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england_n	wool_n	work_v	wrought_v	25	3	7.7192	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42393	Some reflections on a pamphlet intituled, England and East-India inconsistent in their manufactures	Davenant, Charles, 1656-1714.; Gardner.	1696 (1696)	Wing G251; ESTC R545	12,107	32

Accounts 1. A great quantity of Woollen Manufacture and our Native Product is Exported to the East-Indies and at China which is a cold Country they like our Woollen Goods and the Expence thereof is like greatly to encrease if we our selves be not the hinderance 2. It keeps the Workers of Wooll to their own Employment which they would else in probability leave and turn to the Silk-Weaving Trade as some have done 3. The Freedom of Trade here causes People to Flock into England whereby the Expence of our own Product and Manufacture is increased Our Wooll needs not Fall to nothing as the Answerer says Page 17. to keep on our Woollen Manufactury but Wooll may bear a good Price if the working it up be Cheap as it ought to be and as every one agrees and as the Committee of Trade in their answer to the Honourable House of Commons have very well observed and then there 's no fear of loosing our Woollen Manufactury but I am afraid that will not be the way to have Wooll wrought up cheap to employ the Hands that should do it in other Manufactures and it is a sign we want people and not work since the price of Labour and Servants Wages is no where in Europe so dear as in England The Answerer by what he said pag. 17. about Wooll led me to that head before it came regularly on according to the Answerers Order and Method but this was not designed a full exact and methodical Discourse for the reasons mentioned at the beginning However I shall not need to repeat any thing only shall further add That when those who are of Opinion with me say That it is not the Interest of the Landed Gentlemen that Wooll should be dear the Answerer as many others have done mistook when they suggest that we do not think it most for the advantage of land for Wooll to be dear if the expence would continue as great and the Price keep up but our meaning is that it is not the Interest of Landed Men to raise their Wooll for a Year or two to a High Price whereby the Expence would be lessened because the Consequence would be that then it would fall much lower than before and therefore all that is intended by not desiring Wooll to be dear is that it is best to be kept at such a moderate Price as may not discourage the Working it up and that being Wrought up it might come so Cheap to Foreign Markets that others might not under-sell us and so lessen its future Vent The Answerer is mistaken in his Assertion pa. 21. That the generality of Merchants will own that they have not got by Trading in Woollen Goods for these Thirty Years past 6 per Cent. per Annum the Insurance of Adventures paid The contrary whereof many Merchants know and greater Profit might be made thereby if our Wooll was Manufactured Cheaper and the way to have that done is not to draw off our People from that Imployment to other Manufactures For the Poor if Two Dayes work will maintain them will not work Three And our Manufactures are never so well Wrought as in a time of dull Trade when we pay less for Workmanship and yet the Poor live as well then as in time of greatest Plenty if they have but a full stroke of Work And it is too true what an Advocate for the Weavers ingenuously confessed before the Honourable House of Commons That in times of Plenty which is when the Price of Work is high they will spend the more in Drinking and thereby indeed increase the Kings Revenue whatever the other ill Consequences of it are The Answerer pa. 21. desires to know in what places we can consume more Woollen Goods Abroad and I must acquaint him that very often in Germany Holland Portugal Spain Italy and Turkey as well as in the West-Indies our Woollen Goods are scarce and therefore sold dear and much more would vend if they were upon the place and yet more considerable quantities if we could afford them Cheaper which might be done by the Method the Author of the Essay proposes pa. 27. And whereas the Answerer sayes pa. 21. That the Manufactures of VVooll are increased in Ireland Holland France Germany Spain and Portugal and our Manufactured Goods become a Drugg beyond Sea It is more than probable that the taking off our People from the Woollen Manufactury to other Manufactures has been in a great measure the occasion of it I confess I wonder to find the Answerer call it a Project to work up our Woollen Manufactures Cheap and to doubt whether that would increase their Expence Abroad to the lessening of that of other Nations I wish there had been no more uncertain Projects set on foot in Trade in this Kingdom and then I am apt to think our Trade would have been in a better condition I think the Project of Ruining immediately a great number of Tradesmen and others that depend upon the East-India Trade and putting the Nation to 3 or 400000 l. per Annum certain greater Expence then at present it is at and running the hazard of losing all or the greatest part of our East-India Trade only to imploy People at Home in a Silk Manufactury that would be with more Profit to the Nation imployed in the Woollen Manufacture is by far the more dangerous and doubtful Project The Instance which the Answerer brings pa. 23. of a Country Gentleman that hath all Conveniences about his House of his own and should instead of using them for himself and Family send his Money to Market to buy and then send his Products Abroad in hopes of making Money of them though he do not know of any Market or Buyer for them will prove just the contrary of what he intends it for if it be rightly applyed to our Case for it is certainly the Country Gentlemans Interest so to do if he can buy at Market what will serve himself and Family for half the Money for which he can sell his own Products which is plainly our Case For we never want some Price or other for our Product and Manufacture And if we can sell them dearer to others then we can in their room purchase other Necessaries it is a clear Profit to us The Answerer does again pa. 23 24. as he often does beg the Question when he sayes That we spend Indian Goods at Home that we may save our Woollen Goods to have the more for Exportation We say that the Indian Goods do very little interfere with our Woollen Manufacture and by the bringing in of Indian Goods more of our Woollen Manufacture which goes towards the Purchasing of them is consumed then would be at Home in their stead And the Answerer himself pa. 25. acknowledges that the Consumption of our English Cloth was never understood to be much prejudiced by these Goods And then again he takes up the Mistake of very great Gain made by the East-India Trade