now proceed to shew you wherein their illegal carriages are manifest and the execution of their office may be reformed CHAP. IV. Shewing the illegal execution of the Aulnageors office THe legality of the Aulnage or Subsidy is by that which hath been said visible to all who will not be blind but the illegality in the execution is carried with a far greater secrecy When the Aulnageor whose ancient duty enjoyned him to search and measure all Trade which came into England was by King Edward as hath been said commanded to receive that Subsidy which the Parliament had granted unto him upon all such Woolls as in time to come should be wrought into any kind of manufacture in England and Wales he was also still engaged as formerly to visit search and measure all such cloths as were to be made in England but finding that the dispersing of the Manufactures was of much more difficulty pains and charge to him in visiting the several Countreys and respective Towns wherein clothing was placed then it was when the clothing which was made in forreign parts came onely to the Custome houses where by casting a line of seven yards in length four times over the cloth his measuring office was performed but now the clothing was become scattered all over the Land He considered with himself that his Collectorship was of more gains and far less pains then his former office of Aulnage which consisted of searching for the truth in making and of measuring for the assize of lengths and breadths and that of these two works there were many branches both of charge and trouble and that the Reward by Law established was very small he contented himself with the execution of that which had most ease and most profit whereupon clothing speedily corrupted into many abuses as being in a manner lest without Survey each man doing what pleased or profited himself without any reverence to the Law or fear of punishment The Clothiers therefore coming to London to their general Market and there conferring their grievances and complaining each to other of their abusive servants false Weavers and the like they applied themselves to the State for remedies and so became incorporated into Societies and Fraternities and to have the works which were made in and about them brought into their Hals there to be searched measured and sealed which order doth in some kind continue to this day and this also pleased the Aulnageor who by a Deputy with seals placed in such a Town dispatched his work with ease In which times also the Aulnageor having the custody and use of the Kings money was answerable for the same to the State but once every year and then passed his Accounts with great favour from the Lord Treasurer to whom he also at the same time presented a book containing the relation of the moneys he had in that year received for the Subsidy and of the seizures he had made upon the defective clothes which being done he had his quietus and his reward for the year past which he received sometimes by the appointment of the Lord Treasurer and sometimes from the Barons of the Exchequer for from one or some of them he likewise received his commission to seize into his hands all such cloths as were not statutable in assise and substance as also such as were put to sale without the Subsidy seal It was no longer since then in King James his Reign that the Mayor of one of the most eminent Cities in England for clothing was compelled by the Aulnageor nolens volens to seize his own cloths which were taken in offence to the Kings use which Mayor afterwards compounded with the Aulnageor for no less then an hundred pounds The same power also hath the Aulnageor over cloths which are not of assise though in the presence of any Mayor Bayliff or other Magistrate which argues that there is great credit and trust reposed upon the Aulnageor Besides the Statute doth allow him an half penny upon a cloth for his pains in affixing his said seal which half penny in those times was in value worth two pence in these days yet his pains were not then so much by a tenth part as now they are as also the faults were few and easily supprest But the abuses herein soon increased to such height as they begot him great trouble and therefore he neglected measuring and searching offices but still kept the name of Aulnageor under which Title he doth to this day execute the office of Collecting the Subsidy calling that the Aulnage when indeed the true Aulnage is the measuring onely and of antiquity established by Laws far more ancient then any Parliament in England of which we shall speedily say more when we speak of measuring The Aulnageor is by the Statute required to be a person qualified to the place with knowledge and a responsible estate as also for the execution of the place he is to be an English-man but for receiving the profits and revenue there hath ever been some person of honour and principal dignity thereto deputed which office some Queens and Princes have not been ashamed to undergo And further it is observable to the credit of the Aulnageor that in all Parliaments where Statutes were ordained in order to Clothing the Aulnageors power and priviledges were ever preserved which gracious providence ought much to work upon his care as it is evidently a signature to all men of his honour In the seventeenth year of the Reign of King Edward the fourth the Aulnage was made Farmable and then the Aulnageors Fee was established soon after the Counties were farmed out some to one some to another as pleased the King reigning In the beginning of King James his reign this office was by him Farmed to Lodowick late Duke of Richmond and Lennox for the term of about sixty years whereof many were expired with the revertion of a considerable Rent the reversion of which Lease after the Duke Lodowick his decease descended upon his most Honourable Brother Esme Duke of Lennox who disposing the profits thereof to his younger children the possession of the whole is now in right descended upon the Right Honourable the Lord D'Aubigny as onely Survivor and Heir to his Father and Uncles who being in minority of age the execution of the place is by his Honourable Guardians disposed to such persons as to them seems meet who again for their best improvement of its profits do grant Leases and Deputations to others with a clause and penalty of re-entry upon non-payment of their Rents by which means many controversies do grow for amongst the diversity of Tenants such suits and troubles do arise as in the interim the Clothiers not knowing whom to obey do pass without any seal or paying any Subsidy to the great detriment of the State and the Honourable Aulnageor whose rights failing his rents also to the State must necessarily so do All this while the cloth wants the
townes Corporate there is no Searcher appointed but all is left at liberty to the Clothier who useth his liberty so much to his own advantage as should a Searcher be there established by a Iustice of Peace as the Law requires he shall assuredly be affronted sued and imprisoned by such secret helps as the Clothier can procure in the Exchequer carrying therewith such abusive countenance of the Law as a single and simple Officer dares not resist Secondly in Townes Corporate where this office ought to be attended with numbers there is sometimes none but never above one and that an ignorant man as also both nominated and sworn by the Magistrate who undoubtedly is ever a Clothier and as likely by his power to be an offender whom such a worthlesse officer as himselfe puts in dares not controule much lesse correct or seize his Clothes Adde to this also that as he is an abject person and the creature of the Magistrate so is he wanting in knowledge to judge of good and true worke as also of estate or ability to answer his neglects or to give security therefore Thirdly there is neither fault nor penalty denoted or put upon the Seale or Cloth wherein the State is abundantly damnified but because in such a constant practice it is impossible but some people must be punished and some clothes seized in such cases another law appeares in opposition to the Statute which directs the deciding and adjudging such faults to the Lord Treasurer by which the Magistrate of the place where such seizure is made takes upon him more then the Lord Treasurer for he not onely condemnes the culpable goods but ex officio he appropriates the confiscation to himselfe If in Villages there be a Searcher established by the Justice as the Law enjoynes then such seizures come to the Quarter Sessions where by favour and friendship the offender escapes and the State is the fufferer in a word it is very materiall to observation that of so many thousands of Clothes as are made defective and deceptious in England and Wales the Exchequer neither sees one Cloth so seized or seizable no nor a Penny for all the Fines or redemtion of such a Cloth but the abuses continue increase and are maintained the Common wealth and forreigners are generally wronged the State is deprived of its Revenue even to vast summes the Nation is dishonoured over all the world and the continuance of it if not speedily reformed will plead prescription We will now walk through the Measurers office who since the Aulnageor left it is ordained by the Statute to be sworne in Corporations by the Magistrate and in Villages by the Justice adjacent but no Law allowes either them to nominate or appoint the said officer yet in Corporations it is so ordered as well to the Subjects as to the Forreigners great dammage whereof daily presidents may be produced out of Corporations there is no such officer which defect the Clothiers as well as others do feele In which proceedings there is also Law against Law First in Corporations where the Aulnageor ought by the Law to present his deputies to whom the Magistrate is bound under the Penalty of five pounds to give an oath there the Magistrate finds a Law to claim both therein proceeds as he did about the Searcher which is formerly related and out of Corporations there is Law against Conscience where the Clothiers for want of a legall Measurer do bring them unmeasured to London and because they dare not so appeare in the Market the Lord Mayor ex officio causeth his sworn Measurer to measure them yet the Clothier for his private satisfaction causeth them to be most exactly measured before he brings them from home neverthelesse he receives them again from the aforesaid sworn Measurers hands with the ordinary losse of foure and sometimes six yards in a piece of which abuse the Day men in Essex make no small complaint The Mill-men and Cloth-workers can find small colour of Law to countenance their misbehaviours yet they spare not to practcie their deceptions and because they have no shadow of Law they find out the more Art to keep their Cheats from discovery which through use and continuance are now become the chief secret and mysterie yea the principall part of their trade there being very few able to make a perfect Cloth There be indeed some casualties which are pardonable as heate in the Mill to the prejudice of a Cloth which goes in too dry some come by small stones undiscerned in the Fulling-earth some oyles change colour and alter the cloth and some other there be of such kinds CHAP. XIII The crossing of the Law by their own Ministers in exporting raw wools Fullers earth c. IN this part of our complaint wee presume not to meddle with Licences granted by the State to export Raw wools or white Clothes both of which have been permitted to passe the Seas as well for the good of the People as for the benefit of Clothing it selfe yet so as to have the same limited and joyned with the transportation of coloured Clothes may be found much to the advantage of the Nations commodity in Clothing and likewise to observe times in such Licences is very requisite for many Acts of Parliament usefull and important without doubt to the good of the publique when they were ordained have neverthelesse within few yeares following not onely been suspended but repealed in which condition the state of white Clothes hath been sometimes found at present the liberty is great and and thought to be good converting to the utility of the Merchant adventurers but without deniall it is a great prejudice to the Dyers and therein to many thousands of People As for Raw Wools there may be advantage to the Common wealth by their exportation namely when the Cloth trade is obstructed and the manufactures lye upon the Clothiers hand which at present is so found both by the troubles of the Seas and the daily Warres which stopping the utterance of Cloth leaves the wool upon the Grasiers hands and extends to the prejudice of almost all the People of England neverthelesse such as can find a market for Wools may if they please find the same for Clothes and therefore they are fit to passe together so as the wools in smaller quantity may help off the Clothes in greater measure The place also to which Wools may be licensed to passe ought to be considered and that may rather be any where then the Netherlands where their whole drift is to undermine the English Cloth-trade which they cannot so profitably accomplish if they be forced to procure the wools through many hands and severall voyages by no meanes therefore is the present practice to be borne which daily carrieth away of the finest sorts of Wools ready combed into Jarsies for worke which they pack up as Bales of Cloth and accordingly they do enter and Custome them Lastly for Fullers earth there is
go to such places as will more justly discharge the manufactures and then will be found the irrecoverable want of those two great blessings which our Ancestors so much endeavoured to increase which are Wealth in generall and Strength in numbers of People both of which have within these last 300. yeares so multiplyed under the Monarchs of England as by the Trade of Clothing they have been loved or feared of all Nations How those Officers stand now directed by the Lawes and how unable the people therein employed are to discharge those duties will in the following worke be found to be expressly and according to the Lawes delivered Insomuch as every man of judgment who will vouchsafe to read the relation will by his naturall affection to his Country be induced to endeavour a timely reformation lest as the most illuminating Tapers of Religion and Learning are through the provocations of a sinful People whelm'd under a Bushell of Obstinacy and Ignorance so the Riches and Glories of this Lands peculiarized endowments in wooll and clothing will not so much be carried away by an invading enemy as forced to be transplanted by its own People who dayly worke so industriously in that Mine as a very short time will bring the Stranger under the Walles of our safety which God forbid and whereto every true English-man will say Amen THE GOLDEN FLEECE CHAP. I. About Wooll and Clothing THere is nothing in this flourishing Nation of England so universally good and beneficial to the people thereof as is the conversion of Wooll into its several Manufactures wherein it answers the Invention of Man the consequences whereof relate as well to the Soveriegn as to the subject to the Noble as well as to the Ignoble comprising all conditions of men women and children For as in Man the Brain and Liver assisting the Heart do no more but preserve themselves and are chief in their own contemplation though they seem onely to complement and attend the Heart and as the peoples readiness to obey doth seem to ingratiate them to their supreme powers yet do they indeed pursue their duty wholly to their own interest Thus and no otherwise it is with the profits of Wooll The State gives safety and protection to the peoples works and the people give wealth and Revenue to the States subsistence but each of them to each of them chiefly for their particular benefit Wooll is the Flower and Strength the Revenue and Bloud of England It is a Bond uniting the people into Societies and Fraternities for their own Utility It is the Milk and Honey of the Grasier and Countrey-man It is the Gold and Spices of the West and East India to the Merchant and Citizen In a word it is the Exchequer of Wealth and Scepter of protection to them all as well at home as abroad and therefore of full merit to be had in perpetual remembrance defence and encouragement The Wools of England have ever been of great honour and reception abroad as hath been sufficiently witnessed by the constant amity which for many hundred years hath been inviolably kept between the Kings of England and the Dukes of Burgundy onely for the benefit of Wool whose subjects receiving the English Wool at six pence a pound returned it through the manufacture of those industrious people in Cloath at ten shillings a yard to the great enriching of that State both in Revenue to their Sovereign and in imployment to their subjects which occasioned the Merchants of England to transport their whole Families in no small numbers into Flanders from whence they had a constant Trade to most parts of the world And this intercourse of Trade between England and Burgundy endured till King Edward the third made his mighty Conquests over France and Scotland when finding fortune more favourable in prospering his atchievements then his alledgeate subjects were able to maintain he at once projected how to enrich his people and to people his new conquered Dominions and both these he designed to effect by means of his English commodity Wooll All which he accomplished though not without great difficulties and oppositions for he was not onely to reduce his own subjects home who were and had long been setled in those parts with their whole families many of which had not so certain habitations in England as in Flanders but he was also to invite Clothiers over to convert his woolls into clothing and these were the subjects of another Prince or else the stoppage of the stream would soon choke the Mill and then not onely clothing would every where be lost but the materials resting upon his English Subjects hands would soon ruine the whole Gentry and Yeomanry for want of vending their wools Now to shew how King Edward smooth'd these rough and uneven passages were too tedious to this short Narration though otherwise in their contrivance they may be found to be ingenious pleasing and of great use which relation must await another opportunity By this it must be granted that King Edward was Wise as well as Victorious in both he was fortunate which last was much nourished by his bounty for upon a visitation made by himself to the Duke of Burgundy during his residence there he employed such able Agents amongst the Flemish Clothiers as barely upon his promises he prevailed with great numbers of them to come into England soon after him where he most Royally performed those promises in giving not onely a free Denization to them but he likewise invested them with Priviledges and Immunities beyond those of his native subjects which peculiarities their posterities enjoy to this day Surely the seasonable bounty of a Prince rightly placed will not be found the weakest instrument to his atcheivements of honour and success The liberality of Alexander amongst his Macedonians brought three parts of the world under his Dominion because amongst other his valuable considerations towards that rich purchase he summoned by Proclamation the Creditors of all his souldiers and discharged their Debts wherein afterwards divers of the Roman Emperours as Julius Caesar Pertinax and others followed his great example by other bounteous actions in which ranke of wise and indulgent Princes we place this Royal and true Lover of his native Nation King Edward But for the more sure establishment and before these preparations came into effect King Edward upon his return called a Parliament and that in the beginning of his Reign where he so wrought with the Commons-House who had not the least knowledge that the King had moulded the design as after long debate which all motions in that House ought to undergo it was presented to the Lords and so to the King who amongst other objections urged the loss which must necessarily befall his Revenue as well in respect of the outward Subsidy of a Noble upon each sack of wooll which was to be transported as of the inward Custome which the cloath paid upon return according to the rates then established
last age ordained to be kept as authentick in answer to this objection And surely the learned Judges have ever been more properly the Interpreters of the arduous points of the Law then the Attorneys who have no such interest as the Judges have in making the Laws all men holding this for a maxime that Ejus est legem interpretaricujus est condere Now concerning this doubt which hath in late years been raised about exemption of the new Draperies and is of as new an invention as the Stuffs in question it may peradventure prove of little encouragement or advantage to the opposers if it be considered that where a doubt rests upon the Law the favour of interpretation doth ever incline to the advantage of the State till a Parliament come and make a final resolution which also is seldome determined by that grave Assembly to the prejudice of their Ancestors judgments who in a case of such gratitude did not probably intend in any measure to abridge their liberality to the King CHAP. III. An Answer to such as call the Aulnage a Monopoly THere are yet another sort of opposers who charge the office of the Aulnage with the ignominious Title of a Monopoly Surely Monopoly is and hath alwayes been a name of Scandal for it cannot subsist without injury to another and yet there is a glimmering of it in very worthy Societies For all order and government hath in it a sort of Majesty as is seen in Corporations and companies where they exercise uncontroulable power by vertue of their Statutes and scarcely any of them would bear the affront if their ancient Customes and Grants should be branded with the Title of Monopolizing yet their whole Societies do rather savour of a Monopoly than doth this Subsidy of Aulnage but we free them both though of the two the over-strict regulating of a Company carries with it the more resembling marks of a Monopoly As for the Aulnage it may be presumed that very few of those who terme it a Monopoly do know what a Monopoly is Monopoly is a Greek word and intends in all its interpretations the diversion of of a Commerce from its natural course into the hands of some few by which for their sole interest others are prejudiced This is the opinion of Althusius and other learned Civilians whereby it appears that one alone cannot be a Monopolizer though in some carriages of Trade one alone may bear the ignominy of an Ingrosser and so may raise the price of the commodity which he deals in yet others say that a Monopoly is a kind of Commerce in buying selling changing or bartering usurped by a few and sometimes onely by one person to his proper gain and to the detriment of other men But neither in this definition is this Subsidy a Monopoly for there is neither buying selling changing nor bartering in it but it is a free gift of the Common wealth to that King and his successours in this government Then which no Demise or Grant of Land let the consideration be what it will can be more firm in Law for herein no man is restrained or prohibited nor is any price imposed by the Statute Laws and these two are the onely supporters of a Monopoly And whereas from the beginning of this Grant the want of the Aulnageors seal is the forfeiture of that Cloth which is taken so defective in any Market Shop Ware-house Custome-house or Ship Now it is come to a further consideration and necessity for no forreigner will value that cloth which wants this seal because the seal ever containing a part of the Armes of England is by forreigners looked upon as a justification of the true making of the said cloth as indeed it ought to be and herein both a necessity of the office and a necessity of the due execution of the office is very apparent over and besides a necesfity of an exact collection of the States Revenue wherein the losses are less visible because the practice is continual By that which hath been said the world may see that this Subsidy stands clear from that charge of a Monopoly seeing it neither offends in equity by supplanting or undermining anothers freedom of equal rank and condition nor in utility by giving a particular price to the common interest for the Aulnageors private benefit without the proof of which particulars a Monopoly cannot subsist And we have this moreover to say That neither the Grand Assembly of Parliament nor the lesser Brotherhoods of Companies would conclude it to be worthy or just that future conventions shall brand their Acts with so ignominious a title as that of a Monopoly which being granted this Subsidy is out of danger for it hath the consent and fortification of more Acts of Parliament by hundreds then any temporal affair whatsoever And yet you may be pleased further to take an additional president both where and why the King hath of his own goodness forborne his Aulnage or Subsidy In some of the North parts of this Nation whilest clothing hath been in the infancy and where the substance was very course as as it were but for practice to future increase the King upon petition of the workmen hath for their better encouragement been pleased for a time to remit his Subsidy even upon such as they call old Draperies they allowing it to be chargeable with the said Subsidy but so as such manufactures have afterwards fallen into constant payment and do continue the same unto this day without any exception or once pleading the said favour of the King now to excuse them Take yet if you please a president of a forreign nature to this work There is in Dorset shire in that part which was the Forrest of Blackmore an Imposition upon all the Tenants called White Hart Money of as long a standing peradventure as this of the Aulnageors Subsidy though not of so worthy a foundation where the Land and Inhabitants upon it by way of punishment for killing the Kings White Hart have for divers hundreds of years paid and do notwithstanding the disafforesting the same still continue constantly to pay a yearly Tax which the State doth upon no condition remit or forbear to demand and receive And surely no man that is a Tenant there will endanger his Lease for want of paying this Tax yet it never was renewed if ever it was established by Parliament or had it been so grounded it could never have been called otherwise then a punishment and let all men judge if a punishment have as good right to charge the people as hath an act of their own grateful bounty But this particular of the equity of payment upon the new Draperies is come to such a height of opposition as peradventure it may not become this humble relation and as it were single opinion to wade too far in so troubled waters Therefore because the Aulnageors deputies are not alwayes men of that integrity in their places as is required we will
expedite that worke but so many have been the inventions to carry these offences beyond the reach of these Statutes that the reformation by them is not probable whilest they disagree so in themselves In the first place therefore we present the the Lawes themselves to consideration which are so and so often used and managed one against another as they may well admit a reconciliation which is supposed to be most properly the work of the learned Judges or else of a Parliament if it be sitting and herein the first difference of note is that of so long and great heate and contention between the old and new Draperies wherein if the question be not already resolved by the ancient Judges as is supposed it remaines to be enquired why that Subsidy was granted and upon what Manufactures it was granted and what it was that was granted Secondly those Queries once resolved and the Law being set cleare from such bold Inquisitors it is next to be vertuated by the power and countenance of the State and that the Aulnageor who is trusted with so honourable a charge as is the Seal of the State which the Law requires him to use to the justice of the People the advantage of the publique Revenue and to the honour of the Nation may be so countenanced and encouraged as a minister of Justice and the dignity proâ—per to such trusts do require and by no meanes to be affronted in the execution of his office Thirdly That it be resolved whether ths Magistrates in Corporations who are alwayes men dealing in Clothing ought both to nominate the Persons and to administer the Oath to the Searchers and Measurers of Clothing and if not who then ought to nominate or present those officers to the Magistrates who also are bound under a penall summe to administer the said Oath Fourthly whether the Clothing which is now dispersed all over this Nation as well without as within Corporations may be searched and measured at those rates of allowance which the Statutes provided when Clothing was confined to Corporations onely or whether the neglect for want of a competent Salary hath not been a great cause to let in manifold abuses upon Clothing Which being granted the next enquiry is what shall be the Salary and by whom it shall be paid Fifthly that in regard the manufactures of Clothing are by the Statutes confined to Corporations and neverthelesse are through Gods great blessing so multiplied as the Corporations cannot contain them whether the Clothing which is made in Villages may not by the power of the State be brought to some eminent villages or market townes lying conveniently for their transportation to Markets and there to be search'd measur'd weighd sealed provided the same be within fifteene miles off the Clothiers habitation and whether in every such town it may not be convenient to erect Halls and therein to place Tables Pearches Scales Weights and Measures for the better discharging the said duties and benefit of the Clothiers Sixtly whether the reformation of colours and dying be not belonging to the Aulnageor in regard the Law gives him cognizance and subsidy upon the said colours and whether the prohibitions and searches for Block-wood Logwood and other forbidden materials do not belong or are fiting to relate to the Aulnageors charge who in regard of the subsidy is to see that the grounds of colours be justly and truely laid to the lasting of the colours advantage of the cloth and to the honour and profit of the State Seventhly whether it be not requisite that the two principall materialls belonging to clothing which are Wools and Fullers-earth for prevention of their illegall tronsportation ought not most properly to be within the care and charge of the Aulnageor and whether some speedy and strict course ought not to be taken with offenders herein to prevent their evasions and abuses of the Lawes in that case provided and whether the intuition of the same belong not most properly to the Aulnageor Eighthly whether all those trades which are appertaining to any manufactures of wools as Minglers Carders Spinners Weavers Fullers Cloth workers and the like ought not to be attended with servants of ability and good knowledge for which each of the said servants ought by injunction of the Law and many strict Statutes to that purpose to be bound Apprentices and to accomplish the number of seven yeares in attaining the said knowledge and whether it be not proper to have the said Apprentices bound enrolled and enfranchised in the Halls before named to the end that false and ignorant work men be not admitted to abuse both Natives and Forreigners as they have done Ninthly whether all commodities coming from forreign parts and measurable be not properly belonging to the charge of the Aulnageor as in King Edward the seconds time they were and in some other Kings Reignes both before and since they have been to the intent the native Subjects be not abused as at this day is found in abundance and whether a Fee for so doing be not in the power of the State for the visible benefit of the People it being established in proportionable manner to the workes as we daily find it to be done in other States Tenthly whether the Manufactures of Cotton wooll converted into Ticking Fustians and the like merchantable commodities ought not to be within the survey of the Aulnageor or if not then in whose power it is to regulate the said manufactures in regard they are at present much altered and corrupted from their primitive ordination both in length and breadth and whether likewise the State may not impose a Fee upon those workes as in other clothing is done to the end the natives be not abused as now they are Thus we have proceeded upon the discovery of some abuses being no small grievances as also by an humble inquisition into some remedies both of which may be enlarg'd as occasion and encouragement do invite for it is not enough thus briefly and superficially to runne over misdemeanours and reformations where the worke extends to the universall good or ill of a Nation no more then it is to take a generall survey upon an entire and compacted body to discover the diseases of all bodies but when the Limbs and Veines and Nerves and Arteries when the noble parts the heart the braine the liver of one man come to be dissected the Anatomy will then shew the infirmities and disorders which have brought that body and by the same occasions may bring others into a finall dissolution neverthelesse the result in clothing will not be like the similitude in diseases for by the inspection of one body many may be cured but if Clothing must dye as it is likely to do for want of enquiry into the remedies how then shall clothing be found again in this Nation to undergo the cure It is not of small importance therefore well to consider the present state and condition of clothing for though