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A91327	Of a free trade. A discourse seriously recommending to our nation the wonderfull benefits of trade, especially of a rightly governed, and ordered trade. Setting forth also most clearly, the relative nature, degrees, and qualifications of libertie, which is ever to be inlarged, or restrained according to that good, which it relates to, as that is more, or lesse ample. / Written by Henry Parker Esquire.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1648 (1648)	Wing P414; Thomason E425_18; ESTC R203127	31,727	50

our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 manufacture And it should seem this was susti●●●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the world yet the Courtiers would not be so satisfied for they thought they had gratified the Common-wealth in restoring the ancient Company of the Adventurers and that they had grati●●● the Merchant Adventurers in restoring them to their due rights and therefore to inclose by bargain for themselves a gratification of 20 or 30000 livre. was no ill office There is another clog remaining upon our Trade to this day and it is continued still upon the same reason the Merchant Adventurers at first were stinted to a certain number of Clothes which number in their exportations they might not exceed now it appears since to the State that that number was too strait and that it is very inexpedient for Trade to circumscribe our Merchants rigorously with that stint and yet notwithstanding Courtiers must be ●ill feed for releasing Trade of this inexpedience The Earl of Cumberland in Queen Elizabeths dayes was sweetned with a Present for obtaining an inlargement of our stint but that Present now is become a Rent and is successively granted by Patent and though the Patentee be a single person and cannot be said properly to gratifie the Common-wealth yet He receives such a yeerly revenue in consideration that the Common-wealth shall not be disserved and this revenue it self being an Incumbrance upon our Draperies and raised out of Woollgrowers Clothiers Merchants Retailors and so charging Trade in generall is no lesse then a disservice it self to the Common-wealth Thus we see our Charters have been often times and severall wayes attempted against and yet if they had not been so much shaken their power of resistance had not been so experimentally known for the more the Anchor is straitned the faster hold it ever gains 4th Arg Since every man is presumed to be most knowing in that Craft wherein He has been bred up we may presume the Clothiers in matters of cloth to be more knowing then the Merchant Ans. First in the making of Cloth we deny not but there may be more skill in the Clothier then in the Merchant but the question here is about the uttering and vending not about working or preparing of cloth and therfore it follows not that the breeding of the Clothier does so much inable him to sell cloth especially in great quantities and that to forrein Nations as the Merchants but rather the contrary even by the truth of the same granted rule Forasmuch as there is not onely an Art and Mysterie in the sale of cloth as aforesaid but also an Art more abstrase eminent and exquisite then that is which consists in the Mechanicall way of making and dressing the same Secondly the State is not to consider what is most beneficiall to the Merchant what to the Clothier separatim or whether the benefit of the one alone or of the other be more to be favoured but how they may be both favoured conjunctim and how the State may be most benefited by twisting their interests both together Now then generall interest of the State requires that all our L●nificia or English commodities be raised in price unto other Nations as high as may be without injustice or inconvenience and that as many persons and professions in England as may be may come to be sharers in the generall interest If the question then be whether the Merchants interest or the Clothiers do more conduce to this publick reason of State sense it self will presently distinguish that the Merchants advantage is more compliant with the publick then the Clothiers For the Clothiers ayme is to drown that gain which the Merchants industry and imployment now serves for and which by his service is kept within the bounds of our own Island to the maintaining of so many families at home and busying so many men and Ships abroad and thereby to abridge the same the more to Natives the more it is publicated unto strangers The Hollanders are so subtill as to clog our English Woollen manufactures with great Impositions and to free their own of the same that the prices of their meaner Draperies may be raised up to our better ones or the prices of our better Draperies may be beaten down to their meaner ones but our subtiltie must be for the pleasure of our Clothiers to intercept from the Merchants all that livelihood which they now earn and by vilifying of our own Wares to prostitute the same unto Strangers nay and by the same means to expose themselves to the danger of having worse treatance from forreiners then now they have from their own Countreymen Thirdly if more regard be had of the Clothier then of the Merchant or State yet constant experience teaches us that this favour and preference which the Clothier challenges herein above the Merchant is no reall favour nor preference at all For it has been alwayes seen that the setting at liberty of the Merchants Trade has proved more obstructive to the Clothier then to the Merchant in as much as the Merchant has a more large imployment and can better subsist without the Clothier then the Clothier can without the Merchant Moreover as it doth not alwayes fall out that the breaking up of the Merchants Trade brings any present quicknesse to Trade so if it doth that quicknesse never ●a●●s 't is but bonum presens 't is but like cold water to a feaverish man it procures some short refreshment but repays that short refreshment within a short space after with a prolongation of sharper extremities So it proved it in Qu Elizabeths times so it proved in King James his times and so it is likely to prove hereafter wherefore if men of Mechanicall education will onely contemplate present things and neither look forward nor backward Statesmen may and must disaccommodate them for the present that they may be accommodated the better for the future 5th Arg That power in private men which onerates the chief Commodities of the Realm with arbitrary impositions to maintain it self is dangerous but such is the Merchants power c. Ans. Our Companies ordinary charge is scarce considerable in respect of the great summes we deal for and the extraordinary charge is alwayes drawn on by some extraordinarie unavoidable inconvenience for example the removals of our Residence from one Mart Town to another is commonly a great burthen to us but that burthen is undertaken to avoid some greater detriment and without it either we should loose old priviledges or be made to submit to some new exactions or be some other way aggrieved in a worse degree Now this is for the common good and we may rather expect favour from the Kingdom then disfavour for such services Secondly we have a Bill now in the Houses prepared for His Majesties Assent and in that Bill the future Impositions of our Company are reduced to a certaintie Thirdly there is an absolute necessity of these Impositions for neither can our Trade prosper without government nor government be maintained without some charge neither is our government necessary onely for our selves but also for the Clothier for as much as we are a good skreen

look into the causes that make Trade so dead amongst us at present and the fittest remedies that possibly may recover it In the East Indies we know who they are that by cruelty have opprest us In Russia we may take notice who they are that by subtilty have supplanted us Here in Germany our Priviledges are ill kept in Holland they are worse In many Countries the manufactures in Silkes and Cottonwools increase In High and Low Germany the store of sheep is increased and of late the kinde of them especially in Silesia is much improoved hereby and by the help of Spanish woolls nay of English woolls too Fullers Earth daily exported against Law our English Draperies are extreamely brought low The late obstructions and calamities of civill war in our Kingdome concurring with other annoyances done us by the Kings Agents abroad and millitary Commissions upon the Sea have added more to our ruine Moreover in other things the Times seeme to looke towards a Reformation but in matters of Trade Order and regulation it self is opposed and confusion under the Name of Liberty is now more then ever publickly pleaded for The King by his Proclamation had formerly a ●etted his Progenitors grant to us and the Parliament lately has corroborated the Kings Proclamations yet nothing can secure as against intruding Interlopers By this meanes Merchandize is brought to a low ebbe 20 Ships yearly in former times did attend us here in Hamburgh now 6. are sufficient to supply us and though our Company be in this Consumption some other Companies waste away worse then ours All these mischeifs perhaps are not remediable yet let us use the best remedies we can and such as are most seasonable In Platoes Opinion those Common-wealths were most likely to prosper where learned men ruled or Rulers were learned Within the circle of Platoes learning let us comprehend the mysteries of commerce In Solomons dayes that kinde of learning did wonderfull things towards the advancing of States and of late as Venice a City of Merchants has been the Bulwark of Europe against the Turk so the Seates in the United Provinces by Trade more then Arms have gotten the sword of Arbitration into their hands Spain and France and other Nations no ware fain to court those Merchants which not long since were belowe their scorn Let it then be lawfull to propose either that a certain number of able Merchants may be made Privy Councellors or so many Privy Councellors specially designed to intend matters of Trade or let some other H●●●●●… Councell be impowred solely to promote the Common weal of Merchants By the King A Proclamation for the better Ordering the Transportation of Clothes and other Woollen Manufactures into Germany and the Low-Countreys VVHereas We have taken into our Princely Consideration the manifold benefits that redound to this Kingdom by the Manufacture of Woollen Clothes and the Transportation and venting thereof in forrein parts and finding how much good government and managing the said Trade in an Orderly way will conduce to the increase and advancement of the same We for the better settling of Order therein for the time to come have thought fit with advice of Our Privy Councell to declare Our Royall pleasure herein And do therefore hereby strictly will and Command that no Person or Persons Subject or Subjects of this our Realm of England shall at any time from and after the Feast of Purification c. now next coming Ship transport carrie or convay or cause to be shipped c. either from Our City and Port of London or from any other City Town Port Haven or Creek of this Our Realm of England by way of Merchandice any White-clothes coloured Clothes Clothes dressed and Died out of the Whites Clothes called Spanish Clothes Bayes Kersys Perpetuanoes Stockings or any other English Woollen commodities unto any the Cities Towns places in Germany or the 17. Provinces of the Netherlands save onely and except to the Mart and Staple-towns of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers in those parts for the time being or to one of them And further to the end that the said Trade may be hereafter reduced and continued in an orderly and well govern'd course We do hereby declare Our Royall pleasure to be that the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers shall admit into their Freedom of their said Trade all such our Subjects dwelling in our City of London and exercised in the Profession of Merchants and not Shop-keepers except they give over their Shops as shall desire the same for the Fines of 50 li. apiece if they shall take their Freedom before Midsommer next And that the said Fellowship shall likewise receive and admit into their Freedom such our Subjects of the Outports of this Our Kingdom as being exercised in the Trade of Merchants shall desire the same paying them 25 li apiece for their Fine or Income if they shall take their said Fredom before Michaelmas next And that the Sons and Servants of such as shall be so admitted as aforesaid shall pay to the said Fellowship at their severall admissions thereunto the summe of 6 13 4. apiece And that all such persons as shall not accept and come into the said Freedom before the dayes herein prefixed shall pay the double of the Fines before limited respectively in case they shall afterwards desire to be admitted into the said Fellowship And Our further will and pleasure is and We do hereby command and inhibit all and every of our Subjects not being Free of the said Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers that they or any of them shal not presume to Trade in any the fore-named Commodities into any the parts or places of Germany or Low-Countreys from or after the said Feast of Purification next ensuing upon pain of Our high displeasure and of such punishments as Our Court of Star-Chamber whom We especially charge with the execution of Our Royall pleasure herein shall think fit to inflict for such contempts White Hall Decemb. 7. 10. of Our Reign 1634 Die Merc. 11. Octob. 1643. An Ordinance of the LORDS and COMMONS in Parliament Assembled For the upholding of the Government of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers of England to the better maintenance of the Trade of Clothing and Woollen Manufacture of the Kingdom FOr the better incouragement and supportation of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers of England which hath been found very serviceable and profitable to this State and for the better government and regulation of Trade especially that ancient and great Trade of Clothing whereby the same will be much advanced to the Common good and benefit of the people The Lords and Commons in Parliament do Ordain that the said Fellowship shall continue and be a Corporation and shall have power to levie moneys on the Members of their Corporation and their goods for their necessary charge and maintenance of their Government and that no person shall Trade into those parts limited by their Incorporation but such as are Free of that Corporation upon forfeiture of their goods Provided that the said Fellowship shall not exclude any person from his Freedom and Admission into the said Fellowship which shall desire it by way of Redemption if such person by their custome be capable thereof and hath been bred a Merchant and shall pay 100 livre. for the same if He be Free and an Inhabitant of the City of London and trade from that Port or 50 livre. if He be not Free and no Inhabitant of the said City and trade not from thence and that the said Fellowship shall have power to imprison Members of their Company in matters of their government and to give such an Oath or Oaths to them as shall be approved of by both Houses of Parliament Provided that all rights confirmed by an Act of Parliament or ancient Charters shall be hereby saved And the said Lords and Commons do further Ordain That withall convenient expedition a 〈◊〉 shall be prepared in Order to an Act of Parliament to be passed in this present Parliament for the further setling and full confirming of the Priviledges to the said Fellowship with such other clauses and provisions as shall be found expedient by both Houses of Parliament This Ordinance to remain in full force untill a Bill or Act shall be prepared and passed according to the intent and true meaning of this Ordinance And it is Ordered that this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and publisht that all persons concerned therein may take notice thereof as appertaineth Jo Browne Cler Par. 〈◊〉 Elsyng Cler Par. Dom. Com. FINIS