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A33688 England's improvements in two parts : in the former is discoursed how the kingdom of England may be improved ... : in the latter is discoursed how the navigation of England may be increased and the soveraignty of the British seas more secured to the crown of England ... / by Roger Coke. Coke, Roger, fl. 1696. 1675 (1675) Wing C4978; ESTC R39991 77,993 152

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from this one Port of London And if two in the hundred charge in any Trade in one place above another endangers the loss of the Trade to that other I wish it were calculated with how many two's in the hundred we besides the Restrictions vainly charge all the forrein Trades we drive in the world upon the account of Woollen and other Manufactures Prop. 27. Theorem 25. The free permission of Forreigners to Import forrein Goods into England will so much more conserve peace abroad as the Goods imported are more 15 Ax. 3. For things may be so much more conserved as the means are encreased 8 Pet. 1. But Trade is a mean to conserve Peace 44 Pet. 3. And the free permission of Forreigners to import forrein Goods will so much encrease Trade in England as the Goods imported are more Therefore it will so much conserve Peace abroad Annot. So that to this Plenty Wealth and Employment of our people at Home this permission will establish forrein Trades which we are strangers to and also add the blessing of Peace abroad The Interest of Princes and their Subjects employed in this Trade will have the same Influence on any other who would endeavour to interrupt it as our jealousies are upon any who should attempt to invade our Properties in our Lands and Goods In case of War their Interest would be involved with ours Hereof you may more largely read in the Annot. upon the 11 Prop. of the Reasons of the encrease of the Dutch Trade Whereas when the State of the Nation was much more free in reference to Trade than it now stands by the Act of Navigation yet by the Authority of the 1 Eliz. 13. this caused great displeasure between the Kings of this Realm and forrein Princes as well as the Merchant and people were sore damaged and agrieved thereby Prop. 28. Theorem 26. The free permission of Forreigners to import forrein Goods into England will so much encrease the valuable Trades of England as the Forreigners importing Goods are more 2 Ax. 1. For in every thing the Effects will be as the Causes are 2 Pet. 1. But greater numbers of people encrease Trade 45. Pet. 3. And the free permission of Forreigners to import forrein Goods into England will cause so much greater numbers of people in England as the Forreigners importing Goods are more Therefore it will so much encrease the valuable Trades of England Annot. They would for the many reasons heretofore said encrease Trade in themselves and also enable many poor people to Trade and procure a livelyhood by lading and unlading their Vessels by mending and trimming their Vessels Sails and Rigging and more other benefits would accrue to poor people which can neither be well foreseen or enumerated Coroll 1. By the same reason the free permission of Forreigners to import forrein Goods into England will so much encrease the value of the Lands of England as the Forreigners importing Goods are more 6 Pet. 1. For Lands are valuable as the Trade of the place is valuable Prop. And the free admission of Forreigners to import forrein Goods into England will so much encrease the valuable Trades of England as the Forreigners importing Goods are more Annot. If this number of Ships now employed in the Ports of England makes Lands of such value by victualling these Ships and employing people in them then if the number of Shipping be encreased so would be the employment of the people who thereby would be enabled to buy the Farmors Commodities and the Farmor too would finde so much more vent for his Commodities in victualling Ships as the Ships are more By means whereof not only the wast and untill'd Grounds upon the Coast might be improved but even those in Mediterrane places might finde encouragement and vent for their Commodities the Houses in the Towns upon the Coast would let better to receive the Goods imported and new ones would be built for the same purpose Coroll 2. By the same reason the free permission of Forreigners to import forrein Goods into England will so much encrease the value of the Revenues of the Church as the Forreigners importing Goods are more 7 Pet. 1. For the Revenues of the Church of England are valuable as the Lands are valuable Coroll 1. And the free permission of Forreigners to import forrein Goods will encrease the value of the Lands of England Annot. And so they would encrease the Revenues of the Crown not only by the comsumption of all sorts of forrein Commodities which pay the King Duties but also of all the Beer Ale and all other Domestick Exciseable Commodities which they consume and freight their Vessels with EPILOGVE THus by freedom of working our Woollen and other Manufactures and by the benefit of free Importing and Exporting Forrein Commodities with them in Forrein Trade the Reader may understand how many ways the Nation may be Strengthened Enriched and poor people employed whereas by restraining and unnecessary charging these we weaken and impoverish the Nation condemn many thousands of people to Misery and Poverty and establish all the benefits we might enjoy in other places to the endangering the Trade and Employment of people we now possess I know nothing worse resented in our Parliaments or in ordinary Discourse than Monopolies and that deservedly for they render the Ingenuity and Industry of many people useless and the Improvement of any new Invention for the publick more difficult whilst the Monopolists do things dearer and worse Therefore I wish that encouragement were given to Inventors of any beneficial Mystery any other way than by Patent of the sole use for fourteen years for by that means the use of it becomes less and dearer to us and may be more useful and cheaper to other Nations who do not Monopolize it whereby they may enjoy more benefit by it than can be hoped for by us But if a Monopoly be the restraining the doing or vending things exclusive to other men I do not understand but the restraining the benefit of the Improvement of the Growths and Manufactures of England to the Natives is a Monopoly to all the world besides And the restraining the free exercife of Arts and Mysteries in any Manufacture to the Freemen of Corporations is a Monopoly to all the Nation befides so is the forrein Trade by Companies of our Growths and Manufactures exclusive to other men a Monopoly to the World as well as Nation and the pre-emption of Freemen a Monopoly and grievous to both And the restraining the vending the Growths and Manufactures of England in forrein Trade and to make returns into England only in English-built Ships and Sailed by ¾ English is a Monopoly to both Trades So is the vending Cattle to the Eastern and Southern parts of England by the Scots Northern and Western people of England exclusive to the Irish a Monopoly I speak this only in reference to Trades which are beneficial especially those which more depend upon Employment of