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A95984	The advancement of merchandize or, Certain propositions for the improvment of the trade of this Common-wealth, humbly presented to the right honoroble the Council of State. And also, against the transporting of gold and silver. / By Tho. Violet of London goldsmith.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1651 (1651)	Wing V578; Thomason E1070_1; ESTC R208173	121,676	189

in a Common-wealth But for your just Merchant hec is the Beautie and Ornament of the Common-wealth a great pillar in any Nation where they remain and that State or Common-wealth that doth not love and protect them must at long running bring themselvs to povertie For mee to speak of the worth and dignitie of fair-dealing-Merchants in all ages is to hold a Candle to the Sun onely my praier to God shall bee that their numbers may bee encreased in this Nation and all encouragement given them by the State that they may have good Convoie to guard their ships both outwards and inwards from Pirats and Rovers and if it bee the chance of any Merchant-men to meet with Pirats that God would strengthen their sea-men and give them valiant and loial hearts to fight for their Countrie and their Merchant's ships and goods and after their deliverance from Pirats God's protection go along with them all and bring them everie one to his desired Port and at the end of our daies bring us all to the blessed Harbor of the Kingdom of Heaven and this shall bee the praier of Your assured Friend to serv you THO. VIOLET THE ADVANCEMENT OF MERCHANDIZE To the Right Honorable the Council of State viz. John Bradshaw Lord President Earl of Denbigh Earl of Salisbury Lord Howard Thomas Lord Grey of Groby Lord Ch. Justice Roll Lord Ch. Justice St John Lord Ch. Baron Wilde Thomas Lord Fairfax Lord General Cromwel Philip Lord Lisle Sir Henry Mildmay Sir William Armyne Sir William Constable Sir Peter Wentworth Sir Gilbert Pickering Sir William Masham Sir Arthur Hesilrige Sir James Harrington Sir Henry Vane Jun. ● t Gen. Ludlow Lo. Com r Whitelock Lo. Com r Lisle Colonel Stapley Colonel Morley Colonel Purefoy Colonel Jones Isac Pennington Ald. Henry Martin Esq Philip Skippon Esq Wil. Heveningham Esq Rob. Wallop Esq Jo Hutchinson Esq Denis Bond Esq Valentine Wanton Esq Tho Scot Esq Cornel. Holland Esq Tho. Chaloner Esq Mr Robinson Mr Gourdon Thomas Violet a true Lover of his Countrie most humbly present's these following PROPOSITIONS SEveral Reasons for the admitting all Merchants to have equal privileges so far as agreeth with the Pattern and Policie of Amsterdam Legorn and Genoa who have gotten themselvs to the hight greatness of trade And therefore hold in all Common-wealths that are seated as by the blessing of God this is one in the midst of the Seas beeing adorned and beautified with more safe and fair Harbors for shipping then any of our Neighbors whatsoever And there ought to bee an especial eie had upon the paths and steps of our neighbors to see by what waies and means they have got to this greatness of Trade and to keep a good observation of these times and to give all encouragement to the Dutch and Forain Nations to com and plant in our Ports and Harbors They having many of them an earnest desire not to bee so penned up as they are and therefore many Families are lately removed to Breme and Hambrough out of Amsterdam As was presented to the Council of Trade by a worthy Member of the Council of State with his Recommendations to the Council of Trade to take all Informaltions concerning free Ports or Landing places for Forain commodities Imported without paying of Custom if again exported in what manner the same is best to bee effected in pursuance whereof for the advance of Trade I have according to directions of som of the Council of State treated with the principal Merchants in this Citie and I do humbly present these few Heads unto your Honors consideration for the benefit of Trade and the Nation in General 1. That Genoa Legorn and Amsterdam have raised their greatness onely by giving Merchants Strangers equal privileges with their Natives and in levying Imal duties upon goods And if not spent in their Ports freely to export them to any part of the world by which means they have been made the Ware-houses and Shops for all the Merchandizes in the world 2. By the same means also they grow in Amsterdam mightie in Shipping and Sea-men for they know the benefit that onely the bringing of goods thither though never spent in the Countrie make's them for there is not the thousand part of the goods spent in Amsterdam that is brought thither but shipped again all over the world And they have this advantage that all the Commodities of the world are there to bee had which is a benefit to them that spend the Commodities to have the Market at their own doors for they can have it cheaper then to go abroad for it And the wealth that is gotten by Shipping Ware-housroom and imploiment of thousands of laboring people in lading and unlading Merchandize is and hath been one of the fairest flowers in the Garland of Amsterdam Genoa and Legorn And by the blessing of God and the Parlaments countenance of such Merchants and others that shall put to their helping hands and their industries the Sea-Ports of this Nation will participate in a large proportion with them and put the inhabitants of our Sea-Ports in a flourishing condition wee may see it by experience when our Composition Trade was at Dover what that Town made the State a year for half Customs and how the rents of houses were raised how all the Townsmen grew rich and Merchants set the poor awork and also the great imploiment of our Shipping and Navigation and no Town in England lived more happily make it but a free Port you will restore it again to its former condition whereas now their poor do so infinitely increas on them that many perish for want of means and all the houses in the Town not worth the third penny rent they were ten yeers ago for at the time the Customs made fifty thousand pounds every year now not four thousand pound per annum 3. I pray your Honors observ where great Customs are laid there either in Kingdom or Common-wealth the Trade decayeth and at last fal's to nothing 't is true they may bee present benefits and have been made use of by evil Councellors both in this Age and formerly both in this Nation and others But I pray observ those remedies have ever been wors then the diseases and in som places it hath cost som of the Inventors their lives others their estates and all of them at long running repentance and those Kingdoms Nations or Common-wealths that have soonest recovered out of them have been the easiest cure of their distempers and commotions Whereas in such Kingdoms Nations or Common-wealths where such oppressions have long continued when the remedie com's to bee workt and wrought it work 's so violently as it break 's all the old frame of Government in pieces or els weaken's it in that manner that it corn's not to its first strength again in som Ages and this I humbly conceiv is like shortly to bee the fate of a great Kingdom I mean France The inventions for

suffer longer for ungrateful men When I was engaged in the late King's service I was ever faithful to all his just Commands and to the uttermost of my power did serv him in all lawful waies and beyond that I would never go Now with all humilitie I have humbly tendred my self to the Parlament for I think believ I speak as in the presence of God I living under their protection I am as much bound to serv them faithfully as ever I did the late King and I have this advantage in the change Kings die but the Parlament of England as it is now established never die's so that here I humbly fix and prostrate laie my self and all my endeavors to the uttermost of my power to improve the interest and service of the Parlament as it is now established without King or Lords against any person whomsoëver It may bee objected by som men that I have not don prudently in declaring so much for the service of the State as I have don before I knew my conditions what the State would do for mee for by these informations I have given light enough to have others to go on and laie the foundation of the Regulating of the Trade of this Nation and it may bee now don by others as well as by my self This in part I grant to bee true but my caus is not everie man's caus I was blasted by the devillish invention of som men and to the Citie of London Armie and the Parlament presented as a Malignant a Papist one dis-affected to the Parlament and present Government as it now established without King or Hous of Lords So that beeing under this cloud and hard opinion of the State and suffering so long time in the Tower as before J have said and my Estate still under Sequestation it did highly concern mee to take any opportunitie to remove this hard opinion off mee and that the Parlament might see from the bottom of my heart my seal in deeds and not in words to do them service J have with all humilitie-truly and plainly stated this business and J hope have laid the ground-work for the setting of other more learned heads on work for the perfecting what I have roughly begun and that the Common-wealth will receiv a great advantage by it and if the Parlament shall pleas to command mee to serv them in any of these particulars they shall not finde many men will do them service on the terms I shall and do with all humilitie offer them for I will willingly so I may have my Estate Offices restored again to mee or their value which have been taken from mee upon mis-information of som malitious people give the maimed soldiers that have fought in the Parlament's service since the death of the late King one half of my Estate I shall die possessed of and to the maimed Sea-men that are emploied in the State 's service since the death of the late King one quarter-part of my Estate which I shall die possessed of and the other quarter-part I will and do reserv to give to som friends so that three parts of four of what I have or shall have com's to those that have or shall have ventured their lives in the State 's service and I am and shall bee no more but a faithful Steward to improve my Estate to their advantage And for the true performance of this I will willingly give a perfect Accompt to the Master 's of Trinitie-Hous and of Saint Thomas Hospital in Southwark once everie year and give them a perfect Invoies of my Estate and where it remain's with securitie not to pass any of it away other then for my expences for my maintenance and to have the disposing of one intire quarter-part to som kindred or friends of mine at my death the other three parts to bee freely given to the relief of maimed soldiers and sea-men that have or shall bee emploied in the Parlament's service provided J may be restored to my Estate And this J do not as J am conscientious of any evil wittingly or willingly I ever acted against the State for J stand upon my innocence but J do it really that it may bee a pattern to som that have blasted mee to the State as a Malignant and a Delinquent they having no children and have got som scores of thousands of pounds by the Parlament's service that they in humble thankfulness to God for his mercie would bestow a good part on the poor and for the future bee ashamed of scandalizing mee when the reality of my words and deeds disprove them to the whole world for Malignants make not such free will-offerings to the poor maimed soldiers and maimed sea-men that have and shall lose their limbs in the defence of their Countrie and Liberties as it is now settled without King or Lords and though it may not bee above a mite in comparison to the State J cannot possibly express my real intentions in the Parlament's service more then by these my words and deeds And J will upon the peril of my life bring the Parlament in fiftie thousand pounds by the Fines and Compositions of the Transporters of Gold and Silver and such as have practised many abuses on the Coins and Bullion of the Nation within the compass of one year besides what summes hereafter if Commissions according to former presidents bee granted and if the Parlament pleas to pass the Act as it is now drawn against Transporters of Gold which Act was recommended by the Council of State to the Parlament and hath been twice read in the Parlament Hous and committed and when it passe's the Hous the Mint in the Tower of London will again flourish a business of the greatest honor profit and safetie to the Nation in general that can bee as your affairs now stand What is here said is with all humilitie presented to the Parlament for the service of the Common-wealth by a faithful lover of his Countrie beeing desired to state my Reasons by som in Autoritie for passing the aforesaid Act I humbly conceiv if it were made stricter then it is it were far better for the Common-wealth For Transporting Treasure heretofore hath been made Felonie when the Common-wealth I humbly conceiv had not so much occasion to see to keep their Treasure in the Nation and the Mint going as now they have Signed THOMAS VIOLET London Feb. 12. 1651. An Index of the principal matters conteined in these PROPOSITIONS LEgorn Genoa and Amsterdam have raised themselvs to their Greatness onely by giving Merchant-strangers equal privileges with their Natives Prop. 1. pag. 1. The great Wealth that hath been gotten in Amsterdam in bringing of Merchandizes thither though exported back Custom-free And the like advantagious Trade at Dover upon the Composition Trade now brought to povertie for the want of free Trade Pr. 2. p. 3. The dangerous effects of great Customs either in Kingdom or Common-wealth Pr. 3. p. 3 4. Spain

so the Honorable Council for Trade may do that which they shall finde upon my Grant most advantagious for the Service of the Common-wealth that so the Wearers of the Manufacture of Gold and Silver Lace may not bee cozened p. 115. An Ordinance of the sixth of Aug. 1646. for laying four pence upon the ounce Troy upon all Gold and Silver-Wier p. 116. That there is twentie thousand pounds in the hands of som of the Gold-wier-drawers and Refiners which they owe in arrears to the Parlament the Excize not making for almost four year above one thousand pounds which if I had had my Office I would have collected six thousand pounds a year which is four and twentie thousand pounds and all this monie due to the Parlament lie's in the hands not of above thirtie persons p. 116 117. The Gold-wier-drawers before any Excize was thought upon did offer the late King and his Heirs for ever two pence the ounce Troy and a thousand pounds a year to have a Corporation but the deceits so grosly practised by many of them were so clearly proved that this State would not trust them with a Corporation nor the Finers but under a Regulation by Commissioners all men of great qualitie in the Common-wealth p. 118. There is now for a time collected of the Wier-Drawers and Refiners at the Bar but one pennie the Ounce which upon account of Excize is not above fifteen shillings in an hundred pounds of Gold and Silver-Thread when it is manufactured Other Commodities which are for use of the Nation and not superfluous paie's five pounds in the hundred Excize p. 118. If the Council for Trade pleas to take into consideration Master Atturnie General Banks ' s Certificate for regulating the Manufacture of Gold and Silver-Thread this State will make six thousand pounds a year of the Excize if the Rules desired in the Silver-Spinner's last printed Petition to the Council for Trade bee also taken into consideration and my humble Propositions to the Council for Trade p. 94. 95 96 97. bee taken into consideration the Manufacture shall all bee made right both for the fineness of the Silver and the just covering of the Thread with a good Plate at least five ounces the pound Venice by which means the poor working Wier-drawers and the Silver-Spinners will have a comfortable livelihood and the Common-wealth served with good Silver-Lace Thread and Wier which heretofore they have been grosly cozened in by reason of the slight making of them p. 118 119. I challenge any Wier-drawer Finer or Silk-man in London to produce one pound weight of bad or slight Silver-Thread I ever sealed at the Office or that any man could ever fasten one pennie on mee or other reward for conniving at any man that did not work good Silver and I am sure I and my Servants sealed above a million of Scanes of Gold and Silver and if they could have found mee faultie in that particular they would have gon to the Parlament with a full crie But though they sought and sought carefully yet they could not finde one ounce p. 119 120. While I had the Office of Surveyor and Sealer for the Manufacture of Gold and Silver-Thread I did discharge my trust faithfully in seeing the Common-wealth should not bee cozened for which som of them clamored most lewdly against mee about the Citie of London p. 121. The several mischievous designs of Refiners and Wier-drawers against mee as the Widow Simmonds wife of one Joseph Simmonds set on by the combination of the Wier-drawers in vexatious Suits when I had their Acquittances and onely mis-laid them upon my troubles in my Sequestration which was brought upon mee by the malicious charge of som of the Refiners of London p. 122 123. 124. An accompt of what hath been taken from mee by Sequestration p. 124 125 126 127 128. Tho. Conning●bie of Hartfordshire Esquire and Christopher Hatton of London Gentleman Witnesses of Philip Cage Esq his Declaration p. 129 130. An Order of the Committee of Essex for Master Edward Elconhead touching Thomas Violet ' s Lands in Essex p. 130. An Acknowledgment of Mistris Mordant concerning Tho. Violet ' s Bonds and Extents on the Manors of Batels and Paten-Hall in Essex p. 131 132. An Order of the Committee of Essex touching Master Elconhead ' s bringing in the caus of my Sequestration in Essex p. 132. Master Elconhead never paid any Monie to the Countie of Essex for the use of the Countie as I could hear of for the composition of my Lands in Essex p. 133 134. The late King's Letter to the Citie of London p. 135 136. Two Letters of M. Read ' s sent to M. Theophilus Rilie Seout-master of the Citie of London from Oxford p. 136 137 M. Theophilus Rilie Scout-master of the Citie of London did daily then emploie Intelligencers into the King's Quarters by Order of the Parlament and the Citie of London as hee told mee Thomas Violet p. 138 I had a Pass to go to Oxford as appear's by the Journal-Books p. 138 The reason wherefore I was willing to go to Oxford was that I might have licens from the late King to discover the Transporters of Gold and Silver which about a moneth before I went to Oxford hee sent mee a Letter to command mee not to proceed in the said Discoverie The Copie of the King's Letter to mee Thomas Violet 19 Novemb. 1643. The reason why bee would not suffer mee to make that Discoverie hee told mee it would make him good store of Monie when hee came to London p. 139 140 141. I do now offer the State to bring them fiftie thousand pounds within the compass of one year if they will pass the Act against the Transportation of Gold and Silver as it is now presented by the Council of State p. 141. For the Honorable the Council for Trade I humbly present if they settle the Trade for refining Gold and Silver and Wier-drawing in a Corporation as it is now desired by the Wier-drawers it were to make all the speed possible that that little Silver in Coin which is yet left should bee culled and melted down for Gold and Silver Lace p. 148. A Council for Monie were verie necessarie p. 148 149. Concerning the buying Cheapside-Cross p. 150 151. The great mischiefs Transportation of Gold and Silver bring 's on this Nation p. 153 154. It may bee objected that I have not don prudently in declaring so much for the service of the State before I knew my conditions what the State would do for mee The reasons which did induce mee to do it p. 155 156. If I may have my estate restored to mee again which hath been sequestred upon the mis-informations of som malicious people I will give the maimed Souldiers which have served the Parlament since the death of the late King half of my Estate I shall die possessed of and to the maimed Sea-men emploied in the State 's Service one quarter-part and for the true performance of this I will give a perfect accompt to the Masters of Trinitie-Hous and the Masters of Thomas Hospital in Southwark once everie year upon conditions by once recited p. 156 157. FINIS