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A43129	An abstract of all the statutes made concerning aliens trading in England from the first-year of K. Henry the VII also, of all the laws made for securing our plantation trade to our selves : with observations thereon, proving that the Jews (in their practical way of trade at this time) break them all, to the great damage of the King in his customs, the merchants in their trade, the whole kingdom, and His Majesties plantations in America in their staple : together with the hardships and difficulties the author hath already met with, in his endeavouring to find out and detect the ways and methods they take to effect it / by Samuel Hayne ...	Hayne, Samuel, b. 1645?	1685 (1685)	Wing H1216; ESTC R3059	33,579	43

AN ABSTRACT OF ALL THE STATUTES Made Concerning Aliens Trading IN ENGLAND From the first year of K. Henry the VII ALSO Of all the LAWS made for Securing our Plantation Trade to our Selves With Observations thereon proving that the Jews in their practical way of Trade at this time Break them all to the great Damage of the King in His Customs the Merchants in their Trade the whole Kingdom and His Majesties Plantations in America in their STAPLE Together with the Hardships and Difficulties the Author hath already met with in his Endeavouring to find out and Detect the Ways and Methods they take to Effect it By Samuel Hayne sometime Ryding-Surveyor for His Majesties Customs and Surveyor for the Act of Navigation in the Counties of Devon and Cornwal Printed by N. T. for the Author and are to be Sold by Walter Davis in Amen-Corner 1685. TO THE KING's MOST Sacred Majesty Dread Soveraign THe following Sheets were written before the Death of Your Majesties Royal Brother King Charles the Second of ever Blessed Memory And I had a design then to shew to His Majesty that several Jews to whom His Majesty had been Graciously pleased to Grant Letters Patents of Denization with a Clause inserted That they should pay no more Custom than English non obstante the Statutes Had Owned and Coloured the Goods of other Jews that had not such a Clause in their Patents and of some Jews who had no Patents at all By means whereof their own Pattents were at His Majesties Pleasure But while I was preparing Arguments and Proofs thereof it pleased God to put a period to His Majesties days and the Act of Tonnage and Poundage with the Articles annexed which Granted the Alien or Petty Custom to His Majesty received also there by its determination A few days after Your most Excellent Majesty sending forth Your Royal Proclamation for the continuation of the Receipt of Your Majesties Customs and declaring Your speedy calling of a Parliament I forbore the exposing my Sentiments to publick view till God should permit Your Majesties meeting with them And now that being most Happily Accomplished and the Act of Tonnage and Poundage with the Articles annexed being past for and during Your Majesties Life I humbly presume to aver that the aforesaid Clause inserted in those Jews Patents had an end with the said late King and that the present Act Grants to Your Majesty the Alien or Petty Customs in as full manner as if that Clause had never been Inserted I therefore humbly beg Your Majesty to direct that all Jews from the 6th day of February last do pay the Alien Duty as by Law they ought to do which will not only be many Thousands per Annum advance to Your Majesty in Your Customs but also be extream grateful to all Your Majesties fair dealing English Merchants Nor can I forbear to assert that the greater any persons Possessions are in England the more is their loss by the Illegal Trading of the Jews in Your Majesties Plantations in America For the larger their Lands are the more is their Growth and Product and the Advantagious Vendition thereof depends much on the Consumption the Plantations make of them Whereas the Jews here together with other Jews their Co-partners living in Holland making their Outward Cargoes at Holland thereby lessen the Consumption of the English Growth and Manufacture which not only Affects Your Majesty but also all Your Subjects of what degree or quality soever in the whole Nation My Endeavours however have not been for a total Extirpation of the Jews or their Trade here as some have aimed but only to oblige them to pay Your Majesties Customs and act according to Law that thereby the English Merchants might be Enabled to Sell as Cheap as themselves Which design only being as the Jews conceived of Grand Disadvantage to them they consulted as I have reason to believe their firm Friends at Custom-house how to deal with me and from thence proceeded the Offers of large Bribes to me on one hand which being rejected a Torrent of Threats followed on the other viz. Perpetual Imprisonment Rotting and Dying there and which they thought most prevalent Starving to Death They not knowing it seems that my most Noble Friend the Honnourable Collonel Strangways loved me too well to suffer that to whom only on all emergent Occasions I wrote for Supply and never failed of speedy and suitable Returns As soon as Your Majesty shall be pleased to demand Alien Duty from those Jews having Patents with the aforesaid Clause Your Majesty will find that they will fall in with some of Your Majesties Subjects in London as well as in the Out-Ports to cover their Trade I cannot so much blame the Jews as the English in this matter For to one 't is Natural to the other Vn-natural and a great Shame and Reproach to the Nation Also I am certain their Old Friends at Custom-house dare not leave them though considering Your Majesties Pay together with the Oaths and Sacraments they take the more firmly to tye them to their Duty in them it be Diabolical some whereof I have been forced for Truths-sake to Name And if it displeases any one of them I beg a fair Hearing whereon I am sure to let them know I have not been yet as Satyrical as I might or as their base Actions deserve The grand thing then for the future will be how to distinguish Jews Goods from English and Settle it so that no further Cheats be put on Your Majesty in Your Customes Your Subjects in their Staple and the Merchants in their Trade 'T is much easier to prevent future Frauds than discover past However I still affirm that I can make good my Proposals Fol. 29. including London too by the way of future prevention And besides that make it appear that of late years the wholesom Acts of Navigation Frauds c. Are like a Nose of Wax turned at the Pleasure of some now at Helm who pretend a small Duty taken contrary to Law is more grateful to Your Majesty than the due Execution of those Beneficial Statutes My Sufferings both in Body and Purse have been solely for my Zeal in the Service of my King and Country and no opportunity in my thoughts did ever happen since it began till now to express the Truth of it so that it might with Power repel the fury of my Enemies But now that God having seated Your Majesty on the Throne of Your Ancestors that the Laws recover Life that all my Actions have been Legal that I have not made one false step in my Duty and that the Substance of this Discourse hath relation to the benefit of Your Majesty and the whole Nation I have great hopes of Your Majesties Favour and Pardon for my Boldness in making this publick Address and that Your Majesty will believe I will never Swerve from my constant practice of Loyalty to the Crown and Obedience to the Establish'd Laws

do live as Factors and Merchants at this day in His Majesties Plantations contrary to this as all Traders thither know And further it is said No Goods to be brought from the Plantations but in English Dessels ut Supra Encouragement is also given to the Plantation Trade by another Act of Parliament of the same year Entituled 12 Car. 2. An A●● for prohibiting the Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobacco in England or Ireland The said Act of Navigation is again confirmed and Inforced by another Act of Parliament in the Fourteenth year of the King Entituled 14 Car. 2. An act for preventing Frauds and Regulating Abuses in His Majesties Customs Also in the Fifteenth year of the King another Act Entituled 15 Car. 2. An Act for the Encouragement of Tade was made and amongst other things it was thus Enacted And in regard His Majesties Plantations beyond the Seas are Inhabited and Peopled by His Subjects of this His Kingdom of England for the maintaining a greater Correspondence and Kindness between them and keeping them in a firmer Dependence upon it and rendring them yet more Beneficial and Advantagious unto it in the farther Imployment and Increase of English Shipping and Sea-men vent of English Woollen and other Manufactures and Commodities rendring the Navigation to and from the same more Safe and Cheap and making this Kingdom a Staple not only of the Commodities of the Plantations but also of the Commodities of other Countries and Places for the supplying of them and it being the usage of other Nations to keep their Plantations Trade to themselves Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted that from and after the 25th day of March 1664. No Commodity of the Growth and Product or Manufacture of Europe shall be Imported into any Land Island Plantation Collony Teritory or Place to His Majesty belonging or which shall hereafter belong unto or be in the Possession of His Majesty his Heirs or Successors in Asia Africa or America Tangier only excepted but what shall be Bona Fide and without Fraud Laden and Shipped in England Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and in English Built Shipping c. A little further And which shall be carried directly thence to the said Islands Plantations Collonies Teritories or Places and from no other place or places whatsoever any Law Statute or usage to the contrary notwithstanding and under the Penalty of the Loss of all such Commodities of the Growth Product or Manufacture of Europe as shall be Imported into any of them from any other Place whatsoever by Land or Water and if by Water of the Ship c. And a little further it follows thus And it is hereby further Enacted That if any Officer of the Customs in England Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall give any Warrant for or suffer any Sugar Tobacco Ginger Cotton-Wooll Indico Speckle-wood or Jamaica-Wood Fustick or other Dying Wood of the growth of any of the said Islands Collonies Plantations Teritories or Places to be carried into any other Country or Place whatsoever until they have been first Vnloaden Bona Fide and put on Shoar in some Haven or Port in England or Wales or in the Town of Berwick that every such Officer for such Offence shall forfeit his Place and the value of such of the said Goods as he shall give Warrant for or suffer to pass in any other Country or Place Also in the twenty second and twenty third years of the King the due Observation of the said Acts is again Enforced 22 and 23. Car. 2. by an Act Entituled An Act to prevent the Planting of Tobacco in England and for Regulating the Plantation Trade And by another Act in the five and twentieth year of the King Entituled An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades and for the better securing the Plantation Trade 25 Car. 2. So that it plainly appears by the multiplicity of the Acts made in this Kings Reign already there having been no less than seven and the great Penalties laid on Merchants Owners of Ships and Officers of the Customs who are concerned therein that no care hath been wanting to oblige us to a due Observance thereof Yet if we take a strict view of the present Practices of the Jews we shall find that they not only break through these Laws made with a particular Relation to our Plantation Trade but also through all the former made to oblige them to the payment of Alien Duty without which as I said before no true Ballance of Trade can possibly be kept And in regard the Jews are a sort of Persons admired at by most Trading People all the World over as well as here in England for their great Wealth and that they all know it flows from the abundance of their Trade and Commerce and yet that they carry it on with so much Subtilty covering all in other mens Names that none but a person designed to dive into their Ways and Methods of Trade and leaving almost all other Concerns behind his back together with a resolution to stand his Point come what will on 't Poverty Imprisonment or rather than fail Life it self is fit to attempt so Crabbed a concern as to touch them to the quick It came into my thoughts to endeavour it and really the true value I have for our Nation in General and for the Merchants thereof in particular I have adventured to begin it and beg the Readers pardon for a small digression to shew that I was in some measure prepared for it before I began And it thus was before I was 16 years of Age which was in the year 1661. I was Clerk Assistant to Joseph Ash Esq Collector for the Customs of Plymouth and Cornwall with whom I remained about seven years then turned Adventurer at Sea and particularly to the Plantations in America When the last Dutch War came on I had Employs at Plymouth both in the Prize-Office and Admiralty And after that was ended I Traded into France till the Prohibition Act came on and leaving that endeavoured for an Imploy in the Customs again Which was granted mein the Month of June 1680. To be riding Surveyor for the Customes in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall My old Mr. Ash also gave me another Commission to be Surveyor of the Act of Navigation in those Counties and was so kind also to joyn with my my Noble Friend Sir John Coryton Baronet in a Bond for my Fidelity Being thus furnished with Commissions having all the precedent Laws at my Fingers end General Notions of the usual Actions of those whose Magazine of our Plantation Trade lyes at Amsterdam Rotterdam c. I set on with a firm Resolution to put all the foregoing Acts of Parliament in Execution against every Person Jew or Christian Merchant or Officer that I could meet with who were wilful Offenders therein in my Districts with hopes also that my Brethren who had the care