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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44890	Memoirs of the Dutch trade in all the states, kingdoms, and empires in the world shewing its first rise and prodigious progress : after what manner the Dutch manage, and carry on their trade, their dominions and government of the Indies : by what means they have made themselves masters of all the trade of Europe : what goods and merchandise are proper for maritime traffick, whence they are to be had, and what gain and profit they produce : a work very necessary for all merchants, and others concerned in trade / done from the French now printed at Amsterdam.; Grand trésor historique et politique du florissant commerce des Hollandois dans tous les Etats et empires du monde. English	Huet, Pierre-Daniel, 1630-1721.	1700 (1700)	Wing H3300A; ESTC T145652	106,369	252

Manufactures made Navigation flourish in that large Province and of Consequence very much encreased their Trade and Commerce The Towns of Sluice and Bruges were the two chief Places where the Flemings at that Time drove on the Herring-Trade with Foreigners The former of which having a fine Harbour both for Largeness of Extent and safe Riding capable of containing 500 Ships was continually full of Ships from different Nations that traded there as well as at Bruges for in Reality Sluice is no more than the Port of Bruges which Towns have a Communication with each other by means of a large Canal Bruges is at present one of the largest Towns in Flanders but has lost much of its Splendour since the Year 1487 for at that Time there was scarce a Nation in Europe how inconsiderable soever that had not their proper Magazine or Store-House and a Company established there for Trade as the English French Scotch Castilian and Portugueze the Companies of Arragon Catalonia Biscay Venice Florence Genoa Lucca Milan Germany Denmark Sweden and all the Hanse Towns These last about the Year 1262 set up in that Town their greatest Store-House which gave a considerable Encrease to Trade It was to this Place that the several Nations just now mentioned imported the Commodities of their respective Countries which they exchanged with each other or for Flanders Linnen This mighty Trade of Bruges drew thither Workmen of all Sorts which made it extremely rich and famous Nothing can give us a better Idea of the Riches of this Town than what History tells us of a Queen of France who was Consort to Philip the Fair who coming to Bruges in the Year 1301 seeing the Women so richly drest could not in a Sort of Indignation forbear speaking these Words I thought I had been the only Queen in this Place but I see there are above Six Hundred The immense Riches of the People of Bruges on Account of their vast Trade made them not only grow insolent and unjust to foreign Merchants so that they left the Place but also to their Sovereign which was the very Ruin of their Trade that had flourished in an extraordinary Manner to the Year 1487 when a War broke out between the Flemings and the Arch-Duke Maximilian their Prince which lasted about ten Years and expired with the Death of the Trade of Bruges The People of Antwerp and Amsterdam growing uneasy to see all the Trade of the Low Countries center in Bruges assisted the Arch-Duke Maximilian in chastising that Town for their Rebellion and in Recompence for such Assistance obtained from that Prince all the Privileges of Commerce formerly enjoyed by Bruges Thus was that Trade transferred to Antwerp and Amsterdam but the greatest Share fell to Antwerp and every thing after seemed to contribute to the Encrease of its Commerce The Italians much about that time having caused the Use of Silk to be more common in Europe imported great Quantities to Antwerp The Portugueze and Spaniards having discovered both Indies imported Spices and all other the rich Commodities produced by those vast and wealthy Climates the English set up a Store-House for their Merchandise and the Hanse Towns who after the thirteenth Century had settled one of their four Magazines of Goods at Bruges removed it to Antwerp where they caused to be built that stately Town-House which remains to this Day The Persecutions raised in Germany on the Account of Religion under the Reign of the Emperour Charles the Fifth in France under Henry the Second and in England under Queen Mary forced a World of People thither as well as Trade and particularly encreased that of Antwerp The vast Concourse of all the principal trading Nations made this Town the most celebrated Store-House or Magazine in all Europe if not of the whole World In a Word Antwerp was then almost what Amsterdam is now for about the Year 1550 it was a common thing to see 2500 Ships in the Scheld laden with all Sorts of Merchandise By this it evidently appears that Commerce may flourish in a Monarchy as well as in a Free State especially if good Management be not wanting for never any thing flourished more than the Manufactures and Commerce of the Low Countries under the Government of four Princes of the House of Burgundy and two of the House of Austria I lay a long while under that old vulgar Error that Common Wealths were most proper for carrying on a considerable Trade but I altered my Opinion after I had more narrowly examined things and heard this Matter discussed by some of the ablest Merchants and Politicians of England and Holland and after I had seriously reflected on the happy Situation and Fruitfulness of France the Industry of its Inhabitants and the Nature of its Government I was fully convinced and I think it would not be a hard Matter to convince others that Commerce may be made to flourish there as well as in any Republick whatever and by that Means render that Monarchy more powerful than ever it was yet It is certainly the Interest of Princes that Commerce should flourish in their Dominions for never were greater things performed by Sovereigns than when the Trade of their Subjects has afforded them the Means to put them in Execution which may easily be proved by infinite Examples both ancient and modern Trade has the only attractive Quality to draw into any State Gold and Silver which are the Primum Mobile of all Actions This is so true that Spain in whose Dominions these two Metals are produced in greatest Abundance is very often straitned for other Necessities of Life and that purely for having neglected Trade and Manufactures and all the Mines of America would scarce be sufficient to pay for all the Merchandise and Provisions that the other Nations of Europe bring thither Trade which has not any Enemy so mortal as Constraint changed its Residence as soon as the Spaniards began to deprive the seventeen Provinces of the Low Countries of their Privileges The Inquisition which was designed to be set up by the Duke of Alva and the Cruelty he exercised in governing those rich Provinces forced such infinite Numbers to leave them that in a few Months above a Hundred Thousand Families retired into other Parts After this the Prince of Parma having in the Year 1584 besieged Antwerp gave a terrible Blow to its Trade for the Scheld during that long Siege being continually blocked up the Merchants who used to come and trade in that Town went elsewhere In short the bad Politicks of the King of Spain compleated the Ruin of the Trade of Antwerp as well as of the other Towns in the Low Countries that were under his Jurisdiction For the Views he had in humbling that Town whose great Riches gave him Umbrage made him after its Reduction neglect to keep the Scheld open intending by so doing to lessen its Trade in hopes that most of it would then diffuse it self over the other