And that we may the better perceive the Mischiefs that attend the carrying abroad of Wool unwrought to other Nations, let us consider the consequences thereof in what is Shipt to _France_; whose Wool being very coarse, and fit only for Rugs and Blankets, and such ordinary Cloath, is by mixture with ours and _Irish_, used in the making of many sorts of Stuffs and Druggets, whereby the Sales of our Woollen Manufactures are lessened, both there, and in other places whither we Export them; and by this means, every Pack of Wool sent thither, works up two besides it self, being chiefly Combed, and combing Wool, which makes Wool for the _French_ Wool, and the Pinions thereof serve with their Linnen to make coarse Druggets, like our Linsey-Woolsey, but the Linnen being Spun Fine, and Coloured, is not easily discerned; also our Finest Short Wool, being mixt with the lowest _Spanish_, makes a middling sort of Broad-Cloth, and being Woven on Worsted Chains, makes their best Druggets, neither of which could be done with the _French_ Wool only, unless in conjunction with ours or _Irish_, _Spanish_ Wool being too fine and too Short for Worsted Stuffs, and unfit for Combing, so that without one of those two Sorts, there cannot be a Piece of Worsted Stuff or middle Broad-Cloth made; no other Wool but _English_ or _Irish_ will mix well with _Spanish_ for Cloth, being originally Raised from a Stock of _English_ Sheep, the difference, arising from the Nature of the Land whereon they are Fed; of this we have experience in our own Nation, where we find, that _Lemster_ Wool is the finest, next, part of _Shropshire_ and _Staffordshire_, part of _Gloucestershire_, _Wilts_, _Dorset_ and _Hampshire_, part of _Sussex_, _Kent_, _Somerset_, _Devon_, and _Cornwall_, these are proper chiefly for Cloth, some part for Worsted; _Sussex_, _Surry_, _Middlesex_, _Hertfordshire_, and some other Counties, produce Wool much coarser and cheaper: But then _Berkshire_, _Buckingham_, _Warwick_, _Oxon_, _Leicester_, _Nottingham_, _Northampton_, _Lincoln_, and part of _Kent_ called _Rumney_ Marsh, the Wool in most of these Counties is so proper for Worsted, that all the World (except _Ireland_) cannot compare with it, therefore requires our greater care to prevent its Exportation; and more particularly from _Ireland_, whence it is exported to our Neighbouring Nations, and sold cheap. As for the Wool of _North-Britain_, I am not sufficiently verst therein, to give a true Account of the Nature of it. [Sidenote: Methods to prevent the Exportation of Wooll.] I know many Methods have been thought of to prevent this pernicious Mischief, but all the Laws I have yet seen, seem to reach but half way, they depend too much on Force and Penalties, and too little on Method; we must begin deeper, and secure the Wool from the time of its Growing, till ’tis wrought up into Manufactures, and I think nothing less than a Register, to be kept in every County, will do it.