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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43901	The history of naturalization with some remarques upon the effects thereof, in respect to the religion, trade and safety of His Majesties dominions. Printed according to order.		1680 (1680)	Wing H2127; ESTC R215940	5,517	5

THE HISTORY OF NATURALIZATION With some Remarques upon the Effects thereof in respect to the Religion Trade and Safety of His Majesties Dominions Printed according to Order THE first Notices of Naturalizing Alien Merchants under the name of Endenization are handed to us by the Statute of the 1 mo of Henry the 7 th cap. 2 d. in these words Whereas in time past divers Grants have been made by King Edward as well by his Letters Patents as by Acts of Parliament to divers Merchant Strangers born out of this Realm to be Denizons whereby they have and enjoy such Freedoms and Liberties as do Denizons born within the said Realm as well in abatement of their Custom which they should bear as if they were no Denizons as in buying and selling of their Merchandize to their great avail and lucre and oft-times suffer other Strangers not Denizons deceitfully to ship and carry great and notable substance of Merchandize in their names by the which the said Goods be f●●e of Custom In likewise as if they were the Goods of a Denizon where of right they ought to pay C●st●m as the Goods of Strangers by the which they be greatly advanced in Riches and Honour and after they be so enriched for the most part they convey themselves with their said Goods into their own Countries wherein they be naturally born to the great impoverishing of this Realm and to the great hurt and defraud of the King's Highness in payment of his Customs Wherefore it is Enacted Established and Ordained by the Advice of the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in the said Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That any person made or hereafter to be made Denizon shall pay for his Merchandize like Custom and Subsidy as he ought or should pay before that be were made Denizon any Letters Patents or other Ordinances by Parliament or otherwise notwithstanding And to the same purpose is the Statute of 11 th Henry 7 th cap. 14 th And to the like purpose is the Statute of 22 th Henry the 8 th cap. 8 th During the Reigns of Edward the 6 th Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth nothing is recorded touching Naturalization But when King James happily added the Diadem of Scotland to this of England so cautious were our Ancestors that they would never admit the ther Natives of Scotland though His Majesties Subjects to the priviledge that Aliens naturalized do now enjoy And by the Statute the 7 th Jacobi cap. 2 d. It is provided by Parliament in these words For as much as the Naturalizing of Strangers and restoring to blood persons attainted have been ever reputed matters of meer Gra●●●nd Favour which are not fit to be bestowed upon any others than such as are of the Religio● now Established in this Realm Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings Most Excellent Majestie● the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled That 〈◊〉 Person or persons of what quality condition or place so ever being of the Age of Eighteen years or above shall be Naturalized or Restored in blood unless the said person or persons have received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper within one month before any Bill exhibited for that purpose and also shall take the Oath of Supremacy and the Oath of Allegiance in the Parliament-House before his or her Bill be twice read And for the better effecting of the Premises Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Chancellour of England or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the time being if the Bill begin in the Upper House and the Speaker of the Commons House of Parliament for the time being if the Bill begin there shall have Authority at all times during the Session of Parliament to mini●ter such Oath and Oaths and to such person and persons as by the true intent of this Stature is to be ministred In the Reign of King Charls the First of blessed memory the Engl●sh Merchant had a Trade to profit so that many of them arrived to great Estates some to 100000 l value several to fifty thousand pounds Estate And in all the Reign of King James and King Char●es the First not above Ten Aliens Merchants were naturalized and those such as by long abode in England had merited the kindness of the Nation and then it was rare to hear of an English Merchant that failed so that the Clothiers then grew rich by the good payments the English Merchants made them and the Clothing of this Kingdom was in great request abroad And the Gentry then began to put their Sons Apprentices unto Merchants and it was thought a very good Provision for Gentlemens youngest Sons O fortunati si sua bona norint But this growing happiness of the English Merchants was soon Ecclipsed by the late Oliverian Usurpers who being fond of the Hollanders Coalition with us and that failing them those Usurpers did more greedily imbibe the opinion and practice of Naturalization hoping thereby to weaken the Hollanders by drawing over numbers of Dutchmen and so gave this singular priviledge to all that ask'd it not forbidding the Jews but encouraging their admission and abode with us and laid aside the said Statutes for difference in Customs and that also of the 7 ●h Jacobi And thus the industrious English Merchant who cannot live so poorly as a Jew or other Aliens that lives onely in a Chamber was much discouraged nor was this free admission of Forein Merchants any weakening to the Dutch or other Forein States for there came no number of Artificers with Families but the greatest part that c●me to be Naturalized were such as rather lived like Spies than Inhabitants amongst us And though some hundreds of Aliens Merchants were then and since Naturalized yet they are no accession of Strength or Interest to this Kingdom nor any advance of our Lands but on the contrary are a great cause of distraction in Religion dangerous to the Government and ruinous to the English Trade and Merchant 1. That this Naturalization hath been a great cause of our distraction in Religion is evident in 〈◊〉 Effect and the worthy Author of the compassionate Enquiry amongst the Causes of the neglect 〈◊〉 contempt of our Religion brings in Judaism and this pretence of the enlargement of Trade as 〈◊〉 of the Causes it being saith that Authour most remarkably true of the English th●t their good 〈…〉 prompts them to look and think favourably of such things as they see in request with others 〈◊〉 ●●om thence they proceed to affect the Novelty or at least become unstable in their own Religion And when the said Usurpers thought it convenient to make England an Amsterdam of all Religions the admission of Foreiners was a most effectual means to introduce that great diversity of Opinions amongst us which hath ever since abated mens zeal for and reverence of our Established Religion and its worthy Observation that not onely