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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85656	A declaration in vindication of the honour of the Parliament, and of the committee of the navy and customes; against all traducers: concerning the managing of the navy and customes, and many other weighty affaires of state: faithfully relating what strength of shipping have been yearly employed for the guarding of the seas, and what moneys arising by the revenue of the customes, excise of flesh and salt, and other receits, have been applyed to that use. The rules by which they have been all managed; and a just account how the moneys have been disposed. By Giles Grene, a member of the Honourable House of Commons.	Grene, Giles.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1817; Thomason E405_8; ESTC R201878	11,599	26

A DECLARATION In Vindication of the Honour of THE PARLIAMENT And of the COMMITTEE of the NAVY and CVSTOMES against all Traducers Concerning the managing of the Navy and Customes and many other weighty Affaires of State Faithfully Relating what strength of Shipping have been yearly employed for the guarding of the Seas and what moneys arising by the Revenue of the Customes Excise of Flesh and Salt and other Receits have been applyed to that Use The Rules by which they have been all managed and a just Account how the moneys have been disposed By GILES GRENE a Member of the Honourable House of Commons LONDON Printed for Laurence Blaiklock 1647. A DECLARATION In Vindication of the Honour of the PARLIAMENT and of the Committee of the Navy and Customes against all Traducers Concerning the managing of the Navy and Customes and many other weighty Affaires of State THere is no truth now more apparent then that the tongues and pens of many men and the Presse have in these latter times been so loose and disordered as that they have been applied too frequently to the scandalizing of proceedings in Parliament and the severall Committees and Members by them imployed in the transacting of the weighty affaires of the Kingdome during the times of these late distempers that so they might bring them into the disaffections of the people The truth of this is clearely proved by those severall Pamphlets which every day are engendred and sent abroad into the world and by the cunning and artifice of severall evill disposed persons of different tempers they are made instrumentall for different ends and intentions And this is perceived by all wise men so that it is hoped those Libells take no impression with them in regard of the persons scandalized And amongst others finding the Committee of the Navy and Customes as they have had no small part of the care and trouble of these weighty affaires so not to have the least share in those scandalls and reproaches In discharge of the duty I owe unto the Parliament who when the King deserted them were necessitated to undertake the Government of the Navy Royall of this Kingdome for the safety and good thereof and likewise of the Customes appointed for its maintenance and support and also in discharge of that particular duty I owe the Committee of the Navy and Customes and the Gentlemen attending those services unto whose care and trust both Houses of Parliament committed that great and weighry Charge And to cleare up the Honour Care Prudence and Fidelity of both Parliament and Committee against all Traducers in the advantagious and faithfull discharge of the trust for the weale and safety of the People and all the three Kingdomes I thought it not the least part of my duty being best acquainted with those affairs to make this following Declaration of the beginning progresse and present State of the same relating to the Customes and Navy and by what Rules they have been transacted In the yeare 1641. shortly after the Parliament first sate and before the King deserted them the House of Commons appointed some Gentlemen of that Committee and recommended to their charge the discovery of the abuses of the then Farmors of the Customes and the Examination of their Accounts from the first yeare of his Majesties Raigne unto that time And notwithstanding the work was conceived by many worthy Gentlemen not to be feazible yet that Cmmittee within few Months by their report did so satisfie the House of the whole State of that affaire as it produced 176000. in fines to the use of the state This done about the 25. of May 1641. the House of Commons commanded that Committee to frame a Bill for the legall payment of Tonnage and Poundage to continue for a few weeks untill some difficulties and misunderstandings between the King and Parliament were removed and upon the same grounds severall other short Acts of Parliament were passed untill Iuly 1642. But the burthens upon Merchandize both forreign and domestick being unequally layd by the old Book of Rates occasioned severall complaints and Petitions from Merchants Cloathiers Shopkeepers and others unto the Parliament for ease of those burthens whereupon in the yeare 1641. the House ordered that Committee to frame a new Book of Rates This proved a work of that travell and consequence in relation to the support of the trade of the Kingdome on the one side and the Revenue of the Kingdome for support of the Navy the strength of the Kingdome on the other side as it became full of labour and intricacy to keep the Ballance even for the encrease of the one and support of the other of which the very bare discovery of those Rules which the wisedome of that Committee found out to the due framing of that elaborate work will sufficiently satisfie the Reader at first view They first divided all Merchandize into Domestick and Forreign Domestick into Commodities totally to be prohibited or to be transported Transportations into Manufactures of Wooll and Other Staple Commodities The Manufactures of Wooll in regard of their generall influence throughout most conditions of men and hazard of the losse of that Trade in Forraigne parts so much of late undermined by Forraigne manufactures was much eased of its former imposition The other Staple Commodities as Tyn Lead c. not so subject to danger as the others were raised to some higher Rates according as the same could well beare The Forraign Commodities were divided into Necessaries and Superfluities Necessaries and of certain use as victualls and all materialls for to encrease the Manufactures of the Kingdome were eased Superfluities which might be spared and were incentives to Prodigality either in apparrall or diet food or rayment had their full load saving that in the very superfluities they found it necessary to make addifference As Those of bulk advantagious in the employment of Shipping and Marriners in that relation were somewhat eased Those of small Stowage had a full load laid on them Yet in those likewise they made a difference Easing all such as were unmanufactured Burthening the re●t But the Marchants of the Kingdome not only suffering under the unequall impositions laid on their Commodities but under the Arbitrary power and undue Fees of the Officers of the Customes which oftentimes more oppressed them then the payment of the impositions themselves It was not the least labour of that Committee to dispose of the manner of payment of the duty and to give such directions therein as by those Rules they delivered the Merchant from all occasions of oppression by the Officer and yet kept up the Officer in his due esteeme In compleating of this great work the Committee proceeded by a further rule as well to attaine to the knowledge of the value of all Commodities as to their usefulnesse without which they could not well agree on the duty And to that end did make use of the labours and judgements of many Merchants of quality of known