Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	heart_n	know_v	3,560	5	3.6423	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44981	The Weavers of London do humbly offer to the serious consideration of both houses of Parliament, that this kingdom of England will sustain great evils and damage by enjoyning the wear of woollen manufactures and leather ... by a law and so consequently restraining the wear of silks and hair stuffs manufactured in England, and that great benefit may ensue to the English nation, by prohibiting the use and wear of silks and stuffs foreign manufactur'd, appears by these following particulars ...	Worshipful Company of Weavers (London, England)	1689 (1689)	Wing H3422; Wing W1194B; ESTC R16181	6,382	6

That the enjoyning the wearing of Woollen Manufacture five Months in the Year will answer the Consumption of Wooll that is abated in the Exportations It is answered That it had need exceed it three times over for that the making 60000 Cloths in a Year more than now is will not set so many people at work as the other will throw out of work and if it could be supposed that there would be vent for so many more it is presumed there would not be found Wooll enough to make them it being now somewhat a scarce Commodity and raised in price a third part to what it was some years past So that indeed at this time there is no just cause to complain of the want of Consumption of Wooll it being a good scarce and ready money Commodity but that the Restraint of Silk and Hair Stuffs and the enjoyning the Wear of Woollen will neither increase the Consumption of it to such a degree nor yet answerable to the Abatement of the Exportation of it by 15 or 20000 Clothes per annum is proved thus because the Nobility Gentry and better sort of Tradesmen will not wear our course Cloths made of English Wooll onely but fine Dutch Cloth and Cloth made of Spanish Wooll which in some of the finest Cloths have not above five or six pounds of English Wooll in a whole Cloth as the Makers of fine Cloths will acknowledge so that little English Wooll will be consumed by them that use to wear Silks and Stuffs and on the other hand the poor Manufacturers both of Woollen Silk and Hair they generally wear our course Cloths and Stuffs made all of English Wooll and these being either impoverished hereby that they cannot cloath themselves but with Rags or be forc'd beyond the Seas must necessarily cause a far less Consumption of our English Wooll For it cannot be supposed that the expence of English Wooll in fine Cloths can answer to the loss of that expence which is now worn by these poor Creatures So that indeed the expence of English Wooll will by this means be abated in England not onely so much but much more than what the Abatements of the Exportations of our Woollen Manufactures amount unto by means of such a Restraint of the one and enjoyning the other That by Restraint of the Wear of any part of Silk the Consumption of Wooll must needs be lessen'd for that the several Stuffs hereafter mentioned viz. Bombazines Anthorines Silk Sayes Crape Silk Masquerades Stript Cheneys Virgins Beauty Drafts of all sorts Druggets of all sorts Silk Calamantoes Silk Gloriosa's of all sorts Silk Shades Worsted Barratines Glassamines Katherina's Tameenes Estameenes Effegenes and all or most of Norwich Stuffs with great numbers of other Stuffs too many to be here inserted having but one part of Silk in them and nine parts of Worsted which is our English Sheeps Wooll which through the Ingenuity of the Weavers and other concern'd therein are made very acceptable for the use and wearing of divers persons in the Winter Season yet because of that little part of Silk in them cannot then be worn in Apparel to the lessening the Consumption of Wooll and to the taking away the chief part of the Trade and Imployment of many thousand persons This Injunction of the one and Restraint of the other will much depress the Protestant and advance the Papal Interest not only in England but throughout Europe and were it not but that by the unanimous Votes of this present Protestant Parliament wherein to the chearing of English Hearts they have manifested so much zeal for the Protestant Interest and the Rights and Privileges of Englishmen it would cause great suspicion of ill designs for there is nothing more conducing to the destruction of the Protestant Religion and the advancement of Popery than the disuniting of the Hearts and Affections of the English people who are generally Protestants and the best sort of Protestants And this the Jesuits have not been wanting by all means to effect and there is nothing more proper thereunto than to bring off the Affections of the People from the Love of Parliaments by any means whatsoever which they know are the greatest Anticipation and Obstruction of their damnable designs but through the mercy of God they have in a great measure been hitherto prevented and it 's hoped yet will by a timely prospect of those things that may cause it And though it cannot be thought that any true Englishman would knowingly countenance but detest such designs yet it is feared if such an Act should pass it would not only alienate the Affections of many thousand Protestants by exposing them to Want and Penury and to beg their Bread and seek it in other Countries but also would make this great and populous Nation which at present under God is the Fortress of the Protestant Religion indefensible against the Papal designs by scattering up and down in other parts of the World those that are ready at all times and best adapted to defend it and put them upon a temptation by their necessities and dwelling amongst them to turn Papists And this also in a short time will carry away the Trade of the Nation which is now increasing and flourishing to other parts of the World that are generally our Enemies to the utter ruine of the whole Nation both in Trade and Navigation and the sacred Religion thereof And of what evil consequence this will be to the Nobility and Gentry by bringing down the price of their Lands may easily be conceived by an ordinary Capacity Again If this Injunction of the one and Restraint of the other do pass into a Law it will not only destroy the most chief and principal Manufacture of the Nation whereby so many Thousand Native Protestants get their livelihood and subsistance but which is considerable it may truly be called the Protestant Trade for it sets to work and employs most of the Strangers and Foreign Protestants that fly from the tyrannical Persecutions of the Papist 〈◊〉 other Countries and They must be forced also to return again for it is judged that 〈◊〉 Parts of ten of the Protestant Strangers that comes over into England are employ●● 〈…〉 Trade of Silk and Hair to their great comfort both of Soul and Body And the 〈…〉 London do freely receive them and that in so great numbers that a very great 〈…〉 Silk and Hair-weaving Trade is managed by them and their Dependants And 〈…〉 Silk and Hair Trade encouraged as it 's hoped it will by this Parliament there might y●… received 100000 more into the Trade so beneficial is it to England and so considerable to the strength of the Protestant Interest But now if it shall please the Parliament instead of restraining the wear of our own Manufactures to prohibit the wearing of Silks and Stuffs Manufactured in Foreign Parts this would certainly inrich and people the Nation and cause a greater Consumption of Wool as also advance and