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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

in a Common-wealth But for your just Merchant hec is the Beautie and Ornament of the Common-wealth a great pillar in any Nation where they remain and that State or Common-wealth that doth not love and protect them must at long running bring themselvs to povertie For mee to speak of the worth and dignitie of fair-dealing-Merchants in all ages is to hold a Candle to the Sun onely my praier to God shall bee that their numbers may bee encreased in this Nation and all encouragement given them by the State that they may have good Convoie to guard their ships both outwards and inwards from Pirats and Rovers and if it bee the chance of any Merchant-men to meet with Pirats that God would strengthen their sea-men and give them valiant and loial hearts to fight for their Countrie and their Merchant's ships and goods and after their deliverance from Pirats God's protection go along with them all and bring them everie one to his desired Port and at the end of our daies bring us all to the blessed Harbor of the Kingdom of Heaven and this shall bee the praier of Your assured Friend to serv you THO. VIOLET THE ADVANCEMENT OF MERCHANDIZE To the Right Honorable the Council of State viz. John Bradshaw Lord President Earl of Denbigh Earl of Salisbury Lord Howard Thomas Lord Grey of Groby Lord Ch. Justice Roll Lord Ch. Justice St John Lord Ch. Baron Wilde Thomas Lord Fairfax Lord General Cromwel Philip Lord Lisle Sir Henry Mildmay Sir William Armyne Sir William Constable Sir Peter Wentworth Sir Gilbert Pickering Sir William Masham Sir Arthur Hesilrige Sir James Harrington Sir Henry Vane Jun. ● t Gen. Ludlow Lo. Com r Whitelock Lo. Com r Lisle Colonel Stapley Colonel Morley Colonel Purefoy Colonel Jones Isac Pennington Ald. Henry Martin Esq Philip Skippon Esq Wil. Heveningham Esq Rob. Wallop Esq Jo Hutchinson Esq Denis Bond Esq Valentine Wanton Esq Tho Scot Esq Cornel. Holland Esq Tho. Chaloner Esq Mr Robinson Mr Gourdon Thomas Violet a true Lover of his Countrie most humbly present's these following PROPOSITIONS SEveral Reasons for the admitting all Merchants to have equal privileges so far as agreeth with the Pattern and Policie of Amsterdam Legorn and Genoa who have gotten themselvs to the hight greatness of trade And therefore hold in all Common-wealths that are seated as by the blessing of God this is one in the midst of the Seas beeing adorned and beautified with more safe and fair Harbors for shipping then any of our Neighbors whatsoever And there ought to bee an especial eie had upon the paths and steps of our neighbors to see by what waies and means they have got to this greatness of Trade and to keep a good observation of these times and to give all encouragement to the Dutch and Forain Nations to com and plant in our Ports and Harbors They having many of them an earnest desire not to bee so penned up as they are and therefore many Families are lately removed to Breme and Hambrough out of Amsterdam As was presented to the Council of Trade by a worthy Member of the Council of State with his Recommendations to the Council of Trade to take all Informaltions concerning free Ports or Landing places for Forain commodities Imported without paying of Custom if again exported in what manner the same is best to bee effected in pursuance whereof for the advance of Trade I have according to directions of som of the Council of State treated with the principal Merchants in this Citie and I do humbly present these few Heads unto your Honors consideration for the benefit of Trade and the Nation in General 1. That Genoa Legorn and Amsterdam have raised their greatness onely by giving Merchants Strangers equal privileges with their Natives and in levying Imal duties upon goods And if not spent in their Ports freely to export them to any part of the world by which means they have been made the Ware-houses and Shops for all the Merchandizes in the world 2. By the same means also they grow in Amsterdam mightie in Shipping and Sea-men for they know the benefit that onely the bringing of goods thither though never spent in the Countrie make's them for there is not the thousand part of the goods spent in Amsterdam that is brought thither but shipped again all over the world And they have this advantage that all the Commodities of the world are there to bee had which is a benefit to them that spend the Commodities to have the Market at their own doors for they can have it cheaper then to go abroad for it And the wealth that is gotten by Shipping Ware-housroom and imploiment of thousands of laboring people in lading and unlading Merchandize is and hath been one of the fairest flowers in the Garland of Amsterdam Genoa and Legorn And by the blessing of God and the Parlaments countenance of such Merchants and others that shall put to their helping hands and their industries the Sea-Ports of this Nation will participate in a large proportion with them and put the inhabitants of our Sea-Ports in a flourishing condition wee may see it by experience when our Composition Trade was at Dover what that Town made the State a year for half Customs and how the rents of houses were raised how all the Townsmen grew rich and Merchants set the poor awork and also the great imploiment of our Shipping and Navigation and no Town in England lived more happily make it but a free Port you will restore it again to its former condition whereas now their poor do so infinitely increas on them that many perish for want of means and all the houses in the Town not worth the third penny rent they were ten yeers ago for at the time the Customs made fifty thousand pounds every year now not four thousand pound per annum 3. I pray your Honors observ where great Customs are laid there either in Kingdom or Common-wealth the Trade decayeth and at last fal's to nothing 't is true they may bee present benefits and have been made use of by evil Councellors both in this Age and formerly both in this Nation and others But I pray observ those remedies have ever been wors then the diseases and in som places it hath cost som of the Inventors their lives others their estates and all of them at long running repentance and those Kingdoms Nations or Common-wealths that have soonest recovered out of them have been the easiest cure of their distempers and commotions Whereas in such Kingdoms Nations or Common-wealths where such oppressions have long continued when the remedie com's to bee workt and wrought it work 's so violently as it break 's all the old frame of Government in pieces or els weaken's it in that manner that it corn's not to its first strength again in som Ages and this I humbly conceiv is like shortly to bee the fate of a great Kingdom I mean France The inventions for

of Trust but skilful men and men of Estates that if any miscarriage com their Estates might bee responsible to the State And whereas som men are of an opinion that they would have Trade free to Import all commodities and Export all without any restraint not for Leather Fuller's Earth Corn Wooll Ammunition Gold and Silver Horses and all other things that are the staff and staie of this Nation I would not write it but I have it affirmed by men of great qualitie that this is the opinion of som men that are in place and power Truly I humbly conceiv there cannot bee a more destructive thing to this Common-wealth then that those men's principles should bee followed And I humbly conceiv that it would verie greatly conduce towards the better management of Trade that if there were such Officers settled in the Custom-hous as by virtue of the ancient Laws of the Nation formerly were who were men of known qualitie and did not onely put in sufficient securitie securitie to answer to th● State what monie they received but also that they should well and faithfully execute their place in guarding all things prohibited Exportation and Importation and were also by divers Statutes deprived of Merchandizing Shipping and many other emploiments in the Common-wealth whereby they might solely attend their several services to the best advantage of the Nation About settling a Court of Merchants in London as it is in Roan Paris Burdeaux Lions in France and other parts of Germanie the Model is much after this manner 23. ONce everie year to caus a general meeting of the Merchants in Roan by common consent to chool a Prior and two Consuls to remain in their Autoritie for a year and so to bee yearly chosen according to most voices not onely the Merchants of Roan but also the Merchants Strangers beeing to bee presented an assistance in the said collection And this is don the beginning of Januarie everie year The Prior and Consuls may take unto their Assistants twentie Merchants or more or less as they shall think fit to assist them in the proceedings of their Judgments They are likewise to appoint one Counsellor and one Atturnie for this service and a Register and the Court to sit one daie in everie week to hear determine and dispatch the said Appellations by order of Roll for that purpose ordained And to give judgment between all men of what condition or qualitie soever of all Suits Controversies and Differences touching matters of Merchandizing or buying or selling as well for obligating Bils of Debt Receipts Blanks signed Bils of Exchange Answers by Sureties Associations of Merchants either general or particular Assurances Accompts Transportations of Bils Bargains and Partnerships for matters aforesaid or any thing belonging thereunto Commanding all people Judges and any other of what condition soever that they permit the Merchants to use and enjoie this benefit plainly and peacefully without any contradiction notwithstanding any Ordinance Customs Statutes Privileges Commands or Letters to the contrarie The Reason wherefore the King of France set up a Court of Merchants is declared becaus the Merchants were the first setters up and inventors of commerce together with the Order and use of Exchange and by that means had the best and soundest understandings to bee Judges in these cases and therefore he did institute them to bee principal Judges That upon the Prior and Consul 's choosing immediately they take an Cath in the presence of all the Merchants there assembled promising duly and faithfully to execute Justice without any regard either to poor or rich or private interest as other Judges do when they are newly established in their Government And the Merchants that are called to assist the Prior or Consuls are to bee sworn to do Justice everie time they are requested to assist the Court of Merchants And all Jailors and Keepers of Prisons are commanded to keep and arrest the prisoners committed unto them by the said Prior and Consuls as they do the prisoners of all other Judges under the same penaltie and bonds without demanding leav or licence of other Judges or any other person whatsoēver And all Judgments of the said Prior and Consuls shall bee executed throughout all the King's Dominion bee it by attachment of goods and sale thereof arrest and imprisonment of persons condemned as also by penalties and forfeitures of monie according to the caus of the offence And all Noble Personages and others as well Spiritual-men and Laie-men of age or under age or their Deputies using and exercising the Trade of Merchandizing or Exchange shall in that respect bee subject to the Power and Autoritie of the Prior and Consuls and all other Judges are forbidden to intermeddle concerning such debates and differences growing between Merchants And the said Priors and Consuls with the Merchants their assistants are required to bee just and careful and so to avoid giving of offence to other Judges by rash hearing The said Consuls and Prior have likewise in charge the punishing of all frauds abuses deceits falsification and all other ill dealing in Merchandizes and all abuses committed in the cours of Exchanges All Civil Causes between men of what qualitie soëver besides those which concern Trade of Merchandize or matters of Exchange bee all exempted from the Jurisdiction of the Prior and Consuls the partie or parties grieved may accuse the said Prior and Consuls other Jurisdictions of this Court if they have lawful caus so to do and that not in writing but by word of mouth in the presence of them they charge And their accusations shall bee summarily examined justly decided and if the said Prior or Consuls bee parties then the Priors or Consuls for the five last years past or so many as are in beeing shall adjung the caus And if the said Prior or Consuls shall bee accused and justly proved of any corruption then they are not to give sentence but the most ancientest and eminentest Merchants and those that have the first preheminence in the Exchange shall sit in the place of the said Prior and Consuls and give Judgment without any salarie to bee given to the said Merchant in regard of their judgment and the Merchant that shall bee chosen Prior Consuls and Clerks of the Court must bee free Denizens or els naturalized and married in the Citie of Roan The elections of the said Prior yearly must bee made before a Committee of two Counsellors named and deputed by the Parlament for that purpose and the Clerk of the Ensurance Office must bee an Inhabitant in the Citie of Roan in som publick and eminent place which shall bee assigned for that purpose And in Paris you have one Judg and four Consuls with the like Jurisdiction as they have at Roan for Merchants and by their Charter charging all Judges not to intermeddle in any caus concerning Merchandize and Exchange upon the penaltie of making void the Suit and of Arbitrarie amercements charges and damages

and interests of the parties grieved as well of the said Judges as against the Laws and Atturnies injoining all Sergeants everie one of them in their turns to assist to bee present at the daies and hours in which the Court of the said Prior and Consuls useth to bee kept there to command silence and to put in use and execution their Orders and Commands and to give them such honor and reverence as they owe unto Magistrates injoining all our good Subjects to do the same And if there shall arise a Dispute or Controversie whereby the Merchants shall conceiv they have not justice of the Prior and Consuls for the time beeing then all such Merchants that have been Priors and Consuls and are remaining in the Citie of Roan without they bee hindred by sickness or other just excuse shall make a Court of Merchants and there after they have taken an Oath to do equal justice they shall give the sentence which shall bee binding to all parties irrevocable for the time to com This Court is at this daie in use in many great Cities in France by which means Law-suits are speedily dispatched to the great eas of all Merchants both Natives and Strangers and they finde the good and speedie justice which all men have there I humbly desire that the principal Merchants in London might bee consulted withal and their humble desires concerning a Court of Merchants which may bee settled amongst them which will bee a great eas and benefit to the Merchants and to all honest-minded men that are Traders to have their Suits for Merchandize and Traffick determined amongst themselvs to have their differences speedily dispatched and not delaied as it hath been to the ruine of many Families in this Citie and Nation To the Honorable the Council for Trade The humble Petition of Thomas Violet Sheweth 24. THat your Petitioner seeing in the Journal Books of the Parlament an Order referring the East India Companie 's Petition which they made unto the Parlament for obteining of a Licence to transport twentie thousand pounds of Forrain Bullion beyond Seas to this Council for Trade to give their opinions concerning the said Petition And your Petitioner having perused the late Act for the advancing of Trade whereby you are made Commissioners and a standing Council for regulating of the Trade of this Common-wealth whereby you are autorized not onely to receiv all such Propositions and Overtures for the well regulating and benefit of Trade which shall bee offered unto you by any person whatsoēver but you have likewise full power and autoritie to view all Books Records and Writings of Publick use which you shall finde needful for your better information your Petitioner having for these sixteen years been emploied about stopping the transporting of Gold and Silver out of this Nation and so having many opportunities offered unto him to know many things that may bee secrets to this Council his humble praier to You is that before you make your Report to the Parlament you would bee pleased to take these his humble Propositions into your serious considerations beeing highly for the benefit of the Common-wealth 1. That this Council require the East India and Persia Companie to bring in their Charter whereby you will inform your selvs with what privilege they have granted them and upon what conditions and restrictions 2. That you would bee pleased to require an accompt of the East India and Persia-Companie of all the summes of monie Gold or Silver either Forrain or English which they have sent into India and Persia ever since Julie 1620. this is no new thing for they did in 1620 give an accompt as will plainly by their Books appear that from the Original and first foundation of their Trade in Anno 1601 to Julie 1620. they had shipped away for India onely 548090l sterling in Spanish monies and som Flemish and Germane Dollars which accompt was presented in Parlament at that time 3. Your Petitioner desire's you to take notice that if the State in Parlament were then so careful in times of peace and the Trade of the Nation flourishing to call the East India Companie to an accompt for twentie years and to caus them to make their accompts plainly to appear by their Books for twentie years surely I humbly conceiv this Honorable Council will exspect for the service of the Common-wealth to have an exact accompt of all the Treasure the East India and Persia Companie have exported and to have them to produce a just accompt what quantities of Gold or Silver they have bought in Holland and in other Forrain places immediately upon their proper accompt and what quantities of English melted Silver in Bars they have bought of Goldsmiths in London what quantities of Gold in Bars they have bought of the Guinie and Barbarie Companies what quantities of English coined Gold they have sent into the East Indies and to Persia what quantities of Cardquess Rex-Dollars Rials of Spain or any other Forrain Silver they have bought up in Londou of Merchants Goldsmiths or others which without the East India Companie so buying would have been brought into the Mint and coined to the great augmentation of the stock of this Nation And that they bee required to give you an Accompt of what qnantities of Spanish Pistollers Dutch Riders Hungarian Duckets Gold Gilders Gold Albertus of Flanders Italian Pistolets Turkie Sultels and all other Forrain Gold and Silver they have bought up in London of Goldsmiths Merchants Natives and strangers which have not been members of their Companie and transported to India and Persia within thirtie years all which I am sure they have perfect Accompts of And that the aforesaid Companie bee required to send you in all the Warrants and Licences for their doing of the same and for a true discoverie of the premises 4. That you would require the Books of Invoies of the Lading of everie ship of all the Gold and Silver in Bars or Coin that hath been sent to the East Indies and Persia since 1620. for by them you shall see what Gold and Silver each ship carried and the Ships Factors and Master's names and to what Factorie in Persia or India and the several years and so you will quickly see the just quantitie to a pennie what they have transported and in what sort of Coin either English Gold or Silver or Forrain Gold or Silver for these thirtie years the giving you a true accompt thereof will bee of great concernment to the Common-wealth in many respects 5. That you would appoint a Committee to view over the Journal Books for out of them there will bee gathered businesses of great concernment to the Nation and if som able Book-Keepers bee appointed with mee to take out what I shall observ in them it will tend highly to the service of the Nation and give a stop to great mischiefs that is daily practised on the Common-wealth 6. If you pleas to inform your selvs by this