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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95984	The advancement of merchandize or, Certain propositions for the improvment of the trade of this Common-wealth, humbly presented to the right honoroble the Council of State. And also, against the transporting of gold and silver. / By Tho. Violet of London goldsmith.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1651 (1651)	Wing V578; Thomason E1070_1; ESTC R208173	121,676	189

see the workers make all fine Silver and everie sort of this Manufacture to bee according to the rules settled by your Honors Many other things I could enlarge my self in concerning this Trade but shall respite them for the present and humbly submit my self and all that I have here said to your Honor 's grave consideration Signed THO VIOLET Decemb. 18. 1650. WHereas the Gold-Wier-drawers and Refiners of London have presented to the Honorable Council for Trade the draught of a Corporation as it is desired by them it is utterly destructive to the Common-wealth and I do most humbly desire the Honorable Council for Trade to take notice that som of the Gold-Wier-drawers of London in the behalf of themselvs and divers other Wier-drawers of London did Petition the late King for a Corporation in March 1634. and in April 1635. confessing the many abuses practised in the managing of the same Trade which were then under no government did desire in their Petition that by his Majestie 's gracious care they might bee reduced into Government and made a Corporation and that they might have one or two Refiners such as the Wier-drawers should deem fit to bee added to their Corporation and excluding all the rest of the Refiners that were Hous-keepers or Free-men and onely themselvs might solely have the Order and Government of the Trade and the Regulation of the said Manufacture And in consideration of this the Wier-drawers offered the late King for his favor in that behalf to paie to him and his successors one thousand pounds per Annum and 2 d. the Ounce for everie Ounce of such Bullion and Forrain Species as they should use in their said Manufacture over and above the currant price of the Merchants And about the same time the Companie of Gold-smiths beeing at the late King's Council-Table did there charge several abuses and high misdemeanors upon som of the Refiners of London and other persons as will appear by the Council-Table-Books and by the Records and Journal Books at Goldsmith's Hall if one could com to the sight of them for it cannot bee imagined the Companie of Gold-smiths would give so high a charge as they did against som of the Refiners and som Gold-smiths but they have the Charge recorded in their Books which I humbly desire the Council of Trade may have a Copie of that so they might see the abuses in the Trade of Refining and Wier-drawing and who were the offendors and no question but the same abuses are practised still if there were an examination and power given to the Surveior of Gold and Silver-Thread to finde them out The truth is that upon the complaint of the Gold-smith's Companie at the Council Table of the several abuses in the Trade of Refining and Wier-drawing the Wier-drawers conceiving the late King and his Counsel would put down the wearing and working of Gold and Silver-Wier and Thread and punish the offendors in Star-Chamber and knowing what would move and bee most taken in Court I saie the Wier-drawers voluntarily and of their own accord did com and petition and made friends that their Trade should bee continued And this Model was laid to have a Monopoly to som Wier-drawers and Finers as aforesaid and in the pursuance of this project of the Wier-drawers they had many meetings with Sir Ralph Freeman Sir Ralph Whitfield and Master Nathanaël Tompkins and divers others where the whole drift was to exclude all the Refiners but one or two from their trades And in consideration thereof that they would for this great grace and favor their own words paie two pence the Ounce and one thousand pounds a year to the late King It is as true that upon complaint of som of the Gold-smiths several Refiners and Gold-smiths were proceeded against in the Exchequer and Star-Chamber for melting down the currant Silver Coins of the Nation for buying Gold and Silver above the price of the Mint and for refining of Silver contrarie to a Statute made in Henrie the seventh's time and it is as true that I Thomas Violet was informed against in the Star-Chamber and Exchequer for all these offences and beeing to bee examined upon Interrogatories against my self both at the Council Table and Star-Chamber and before Master Atturnie Noie and Master Atturnie Banks I did refuse to bee examined upon Interrogatories such as Master Atturnie General had exhibited against mee in Star-Chamber for I knew if I had denied them the Atturnie General could prove them on mee by som Gold-smiths and others that had voluntarily confessed against mee that I had transported Gold and that I had melted the currant heavie Silver of this Nation and that I had sold Silver and Gold above the price of the Mint Whereupon that most Honorable Gentleman Sir John Coke Secretarie of State after that I had oftentimes been examined at the Council-Table and at the Star-Chamber Office and for refusing to answer to their questions had suffered close imprisonment for above 20 weeks beeing close prisoner to several Messengers viz. Measie Stockdal and Barker for all that time to the loss of my Trade which was then greater then any Gold-smith's in London I saie that great States-man had a noble care of mee and sent for mee shewed mee what was proved against mee and withal a Warrant that hee had signed by Order of the late King and his Privie Council for Master Atturnie General to bring mee to the Star-Chamber-Bar the next sitting of the Court and there to crave the Judgment of the Court against mee his Charge beeing taken against mee pro confesso Whereupon Secretarie Coke became a Petitioner to the late King that before hee delivered Master Atturnie the Warrant to proceed against mee hee might send once again for mee and hee told the late King that hee was of an opinion that when I saw my danger and how I was discovered by those that held mee fair in hand and were the men that did betraie mee I would bee so ingenuous to my self to keep mee from a ruine to confess the truth and all that I knew upon oath against those that had discovered mee and my so doing would bee much for the service of the State and to this effect when I spake with Secretarie Coke was his Discours to mee not giving mee a quarter of an hours time to return him my answer nor suffering mee to go out of his sight When I saw the Snare I blest the Fowler which was Sir John Coke who had traversed mee in France and intercepted my Letters though not written to mee by name knew a great part of my proceedings there about my Transporting Gold and hee had many Goldsmiths that hee sent for which confessed to him that weekly I had bought great quantities of Light English Gold of many Gold-smiths of London and I was to bee forced to give an accompt what I did with it And som other of my Factors that I had dealt with in France Sir John Coke

the State I shall not scape them but if they had rested with words I should better have born their malice But this last Michaëlmas Term they fell on mee with deeds took mee upon an Execution at the suit of one Widow Simonds wife of one Joseph Simonds when I never vvarranted any Atturnie to appear for mee and I had a Releas of the said Joseph Simonds for to withdraw all Actions and thereupon I delivered him an Ingot of Silver which was seized on by the late King's Commissioners by order of the Lords of the Council and this was don eleven years ago I never owed this woman or her husband one pennie and I make no question but I shall have reparation and to finde out the confederacie against mee This Joseph Simonds brought the same Action against Sir John Wollaston Alderman Gibs Sir William Becher Master Alderman Harison and divers others and they all non-suited him several times and if I had known the declaration against mee I would have pleaded and gotten off as well as others but I was in the Countie of Darbie-shire and never knew of it till there was Judgment entred upon a Nihil Dicit and a Writ of Inquirie of Damages when I had the said Joseph Simond's Releas attested by five witnesses and I found this Releas by a strange accident after I had lost this Acquitance about ten years the tenth of this present Januarie this I put down openly that as I was affronted publickly on the Exchange by beeing arrested there upon an unjust Action all men should know I cannot bee arrested for a just Debt REceived the 19 daie of Octob. 1640. of Thomas Violet by vertue of an Order of the Lords at White-Hall the 18 of Octob. 1640. one Ingot of Silver-Guilt weighing 17 pound weight one Ounce and five pennie weight and I do promise to withdraw all Actions that have been commenced either against Robert Amerie Thomas Violet or any other for seizing and deteining of the said Silver-Guilt In witness whereof I have bereunto set my hand Joseph Symonds Witness wee M. Blunt Andrew Heitly Will. Creswell Will. Crosbie Will. Bourne Beyond Seas it is not permitted to a Sergeant to arrest any man on the Exchange and it were verie fit it should bee so here in London for many Merchants are crazie commodities and their reputation 's not to bee touched lest they fall in pieces I speak not for my self for I owe not one hundred pounds in the world that any bodie can justly ask mee though I have had taken from mee by Order of Committees above eight thousand four hundred pounds and I have left off trading this ten years But I know there is a great necessitie at this time for Merchants not to bee arrested on the Exchange for the humor of many English Usurers and som others is that if they finde a man sinking everie man enter's his Action and pul's somtimes a good Estate in pieces whereas they should do as they do in Holland if their debtors have losses at sea or by fire or bad debts they plaie the good Samaritan binde up their wounds and instead of adding affliction to their debtor comfort him and by this careful usage many a score of men beyond seas have recovered their Estates and been gallant Merchants again whereas here they fling them into prisons and ruine them But for such Merchants or others that break out of knaverie to cousen men by their Composition as too many do or such as have Diced or Whored away their Estates and then break in other men's debts I desire from my heart and humbly praie a Law may bee made to make it Felonie in any that hath or shall do it I am credibly told it is so in France and other Forrain parts But that which was the Master-piece of all the Refiner's plots to destroie mee was when by the subtiltie of two of them they put mee into the Tower for three years and eleven months and did engage great and honorable men against mee for what som of them knew themselvs long before I did and I did nothing but by warrant of publick Officers By which fals information they caused mee to bee sequestred of my Estate and damnified and plundered to the value of eight thousand pounds and kept close prisoner in a room in the Tower for nine hundred twentie eight daies and never could bee heard to make my just defence and had not God sent Sir Thomas Fairfax his Armie to London I had never got out of the Tower but been buried there alive For the true Examination of all the transaction of that business I am an humble suitor to the Parlament to have Justice and that the truth of this business might bee found out and that it may bee referred to the Honorable Committee of Examinations and then it will bee found this design was to blast and undo mee and by that means to prevent mee that I should not tell the State what I knew to bee true and should never com to bee heard in what I could serv the State for as they had laid the design for my life and good name it was one hundred to one that ever I escaped their mortal snare An Accompt of what hath been taken from mee for which I humbly desire reparations and satisfaction 1. WHen I was sent to the Tower the sixt of Januarie 1643 my mother had of my Goods Bonds and Bils in her hands taken away from her at several times viz. to the value of one thousand three hundred and odd pounds besides many of my Papers and Accompts of a great value and consideration to mee seized and many of my Papers were of great concernment to the Common-wealth and as yet I cannot com to the knowledg who hath them but this I am sure of if there had been any thing in them that could have made against mee there had then use been made of them 2. My mother had at another time a Privie Seal taken from her wherein the late King acknowledged hee owed mee for my expences in the Discoverie of the Transporters of Gold and Silver nineteen hundred threescore and eight pounds which monie I laid out everie pennie out of my own purs 3. The Committee of Essex put mee out of possession of the Mannors of Battels and Paton Hall in Essex as appear's by their Warrants here annexed of which Land I had an extent to the just value of one thousand pounds due to mee in 1643. and Master Philip Cage was in possession of the premises for my use as hereafter follow 's 4. The Committee of Shropshire seized in my sister's hands in London three bonds due to mee in two thousand pounds for the paiment of mee Thomas Violet one thousand pounds by the Ladie Wade Edmond Lenthal Esquire Philip Cage Esquire Charls Mordent Esquire as appear's under the band of Philip Cage Esquire 5. I had the Leases of ten several Houses at the Postern in little More-Fields and