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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07323	A declaration of the estate of clothing now vsed within this realme of England 1 The royaltie and benefit of wooll and woollen cloth. 2 The condition of the makers, being two sorts. 3 The antiquitie and power of the alneger. 4 The manner of search and searchers, now vsed. 5 The seuerall faults and abuses practised in cloth. 6 The inconuenience and hurt by the abuses. 7 The remedie to be made by the alnegers prouision. VVith an apologie for the alneger, shewing the necessarie vse of his office. Written by Iohn May, a deputie alneger.	May, John, fl. 1613.	1613 (1613)	STC 17710; ESTC S120174	26,796	60

a notorious felō within this realm who hauing committed many vnlawfull outrages and desirous to continue so would haue the Lord chiefe Iustice bound to the peace offering to take his othe that hee did not onely seeke to depriue him of his meanes of liuing but also sought his life so if they could bind the Alneger to the peace they could make a trade of falshood without controlement But by too much sufferance of this hurt the common wealth is wounded the best sort seeking meanes to heale it but they like gald-backe Iades kicke at those which come to cure them The golden snuffers of the law is put into the Alnegers hand who must make vse of them and howsoeuer they snuffe hee will snuffe too and cleere the light which shall shew them the way to trueth In this he shall stirre vp the sting of enuious tongues whose venome cannot hurt him but procure the praiers of the best which shall receiue comfort thereby The most reuerent Diuine if he touch the finnes of the wicked to the quick shall sooner moue them to railing than to reformation but the malice of euil people is not to be regarded Here might question bee made wherefore the Alneger should now stirre more than of late times It was his vsuall course to take his money for the seale and so to bee quiet Why should he trouble himselfe with such labour that will breed enuie to him and vexation to others It must be aunswered that although hee hath long time lyen a sleepe the necessitie of the time and loud clamours of abuses hath awakt him His charge and duetie to the office his seruice to the King his maintenaunce of the trade that must mayntaine him and benefit to the common wealth sets him on foot to performe that which no other can doe wherein hee will ay me at two things the general good and his priuat profit Since his forbearance much power and profit hath been drawne from him by vsurpation which he may easily recouer as braunches pluckt from his bodie The measuring of silke linnen yea and of some sorts of wollen cloth are made petty offices and held by those which haue no right thereunto Euerie inferiour Magistrate will take vpon him to establish offices which shall contradict the appointment of the King and his Lawes Who is the measurer of all saleable Clothes or all commodities measurable but onely hee not onely appointed by seuerall Statutes but also confirmed by the kings graunt by letters patents It is appointed an office at the common Law 1● I. 2. by graunt from the king And that the Warden of the Alnage should deliuer yearely to the Lord Treasurour the estreates of his office containing all the faults hee found of Clothes throughout the Realm The same King did also graunt the Alnage of all Canuas and linnen cloth to Tho. Dewight in the 1. yere of his raigne and afterward in the fourteenth yere of his raigne to one Symond of Darlington and also another patent for the Alnage of all manner of outlandish Cloth to one Iohn Griffen in the seuenteenth yere of his raigne as may appeare vpon the seuerall records in the Tower of London If the Alneger did but a while forbeare his collection of the subsidie also some forged authoritie would lay claime to that too but sufferance cannot suppresse right the one office being as truely due as the other 25. E. 3. cap. 1. and so many Lawes to confirme it which also bindes him vpon othe to performe it who shall then deny or contend against him when hee shall claime his right and performe his place As he may receiue both subsidie and alnage vpon all sorts of woollen commodities so may hee receiue the alnage fee vpon all other sorts of Cloth and commodities measurable and saleable from the finest silk to the coursest hempe much of that due is taken in some places frō him which must giue way when he please to take place nor shall he need much difficultie to decide that right being so apparāt plaine in his behalfe at all times when questiō hath bin made of his right or power the leaned Iudges of this lād haue confirmed the same as appeareth by many seueral decrees The antient laws made for alnage causes may fitly be cōpared to the wil testament of deceased kings who bequeathed to their subiects the benefit of iustice and vpright dealing wherein the Alneger is made sole executor and although by some later lawes there hath been searchers apointed as ouerseers to assist the Alneger in the better performance of this will they like idle and carelesse ministers according to the course of such ouerseers put in trust haue superficially past ouer that charge to no purpose but rather looking after their legacie of two pence on a cloth the which the Alneger must abridge them of as vnworthie by their negligence to receiue it and hee himselfe take vpon him to see the will performed beeing held thereunto by three principall reasons First the trust from the King with his seale and collection of his Subsidies Fines and Forfeitures Secondly his charge not to set on that seale but vpon perfect and sizable cloth and to take the contrarie into his hands for the kings vse Thirdly his daunger of the penaltie if hee performe not this charge which are great fines and the losse of his place So hee must bee the man to giue vnto the subiect length breadth weight and goodnesse or else to punish the offendor and giue the buyer knowledge of the fault For want hereof he is most taxed and blamed on all parts not without iust cause for where should this benefit be receined but from him beeing authorised and appointed for the same To conclude his seruice truely performed herein would proue a large fountaine of good to his small drop of benefit CHAP. 4. The manner of search and searchers now vsed THe Law hath effectually prouided for the search in all points that in euerie place where cloth is made and fold two foure six or eight shall bee appointed for the search thereof that it be arcording to law Those searchers to bee able and sufficient in wealth and knowledge that they shall be sworne to doe it vprightly and bound in fortie pounds a peece not to neglect it that they shal performe that search once in euery moneth at the least and enter into the houses shops or other places which harbour any cloth there to feeke for faultie cloth which might otherwise bee concealed or hidden from them and great penaltie laid on those which shall resist or denie any of them For those clothes which are sealed by them the law directs their order appointing the seuerall penalties on euerie fault and how the same shall bee disposed If the Magistrates or Iustices of any place neglect the choise of such searchers then a penaltie is laid on them for that default But this search and orders are grossely abused in seueral kindes