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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76121	The merchants remonstrance. Wherein is set forth the inevitable miseries which may suddenly befall this kingdome by want of trade, and decay of manufactures. By I.B. of London merchant. This is licensed and entred into the Hall-booke according to order.	Battie, John.	1644 (1644)	Wing B1157; Thomason E32_16; ESTC R209960	3,765	15

THE MERCHANTS REMONSTRANCE Wherein is set forth the inevitable miseries which may suddenly befall this Kingdome by want of Trade and decay of Manufactures By I.B. of London Merchant This is licensed and entred into the Hall-Booke according to Order LONDON Printed by R.H. February 12. 1644. To the Reader READER MY Profession being that of a Merchant thou must expect the Language and stile in this REMONSTRANCE answerable thereunto Let thy thoughts be upon the matter it self weigh it well for it is of such concernment to the welfare of the whole Kingdome that it must stand and fall with it Farewell I. B. The Merchants Remonstrance TRade is the life of a State Manufactures are the sinewes of Trade and Money is the soule of both There is such a necessary connection and dependency between them that the one cannot subsist without the other The last doth animate the second and the second supports the first and the first gives motion and quickning to the other two Now of all sorts of Trade Trafficke hath been alwayes esteemed the most noble because the most hazardous And Trafficke is most proper and usefull to Islands whose security and power depends principally upon shipping and navall strength Amongst Islands this of great Britaine hath been from all times held the most rich and renowned as well for the fertility of the soyle and temperature of the ayre As for the substantiall and necessary native commodities it affords in such plenty to advance Trade and oblige all other Nations Now there is no greater enemy to Trade than War be it in what Countrey it will our Neighbours the Hollanders excepted who by so long a habit of War seems to make a Trade of it They are the onely men who by the advantage of their scituation can fish best in troubled waters witnesse the tumults of Germany and these of England and Ireland Yet forraigne war is not so great a disturber of Trade nor halfe so destructive as intestine For as the fire that 's kindled within doores and in the bed-straw as it were rageth more violently so civill War ruines Trade faster than any other and makes poverty and desolation post in one after the other wheresoever it is kindled Now the drift of this small Remonstrance is to shew the great misery that may suddenly befall this Kingdome through want of Trade and the evill effects it may produce First for that the chiefest way of enriching a Kingdome is the expence of it's native or home commodities that can well be spared in forraigne parts if it faile the Manufacture must cease by which meanes many thousands of poore Families which have no other maintenance by their daily labour or by what each dayes worke will afford them will be suddenly exposed to beggery Secondly divers Workmen or Artificers through want of imployment here will doubtlesse goe into other Countries and exercise their Trade whereby it may come to the knowledge and practise of strangers as I feare is already being at the penning hereof informed that in Zeland there are Loomes set up for Perpetuano's and other Stuffs And that in other places they are not idle setting up daily Loomes for Cloth c. It wil perhaps be objected that if our Wooll which is the chiefe materiall be wanting they will faile of the exercise of their Trade in forraigne parts I answer that such Wools may be had elsewhere as will serve their turne by the due mixture of such sorts as will fit and agree best together Witnesse The store of course Cloth made in High Germany where about 20000 English Clothes narrow Lists commonly called by the Merchant Adventurers Franckfort sorts each Cloth containing 28 yards in length were yearely spent and since not above 2000 vented of the said sorts the cause whereof was that unhappy Project of dying and dressing of Cloth by Sir William Cockaine and others which so much insenced the Germanes for if it had taken effect many Families of Clothworkers and Dyers would have bin destroyed that they used their utmost endeavours to practise the making of the said sorts of Clothes which had such successe that in a very short time the expence of those sorts of English Clothes was brought downe from so great to so small a number That Project found the like or worse entertainment in Holland and other parts of the Low Countries where before that time many thousands of finer sorts of English Clothes were more vented then now are so that it was observed that whereas before the said Project was put in practise there were about eighty thousand English Clothes of all sorts per annum exported by the old Company of Merchant Adventurers that in the new Companies time and since not much above thirty thousand whence this Inference may be easily drawne That Innovations in a State or Common-wealth are alwayes dangerous and sometimes destructive Before the late war between us Spaine there were sent hence thither great store of knit Stockings but the Importation of all English commodities into that Kings dominions being prohibited his Subjects put in practise the making of Stockings and in those quantities and at such easie rates that since we have had peace with that King it hath been free for English Merchants to import those of the Manufacture of our Countrey yet very few are sent for that they cannot be afforded at such low rates as those made there That people did then also practise the making of Bayes which t is probable had taken such effect that if the warre had continued betwixt the two Kings somwhat longer the vent of English had bin there quite lost Hence it followeth That War with forraigne States is destructive to our Manufactures But admit that forraigne Nations notwithstanding what hath been said will in some measure have need of some of our Woollen Manufactures we shall not be able to furnish them therewith the chiefe materiall Wooll being wanting which want must follow when our Sheep are destroyed 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 we let loose and with great eagernesse pursue what we 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 bee consumed and no meanes left for recovery Tenants will be disabled from paying their Landlords and they viz. the Landlords for want of supplyes of moneyes by their usuall Rents will not be