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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77352	A discourse concerning Ireland and the different interests thereof, in answer to the Exon and Barnstaple petitions shewing, that if a law were enacted to prevent the exportation of woollen-manufactures from Ireland to foreign parts, what the consequences thereof would be both to England and Ireland.	Brewster, Francis, Sir, d. 1704.	1698 (1698)	Wing B4433; ESTC R232233	49,829	76

of England I shall not presume to determine but since the most Learned Casuists of the World have a share in the Legislative Power I shall humbly submit the matter to their Resolution I shall only propose one thing more to the Consideration of the wise Men of England viz. that if they would but agree to make the best of their own Manufactures they would be so far from obstructing the People of Ireland's pursuing theirs that 't is very probable they would in a little time be for giving them Encouragements for going on vigorously with them And the true method of raising the English Manufactures to that pitch of perfection will be found to be extreamly easy and practicable viz. let the great Men of the Nation unanimously resolve that both them selves and their Families will in their Apparel be conten with the Fabricks the Cloaths and Stuffs of their own Country and that they will discountenance others that shall presume the contrary this will undoubtedly influence all such as are in inferiour Stations through these three Kingdoms and his Majesty's Foreign Plantations and ingenious Artists will be hereby incouraged to improve the English Manufactures tho' I am very well assured that there are those in London already that will undertake to furnish the Nobility and Gentry of these Kingdoms with Silks Stuffs Cloaths c. which shall be as rich beautiful and serviceable as any Nation under Heaven need to wish them and at much cheaper Rates than 't is possible to have them from abroad Juvenal deals very freely with the Antient Romans and seems to be passionately concern'd that they being the greatest People upon Earth did ape the Grecians in all particulars in their Habit in their way of Eating Drinking Discourse and Behaviour and did as he tells us do most other things after the Greek Fashion and indeed these Nations have been faulty to that degree in these particulars with respect to the French that I have heard some intelligent Persons affirm that in the two last Reigns when an Embassador suppose from Germany Denmark or Sweden had a desire to make an agreeable Figure in the Court of England he thought it could not be done unless he had his Cloaths from France from whence most of the English Nobility and they that esteem'd themselves to be the fashionable part of the Gentry had theirs nor is Apparel the only thing in which they have been vainly fond of imitating the French for most of those who reckon themselves the only genteel People when they come to an honest English Gentleman's Table and find it furnished with good Beef Mutton Veal c. they cannot away with that nasty Butchers Meat Nor is the Poultry or Fowl thought fit for Stomachs of Quality except they be so Frenchified as to loose their natural Taste and Colour but if they come to another place and meet with a Dish of Scraps which perhaps were detain'd a Day or two before from the Poor and that be toss'd up after the French mode O then 't is excellent savory Victuals little Master and Miss are not thought to call decently for Bread or Small beer at Table unless they can do it in French nor is the Curtezan of the Town sufficiently qualified to wheedle her easy Beau unless she be in some measure Mistress of the French Tongue without which indeed no one can be sufficiently impertinent nor bear a part in the noisy Conversation which is now in fashion All this is certainly a kind of Homage paid to France 't is a tacit acknowledgement of some Excellencies in them of which we are not Masters and the owning ourselves obliged to them for the melioration and true use of our Cloaths Meat Conversation and other Accommodations and Blessings of this Life Tho' it may not be thought easy to reform in all these particulars at one time yet methinks 't is but reasonable it should be attempted in relation to our Cloaths since that would be vastly advantageous to England in keeping those great Sums of Money at home which before the War were sent yearly to France for Silks Stuffs c. 't would also be a means of employing many Thousands of Hands which by means of the great Importation of Foreign Commodities of that kind do want Work and 't is very probable that instead of prohibiting the People of Ireland from sending their Manufactures out of their own Country their Assistance would be required in furnishing the Western Plantations with those coarse Woollen Commodities which they are now by Law debarred of sending to any of them For since our King has been the Glorious Instrument of retrieving the antient Grandeur and Honour of England and giving Peace to Europe the Christian Princes will undoubtedly pay him the Respects which are justly due to his Merits Foreign Nations will be fond of imitating the English Gallantry and think London as competent a City for the Education of their young Nobility and Gentry in Arts and Arms in Behaviour and Manners as Paris has been this last Age esteem'd by us and consequently tho' perhaps France may think it below them to imitate our Fashions or buy our Silks Stuffs or Cloaths c. from us yet we shall at least be their Competitors and other Kingdoms of Europe will follow the Modes and buy the Manufactures of England but if the English Nation will think nothing becoming but what they have from France 't is no wonder the rest of the World should neglect those things which are despised by ourselves This I think is a Consideration much more worthy the Thoughts of the great Men of England than that they should stoop at a Game so mean as the poor inconsiderable Manufactures of Ireland which according to the best Information I can have in this Kingdom do not amount to the two hundredth part of those of England and which besides their being already prohibited from being transported to the Western Plantations are so indifferent that they will not sell in any Foreign Markets where English Commodities can be had and yet they are the main Support of a People who I may safely say are as Faithful and Loyal to the Crown of England while fix'd on a Protestant Head as Men can be and whose Interests I hope the Wisdom of England will not think fit to sacrifice to the Covetousness of particular Persons notwithstanding the Petition of the Citizens of Exon c. by which if they propose to have considerable Quantities of Irish Wool imported to them they have taken the most effectual course to prevent the increase of Sheep and the plenty of Wool in that Kingdom for if a Law should be enacted against the Exportation of Woollen Manufactures from Ireland to any Foreign Parts no Man of common Sense will think it worth his while to deal in Sheep which are the most nice and dangerous and will by that means be the most unprofitable Cattel in which a Man can deal in that Country For