Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	french_a	king_n	ship_n	2,882	5	7.7749	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80734	An expedient for regulating the customes and excise Approved by divers well affected marchants, and others of the citty of London. Humbly represented to the supream authority of the nation, the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England. By Francis Cradock. Marchant.	Cradocke, Francis, d. 1670?	1659 (1659)	Wing C6741C; ESTC R225421	8,844	17

That by the preventing the afore said abuse to the State a greater will also be prevented and the greatest hinderance and prejudice to Trade now practised in saving Customes whereby the honest Marchant is under-sold by such unfair dealing persons insomuch that he must either keep his goods by him to his prejudice till the others be sold and expended or else must sell it at the others price which he cannot do that truly paies the duties without being a looser by his adventure especially of goods that pay great duties which is much to the discouragement of Trade and worthy of consideration 29 That better inspection may be taken to goods exported which returns the half subsidy so that more may not be repaid then was received inwards which is now commonly practised by Marchants to the great prejudice of the State and no care taken to prevent the same 30 That the Collectors and other Officers in all the out-ports may be governed also by the same rules and ordered to attend their Office for eight hours in the day keeping their accounts according to such propper method as shall be prescribed 31 That power may be given the said Commissioners to appoint Officers in the presence of a Constable by them to be especially authorised in the day time to break open any doore or other place upon information where Prohibited goods or goods stoln a shore without payment of duties are housed or otherwise in case of refusal that the refuser may by law be made lyable to some great forfeiture which will prevent many frauds practised 32 That power also may be given the said Commissioner in case of frauds suspected so much practised by Marchants coullouring the goods of others to refuse entry and not to permit such goods to be Landed till oath be given for satisfaction therein which if truly observed the Common-wealth by Alian Custome may receive many thousand pounds per Annum the more from Jews and other strangers who by means of such frauds here are admitted into a like fellowship which we are denyed abroad 33 That also for an other expedient to prevent the aforesaid Frauds and faylings frequently practised by many Free-marchants who though they coullorably give but the valew of 6d for a hundred pounds worth of Forrain goods yet will presume to enter the same as their own and swear it also upon a light occasion I humbly conceive it most propper to enact that all persons whatsoever that should either Export or Import Commodities in any Forrain Bottom that is to say such Ship or Vessel whereof the Master and ¾ of the Marriners are not really naturally born subjects of England that such persons and no other should pay Alian duties which will be of greater advantage to the State the Nations Shipping will be thereby again brought in request and increased with more encouragement to the poor dejected Sea-men who for want of imployment at home are enforced many of them to serve Forrain Nations abroad 34 That for further encouragement and to prevent the Alination of Ships and Sea men which probably will befall England by means of an Act made the 15th of May last by the French King Prohibiting all Ships not there built to export any the Commodities of his Kingdome without Lycence I humbly conceive it propper to be forthwith Enacted that any Ships not built in England and whereof the Master and ¾ of the Marriners are not English as aforesaid Importing any the Commodities of France may here pay 20 shilling per Tunn according to the burthen of such Ship to be entred in Custome-house and receive accordingly 35 That by Impowring the said Commissioners also to refuse such Marchants entries as stand oblidged for goods four moneths before entred untill he pay the same will be also preserved many Thousand pounds per Annum now lost in bad debts by several decaying persons whose practice is to take up the goods of other Marchants and firm for the Excise with intent never to pay the duty but as the buisiness is now mannaged do upon pretence of Exportation or getting the Officers to return the goods un-sold and by not truly accounting once in two or three years if at all runs high in debt to the State who are paid at last by a beggarly apearance or Non est Inventus 36 That to reduce all accompts into a fair method and prevent such and other the like abuses for the future all Marchants might be ordered to clear their accounts in two moneths for all goods Imported before the 29th day of September 1657. the time allowed them to clear their accounts by paying the one sixth part and that all such as had not the benefit of that Act against whom no possitive proof can be made may have their accounts ballanced to that time by remitting all which they stand charged for in the Excise books which will be well resented by all and the State not prejudiced by Marchants for that most of what they stand charged with is by forging of hands and the like abuses placed wrongfully on their accounts who in reason ought not to suffer thereby and that all other goods since Imported for which the Marchant stands lyable may be forthwith discharged untill a moneth before the date of such ordinance whereby will be brought in at least one hundred and twenty thousand pounds to help supply the present want of monies in the Nation 37 That notwithstanding all provissions yet made many frauds are still practised by Dutch Marchants and others in causing their own Ships and goods to be seized and setting up pretended prosecuters in the Exchequer who serve only for coullor whereby the State is abused and the penalty of an Act made in 1651. For increase of Shipping and incouragement of Navigation also avoyded to the great discouragement of the native Marchants and Sea-men which may be prevented by giving the said Commissioners power to examine the matter of fact and grounds of such seizure made upon oath presently after the goods are seized which if they find not seizable forthwith to discharge but if in their judgements either coullorable seized or really seizable then to Exhibite a Coppy of the evidence given with the information into the Exchequer by such informant as they shall think fit so that hereby the opportunity now given the Informant and defendent to comply as they usually do against the States Interest will be prevented and the evidence so oft wilfully forgotten by means of their long Correspondency and better understanding each others favours will be also preserved 38 That the manner practised by the Barrons of Exchequer and Atturney General to compound for seizures doth Incourage Marchants to make attempts of Stealing Duties who having also found waies to conceal much of their goods and to procure the rest appraysed very much under the true valew that when taken they are but small loosers by the adventure which if otherwise were to be really sold and the said Barrons