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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	woman_n	wool_n	work_n	14	3	5.3401	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34100	Severall considerations offered to the Parliament concerning the improvement of trade, navigation and comerce more especially the old draperies and other woolen manufactures of England / by G.C., a louer of his country.	Carew, George, Esq.	1675 (1675)	Wing C551; ESTC R35845	8,786	10

SEVERALL CONSIDERATIONS Offered to the Parliament concerning the improvement of Trade Navigation and Comerce more especially the old draperies and other woolen manufactures of England by G. C. a Louer of his country WHereas in former ages the subjects of England lived cheifely by pasturage and tillage they were necessitated to transport their wooles to bring in bullion and other comodities for their support and pleasures But after the invention of gunns and gunpouder Shipping marriners inereasing soe much in forraigne parts from the product of English woole both in number and strenght England could not be defended any longer with bows and arrowes wherefore they slighted many old castles and trusted to new Shipps and even at last to thinke upon trade and comerce which proved the cheifest fortress and support of the King and Kingdome After the dissolution of Monasteries and Abbies the people multiplying soe fast they setled severall Colonies and plantations in Asia and America finding noe roome at home for all yonger brothers to live and gett estates Diverse of them that were naturally adicted to the warrs left the service of other Princes and States where English men sell their skinns and spinn out their lives for brass stivers and sols marques to seeke their fortunes in those Dominions that were added to the Crowne through the great charges and industry of severall well affected persons to their King and Country who since have not only lost their reall possessions but their originall costs by bad goverment and worse conducts When the staple of woole was kept at Midleburgh in Richard the seconds time and at Callais in Edward the thirds time it was ordained that for every sack of woole which should be transported out of England there should be a competent quantity of silver bullion returned besides 50 s. a sack for custome outwards to the King And to prevent all manner of fraudes in those days there were severall offices of the staple errected at West-minster New-castle Yorke Lincolne Canterbury Excester Bristoll and other places soe that a fleece of woole could not be exported without account to the King and a returne to the Kingdome The tenth parte of all wooles being to come to the church their officers served the Crowne gratis for the benefitts they received of maintenance and protection which may be done now by Parochiall and Secular persons as was then by Regulars without any charge to the crowne It is the Custome in England for the cheifest lords in Parliament to sitt upon woole packs to put them in minde of the naturall groweth of their estates and the best dependance of the Crowne and the comon wealth A pack of English woole containing 100. waight Exceeds in value a pack of the finest flax Goates haire or the finest filke of the same waight as farr as 100. waight of English Tin or lead Exceeds 100. waight of Hollands turfe digged out of their silver Mines In regard English woole is of that absolute necessity to most nations of the world for warmth and cloathing when the other is for pleasure and delight 100. waight of fine flax mohaire or silke may sett as many people at worke as a pack of woole but it is not universally of the tenth parte for use of apparell or consumption And the one being of English groweth and the other fforraigne the woole adds to the Kingdome and the other deminisheth 100. Pore men women and children are usually imployed and sett at worke by every 100. waight of English woole viz Combers Spinners Reelers Weavors Kintters Dyers Cloathworkers Rowers Fullers Labourers c. That consumes the graine and victualls of England and soe many people must stand stil begg● or starve for want of worke at home for every pack of woole that is transported f●om thence into France Flanders or Holland Where there are great quantities of English Ir●●h and Scotch woole Notwithstanding all the strikt laws to the contrary Frequently carrie● over towards the manufacture of cloath stuffes stockings monmouth capps Tapistry Dornick hangings Ratines Bays Drugetts c. Which canot be wrought alone with their short staple wooles The Kings of France originally granted liberty and priviledges to all nations that would come and inhabite Flanders Brabant c. Whereupon those great populous Citties and townes were suddanly built by strangers of all arts and sciences And many of their best Churches Monasteries and Abbies were founded and erected by Severall Kings of England and noble men in the Saxons time As the records of Flanders makes appeare Amongst which there is a very remarkable History The Queene of France in her progress coming to vissit Brugis and Gant she found the people soe richly cloathed that she sayd she thought there had been but one Queene in France but there she found all the women Queens and wished she had been a Cloathiers wife also most of the inhabitants being Cloathiers Weavors and others that lived upon the manufacture of English woole which soe increased their wealth and beauty to wonder and admiration Afterwards by severall acts of Providence many thousand Weavors Felt makers Knitters and Spinners transported themselves for England when the great Councell of the land had prohibited the transportation of woole and incouraged the woolen manufactures at home Then a Charter was granted to the Marchant adventurers who maintained severall persons in all the sea Port townes of England France and Flanders to make seizures and discoveries of all wooles and fullers Earth that should be conveyed out of his Majesties Dominions to fforraigne parts But since the Charter of the Company was broaken that trade is decayed and the old drapery o● England slighted in the Seaventeen Provinces through the great burthens new impositions and exations lately layd upon English manufactures whereby that Comerc● is neglected and interlopers exposing Cloath Kersies and Searges to contempt by thei● pedling offering them to sale in comōn tavernes and tipling houses Soe that th● staple comodities of England will at lenght be unregarded Whereof I have spoken mor● at large in my remarkable passages concerning the Hollanders since the death of Quee● Elizebeth And had prepared theise following considerations during the lat● treaty with the States Generall for opening the Scheld which I leav● to yover grave wisdomes and apprehensions upon all future events CONSIDERATIONS Of the Advantages which the King of great Brittaigne and his subjects may draw by the opening of the navigation in the River of the Scheld to the citty of Antwerpe THere is nothing of more importance to the united Provinces then navigation by which they doe not only subsist but are inriched and render themselves formidable to all the Princes and Potentates of Europe And to the prejudice of all their neighbours and their owne great profit they draw to themselves the Comerce of the whole world as well in respect of the sale of goods in their owne Country as of what they distribue unto others And although their Comerce seeme to be