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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

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 or bank betwixt the Merchant stranger and the English Clothier and were not the prices of our clothes kept up by us and that partly by the charge of our government the Clothier would be more inslaved to the Stranger then now He is Lastly our Accounts are kept most exactly and audited punctually and the hands through which all things passe are so many that there can be no error nor fraud The Hans Towns in Germany anciently 72. in number found it expedient to incorporate and maintain a common correspondence for which end Lubeck of the Wendish Brunswick of the Saxon Dantzig of the Prusse and Cullen of the Westphalish Towns was appointed to be chief and the chief of all was Lubeck These Towns so united for adjusting all common and particular interests obtained severall places of Residence in England at London in Norway at Bergen in Russia at Novograde in the Netherlands at Antwerpe and in each of these residencies they had their Alderman Assistants Secretaries Treasurers Stewards and other Officers by whom their publick affairs were administred and Merchant Law was exercised Wherefore if the expence of their government was more then countervailed by the benefit of their unity and if they were gainers by that expence why should that be imprudent in us which was prudent in them or why should that be dammage to us which was profit to them The ordinary pleas for Freedom are thus answered and the Objections against Reglement in Trade removed we will now onely re-inforce all that has been said in a word or two The most solid glory and magnificence that ever dazel'd humane eyes upon earth was that of Solomons royall Court at that time when his unparralleld wisdome had made Silver as stones in Jerusalem and Cedars as vulgar as Sycamores used to be in other places T is written of his raigne by an inspired Author that it made Silver of no account that in one yeer there flowed into his Exchequer 666 Talents of pure Gold that besides all his Masses of Ophir gold he abounded with other various Treasures precious stones c. such as the Merchants of Spices the Governours of the Countrie and the Kings of Arabia did import Solomon was no warriour nor born Lord of many Nations nor did his Jewish Signiory extend it selfe over any large Tract in the universe t is onely written of him that he had at Sea a Navie of Tarshish with Hirams the same Navie once in 3 years returned home fraighted with gold silver ivory c. Hiram being hitherto straitned in the mediterranean Seas could not gaine the Stronds of Arabia Persia India China c. without incompassing the Capes or Africa and crossing the Suns torrid line but upon terms of partnership Solomon is now able to let him in to that Southern Ocean by a way far more compendious Pharaoh on the further side of the red sea is Solomons neer Allye and the Edomites on this side are his tributary servants hereupon things are so composed betwixt the Jews and Tyrians that it is as beneficiall for the Tyr●ans to serve the Jews with their skill in Astronomy and Hidrography as for the Jews to serve the Tyrians with their harbours and ships Therefore the Queen of Sheba till her eyes were ascertained with substances might well withhold her beleife from entertaining that stupendious report which was blowne about the world concerning Solomon and well might her spirit after sinke within her when her eyes had once encountered with the radiant Majesty of Solomon whereby the blasts of Fames Trumpet were so far drowned and transcended Of all Solomons successors we read of none but Jeh●saphat that ever thought of rigging new navies in Ezion-geber and He neverthelesse though he had the Edomites his homagers and was also much renowned for his wisdome and grandour found this designe unfeasible and the way to Ophir altogether unpassable This is a cleer chrisis to indicate how profound the judgment and how broad the comprehension of Solomon was before whom till apostacie had alien'd his God from him no difficulties were able to stand yet 't was not so admirable in Solomon that he amassed such incredible treasures as that he amassed them by Peacefull arts and not by the dint of his sword The tragicall exploits of Alexander and Caesar may be accounted magna splendida Latrocinia if they be compared to the feats of Merchandize exercised by Solomon and the other Kings of Tyre and Arabia and yet we may doubt too whether the spoile of the East to Alexander or of the West to Caesar were equall in value to all Solomons Cargazoons Whilest the cruell●d predations of war impoverish dispeople and by horrid devastations root up and so shrinke as it were great Empires into small Provinces Merchandise on the other side beautifies inriches impowers little States and so alters their naturall dimensions that they seem to swell as it were into spacious Empires This martiall Hero has inscribed upon his Statue that he has fought so many picht battells that he has ●●th his rapid lightnings spread a suddain conflagration over so many Kingdomes that with the losse of 100000 fellow Souldiers he has purchased the slaughter of 1000000 Enemies at least such as he would needs make and stile his Enemies But in the mean time that gentle unbloody Prince which by his severall dispersed Carricks visits each climate of the world onely to plunder the Earths caverns of her Mettalls or the Rocks of their Diamonds or the Deepe it self of its pearles merits to be celebrated for the common benefactor of mankind aswell for the necessaries which he convaies unto other Nations as for the more pretious wares which he recovers out of the darke abisse of nature and relades for the use of his own Subjects Howsoever this one instance of Solomon to lay aside all other instances of Princes that have engaged themselves in such like mercatorian negotiations makes it plain that the most Majesticall of all Kings that ever raigned was the most ample adventurer that ever traffickt and that he had not been so great a Prince if he had not been so ample a Merchant for it is more then probable that al the Tributes of Judea were inconsiderable in comparison of the returns which Tarshish did afford It must needs follow therefore from the same very instance that the devouring piraticall Trade of war is not so honourable or so fit to magnifie Princes and make happie Nations as that ingenious just Art of commerce which may be exercised without rigor or effusion of blood I shall then close up all with this application to our own Nation if Merchandise be truly noble if the raies which streamed so plentifull from Solomons diadem were more supplyde by traffick then by tribute let not England totally neglect Merchants Let us