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A07551	An abstract, almost verbatim (with some necessarie addition,) of The customers apologie, written 18. yeares ago, to shew their distresse in the out-ports, aswell through want of maintenance and meanes to beare out their seruice, as countenance and credit in regard of others	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?; Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627? Customer's apology.	1617 (1617)	STC 17931; ESTC S452	7,751	10

or ouer whereof the Comptrollers had 340. the remainder being 900. serud the Customers among them This 900. diuided into three parts as abouesaide two beeing spent in attending clearing and passing of Accompts the remainder 300. is the Customers onely to maintaine both them and theyrs and recompence their Bondage beeing lesse then that Comptrollers haue with all freedome and ease A Proportion odly euen and hard to be beleeued without Experience yet the same compared with the late ioynt Supervisors made a farre stranger reckning For where the Head Customers beeing in number some 19. diuided amongest them but 300 li. deductis deducendis as aboue said and that vpon Acompt to at the years end These Supervisors in number being but 4. receiued by Debentur at euerie Quarters end 425. li. which was 1700. li. a yeare for 16. yearee together without accompt or reckning These 4. supposing Trafficke to be some Essex cheese as it seem'd by they Endeuours surueighd Her in the Out-Ports by wilde Rats and Mice and spirits of the Aire and whipt Her vp to London where now She liues confind and left the Customers like Beares tyde to stakes sit now for nothing but baiting beating with the onely choise and freedome to statue or liue by shifts So that the Customers still setuing at the Altar and yet held vnworthy to breath and liue thereby their fare growing slender and their drinke but small and scant by Cockets Entries and ordinary Fees as all publicke Offices and officers haue out of meete necessity and want of Employments they dippe but their dishes in their Neighbours Cisternes with good leaue liking to quench their thirst and at noone tide in their Gardens crop a few of their Lockes with their owne free consents to keepe them from staruing and this now addes Oyle to the fire of their Furnace their breaths are accused to infect with their sent and poison the aire though the rest eate Onions and feed on Garlicke So that howsoeuer in others it stand with right and reason That Volentibus non siunt iniurie and Quod Necessitas cogit The onely motiue of this Abstract necessitas defend●t yet in Customers of all men it becomes a great and a horrible Sin Burglary at least complaind of now in PARLEMENTS and that by Merchants and those of London too As if Customers forsooth by Companies and Societies did bandy themselues and liu'd by Decrees of their owne contriuings neither fit nor to bee squared with GODS Lawes KINGS Lawes nor TREATISE of Entercourse had broken into STAPLES prophan'd our Soueraignes MINTS transported all his Load-stones ordaind to draw in BVLLION turn'd Money into a Merchandize vndermin'd the State with Vsurie and at Mid-night robd a CHVRCH to keepe GOD from his Duties and KINGS from their Rights as London Marchants do ¶ Namely The Golden Fleece the Order of Honor of the Dukes of Burgundie by English Wools in Flanders as if They and none but they I meane Customers of the Out-Ports and none but Customers let others cleare themselues and London to engrossing all the Wools and Woolfels of the Kingdome the wonders of the world and sometimes Englands glory and stapling them beyond seas had made them forraigne Trophees and Ensignes of our shame without Exchange of BVLLION like Merchants of the olde Haunce The Society or Company of Merchants of the Staple cald Marchants of the STAPLE ¶ Or As if they and none but they being put in trust with the Creame as it were and Credite of the Kingdome Cloth by stapling it beyond Seas at priuate Mart-Townes had brought our Clothyers to distresse our Clothes to be despised and our Clothing vnto nothing at least nothing lesse then Bullion The Society or Company of Marchant Aduenturers and turn'd our Customes into Vsury by Hysteron proteron and Billes of Interest which Marchants terme Exchange as the Marchant ADVENTVRERS were larely wont to do ¶ Or As if they the Customers and none but they seeing Trafficke cloath'd in Whites feed thousands beyond seas and starue more then Millions for want of worke at home had vndertaken to draw her starke naked from the Lime-kill to the Cole-pit and by a new Deceptiovisus The newe Society or Company of March-Aduenturers turne Cat but in the Pan and dye her into Motleyes and neuer thinke of Bullion As the New March-ADVENTVRERS do beare in hand to do ¶ Or Lastly and Instar Omnium As if they and none but they the Out-Port Customers seeing Trafficke heartlesse pulselesse and almost out of breath like a horse already tired in a weary wilde goase chase offered to Ranke-riders to be ridden againe in post without Diet Drinke or Dressing The Society or Company of East-India Marchants had vndertaken in the Indies to barter her for Drugs or pouldre her with Pepper or with her owne Blood turne her wholly into Mummey without regard of Bullion As the India Marchants do Whereby as in the Empire it fares with Emperors by Popes and Popery so with Christian Kings and Kingdomes by Conclaues and Societies For As Honor and Reuerence the Father and Mother of MALESTY were brought to offer Sacrifice to REMPHAM and to RIMMON and MAIESTIES selfe in Emperors compeld to do Homage to their owne Popes and Vassals by Extremity and Vsury SOVERA'IGNTY being stript of all her best Subsistence and supplements of Bullion Money became a Marchandise ordaind for publique Vtility what ere became of Honesty was turn'd to priuate gaine So MAIESTY in KINGS becomes to bee ecclipsed in their Kingdomes and Coines their SOVERAIGNTIES supplanted and Bounties vndermin'd without which in SOVERAIGNES no Subiects can be happy at least wise in Great-Britaine where BOVNTY now commands and all for want of Bullion For as our Staples being transplanted are still with-held beyond Seas by secular Popes and Popery Our Out-ports at home beeing like wise brought vnder by Conclaues and Societies Our Subsidies confounded of Tonnage and Poundage aswel as our Customes by obstinate Precisenes and out Trafficke as bewitcht by Auarice and Ambition confin'd within the Circle of the famous Port of London for Greatnesse and wealth and there set to sale au plus offrant made apt to bee coniured so Our Standarts by Degrees falling out to bee vncertaine both in Number Waights and Measure and our Monies made a Marchandise engrost in few mens hands all things waxt deere our KINGS became weake for want of Gold and Siluer their Subiectes poore for want of current Moneyes or Employments at least whilst Coin it selfe by Vsury which Marchants tearme Exchange eates out industry in Trades and Marchants by Monopolyes conspire to strangle Trafficke within themselues in London London by her Marchants made the Box of Pandora to send forth all the euils that now perplex the Land And all for lacke of Bullion which Merchants by their Contracts and Societies peruert or else withstand by all the means they can O that euer Marchants should sit so neere our

An Abstract almost Verbatim with some Necessarie Addition of the Customers APOLOGIE written 18. yeares ago to shew their Distresse in the Out-ports aswell through want of Maintenance and Meanes to beare out their Seruice as Countenance and Credit in regard of Others ¶ Now see what hath bene said and so hast to an End The PRINCE as aforesaide is iustly offended and the Merchant likewise hath laide downe his Griefes These are the foure sorts of Officers that attend on Custome-causes namely CVSTOMERS SERCHERS COMPTROLLERS SVPERVISORS amongst whom if any complain these last haue no Reason to looke to be pittied For that obtruding themselues into other mens work and vndertaking a taske exceeding their skil as Men in a maze they striu'd to go forward and in dooing lesse then Nothing woulde theme to do all Like ignorant austere Huishers that know no Rules to teach by but beating the Schollers But by way of Parenthesis Let this be worth the noting How generally iust as consequently true these ancient Rules of Art and Assertions of Reason continue and stand namely Quàm frustra sit per plures quod fieri debet per pauciores And Institutio ab initio invtilis ex post facto nunquam convalescit For as these Supervisors doubting at the first the skill and good abearing of those they sought to vse and were to put in trust and seeing the weake foundation of Comptrollers before them to be but Actum agere and easily out-fac t by their new Accesse the Seruice grew so violent so intricate and withall so out of Order that the Serchers who by office as they haue the best meanes to attend vpon Trafficke so they should by Duty depend vppon the Customers or concurre with them at least leaue them to wilde Company and vnquiet Custom-houses and swaruing with the ballast inquire out the neerest way to their own priuate profite In which Distresse the Customers in displeasure with the PRINCE in disgrace with the world in the midst of a hungry lawlesse ignorant wilful kind of Men obtruded vpon them by ialousie and misconceite that like defectiue Heteroclytes wrangle as it were with the very Rules of Grammer pittying the Merchant in regard of his Traffick silently bemoan themselues in this manner That the meanes to enable them to performe their Duties aswell Maintenance as Countenance are so with-held from them that leauing the worlde and all preferments by it to serue at the Altar they are not thought woorthie to breath and liue thereby Their Scruice being euery way like the Bricke-makers of Egypt who wanting meanes to do their Taske had ydle Taske-maysters to ouer-see but what they wrought whose Credites had no being but in their Disgrace That the Law it selfe so good and iust in generall Ialousie and Suspition out of superstitious zeale to Customes and Trafficke haue ignorantly in all ages so incensed PARLEMENTS against Customers without distinguishing the Out ports from London that of Free-men borne like Bondslaues they are beaten to all workes with theyr hands tide behinde them and trusted with Nothing is made hurtfull to the PRINCE in their publique Functions and iniurious to themselues in their priuate Callings For that whereunto they becom precisely sworn at their Admissions namely the aduancement of Customes and consequently Trafficke the Customers of all Men are forbidden by Statute to wit not to meddle or deale with Trafficke and their Seruice being euery way no thankes to themselues is a special Meanes of Mamtenance and Countenance to others SIC VOS NON VOBIS fertis Aratra Boues nideficatis Aues That they notwithstanding vnderly all Expences incident to Customs vnthankfully which others neuer touch and for only crying aime reap thankes and Reward For omitting extraordinaries ere they come to their Places their Bonds and Sureties for the Princes behoofe and subiection besides is an vnknowne burthen that the rest little feele They also are to hire and finde out at each Port of their charge a conventent Custome-house which the Prince should prouide there as well as at London that No Customhouses no publick Wharses nor Storehouses builded by the Prince in the Out-portes as there are at London alone besides Seats Tables Shelues and other necessarie thinges are hard to be compassed vnder 4 or 5. pound So that for example where fiue Ports are in charge the Head-Customer stands chargeable yearly for fiue Custome Houses with 25. li. At each of these Houses a discreet and able Person and of honest education the Customer is to finds for his owne indemnity that stands bounde for all Whereas Any fit the rest The Farmers by ayming at these proportions finde it by Experience to be most for theer profit bee they neuer so vntoward And vnto such lesse then 100. markes per annum to maintaine a Family cannot well hee giuen which fiue all put together makes 400. pounds a yeare the head Customer being but doubled according to proportion At these fiue Custome-houses what is yearely spent in publicke for Incke Parchment paper and wax the Customer supplies which may amount some yeares to 8. or 10. li. Besides the hazard of turning vp to London and putting in of moneyes before Traffick became farmed by Bils and otherwise No Portage Money allowed Customers in the Out-Ports as all Collectors in Counties haue beeing allowed no Portage Money as all Collectors els but Customers are which the Rest breake no sleepe for Theirs are also all Expences casuall and needefull besides Trauayle for their paines about sending or riding from Port to Port aswell by Letters or Directions from the Councell L. Thresaurer or Exchequer as by Processes and Writs how generally soeuer directed vnto all Lastly The Customers Charge Expence in pasting Accompts they put in their Bookes before the generall Farme twice a yeare duly to their double charge and paines which the others did but once with little or none attendance leauing stil the Customers so to abide follow and pay all Fees and duties that the best halfe of their owne if not two parts of three they leafte behinde them before they came to see their Quietus est beeing more encombred with the Entries and writings of the Others Bookes then of their owne which they rather insulted on then car'd for to mend colouring their Doings still with the Princes onely Seruice and vrging all Extremities cride The Most for the King This being the Countenance and Seruice of Customers in the Out-Portes of this Kingdome slightly runne ouer for breuities sake together with their charge now see but their Maintenance which alone and by it selfe but indifferently waighd may helpe to excuse them though the time for the present seeme hopelesse of releefe The Fees and Rewards ioyntly to Customers and Comptrollers the Searchers are allowed the moity of their Seisures before the generall Farme The Fees and Rewards to Customers c. in the Out-Ports allowed by the Prince amounted to the sum of 1240 li. little vnder