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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33258	A treatise of wool and the manufacture of it in a letter to a friend, occasion'd upon a discourse concerning the great abatements of rents and low value of lands ... : together with the presentment of the grand jury of the county of Somerset at the general quarter sessions begun at Brewton the thirteenth day of January, 1684.; Treatise of wool and cattel	Clarke, George, fl. 1677-1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing C4445_VARIANT; ESTC R10931	17,816	31

deserv'd we will therefore examine and give some Guess how much Wool might have been buried since that Act of Parliament was first made without any Disparagement to the Dead or to the surviving Friends of the Deceased and we shall find that a very great part of the Wool now in the Kingdom I speak as to the quantity out of Cloth had been at this day under Ground In London is buried one year with another when no Plague or other Epidemical Distemper Reigns about twenty thousand which by Observation of some bears a seventh part with the Kingdom so there dayes in England an hundred and forty thousand yearly with the least and we will allow two pounds of Wool for a Shrowd one with another which amounts to two hundred and eighty thousand pound of Wool yearly buried so that in every ten years we shall spend this way about twenty hundred thousand Ponds a good proportion of one years Growth but with this Advantage to our Poor that it is first made into Cloth So that had that Act of Parliament been duely observed as it was our Interest so to do we may plainly perceive what quantity of Wool we had by this buryed in our own Kingdom of England for I have not reckon'd either Scotland Ireland or any of our Plantations into this account but if all could be brought within the compass of this Act and the charge of seeing it punctually performed carefully observed we should not only spend in all these Kingdoms and Islands belonging to the Crown of England a most incredible quantity of our own Wool manufactured by our selves but save above threescore thousand Pounds Sterling a year of our Money which we lay out for Linnen-Cloth purposely for that use as may appear by examining this Charge by the former Rule Equivalent to a Story we have of one of our Kings who finding a great glut of Cloth in the Kingdom beyond their Vent and Trade for it bought it and caused it all to be burnt And the Dutch those subtil Traders as it is generally reported of them when their Ships are fraighted with their Spices in the East-Indies for that years Provision into Europe they return the rest in Smoak by causing the overplus of that years growth to be burnt at their own Factories So that the Consumption of every growth of our Wool is of absolute Necessity towards the Improvement of our Rents and for recovering that third or fourth part of the real Value of our Kingdom now lost since the fall and low price thereof But before I conclude wholly with this Cloth-trade the chief and only Manufacture of this Kingdom I shall premise something by way of Quere as a Remedy to this great Mischief and whether it may prove of advantage to the growth and Manufacture and Trade of this Commodity I shall leave it to far better Judgments to determine Suppose there were a Company of Merchants of this Staple setled by Patent or Charter as such Companies there are the East-India Turkey c. that should buy up in Spain every years growth of the Spanish Wool themselves and thence transport it or as much as they should judge convenient for our Trade hither to be manufactur'd by us where a Duty should be impos'd upon it according as it should be judg'd the Trade would bear in order to the Advancement of our own for there lies the bottom still of the Design I ask the Question Where would the Inconveniencies arise For the Truth is a Business of this Nature is more fit to be discours'd of by a Committee than medled with by any private Person I say if such a Company were set up what would be the Objections against it For first the Spaniard can receive no Prejudice by it we shall by this means rather advance something the Price than any way abate it And secondly for the Hollanders I suppose we should make no scruple of getting the Trade from them for this Cloth Trade is our Ancient Right and did alwayes belong to our Nation and no other People in the World could in reason pretend to the Manufacture of it the Staple growing upon our own Soil And since there is now another sort of Wool started up within these few years which proves to the Prejudice of ours I see no Reason against me if we can compass to make both our own and that too but that we may justly ingross it if we can without offering any Injustice to our Neighbouring Nation and then what is their Growth and Manufacture as Linnen-cloth and the like if they will quietly desist and yield up this to us as it is our Right we may I presume be perswaded I speak only for my self to do the like by theirs But if we examine this Business a little farther we shall find that there may be a necessity for the laying a Duty upon this Spanish Wool and that it will be impossible while the Trade is free and that every man may buy and make what he please of this sort of Cloth that ever our Wool should advance in price for as the Rates now go unless the Spaniard raise the Price our Merchants will not and our Clothiers drive the old Design in buying as cheap as they can so that between them they will keep down the price of ours for one man in a Fair or Market may beat down the Price of what he deals in by under-selling his own Commodity but where is all this Spanish Cloth made that doth us this harm Were it the Manufacture of the whole Nation that kept all the Poor at work there might be something said for it but it is all made I mean the Medlies in the Corners of Two Shires to wit Somerset and Wiltshire and that within the compass of twenty or thirty miles at most and not an hundred I speak with the most Principal Clothiers concern'd in the making of this Spanish Cloth what dammage can the Engrossing then of this Spanish Wool or putting a Duty or Custom upon it do the Nation It is very true there are many that call for the Liberty of the People that every Man may Buy and Sell as he please And it were well if these Men would consider themselves as well in the Relative as in their own Personal Concerns For if every Man were Independant his Liberty were so too but so long as any Man is a Member of a Kingdom his Liberty must likewise depend upon the good of the same Kingdom And if it be not good for a Nation that every man should buy and sell and wear what he paid for as he please he must not think himself injur'd if his Liberty as an English-man be confin'd so long as his Country hath an Interest in his Commodity and Trade for its Safety and Welfare as well as himself So if the Trade for Spanish Wool which is now at Liberty were in the hands of one particular Company it would not then lye in the