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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63134	An essay to the restoring of our decayed trade wherein is described the smugglers, lawyers, and officers frauds, &c. / by Joseph Trevers.	Trevers, Joseph.	1677 (1677)	Wing T2130; ESTC R23763	38,985	66

Yarmouth Quinborough Westminster Chester Winchester Exeter and Bristol and the Staples of Ireland and Wales were to be kept where first they were ordained and several other good clauses were added concerning the Regulation of the Staples as may be seen at large in the Statute of the Staple 27. Edw. 3. It was there appointed that all Merchants Strangers Sta. 8 Hen. 5. cap. 2. that bought wooll in England to conveigh to the West parts or elsewhere that did not bring them to some of the Staples to be sold were to bring to the Master of the Kings Mint for every sack of Wooll which contained ninety four pounds an ounce of Gold Bulloin or the value in silver Bulloin on pain to forfeit such Wooll or the value thereof to the King absolutely Stat. 8. He. 5. cap. 2. I also find that great care was taken that no persons in Norfolke should buy wooll there and in divers other Countries thereabout for fear they should Transport it but only those Merchants which carried it to the Staples or those which did convert it into Yarn Hats Girdles or Cloth Stat. 1. Ed. 6. cap. 6. And that such woolls as were bought in Norfolke and Norwich and those Countries were to be sold and retailed in the open Market if not carryed to the Staples And that those in Hallifax were to sell what Wooll they bought to Stat. 2. those poor people in the town or parts adjacent who to their knowledge did work up the same into Cloth or Yarn and if the Wooll driver did sell his wooll out of Hallifax or if any of the town bought to sell again unwrought into yarn or cloth every such Offender did forfeit their double value of the wooll so sold or uttered the one half to the King and the other half to the Prosecutor and the Justices Stat. 3. Ed. 4. Cap. 5. of the Peace in their Sessions were to determine the same Many sorts of wares and Merchandises were prohibited to be brought into the Realm ready wrought which were wrought and made by Hand-crafts-men That all forreign Bone lace cuttings Embroydery French Stat. 14. cap. 121. 13. Bandstrings buttons needle-work c. were prohibited to be brought into this Realm Noneshall export any sheep or wooll wooll felles Martlings Stat. 12. cap. 2 32. Yarn Fullers earth Fulling clay nor carry load nor convey the same to be transported upon several penalties as well upon the owners of the sheep as the persons that shall convey the same This Statute at large is worth the perusing and might do much good to the Kingdome if it was duly observed by all the Kings Subjects but the behaviours of our people in England are not as they were in former times for then a Law was no sooner made but all men took immediate notice of it and did willingly yield their obedience thereto but the people have been so accustomed to the breach of Law and Rebellion that in reason it cannot suddenly be forgotten and desisted from by many people for men now adayes are grown so Critically wise to do evil that let the King with the advice of the Lords and Commons make use of their best discretion and judgements in framing Laws for the publique good and wording them according to the most proper sence by them intended yet some ordinary fellow that hath store of confidence and a little money and that it may be gained by Cheating too one way or another will find a hole in them to transgress those Lawes and if they are called in question then they have tricks and evil devices enough to torment those that do faithfully discharge their Oathes and Consciences for the publique good as I my self can speak sufficiently concerning this and such like cases by my sad experience It was made Fellony for any English Welsh or Irish to Stat. 23 E. 3. transport Wooll wooll felles Leather Lead c. and a second clause in the last Act was that no English Welsh or Irish-man shall transport any of the said commodities in any strangers name or keep a servant beyond the Seas to survey the sale thereof or to receive money therefore a third clause in the said Act was that there should be no exchange of wares for Merchandise of the Staple but Gold or Silver or English Welch or Irish Merchandise neither shall any Merchant make any confederacy in fraud or deceipt to this Ordinance upon the paines aforesaid A fourth Clause in the said Act was that it should be lawful for every man to carry his own Wooll Wooll felles Leather or Lead to the Staple warranting the packing of this Wooll Merchants were prohibited the exporting the money Stat. 4. H. 4. ca. 15. which they received in England for their Merchandise and goods imported but they were to lay out their money again upon some of the Merchandise of this Realm except their reasonable Expences All Merchants strangers were enjoyned to lay out their Money they received for their Merchandise imported into Stat. 17 E. 4. cap. this Realm again in some Merchandise of this Realm and to prove the laying of their money so out and by whom it was so layd out before the Officers of the Port where it was so disposed of or laid out upon the penalty of forfeiting all his goods found within the Realm and to suffer a years Imprisonment All Merchants strangers were bound to give security to Stat. 15. Hen. 4. ca. the King's Customer and Controller to imploy their money upon the commodities of this Realm their reasonable costs excepted and Italian Merchants were to sell their Goods where they did land them in gross and not by retail and their Stat. 1. Ric. 3. cap. 16. 9. money so received to be laid out again in the Realm within the space of eight moneths These and such like Statutes and Lawes might do very much good to encrease the Tradeing of the kingdome if they were enquired into and revived with such addition as might be necessary for now we send all our money out of the Kingdome and vend but small quantities of our Manufactures but onely our native commodities which are prohibited which quite ruines our Trade It shall be Fellony for any that shall transport any Sheep 14. cap. 2 Stat. 14. Wooll wooll fells martlings shorlings yarn made of wooll wooll flocks fullers earth fulling clay Tobacco-pipe clay c. this Act I do beleive if not repealed will do much injury now adaies although it was intended for publique good for I fear it will hinder many people from discovering the Offenders and breakers of the Law though they were sure to have never so great a reward for it for many men will be very cautelous how they touch the life of a man though they do deserve death more a thousand times than the Theif that robs on the High-way for a Theif doth but take away part of a particular mans Estate but these wretches that

of the Land directly nor indirectly but lay it out in the goods and wares of England their necessary expences excepted according to the true intent and meaning of the said Statute Whether it be not worthy to be taken into consideration concerning the fineness and weight of our English Coin above Quere 20. and beyond the Coin of our neighbouring Nations and whether that be not the cause of its Exportation out of the Land a broad twenty shillings peice of Gold being worth in France Flanders and Holland twenty seven shillings and a Crown piece of silver worth six shillings so that I suppose we may cease wondring what is become of the money of the Kingdome considering it is such profit to the Merchant to transport it beyond Sea Whether it would not very much increase Trading and be highly advantageous to the King's Majesty to have money Quaere 21. plentiful in the Land and greatly benefit the Common-Weale if money in England was in some measure made sutable or equal to the weight and fineness of money in other Lands and whether this would not be a great means of bringing in money from other Lands and then keep it in the Kingdome being brought in by such means the King would be sure to have a speedy supply on all demands for his occasions and it is granted on all hands that good Treasures of Money are the principal Sinews of War Whether we in England ought not in reason to take the Quere 22. same care for the preservation and advancement of our Native Commodities as every other Kingdome and Countrey doth for theirs as in Spain the labour of the people is in their Vineyards for the Production of Wine and Fruit concerning which they take great care that they make the ulmost and spend little of these things themselves that they may make money of them to furnish their needs with what is sutable and many times they will not part with these their goods for Barter or Exchange for other goods but will have ready money and at dear rates too as I have heard by those that have traded into those parts some have given to the Spaniards at the Canaries 100 peices of Eight for an ordinary Pipe of Wine in ready money which 100 Peices of Eight are well worth twenty two pounds Sterling with us and likewise in France concerning their Wines Salt Brandy c. what care is by them taken to make the best of them that may be and what vast quantities of French-Wines Brandy Vinegar c. do come over into England in a year to pay for which I doubt there goes a great deal of ready money and if so in other Countries why should not the same care be taken in England for the advancement of our Manufactures endeavouring thereby to imploy our Poor and so to inrich the Kingdome especially considering the far greater advantages of so doing that we have in England than any other Nation hath as hath been already at large set forth Why should the humour of our people in England so far Quere 23. engage them to an old custome of burying the dead in Linnen as to contradict and disobey so good a Law as was lately made by Act of Parliament for the burial of our dead in Woollen doubtless there was reason enoug then produced in Parliament to sway with the King and those two Honourable Houses for the Enacting the same and whether it be not as decent to cover the dead Corps in Flannel as it is with Linnen beside the burial of the dead in Flannel will greatly advance the Manufacture of the Nation and in reason advance the prizes of all other Woollen wares and this Woollen Cloth is of our own production and when we bury our people in Linne that causeth so much expence for the generality of the goods of other Countries and whether it ought not to be considered that the Law provided in this case ought to be re-inforced Now to draw towards an end I have met with an Objection to this Treatise that it may be judged Superflous because several Books are errant concerning this Subject to which I Answer Though I have reason to beleive them that told me so yet I do beleive that the Reader will find a great difference between this and any other if they be compared together and that in many respects And again I Answer that the more Complaints are made of the Abuses and great Losses to the Kingdome so much the more ought all good men to enquire into the truth of those Complaints and endeavour for sutable Remedies in Tendency whereto I have presented something here by way of Quaere c. And now methinks I hear some wise men say that it is Reason that such abuses should be punished and that severely if any should presume to act such things as are here complained of or any waies vindicate those that do them to the which I answer that I wish that I were called to prove my knowledge of those things without too much charge or Attendance before any that should be appointed to enquire into and to regulate the same for I do not make it my business to set forth in this discourse the perticuler abuses of those Countrey Atturneys Under-Clerks Under-Sheriffs in their returns and the abuses of their Officers and the Assistance that some great Smugglers have from some Magistrates and Justices of the Peace in the Countrey together with the affronts that have been offered to our good Lawes of which I have had a large and sad experience And although our Lawes are good and our Judges are just yet the corruption in the practice of the Law by under-Officers is so exceeding bad and destructive to the Trade and publique good of the Kingdome that in case I should perticularly recite those abuses that I my self have met with among the Practicers of the Law I should fill a Book many times bigger than this And now I shall conclude with the true and hearty wishes of an Englishman that all our Ministers of State may so agree especially in this juncture of time that they may unanimously joyn together as one intire body against all Intruders upon our Trade and Priveledges both at Sea and Land that the Walls of this Kingdome may be built up and preserved and our Tradeing may encrease and flourish so that no cunning Usurpers may rob us of our old Prerogatives of the Seas or the Manufacture of our native Trade upon the Land FINIS In Laudem Authoris Subjecti HAd I but lived in Ben. Johnsons dayes I would have learn't of him to speak the Praise Of Native English Wooll and to set forth It 's real Excellency and it's worth The Poets tell us of the Golden Fleece That Jason undertook to fetch to Greece But that 's a Fiction ours a real thing Which to the Kingdome doth great Riches bring So that no Nation to us might compare If diligent in working