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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41903	The great loss and damage to England, by the transportation of wooll to forreign parts		1662 (1662)	Wing G1708; ESTC R223653	15,012	23

The great Loss and Damage to ENGLAND by the Transportation of WOOLL to Forreign Parts THere is no King nor Prince in the World known by experience or upon Record that hath such means to support their Splendour and Greatness as his Majesty of Great Britain nor has any Country on Nation such variety of Staple-Commodities within it self and in such abundance as hath the Kingdom of England So that if those Advantages were duly improved England might be a general Mart for the whole World and then by consequence be the Glory thereof That those Advantages are not improved is too too obvious to all that look into it By the fore Complaints that are frequently made of the great Poverty and decay thereof And indeed which is worst of all by that general desperation of Spirit which will not put forth a hand to help support or prevent the Total desolation of our Country upon a prepossest Opinion that all Endeavours will be rendred Fruitless and Abortive The Consideration whereof hath greatly prompted me who must confess my self the meanest of thousands more concerned to use the utmost of my little skill and unwearied diligence though but as the Woman's Mite to the right management of so great an Undertaking that the threatned Ruine of all may be prevented and if possible some good part of that which is Lost may be recovered I shall confine my self to those things only whereof I have had not only credible Information but a considerable though a sad experimental knowledge and in a more particular and especial manner that of the Manufacture of Wooll in England which amongst Many is the Richest Treasure in his Majesties Dominions the flower strength and sinews of this Nation a Band uniting the People into Societies for their own Utility It is the Milk and Honey to the Grazier and Country Farmer the Gold and Spices of the East and West Indies to the Merchant and Citizens the continued supply of Bread to the Poor and in a word the Exchequer of Wealth and Staple of Protection to the whole both abroad and at home and therefore of full merit to be had in perpetual remembrance defence and encouragement for the most advantageous Improvements thereof The Wool of England before it was manufactured within it self was always of great account and esteem abroad sufficiently testified unto by the great amity which it begat and for many hundred years unviolably maintained between the Kings of England and Dukes of Burgundy only from the great benefit that from that Commodity did accrew to that People insomuch that the English Wools they received at 6 d. per Pound they returned again through their Industrious Manufacture thereof in Cloath at 10 s. per Yard to the great inriching of that State both in the advancement of the Revenues of their Soveraign and in a full employment thereby continued among the People whereby the Merchants of this Nation were occasioned as a People unwilling to be wholly dispriviledged of so great a benefit to transport themselves with their Families in great numbers into Flanders from whence they held a constant Commerce with most parts of the World This continued without Intermission between England and Burgundy until King Edward the 3 d. made his mighty Conquest over France and Scotland and as a sutable improvement of so great a mercy did wisely project and also accomplish the manufacture of Wools within the Bowels of this Kingdom to the great inriching of his own People and also to the peopling of his new Conquered Dominions The memory of whose wisdome and care for his People is worthy to be had in Remembrance by English Men unto the Worlds end The said King having thus setled the manufacture of Wools within the Kingdome of England confined it by a penal State which at first reached not only to Goods Chattels and Lands but also to Members and Life it self but in a short time repealed the two latter thereof continuing the other in its full force to remain to future Generations Which exceeding great advantage to the propriety of the English Trade hath now continued this Three Hundred years by the vigilancy of the Kingdoms Monarchs and the protection of its Laws in the continued careful execution thereof upon Offenders with more than a little diligence to provide against the thirsting desires of Foreiners to wrest this Nations Priviledge of so great a moment out of English hands which by the providence of God through the care of our Ancestors has been for many Ages enjoyed by the Nation as it is indeed its proper right But so it is that for some years past the diligence of Foreiners to enrich themselves upon us has so much exceeded our care to preserve our selves that it 's now come to if not beyond a question Who have the greatest benefit of the manufacture of English Wools They who have no Right unto it or They to whom of Right it doth belong That this is indeed so will appear by considering that not only Holland Flanders and Zealand have long sucked the sweetness of the Sinews of our Trade but France is likewise learning to be too hard for us as is manifest by the great quantities of Wools that of late years have been Transported from England and Ireland thither How injurious it must be to us is also unquestionable if we consider the consequence thereof which was without question much in the eye of our Ancestors as appears by what is above hinted in Edward the 3ds time and in several Kings Reigns since Every Pack of Wooll sent to France doth prevent us not only of the benefit of the manufacture thereof but of two Packs more besides it self viz. Thus It being Combing and Combed Wooll for the most part exported thither The French having no Wools of their own but such as are very coarse are not able to make Cloth or fine Stuffs without the conjunction of ours therewithal there being none to my best information in all the World fit for that purpose but ours only except in North Holland and that a small quantity of fine Worsted Wooll all other being likewise coarse but Spanish Wooll and that much too fine especially for worsted Stuffs and not in any wise fit for Combing so that without English or Irish Wools there can be no quantity of fine worsted Stuffs nor a middle sort of Cloth made in the whole World Neither will any Wools be all mixt together but English and Spanish for Cloth only because the Spanish is with the English of one nature being formerly English Sheep though now much finer for the alteration of the Climate and the nature of the Land whereon it is fed as by good Experience appeareth here in England both near and at a further distance Wherefore the Exportation of English Wools into France must of necessity be greatly prejudicial to this Nation not only in the quantity sent over but also in the advantage which is thereby given to them to manufacture

hand if the City should be forced to keep so many thousands when all their work is done as is now in the Building it would be a great burden so the case is in England in this particular where great Trade have been formerly kept and drawn several Families thither and have raised Commodities there but when it fails it is a miserable state and condition those places are in To return in short there is such Connextion and Dependancy one upon another in England that if one fail all the rest more or less either more near or remotely are concerned as in the natural body when any Member fails the whole suffers thereby and as all Trades and Degrees of men may suffer by one failing in Trades and in none more probably I will say then this of Wooll as Merchant Articificers Farmers Sea-men Fisher-men being the people which by their study and labour do principaly if not only bring in or give occasion to the bringing in of Wealth to the Nation and other kind of people viz. Nobility Gentry Lawyers Physicians Schollars of all sorts Shop-keepers are they that receive from these and distribute it again and all are consequently concerned in this rich Treasure of Wooll because this being a Manufacture at home sets more hands at work than half the Nation May I not with modesty and within Compass say three parts of Laborious and Industrious People Considering that most of the Shipping is imployed in this Affair and also so many Trades that depend immediately upon this of Cloathing that most of other Trades are but for Provision either in Food or Conveniencies for Cloathing and so from his Majesty to the meanest all are more or less concerned The King mostly not only in that his People are by that most imployed and provided for nor in that such a Staple Trade the like whereunto the World hath not maintained with so good Advantage but because so great a Revenue comes directly into him upon the Trade occasioned thereby Thus as the King gains or suffers most so the persons that have the greatest Estates or Trades and so all proportionable to the Beggar And also considering that an accustomary thing begets such an habit that is hard to reduce as in our rough and undrest Cloath to Holland so it will be with all our Manufactures in France nay I am informed that the French hath not only imposed a great Tax upon our Woollen Manufactures from twenty to fourty per cent but have also as is affirmed besides that their Imposition absolutely prohibited our Cloaths coming there I am the more large in the Demonstration of this affair not only because this hath cost me many years labour and study to consult all sorts of concerned persons besides mine own experience about it nor because it is so hard to convince people of the meanest capacity but some of the wiser sort how to cure this dismal malady which some despairing of have rather thoughts of setting up some other Manufacture in Lieu of endeavours to prevent the exportation of Wooll and Manufacturing of that at home looking thereon as a thing not to be overcome as that of Linnens in some capable parts of England and a better improvement in the product of Forreign Plantations which may also be set upon together herewith as an Addition so as several sorts of Persons maybe set better on work not capable of this employment and yet no prejudice to this of Cloathing For all other Countries have the Advantage of England or are equal to us in other Manufactures proper to their Countries but not in this of Cloathing and it will be found that all Trades in England wholly distinct from this of Cloathing bring not the tythe of Advantage that this doth Since men cannot rationally believe the effects to be greater than the cause the most of other Manufactures either is in being or brought to use by the Manufactures of Wooll even from the Farmer to the Merchant all are concerned in this of Wooll as may hereafter more appear It now remains that we sum up Englands Loss by the Exportation of our Wooll to Forreign Parts not only in the Advantage we might have by the Manufacturing thereof here in England as formerly noted but also in the importing of Dutch Cloath and more in French Manufactures because England improves not their own Wools and of the humour of English people in putting such a value upon French Fancies when themselves are in a better capacity if improved to produce the like or better and save the following Sums 1. One Million of Pounds Sterling yearly in the Exportation of our Wooll 2. Five Hundred Thousand Pounds in Rough Cloath which is but half what Sir Walter Rawleigh observes in his time 3. Many Thousands of Pounds by the Importing of Dutch and French Woollen Manufacturies And lastly the evil consequences thereof in loosing our Shipping which would be encouraged thereby and are the strength or Walls of our Kingdom as more particularly doth appear hereafter Having now discovered the Dammage it is to England in the transportation of Wooll from the King to the meanest I shall endeavour also to discover the methods how it is done before I shall prescribe a Remedy for it is not enough to know Distempers especially such that are so Consumptive it is requisite to know the Cause of these Distempers or else the supposed Remedies will in time come to be a disease as it is too much in this case at this day in England Where the Causes are mistaken the Remedies are consequently misapplyed whereby a disease in supposition becomes one in Fact the methods or ways of this evils are First in Rumny-Marsh in Kent where the greatest part of rough Wooll is exported from England put aboard French Shallops by night ten or twenty men well Armed to guard it some other parts there are as in Sussex Hampshire and Essex the same methods may be used but not so conveniently The same for Combed Wooll from Canterbury they will carry it ten or fifteen miles at Night towards the Sea with the like Guard as before but for other parts it must be done partly by the Remisness of the Officers of his Majesties Customs and easie Composition for the Forfeitures of the Bonds as more shall appear anon And then for Combed Wooll in other Parts some is Shipped off from London for Bales of Drapery nay some at Lime and also at Exon where there is ten thousand Pounds Sterling weekly laid out in the woollen Manufactury which is most for Workmens Wages I know no place clear and then another reason why persons are not detected is because all the Wools that have been taken in those Parts where most hath been exported have been suffered to go off at the same place after Judgments past and by the Officers to the same Persons at a low rate being under rated to those very men that intended to Ship it at first so that the evil is never like