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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26836	The merchants remonstrance published in the time of the late warre, revived and inlarged : wherein is set forth the inevitable miseries which may suddenly befall this kingdome by want of trade and decay of manufactures : with copy of a letter to the Kings Majestie presented unto him at Hampton Court, October 30, 1647 : shewing, 1, the want of such a due regard as was fit for the preservation of trade in the time of the late warre, 2, some of the bad effects it hath since produced, 3, the offer of the authors opinion what may best bee done for remedy : also, a letter to the Right Honourable the two Houses of Parliament, to the army under the command of His Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax, and to the rest of His Majesties subjects in generall : whereunto is annexed a discourse of the excellencie of wooll, manifested by the improvement in its manufactures, and the great good thence arising before the late warre / by John Battie ...	Battie, John.	1648 (1648)	Wing B1158; ESTC R2591	27,839	48

the Dominions of Spaine not any in those times nor before being there made And among the Merchants in Her Majesties time were Sir Thomas Gresham Her Majesties Cape or chiefe Merchant and Sir John Spencer an Alderman of London both of no little note the former famous for the building of the Royall Exchange so named by Her Majestie at his owne charge which cost with the purchase of the ground as I have heard 36000. l. or thereabout a great deale of money specially in those times The latter much taken notice of in regard of his great estate which was thought to be 300000 l. or rather more both which got a great part of their respective Estates especially the former by their Trade in English Cloth in the parts of Spaine before said But upon the breaking out into a warre with that King some great reason of State doubtlesse urging he not onely prohibits all Commerce or Trade with England but likewise the importing of all English Commodities by all others in amity with Him by which meanes His Subjects comming to want their usuall supplies of our Cloth fell into making of Cloth themselves procuring some Workefolke from abroad and is since so much increased that store hath been and is still sent into the parts of Italy and elsewhere so that we came wholly to lose the vent of that Manufacture not onely in those parts but also in others which make use of the Cloth of Spaine otherwise ours t is like might have found vent in the said parts Hence it followeth that warre with forraigne States is destructive to our Manufactures The totall losse then of our broad Cloth in Spaines Dominions and the great decay of the said Manufacture caused by the aforesaid project of Sir William Cockaine gave it such an incurable wound asit could never since bee healed nor like having contracted such a Malignant humour in the body of the Manufacture of our old Drapery that it corrodeth daily more and more like unto an exulcerated Cancer or Canker never ceasing untill it hath pearced the vitall parts And so is it like to bee with the Manufacture of our new Drapery viz. Bayes Kersies Perpetuano's Sayes Stockings c. which came to a great height in the time of King James and of our Gracious King Charles till of late giving such a life to trade that it seemed not to be very sensible of the decayed condition of our old Drapery but likewise it viz. our said new Drapery is already fallen into a very consumptive disease causing it to languish and waste much and unlesse some good meanes bee forthwith used to restore both old and new to some measure of strength againe they will daily grow more and more infirme till at last for recovery leave or forsake this our English Aire and goe into forraigne specially where they first received breath which was chiefly Flanders for till King Edward the thirds time wee had little or no broad Cloth made here in England but shipt out our Wooll for the parts of Flanders before said which in those times was to be had very cheape And the King foreseeing the great good the making of Cloth would bee unto this Kingdome attempted to put it in practise and to that end he procured sundry Workemen from abroad endowed them with sundry priviledges and immunities and put them upon making of Cloth which in processe of time tooke such effect that partly by reason of the want of our Wooll and partly in regard of the goodnesse and cheapnesse of the said Cloth Flanders came almost to lose that Manufacture but upon this Innovation or change Flanders prohibited the Importation of all English Cloth so that our Clothiers who had store on their hands could not vent them The King buyes the Cloth and burnes it lest the Clothiers should have been inforced for want of imployment to give over the making supposing it seemes that the people of Flanders would be inforced at last in some measure to make use of those made here The premisses considered the preservation of our Manufactury me thinks should bee as Thornes or Goads unto out sides to put us in minde that in all respects wee ought to have such an especiall care thereof as not to attempt any thing which may in the least expose our Manufactures to the hazard of losse no losse almost that can befall this Kingdome being comparable unto it But admit that forraigne Nations notwithstanding what hath been said will in some measure have need of some of our Woollen Manufactures wee shall not bee able to furnish them therewith the chiefe materiall Wooll being wanting which want must follow when our Sheep are destoyed and with them all other kinde of Cattell if this most unnaturall war continue but a short time The Hollanders are an industrious and diligent people and watch all opportunities to ingrosse all the Trade they can into their owne hands they have certainly a vigilant eye over our Actions that Lethargie which hath seized on us will make them the more watchfull they will make no little use of our distractions they will be ready to take hold of what wee let loose and with great eagernesse pursue what wee let goe wee shall not so soone be out as they will be in Lastly if the Trafficke of this Kingdome be once lost what will then become of it what will then be preserved Our Ships the wals of this Land will rot and moulder away Our wealth and Estates will be consumed and no meanes left for recovery Tenants will bee disabled from paying their Landlords and they viz. the Landlords for want of supplyes of moneys by their usuall Rents will not be able to furnish themselves Families with commodities needfull vented by men of sundry Trades viz. Woollen and Linnen Drapers Mercers Grocers Silkmen Habberdashers Vintners c. Together with most sorts of Handicraftsmen or Artificers Part of the commodities wherein they deale being native or of our owne Conntrey both for the materials and Manufacture and part brought into this Kingdome from forraigne Countries Now those sorts of Trades-men failing of the vent of their commodities the Trade of Merchants into other Kingdomes must cease there will be no need of them thence will follow the decay of Ships Mariners and sundry sorts of Artificers Labourers and many others that have their dependency upon them This mischiefe will not be altogether confined and bounded within our owne Land it will extend it selfe like an Epidemicall disease into all or most other Kingdomes where we have Trade For if wee take not off the commodities of those Countries in exchange of ours they must suffer and that not a little by it and for remedy partly for want of their accustomed imployment and vent of their said commodities and partly by reason of the want of ours bee inforced to seeke out and learne others Trades and very likely pitch or fall upon the making of such as are here made For as in the Body