Cloth also 4. The inhauncing of the price of forreine Commodities 5. The preoccupying of money to the hinderance of Cloth 6. The dissolution of the ioynt stocke of the Russia Company 7. The incouragement of Strangers hereupon to make a Contract with the Russian Emperour 8. The discouragement to vndertake new discoueries 9. The defraying of the Charge of Embassadours and other extraordinarie Charges for honour of the State 10. The plenty of Fish which those Countries haue from time to time and some other Reasons So that in conclusion England by their saying cannot maintaine the Sea Trade and the Land Trade together neither do they make account to make Returne in money knowing that they should lose more thereby then by the exchange of those Countries or by Commodities And albeit that all the premisses may bee moderated without hinderance to the said Companies neuerthelesse such is the condition of some Merchants not vnderstanding the Mysteries of exchange and ouer-ruling others by their order of Antiquitie in their Society that neither Reason or experience can preuaile insomuch that whereas other Princes take their Duties of other Nations for fishing and fish themselues also by their Subiects yet England cannot resolue to doe the like or at least take order for the said Duties In Russia many leagues from the Maine Fisher-men doe pay great Taxes to the Emperour of Russia and in most places other Nations are prohibited to fish The King of Denmarke doth the like and taketh great Tribute both at Ward-house and the Sound The King of Sweden in like manner and the said King of Denmarke now for the Kingdome of Norway All the Bordering Princes of Italy doe take Taxes vpon fish within the Mediterranian Seas The like Taxe is taken by the Duke of Medina Sidonia for Tunny in the Spanish Seas The States of the Vnited Prouinces doe take an imposition vpon fish which is taken within the Streames and Dominions of other Princes The Hollanders doe allow the Tenth fish both in Russia Lappia and other places or pay a Composition for the same as also moreouer a Tribute in the Sound for passage to fetch the said fish And of mine owne knowledge I am assured they would willingly haue paid the same vnto England or a good composition for it had not the greedy lucre of some persons hindered the same These exemplary Actions haue long determined the question of Mare liberum touching the Communitie or freedome of the Seas which is acknowledged to be so for Nauigation without that the same doth any manner of way preiudice the Distinct Dominions of the Seas of all Princes concerning fishing that is to say the fishing Trade So that it is superfluous to alleage the opinions of Orators and Poets about the fishing heretofore in the Mediterranian Seas neither doth it belong to this place to cite the Determinations of the learned Ciuilians which are mentioned in the Treatise De Dominio Maris For the matter hath beene learnedly handled at the Councell Boord before the Graue Senators many yeeres since by our Ciuilians and others which to auoid prolixitie I doe omit Now from the Fishing we are come to Clothing or Drapery of the Kingdome and the abuses thereof as the fist cause of the decay of Trade wherein to vse many distinctions of the new and old Drapery vnlesse it were to Reduce matters in statu quo prius shall be needlesse And although the dressing and dying of Cloth was insisted vpon to be done in England in the yeere 1616. To establish the Manufacture within the Realme at which time 64. thousand Clothes were exported which was afterwards reuoked I cannot omit to obserue the Practises which were vsed by Combination with other Nations abroad and domesticke intelligence a●… home whereby many good Actions are o●…rowne to the generall hurt and with little aduancement to the particular It cannot be denied but that the Drapery of forraine Nations not only the making of Cloth in the Low Countries but o●… late yeere●… in Italy and Spaine also the Trade of Cloth 〈◊〉