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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01791	Britania expirans or, A brief memorial of commerce humbly offer'd to the Parliament,	England and Wales. Parliament.	1699 (1699)	Wing B4813B; ESTC R217700	15,726	25

which is Verbatim exprest in the Journals of Edward VI. Edward VI. of Blessed Memory us'd all Endeavour to retrieve what his Father lost by Establishing Trade upon a just and honest Basis in the right of his own Subjects and in the Year 1552. the English Merchants being brought to this low Ebb in Trade put in their complaint to the King and Council against these Merchants Tutonicorum as they stil'd themselves and they gave in their Answer to the said Complaint upon the Eighteenth Day of January and upon the 25th their Answer was deliver'd to some Learned Council to peruse it upon the Eighteenth day of February the Merchant-Adventurers put in their Replication to the said Answer and upon the Twenty Third a Decree was made by the Board that upon Knowledge and Information of their Charters they had found First That they were no sufficient Corporation Secondly That their Names Numbers and Notions were unknown Thirdly When Edward the Fourth did restore them to their Privileges it was upon the condition that they should cover no Foreigners Goods which they had done For these Considerations Sentence was given That they had forfeited their Liberties and were to be no more than Strangers Upon the 28th Day came Ambassadors from Hamburgh Lubeck and the Regent of Flanders to speak upon the behalf of these Merchants Tutonicorum And upon the Second of March the Answer for the Ambassadors was committed to the Lord Chancellor the two Secretaries Sir Robert Bowes and Sir John Baker Judge Mountague Griffith Solicitors Gosnald Goodrick and Brooks it remained under Consideration until the First day of May and then the Merchants Tutonicorum received their full Answer confirming the former Judgment of the Council This gave great Encouragement to English Men to come into the Company of Merchant-Adventurers In October 3. following there met Three hundred Merchant-Adventurers of that Company and lent Edward the Sixth Forty thousand Pounds to be paid in Flanders and they Ship'd off at that time Forty thousand Cloths Our Woollen Manufactures at this time were wonderfully debast Anno quinto sexto Edw. 6. cap. 6. as appears by the Preamble of the Statute made in the same Year Gold was paid at advance Prices at the same time and I think there was never more effectual Means used in any Reign to discourage the Profuseness which this Kingdom was led into cap. 19. in the long Reign of Henry the Eighth To prevent the Abuses and Disorders in Ale-Houses and Tippling-Houses a Power was given by Law to the Justices of Peace to Remove Discharge and put away common selling of Ale and Beer as they shall think convenient and none allowed without giving Bond and Surety against using unlawful Games Anno quinto sexto Epw 6. cap. 25. and for maintaining good Order and Rule AND whereas at this time great numbers of Taverns were set up in back-Lanes Corners and suspicious Places within the City of London which produced many Inconveniencies Anno septimo Edw. 6. cap. 5. much Evil Rule and common resort of misrul'd Persons The Price of French Wine was limited to Eight Pence a Gallon at the most AND the number of Taverns reduced to Forty in the City of London and no Persons to keep any Wine in their Houses under such Qualifications These had been the most effectual means to discourage Profaneness and Imorality so often recommended by His Majesty Sine cerere Bacco friget Venus And I think I may say we have had Forty new erected Taverns in the City of London since our Reformation made out of English Merchants Houses A very commodious Accommodation to Merchant Aliens Queen Mary in the First Year of her Reign made a good step to regulate Persons in their Habits according to their Professions and Employments Whosoever shall wear Silk in or upon his Hat Bonet Girdle Scabbard Hose Shooes Spurleather shall be three Months imprisoned and forfeit 10 l. except Mayors Aldermen c. If any Person knowing his Servant to offend do not put him out of his Service within Fourteen Days or do retain him again Anno primo Ph. Mar. c. 2. he shall forfeit 100 l. This Counsel would never have consented to the vast Charge and Hazard of our Fleet in the Straights to bring home this Commodity There was an attempt made in this Reign by the Foreign Merchants of the Stilliard to regain their Liberties by the Favour of King Philip but it proved ineffectual In the Year 1557 we lost Calais which of a long time had been the chief Mart of English Goods Queen Elizabeth confirmed the Charter of the Merchant-Adventurers of England and added Hambrough East and West-Frizland to their Charter and upon Stipulation with the Town of Hambrough as large Priviledges are granted to the English Factory as they had in former Time at Calais a very commodious Place to the Service of Germany In the first Year of Her Reign she revived the Law made by Henry the Seventh Anno primo Eliz. cap. 11. that no Person Denizen nor Stranger do take upon him to Enter or Do or Cause to be Entred any manner of Goods coming In or going Out in the Name or Names of any other Person or Persons than the very true Owner or Owners of the Goods upon Forfeiture of the Goods and at this time Aliens Duties were called the Antient Revenue of the Crown In the next Place She made an effectual Law to preserve the Imployment of our Navigation cap. 13. by obliging all Persons that Ship'd any Goods upon Foreign Bottoms to pay Aliens Duties In this Law She limited the Merchant-Adventurers to two Shippings a Year and no more In the Fifth Year of Her Reign a Law was made to prevent any Credit which should be given with Foreign Goods Anno quinto Eliz. cap. 6. appertaining to the Cloathing or Adorning of the Body by rendring the Person that Sold them uncapable to recover his Money In the Thirteenth Year of Her Reign She obliged every Person above the Age of Seven Years to wear upon the Sabbath-Day upon their Head a Cap of Wooll Knit Slick'd and Dressed in England Decimo tertio Eliz. cap. 19. except Maids Ladies Gentlewomen Noble Personages and every Lord Knight and Gentleman of Twenty Mark Land and their Heirs and such as have bore Office of Worship in any City Borough Town Hamblet or Shire and the Wardens of the Worshipful City of London upon pain to Forfeit for every Days not wearing Three Shillings and Four Pence So careful was She to preserve the Employment of Her own Subjects When each Woman in England in King Charles the Second and King James's Reign was a standing Revenue to the King of France by his Alamodes and Lustrings this was the last Sumptuary Law made in England and what Figure England made in the World and how firm this Queen stood in the true Interest of the Populacy I need not multiply Words to relate King James