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 could say something for the Staplers, though not much, because
I cannot find by our Lawes, that any such people were in those
dayes, when the Trade and Manufacture of Wooll was first brought
into _England_; and yet Wooll was sent to the Staples, and all the
Manufacturers thereof, had those sorts that suited best for their
trade, and we got and kept the whole trade of our _English_ wooll,
and of other Countries to our selves, in this Kingdome, and had the
command of the forreign Markets, which was the occasion of the first
setling all those Companies, as hath been formerly and briefly set
forth; and I doubt not, but that those Staplers will set a gloss upon
their business, and without question their money doth speak much for
them, lying for the most part in and about _London_, so near to the
Fountain of the Lawes; yet I do verily beleive those people have much
to answer for, as to the ruine of many poor people, occasioned by their
Exportation of Wooll beyond Sea, by which evil practice, the Trade of
the kingdome is in a great measure lost, as hath been set forth already
something largely; by reason whereof many of our poor people in the
kingdome are ready to perish for want of Bread, notwithstanding the
great plenty in the Land, and this is because they want work.
I should lose time further to complain, seeing all people are
experimentally sensible of the loss and decay of Trade, to the great
disadvantage of the Nobility, and Gentry in the Land, as also to the
great detriment of the Farmer, and Merchant; although indeed the Poor
are most pinchingly sensible hereof, throughout the King’s Dominions,
and hence ariseth the want of Money, (the thing by all men complained
of) and the fall of Rents occasioned thereby.
I shall now proceed by way of _Quæry_, to propound and insinuate
something, that may tend towards a remedy, for these Maladies, formerly
complain’d of, and to be a restorative to our decaying Trade, and to
help it to life again; for as Physitians having found out the cause
of the Distemper, know the readier how to apply what is sutable, in
order to the Cure. So here I having I hope discovered the causes, and
occasions of our lose of Trade, shall take the boldness to give in
tacitly my advice, most humbly begging pardon for such a presumption,
and in all submission, presenting my conceptions to better judgements.
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