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A37240	The question concerning impositions, tonnage, poundage, prizage, customs, &c. fully stated and argued, from reason, law, and policy dedicated to King James in the latter end of his reign / by Sir John Davies ...	Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.	1656 (1656)	Wing D407; ESTC R1608	63,423	186

with Forein States and Princes and so continually corrupt all courses of Merchandizes Ergo he shall lose his Prerogative of making War or Peace when himself in wisdom shall think fit so to do The King may decry all monies of Gold and Silver in Bullion and establish a Standard of Copper or Leather therefore he shall coyn no monies without the consent of the people The King may if he please break up all the Prisons pardon all Offenders and so give impunity to all Offenders Ergo he shall pardon no Malefactors by Act of Parliament These are found absurd or rather wicked conclusions à posse adesse is an absurd Argument but à posse nolle nobile est The Law presumes the King to be so noble and so wise that all Acts done by him or in his Name during his Infancy are of as good force in Law as if the Law had bin done in his ripest years The Law presumes the King to be most just in all his actions therfore it hath these rules the Prerogative of the King can do no wrong the King can commit no disseisin the King can make no discontinuance and the like Cor Regis in manu Domini saith Solomon and therefore the Law presumeth that God will ever direct him to that which is just is it not then too much curiosity to instruct where the Law trusteth and too much presumption to presume against the presūption of the Law especially in the time of such a King who is the wisest and justest the most religious and most gracious King that ever reigned in Europe Can any man imagine that so great a Master in the Art of Government the most prudent King of great Britain Ireland the two greatest Islands in this Hemisphere and seated most commodiously for Traffique which all the World knowing that the duties paid unto him for Merchandizes are the most certain settled and assured and withall the best and richest part of his Revenues at this day will lay heavier Impositions upon Merchandizes than they are able to bear and so destroy all Trade and Comerce When King Hen. 7. his most prudent Predecessor did lend money to his Merchants to maintain Traffique will he for a little extraordinary profit for the time present pluck up at once the Root and dry up the Fountain of this Revenue for the time to come it is unprobable it is uncredible it is impossible But suppose that this is credible that the King should lay such heavy Impositions upon Merchandizes as all Merchants should refuse to Traffique who should lose most by that the King or his people assuredly hee should suffer an exceeding great losse in his Customes but we that are of the Commons should save by it having all things necessary for the Life of man within the Land which is Terra suis content a bonis non indiga mercis We should spare these vain expences which we now make upon Forein Commodities namely Cloath of Gold Cloath of Silver Silks Spices Wines and many other superfluous unnecessary things which doe nourish Pride and Luxury Riot and Excesse amongst us which corrupt our manners and in the end will be the ruin of the Common-wealth I may therefore conclude this point That since the King hath power by his Prerogative to lay Impositions upon Merchandizes he hath also a power coincident thereunto to limit and rate the proportion and quantity thereof according to his own wisdom reasons of State from time to time for either the King must set down the rates or the people or the King and people both by Act of Parliament but if the people will not assent or agree to a reasonable limitation thereof in Parliament shall the King lose those Royal Duties which all other Kings do take by vertue of their Prerogative it were most unreasonable absurd and unjust CHAP. XXVI The third Objection touching the repeal of Charta Mercatoria by King Edw. 2. and the remitall of divers Impositions by King Edw. 3. upon sundry Petitions of the Commons in Parliament and the punishment of divers Persons in Parliament for procurtng Impositions to be set up THirdly it is objected that this Prerogative of laying Impositions upon Merchandizes hath never at any time been set a foot and used by any of His Majesties Progenitors but it hath been contradicted and upon Petitions of the people such Impositions have been suspended remitted and abolished first King Edw. 1. say they in the 31 year of his Reign did by his Charter called Mercatoria spoken of before lay the Imposition of three pence in the pound now called the petty-Custome with an increase of other duties upon Merchandizes imported by Strangers howbeit this Imposition stood not above seven years by vertue of that Charter but it was discontinued and quite taken way for in 3 Edw. 2. the Charter it self was suspended by the Kings Writ 3 Edw. 2. Claus. m 23. in Arch. Turris and 5 Edw. 2. it was utterly repealed by a solemn Ordinance of State Rot. Ordina 5 Edw. 2. in Arch. Turris Secondly King Edw. 3. did at sundry times during his Reign lay severall Impositions upon Woolls and other Staple commodities sometimes fourty shillings sometimes fifty shillings upon a Sack of Wooll and other the like rates upon Merchandizes yet could be never fix nor settle the same upon His Subjects for upon sundry Petitions of the Commons in Parliament who found themselves grieved therewith these Impositions were from time to time remitted 13 Edw. 3. Rot. Parliament in Arch. Turris 14 Edw. 3. cap. 21. 17 Edw. 3. Rot. Parliament numb. 12. 12 Ed. 3. Rot. Parliament numb. 11. Again the same King many times did shut up all the Ports and thereby restrained the exportation of Merchandizes then would he take great sums of Money to grant licences to transport which proved as great a charge as Impositions and yet upon sundry complaints of the people in Parliament the Sea was set open and liberty of Trade permitted again Stat. 18 Edw. 3. cap. 3. 22 Edw. 3. Rot. Parliament numb. 8. in Arch. Turris 13 Edw. 3. in Sccio Angliae Rot. 12. 13 Edw. 3. Rot. Parliament numb. 5. in Arch. Turris Lastly in the last year of this Kings Reign divers persons were accused and punished in Parliament for procuring new Impositions to bee set upon Merchandizes namely the Lord Latimer who albeit he were a Noble man and a Privy Counsellor to the King yet was he fined committed to the Mashalsee and put out of the Council 50 Edw. 3. Rot. Parliament nu 34 in Arch. Turris Richard Lions likewise a Citizen of London and Farmer of the Customes an Instrument of the L. Latimers in raising the new Impositions was fined ransomed and imprisoned and put from the Franchise of the Citie 50 Edw. 3. Rot. Parliament numb. 17. in Arch. Turris And one Iohn Peachy who had gotten a Monoply of