An Essay to the Restoring of our Decayed Trade.: Wherein is Described, the Smuglers, Lawyers, and Officers Frauds &c. — John Shaqi
An Essay to the Restoring of our Decayed Trade.: Wherein is Described, the Smuglers, Lawyers, and Officers Frauds &c.Trevers, Joseph
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An Essay to the Restoring of our Decayed Trade.: Wherein is Described, the Smuglers, Lawyers, and Officers Frauds &c.
Trevers, Joseph
Great Britain -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800; Wool industry -- England -- Early works to 1800
I shall now endeavor to give some particular account, but very briefly,
of the Profits arising to _England_, by working up our Wooll into
Cloth: every two pounds of Wooll which is worth about twenty pence,
will make a yard of Karsey, worth five or six shillings; and every
four pounds of Wooll, worth about three shillings four pence, will
make a yard of broad-cloth, worth eleven or twelve shillings: so that
two thirds, is the least profit, that doth arise by putting our Wool
into Manufactures; which doth amount to above 230 pounds sterling
profit, in every Tun of Wooll so wrought up, accounting twenty hundred
English wait to the Tun; so that if we should suppose, but an hundred
Tuns of Wooll transported, out of the Kingdome, in a year to _France_
unwrought, it will amount to 22400 _ll._ sterling, which is so much
clear loss to the Kingdome, and trebble so much profit to _France_, by
their working up three times so much of their own, with ours, as hath
been formerly intimated: besides, it is worthy of consideration, that
so many of our poor lye idle, and lose their imployment, being ready to
perish for want of necessary food, notwithstanding the great plenty in
the Land; and no Kingdome hath the like advantages, for the imployment
of the poor, in any Trade or occupation (within doors) whatsoever,
as we have for the poor in his Majesties dominion of _England_, about
the old and new Drapery: and yet those poor, that had their hands full
of work, in one kind or another, according to what they were most
accustomed, either by sorting of wooll, mixing, breaking, carding,
spinning, spoling, quilling, weaving, making of cards, picking of
Tesels, and many other imployments, concerning the working up wooll
into cloth, which have kept many thousands of men women and children
at work, who knew not how to get a penny another way; but by this way
of working, could in some comfortable manner live. When the trade of
clothing was driven roundly, one family, that doth not get twelve pence
a week now, have then received twelve, fifteen or eighteen shillings
a week, which money went round to the Farmer for provision, or to the
Shopkeeper for necessaries for their Families, and this again to the
Merchant, or to the Landlords, according to each man’s Trade, and
correspondence.
So that the profit arising, by the working up of our Wooll into cloth
or Stuffs here in _England_, by our own people is almost unspeakable,
and is the great and chief wheel in the Kingdome, to set all others
at work, as hath been already in several Trades mentioned, and more
do attend upon it, when it is made into cloth, as the Clothworkers,
Drawers, Dyers, Fullers, Packers, Merchants and Seamen.
[Sidenote: _Exporting wooll._]
[Sidenote: _Fall of Rents._]
[Sidenote: _The poors labor profit to the Nation._]
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