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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57605	Select observations of the incomparable Sir Walter Raleigh relating to trade, commerce, and coin, as it was presented to King James : wherein is proved that our money, our sea and land commodities serve to enrich and strengthen other countries against our own ...	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1696 (1696)	Wing R189; ESTC R9430	23,341	15

SELECT OBSERVATIONS Of the Incomparable Sir Walter Raleigh Relating to Trade Commerce and Coin As it was Presented to KING JAMES Wherein is Proved That Our Money our Sea and Land Commodities serve to Enrich and Strengthen other Countries against Our OWN With other Matters of the highest Moment for the Publick Welfare LONDON Printed for J. S. and are to be Sold by R. Baldwin near Oxford-Arms-Inn in Warwick-lane MDCXCVI Preface to the Reader THE Worth and Excellency of these Learned Observations are such that 't is wisht they were treasur'd up in the Breast and Memory of our Grave Senators being a Subject worthy of their profound Consideration and a Jewel of far greater Value in the English Crown than the whole Produce of the Indies The Name of the Author stamps it Standard Proof against all the efforts and false allays of Counterfeits who slily under the Masque of Publick Service have insinuated their gilded Notions and Essayed to make their Sophistical Positions pass for Current Reason 'T is for this cause that now this Incomparable Author interposes whom the World knows to have been free from Partiality and Self-interest and that what he then advised was from unfeigned Sincerity of Heart and the great love he bore to his King and Country and grounded on the unerring Rules of Experience the Truth and Excellency of whose Judgement is further confirmed by demonstration of almost a hundred Years additional Experience and the Non-Observance of these golden Rules have only made us so wise as to know the Nation to be in so much more a worse Condition than it was in his time I write not this from a Belief that any thing I do will or can add an Attom to the Universally Celebrated Memory and Honour of this Admirable Person no I have not that Vanity no more than I believe the greatest Mome can detract from the Truth and Authority of his Positions I have presumed to add some things grounded on the same Hypothesis relating to our present Circumstances wherein if I have Err'd I submit to the censure of better Judgments J. S. May it Please Your MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY ACcording to my Duty I am emboldened to put your Majesty in mind that about Fifteen Years past I presented you a Book of such Extraordinary Importance for the Honour and Profit of your Majesty and Posterity and doubting that it hath been laid aside and not consider'd of I am Encourag'd under your Majesties Pardon to present unto you one more consisting of Five Propositions Neither are they grounded upon vain or idle Grounds but upon the Fruition of those wonderful Blessings wherewith God hath endued Your Majesty's Sea and Land by which means you may not only enrich and fill your Coffers but also encrease such Might and Strength as shall appear if it may stand with your Majesties good liking to put the same in Execution in the true and right Form So that there is no doubt but it will make you in short time a Prince of such Power and so Great as shall make all the Princes your Neighbours as well glad of your Friendship as fearful to Offend you That this is so I humbly desire that Your Majesty will vouchsafe to peruse this Advertisement with that Care and Judgment which God hath given you Most humbly praying your Majesty that whereas I presented these Five Propositions together as in their own Natures jointly depending one of another and so linked together as the Destruction of any one will be an apparent Maim and disabling to the rest That Your Majesty would be pleased that they may not be separated but all handled together jointly and severally by Commissioners with as much speed and secrecy as can be and made fit to be reported to Your Majesty whereby I may be the better able to perform to Your Majesty that which I have promised and will perform upon my Life if I be not prevented by some that may seek to hinder the Honour and Profit of Your Majesty for their own private Ends. The true Ground Course and Form herein mentioned shall make appear how other Countries make themselves Powerful and Rich in all kinds by Merchandize Manufactory and fulness of Trade having no Commodities in their own Country growing to do it withal And herein likewise shall appear how easie 't is to draw the Wealth and Strength of other Countries to your Kingdom and what Royal Rich and plentiful Means God hath given this Land to do it which cannot be denied for support of Traffick and Continual Employment of your People for Replenishing of your Majesties Coffers And if I were not fully assur'd to Improve your Native Commodities with other Traffick Three Millions of Pounds more Yearly than now they are and to bring not only to your Majesties Coffers within the space of two or three Years near Two Millions of Pounds but to encrease your Revenues many Thousands Yearly and to please and greatly profit your People I would not have undertaken so great a Work All which will grow by Advancement of all kind of Merchandizing to the uttermost thereby to bring Manufactory into the Kingdom and to set on Work all sorts of People in the Realm as other Nations do which raise their Greatness by abundance of Your Native Commodities whilst we are Parling and Disputing whether it be good for us or not May it Please Your most Excellent Majesty I Have diligently in my Travels observed how the Countries herein mentioned do grow Potent with abundance of all things to serve themselves and other Nations where nothing groweth and that their never dried Fountains of Wealth by which they raise their State to such an admirable Height as that they are at this day even the Wonder of the World proceedeth from your Majesties Seas and Lands I thus moved began to dive into the depth of their Policies and circumventing Practices whereby they drain and still covet to Exhaust the Wealth and Coin of this Kingdom and so with our own Commodities to weaken us and finally beat us quite out of Trading in other Countries I found that they more fully obtained these their purposes by their convenient Privileges and settled Constitutions than England with all the Laws and super-abundance of home-bred Commodities which God hath vouchsafed your Sea and Land And these and others mentioned in this Book are the urgent Causes that provoke me in my Love and bounden Duty to your Majesty and my Country to address my former Book to your Princely Hands and Consideration By which Privileges they draw multitudes of Merchants to Trade with them and many other Nations to Inhabit amongst them which makes them populous and there they make Store-houses of all Foreign Commodities wherewith upon every Occasion of Scarcity and Dearth they are able to furnish Foreign Countries with plenty of those Commodities which before in time of plenty they Ingrossed and brought home from the same places which doth greatly augment Power and Treasure to