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<HEAD>A REMONSTRANCE, Proving that the Confinement of <HI>TRADE,</HI> to particular Companies, is of general Lo&s;&s;e to His Maje&s;ty, and His People.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas the <HI>Merchant Adventurers</HI> (as they &s;tile them&s;elves) under pretext of Advantage to his Maje&s;ty, and advance of Trade, are re&s;tle&s;s in their attempts, to obtain a Charter confirm'd for the ingro&s;&s;ing the whole Trade of this Nation to them&s;elves. If the &s;aid Charter &s;hould be confirm'd, the con&s;equent Narration will manife&s;t tho&s;e per&s;ons unca|pable to buy from the Makers the twentieth part of the Commodities now made and vended in this Country, being ea&s;y to prove the &s;aid Company now Trade, as far as either E&s;tate or Credit doth permit them, &s;eeing &s;everal of them have lately come &s;hort, by extending their Credits in that particular: And if they were more in quantity, or greater in quality than now they are, the &s;ub&s;equent Particulars declare the Trade of the&s;e parts, to be far exceeding their power to manage, or E&s;tates to compa&s;&s;e; which if &s;o, an im|partial eye may ea&s;ily &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> the va&s;t lo&s;&s;e likely to en&s;ue to his Maje&s;ty, to the Gentry, and to the Commonalty of this Nation.</P>
<P N="1">I. The Particulars of Goods exported b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e Merchants, Free of &s;aid Company, and by tho&s;e Unfree of &s;aid Company, will evidence how far his Maje&s;ty will be a lo&s;er, if &s;aid Trade &s;hould be limitted, and Charter confirmed.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>An Account of all &s;orts of Wooll<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n Manufactures, entered in the Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e of <HI>Exon,</HI> and tran&s;ported into part of the &s;ixteen Provinces of the <HI>Neitherlands,</HI> from <HI>June 24. 1661.</HI> to the <HI>29. September,</HI> next following; for Account of &s;everal per&s;ons Free of &s;aid Company, of <HI>Merchant Adventurers.</HI></HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>li.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;s.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>d.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>One hundred and thirty Pieces of Sarges,</CELL>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>07.</CELL>
<CELL>09.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Ten Pieces of Broadcloath,</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>01.</CELL>
<CELL>03.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Five Pieces of Kar&s;ies,</CELL>
<CELL>0.</CELL>
<CELL>03.</CELL>
<CELL>08. &frac12;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Seventy Pieces of of <HI>Devon</HI> Dozens,</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>11.</CELL>
<CELL>02.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Ten Pieces of Bayes,</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Tho&s;e</HI> 225 <HI>Pieces pay His Maje&s;ty Cu&s;tom,</HI></CELL>
<CELL>8.</CELL>
<CELL>03.</CELL>
<CELL>10. &frac12;</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE>
<TABLE>
<HEAD>An Account of all &s;orts of Woollen Manufactures, entered in the &s;aid Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e, of <HI>Exon,</HI> and tran&s;ported into the &s;aid <HI>Neitherlands,</HI> from <HI>June</HI> to <HI>September, 1661.</HI> by <HI>Mr. John Butler,</HI> and four or five Merchants more of the City of <HI>Exon,</HI> not Free of &s;aid Company, of <HI>Merchant Adventures.</HI></HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>li.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;s.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>d.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Eight thou&s;and &s;ix hundred thirty eight Pieces of Sarges, which pay Cu&s;tom,</CELL>
<CELL>287.</CELL>
<CELL>11.</CELL>
<CELL>03.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Thirty Pieces of Kar&s;ies,</CELL>
<CELL>001.</CELL>
<CELL>01.</CELL>
<CELL>03.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Two hundred &s;ixty five Pieces of Broadcloath,</CELL>
<CELL>029.</CELL>
<CELL>08.</CELL>
<CELL>10. &frac12;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>One hundred eighty two Pieces of Devon Dozens,</CELL>
<CELL>004.</CELL>
<CELL>01.</CELL>
<CELL>01. &frac12;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>One hundred twenty nine Pieces of Straits,</CELL>
<CELL>002.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
<CELL>11.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Ten Pieces of Bay&s;es,</CELL>
<CELL>001.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Tho&s;e</HI> 9254. <HI>Pieces pay His Maje&s;tie Cu&s;tom,</HI></CELL>
<CELL>325.</CELL>
<CELL>03.</CELL>
<CELL>05.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>Hence it is evident, &s;hould all Merchants not Free of &s;aid Company, be forbidden Trade, what an infinite lo&s;&s;e His Maje&s;ty &s;hould &s;u&s;tain in His Cu&s;tomes, that in three Months tho&s;e Merchants Free of the &s;aid Company, come &s;hort in pieces of tho&s;e not Free of &s;aid Company, 9029 pieces, and in mony paid His Maje&s;ty for Cu&s;tom, 316 <HI>l.</HI> 19 <HI>s.</HI> 6 <HI>d.</HI> &frac12; which the above-mentioned Par|ticulars do &s;ufficiently demon&s;trate: And without di&s;pute, the &s;aid Unfree Merchants would have tran&s;ported greater quantities, had not the fear of the power of &s;aid Free Merchants deterred them. Moreover, the di&s;proportion above&s;aid is only of goods tran&s;ported, which doubtle&s;&s;e would be as great of goods imported, becau&s;e it is not to be expected that the value of goods tran&s;ported, will be greater than of goods imported: Hence it is deducible the infinite lo&s;s likely to accrue unto His &s;aid Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P N="2">II. The impartial Judgement may al&s;o &s;ee the great lo&s;&s;e which will be to the poor of this Nation, (if &s;aid Company &s;hould be e&s;tabli&s;hed) who in this cau&s;e will be the greate&s;t &s;ufferers.</P>
<P>Wherefore to make this apparent by the con&s;equent Particulars, may be &s;een in proportioning a number of poor-Workmen to each mixt Sarge, and Broadcloath, whence thou&s;ands of poor, extract a livelyhood and maintainance by their labour in making tho&s;e Manufactures, which if &s;tinted to a &s;mall number of men, (not &s;ufficient to manage the lea&s;t part of it) the Gentleman, Farmer, and all other people of what degree &s;oever, will in&s;en&s;ibly come to ruine by this decay of Trade; which will be more vi&s;ible by an exact &s;cruting into the Charges of a particular piece of Sarge.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>The Co&s;t of an ordinary mixt Sarge is as followeth, <HI>viz.</HI></HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>li.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;s.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>d.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>To every Piece of Sarge is allowed 24 <HI>l.</HI> of rough Wool, co&s;t</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>03.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Dy ng of this Wool, with Combing, Sope, and Oyl, co&s;t</CELL>
<CELL>0.</CELL>
<CELL>10.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Spinning of the Obbe, and Warp, co&s;t</CELL>
<CELL>0.</CELL>
<CELL>17.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Warping, Spoaling, and Weaving, co&s;t</CELL>
<CELL>0.</CELL>
<CELL>10.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Dre&s;&s;ing of it after 'tis made, co&s;t</CELL>
<CELL>0.</CELL>
<CELL>02.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Pre&s;&s;ing of it, if hot pre&s;t, co&s;t</CELL>
<CELL>0.</CELL>
<CELL>01.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>So the whole Charge of making a Piece of Sarge fit to be tran&s;ported into any Foreign parts, amounts to</CELL>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>03.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e you may &s;ee by this, that the making of a Sarge requires various &s;orts of people for each &s;everal Imployment, who&s;e urgent nece&s;&s;ities require a weekly &s;upply of mony, or they mu&s;t want bread, for it is not a work to be done by one per&s;on alone: Here al&s;o may be ob&s;erved that the Wool of each Piece, co&s;t but 23 <HI>s.</HI> the other 40 <HI>s.</HI> comes clear to the poor Workmen, who within the &s;pace of fourteen or &s;ixteen dayes, by their indu&s;try and labour, bring this Wool into a Sarge, which contains 1. yard broad, and 22. yards long, fit for &s;ale, and then reduce that into moneys for a new Imployment; the quick di&s;patch in making the &s;aid Commodity, and converting it to mony, is an advantage to the rich, and an help to the poor, who being &s;upplyed con&s;tantly with mony, are made capable to buy off all &s;orts of Provi&s;ion from the Gentleman, and Farmer, which could not be done, if Trade were limitted by this Company.</P>
<P>If there be 40. <HI>s.</HI> di&s;tributed among&s;t the poor for their labour, in making one Sarge, then tho&s;e Sarges tran&s;ported by the Merchants not Free of the &s;aid Company, would di&s;po&s;e among&s;t the poor in three months time, 17276. <HI>l.</HI> and the Merchants of <HI>Exeter,</HI> Free of the &s;aid Company, be&s;tow among&s;t the poor, in three months, for the &s;aid Sarges, but 260. <HI>l.</HI> wherein they come &s;hort of the Unfree Merchants 17016. <HI>l.</HI></P>
<P>Having now proved the lo&s;&s;e that the poor &s;hould &s;u&s;tain, (were the &s;aid Campany confirmed) in the making tho&s;e Sarges, tran&s;ported by the Unfree Merchants: Next &s;hall demon&s;trate the Par|ticulars of a Broadcloath, which redound to the poor for their labour, and wages, al&s;o what quantity is nece&s;&s;ary for the making of an ordinary Spani&s;h Cloth, (of Wool) about the price of 7. <HI>s.</HI> or 7. <HI>s.</HI> 2. <HI>d. per</HI> yard, and that very good, &s;ub&s;tantial, and loyal Cloth.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>The Co&s;t of an ordinary mixt Broadcloth is as followeth, <HI>viz.</HI></HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>li.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;s.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>d.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Wool allowed to every Pieces of Cloth, is 76. <HI>l.</HI> clean Wool, co&s;t</CELL>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>10.</CELL>
<CELL>08.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Dying, Mixing, and Breaking this Wool, with the Oyl, co&s;t</CELL>
<CELL>0.</CELL>
<CELL>15.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Spinning of the Obbe and Warp, co&s;t</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>15.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Warping, Spoaling, and Weaving the Cloth, co&s;t</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Dre&s;&s;ing, and Shearing this Cloth, co&s;t</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>06.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Draing, Pre&s;&s;ing, and making up in Tillets, fit for Sale, co&s;t</CELL>
<CELL>0.</CELL>
<CELL>06.</CELL>
<CELL>04.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>So the whole Charge of making a Broad Cloth, fit to be tran&s;ported into Foreign parts, amounts to</CELL>
<CELL>9.</CELL>
<CELL>13.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>It is therefore now worth our noting, that the Wool of an ordinary Cloth, co&s;ts but 4 <HI>l.</HI> 10. <HI>s.</HI> 00. <HI>d.</HI> which comes &s;hort of half the value of the Cloth, the other part goes to the Workman, 5. <HI>l.</HI> 3 <HI>s.</HI> 00. <HI>d.</HI> for his labour and wages, in making of this &s;ort of Cloth; But the charge of a better, &s;ort will be greater, and proportionably advantageous to the poor Workman, according to the goodne&s;&s;e of the &s;aid Commodity. This Trade of Cloth and Sarge, is carried on by a &s;mal number of Merchants, of the &s;aid City of <HI>Exon,</HI> again&s;t whom the Dutch Company have a boundle&s;&s;e malignity, be|cau&s;e them&s;elves are deficient in the knowledge of tho&s;e my&s;teries, wherein &s;ome of them are expert.</P>
<P N="3">III. Having now particularized the advantage of a free Trade to the poor Spin&s;ter, Weaver, Comber, Dyer, Tucker, and &s;everal other &s;uch Trades for their labour in making a Sarge or Cloth, in one quarter of a year.</P>
<P>My intert is next to &s;hew what a va&s;t quantiy of Wool the making of tho&s;e Manufactures doth expend, which if interrupted by the &s;aid Company, will be a general lo&s;&s;e to all His Maje&s;ties Sub|jects, for they lo&s;e not only the di&s;po&s;ing of their Wool, but the vending of their Corn, Butter, Chee&s;e, Bacon, and other &s;uch like nece&s;&s;aries, which will follow upon the ob&s;tructing of Trade, and making &s;carce of mony.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>li.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>s.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>d.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The quantity of Wool, expended on the Goods, tran&s;ported by the Merchants of <HI>Exon</HI> (in three months time) not Free of the &s;aid Company, is</CELL>
<CELL>234852. <HI>l.</HI> at 14. <HI>d.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROWS="3"><HI>amounts to</HI></CELL>
<CELL>13699.</CELL>
<CELL>14.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Wool &s;pent by tho&s;e Free of the Company in <HI>Exon</HI> in Goods, tran&s;ported by them (in three months time) is in Wool</CELL>
<CELL>5580. <HI>l.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>325.</CELL>
<CELL>10.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> there hath been &s;pent in Wool, by the Unfree Merchants, more than tho&s;e Free of the &s;aid Company, in three Months,</CELL>
<CELL>229272. <HI>l.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>13374.</CELL>
<CELL>04.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>This 13314. <HI>l.</HI> 4 <HI>s.</HI> being the value of the Wool expended on the Commodities tran&s;ported by the Unfree Merchants, more than the value of the Wool u&s;ed by the Free Merchants, is &s;ufficiently able to &s;hew the infinite lo&s;s apparently en&s;uing on the whole Kingdom, if none &s;hould be permitted to Trade, but &s;uch as are Free of the &s;aid Dutch Company.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The manner how the TRADE decayes, is thus.</HEAD>
<P>The Merchants of <HI>Exon</HI> not free of the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">id Company, being ob&s;tructed in their Trade, by tho&s;e free of the Company, have bought le&s;s quantities of all &s;orts of Manufactures than formerly, which hath reduced the Trade almo&s;t to nothing: For we are a&s;&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed by Information of very able Clothiers, in the County of <HI>Devon,</HI> that there are 300. Pieces of Broad-Cloth made now le&s;s weekly, than formerly were made, and at lea&s;t 1000. Pieces of mixt Sarges made le&s;&s;e weekly, be&s;ides Ker&s;ies, Bay&s;es, and other &s;uch Woollen Manufactures. For <HI>Example,</HI> in <HI>Hemiock, Ufculme,</HI> and <HI>Culmstock</HI> (th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ee Pari&s;hes in the County of <HI>Devon</HI>) were made weekly formerly 120. Pieces of Cloth, which Pari&s;hes now make but 20. Pieces weekly, whence we may compute at lea&s;t 200. Pieces of Cloth, made le&s;s than formerly, and 1000. pieces of Sarges, which is the lowe&s;t e&s;timation, where we may &s;ee what a great lo&s;s this is to His Maje&s;ty, to the Gentry, the Farmer, and indeed to all Conditions, and Degrees.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>li.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>&s;s.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>d.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>I. If there be 200. Broad Clothes made le&s;s weekly than formerly, each Cloth paying the King almo&s;t 2. <HI>s.</HI> 2. <HI>d.</HI> &frac34; for Cu&s;tom, then H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Ma+je&s;ty lo&s;eth for 200 Clo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">hes</CELL>
<CELL>22.</CELL>
<CELL>04.</CELL>
<CELL>05.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>II. If there be 1000. Sa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ges made le&s;s weekly, each Sarge paying 9. <HI>d. per</HI> Pieces for Cu&s;tom, H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">je&s;ty lo&s;eth</CELL>
<CELL>37.</CELL>
<CELL>10.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="total">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">59.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">14.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">05.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Thus then His M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">je&s;ty receiveth &s;hort in His Cu&s;toms</CELL>
<CELL>59.</CELL>
<CELL>14.</CELL>
<CELL>05.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>III. The poor Trade&s;-man lo&s;eth weekly the ma|king of 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">0. B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oad Clothes, which at 5. <HI>l.</HI> 3. <HI>s</HI> a Cloth is</CELL>
<CELL>1030.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>IV. The poor lo&s;eth al&s;o weekly for the ma|king of 1000. Sarges at 40. <HI>s</HI> a piece for Wages</CELL>
<CELL>2000.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="total">&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">3030.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">00.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Thus then the poor man receives le&s;s in Wages</CELL>
<CELL>3030.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
<CELL>00.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>V. The Gentleman, and Farmer lo&s;eth the &s;el|ling of 76. <HI>l.</HI> of Wooll for each Cloth, which for 200. Pieces weekly is &mdash; <HI>li.</HI> Wooll. 15200.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>And for 1000. Sarges, each piece u&s;ing 24. <HI>l.</HI> Wooll &mdash; 24000.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Thus then there is every week le&s;s Wooll &s;old &mdash; 39200.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>VI. Which 39200. <HI>l.</HI> of Wooll, valued at 14. <HI>d. per</HI> pound, &s;o much the Gentleman, and Farme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> lo&s;eth the receiving in moneys weekly le&s;s than formerly</CELL>
<CELL>2286.</CELL>
<CELL>13.</CELL>
<CELL>04.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="total"><HI>Total.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">5376.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">07.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">09.</CELL>
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<P N="7">VII. And were not Trade by Interruption of the Company &s;o decayed, (whereby you &s;ee there is near 40000. pounds weight of Wooll u&s;ed le&s;s in one County than formerly every week (there would hardly be any Wooll carried out of the Kingdom, becau&s;e when there were greater quantities of the Manufactures made within the&s;e few years (whiles the Company had no power) all the Wooll both of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> was bought up from the Growers, that at the years end, &s;carce any old Wooll left, and at far greater prices than now it is, which gave them no opportunity or en|couragement to Tran&s;port it; And although Wooll at that time was dear (which made our Manufactures then far dearer al&s;o than now they are,) and we paid 3. <HI>s.</HI> Cu&s;tome to His Maje&s;ty for each S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rge, (which now we pay but 9. <HI>d.</HI>) yet all &s;orts of Goods &s;old off quicker, and at better rates beyond the Seas than now; And the rea&s;on is, that then there was very little, or no Wooll at all Tran&s;ported, by which means Strangers could not make our Manufactures, and now are great quantities made by them, which makes Goods cheap, and plenty in all Foreign Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ts, &s;o that they de&s;ire not ours; The Cau&s;e (as I have &s;hewed before) is the Interruption of Trade here, that the Wooll cannot be taken off from the Grower, which makes people u&s;e all the unlawful wayes to Tran&s;port it they can invent.</P>
<P N="8">VIII. It is now obvious to every man, that His Maje&s;ty, the Gentleman, and Farmer, the poor Trade&s;-man, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> are by this decay in Trade, weekly, on but two &s;orts of Woollen Manufactures, lo&s;ers of what they did receive, and might &s;till, did not the &s;aid Company deterre Merchants 5376. <HI>l.</HI> 07. <HI>s.</HI> 09. <HI>d.</HI></P>
<P>If therefore Trade be &s;o fallen in &s;o &s;hort a time, what (may we fear) will become of this County, and Nation, when the French King was lately petition'd by &s;ome of his Subjects, to forbid the bringing of any of our Manufa|ctures into His Dominions, becau&s;e there are &s;uch great quantities of &s;aid Commodities made there, as they all<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e to be &s;ufficient for the whole Kingdome: And the Dutch Company forbid all others not Free of their Company, to T ade for <HI>Germany,</HI> or other the Provinces in the Neitherlands. This Kingdom mu&s;t inevitably be ruined unl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;s timely Cour&s;e be taken to prevent the power of the &s;aid Company, and a free Trade permitted to all Merchants, pay ing His Maje&s;ty His due Cu&s;tomes: It is not to be imagined by the de&s;iring of a free Trade, that all fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> people &s;hould be permitted to exerci&s;e the mi&s;tery of a Merchant, but &s;uch only who have been bred Merchants, or &s;er|ved an Apprentice, or u&s;ed the Trade of a Merchant for &s;even years pa&s;t, and no others, Then let the Manufactures be reformed as hath been already &s;et forth, and demon&s;trated at large: Let the Laws again&s;t Tran&s;portation of Wooll, and &s;uch Materials as concern that Manufacture, be &s;trictly put in Execution; And by Gods ble&s;&s;ing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n our Endeavours, His Maje&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s Revenue will be encrea&s;ed, the Gentleman, and Farmer flouri&s;h, and the Poor live Comfortable; which is, and ever &s;hall be my de&s;ire.</P>
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