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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

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