For what Customes come in yearly to his Majesty concerning the Manufactures of Wooll, in its several, and perticular sorts, of the Old and New Drapery, in all the Varieties of Stuffes, made now a days, and Stockins, by being Transported to Forreign parts, and what store of Money, and other goods, (_equivalent to Money_) being necessary commodities for the Kingdom, do they bring in again, for our Cloath, Stuffs, _&c._ so sold or bartered; and what Customs again do all those imported goods bring into His Majesties Coffers, may not be difficult to be computed, besides the imployment of so many Ships and Seamen, and training up young Seamen, than which nothing in this age of ours, is more necessary to be taken care about; for there is (_I believe_) the greatest want of this sort of men in the Kingdom, for although there may be enough found in the Kingdom, to Man His Majesties Royal _Navy_, and it may be some to spare, yet it is believed there are not neer enough for His Majesties Service, and for Merchants service too, which may many times be carried on both together, as occasion may require; [Sidenote: _The Companies of Merchants._] And if we do but look back a little, to a few Generations past, we may soon find what high Advantages have accrued to His Majesty in His Customs; and to the Kingdom in general, by the Cloathing-trade, being lively managed by the Merchants, and what worthy and noble Companies of Merchants, have been Associated and Incorporated; whose Trading hath for the most part, consisted in Woollen cloaths, as in the Merchant Adventures Trading to the _East-lands_, and in what esteem their Agents and Factors were in Forreign parts, and how Rich and great their Stock and Treasure hath been, in so much that they have been able to lend a very considerable supply and assistance to the _King_ or _Queen_ upon any Occasion; and Particularly and Eminently (_may it be spoken to their Honor_) their Assistance of _Queen Elizabeth_ of most happy Memory, in the year Eighty Eight; and since upon any Occasion of the like nature. [Sidenote: _East Land Company._] Neither is here to be omitted that company which is called the _East-land_ Company, whose principal Trading also consists in the same commodity of Woollen-Cloaths, by which they do furnish all those Eastern Countries about the _Baltick-Sea_, and to _Russia_, by which means also our discoveries of those _Northern_ parts of the World, have bin made very Evident, and well known to Us, to the great Advancement of our _Navigation_ to the _Northward_, as far as _Green Land_; and of late years hath given occasion of that Discovery about _Hudson_’s Bay, commonly now called the _North-west Passage_, made by that stout and adventurous Seaman, Captain _Zachariah Gillam_. [Sidenote: _+Turkey+ Company._]