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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43129	An abstract of all the statutes made concerning aliens trading in England from the first-year of K. Henry the VII also, of all the laws made for securing our plantation trade to our selves : with observations thereon, proving that the Jews (in their practical way of trade at this time) break them all, to the great damage of the King in his customs, the merchants in their trade, the whole kingdom, and His Majesties plantations in America in their staple : together with the hardships and difficulties the author hath already met with, in his endeavouring to find out and detect the ways and methods they take to effect it / by Samuel Hayne ...	Hayne, Samuel, b. 1645?	1685 (1685)	Wing H1216; ESTC R3059	33,579	43

both in Church and State whatever my future Condition may happen to be For I am Fleet London May 29th 1685. Sacred SIR Your Majesties Most Loyal Most Faithful and Undaunted though Oppressed Subject SAMUEL HAYNE CONCERNING Aliens Trading IN ENGLAND ALmost as soon as Trade it self began to Flourish in this Kingdom Aliens endeavour'd to be Sharers in it And because they might have the same Freedom therein that English-men had they by some good Interest or other got Patents of Denization and by that means paid no greater or higher Customs than the English Merchants But they it seems being formerly in Co-partnership with other Aliens who still remained so could not be contented with the Benefits they had procured for themselves but Clandestinly covered the Stocks and Adventures of the others The Perniciousness whereof appearing it was thought fit to put a thorow stop to such Proceedings And at a Parliament held in the first year of King Henry the Seventh it was thus Enacted viz. 1 Hen. 7. cap. 7. Where in time past divers Grants have been made by King Edward as well by his Letters Patents as by Acts of Parliament to divers Merchants Strangers born out of this Realm to be Denizens whereby they have and enjoy such Freedoms and Liberties as do Denizens born within this Realm as well in abatement of their Customs which they should bear if they were no Denizens as in Buying and Selling of their Merchandize to their great Avail and Lutre and oft-times suffer other Strangers not Denizens deceitfully to slip and carry great and notable substance of Merchandize in their Names by the which the said Goods be free of Custom in like-wise as they were Goods of a Denizen where of Right they ought to pay Custom as the Goods of Strangers by which they be greatly advanced in Riches and Honour And after they be so Enriched for the most part they convey themselves with their said Goods into their own Countries wherein they be naturally born to the great Impoverishing this Realm and to the great Hurt and Defraud of the Kings Highness in payment of his Customs Wherefore it is Enacted Established and Ordained by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in the said Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That any person made or hereafter to be made Denizen shall pay for his Merchandize like Custom and Subsidy as he ought or should pay as before that he was made Denizen any Letters Patents or other Ordinances by Parliament or otherwise contrary to this made notwithstanding However the shifting Humours of those Times corresponding much with our present Age found out another way to Defraud the King of his Due and his Loyal Subjects of their Trade For finding the aforesaid Act exactly put in Execution The Aliens then by Rewards c. Procured English-men to enter their Goods in English Names which Un-natural practice was also soon found out and to prevent any further Progress therein it was Enacted the third year of the aforesaid King Henry the Seventh 3 Hen. 7. That no manner of Merchant Denizen or Stranger do take upon him to Enter or cause to be Entred in the Books of any Customer in any Port within this Realm any manner of Merchandizes coming into the said Realm or going but of the same in any other Merchants Name saving only the Names of the true Merchant owner of the same upon pain of Forfeiture of all such Goods and Merchandizes so Entred And every of the said Merchants which shall so take upon him to cause such untrue Entry to be made to have Imprisonment and make Fine therefore at the Kings pleasure So that by this Act that shift also was cut off and 't is reasonable to believe that due Process was made against all English-men who became in any manner Trangressors thereof for that the Aliens did not thenceforth seek farther Protection from them but returned to their Old Co-partners that were made Denizens with whom they drove so vast a Trade that it became obvious to all the English Merchants And in regard the Statute of the First of King Henry the Seventh was by that time grown somewhat old another was made to the same purpose in the Eleventh year of the said King Henry the Seventh in these words 11 Hen. 7.14 Where the King our Soveraign Lord is greatly Deceived in his Customs and Subsidies by Merchants and Strangers such as the King our Soveraign Lord hath Granted by his Letters Patents to be Denizens and to pay no other Custom or Subsidies for their Merchandize Inward or Outward but as a Denizen under colour whereof they Custom not only their own Merchandizes under the form aforesaid but also they colourably enter into the Customers Books the Merchandizes of other Strangers calling and saying the said Goods of other Merchants to be the Goods of them so made Denizens to the great Loss and Defraud of the King our Soveraign Lord Wherefore be it Enacted by the King our Soveraign Lord the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same that all Merchant Strangers and others that be made Denizens by the Kings Letters Patents or otherwise pay from henceforth such Customs and Subsidies for their Goods and Merchandizes Inward and Outward as they should have paid if such Letters and Patents had never to them been made Thus you see what great care was taken for the Advance of Trade in the days of that Good King And if you look into the Chronicles of his Time you will find what vast Treasure he left behind him and no doubt but that a great part thereof arose from the greatness of the Subjects Trade and the due payment of His Majestie Customs and Subsidies And though almost the whole Reign of King Henry the Eighth was accompanied with Wars and Disturbances either with the French Scots or the Pope yet was not the Consideration of Trade laid aside for in the twenty second year of his Reign 22 Hen. 8. cap. 8. the foregoing Acts of the First and Eleventh years of King Henry the Seventh were in Parliament Confirmed and all Subsidies Customs Tolls Duties and other Sums of Money were continued on the said Aliens made Denizens as they should or ought to have paid before they were Denizens any Grant or Grants to them made or hereafter to be made or any Act or Acts Statute or Ordinance to the contrary made or had not withstanding In the Reign of King Edward the Sixth 2 and 3 Ed. 6. cap 22. The Penalty of Customing other mens Goods whereby the King looseth his Duty is the Forfeiture of all the Goods and Chattels and personalls for ever The Informer half to be Prosecuted within three Years else void Queen Mary was so entangled in Religious Matters that the Parliaments in her dayes seem'd to wave all other concerns and it was but very short also which perhaps might be