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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45667	Remarks on the affairs and trade of England and Ireland wherein is set down 1. the antient charge of Ireland, and all the forces sent thither from 1170 until the compleat conquest thereof in 1602 ..., 2. the peculiar advantages which accrue to England by Ireland ..., 3. the state of trade, revenue, rents, manufactures, &c. of Ireland, with the causes of its poverty ..., 4. the only sure expedients for their advancement, with the necessity and utility of the repeal (as well as suspension) of the laws against dissenters, and the test, 5. how the reduction and settlement of Ireland may be improved to the advantage of England ... / by a hearty well-wisher to the Protestant religion, and the prosperity of these kingdoms.	Harris, Walter, Sir.	1691 (1691)	Wing H886; ESTC R13627	68,949	83

abundantly Thus Persecution greatly impoverished the Spanish Netherlands and gave the first Blow to the greatness of the Spanish Monarchy and Liberty enriched several parts of Europe but England especially The Gospel spread the Church flourished and the Trade and Wealth of the Kingdom continued on the Encrease until there sprung up a generation of Men in the Nation very zealous for the observance of Forms and Ceremonies not so much regarding the necessary Duties of Religion as Love and Charity who too much favoured the Spirit of Persecution In all Ages and amongst all Parties those men that have violently and rigidly been for Imposing particular External Modes and Forms in Religion have least advanced the Power of it and run most counter to the Civil Interest of the Kingdom In Edward the 6th time the Worthy Pious Bishops that first departed from Rome differed about the degrees of distance they were to go off from the Mother of Abominations some of them upon Political considerations that the change might be less sensible and in hopes of alluring the common people were for retaining the less Gross part of the Ceremonies and the most plausible passages of their Liturgy Canons and the way of ordering Priests and Deacons Others of the Bishops were for casting off Rome and all her Ceremonies at once and for returning to the Primitive Simplicity of Worship instituted and practised by Christ and his Apostles as several Forreign Churches had done with good success But reason of State with a good meaning and honest design prevailed yet those that were for retaining those Ceremonies seemed to intend them but for a time and only until as they say in the Preface to the Commination against Sinners c. That the Godly Discipline used in the Primitive Church could be restored But what these first Reformers retained or admitted meerly by way of Expedience judging the things indifferent in their own nature their Successors some time after Imposed with more rigour and strictness than the observance and practice of necessary Duties as if they thought the Canon of the Scripture incompleat and that Christ and his Apostles had not sufficiently directed or instructed the Church how to worship God and that the Christian Religion was deficient without this supplement of new Institutions Arch-Bishop Whit gift was the first that began to Impose these about 1583. By doing whereof he disgusted and disquieted the generality of the Pious Divines and Communicants of the Church of England at that time who disrelished them as unwarrantable and uncharitable gave a check to the Trade and a stop to the Manufacturers who were flocking into the Kingdom from all parts To come to the matter in hand these Impositions and the Severities afterwards used by A. B. Laud put the Church into terrible Convulsions and the State into a Bloody Civil War expelled multitudes of our sober wealthy people some to New-England some to Germany some to Holland many chose rather to live in desolate bowling Wildernesses others in strange Lands among people whose Languages they understood not with Liberty to serve God than to live in England their Native Country and be exposed to hardships at home and to be fleeced and stayed by a set of Tormentors Nor was this all but besides many of our industrious Manufacturers were driven into Germany Holland and other of the Vnited Provinces insomuch that as was evidenced to the Parliament in 1643. The Clothiers who for Liberty of Conscience removed hence and setled in Holland made there in one year 36000 pieces of Broad-cloth to the unspeakable loss of this Kingdom for hereupon Trade greatly decayed and the Rents of Houses and Lands abated sensibly And that I may help you a little to estimate the Advantage the Kingdom reaps by these Manufacturers and the great Damage sustained by their Expulsion I will give one Instance of the vast numbers of people they employ which are mostly of the poorer sort and another of what the Kingdom lost by having those 36000 pieces of Broad-Cloth made beyond Sea As to the numbers of people employed in our Manufactures take the Instance from Q. Elizabeth's Reign who being informed that in a time of Dearth and Scarcity several Clothiers in Gloucestershire were fallen to decay whereby the Poor wanted Work she required their condition to be reported to her and I find part of the return to the effect following viz. That in the six Hundreds of Berkly Cumbalash Thornbury Longtree Whitstone and Bislely there inhabited 40 Clothiers who employed 338 Looms to each of which Looms did pertain eight persons viz. Weavers Winders Dyers Dressers Warpers c. which was to the whole 2704 besides 4500 Spinners so that by the decay of these 40 Clothiers 7204 persons in that small Circuit were left without Work and Sustenance As to the Instance which respects our Profit you must know that particularly in White Clothes all that we make of them above the cost of the Wooll and Oyl is raised upon the Labour of our People and is clear Profit to the Kingdom As suppose the Wooll and Oyl for one piece of Cloth cost 3 l. and that the Cloth yields 13 l. then 10 l. is raised by the Labour and Workmanship of the Manufacturers c. The Wooll of some Cloths cost much more but then the Cloth will yield a better price c. But I pitch upon that price as a mean Rate According to which value this Kingdom lost 360 thousand pounds sterling which it had gained if those Cloths had been made in it and sold hence And about 13000 of our People were thereby deprived of the Work and Wages that the making those Cloths would have furnished them with In this single Instance you see the Kingdom lost 360000 l. per annum in the old Drapery and the loss could not be less than double so much in the new Drapery c. and all this for those Trumperies a mighty loss indeed to the Kingdom Yet had the Church gained thereby there had been some pretence for retaining and imposing them but instead of promoting the Edification Peace or Unity thereof they have served only to rend and divide it The fifth step towards the advance of the Rents of Lands was the Liberty of Conscience granted by the Long or Rump Parliament and Oliver from 1642. to 1660. or 62. during which time all Prosecutions for non-observance of uninstituted Ceremonies c. were suspended Indeed never was there a more pregnant Instance of the Benefits which Liberty of Conscience and Encouragements to Manufacturers brings to a Kingdom than what that short space of time furnished For notwithstanding Civil-Wars in the bowels of these three Kingdoms for a great part of that time whereby multitudes of the Inhabitants were cut off yet Trade and the Rent of Lands encreased and advanced even miraculously I deny not but the removal and taking off of all Monopolies the bringing down Interest of Money to 6 l. per Cent and the Act of