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
[Sidenote: _Much +French+ Wooll wrought up by mixing with ours._]
And by having our good _English_ Wooll, they can spend two or three
Packs of their own Wooll, mixing it with ours, by which meanes they
make their Cloath and Stuffes pass very acceptably, both among
themselves, and other Nations. Yea we our selves in _England_ not being
so wise, as we should be, for our own advantage, do buy the _French_
druggets, _&c._ Made of our Wooll, mixed with theirs, and give great
Prices for them too, when we do, or at least may make better of our own.
The care then being taken for granted, that _English_ Wooll is the
best, and most fit for Cloathing, Stuffes, Stockins, _&c._
[Sidenote: _Poor to be Imploy’d._]
How necessary may it be rationally supposed then, for our own People
to be imployd in the working up our own Wooll, and how many thousands
would be imploy’d of the Poorer sort of people, about such work, who
might thereby, gain to themselves a very comfortable living, and free
the Kingdom from those great burdens in maintenance of the Poor; they
being able by their Labour, (_if Imploy’d_) comfortably to provide
for themselves; for it is not the numerous multitude of people in a
Kingdom, or Common Wealth, that makes it to be Poor, that they cannot
live one by another, but the contrary, if all were imploy’d, and set
at work, as there is imployment enough to be had, they would prove the
especial meanes, to make a Kingdom Rich; as may be clearly instanced
by the _Dutch_, how many scores of thousands of their Poor people are
imployed about the Herring Fishing, which makes them very Rich, and
brings in yearly, near two Millions of Money, or other commodities
necessary for the Land, which are equivalent to Money, besides what
they spend in the Land; this may seem to some to be a thing incredible,
but I am able to make it cleare to any intelligent Person.
[Sidenote: _Poverty for want of Imploy._]
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