Thus then by the neglect of our own Manufactures of our Wooll, flowes in like an inundation, the poverty of the Land; and hence arise those sad complaints, that fill every mans Eares, throughout the Kingdom, Alas! What shall we do to live, we have no Imployment; for if the Trade of the world abroad, for Cloath and Stuffes, _&c._ Be supplied from other Lands, which make their Cloath and Stuffes of our _English_ Wooll, being _Clandestinely_ Transported into Forreign parts; our _English_ Trade for that commodity, must answerably decay; and if the _English_ Merchant hath not vent for that commodity abroad, to other Nations, the Country Cloathier must strike off in a great measure, and consequently many of the Poor work folkes, are answerably taken off from their imployments, which formerly for many years, they had been exercised in, and so having no work, they get no Money, and so are reduced to a begging condition, or worse: these things are to be discerned clearly, without the help of a Perspective-Glass, by those that are in any measure intelligent in Politique affaires. [Sidenote: _Profit lost._] Thus the profit of the Poor, that they should get to themselves for a maintenance is lost, and the profit gotten by their labour to the Kingdom is also lost, in the General, and this is brought to pass by the quicksightedness, and diligence of our Neighbour Nations; who finding dayly the sweetness of the Trade, and so exceedingly enriching themselves, by our commodity, _Viz._ Wooll; doe endeavour more and more, to carry it on to their own advantage, whiles we in _England_, in the mean time neglect our own opportunities, and advantages, which do so clearely lie before us. [Sidenote: _Loss to the Kingdom._] From what hath been before hinted, doth necessarily follow the vast dammage, and prejudice done to this our own Nation, and Kingdom, by the exportation of our Wooll; for the dammage doth evidently appear, thus. Had not the _French_ our _English_ Wooll to work withall, they could not work up their own Wooll, into any Manufactures that should be acceptable, or saleable in other Countries, no nor in their own Land, but they would be ready as formerly to buy our _English_ commodities; but now having our _English_ Wooll so frequently among them, privately gotten from _England_, or _Ireland_; they mix their own Wooll with it, and work up two or three Packs of their course Wooll, with one pack of ours, so that every Pack of _English_ Wooll exported from us, and carried to _France_ is treble loss, if not more to _England_, and on the contrary so much profit to _France_. [Sidenote: _Other Countries grow Rich._] [Sidenote: _Undersel us._] [Sidenote: _Custom Officers unfaithful._]