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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34100	Severall considerations offered to the Parliament concerning the improvement of trade, navigation and comerce more especially the old draperies and other woolen manufactures of England / by G.C., a louer of his country.	Carew, George, Esq.	1675 (1675)	Wing C551; ESTC R35845	8,786	10

interrupted and deminished by this warr yet that is only for a time since that as sone as they shall have peace they will imeadiatly setle themselves againe in the trade to the Exclusion of all other nations Wherefore the only means to weaken the states and to divert this inundation of trade that swells amongst them without any effusion of bloud or expence of his Majesties subjects It being a Sure and easie conquest which is gott by peace A ffree Passage ought to be procured for his Majesties subjects and their Shipps in the River of Scheld up to the citty of Antwerp FIrst the same being a citty very comodious for its situation environed with Machelen Brussells and many other great citties and townes The entry to the sea Port very good ●nd sure in time of winter the River capable to carry Shipps of 400. Tunn The inhabitants ●aturaly inclined to trade The Exchanges to all other Countries there the conducts and land ●arriages setled unto Germany Itally c. The many litle Channels and Rivers for transpor●ing their marchandiz and all other qualities requisite to a towne of Comerce Thither his Majesties subjects might not only carry all sort of wares and marchandises of ●heir owne and other countries for the use of the Provinces of Brabant Flanders Hennow ●nd others under the obedience of his most Catholique Majestie but likewise be distributed further 〈◊〉 into the Country to the ffrench conquests Leige Germany Itally c. And goods exported in one Bottome directly from England Scotland and Ireland and ●●her places in the Shipps of his Majesties subjects might be sold in Antwerpe and be trans●●rted from thence more easily and much cheaper then any other way what soever Also the ●anufactures of the low countries the new conquests of ffrance as Likewise of Leige Ger●any Itally c. Might be carried from Antwerpe into England Scotland and Ire●●nd at ffar less rates By the Established lawes of England noe fforraigne Shipp can bring in any Marchandise ●ere but what is the product of that Country from whence they came And noe treaty can abro●●te an act of Parliament or knowne law of the land VVhat comes from Leigh Germany Itally c. Now loaded in Holland Shipps being brought by the Conducts and land Carriages to be loaded at Antwerpe Should be transported into England Scotland and Ireland and other Countries in English Shipps excluding all others This alone would soe increase navigation and cause soe considerable a trade to the subjects of England that the obtaining thereof ought to be indeavored without any other consideration SEcondly the subjects of England might establish the staple of English Cloath in the Towne of Antwerpe which would be of much more advantage and profit to those concerned then at Dort in respect it is a manufacture which is not made in Antwerpe nor in other townes thereabouts But on the contrary the Hollanders counterfeit the Manufacture of English Cloath a● Leyden and other townes nere to Dort soe craftily and subtily making their cloath o● the same Colours yet slighter and of less value whereby they undersell the English in a●● fine Cloaths to the great detriment of his Majestie and his subjects in the sale and distribution of the English drapery in forraigne parts And the Hollanders being naturally inclined to thrift and to favour their owne manufactures they Cloath them selves in their owne Country Cloath and indeavor to introduce the same into other Countries both farr and nere to the Exclusion of English Cloath For which cause the sale of English Cloath in Holland is very small But if the staple wer● established at Antwerpe it would be far otherwise as well in respect of what would be pu● off in the Provinces belonging to the King of Spaine as of what would be sould in the Citti●● and townes of the ffrench conquests and further unto Leige Germany Itally c. The transportation from Antwerpe is at present more comodious and sure to the other Countries before mencioned because the same may be without paying any imposts to any oth●● Prince then the Catholique King not goeing through any other territory but his VVereas on the contrary goeing from Dort to the aforesayd Countries they must pass throug● severall Iurisdictions and consequently pay the transits which how small-soever it be is burthen to the Marchandises As the thirty severall tolls unto divers Princes Landgrav●● and others upon Rheinish wines before they come to Antwerpe by Dort THirdly the silks which comes from the hither parts of Itally by the conducts to Antwer●● to be transported from thence into England Scotland and Ireland the same being do●● by English Shipps directly would be of less charge then other-wayes Likewise the Dangers Sea is less in winter by the comodiousnes of the Port and entry of this River The Shipps of his Majesties subjects would also have the benefit of transporting the sa●● with other merchandises and might have the advantage of many voyages and loading which at present others have to their loss I pass over in silence and leaue to the consideration of those that trade the infin●● other profitts Judging it sufficient to poynt only in this litle discourse at 〈◊〉 great advantages his Majesties subjects of great Brittaigne will draw from 〈◊〉 navigation But it must be granted that both in times of peace and warr that English Shipps be not searched nor vissited or obliged to declare unto whom the Loading or marchandise belongs And that a ffree Shipp shall make ffree goods as is condescended on betwixt the Catholiqkue King and the states of the united Provinces By this means if the King of Spaine come to a rupture with the sayd states or any other Prince or comon wealth English Shipps not being to be troubled either goeing or coming will be always preferred and soe shall draw the navigation to them selves If there fall out any misunderstanding betvvixt any other Potentates And that the Marchants Shipps need any convoy there vvil be imployment for the men of vvarr vvho may conduct them by flushing or further up the River And in that case the King of great Brittaigne after the Example of his most Christian Majesty to bring about and Establish this navigation in favour of his subjects might give Convoyes gratis to attend the Marchants Shipps for at first they must be incovraged by good offices ALl the difficulty and opposition in this affair will arrise from the Zelanders because at present they possess the Entry to this River The states haveing gotten Breskens in Flanders over against fflushing acquitted by Spaine in the treaty at Munster Anno 1648. BUt seeing that by other ways and means their Comerce is taken away at Havre de Grace Amsterdam Roterdam Ostend Hambourgh c. VVithout being able to helpe it nor draw any profit from thence which may make them jealous and resolve not to quitt the profit they draw by this navigation In Answere to that difficulty All the great Shipps which are not

allwayes able to come up the River for want of water or hindred by eontrary winds being to unloade will doe the same in the vessells of Zeland whereby the towne and inhabitants of Flushing and others will reape the profit of the selling and buying and other expences of seamen and passengers who shall lodge there both at there loading and unloading The Pylotts will be payd for guiding the Shipps up the River and many other profitts And if those of that Province should not permitt this passage without receiving some small customes the same may be agreed on by the tunn or Shipp without being obliged to pay perticularly for Each marchandise or to make declaration of the same If they should not consent his Majesty hath the same power in his hands to exclude and forbid the Shipps of Zeland and others of the states from goeing up the River of Thames but to unlade in English vessells at Graves End obliging them to pay the same imposts and tolls which they Exact from his Majesties subjects It is not just that for any agreement the states made with Spaine they should pretend to Exclude all other nations from sayling on a River which God and nature hath made ffree More Especially great Brittaigne The King being not concerned in the treaty at Munster who ought to injoy the same previledges and liberties granted by all the former treaties betweene the Dukes of Burgundy and Austria and the Kings of England wherby the 17. Provinces hold and injoy those liberties benefitts and advantages of the Kings Harbours Havens Ports Rivers and streames at all times and seasons in England without which the 7. united Provinces that were branches of Austria and Burgundy could not subsist By the treaty which the usurper Cromwel made with the states of the united Provinces it was indefinitly agreed that English men and their Shipps might freely and without trouble trade and sayle with their marchandize in and through all parts and places of the united Provinces to the tewnes scituated within their jurisdictions or without the same And consequently it was beleived and averred that that Article did containe the grant of a ffree passage for his Majesties subjects up the River to Antwerpe being drawne out of the treaty concluded in the yeare 1495. betweene King Henery the 7. and Phillip Duke of Burgoundy and Austria And it ought Ano 1654. to have been put in Execution but was suspended for some reasons Notwithstanding the Hollanders upon all ocations fly to the treaty Ano 1495. for their liberty and ffreedome of ffishing upon the Coast of England In this present conjuncture when the united Provinces are surrounded and attacqued by such Royall powers the sayd Provinces must be reducd to the extremity that they will be obliged to make what agreement they can have However if the Scheld were open to the English they will still serve the spanish netherlands with butter Cheese ffresh ffish salt fish wett and dry And all the 6. states of Zeland viz Flussing Midleburgh Ter-veere Zirrick-zee Ter-goes and Ter-tolen will not be obstructed in any thinge of their other imployment they anciently had by opening the River of Scheld to great Brittaigne that setts open all their Rivers Havens and Harbours to them in times of stormes and distress that must otherwise often times perish IT is most certaine that it is the interest of the King of great Brittaigne for the prosperity and comerce of his subjects to weaken the force of his naturall Enemies by a more strickt Amity and good correspondence with the King of Spaine and for that purpose this ffree passage for the Shipps of his Majesties subjects ought to be procured and agreed upon in the insuing treaty of Peace and that all English manufactures should have noe greater burthen or exactions what soeuer layd upon them either in the Spanish Netherlands united Provinces or in the ffrench Conquests then they payd in the times of the Dukes of Burgoundy for which the crowne of England granted all the liberties and priviledges to those Belgick Provinces in the English Seas c. This generous enterprise without all peradventure will find good success if the King and his Parliament doe rightly understand each other whose Memory will be Eternall amongst all nations for the happy Conclusion of soe noble an undertaking SEUERALL WRITERS Upon the Holland Pollicies doe much comend the states in stopping up the River Scheld but they doe noe less wonder at the councell of England that permitted it seeing it breeds such a vast number of seamen to the prejudice of great Brittaigne that ought by all means to prevent it by sending their Shipps directly to Antwerpe that are forced to unlade their goods in Zeland ●nd Rotterdam in small vessells of theirs which is one of the great Nursereyes of the dutch navigation and that English men cheifly maintaines by those ffraights besids the great advantages the states make by their tolls upon English goods in that River which helps to support their usurped goverment since they fell from the Crowne of Spaine Although there was some reason of state for England to hinder the growth of Spaine ●y assisting the united Provinces yet they wanted good consideration and foresight that lessned themselves with their Neighbours by helping others Spaine never valued trade England alwayes valued their pleasures and Holland ever valued their profit Whereby they make it their busines to bafle all nations and Kingddomes in Publique treaties for their owne interest to the prejudice of other men The Zelanders are a people that upon all occations serves for private men of warr against England and are soe apt for such mischeife by their naturall inclinations and scituation of their country that they ought to be bridled when there is any opertunity to put curbes into their mouths The Hollanders are not contented with ploughing up the English Seas and Harrowing the waues but make marchandises of Gods word in printing yearly many thousand English bibles and practises of pyety at Amsterdam and Leyden counterfeiting the Kings Armes and Epistles to the Readers A forgery not be fuffered The Sabines of old from whome sprunge the Athenians and the Lacedemonians gaue this Motto in all their Ensignes and Banners S. P. Q. R. signifieing Sabino Populo quis resistet Whereupon the Romans caused the same letters to be ingraven upon all iheir gates and Posturnes signifying thereby Senatus Populusque Romanus which Contracted a teadious and distructive warr The Hollanders and Zelanders since the last warr with England have ingraven and painted the Armes of the King of great Brittaigne upon seuerall of their Fly Boates and other Shipps amongst the number that I know upon one they named the ffrendshipp of London richly laden in Zeland bound for Cales and the Straights with dutch and Spanish goods under the notion of English hauing procured a master and other English seamen to Colour their false practises which can only be questioned by S. P. Q. R. viz