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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20509	Considerations touching the nevv contract for tobacco, as the same hath beene propounded by Maister Ditchfield, and other vndertakers	Ditchfield, Edward.	1625 (1625)	STC 6918; ESTC S105056	5,573	14

the generall Plantations themselues and to enter into consideration whether by vertue of this Contract they are likely to subsist and prosper It is here first to be considered that the plantations having been founded vnder his Maiesties gracious amity at the excessiue great charges of the Adventurers and planters and so continued for many yeares with small or no retribution except to some few persons and the atempts of setting vp Staple commodities as Iron Silke wines c. though persued with great constancie care and charge haue hetherto failed by sundry misaccidents To thinke the bestowing now of 5000. pounds a yeare vpon the plantations and that drawne from the labours and as it were from the blood of the planters will raise them vp from that great decay into which during the space of those latter two years they haue apparently fallen is like to proue a great and dangerous error whereas the only meanes remaining to advance the plantations was the incouragement of the Adventurers thether especially in person with hope of wealth good government and Iustice. Experience hauing shewed that after the publique stocke was vtterly exhaust and the Lotteries ended yet the plantation in Virginia did exceedingly increase by the multitude of Families and other particular persons transported thether at their owne charge vpon the a foresaid hopes and incouragements till the fatall blow of the Massacrie given those a broad and the great molestations and disheartnings of the company and Adventurers heere at home cast the Collony into that consideration in which now it languisheth But whensoever it shall please his gracious Maiestie to reviue and renewe the former hopes and incouragements it will no doubt restore the former life to the plantation the remaines whereof this contract must needes extinguish which is thus to be demonstrated The onely commoditie for Marchants in both the plantations is at this day no other then Tobacco whereby their apparell tooles implements and all other necessaries except victuall are procured there are at this day in both the Colonies at the least 3000. persons This allowance of 200000. weight to both the Plantations commeth but to 65. pound weight of Tobacco the person which at 12. the pound weight cometh to 3. pound 5. shillings out of which all the planters in the Sommer Ilands and such as are Tenants or Servants in Virginia pay halfe to their owners whether Land-lords or Masters so that to themselues their remaines for their maintenance only 32 shillings 6 pence the peece The charge of transporting a person to Virginia cannot be lesse at this day then 20 pounds which being a thing so generally knowne must needes disharten all future planters from going and force the present Adventurers rather to send for their seruants home then to mainteyne them at a parpetuall charge without hope of profit And this hath diuers of them already openly declared we conclude therefore that to imagine that the bestowing of 5000. pound a yeare vpon the Colonies and that drawne from the hard labours of the poore planters themselues will vphold the plantations when they shall find that they can be no longer masters of their owne goods but must be forced to transport them when they cannot vent them to put them into their hands who shall take and refuse what themselues please and sell them before their faces perhaps at a Noble a pound and giue them but 6 pence after a yeares attendance for their goods with the fraught and all other charges and losses this example also in Tobacco ingendring a feare of the like measure in all other commodities whensoeuer they should be raysed That wee say as before in our vnderstanding to be a very great error and of pernitious consequence to hoth the plantations No lesse then to draw 40 ounces of blod from a tender weake Infant and then to make him a restoratiue out of fiue ounces of the same blood 4. Now in the last place seeing this contract is so much magnified as tending to the great and certaine good of the plantations wee will take a little paines to make inquirie by way of reasons for whose benefite in truth it hath been set on foote By force of this Contract and by vertue of his Maiesties Proclamation getting into their handes the sole sale of all Tobacco to be expended either in this vertue or the kingdome of Irelad It is not to be thought but they will advance the price after the nature of all Monopolies at least to as high a rate as it hath borne in former times that is to 8 or 9. shillings the pound but admit they will begin first with a Noble a pound two hundred thousand Nobles commeth vnto sixtie six thousand six hundred sixtie six pounds 13 shillings 4. pence His Maiesties rent out of the plantations commeth vnto 15. thousand pounds the planters and the Adventurers part after the rate of 18. pence the pound which in probabilitie is like to be the highest medium commeth vnto 15000. pounds So the charge in the whole comming vnto 30000 pound Thereis 36000 pound and one thousand markes remayning to themselues in way of retribution for their paines adventure and as themselues say to appease all such stormes as may arise To great a proportion to be drawne from the plantations to allow them scarce a sixt part of their owne and to bestowe almost foure six parts vpon men no better deseruing In the former Contract what clamor and complaint against 25000. pounds to haue ben raised for Saleries and all other charges which came to little more then a pennie vpon the pound Whereas these men professe that under 12 pence a pound gotten at least they would not medle with it and they hoped for farre more By computation of the former contract there was to come 60000 pounds at least to the benefite of the plantations whereof the 4 part is now is thought a sufficient portion and yet that Contract was said to be pernitious to the Colonies and this beneficiall Indeed to doe equall right vnto both the contract is better then the former in that it excludeth all forraine Tobacco which with great violence was pressed vpon the former for the first two yeares but this is to be attribued to his Majesties great grace giving a favorable eare to the sute of the Commons in Parliament as appeareth in his Majesties late proclamation In the debating of the former Contract it was alleadged against it by such as are now great furtherers of this that though the planters Tobacco were sold at 5 shillings the pound yet by reason of his Maiesties third they should be loosers and now 16 pence a pound is thought price sufficient This excessiue gaine of the contracters vndertakers we conceiue vndoubtedly to be a thing vniust and tending to the immediate destruction of the plantations for whatsoever they get the planter looseth and where the planter looseth the Colony is so much impouerished For whatsoever the planter makes that goes all backe to the plantation againe and what the contracter gets it remaineth with him to his owne inriching For as for the returning of 5000. pounds to the plantations which this heavie contract adnexed It is in truth to send one hundred men thether and to stay thousands from thence The strenght and prosperitie of the Colony consisting in multitudes of people 5. Some things we are forced to adde touching the proceeding of this Contract 1 First whereas the Adventurers of the Sommer Ilands remaine still a Company and are restrained by their Letters Pattents from ordering of matters of Trade but in a Quarter Court This Contract hath been sought to haue ben concluded in a meane and extraordinary meeting and no Court at all when few were present and those few mens silence also entred as a consent not many of them vnderstanding it and those that vnderstood it being amazed at so great Iniustice 2 Secondly the Virginia Company being now discharged it had been fit the Colony had been consulted about it and not to dispose of other mens states and goods without their consent and knowledge 3 Thirdly the very manner of treating of this Contract hath bred a suspicion of very indirect proceedings for first it hath been framed secretly and in the darke it hath been published but by fragments and some principall parts concealed Some of the Commissioners appeare to be the cheife and principall Contracters other some though they do not appeare yet they are partners with them in their Trading are Contracters which plainely shewes that they haue an interest in it And so the same men are the Contriuers and makers of the bargaine for themselues and buyers and sellers of one and the same wares and take away and set the prizes of other mens goods for their owne inordinate lucre 4. Lastly vnder pretence of doing althings orderly they haue made a Commitie of themselues as in the behalfe of the Colonyes and planters to Treate with their fellow Commissioners the Conracters for speedier payments And most of these men haue they chosen to be Committies whom the Adventurers and planters haue a long time complained off for their exorbitant wrongs to one or both the plantations Many other exceptions may be taken but these shall suffice at this present FINIS