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A95984	The advancement of merchandize or, Certain propositions for the improvment of the trade of this Common-wealth, humbly presented to the right honoroble the Council of State. And also, against the transporting of gold and silver. / By Tho. Violet of London goldsmith.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1651 (1651)	Wing V578; Thomason E1070_1; ESTC R208173	121,676	189

and without Monie all these strengths ceas as a Clock doth when you take off the weights I shall humbly leav it to everie judicious man what the transporter of the treasure is according to the conjuncture of this time and as your Affairs now stand for many other designes may undermine the State by degrees But the transporter of treasure now in these times is a Powder-Plotter hee blow's up Parlament Armie Fleet and Common-wealth all at once and yet som through ignorance speak for them but let the transporters of Gold and Silver and the cullers and melters of the heavie Coin of this Nation run their cours a little longer which God defend they will leav no Monie in the Nation and then when it is too late you will finde as Sampson's strength laie in his hair so the sinews of War is Monie and if formerly they deserved to bee punished in the purs that were transporters of monie cullers melters down of the heavie currant Coin of the Nation they much more deserv to die for it now for it is undermining of the whole State And what in time of peace in this particular was a misdemeanor I humbly conceiv for the safetie of the Common-wealth ought to bee made Felonie at this time considering the multiplicitie of your occasions I do therefore humbly desire that the Act may bee speedily dispatched and not delaied by the subtiltie of a few men to the ruine and destruction of the Common-wealth for without it pass you will not have Monie left to paie your Armies your Navie nor maintain Commerce It is not an Act of Parlament can levie Monie if you take not present Order to keep it in the Nation And therefore I most humbly praie as you love the safetie of your selvs and the Armie keep the treasure in this Common-wealth which is yet left by making transporting treasure Felonie for the future punish those that have transported the treasure and give all encouragement and privilege to such as bring in Silver and Gold into your Mint I humbly desire that all private interest in this particular may by the Autoritie of the Parlament bee suppressed which shall bee proved to bee against the Publick And that Briberie may bee examined and branded with all infamie which have kept up the corrupt interest of many Companies to cheat the Common-wealth and obstruct the passing of good Laws for the benefit of the Nation Yet I do most humbly declare to you I am for all good Orders in Companies both Merchants and Tradesmen so far as it is not prejudicial to the Common-wealth in general If this which I have with all humilitie said shall finde a favorable construction with your Honors and that it have life from your Honors countenance protection and that you put forth your selvs to see that these things bee put in execution according to the power you have in this Common-wealth I shall thank God for it and I shall bee well content that you have seen that in an hour that cost mee many years pains and studie And I shall bee willing for the service of this Common-wealth to take som pains to enlarge my self in these particulars if my humble advice bee required For though I love not to give an accompt of my faith to a Presbyter Elder yet with all humilitie I conceiv my self bound and I am readie to give the State an accompt in what I can serv the Common-wealth when I am commanded and shall and can do it with more chearfulness they many a Presbyter that have falsly charged mee to bee a Malignant and without the Justice of the Parlament have robbed mee of my Estate to a great value and I never was as yet heard to obtain a hearing And that I may have Justice is all my humble desire to your Honors In the procuring mee Justice I shall bee ever bound to praie for your Honor's happiness here and hereafter Your Honor 's most humble Servant THOMAS VIOLET Jan. 1. 1651. A TRUE DISCOVERIE TO THE COMMONS OF ENGLAND HOVV THEY HAVE BEEN Cheated of almost all the Gold and Silver Coin of this Nation WHICH Hath been and is daily Transported into Forrain Parts AND How the people of this Nation are and have been abused by Light and Clipped English Monie and the means shewed for the prevention thereof HUMBLY Presented to the Parlament of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND By THOMAS VIOLET a true lover of his Countrie LONDON Printed by W. DU-GARD in the Year 1651. Behold Transporter of Treasure Culler of Monie Deceitful Wier-drawer A TRUE DISCOVERIE HOW THE COMMON-VVEALTH OF ENGLAND Have been cheated of their Treasure and means shewed for the prevention thereof IT hath been daily practised by som particular Merchants both Native and Strangers to transport the treasure of this Nation to the great prejudice of the State who for their own private gain have not spared to damnifie the Common-wealth so highly that their persons and estates cannot give a full satisfaction for the great mischief don and practised by them to this Common-wealth and without a strict examination and exemplarie punishment of the offendors or som of the chief of them these mischiefs will never bee prevented the Common-wealth will bee still undetermined by those Moles to the unspeakable damage thereof And becaus som through ignorance do not understand and conceiv the great damage which may com to the Common-wealth by the suffering these abovesaid abuses to continue and others more craftie and subtile both Gold-Smiths and Merchants that are transporters of Gold and Silver and practisers of several high frauds and abuses upon Coin and Bullion have the confidence or impudence to make arguments for defending the transgressors Now for the information of som in their judgments that have desired a true accompt what Laws are now in force in this Nation for prevention of these mischiefs what Orders and Laws in France Holland and Flanders for the regulating of their Mints Monie and Bullion what punishments and restriction upon the offendors I have procured the Ordinance and Placarts of France Holland and Flanders to bee translated have abbreviated them for your information and quoted som Laws of this Nation now in force as hereafter follow And if you pleas to make the law now presented to the Hous stricter than it is now drawn I Humblie conceiv you will do the Common-wealth the greater benefit considering the present condition of the Common-wealth Transporting of Treasure hath been Felonie 4 Henrie 7. cap. 13 and 17 Edward 4. this Statute to endure for twentie years I humbly conciev the Common wealth hath now as much reason to look to keep the treasures in the Nation as they had then considering all things That you would bee pleased to give one moitie at the least to any person or persons that will or can discover the offendors that so by this reward all persons may bee invited to discover the offendors all over the Nation and the

gathering money there beeing so many that the common people their life is bitter to them and in all likelihood will end in the ruine of their Task-masters for the furie of an oppressed people and a breach of an inraged sea is one and the same 4. All men know Spain was the Fountain of Gold and Silver while Customs were easie the Fleets returning every year with fifteen and sixteen Millions registred and all the rich commodities brought out of the Indies landed in Spain when there was a smal Custom Afterwards by ill counsel the Custom of Silver and Commodities was raised from two and three in the hundred to five six eight ten twelv fifteen per cent and more for commodities which the Merchants seeing and finding no remedie grew discontent and casting about which way to avoid this dutie agreed that Ships should lie out beyond the Bay of Saint Lucar Cales and other Roads when the West-India Ships came home and there take out their Silver and rich Commodities and ship it for other parts of the world before it paid one pennie Custom or touched the Spanish shore Behold what the State got by this they might have had all the returns landed in the Kingdom of Spain had they been content with moderate Customs And not beeing content with it the greatest of what com's from the East and West-Indies is sent away as aforesaid and Spain that is according to a wel-regulated Trade the Fountain of Gold and Silver is filled onely with black money copper money going at ten times the true value it it will make in any part of Christendom The Merchants Cash-houses beeing more like Braziers shops then banks of Treasure and the proverb is fulfilled which saith who goe's wors shod then the shoo-maker's wife So in Spain that should abound in silver there is nothing stirring in paiment there within two months after the Fleet com's in from the West-Indies but black monie And now the mischief is past cure Forain Nations having filled them with such quantities of copper monie that it cannot bee called in I pray God that the State would keep an eie of our Coins and keep that little wee have now left in the Nation and call the transporters of Gold and Silver to a strict accompt or els this Nation will finde the inconveniencie when it is too late 5. If you will have Trade flourish give the same incouragements to Merchants Strangers here as they have in Amsterdam and other parts of Christendom they have found that cours to bee thriving to them for many years and themselvs and the strangers that have planted amongst them to bee both equally advantaged by it And in France Spain Legorn Genoa Poland and many other places where all strangers of what Nation soëver paie no more Custom then the Natives themselvs and this business had not been now to do had it not been for the old Farmors in the Custom-Hous About fourteen years ago I was emploied by the late King to have settled it when the business of silver to bee brought up to bee coined from Dover was concluded of But I found my Lord Cottington and the old Farmors against free Ports out of an opinion that Cottington ever had to bee avers against any model of the Dutch it savoring of a Common-wealth too much and not beeing sutable to his designs which was alwaies for Monarchie and the Spanish greatness The old Farmors I do verily believ were not against it out of any aversness or envie to the wealth of this Nation 's increas by a free Trade but for som other reasons and som as I am confident were that upon letting in of a free Trade you would draw a great many Merchants Strangers in here which are very prying and subtle men men acquainted with managing the Excise and Customs in Holland and they would presently discover that which they the Farmors above all other things labored to keep as a secret which was the excessive gain every one of them made by the Farm Secondly that upon new alteration in the model of the Farm there might com new undertakers and so they might bee disappointed of their monie that they had advanced which after upon another occasion fell out heavily upon them 6. But sure I am divers of the best Merchants in London and true Lovers of this Nation have tole mee and will justifie it to bee true had I effected it to make free Ports all over the Nation fourteen years ago the Common wealth had got Millions of monie by it before this time then you would have had many score of rich Merchants up down the Ports of this Nation which would have managed trade not as it hath been the miscarriage I fear mee hath in part been willingly and require's a strict examination But if you had made Trade free they would have kept stout Men of War at Sea gon with Convoies beeing readier to offend then to take affronts at Sea which would have been highly for the honor of the Nation whose sad losses most coming by disorder and the covetousness of som Merchants might have been all avoided the losses amounting within this twenty moneths to more then would have kept a Convoie sufficient to defend all the Trade of this Nation for thirty years If it bee examined I do verily believ it is not the French that take these ships but our own Sea-men that serv's them and go's in by connivance 7. I do humbly desire that an enquirie may bee made after it by the Trinitie Hous and by all other waies what English Sea-men have been taken by the French in the ships lately taken within these twenty moneths and where they now remain and what Families they have in or about LONDON or other places in England and how they live and that their wives give an accompt where their husbands are and in what service I am of an opinion you will finde a Pad in the straw that you are robbed by your own Sea-men and if it bee so I humbly present unto you that all waies and means bee found out for the discoverie of the truth and strict punishment bee inflicted on all such Marriners that shall serv in any Forain Men of War and their wives and families to bee sequestred their goods confiscated as Rebels and Traitors to this Nation For such ships as the French take are taken most by English Marriners and are richly laden with Merchandize in the Straits one of them is worth one hundred of their French Coasters or Fisher-men and there is never a ship of the Straits-men but with the Lading will produce fifteen Men of War for the French laie almost all out in shipping that the return make's of their prizes and by this rule I humbly desire you to consider what their Increas is and if som speedie order bee not taken wee shall not bee able to put a ship to sea but 't will bee snapped in the Straits beeing the best richest and strongest