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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57391	The treasure of traffike, or, A discourse of forraigne trade wherein is shewed the benefit and commoditie arising to a commonwealth or kingdome, by the skilfull merchant, and by a well ordered commerce and regular traffike / by Lewes Roberts ...	Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.	1641 (1641)	Wing R1602; ESTC R15138	44,502	131

Merchants many priviledges cuts a ditch for twenty miles to convey and cary up all commodities to Pisa and so to Florence the Metropolis of his Dukedome to conclude by making it a free scale and that all manner of goods wares and monies may bee freely shipped inwards and outwards without any charge or custome and that when commodities doe arrive which the purses of his subjects will not or cannot purchase he hath himselfe bought up the same and that sometimes to his losse and prejudice hee hath I say by these and other the like meanes within this 25. or 30. yeares made this the greatest port of traffike in all the Mediterranean seas to his owne great honour and to the exceeding profit and commodity of himselfe and all his subjects in generall The Hollanders who have need of all the politike helps that can be to support the charges of their war against a potent enemy who is continually ready at their doores to give them the alarme yet so well doe study this point of traffike and make so much of Commerce in their countrey where indeed they hold but a hand-full as it were of land to abide in though I say they have annuall Armies afoot which doth cost them infinite vaste and great sums to maintaine and nourish and that their very bread meate and beere which is eaten by them doth first pay the States an excise thereon yet in all their extremities dangers and debts they have erected many staples of trade in their countries and also raised an East-India and West-India Company of Merchants with large priviledges which they have prosecuted with happy good success wheron notwithstanding their great disbursements they impose little or no customes at all their interests are easie their Companies countenanced and protected by the Estates and their Fleets are ready in our Channell to safe-guard and defend both the Merchants Mariners and Fisher-men from the depredation and violence of either enemies or Robbers I am not able to recount how and with what care and industry the Venetians maintaine their traffike and the liberties of their subjects in point of Commerce they ease them of customes give large priviledges to their Mariners injoyne their ancient gentlemen and Clarissimi to use the sea make daily sundry advantagable decrees and orders for the suppressing of foraine traffike and advancing of their owne keepe a selected Court of the best experienced Merchants to superintend other Commerce and have a stocke ever in readinesse by the name of Cottimo to expend both in Turky and other places for the defence of their Merchants and their Estates from all wrong and injuries Yet none of these comes neere the care and industrious prudence practised by Iohn and Emanuell Kings of Portugall in erecting prosecuting and setling the trade of the East-India with such provident decrees and immunities for the ordering of their returnes Lectures for the instruction of their Pilots and Sea-men building of Forts and Holds to make good and preserve their traffike to their exceeding honour and profit in getting those small Ilands of India but of most notable consequence Mosambike Ormus Dieu Goa and Mallacca fit Receptacles of trade and strength and which have to this day preserved to them the Commerce of all others the parts of India Isabella that famous Queene of Castile having by her Christian Piety spent her owne estate in prosecution of the wars against the Moors of Granada Mu●tia c. when yet she and her husband Ferdinando's Crownes and Revenues were drawne dry and farre ingaged in chasing those Barbarians out of their Kingdomes then when Henry the seventh accounted amongst the wisest of our English Kings had unhappily refused Columbus the Genoes his offer for the discovery of the Westerne Continent now termed America then I say being laden with her greatest debts and engagements her Coffers empty her Church plate spent and all drawne to the lowest ebbe by loanes and interests then did shee for incouragement to all her subjects and for to comply with the resolution of that brave Italian pawne her owne wearing Iewels to set him out in three Carvels where how he thrived and how that Kingdome Prince and People have beene bettered thereby eversince the whole Christian world may witnesse at this day as England hath had just cause to repent of ever after But Henry the seventh having now seene his errour and apparently discerned what hee had lost by his parcimony endeavoured to make amends to his Kingdome and people calling hither Sebastian Cabot also a skilfull Pilot Genoes giving him both encouragement honours and employment but the issue of his endeavours did not answer that Kings expectation though after his life the same was prosecuted in King Henry the eighth's dayes with various successe And though Margaret Countesse of Flanders did in envy to him set up Perkin Werbeque to disturbe the peace of England and that that mocke Prince came at length to bee a Scullion in his Kitchin yet that wise Prince found another more noble revenge to himselfe and more profitable to his people by setling here the Manufactories of Clothing and the strict prohibition of the Exportation of English wools which cost him 〈◊〉 two yeares as I have beene informed neare one hundred thousand pounds a mighty masse of monies the Prince and times considered but England soone found the benefit thereof for in Anno 1515. the English having removed their staple from Bridges to Antwerpe where the aforesaid Kings of Portugall had then setled their Contractors for the vent of their new gained East-Indian spices it was noted by those Registers of Commerce kept in that place and left to posterity by Guicciardin that hath written their Chronicle that the English Company of Merchant-adventurers did bring thither clothing to the summe of which was in value 9. of 15. parts of all the other commodities and wares brought thither of all other the nations whatsoever What a brave designe Edward the sixt his Grand-child had for the setling of sundry staples for that and other commodities in England and how that by reason of the then poverty of his Merchants hee intended upon security to lend them out of his Treasury great summes for the effecting thereof I have briefly touched before and for conclusion of this point looke a little into Queene Elizabeths dayes who though she was ever accompanied with state affaires of mighty consequence sometimes at home and sometimes abroad yet was she ever so careful to set forward traffike and encourage Navigators that both Earles Lords Knights Gentlemen and of every degree willingly thrust themselves in search of new traffikes and adventures and to her dayes are wee beholding for the trades of Barbary and Italy and other places and for the discoveries of Turky Egypt India Russia Muscovia and Greenland and the trades setled by the English therein which hath since found such fortunate successe to the benefit of our now happy Soveraigne

our salvation is doubted we apply our selvs to the learne● Divine when our countrey is invaded the souldier is the best director when lawes are to be instituted the lawyer proves the best counsellor so when a Countrey is properly seated for traffik and the soveraign willing by foraigne Commerce to inrich his Kingdome the Merchants advice is questionlesse best able to propagate the same To inrich a Kingdome is a worke of great excellency and fittest the study of the Soveraigne and where many things may concurre to eff●ct it that only is to bee chosen which is most facile and least troublesome Many men plant trees though they are sure never to see the fruit therof thus the child oftimes enjoyes his predecessors labours King Henry the eight did enjoy the benefit of Henry the seventh and other his Fathers and Predecessors prohibition of the exportation of our English wool and the setling of cloathing here and the drawing of Flemings hither to make our manufacturies in England and this turned him and his Kingdome to more profit then the suppression of so many religious houses and the annexion of so many old rents to his Crown Edward the sixth though in his infancy yet saw how those haunse-townes flourished where his English Staples were setled and had he gon forward with his design of set●ling the same in England in apt and sit townes for traffike as hee once intended doubtlesse it had bin the most politick and surest way to inrich his Countrey as ever had bin put in practice since the conquest and his successors should have seene the fruits therof in the opulency of their Towns the riches of their Countrey and abundance of shipping as now Holand doth witnesse unto us The consideration of this and my wel-wishes to the inlarging and benefitting of my Countrey by traffique and for the advancement of the Merchants thereof hath drawne mee in this short Treatise to set downe in a briefe manner the commodities that doe arise to a Common-wealth by skilfull Merchants and by a wel ordered and regular trade and Commerce therewithall shewing how this Commerce may be facilitated and how disturbed how advanced and how ruind and how by the good government therof it may prove both profitable and honourable to a Countrey and how by the ill management and irregular courses thereof it may bee both prejudiciall and dishonourable Statists have noted that the Arts and Sciences are very many that are commodious and beneficiall to a Common-Wealth and which consequently beget abundance wealth and plenty not only to the Prince in his owne particular but also to his people and Countrey in the generall but yet amongst all others they confesse none is more conduceable thereto then Traffike and commerce especially when the same is gov●rned and managed both by well ordered ru●es and by regulate and skilfull Merchants and to the end that the youth of this Kingdome may be incouraged to undertake this profession the painefull Merchant cherished in the prosecution thereof and the Prince induced to give them imunities and protection the particular commodities and benefits and commodities that arise by Traffike shall be here demonstrated and if by my discourse the same shall be ●ound really such as by me and others it is conceiv●d and here aleaged the same may in the future be the more furthered and protected and being found otherwise it may as in reason it ought bee both discountenanced and suppressed Now the aboundance plenty and riches of an estate or nation may be said principally to consist in three things 1. In naturall commodities or wares 2. In art●ficial commodities or wares 3. In the profitable use and distribution of both by Commerce and Traffike Vnder the title of naturall commodities may be comprehended such wares as are used in way of merchandizing are such as either the earth doth naturally originally afford or such as by the labor of the land is brought forth and these I account the naturall riches that bring plenty to a Kingdome or Country Now the earth in it selfe may be said to produce two severall sorts of naturall commodities thence drawne from the very intrailes thereof such as is gold silver copper lead and the like The second are wares growing on the face thereof such as are fruits trees graine c. and both these I terme naturall commodities as produced either by the benefit of the Climate soile or temperature of the earth where the same are taken up planted or found growing and doe become thus to inrich a Countrey as a man would say of themselves but yet by the meanes of Commerce and Traffike contributing thus naturally to the benefit and use of the inhabitant and to the furtherance of universall Commerse those things whose plenty otherwise without Traffike and transport to other Countryes where such is wanting would prove altogether fruitlesse unnecessary and peradventure prejudiciall unto the owners and possessors and this hath bin manifested in some parts of those rich Kingdomes of India some years past by their great quantity of spices drugs and lemmes which not by the Commodity of Traffike carried thence away exported and vented into other parts and to remoter Countries these excellencies which nature herein afforded them would be prejudiciall to them and their ground over-laid with sundry though otherwise excellent trees and exquisite Minerals whose fruit or worth would thus not be requested nor sought after neither by their neighbours nor yet by foraigne Nations where the same are wanting and which would consequently no way benefit a Countrey nor yet by Commerce and commutation supply them with those things in lieu thereof that they in their necessities stand more in need of Againe the earth though notwithstanding it yeeldeth thus naturally the richest and most precious commodities of all others and is properly the fountaine and mother of all the riches and abundance of the world partly as is said before bred within its bowels and partly nourished upon the surface thereof yet is it observable and found true by daily experience in many countries that the true search and inquisition therof in these our dayes is by many too much neglected and omitted which indeed proceedeth from a liberty that every man hath to doe with that his owne part thereof which he possesseth what he pleaseth proposing commonly to himselfe a care to find out that which will bee most profitable to him for the present time and because the rich and great of this world and those that possesse the geeatest part thereof are seldome or never seene to reside upon their whole estate nor yet found to husband their owne good farther in this point either by their servants or themselves then by a present benefit and quickest profit their farmers and tenants are oftnest observed to occupy the same who like gleaners sucke and draw thence the present profit and daily benefit thereof eating up the heart