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<P>THE PROPOSALS FOR PROMOTING THE WOOLLEN-MANUFACTORY, PROMOTED.</P>
<P>Further making it appear, that the Nation will thereby In|crea&s;e in Wealth, at lea&s;t 5000 <HI>l. per</HI> day, for every day in the year on which it is lawful to Labour.</P>
<P>And that the Strength and Safety of the King and Kingdom, together with a mo&s;t happy Reformation will be accom|pli&s;hed therein.</P>
<P>All which is mo&s;t plainly demon&s;trated,</P>
<P>By &s;everal Well-wi&s;hers thereunto, Inhabitants and Citizens of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>Licen&s;ed, <HI>April</HI> 29. 1679. <HI>RO. L'ESTRANGE.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, <HI>Printed for</HI> Langley Curtis <HI>on</HI> Ludgate-Hill, <HI>MDCLXXIX.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Propo&s;als for Promoting the <HI>Woollen-Manufactory,</HI> promoted.</HEAD>
<P>NExt to being the Authors of profitable Inventions our &s;elves, 'tis certainly mo&s;t commendable to Incourage them in others, and endeavour, That what is happily found out, may be advantageou&s;ly pro&s;ecuted. Men are grown to a wretched pa&s;s indeed, when, as <HI>Cicero</HI> complain|ed, they leave off, <HI>Non &s;olum laudanda facere, &s;ed etiam laudare</HI>; Not only to do Prai&s;e-worthy Acts, but even to Commend them; Let us at lea&s;t &s;peak well of good Expedients, give the Labouring Promoters of Publick Weal our good word, and afford Indu&s;try a Tribute from our Tongues, though we are &s;omewhat loth to allow her much from our Hands; To improve &s;uch effectual Expedients as will mo&s;t reclaim Vice, and bring all Idle hands to Indu&s;try. To increa&s;e our riche&s;t Manufactories for Exportation, and e&s;pecially to re&s;tore and advance that of Woollen, the Grand Staple Commodity of this Kingdom, which heretofore made the &s;ame to abound with Wealth, Power, and Honour, beyond any of its Neighbour Nations. The&s;e are things not to be Contemned or Neglected, but rather with the greater Diligence and Zeal to be Promoted and Encouraged to the utmo&s;t; For, &s;ince this golden Manufactory hath Decrea&s;ed among&s;t us, &s;everal Offers and E&s;&s;ayes have been made for Re|medy, and many who are concerned therein have been very Impatient; and not &s;ufficiently con&s;idering the Cau&s;e of the Di|&s;temper, &s;ome have moved the Parliament for the Exportation of Unwrought Wool, becau&s;e little more than half what grows in the Nation is Converted. Others have Oppo&s;ed them, and obtained an Act whereby to render the Exportation thereof Unwrought, a Capital Offence, and hang all tho&s;e that &s;hould do it; yet are not able to Manufacture it them&s;elves.</P>
<P><PB N="2" REF="3">If Wool be Exported, the &s;ame will de&s;troy our Markets a|broad, and make People Beggars at home, &s;aith the Clothier; But if it be kept at home, and not Converted, it will do us no good, &s;aith Rea&s;on, with whom Experience and Poverty both joyn their Voices; the out-cries of the latter being heard, not only in every Street, but almo&s;t at every Door.</P>
<P>The la&s;t Parliament hath almo&s;t every Se&s;&s;ion made it a great part of their Bu&s;ine&s;s to Hear and Encourage tho&s;e who had any thing to offer for the Recovery of this Trade; and yet, till the late Breviat of Propo&s;als publi&s;hed by one Mr. <HI>Richard Haines</HI> came out, it mu&s;t be acknowledged, That neither the Exporter of Wool, nor Oppo&s;er of the &s;ame, or any others, have offered any certain Expedients for bringing all Idle hands to Indu&s;try, whereby the Wool may be Converted as fa&s;t as it grows and ari&s;es, on &s;uch terms, that the Cloth we have to &s;pare may be Exported as fa&s;t as 'tis made.</P>
<P>Wherefore, we cannot think it un&s;ea&s;onable, to joyn our Suffrages with him, and &s;tir up all Active Publick Spirits, to promote and encourage that which will be&s;t accompli&s;h this good De&s;ign: namely,</P>
<P>Work-hou&s;es to be Erected, and Stock rai&s;ed in every County, in which, poor People, Beggars, &amp;c. &s;hall be Employed in this Manufa|ctory, with &s;uch Method of Government as may prevent all &s;uch Mi&s;carriages, as have formerly rendred &s;uch Hou&s;es un&s;ucce&s;sful in our Nation; which he hath, in &s;uch his Breviat, declared to make good, and to An&s;wer all Objections in that Ca&s;e, in his Propo&s;als at large, which undoubtedly may be done with little Difficulty, be|cau&s;e 'tis done and practi&s;ed in other Nations, and may here as well as there.</P>
<P>The greatne&s;s of the Profits, namely, thirty or forty hundred thou&s;and Pounds <HI>per Annum,</HI> we confe&s;s at fir&s;t &s;tarted us, but on deliberate Con&s;ideration we are &s;atisfied with the Verity of it. And therefore judge it our parts to recommend it as afore|&s;aid, with the Rea&s;ons and Grounds which have fully convin|ced us why &s;uch va&s;t Wealth cannot but nece&s;&s;arily ari&s;e there|by to the Nation as thus.</P>
<P><PB N="3" REF="3">In <HI>England</HI> we may rea&s;onably conclude there are of Beggers petty Felons, Pari&s;h-Poor, and other idle People, which do little or nothing for their Living, 200 Thou&s;and; whereof many who do nothing may earn &s;ix Pence <HI>per</HI> day, and tho&s;e that earn &s;ix pence might earn twelve pence, when pla|ced together in view of each other, where Correction and En|couragement are duely admini&s;tred.</P>
<P>It may al&s;o be rea&s;onably concluded, that each Per&s;on, one with another, may (with the help of &s;ome Clothiers) work as much Wool as will make fifteen pounds worth of Cloth in one Year, which, if &s;o, then there will be thirty hundred thou&s;and pounds worth to be Exported more than now is, as the Author of the Propo&s;als does in&s;ert. But &s;uppo&s;e the quantity fall &s;hort, yet we may rea&s;onably conclude, that our Merchants in their cour&s;e of Trade will near the matter double the Value in the returns of what they Export, &s;o that &s;till the Wealth of the Nation will be more, rather than le&s;s, increa&s;ed, than what is propo&s;ed. But if we take no other mea&s;ures than this, <HI>viz.</HI> that each Per&s;on, one with another, earns &s;ix pence <HI>per</HI> day, and that which is wrought by their Labour &s;hall be Exported, 'tis a cer|tain truth, the Nation will gain by their Labour 5000 <HI>l.</HI> for every day in the year that they work, as by Calculation doth appear; which, if doubled by the Merchants cour&s;e of Trade, as afore&s;aid, it will then amount to no le&s;s than 10000 <HI>l. per</HI> day, clear gain to the Nation. And put ca&s;e we allow 80 dayes in the year for Holy dayes, there remains 285 dayes to work in, which, by this mode&s;t Calculation, will bring in 2850000 <HI>l.</HI> in one year clear gain by their Labour, be&s;ides the Value of the Wool, and other things which add to the Value of all the Cloth they make. Nor is it to be doubted, but the Work of each Per|&s;on, one with another, may amount to 8 <HI>d. per</HI> day, after &s;ome time of practice, &s;o that for the future, by the Expedients propo|&s;ed, all people, as afore&s;aid, being brought up to &s;uch habit of Indu&s;try, the Wealth of the Nation cannot but increa&s;e to the Value propo&s;ed. The Ca&s;e is plain, and an ordinary Capacity, who&s;e Judgment is not &s;way'd by corrupt Affection, may be well &s;atisfied.</P>
<P><PB N="4" REF="4">That we have Wool enough, Fullers Earth enough, poor People enough, Vagrants, petty Felons, Nur&s;es of Debauche|ry <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;ufficiently enough to make Cloth enough to revive the Glory, Wealth, Strength, and Safety of the whole Nation is mo&s;t certain, and may as certainly be effected with good Suc|ce&s;s; if in&s;tead of Hou&s;es of Debauchery, &s;uch Hou&s;es of Indu|&s;try were erected. It being that which not only is practicable, but <HI>de facto</HI> hath been and now is practi&s;ed on the &s;ame Con&s;i|deration, by the means whereof there is not a Begger in the Country where 'tis u&s;ed, and by which that overgrown and in|numerable Multitude of leud People may mo&s;t profitably be re|&s;trained.</P>
<P>All which con&s;idered, we can &s;ee no Rea&s;on why any People &s;hould oppo&s;e the&s;e Work-hou&s;es, unle&s;s it be tho&s;e that do the greate&s;t Mi&s;chief to the Per&s;ons, E&s;tates, and Souls of Mankind, namely, the before mentioned Idle lewd Nur&s;es of Debauchery, whom nothing can re&s;train &s;o effectually as the&s;e hou&s;es, in which they would be held in Durance with great Advantage. There|fore it concerns them and their Abettors to ob&s;truct the Build|ing; and look how much a man is an Enemy to the one &s;o much he is the greater Friend to the other.</P>
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<ITEM>1. This we dare a&s;&s;ert and maintatin again&s;t all Oppo&s;ers that &s;hall put Pen to Paper again&s;t it, that if &s;uch a Gold or Silver Mine &s;hould be found in <HI>England</HI> as might afford five thou&s;and Pounds <HI>per</HI> day throughout the year, it would not do the Na|tion near &s;o much good, as the&s;e Expedients, if pro&s;ecuted.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That it is the greate&s;t thing of &s;uch a kind, and ea&s;ie&s;t to be accompli&s;ht that hath been offered to the King and Parliament, to promote the Wealth, Strength, and Safety of the Kingdom; &s;ince in it the Woollen Manufacture hath been encouraged.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. That the &s;aid Expedients are fei&s;ible and practicable; which being &s;o, it mu&s;t needs be &s;ome extraordinary and inor|dinate Affection that mu&s;t force any man to oppo&s;e it.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. That 'tis in vain to endeavour to &s;uppre&s;s and de&s;troy the Hou&s;es or Schooles of Debauchery, whil&s;t the major part are Oppo&s;ers and Enemies to the Hou&s;es of Indu&s;try, which may
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afford a better Imployment and hone&s;ter life to the Inhabitants, who ought to be removed from one to the other. And certain|ly if &s;uch publick Labours and Endeavours as will thus pro|mote the greate&s;t Happine&s;s of a Nation be contemned and di&s;|couraged, it will be enough to di&s;hearten all noble and publick Spirits, and render them Objects for the Scorn and Deri&s;ion of the ba&s;e&s;t of Men.</ITEM>
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<P>Wherefore, to prevent this de&s;tructive Evil, we &s;hall with all hearty Affection and Zeal to the publick recommend the &s;aid Expedients to all good People in the Nation, of what E&s;tate or Quality &s;oever, <HI>viz.</HI>
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<ITEM>1. To the poore&s;t and mo&s;t indigent, becau&s;e thereby they and their Children, and their Childrens Children &s;hall never want an hone&s;t Imployment, Food, Rayment, nor Habitation if uncharitable People do not hinder.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. To the pious and religious, becau&s;e thereby an happy Reformation in the Lives and Conver&s;ations of many Thou|&s;ands will be accompli&s;hed, if the Friends to Debauchery do not hinder.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. To the Breeders of Wool, becau&s;e thereby they will have quick Markets for their Wool as fa&s;t as it grows and ari&s;es, if the neglect of practical Expedients do not hinder.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. To the Clothiers, becau&s;e thereby all the Wool of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and what <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> have to &s;pare will be &s;ecu|red from being exported, and they may have it wrought upon cheaper Terms than before, as fa&s;t as they need it, having their Labourers partly maintained by a publick Stock, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. To the Drapers and Merchants, becau&s;e they may have their Cloth, and afford it on cheaper terms than tho&s;e that have &s;upplanted us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. To the Farmers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> becau&s;e they may &s;ave &s;ix pence in every twelve pence of what they now Contribute to the Live|lyhood of the Poor, and may have better Markets for what they have to &s;pare, &s;ince &s;o many thou&s;ands will near the mat|ter Earn, and Pay for all they Eat, and Drink, and Wear, which before had all for Begging, Lying, and Di&s;&s;embling.</ITEM>
<ITEM><PB N="6" REF="5" MS="y">7. To the City of <HI>London</HI> in particular, who&s;e Trade and Trea&s;ure will be near doubled, by rea&s;on of that double quan|tity of Cloth that will be Exported, by means whereof, the Returns will be of double value in Commodity or Trea|&s;ure, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>8. To the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, who&s;e Revenue by the Increa&s;e of Cu&s;tomes will be proportionably increa&s;ed, if want of Encouragement do not hinder.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. And to the whole Kingdom in general, becau&s;e, be&s;ides the Increa&s;e of Seamen and Navies of Ships, for its Defence Strength, and Safety; Wealth and Trea&s;ure will Increa&s;e there|in, at lea&s;t thirty or forty hundred thou&s;and pounds every year more than it did; if tho&s;e that are regardle&s;s of the Na|tions Weal, do not hinder, with a ba&s;e intention to promote their own Private and Particular Lucre.</ITEM>
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<P>Wherefore, with &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to better Judgments, we will conclude with the Words of St. <HI>Paul,</HI> upon the whole Matter; <HI>What&s;oever things are true, what&s;oever things are hone&s;t, what&s;oever things are ju&s;t, what&s;oever things are pure, what&s;oever things are lovely, what&s;oever things are of good Report; if there be any Vertue, and if there be any Prai&s;e, think on the&s;e things.</HI></P>
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