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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28351	An abstract of the grievances of trade which oppress our poor humbly offered to the Parliament.	Blanch, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1694 (1694)	Wing B3154B; ESTC R6117	13,631	21

AN ABSTRACT OF THE GRIEVANCES OF TRADE WHICH Oppress our Poor Humbly Offered to the PARLIAMENT Durum telum necessitas Eras LONDON Printed in the Year 1694. An Abstract of the Grievances of Trade which Oppress our Poor Humbly offered to the Parliament I Need no farther Proof of our Calamity and Decay of Trade than a true Account of the Hard Charge upon Land to the necessary Relief of our Poor in all places of our Woollen Manufacture in England which in many Parishes is a greater Expence than the necessary Support of our War And to excuse the present Juncture of Affairs I refer to the Pressures of the Farmer fifteen or twenty Years past during which time his Wooll Corn Beef Mutton c. did not yield so much by a third part as it did in former days although in Peace with all Europe Notwithstanding which Charge could I here set forth the Hardships that many Weavers and Spinners have undergone these two Years last past preserving Life only by the hard Fare of Beans and Water which is true in too many Instances of Fact who in former days lived handsomly by their Labour It could not but move the Pitty of this Great Council since it evidently Springs not so much from the Badness of Trade in it self as the Prevailing Power of Forreign and Private Interest in the Management And since this Hard Fare in the Country is in great measure occasioned by the Delicates of Capons and Turbets the Splendor and Equipage of Intruders in the City who live upon the Woollen Manufacture like Solomon's Lillies and neither Toil nor Spin. And had not the Benign Favour of Providence happily interven'd in a Plentiful Crop of Corn and Fruit Necessity had compelled a more Tumultuous Address And the Hopes of this Session is the only Support of many considerable Traders the Hazard in the present Management of the Sale of Cloth being too great to adventure an Estate in the City of London I. The first Grievance that I humbly offer to Consideration is the Exportation of our Wooll into France and Holland which Practice is so Obvious and well known that I need not spend time in making any Discovery whilst of three thousand Packs of long Wooll that grows annually in Rumney Marsh it is credibly believed that Two thousand are carried into France Neither can I think it needful to set forth the Loss that our Nation hereby sustains when each Pack of long Worsted Wooll is fifty Pounds loss to our Nation in the Manufacture Besides by the mixture of one Pack of ours they work up two of their own to a far greater Advantage And whilst they are hereby likewise become Competitors with us in the Woollen Manufacture at all our Forreign Markets with their cheap Workmanship How to prevent this great Mischief is the proper Subject of this Great Council which being effectually done would more affect France than a Million of Money expended in the best Method that could be contrived and likewise enable us to pay a Million more to carry on the War And have the same good Effect as in the days of Edward III. to bring back a multitude of our Manufactures that we have lost which would be no small Advantage to our Nation for although in some respects at present we have too many People in England yet in the general we much want Our Wooll is the Bread of our Nation and no Compensation can be made for its loss or other ways to be found whatsoever we may flatter our selves for the Imployment of our Poor that will Support its Practice Providence having distributed to all Nations some peculiar Assistance thereby to keep all parts of the World in a dependance upon each other and the setting up Work-houses for the Imployment of our Poor even in the Woollen Manufacture in the present Circumstances of our Trade will be but Skinning over the Distemper which in a little time will break out in the greater Rage For if those that are bred up to a Profession cannot get a Livelihood by the Imployment of our Poor in their own way it is very unlikely that those that are to come into a Practice in the use of a Publick Stock should have any tolerable Success and the raising any such Stock would be very difficult at present in all those places where it is most wanting being very much Impoverish'd already by an equal Expence in the Relief of the Poor and Charge of our War We have Wooll enough growing in England with the help of our Spanish to imploy more Poor than we have and was our Trade but duly encouraged our Work-people would be sought after And it 's remarkable that whilst we give Money freely upon one hand to carry on a War against France with Vigor we should Support them upon the other with our Wooll which hath been no small Kindness When the French parted with Ireland they carried off a great quantity of Wooll and Yarn which put them upon a Manufacture for Turkey They have since been supplied with great quantities of Wooll from us the Straits hath been open to them and to help them to a good Market our Turkey-Merchants bound up their own Hands from sending which hath very much impoverish'd our Poor II. The next Grievance in Trade that comes in course to be considered is the loss of the Reputation of our Woollen Manufactures abroad occasioned by our slight making and overstraining them in which particular I think we are arrived at Perfection every private Maker's Rule being freely become his own Choice And until this Mischief to the Publick is redress'd I think it in vain to propose to our selves a greater Consumption This hath evidently prevailed upon us as the Forreign Merchants of Holland France Flanders Germany Sweden c. hath made themselves Principals in our Markets in buying our English Commodities by their Forreign and English Factors residing with us These Factors being obliged to buy such Price-Goods as their Principals abroad direct and the Makers in England being under no Rule or Restraint from the Government in making their Goods they quickly drop'd from their Standard Goodness and as Prices were beat down upon them have still made the Commodity worse The Forreign Merchants especially the Dutch having a nearer Interest of their own to prefer in the Woollen Manufactures hath always been a beating down the Prices of ours without a due Respect to the Goodness knowing well enough that it was the Intrinsick Goodness of our English Cloth in former days that always kept a Check upon them Our late Government having been likewise so kind to forward this Practice ever since the 25 Caroli 2. by taking of Aliens Duties from all our Woollen Manufactures and putting the Forreign Merchant upon an equal Foot with the English it hath prevailed so far that nine parts in ten of our Woollen Manufactures that are vended in Holland Flanders and great part of Germany are carried over upon these Forreign Merchants