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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20442	The defence of trade In a letter to Sir Thomas Smith Knight, gouernour of the East-India Companie, &c. From one of that societie.	Digges, Dudley, Sir, 1583-1639.; Smith, Thomas, Sir, 1558?-1625.; Kayll, Robert. Trades increase.	1615 (1615)	STC 6845; ESTC S109687	29,831	56

Riuer readie if neede had beene to doe the seruice which his Maiestie in his Princely wisedome prouides for in his letters Patents of the Companies Incorporation Tenne goodly shippes and such as not to meddle with our Marchants ships our friends at home being all together well prouided of munition and men would not much feare the Royall Nauie of some Kings in Christendome A Squadron that within our narrow Seas hauing the Land and Ports to friend might stop the furie of another selfe conceited inuincible Armado what meanes this poore man then to write hee knowes not and it seemes hee cares not what I thinke our Kentish boughes that got vs Gauel-kind of the Conqueror like Bees in his brains haue made him wood In a wood I am sure he is now like to lose himselfe for his next forces like Benzo his naked Indians come to fight Ligneis Telis with woodden Arguments But any Wood will serue his rancor for Arrowes to shoot at the East-India Companie and would hee flie into the Irish bogges as hee doth into their Woods I must now pursue him Hee sayes Our Woods are extraordinarily cut downe in regard of the greatnesse of their shipping which doth as it were deuoure our Timber c. King Henry the eight and Quéene Elizabeth by Lawes and our King by Proclamation sought to preserue and increase our Woods but that a parricide of Woods should thus bee committed by building of Ships c. and so on but THinkes he these royall Princes cared to keep their Woods for any nobler vse then to build gallant ships and those not to lie still and rot his ordinarie death but such as round about the World disperse the honour of the Crowne they serue and then returne with wealth for King and Kingdome and for those that set them foorth in stead of Wood Wee must with thankefulnesse acknowledge though hee coldly set it downe that our most gracious Soueraigne hath not by Proclamation onely helpt the Kingdome in that point but with a prouidence beyond his Predecessors besides his recommending bils in Parliament and speaking eloquently for them He hath vrged good husbandrie of Planting to vs all the onely meanes to breede vp shipping Timber since tall and goodly Trees doe neuer proue of Tillers second springers out of olde decayed stockes how well soeuer kept by statute husbandrie in Woods But was this Care thinkes he for Trees to looke vpon The prouidence that bids vs go and plant commands vs too to vse our wel-growne Timber ere it rot as that would soonest that is fittest for great shipping His Maiestie was loth to haue our Timber spent on Beggers nests that growing scurfe vpon this Citie new tenemēts whose rotten rents make many Gentlemen before their time or that our Woods should bee consumed in fire Furnaces for glasses such bables when God hath blest vs with a Fuell in the bowels of the earth the wast whereof can doe no hurt but as for building ships his wisedome likes that well and out of royall bountie for incouragement giues them the most that build the greatest A policie of his Princely Predecessors If then these Eagles could foresee no inconuenience what is he that professeth himselfe Able out of sufficient testimonie questionlesse to affirme that since the East India Trade and méerely through their building and repayring of their Ships their building though begunne but fiue yeares since Timber is raysed in the Land fiue shillings in a load nay almost not to bee had for monie This makes the Companie flie into Ireland And hee heard a skilfull Shipwright doubtlesse say that all the Timber within fortie miles of London would not build such another shippe as the Trades Increase c. I Know what men in Kent esteeme of him that said because they agreed in time that the building of Tenderden Steeple was the cause of Goodwin sands increasing but if there be a man so neere of kind vnto a blocke that hee thinkes cutting downe of Timber Parricide His tender conscience shall haue some more satisfaction It is no newes to heare the price of Timber rise with most things else perhaps through monies falling It did so long before the East India Companie beganne It doth so now within the Land where neyther they nor any can build shippes but to confound that poore Conceite that they haue caused dearth the East India Marchants Bookes will shew that to this daie they haue in all of English Timber spent but fiue thousand sixe hundred twentie three loades and one thousand eight hundred fortie two of plancks Whereas I know of my particular acquaintances within his Shippewrights limits the Companie are offered at this present more then that at as cheape rates as when they built the Trades Increase And they that best can iudge the East-India Shipwrights sent to bargaine for the Companie auerre vpon their credits that they know within that fortie miles Timber enough to build not onely many a Trades-Increase but to vse their wordes Ten times as many ships as the East-India Marchants haue Yet they foreseeing store can be no sore especially neere home and hearing how the stranger daily fetched away our Timber out of Ireland out of an honest good affection to their Countrie put their foot in there and now prouide the most part of their shipping and materials thence in which they finde no fault at all saue as he only truly saies the charge and hazard and if it shall seeme good vnto his Maiestie to keepe our Irish Timber from the stranger for to build Busses and fishing Vessells for our selues This ready Companie to doe him seruice and to good their Countrie may perhaps finde meanes to saue homestore by trying a conclusion in Virginia which this worthy Author thinkes men know not what to doe withall Since therefore their prouision out of Ireland neither is for neede nor to saue charges What is he that requites that industrie of theirs and hazard with ill wordes Now Sir wee are vpon his next Invectiues his maine battaile nothing now but death of men only a certaine loose Wing a stragling Obiection about shipping comes first in the way and saies that The East India Marchants haue bought the best ships out of other Trades and plum'd euen Constantinople her selfe of her best shipping like a Bird that makes her selfe gay c. BVt if the Poet were aliue from whom hee borrowes that conceit to reade first a Gentlemans Fishing-Proiect and then this Trades increase assuredly His Quae moue at Cornicula risum Furtiuis nudata coloribus in the proper sence should not neede to force it selfe vpon the East-India ships but to the matter of the Obiection if he had his will that the East-India Marchants might neither build nor buy what had become of those old ships they bought as the Hector the Ascension and the Suzan of Turkie Marchants and some others of other men had they