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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92263	Reasons humbly offered to the consideration of the Lords spiritual and temporal on behalf of the bill to restrain the wearing of East-India and Persia wrought silks, &c.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1695 (1695)	Wing R555; ESTC R182476	3,076	1

REASONS HUMBLY OFFERED To the Consideration of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal On Behalf of the BILL to Restrain the VVearing of East-India and Persia VVrought Silks c. THAT the Advocates for the East-India Company rather blind and amuse the Matter controverted than explain it for the Dispute is not with or against the Trade in general but that Branch only which is certainly destructive to England in the Value of its Land Productions Manufactories Navigations Land-carriages and to the extream Dispeopling thereof All which we have and can make good England's own Productions is the Foundation of all its Wealth Navigation and Merchandize and the due Improvement thereof especially in the Wooll is what ought to be principally regarded and promoted and the Packs in the Honourable House of Lords bespeak no less That England had never recovered the Mischiefs former great Importations of India wrought Silks brought upon us had we not been beholden to the Invention of Worsted Crapes which for several Years was a universal Fashion and cut out the East-India Goods and recovered the Trade for Wooll when many Growers thereof at that first Invention having Six Eight some Ten Years Wooll before hand and it did likewise greatly increase the Trade in Number that now want Employment both at London and other Parts That English Wooll being first Improved by Manufactory in several Counties and Towns and afterwards by Navigation and Merchandize to Spain and Italy brings home unwrought Silks and Spanish Wooll for the Employment both of Silk Weavers and Clothiers which Spanish Wooll is again with our own Manufactured and Exported to Turky and other Parts and the principal ●…s thereof are raw Silk and Grograin and Cotten Yarn Unmanufactured which again Employes Multitudes of People that as well as the former live and consume the Productions of our own Lands That the passing this Bill into a Law will in a few Years greatly increase our numbers of People in this Kingdom and will so invigorate the Minds of all Fabricators both in Silk Wooll and Grograin Yarn that have any thing of Stock or Credit by Faith and Hope to contend with all other Disadvantages tho' Mony should be as scarce as at present whereas the contrary will discourage those of great Ability to that degree that the Out-Parishes of London Tower-Hamblets and all the Wooll Manufacturing Towns in England will not be able to support their Poor That East-India wrought Silks c. is Destructive to all the before mentioned Advantages to the Dispeopling of the Kingdom That nothing is so great and unnatural a force upon Trade as sending our Woollen Manufactures to East-India in regard they are not worn there but sent to Persia to the extream prejudice of our Turky Merchants and that Trade So that the Consumption of Woollen Manufactories is not increased thereby That the more wrought Silks comes from East-India the less raw Silk doth come both from India and Turky and nothing is so valuable an Exchange for our Gold and Silver as raw Silk That the passing this Bill will give the East-India Trade either to the Scotch or Dutch is so Frivolous as deserves no Answer for it must produce the quite contrary Effect That our Entertainment of so many thousand Strangers argues a necessity for passing the Bill unless we intend to maintain them without Working or Starve them That whatever Reasons induced the French King to part with his Weaving Subjects 't is plain that whilst he had them he took great Care for their Preservation for by his Edict 26th of October 1686. He not only Prohibited the Wearing all sorts of East-India Silks and Callicoes but likewise under a severe Mulct forbid the Imitation of figured and flowered Silks by Printing or Staining any thing in likeness thereof and under the same Penalty commanded all them Prints and Tools for so doing to be utterly demollished and never to be made again By which t is plain that King had another Opinion of this Trade and People then the East-India Doctor that in his Superfine Spun Linse-woollse Discourse would render it otherwise to us That part of the Act for Navigation looks strangely Unreasonable if this Bill deserves not to Pass when for the sake and profit only of Throwing and Dying of Silk 't is prohibited so to be brought both from East-India and several other Parts for the Weaving part thereof is at least four times the Value to England than both Dying and Throwing is That Manufacturing of Silk is as Reasonable and as Natural and no more Forreign to England than to France Holland or Flanders tho' of later attainment and it being so greatly beneficial as it certainly is deserves and requires to be the more tenderly Cherisht and Supported That at the price Provisions sell in England 't is impossible for English Manufacturers either Clothiers Silk Weavers or Silk Throwsters to work Cheaper then they do That 't is the Interest of all Fabricators to Work and Sell as Cheap as they can Afford and Trade will in that Case certainly adjust it self and they that do not will Suffer for it But we believe not that our Noble Ancestors plac'd the Wooll-packs just under the Throne to make Wooll as little worth as it possibly could That neither Italian French or Dutch Silks can prejudice us in our Trades so much as India Silks will and does we Working upon more equal Terms with them That Passing this Bill may occasion the East-India Company to Import the more China and Bengal raw Silks and Cotten Yarn to the greater Employment of Shipping and our Manufacturers which the other will destroy That the Great Mogul will be no more displeased at this than the Great Turk was when those Merchants left bringing over Turky Manufactured Silk Hair Grograins and Tammies which in our Memory were the general Wear of our Grandmothers and Mothers and now instead thereof import us only raw Silk Grograin and Cotten Yarn to Englands great Advantage That what is commonly called East-India Silk the principal Substance with which it is made is their fine Cotton-Yarn of which sort of Yarn the Company never brought much if any unwrought and it being softer in feeling than our English Worsted better gratifies the Fancies of our nice Females And except in that respect our Grazetts and Autherines are as good a wear as they if made to the Value And these India Silks are by the Draper or Mercer sold as dear or dearer than English Silks or Stuffs That skilful Seamen are made by our Newcastle and Coasting Trade in such small Vessels as are continually plying to serve our numerous Manufacturers with Coals Corn Butter and Cheese and other Necessaries whilst Trading to India consumes them more than in an ordinary manner and if it be for the sake of their bringing wrought Silks they 'll dye in a bad Cause for in respect to Navigation raw Silk from Turkey is five times more bulky than wrought from India That if for the gain of the East-India Company our Manufactures must be destroyed or work at their Prices that have all the Necessaries for Life six times as cheap as England can afford and want neither Cloaths nor Fuel the value of Land and all its Productions and Rents must sink answerably thereto That we cannot believe that good Policy for England which is for Holland they living in a small spot of Ground are obliged in reason to leave Trade more free and lay their Taxes on the Consumers only But we that are blest with a large Tract of fruitful Land rich Mines productive and laborious Cattle convenient Ports and Navigable Rivers must with the Manufacturing our own Productions improve our Land by feeding our People support our Trade Traffick Navigation and Land-Carriage and by all Lawful ways encrease our People and if for the sake of any one of these the others are prejudiced the Publick must suffer Diminution thereby but if in Conjunction all are Advanced this and this only will procure a healthful Constitution in the Body Politick and when the other parts of the World can agree on a free Trade it will be time for us to consider and till then make the best Improvement of the Blessings of Almighty God That the Sentiments of that great Member of the East-India Company Sir Josiah Child may judge betwixt us in the 43d Page of his Discourse concerning Trade says That whatsoever advances the value of Land in purchase That improves the Rent of Farmes That encreaseth the bulk of Foreign Trade That multiplies Domestick Artificers That inclines the Nation to Thriftiness That employs the Poor That encreaseth the stock of the People must be procuring Causes of Riches We shall conclude with the undeniable Maxim of the said Sir Josiah which he lays down in his Preface to the said Book That a Foreign Expence especially of Foreign Manufactures is the worst Expence a Nation can be inclinable too and ought to be prevented as much as possibly