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A07554	The misterie of iniquitie Plainely layd open by a lay-Christian, no profest diuine, out of truth in humanity, and rules of naturall reason. Whereby the world may see, read and vnderstand, the proud and vaine comparison of a cardinalles red-hat, and a kings golden crowne. Alwayes prouided, in reading, read all, or read nothing at all.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1611 (1611)	STC 17934; ESTC S114600	61,425	60

woorthy South-hampton All Merchants Allyes and Friends to the State were at all hands bid welcome All Artes were entertained but especially CLOTHING Se Lipsius Louamum of the dissention betweene the Earle there and the Towne of Louayne Lib. 2. cap. 5,13● Cap. 12. 1372. which as then from Louaine began to flye hither with Places of Residence Immunities and Priuiledges besides stipends and wages to assure them being heere All kindnesse was too little no fauor seem'd too much and the Law made it fellony for any to transport wooll and none to weare Cloathing Wrought and Dyed beyond Sea but the King and his Queene and their imediate Children the matter was confiscable and the Persons imprisonable at the Kings will and pleasure ¶ Thus Traffick maintain'd our Staples and our Staples held vp the Credit of our Load-stones whose vertue drew in Bullion whereby our Mints coyn'd Money Seuerall Mints in England and made Golde and Siluer currant in moe places then one As Durham Yorke Cantorbury Winchester Exceter and Bristoll Each had his proportion according to the Pix aswell as London our Portes were full of Shipping and the Customes like Quitrents were certaine to bee knowne by the Merchants owne prices which they paid at the Staple by indented Certificate that iealousie her selfe had no cause of suspition or vse of Bookes of Rates or rules of discretion the Ports and the Staples controlling each other But as Callice grew a thorne The French offered for Exchange of Calits quatorze cent Valle trois mil Fortresses non mees en vne rolle by Du Tillets Recueil de Traittes Fol. 92. which the French could not endure was often vpon bartring and subiect to surprise King Edward to marry Callis and England assuredly together remoued the Staple of Kent from Cantorbury thither but foresaw not the disorder hee wrought himselfe at home for want of the Mines that seru'd his Mints of Bullion For as Callis nowe coyn'd all England faine to make Statutes to draw Money from Callis and our Merchants out of sight vndertaking the Garrison by one pretence or other combining together found meanes to farme the Staples and so by consequence the Customes conuerting Exchange to Extortion and Vsury The Original of Societies of Merchants and by Companies and Conclaues sought how to rayse them-selues aboue the rest of their fellowes long known by the name and stile of Merchants of the Staple but out-faced at the last by a stronger Societie of Merchants Aduenturers When Callis was lost these trust vppe our Staples and returned all to Bruges whence Pride and Disdaine remoou'd them to Middleborough from Middleborough to Barrow and from Barrow vp to Antwerp where what good they did to thousands by wronging more then millions of brethren of their owne See a Treatise long since written in admitation of the Traificke of England but lately printed at Middleborough and London by one Wheeler in fauour of the Marchant Aduentuters cold A Treatise of Commerce for these fiftie yeares and more as they haue not let to publish to their own Pride and Shame so let Indian Mines but speak that haue paide for the triall and let England consider how needefull it is to call our Staples home ¶ Thus experience makes it good betweene Flaunders and Spaine for Englands behoofe ☞ The onely tossing of English Staples vp and downe the Netherlands but since the losse of Calaye hath so warmde the blood of Burgundy that Holland alone with Zeland hand to hande mating the Power of Spayne hath made Pride it selfe after forty yeares Warie craue Peace and gladde of tenne yeares Truce for all their Indian Mines that the Mines of the East and the Mines of the West the Mynes of the North and the Mines of the South and the Mines wheresoeuer may promise much at first and yet faile vs all at last but the Grace of GOD fayles neuer For if all our Subsistence still grow from his GOODNES to set foorth his Glory and our dependance on him and those Countreyes be reputed most wealthy and most happy that are ablest and aptest to spare and transport Commodities of theyr owne then may this Island reioyce aboue the rest And if GOD by his wisedome haue so disposed of Goodnesse that no place is extant so absolutely blest as in all points to stand and Subsist of it selfe that by charitable Trafficke bounded by Lawes Treatise Leagues Oathes and Decrees all wants might be supplied according to Reason Prudence and Pollicy which with vs heer in England hath euermore aymed at the encrease of our Shipping since Victus and Vestitus giues Law to all the rest then most happy GREAT-BRITAINE both by Sea and by Land Bona si sua Norit and had but her Staples commutatiuely as Iustice hath her Courts distributiuely and Religion hath her Temples For this Kingdome by Nature beeing no wayes possest of Gold and Siluer Mines the wisedome of the State hath euer found it needfull to supply that want by Art in the chiefest materials that the soile it selfe affords made vendible to al for ready Gold and Siluer at places like sanctuaries for immunity and freedome famous to the world by the name of Staples Thus as Denmarke hath her Sound Fraunce Wine and Salt so England turn'd her Wooles Wool-felles Tinne Lead and Leather into pure Siluer and fine Gold From the Conquest downe-ward to Edward the thirde our Wooles bare greatest sway who to purchase his passage to the Conquest of Fraunce engag'd the Staple there of at Bruges as aforesaide for fifteene yeares but finding by experience the true vse of his Wooles he became the first that taught the benesite of Cloathing retyred his Staples and replantes them at home A happy beginning if it had bin well continued but his care to tie Callis and England together made him soone out-shoote his marke for by remoouing the Staple hee had setled in Keut from Cantorbury thither he dreyned all the rest The long dissention betweene the houses of Lancaster and Yorke and so lost his Mints at home for want of Bullion which the times then succeeding had no leysure to consider Thus as Hysteron grew Proteron our Portes to secke of Staples hauing lost withall their Customes as Quitrents must fayle where Demaynes are shrunke or gone our Kings being put to shifts were forc't to seeke aide by Subsidies as well on Lands and Goods as of Tonnage and Pondage from the loue of their Subiects whose wants at the first were gladly still supplied but the ofter the worse for in the Elementes of life and vitall subsistence Religion bids Reason prouide first for Nature and bee still next her selfe distresses being daungerous if not deadly when the bloud is retracted and the heart wants his owne Heere Merchants found the meanes still dealing out of sight The occasion Originall of Companies and Prinate Societies by Companies and Societies to prey vpon the publicke and attend their priuate