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<HEAD>REASONS Humbly Offered for Supporting the Company of <HI>Mercht. Adventurers of England,</HI> In their TRADE to <HI>GERMANY.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Securing and Promoting of the Trade of Exporting the Woollen Manu|factures to <HI>Germany,</HI> &s;o as may be mo&s;t Beneficial for the Nation, is a Matter of &s;uch Importance, that it is hoped it may not be unworthy the Con&s;ideration of the <HI>Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons,</HI> to whom it is Humbly Repre&s;ented.</P>
<P>THAT the Supporting the Ancient Company of <HI>Merchants Adventurers</HI> of <HI>England</HI> in the &s;aid Trade, will be the mo&s;t Effectual Means to conduce there|unto. For this Company having Fir&s;t Introduced the Woollen Manufactures in|to this Kingdom, and been the &s;ole Exporters thereof, the &s;ame did Flouri&s;h, under their Government and Conduct, in a Regulated Way of Trade, for above <HI>Two Hundred and Fifty</HI> Years, until Foreigners, in the Reign of King <HI>CHARLES</HI> the II. were indulged, and ad|mitted to become Principals in Exporting thereof; &s;ince which, few or no <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> are con|cerned as Principals in the Trade for <HI>Holland,</HI> but only employed as Factors for the <HI>Dutch.</HI> Whereby the Woollen Manufactures have been <HI>Fal&s;ified</HI> and <HI>Deba&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P>That Foreigners, as &s;oon as they can be Accomodated, Prefer their own Natives to be their Factors, who, mo&s;t of them, live ob&s;urely, and bare no Charge to the Government.</P>
<P>That the Clothiers have had Great Lo&s;&s;es by the Foreigners intermeddling in the &s;aid Trade.</P>
<P>That the laying open the &s;aid Trade about the beginning of the Reign of His pre&s;ent MAJESTY, and the late Queen, hath not had its de&s;igned Effect, as is evident by the Complaints of the Clothiers.</P>
<P>That by the Pre&s;erving and Supporting of this Company in their Trade to <HI>Germany,</HI> the following Benefits will accrue, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P>The Merchants Profit will be Secured to the Nation, which will otherwi&s;e go to Foreigners.</P>
<P>The Younger Sons of the Gentry may be Employed in this Trade.</P>
<P>The Reputation of the Woollen Manufacture will be kept up, and the Goods not &s;uffered to be Deba&s;ed, or go out altogether Unmanufactured, whereby a very great Number of Handicrafts Men have of late been Impoveri&s;hed.</P>
<P>The Market abroad will be plentifully furni&s;hed with great Quantities and choice of Goods, as was formerly done. Whereas by the laying open that Trade, <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Men have been di&s;couraged from keeping their Magazines abroad &s;o fully &s;tored, whereby the Mar|ket hath not been &s;ufficiently &s;upplied.</P>
<P>The Companys Priviledges at <HI>Hamburgh,</HI> which are very Advantageous to the Nation, will be thereby pre&s;erved, which if once lo&s;t will be irrecoverable.</P>
<P>The Company, by virtue of their Grants from the City of <HI>Hamburgh,</HI> will be able to prevent the Importation there of Woollen Manufactures from <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P>The Cu&s;toms at <HI>Hamburgh,</HI> Inwards and Outwards, will, by the Stipulations made with that City, be prevented from being Rai&s;ed, wherein the Members of this Company have greater Priviledge, and pay much Le&s;s than their own Burgers; but if the Company is not Supported, there is no doubt but, in a little time, the Cu&s;toms there on <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Commodi|ties will be advanced.</P>
<P>The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Navigation to tho&s;e parts will be Re&s;tored. Whereas there hath not of late been One <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Ship in Fifty Employed.</P>
<P>Foreigners will be Prevented from becoming the &s;ole Ma&s;ters of this Trade, which can never be for the Intere&s;t of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>And many other Advantages will Accrue to the Nation thereby.</P>
<P>It is not Propo&s;ed but that the Trade from <HI>Exeter,</HI> and all other parts of <HI>England,</HI> to <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>Flanders,</HI> may be left Open and Free, as it hath been for &s;everal Years pa&s;t.</P>
<P>There can be no Re&s;traint of Trade, or Want of Buyers, by keeping up this Company, &s;ince they are willing to Admit all <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Men into their Society, for as Small a Fine as the <HI>Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons</HI> &s;hall think fit; and every. Member, &s;o coming in, may Buy and Sell as much as he plea&s;es, every one Trading for his own Account.</P>
<P>Wherefore, It is Humbly Hoped, that the &s;aid Company may be Supported in their Trade to <HI>Germany.</HI> And that a Foreign Intere&s;t may not be preferr'd in Oppo&s;ition to the True Intere&s;t of <HI>England.</HI></P>
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<P>REASONS For Supporting the <HI>Merchant Adventurers</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> in their Trade to <HI>Germany.</HI></P>
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