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
Whether it would not be convenient to have a Committee of Clothiers,
some of the principal of all Counties, with Merchants of the several
Cities, and some other Tradesmen, and Artificers, to be appointed;
whose other weighty affairs might not obstruct this great design of
reviving and advancing our Trade, to its former height, and luster,
and that some of those Gentlemen sit at a certain known place, as
their occasions may permit, so that some of them may be ready at all
times, to receive Petitions, or Projections from workmen, which may
any way tend to the encrease and encouragement of Trade; and for such
Committees, to prepare and digest the same, into such a Method and
form, as might occasion the Production of such further Lawes (if so
thought necessary) for the future, as might restore and advance the
Clothing Trade, and the well making of Cloth, and all sorts of goods,
both in the old and new Drapery; and the rectifying such abuses among
all other Tradesmen, that are any way imployed about the said Draperies.
[Sidenote: _Quære 2._]
Whether all those Laws against Exportation, and Importation of
Prohibited goods, and for the punishment of unfaithful Officers of
the Customes, and others intrusted that do connive at such abuses
(to the King and Kingdome) and neglect the faithful performance of
their duty, ought not to be put into effectual Execution, and whether
all other Lawes, tending to the same matter, or have any relation to
these things, ought not once in a moneth, upon the market day to be
publiquely read and declared, especially in the Sea-Port townes, round
about the Land, that by this means all the common people, who have
the best and greatest opportunities for discovering Offenders, might
know the Law, and so consequently know how, and wherein to do the King
and Countrey service, such as might be very acceptable to them, and
should not be unprofitable to themselves, if they would be careful and
diligent to watch and look out.
[Sidenote: _Quære 3._]
Whether all people ought not to be encouraged, that shall discover such
as Transport Prohibited goods, either into the Kingdome or out of it;
and that care should be taken for them in a very special manner, that
they might be protected from vexatious Suits, and Troubles, which are
usually brought upon them that do discover such transgressors, that so
others may be terrified from such like discoveries, all-though therein,
by making known such Smugglers, that they may receive the justice of
the Law, they do the King and Kingdome the highest service that may be;
and that care may be taken how their Credits, Families and Fortunes
may be preserved against the malice of such Miscreants, whose common
practice is to multiply troubles on all such as do any way molest them
in their unjust designes.
[Sidenote: _Quære 4._]
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