And if I should adventure to give my opinion freely, touching the matter in hand, I am very much induced to believe, that were it not for the Cloathing-trade (_which imploys so many Ships and Men into several other Countries, and for the value of our Cloaths bring their Goods, by which means the poor also are set on work_) that a great part of the Traffick and Commerce of the world would fail; and this Trade as formerly intimated, is, and may be most readily, roundly, and advantagiously driven in _England_; were we but so pollitique and carefully, as to keep our Wooll to our selves and within the _King_’s Dominions of _England_ and _Ireland_, and to set the people closly to their work again. [Sidenote: _+English+ Cloath and Stuffs serve all the world._] And before I do leave the Argument I have ingaged in, let there be considered the good quantities of Cloath and Stuffs that did go over continually to _Holland_ and _Flanders_, and by them there dispersed otherways; the large quantities of Stuffs and Bays that are sent over to _Portugall_, and thence Transported to _Brazilia_, &c, with a very considerable number of Cloaths and Stuffs that go to _Spain_, and by the _Spaniards_ Transported to the _West-Indies_ all over, the good quantities of _Perpetuanies_, and such like Stuffs that are carried out for _Guinea_, together of late days, with the large stores of Broad-cloaths, Kersies, Sarges Cottons, Pennistons, Duffels (_or Hogs_) Transported to our own Plantations of _New-England_ and _Virginia_, with what also must supply _Barbadoes_, _Jamaica_, and our other Islands in the _West-Indies_, and forreign Plantations; all which are the manufacture of Wooll. [Sidenote: _Clothing more worth to England_] [Sidenote: _than the commodity of any Country whatsoever._] The Premises considered, I hope I may make bold to say, that setting aside all the rest of the Rich and Staple commodities of _England_, which nevertheless are as good as any Country can parrallel in the world, as Tinn, Lead, Iron, _&c._ this very commodity produced from our Wooll, is of more worth and value to _England_, (_that is to say_) will bring in more profit to the Kingdom of _England_, than all the Silks or rich commodities of any Country whatsoever; Yea doubtless more than all the Spices of the _South-Seas_, yea, I do believe, and I have reason enough to lead me so to do, than all the _Spaniards_ Gold and Silver Mines in _America_; for none of these I am throughly perswaded, can any way equallize that yearly Revenue, that doth, or may come into the Kingdom of _England_ by this one commodity diversly made up of our Wooll. [Sidenote: _Encrease of Seamen._] [Sidenote: _The King’s care for the Security of the Nation._]