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A65084	Proposals humbly presented to His Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England, &c. and to the High Court of Parliament now assembled for the calling to a true and just accompt all committee-men, sequestrators, treasures, excize and custom-commissioners, collectors of monthly assessments and all other persons that have been entrusted with the publick revenue or have in their custody any thing of value appertaining to the Commonwealth ... / by Tho. Violet.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing V585; ESTC R23589	138,237	248

passages in that Chapter fit for these present times By the blessing of God these glorious Beginnings of this Parlament will have as an auspicious and happie end and finishing to the great contentment of your Highness and all the good people of your several large Dominions to the terror of your Enemies and the frustrating of many Spanish designes that were and are hatching here under specious pretences of several mens Interests and Discontents These mens Eggs were buried no doubt in India Gold but by the good guidance of God the Spaniards Eggs will prove addle He is so subtle by the Counsel of his Jesuites casting themselvs into all shapes for hee doth most of his work by the Jesuites who sow and foment new Doctrines amongst us that have bewitched and cracked the heads of many men in these Nations which do the Spaniards and Papists work and know it not VVhen your Highness Navies sailed to the VVest-Indies You caused them to bee sheathed with Planks Pitch and Hair that the worms which breed in those Seas might do no hurt or prejudice to the hull or bulk of their Ships Great SIR England Scotland and Ireland may well bee compared to three Roial Ships and the Dominion of Wales to a most Princely Frigot Your Highness by the grace of God being Protector General and Admiral Your Highness hath now a Warr with Him that stiles himself the Emperor of the Indies This Prince is Master of a Metall that is as dangerous to all Princes in Christendom their Persons Countries Lands and Territories as the Worms in the Indian Seas are to the Merchants ships No Iron barrs can bee made so strong but this Metall like Aqua fortis will eat thorough It is called Gold and Silver it is so subtle that it will incorporate like Quick-silver almost with all metalls Men of all Professions all Ages rich and poor young and old none but are taken and corrupted with it as hee is a Natural man But God hath appointed a Remedie against this Poison to some persons through his mercie the pretious balsom of his restraining Grace but this hee grants but to a few whose spirits are elevated above Gold and Silver this world or worldly things God hath appointed another Balsom for these Nations against the Poison of Spanish Gold and Silver and that is to bless these Nations with your Highness victorious PERSON beeing assisted with your supreme Counsell the Parlament Upon my knees I most humbly say As you sheathe your Ships you send to India for fear of the VVorm so your Highness must sheathe the Cinque-ports and Creeks of your HIGHNEss Dominions you must fortifie and garrison the Sea-ports of this Nation and the People bee alwaies readie both in hand and heart all as one man to fight for our Religion Countrey our Lives Wives and Children Lands and Estates and without this bee done wee shall not have a Beeing Estates or Proprietie this is the one thing necessary and chiefly to bee lookt after to fortifie and secure the Nation against home-bred Traitors and forain Forces And if any should presume to assault us wee may bee afore-hand and by our Navies destroy their Ships Vessels in their own Seas let their Land be died with their Spanish blood let their barren Countrey bee fatned with their own Carkasses and as they give in their Monies the Sheaf of Arrows as a remembrance of the great Victories they obteined by the Valor of the English so now for their Ingratitude the Spaniards may cry as they did in Queen Elizabeths time to Philip the Second King of Spain and his Counsel SIR Let us have Peace with England and Warr with all the World And if they did so when this Nation had but one Drake and a small Fleet in comparison of what your Highness hath wee having now many score of Drakes which if they bee impowered with your HIGHNESS Commission and Gods Blessing thereupon they shall never bee able to bring home their Treasures from the VVest-Indies and though our Fleet wait long no doubt the Vigilancie of your Admirals will make the Spaniards pay for their attendance About sixteen years ago God out of his secret Judgment struck the Crown of Spain with a dead Palsie on one side by the revolting of the Portugals their right heir and true King assumed the Crown viz. the Duke of Bragantza so that now your Highness fights but with one half of the King of Spain as hee was formerly the other half the Portugal will assist You in all his Dominions both in Christendom Africa East and West Indies to destroie the Spaniards So that as God hath raised your Highness to this Greatness admirably to have the Soveraignity and Dominion of these Nations so by this rent and division of Portugal from Spain God hath facilitated and made the way easie for your Highness to cut down and pluck up by the roots this barren Tree the Spaniards And those Nations in the West-Indies which at this day live under the Spanish Tyranny and are now fed with the chaff and bran of Popish Superstition may bee by the blessing of God fed with the pure manchet of the Gospel and at once bee delivered from bodily and spiritual slavery My daily praier to God is to keep us unanimous in this Nation of England as wee and our Predecessors were in famous Queen Elizabeths daies that it may bee the study of every good Protestant in this Nation with heart hand and purse to destroy the Spaniards greatness The King of Spains Power is now not half so much as it was before Portugal revolted from him and his Power is now farr more in shew then substance his Territories and Dominions are at such a distance one from another they stand like the haires of King James's beard scatteringly as if one was afraid of another the charges of Garrisons and to keep his Dominions under his Obedience doth cost him in some Countries farr more to keep the bare Title then the Revenues of the Countries amount unto witnesse our next Neighbour Flanders and the like is for many other of his Dominions that yearly cost him many hundred thousand pound● hee holds a VVolf by the ears and if the King of Spain could bee well rid of them both Hee and his Counsel no doubt wishes both Flanders and Holland drowned in the Seas they have been the Spunges that have sucked up all his Treasure yearly There was wont of old to bee a saying No Fishing like the Fishing in the sea No service like a Kings so I humbly say No Warr like a Warr with Spain No service like a Protectors service If wee can but light on the King of Spains Indian Fleets stop that Course your Highness and these Nations by Gods assistance will turn the scales of all the Affairs of Christendom and make your Highness appear the true Defender of the Faith in these Imperial Dominions and the Sword and Buckler of all the Protestant Churches

of this nature as these in my Queries I set down All which I humbly present unto you as being very material both for his Highness's service and for myself As for my part I intend to make your Judgments thereupon to bee my Rule either to proceed or desist in these following Discoveries to avoid unnecessary expence and trouble both to my self and others My humble Queries are these following 1. WHen Comissioners are or have My Copy is not perfectly exact●● 〈◊〉 in so●e one or two small particulars it may ●●●fer from the Originall which I put up to the Commissioners at Worcester hous been appointed either by Ordinance of Parlament or Order of the Councel of State or under the Great Seal of England for to take the Care and Charge of the Sale of all Prize Ships and Merchandize brought in by any of the men of Warr of the late Parlament or of his Highness's and the States Shipping and all and every one of the said Commissioners having allowance of Poundage or yearly Fees from the State for that Service for their care and pains in the sale of all or any Merchandize Gold Silver Jewels Plate Ships and all other goods whatsoever brought in for the Use of the Publique Which Commissioners have been appointed by Parlament Counsel of State or his Highness And by vertue of that Power Commissioners have acted being all of them obliged and tied to make a true and just Accompt upon oath unto his Highness of all summs of money they receiv and the just and true value of all Merchandize and Goods they have been intrusted with the Sale without any fraud or mentall reservations saving onely their just Fees and Sallerie appointed to each of the Commissioners by the Parlament or his Highness And these Commissioners having failed in their Trust whether according to the Statute 6 Hen. 4. Cap 3. this bee within the Cognizance of your Commission to punish the Offenders and to cause them all to make a just and true Accompt upon oath and to pay the Commonwealth what they have defrauded the State for what remains in their hands 2. Whether these Commissioners when they had their Commissions have Covenanted jointly or severally with the State to give a just and true Accompt to his Highness and the Parlament And whether they bee guiltie all of them that were put into one Commission if I prove the offence of some of them Or whether onely such of the Commissioners as are proved guilty and the other Commissioners though their power was all of one date and they acted together shall not bee accomptable but every man for himself severally to answer for his own particular actions and no further 3. That if I shall prove some of the Commissioners for the States Prize Goods HAVE sorted out Wines Sugars Oyles Wools Fruit silks Linen Cloth of Gold and Silver Jewels Pearl Civer Bezer Stones and any sorts of Commodities in anie Cellars Ships Warehouses or other Places within this Nation either by themselves servants Coopers Brokers Porters or anie other skilfull persots in Merchandize and when this sorting picking garbling is one to reserve a quantity more or less of this sorted picked and garbled Merchandize for the Commissioners themselves either one or more of them viz. If the Commissioners or Sub-commissioners for the State make a sale of thirty thousand Poundes of goods and merchandize more or less there having been before Ten thousand Pondes of this merchandize sorted and garbled out for the Commissioners As in one Instance Suppose 300 Tunnes of French Wines are the whole Parcell of Wines the State hath by their Commissioners to Sell and 200 Tunns of this Wine is exposed to Sale by the States Commissioners and sold by the Candle as the usuall way is publiquely to every man And one hundred Tunns of this French Wines being picked out of the choicest and principall of the whole Parcell is reserved for a Commissioner or Commissioners for the sale of Prize goods and these Commissioners shall pretend this small Parcell of 100 Tunns of Wines is not worth the trouble to make a new Sale by the Candle And thereupon these Commissioners or Sub-commissioners being intrusted to sell these Wines by the State having a Fee or Sallary for the same do contrary to their Trust either by themselves in their own name or names or get friends and use the names of others to buy the said 100 Tunns of Wines but so that still the Commissioners have the profit of the said Wines so sold when in truth this 100 Tunns of Wines picked and sorted out of 300 Tunns was realy worth in the Market as much as the 200 Tunns sold publiquely by the Candle for 15l 16l 20l the Tunn and sometimes more And some of the Commiseioners for Prize goods have bought for their own uses the Hundred Tunnes of the choisest and pick'd Wines at the rate of 15l 16l 20l the Tunne and sometimes more which Wines have been by the said Commissioners sold to the Vintners and others at 30l 35l and 40l a Tunn ready money when the State hath had but 15l and ●0l allowed and put down on their Accompt This demonstration serves for all their Wines Sugars Tobaccoes Silks Linnens Salt Civet Bezer-stones Pearls Jewels Wools Oyles Fruit and Spice and all other Commodities brought in any the States Prizes These merchandises sorted garbled and pickt from the gross bulk may bee better in the true value then the gross quantitie of merchandise sold usually by the Candle sometimes 20l. 30l 40l in the hundred and sometimes where goods are perishable half in half there is so much difference in the sorting And whether these Commissioners being intrusted to sell the States Goods at the best rate could underhand buy these Goods themselvs after they have been picked and sorted or go partners with any that did buy and that much under the true value as will bee found upon examination by my discovery 4. Whether these things being duly proved the Commissioners for Prize-goods and every one of them are not lyable to make a true accompt to his Highness and to stand charged with all the surplusage of Monies they have made of all or any the Prize-goods belonging to the State and his Highness which they have not as yet duely and truely accompted for and to bee ordered to deliver in upon their several oaths a just and true accompt of all the Merchandise Jewels Diamonds Pearls Civet Beazar-stones c. that have come into their custody and what Prize Ships or Goods they sold and had a share in themselvs of the true value of all merchandise that hath come to their hands and whether I may not cause to bee viewed all Books and Papers which I know can evidence the same and thereupon produce any person or persons to bee examined to finde out the bottom of the fraud and whether any person or persons nominated to bee examined as witnesses touching the premisses shall bee

and furious carreer of Alderman Gibbs and Alderman Wollaston while they were the Kings Agents in the Kings time but to save their skins when the times altered they could presently change their notes put on sheep-skins and would appear as Lambs they would be full of godlie expressions in Guild-hall Goldsmiths-hall and many other places in the City and bee highly for the Covenant and amongst their Brethren storm at the oppression of the Times and at Projectors and Monopolizers when there was none greater then themselvs as appears by this Monopoly They have said at a common Hall in Guild-hall when I was sent to the Tower that I was the Monopolist and Pattentee for this Manufacture when truly I neither had heart or hand in it nor any manner of wa●●s concerned in the buying or selling the silver Wyer for this Manufacture If I would I could not for the aforesaid Ind●●ture between the King Gibbs and Wollaston sets forth that onely eight Refiners were the Pattentees and none others enjoy notwithstanding the Statute made in the fourth year of Hen. 7th cap. 2. and notwithstanding the Statute made in the 5th and 6th years of Edw. 6th cap. 19. intituled The Penaltie for Exchange of Gold and Silver And notwithstanding the Statute of 18 Eliz. cap. 15. or any other Act Statute Law Ordinance Proclamation Provision or restriction whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And his Majestie for Him and his Heirs and Successors did will ordain and declare that during the continuance of this his Grant his Majestie his Heirs and Successors will not give or grant any libertie licence or power or authoritie to any person whatsoëver other then unto such as have already served or shall hereafter serve as Apprentices wholly and only to the Art of Refining and parting Gold and Silver by the space of seven years as the said John Wollaston William Gibbs and other the parties before named have done to bee made expended and imploied in or about the making gold or silver thread or any the several Manufactures herein before mentioned And the afore-said persons every one for himself did covenant and promise to and with his Majestie his Heirs and Successors that from time to time during the terme granted to perform their best endeavors in and by all lawfull waies and means for the promoting and advancing of his Majesties benefit and service in the premisses And his Majestie for him his Heirs and Successors during the term thereby granted did Covenant to vouchsafe his and their assistance to the said Agents and the Survivors of them for the better performance and discharging of the said Agencie and all other the premisses so by them undertaken according to the tenor and true meaning of the said Grant In witness whereof to the one part of this Indenture remaining with the said Agents Our Sovereign Lord the King hath caused the Great Seal of England to be put And the other part remaining with his said Majestie the said John Wollaston William Gibbs Henry Patrickson Daniel Stallworthy William Haward Richard Gibbs Thomas Nowell and Walter H●ll have set their hands and Seals the day and year first above written Anno Dom. 1636. Witness Our Self at Westminster the 7th daie of May in the twelfth year of our Reign I have the Copie of this Monopoly of the Refiners verbatim at large sworn and attested ready to bee produced if required May it pleas your Highness THese are the chief Heads of the Monopolie granted by the late King Charles 1636. to Sir John Wollaston Alderman and Alderman William Gibbs and others Refiners of the City of London This monopolie was complained of to the late King and his Counsel by some of the Wardens and Companie of the Goldsmiths in Anno 1636. and since oftentimes to the late King and his Commissioners both by several Goldsmiths and Wyerdrawers as being a great loss and abuse to the whole Company of Goldsmiths in Annis 1637 1638 and 1639 and is against the Statute of 21. Jac. cap. 3. and several other Acts of Parlament and against the Common Law of the Land and the Charter of the City of London By this monopoly they ingrossing into a few particular mens hands for their private lucre and gain under the specious pretence of the Kings service which was the ordinary mask used by Pattentees and Monopolists of that time the lively-hood and subsistance of many hundred Goldsmiths and Wyerdrawers which by the Charter of the Company of Goldsmiths ought not to have been debarred and by the custom of the City of London were legally impowered to refine Silver and Gold aswell as the said Refiners were And though this was oftentimes offered it was alwaies denied and opposed by the Refiners who had got this monopoly in their Iron clutches and would not let go their hold till their monopolie was put down by the Parlament upon the Petition of the Gold-wyer-drawers as aforesaid I have left with the honorable Committee for Trade in Aug. 1656. several humble Proposals for the just and due regulation of this Trade of Refining and Gold and Silver-wyer-drawing If they bee put in execution the Manufacture will bee again justly and truly made the Coyn and Bullion of the Nation preserved and your Highness Revenue augmented But as the Manufacture of Gold and Silver Thread c. is now made the wearers thereof are many of them cozened and the Coyns and Plate of the Nation melted to the great dammage of the Nation and every day new Cheats are invented to deceive the Wearers by Wheels or Engines Therefore I most humbly pray for either a due Regulation of Gold and Silver Thread and Wyer c. or the making to bee put down in England especially at this time now wee have a Warr with Spain strictly to look that none of the Coyns of the Nation or Plate bee melted down for any of these Manufactures 8. That within these three months in June last Mr Alexander Jackson the Assaie-master of Goldsmiths-hall beeing desired to go to the Excize-Office to make an assay of some Silver that was made into Wyer for this manufacture seized on an Ingott of course Silver about 30l. which was thirteen penny weight worse then the Standard And weekly upon strict examination it will bee found that great quantities of course silver hath been made into these Manufactures This Silver as I am informed belongs to a Refiner and it is both contrary to the Law and a breach of his Oath to prepare any such Silver for any Manufacture I have many Assayes under Mr Jacksons hand the Assay-master of Goldsmiths-hall where four ounces of Copper hath been mixed and put into eight ounces of Silver and sold for good Silver by some Silkmen and Wyer-drawers to the intolerable deceipt of the Wearers of gold and silver Lace And whereas all persons should make gold and silver Thread to hold six ounces Silver to three ounces of Silk it hath been ordinary and at this day