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A67738	England's improvement by sea and land To out-do the Dutch without fighting, to pay debts without moneys, to set at work all the poor of England with the growth of our own lands. To prevent unnecessary suits in law; with the benefit of a voluntary register. Directions where vast quantities of timber are to be had for the building of ships; with the advantage of making the great rivers of England navigable. Rules to prevent fires in London, and other great cities; with directions how the several companies of handicraftsmen in London may always have cheap bread and drink. By Andrew Yarranton, Gent.	Yarranton, Andrew, 1616-1684.	1677 (1677)	Wing Y13AA; ESTC R221084	106,511	194

have forc'd Trade out of your City some of them are not within the power either of the Law or your Magistrates to prevent but some are and these which may be done with ease I question not but your Magistrates will use their endeavours to bring them to pass The which are putting all the New Buildings in the City of London under a Register and procuring a Law to pass to enable the several Companies of Handicraft Tradesmen in London hereafter mentioned to have power to make the River Sharwell Navigable from Oxford to Banbury to build Granaries to hold Corn with Mills or any other Engines to go by Water to be made use of for the good and benefit of the several Companies whereby Art will be incouraged and Trade convenienced The Names of the Companies are as followeth and the Copy of the Bill to be carried into Parliament for the accomplishing of the same follows after The Company of Weavers the Company of Pin-Makers the Company of Turners the Company of Water-men the Company of Silk-Throwers the Company of Felt-Makers the Company of Pavers the Company of Cloth-Workers the Company of Plasterers the Company of Joyners the Company of Embroiderers the Company of Brick-Layers the Company of Smiths the Company of Armourers and the Company of Carpenters The Form of the Bill to be carried into Parliament for the making of the River Sharwell Navigable from Oxford to Banbury and for building Publick Granaries near the said River with liberty to set up Mills and Engines to go by Water for the use and benefit of the several Companies of the Handicraft Trades in the City of London called by the Names of Weavers Pin-Makers Turners Water-men Silk-Throwers Felt-Makers Pavers Cloth-Workers Plasterers Joyners Embroiderers Brick-Layers Smiths Armourers and Carpenters WHereas it is evidently made appear That all Manufactures in England may by the advantage of having constantly good and cheap Uictuals as also ready Moneys at all times to drive their several Trades live comfortably and thereby provide plentifully for their Wives and Children And whereas it is lately found out and discovered that the said Benefits may with much ease be made applicable unto several of the Companies of Handicrafts within the City of London and the way for the doing thereof is to have liberty to make the River Sharwell Navigable from Oxford to Banbury and to set up publick Granaries and Engines near the said River for the use of the said Companies Therefore be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Incorporated Companies of Meavers Pin-Makers Turners Mater-men Silk Throwers Felt-Makers Pavers Cloth-Morkers Plasterers Ioyners Embroiderers Bricklayers Smiths Armourers and Carpenters to make the River Sharwell Navigable from the City of Oxford to the Town of Banbury in the County of Oxford and to build Granaries for holding of Corn with liberty for making of Mills for grinding thereof with Licence and leave to set up Engines to go by Mater for the use and benefit of the several Trades mentioned in this Act. And for that it shall not be any ways prejudicial to the Owners of any Land which shall be Cut or made use of for making the said River Navigable or building the said Granaries Hills or Engines Therefore be it Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Keeper or Lord Chancellor of England to grant a Commission under the Great Seal of England thereby Authorising Fifteen of the knowingest able Gentlemen of the County of Oxford to be Commissioners to set down and settle what and how much shall be paid for the Lands so to be Cut or made use of and the Moneys to be paid before there is any act or thing done in cutting any of the said Lands so to be made use of And it is further Enacted That any Seven of the said Commissioners shall be sufficient to make or do any act according to Iustice and good Conscience and all Rules Orders Decrees being so made done shall bind all Parties concerned their Heirs all other Persons whatsoever And be it further Enacted That all the Benefit of the said River Sharwell and the Barges and Boats employed thereupon with the Granaries Hills and Engines to be built shall be and enure to the several Companies named in this Act and to their Successors for ever And be it further Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Companies and their Successors to put Corn in the said Granaries and the same to be Registred with the Clark of each Company as to the time it was put in and the nature kind and quantities of the said Corn And from and after such time the said Corn is in Granary no Sale Mortgage or Conveyance shall be good but such as is Entered with the Clark of the particular Companies and at the Guild-Hill with the Register there employed for that purpose And in case any of the said Parties dye having Corn in Bank it shall go and enure one Third part to the Midow of the Party deceased the other two Third parts thereof to be dirided share and share like amongst all the Children of the Party deceased only the youngest Child excepted which shall have one share and a half being in most necessity the better to help to breed him or her up And that the Husband is and shall be for ever disabled to make any Incumbrance upon the said Corn in Bank without the consent of his Wife and she joining with him under her Hand and Entred in the Clark of the Companies Book and with the Register at the Guild-Hall then the property of the said Bank Corn shall be legally altered and not otherwise any Law Statute Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding In reading my Book of England's Improvement by Sea and Land you will see the Causes laid open and plain of the decay of Trade and Manufactures in England and the Reasons of the low Rates the things must of necessity be sold for I have already set and appropriated the Clothiers of Worcester the Weavers of Kidderminster and the Cappers of Bewdley to have the benefit of a Granary near Stratford upon Avon Now I am for fixing the several Companies of London who work in the laborious Arts in Granaries upon the River Sharwel near Anslo Bridge in the County of Oxford about seven Miles from Oxford The Arms of the several Companies are in the Map of Rivers in this Book affixed wherein you may plainly see That if the River Sharwel were once made Navigable from Oxford to Anslo Bridge and the Granaries built in that place for the several Companies then all the Rich Corn Countries toward Banbury and Brackley would be on the Back-side of the Granaries and would at all times

England and the Clothing Trade this good turn Dr. No matter upon what terms so the thing be done Cl. Friend Now I see this Country-man was near the mark and I will even burn my Loom and Beam too for I see all the World are mad Here is the Moneys gone and taken out of Trade in England and carried into Ireland and our People too with this Money make Cloth and serve it cheap in all places where we send our Cloth and carry to Holland cheap Wool and cheap Victuals and pay the Moneys back again in Four years I will go to London and tell my Lord Mayor of this fine Jig let who will go to Salisbury for me Dr. Old Friend the worst is over do not trouble your self That which is past cannot be help'd But you will see no more such doings as has been of late Coun. Heaven grant it prove so There is now a great Art in trade as they say at Coffee-houses and we must do as we may or else not trade at all Cl. Do as we may pray speak out What is that we must do Coun. Get great sums of Money upon credit and imploy it hoodwinkt Have at this have at that and have at the other and if we lose all we lose none of our own Dr. You my two Friends let us see how we may proceed to do the Trade some good for it is high time Cl. Is it not over and past is it not too late to set out Dr. No no Let us prepare a Bill for the next Session of Parliament and Petition for prohibiting of Irish-Wools Transportation and the Inspecting of the Allnagers Office And let the Factors Packers and Drawers be put in their right places And let the Western-Cloths be Shipt of at Plymouth to prevent the charge of carriage to London and let the Fullers earth be secured and let all Cloth and Stuffs be made to the Standard and let all the Free-land in and near the Cloathing Towns and Cities be put into a voluntary Register And then nothing will be able to harm our Woollen-Trade any more Cl. Friend Now I like you I will do any thing I can but pray what is that you say of putting our Houses and Free-land under a Voluntary Register what good will that do to our Trade Dr. it will strangely advance Trade and bring Moneys to Four in the hundred and your Lands Registred will be ready Money at all times as you have occasion to use it and your Land rise purchase to Thirty years and then you may at any time have Spanish-Wool in London or Wool in the Country or Monies to answer your occasions and all upon a Ticket upon your Lands Registered So there will be no need of Friends to be bound or Lawyers to make Conveyances or hindring your business and then the Tables will be turned For you Clothiers will be then the Bankers for now all Money runs out of Trade then all Money will run into Trade because your Land is Registred and your personal Estates together will be firm Security for all Moneys borrowed Cl. Sir This as you say is already at Tanton Dean and People say it is in Holland and Scotland too but if we shall have it at Salisbury I will keep Loom and Beam too and put Tom and Jack to my own Trade I thought to put them to Sea for I could see nothing for them to do with me as things were But when shall we have this Office of Voluntary Register set up For I like one word very well as you say A Voluntary Register I like that marvellous well and I have nothing to say against it for it seems he that will Register may and he that will not may chuse This is no more in plain English then give us leave to be honest Sir This is good News I will tell all our Trade of this for now we may be honest if we will I am sure it is high time for as things are the Lawyers cannot make us honest But still I beg to know when this must be Dr. The Bill is to be carried into the House the next sitting of Parliament and some Lords Parliament-men and Gentlemen and some honest and great Lawyers are for it because it will pay the Gentlemans Debts without Money and beat the Dutch without Fighting and bring Honour Honesty Riches and Strength and a great Trade to England And it is said it will double the Kings Revenue and make him Potent and Strong Cl. Bores this is the best News that ever I heard I 'le go home to Salisbury now and tell all my Friends of this and I hope to see then this good Voluntary Register brought to pass Dr. Well Old aquaintance I am glad to see you so well satisfied now If you once get a Voluntary Register you will want Men of your own Trade in Parliament to let them know what is best to be done for the good of the Trade which Lawyers and Gentlemen cannot tell how to do For in Queen Elizabeths time a Cobler taught the Council how Leather might be Ordered Tanned and Dressed for the good of the Publique and thereupon many good Laws were made for that purpose you may see the Story in Print It is a Discourse between my Lord Burley and a Cobler Cl. Now you speak to the purpose for what you say has been in my Noddle these Six or Seven years and I am sure I have told a Neighbour of mine I did not like it and I feared our Parliament-Men did not know where our Grief lay But now I see the Old saying is true Every Man is a Fool when he is out of his own way Come let us Clothiers be all for the Good Old way again And if ever it should so fall out to have Men of our own Trades for Members of Parliament then up goes the Golden-Fleece again Coun. I like your Discourse very well and now you have brought your Discourse to something I was the silenter because I did see all tended to the good of the Wool and the Trade and Manufacture And all these things being upon the Wheel for the Publique good truly I will give my Clothing-Friend home with him to Salisbury two patterns of Falling-Mills one to go by Water to be set up in a Barge upon the River Avon at Harnam-Bridg by the City to Scour and Thicken their course-Clothes and another to go by Wind to be set up near the Town-side to Full and Thicken the fine Clothes which will much out-do all other Mills now in use in England as to make the Cloth feel fine and soft The Pattern of the Wind-Mill for thickning fine Clothes is taken from the Dutch at Harlem in Holland the Pattern of the Mill in a Barge to thicken and scour course Clothes is taken from one upon the Elb near the Bridg at Draisden in Saxony Cl. Sir I am now infinitely beholding to you and this you say of a Wind-Mill to Scoure and

presently make three Suits of one and fall on the poor Security At last Bayle is put in above then Common-Law-Tryals Demurrers Writs of Error Chancery So Plantif and Defendant many times ruine one the other Whereas if a Bond were Transferable and the property to pass it being a Bond and good Men bound in it this Bond would run from Man to Man from Hand to Hand from one Tradesman to another and so one Bond would pay twenty Men for people at this day would be glad to have payments made them in such Paper rather than go to Law for their own and often undo their Creditor and sometimes themselves to It would be a mighty benefit to Trade and Commerce to have Bonds transfer'd A poor man in England that hath a Thousand pounds in Bonds with good Sureties bound cannot pay one hundred pounds of his Debts with them Our Free-lands being put under a Voluntary Register and the property of Bonds being made Transferable by assignment will be a great profit to the Nation As things are now we have not one fourth part of Moneys sufficient to drive the Trade of England and set up the neglected Fishery improve our own Manufactures and to answer peoples just honest and lawful occasions But if the Free-lands were Registred and Bonds Transferable then we should have three parts in four more Cash than we should have occasion to use For the Land Registred will do what Money now doth and this is credit equal to Moneys and then we shall do what the DVTCH now do never want Moneys to do any great thing But we must submit our selves in all things to his Majesties Gracious Pleasure and Authority Twelfthly It will by its credit be the cause of setting at work all the poor of England in the Linnen and Iron-Manufacture and so convenience the Woollen-Manufacture that it will be as one that were risen from the dead Thirteenthly Consider That the want of a Register will make us in few years like unto a Wheat-rick that hath stood many years when it is opened all the Corn is consumed by Rats and Mice and nothing left but the Straw and Clothings It would be well if those worthy Virtuosoes that intend the good of the Publique and have real intentions to improve Mecanick Arts that they and all such Lords and Gentlemen that wish well thereto with speed would advance a Sum of Moneys to build an University for the Improvement of Art in England and to maintain Six persons continually Travelling to find out such Improvements and the way of bringing them to pass as may be for the real good of the Publique the pattern how to settle such a University for Art they may have from one long since setled near Newringburg in Germany The consequence whereof hath so imyroved the Mecanick-Art in Germany that no place in the World comes near them for Art Considerations upon the advantages and disadvantages of the Manufacturies of Linnen Thred Tape and Twine for Cordage 1. COnsider what quantities of fine Linnens are made in Holland and Flanders and here worn and consumed and how many hands it imploys in work to manufacture it and the great benefit the Dutch gain being the great Masters of that Trade 2. Consider that if these fine Clothes were made here how it would imploy the Poor raise the price of Land and keep our Moneys at home for the Dutch take nothing from us in exchange wherein the benefit is any way considerable to the publick 3. Consider of all course Linnens brought from France as Canvases Lockrums and great quantities of coarse Clothes which have of late years so crouded upon us that it hath almost laid aside the making of Linnen Cloth in England and thereby the people are unimploy'd and the Land lyeth idle and waste 4. Consider the French take nothing of any value from us but it is ready money for their Linnens so we keep their people at work and send them our moneys to pay them for it and our own Poor are unimploy'd But if a Tax were laid upon their coarse Linnen Clothes then what is brought out of France into England would be made here of our own growth to the Nations great enriching 5. Consider the Twine and Yarn ready wrought and brought out of the East-Country to make Sail-Cloth and Cordage which hath taken off the labour of multitude of people in Suffolk and thereabouts and hath so lessened that Trade that it is almost lost But if a Tax were laid upon the threds brought over ready wrought then the labour of all such things would be here to supply our Poor at work and raise the price of our Lands 6. Consider what vast quantities of narrow coarse Clothes come out of Germany down the Elbe Weser and Emes and transported into England and here vented and worn the cheapness whereof hath beaten out the Linnen Trade formerly made in Lancashire Cheshire and thereabouts and carried and sold at London about forty years since it was a very great Trade and tended much to the relief of the Poor in them parts A Tax being laid upon these Easterling Clothes would occasion the reviving of that coarse Cloth-Trade again with us which would set multitudes at work 7. Consider the Foreign Bed-ticking coming hither cheap hath almost destroyed that Trade in Dorcetshire and Somersetshire and so the Spinners are Idle and the Land falls price and in this as in other things we send our Moneys into Foreign parts to keep their Poor at work and support them and here we starve our own and lose that Trade A Tax upon Foreign Bed-ticking would prevent all this 8. Consider the vast and infinite quantities of Thred ready spun that comes down out of Germany into England and here made use of and all the labour of such Threds are there done the Government and People there have the advantage of it and here we make use of them in many of our Commodities It is of late discovered that the cheapness of these Threds will eat out the very Spinning in most parts of England Consider and take this president at Kidderminster in Worcestershire Formerly the Clothiers made use of Linnen-Yarn Spun in that Countrey to make their Lynsey-woolseys but now the cheapness of the Foreign Threds hath put them upon making use of Germany-Yarn in which Town there is One hundred pound a Week in Yarn made use of great quantities of Thred also are used at Manchester Maidstone and in other parts of England to mix with Woollen with infinite other Commodities and all the benefit of the labour of these Threds is applied to Foreigners a Tax being put upon the Threds would put the Wheel to work in England again This is of great consequence to the Publick to be taken into consideration for in this very thing of Spun-yarn no less than Thirty thousand People would be here employed if by Law it were encouraged Considerations upon the Iron Manufacture 1. COnsider That the best