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
And again I Answer, that the more Complaints are made, of the Abuses
and great Losses to the Kingdome, so much the more ought all good
men to enquire into the truth of those Complaints, and endeavour for
sutable Remedies; in Tendency whereto, I have presented something here
by way of Quære, _&c._
And now methinks I hear some wise men say, that it is Reason that such
abuses should be punished, and that severely, if any should presume
to act such things, as are here complained of, or any waies vindicate
those that do them; to the which I answer, that I wish that I were
called to prove my knowledge of those things, without too much charge
or Attendance, before any that should be appointed, to enquire into and
to regulate the same, for I do not make it my business to set forth
in this discourse the perticuler abuses of those Countrey Atturneys,
Under-Clerks, Under-Sheriffs in their returns, and the abuses of their
Officers, and the Assistance that some great Smugglers have, from some
Magistrates and Justices of the Peace in the Countrey, together with
the affronts that have been offered to our good Lawes, of which I have
had a large and sad experience: And although our Lawes are good, and
our Judges are just, yet the corruption in the practice of the Law,
by under-Officers, is so exceeding bad and destructive to the Trade
and publique good of the Kingdome, that in case I should perticularly
recite those abuses that I my self have met with among the Practicers
of the Law, I should fill a Book many times bigger than this.
And now I shall conclude, with the true and hearty wishes of an
_Englishman_, that all our Ministers of State may so agree especially
in this juncture of time, that they may unanimously joyn together, as
one intire body, against all Intruders upon our Trade and Priveledges
both at Sea and Land; that the Walls of this Kingdome may be built up
and preserved, and our Tradeing may encrease and flourish, so that no
cunning Usurpers may rob us of our old Prerogatives of the Seas, or the
Manufacture of our native Trade upon the Land.
FINIS.
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