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<DATE>2014-02-21</DATE>
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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140119.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Wooll being the cheife Comoditie of this Kingdome, <HI>Jt is thought good for this Common weale, to aduance it to the highe&s;t rate that Conueniently it may bee.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t by making ample way to di&s;per&s;e it into the hands of al &s;orts of manifactors within this lande,
<MILESTONE N="1"> that no hand may be idle for want of worke, &amp; that euery &s;ort of Woll may be put to that v&s;e for which it is mo&s;t fitt,</P>
<P>When it is conuerted then to make the way for the vent of Cloth &amp; all &s;tuffs made of Woll,
<MILESTONE N="2"> as large without Confining it to &s;o few hands, which may either, of them&s;elues, or by others, be re&s;trained to priuate ends again&s;t the publique proffitt.</P>
<P><LABEL>It is conceiued this may be done.</LABEL></P>
<P>Fir&s;t by making an act for free trade,
<MILESTONE N="1"> that &s;o euery one of his Maie&s;ties &s;ubiects beeing able &amp; willing, to be a Merchant, may haue free libertie to put his hand to &s;o good a worke.</P>
<P>By re&s;toring the power of the Merchants of the Staple,
<MILESTONE N="2"> who haue heretofore &s;hipped cloth into tho&s;e parts beyond the Seas; where they had trade for Woolls, vntill of late they haue bene interrupted by &s;uch meanes as the Merchants Aduenturers haue procu|red, notwith&s;tanding that the &s;aid Merchants haue an e&s;peciall proui&s;o, in their Pattent, that nothing therein Contained &s;hould hinder the Merchants of the Staple from v&s;ing any trade or libertie that formerlie they might haue done.</P>
<P>This will make the Staplers more forward and confident to buy Wooll, when they haue power in their owne hands to make the be&s;t of the Cloth:</P>
<P>And if the State thinke it fit that all &s;orts of Merchants, may buy Wooll as free as the Staplers, it may al&s;o be thought as fit and as good for the Common weale, that the Staplers may Shipp all Woollen Comodities as free as other Merchants.</P>
<P>By dealing with all Companies and Corporations according to that famous pre&s;ident in 12.
<MILESTONE N="3"> of <HI>Henry</HI> 7. where it appeareth that the Merchants Aduenturers being then newly Incorporate, did appropriate trade to much to them&s;elues, which made the Common weale complaine of them, and the remedie is there &s;et downe <HI>(viz)</HI></P>
<P>That any of his Maie&s;ties liege people &s;hould be free to trade with them paying only Ten Markes for their Admittance.</P>
<P>This will preuent Practizes, Combinations, and Limitations of Merchants in their trades. And it will cut off all priuate impo&s;itions taxed by any one Companie: When it &s;hall be lawfull for others freely to Shipp the &s;ame Comodities, and not be &s;ubiect to the fore&s;aide taxes.</P>
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