Thus there have been severe Laws made against carrying the Plantation Commodities directly thence to Foreign _Markets_, and stealing the _Customs_ when brought home, and what effect these have had we all know, thousands of Hogsheads of _Tobacco_ being yearly Ship'd to _Spain_, _Scotland_, and _Ireland_, both from _New-England_, and other Places; whereas Sound and Practicable Methods may and are ready to be laid down to prevent both, with few Officers, and fewer Penalties. [Sidenote: The ill consequences of sending our Wool.] And that we may better see the Mischiefs which attend the carrying abroad our _Wool_ unwrought to other Nations, let us consider the Consequences thereof in what is Shipp'd to _France_, whose _Wool_ being very course of its self, and fit only for _Ruggs_ and ordinary _Cloth_, is by mixture with ours and Irish used in the making of many sorts of pretty _Stuffs_ and _Druggats_, whereby the Sales of our _Woollen_ Manufactures are lessened both there and in other places whither we export them, and by this means every Pack of _Wool_ sent thither works up two besides it self, being chiefly combed and combing _Wool_, which makes Woofe for the _French Wool_, and the Pinions thereof serve with their _Linnen_ to make course _Druggats_ like our _Linsey-Woolsey_, but the _Linnen_ being spun fine and coloured is not easily discerned, also the finest short _English Wool_ being mix'd with the lowest _Spanish_ makes a middling sort of _Broad Cloth_, and being woven on _Worsted Chains_ makes their best _Druggats_, neither of which could be done with the _French Wool_ only, unless in Conjunction with ours or _Irish_, _Spanish Wool_ is too fine and too short for _Worsted Stuffs_, and unfit for Combing, so that without one of those two sorts there cannot be a piece of fine _Worsted Stuff_ or middle _Broad Cloth_ made, no other _Wool_ but _English_ or _Irish_ will mix well with _Spanish_ for _Cloth_, being originally of the same kind, raised from a Stock of _English Sheep_, the difference in fineness coming from the nature of the Land whereon they feed; of this we have Examples in our own Nation, where we find that _Lemster Wool_ is the finest, next, part of _Shropshire_ and _Staffordshire_, part of _Glocester-shire_, _Wilts_, _Dorset_, and _Hampshire_, part of _Sussex_, and part of _Kent_, _Somerset_, _Devon_, and _Cornwall_, these are most proper for _Cloth_, some small part for _Worsted_; _Sussex_, _Surry_, _Middlesex_, _Hartfordshire_, and some other Counties produce _Wool_ much courser and cheaper; But then _Barkshire_, _Buckingham_, _Warwick_, _Oxon_, _Leicester_, _Nottingham_, _Northampton_, _Lincoln_, and part of _Kent_ called _Rumny-Marsh_, the _Wool_ in most of these Connties is so proper for _Worsted_, that all the World except _Ireland_ cannot compare with it, therefore requires our greater Care to prevent its Exportation, and more especially from _Ireland_, whence it is often Exported to our