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love_n	affection_n	heart_n	set_v	2,588	5	5.0743	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07552	The customers replie. Or Second apologie That is to say, an aunswer to a confused treatise of publicke commerce, printed and dispersed at Midlebourghe and London, in fauour of the priuate Society of Merchants-Aduenturers. By a more serious discourse of exchange in merchandise, and merchandising exchange. Written for vnderstanding readers onely, in fauour of all loyall merchants, and for the aduancing of traffick in England.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1604 (1604)	STC 17932; ESTC S114604	32,899	48

giue light vnto others but happily reserued to honour your Lordships and these our dayes withall And since the case of Customers stands so farre preiudged that euen theyr Cryes seeme but Ecchoes in the * Out-Torts Deserts round about the Plaines neere the FORREST OF SHIFTS the sound whereof most men passe by but heare not many heare but vnderstand not some few vnderstand but regard not and no man pitties And that their painful Apologies are left to the Ignorant to prostitute publiquely and turne into Sinne whilst they sit still in silence like Barnes so ding'd that they dare not greit Let Experience tell IELOVSIE how she torments TRAFFICK by clogging her * Custome seruice Seruice with swarms of such Instrumēts as loue her Customs but as Rats do loue Cheese And let Nature tell SVSPITION howe TRAFFICK appeales That whilst her * Custome houses HOVSES as Places infected or haunted with Sprites are either abandond or by Extremities made subiect to Shifts The Free-will Offerings The Effects of Loyaltie The True-loue-knots knit betweene Subiects Prince And Tokens of * Customes Affection religiously moued in Minds admiring the glorious OBIECT of their owne welfare Good from the harts of her Merchants humbly presented to Soueraigne Dignitie and to None other due Become now set to sale As if franck-harted Loue true-louing Loyalty the Homage of Subiects and Honor of KINGS Were Thinges transferrent from that Prerogatiue which giues them life and Beeing Or subiect to Exchange Or vendible for Money Or fit for * The Farming out of Customes offensiue to Nature and vnto Traffick meerely Heterocliton FARMORS Dryuing TRAFFICK thus from the Lyme-kill to the Cole-pit euery way decaying her PORTS Et Licentijs sumus omnes deteriores disgracing her Seruaunts But as inveterate Errors hold still their aduantage and are neuer ouerthrowne till from Signes vnto Causes by Effects it appeare how the Worlde in Matter of TRAFFICK hath beene abused ouer-ruled and ouer-seene So when TRVTH the Daughter of TIME by practise and proofe shall be brought to light then shall Ignorance and Impudencie stand both confounded IELOSIE herselfe see that in Customers vertue is not vice For if it be true that Truth hath sworne Customers haue written Experience confirmes To wit That looke what the Soule is to the outward actions of the Body in ordering each Member so as to Nature seemes fittest for the good of the whole Man the same is TRAFFICK in disposing Mysteries and Trades to the behoofe of the Common-Wealth The * The King DAY-STARRE is risen and the * The Prince DAVVNING appeares which giuing life to our Hopes makes vs breath out thus much and say The time may come when this hartie zeale of ours to our SOVERAIGNES honour and his Peoples happines may be better regarded and deserue not onely thanks and good words but make all men confesse themselues Merchants at least to owe as much to these weake endeuours of CVSTOMERS euen those of the despised Out-Ports of this Realme I say not as one Port one Towne or one Citty of London but many Ports many Townes and many Citties like London and all their wealth besides are worth some few priuate particuler and preuenting Persons excepted The Censure whereof I most humbly submit to Iudgement and Wisedome with this Caution finall Conclusion That TRVTH lyes deepe and few there are that vndertake the toyle to delue till they finde her And though Publique harmes priuate Disgaces to men of my Calling haue singled me foorth and pressed mee forward to worke thus alone for the Common-good the burden whereof makes mee cry aloude I must confesse that in these Apologies and forced Defences accusing no man for that was the Deuils part from the beginning nor at warre with any but Sinne and Dishonestie Nil magis in Votis nec habui nec habeo quam vt inter plures aliquos inveniam qui de istis judicare queant Iudicare autem non possunt nisi vtcunque Literati aut Rerum vsu periti Ex hijs satis mihj pauci Lectores sat erit si vel vnus In Appealing therefore to the GRAVEST and WISEST in HIGHEST AVTHORITY I haue thought it meetest safest for triple respects to present my selfe and my poore seruice to your honorable Lordships by whose speciall fauours next GOD and my SOVERAIGNE I am that I am and so desire to be knowne Your LL by seuerall Duties deuotedly bound Tho Milles. THE CHAPTERS CONTAYNING the matter handled in this TREATISE ¶ A Preface or Introduction to the Matter handled in the Treatise of Exchange ¶ 1 The Antiquity necessity vse of Lawfull Exchange and a Description thereof ¶ 2 How Merchants haue deuised and introduced another kind of Exchange called Merchandising Exchange ¶ 3 The Compacts and Conditions commonly agreed vpon in Merchandising Exchange ¶ 4 The termes of Arte proper to Merchandising Exchange by diuersities of Times and Distances of Place ¶ 5 The Diuersitie of prices of Money currant in Merchandising Exchange according to the Distances of Place difference of Tymes ¶ 6 The manner of raysing the valuation of Money in Merchandising Exchange ¶ 7 The Difference betweene the Lawfull Exchange and Merchandising Exchange ¶ 8 The first standing Bankes and Pillers of Merchandising Exchange And a Description thereof ¶ 9 Three Practises and fiue Abuses hurtfull and pernicious to all Common-wealths by Merchandising Exchange ¶ 10 How and by whom the practising of Merchandising Exchange is the Cause of all excessiue prices in Commodities things vendible to the preventing perverting of all lawfull Traffick orderly Dealing within the Realme Common-wealth of England ¶ An Abridgement of the speciall Inconueniences to this Realme of England handled in the foresayd tenth Chapter ¶ A generall Conclusion A TREATISE Of EXCHANGE in Merchandise and Merchandising EXCHANGE ¶ A Preface or Introduction to the Matter handled in the Treatise of EXCHANGE ALl things whatsoeuer tend naturally to some End Which End beeing the Perfection of that for which it worketh is onely attaind vnto by apt fit Meanes That which appoynts moderates fitnes Forme in working is termed a Law by which as by Rules the World and all things therein are distinguisht and stinted Which Limitation is both the Perfection and Preseruation of the Things themselues Measure therefore working by Proportions is the way to Perfection And since nothing doth perrish but through the too much or too little of that the due proportioned Measure whereof dooth giue Perfection Measure is also the Preseruation of all Things For to Proportion Excesse and Defects are opposites Iustice then beeing the foreconceiued End of all Actions is prescribed and perfitted by Lawes and preserued by Measures Which beeing the Heauenly charge of Earthly Princes sets foorth lymits their Soueraignties Prerogatiues sacred royall otherwise in regard of their humane Substances and qualities transcēdent For it is said They are Gods in

giuen proclaimed by their Prince Merchants gouerne the Common-wealth So that Merchants brought all men to follow theyr bow as concerning the estimation of English Money where they in the meane season passed not what they gaue in England for the Commodities thereof though they sold them to no profit at the Marts because the returning of the Money from the Marting-townes by theyr Merchandising Exchange was so profitable and gainefull vnto them during this base and low price of Exchange Likewise whereas the Queenes Maiestie Elizabeth by the aduice of her prudent and graue Counsellers mooued with great loue zeale and pitty towards all states of persons but specially towards the poorer sort oppressed and burthened with the excessiue prices of all things vendible within her Graces realme which sprung and rose as the common fame went by the occasion of the Drossy and monstrous Base-Money currant and set forth or at the least way permitted to be currant and set foorth by her Graces predecessors throughout the Realme like a most godly and louing Princesse hath taken away and abolished all the said course and Drossy Money coyne and for it restored as fine siluer coyne as euer was currant in the Realme before or rather finer hoping meaning and intending thereby to haue taken away there-with the corrupnesse and drossines of prices which likewise all thinges sold in her Maiesties Realme at the time was corrupted with As without doubt if no subtill pollicie had come betweene to haue letted and stopped her Graces wholesome purpose therein it would haue effected For some likelihood thereof began a little while to appeare by the falling of the prices of victuall at the Markets when it was first noised and bruted abroade that by a certaine day appointed and limited no Money but such as was of fine Siluer or Gold set forth by her Maiesty or by her Graces Predecessors should be paiable or currant thereafter within the Realme and that all the drossy coyne should be brought to her Mint of London where euery man should receiue for the same pure and fine Siluer Money of her Graces coyne whereat all persons much reioyced although for the present euery state of the Realme knew they should receiue a losse thereby Yet the consideration of the benefit that was to a good will But heere blind couetousnesse with greedy gaine and lucar raigning in the Marting-Merchants stirred vp theyr wits to practise their old subtill pollicie for the sauing of theyr state from losse which was to bring downe and abase the English pound in their Merchandising Exchange for the returning home of theyr Money into England from their Marting-townes at the other side the Sea and as they did before in the blessed time of King Edward so now at the first bruite and rumour of this Queenes most noble and euer praiseable enterprise they caused the price of her pound of Money to be valued in theyr Exchange but at 16. and 17. ss Flemish by which occasion as it came to passe before at other reformations of Monies the prices of all those Countrey commodities and also of all other forraine Nations and Countries did not onely keepe theyr old excessiue and deere prices in England but did rather encrease and waxe higher and so did likewise the commodities of the Realme follow after not onely because forraine wares did so but specially for the hastines men made to bestow their Money vpon them by the examples of the Merchants Aduenturers who spared not to buy all manner of wares transportable beyond the Sea at what price soeuer was demaunded for thē for that this returning home of Money by Exchange made them great gayners and would be a way meane if the worst fell to keepe and saue them from all losse and danger in the fall of the Money which all other states and conditions hauing theyr traffick within the Realme looked to haue sustained and borne by the reformation of the said Money which these Merchants Aduenturers did prouide to auoyde through this theyr peculier traffick and practise by tossing and turning their Money betweene England and their Marting-Townes by the sayd Merchandising Exchange For although the commodities of the Realme which they transported to the Marts rose from 4. li. to 6. li. and 7. li. English yet might they sell them at the Marts as good cheape as euer they did and be greater gainers then in times past For so much as though customably they did make afore times 30. 34. ss Flemish of a pound English in theyr sales after which rate they made 6. and 7. pound 8. ss Flemish of 4. li. English and so 150. pound and 160. li. Flemish of a 100. li. English yet because they returned theyr Money by Exchange at that time after 28. ss and 30. ss or 32. ss Flemish for the English pound theyr gaines passed not aboue 13. in the hundred Where now selling their commodities at the said prices of 6. 7. li. Flemish though they paid also for them so much in England of English Money after which reckoning they did or do make of 100. li. English but 100. Flemish yet returning home their Money after this reckoning and low Exchange of 16. and 17. ss Flemish for the English pound they got betweene 17. 25. in the hundred notwithstanding they sold not vnder 24. 26. ss Flemish for the pound English during the said lowe Exchange after which rate although they made but 120. 130. li. Flemish of their 100. li. English yet made they in England at the returne of their Money by the foresaid low Exchange aboue 150. and 160. li. English of their 100. li. transported first from thence to the Marts By which manner of reckoning ☜ theyr gaines rose to aboue 50. and 60. in the 100. for the space of one Mart. And so by this policy of Merchandising Exchange Merchants Aduenturers haue not only saued themselues at all falls of Mony passed in England haue hindred the Queenes Maiesties purpose Note for the bringing downe of the excessiue prices of things in the vtter abolishing of all the drossy corrupt Money in the Realme but there-withall they haue beene euermore the occasion and Authors of the disorder and of the raysing of all manner of wares and commodities in the Realme more and more to such excessiue and inordinate price as eyther they haue borne or doe beare at this day neither is there any other kinde of State or Persons in the Realme that eyther could haue deuised or els that went about to frustrate her Maiesties purposes in reducing all the base coynes to so pure or fine substance or matter but onely these Merchants Aduenturers by the practise of their fraudulent Exchange for all other maner of persons of the Realme would gladly haue borne the losse of the Money according to the Queenes Maiesties meaning because they perceiued that they should thereby thereafter saue more for the buying of things at moderate and