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
perticulers, as might be instanced in _Tin_, _Lead_, _Cloath_,
_Stuffes_, _Stockins_, _Herrings_, of which might be an hundred times
as many if look’t after, and Sale enough for them too, at Forreign
Markers: but the _Dutch_ run away with the profit of these goods,
making two Barrels for our one; _Pilchards_ are a very good commodity,
of which we do get good store in the _West Country_, and they do
bring in good profit to the Nation, either in Gold or Silver, or such
commodities, as the Kingdom stands in need off.
By what hath been said, it plainly appears how from the highest to the
lowest, there is a necessary dependance of one imployment upon another,
and the falling off from one general Trade, occasions the ruin of many
inferior Tradesmen, who had subsistence for themselves, and Families
thereby; and this in our Kingdom of _England_, is seated principally,
and cheifly, in the Trade of Cloathing, and the Manufacture of Wooll.
[Sidenote: _The King Looseth._]
So that upon the failing of this Trade, of which there is too great
a cessation and decay, in many parts of this Kingdom, there comes in
inevitably such a general loss, to the whole Nation, for first and
most principally the King loseth hereby, and that extreamly, not only
because his Subjects are not set at work, and so are unabled to live
comfortably, and to pay such Taxes, and impositions, as are requisite
for his Majesties support, and defence against his powerful Enemies.
Nor in that the Honor, and splendor of the Kingdom, is hereby so much
advanced and promoted, as it might be, but also because his Majesty
looseth so great a revenue, which would accrue to him in his Customes,
if the Cloathing Trade was carried on with Vigor, so that the effectual
carrying on, or desisting from the Cloathing Trade, is of very high
Concernment, and Importance to the King; in profit or loss, and so it
runs through the meaner sort of People also, as hath allready in part
been spoken to.
[Sidenote: _The Kings Customes._]
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