First, The better securing our _Plantation Trade_, so as it may more absolutely depend on this Kingdom than it hath hitherto done; this will not only encourage our _Navigation_, when all their Product shall be imported hither, but also much advance Your Majesty's Revenues, when such quantities of Tobacco shall not be carried thence directly to foreign Markets; to prevent which, and secure Your Majesty's Duties when Imported, plain and practicable Methods may be proposed; and the Consequence thereof would be, that this Kingdom being the Mistress of that Commodity, Your Majesty's Coffers would be filled, not only from its Home Expence, but also by a Tribute raised from Foreign Nations, where it would very much lie in Your Majesty's Power to set its Price; I do not think new Imposts upon the Importer will so much advance Your Majesty's Revenue as they will discourage the Merchant, 'twould be better to take away those already laid, and instead thereof to raise a far greater Summ on the Consumer, which may be done without the Clog or Oppression of Officers, in such a manner, that it shall scarce be felt, either by the Retailer or Spender. The next thing is the securing our Wool at Home, and making this a Market for all the Wool of _Christendom_, whereby _England_ would soon become the Queen of _Europe_, and flourishing in its _Manufactures_ grow Rich by the Labour of its People, and consequently might better afford to import Commodities to be spent on _Luxury_; I take it to be one great Reason why the Kingdom of _Spain_ still continues poor notwithstanding its _Indies_, because all that the Inhabitants buy is purchased for its full Value in _Treasure_ or _Product_, their Labour adding nothing to its Wealth, for want of _Manufactures_; I am apt to think greater Steps may be made in this than have hitherto been done, and our Wool may be kept at home, not by punishing the Exporter with Death, but by apt Methods to prevent his doing it; and when a Lock is put on _Ireland_ and _Rumny-Marsh_, Foreign Countrys will more easily be prevailed on to send us theirs. These things seem worth the Consideration of the ensuing _Parliament_, a great many Members of the last to my certain Knowledge began to be much in Love with _Trade_, and have often lamented the dark Notions That _House_ had of it, for want of being put into a better Light by those who ought to have represented it truly to them. Which hath been a great Inducement to me in the writing this _Tract_, that I might set forth the Interest of _England_ in Relation to its Domestick and Foreign Traffick, and how both may be better improved to the Advantage of the Nation.