Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	great_a	kingdom_n	time_n	3,773	5	3.1684	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92253	Reasons humbly offered for preventing the exportation of wool, and for encouraging a free trade in English woollen manufacture to Flanders, Brabant, Zealand, Holland, VVest and East Friezland, Germany, Switzerland, and Hungary		1700 (1700)	Wing R539; ESTC R42389	1,465	1

REASONS Humbly offered for Preventing The Exportation of Wool And for Encouraging A FREE TRADE IN English Woollen Manufacture TO landers Brabant Zealand Holland VVest and East Friezland Germany Switzerland and Hungary EVery Nation beyond the Seas encourage the Exportation of their own Commodities and their Markets are open and free for all Buyers because they enrich themselves thereby And certainly it is the Interest of this Nation to prohibit the Exportation of Wooll and to invite all Persons to Buy and Export the Woollen Manufacture of England for that a Pound of Wooll when wrought yields ten times the value of the Wooll and many Thousand Families are maintained thereby there being many several Trades whose ●ivelyhood depend upon the Woollen Manufacture viz. The Washer Shearer Picker Comber Spinner Knitter Wea●er Cloth-worker Tucker or Dresser Fuller Drawer Napper Kalenderer Dyer Setter Presser and Packer Several Statutes have prohibited the Exportation of Wooll unmanufactured for the better setting on work the poor People this Kingdom and to the intent the benefit of working the same into Cloth Searges Stuffs Bays Kersies Blankets Hats and ●●ockings may come to the Subjects of this Kingdom and not to Foreigners For the same Reason the obstructing ●he Exportation of those Commodities when wrought is injurious to the Crown and destructive to the Subject for ●t is plain and obvious that the hindrance of the Exportation of the woollen Manufacture prevents the consumption of Wooll in this Kingdom and brings down the price thereof and empoverishes the Subject so that he is not able to pay his Rent and consequently the mischief falls on the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom and the more woollen Ma●ufacture is Exported the greater will be the King's Revenue and the more Ships employed Therefore and for the ●easons following the Hamborough Company who pretend to have the sole Trade in Cloth and all other woollen Manufactures to the places abovementioned are destructive to the Trade of this Kingdom The Hamborough Company in a few years last past have been the occasion of the loss of vast Summes of Money to ●his Kingdom for they have arrested the Ships and Goods of all Persons not Free of their Company by Process out of ●he Admiralty Court for endeavouring to send Cloth Searges and Stockings to Germany They have also Summoned others before the Privy-Council and caused them to be imprisoned and others they ●ave sued at Law and in the High-Court of Chancery for Trading in the woollen Manufacture of this Kingdom and ●ave by such means put so great a stop to the Trade here that in Silesia and other parts beyond the Seas they have ●earnt to make Cloth themselves and do make several Thousand Cloths in a Year and they many times attempt ●o Import Cloth into England And this hath been occasioned by the Hamborough Company 's putting a stop to the Trade here The Germans and others are now very curious and will have Cloth Stuffs and Stockings sent them according to their Patterns and will not go to Hamborough to buy but send their Patterns into England where they can be supplied with all varieties much sooner and at less charge Those of the Hamborough Company send all their Cloath to Hamborough and Dort where all Persons must come to ●uy which they will not do by reason those places are far distant from the habitations of the buyers and when they ●ome there perhaps cannot be supplied according to their Patterns so that if they cannot have Cloth Stuffs and Stockings immediately from England according to their Patterns they will and do buy Cloth made in parts beyond ●he Seas which hath already much impoverisht the Clothiers of this Kingdom The Hamborough Company do not Trade in a joint Stock as other Companies do but every Man Trades for himself with his own Stock and all persons free of that Company must take an Oath not to send their Cloth to any Towns ●eyond the Seas but Hamborough and Dort and to observe all Orders by them made and to be made so that they ●o as much as in them lies obstruct a Free Trade and if not prevented will in all probability ruine most of the Clo●hiers and Dealers in Cloth of this Kingdom