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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87183	The compleat tradesman, or, The exact dealers daily companion instructing him throughly in all things absolutely necessary to be known by all those who would thrive in the world and in the whole art and mystery of trade and traffick : and will be of constant use for all [brace] merchants, whole-sale men, shopkeepers, retailers, young tradesmen, countrey-chapmen, industrious yeomen, traders in petty villages, and all farmers and others that go to countrey fairs and markets, and for all men whatsoever that be of any trade, or have any considerable dealings in the world / composed by N.H., merchant in the city of London.	N. H.	1684 (1684)	Wing H97; ESTC R42683	85,604	194

sufficient Mens Sons put Apprentices to this Trade Secondly Because the Shop-keeping Trade is an easie life and thence many are induced to run into it and there hath been no Law to prevent it or if there be any it hath been very slackly executed which maketh very many like a mighty Torrent fall into it which hath been verified for several years past by many Husbandmen Labourers and Artificers who have left off their Working Trades and turned Shop-keepers And of Quakers great numbers of late years are become Shop-keepers for if a man that hath been very meanly bred and was never worth much above a Groat in all his life do but turn Quaker he is presently set up in one Shop-keeping ' Trade or other and then many of them will compass Sea and Land to get this New Quaking Shop-keeper a Trade And if he be of a Trade that no other Quaker is of in the Town or Village then he shall take all their Money which they have occasion to lay out and expend in his way their custom being to sell to all the World but they will buy only of their own Tribe Insomuch that it is conceived by some wise men that they will in a short time engross the whole Trade of the Kingdom into their hands And then again there are some of the Silk-Weavers but more of the Clothiers that deal in as many it not far more Commodities than any Shop-keeper doth that hath been Apprentice to his Trade for they sell not only the Cloath that they make but Stuffs Linnen and many other things and have such ways to put off their Commodities which the Shop-keeper hath not for they will truck them off for Shoes with the Shoe-maker for Candles with the Chandler and sometimes with the Butcher for Meat and will make their Work-folks to take the same for their Work although there be an express Statute against it and then these Work-folks will fell the same again for money to buy such necessaries which they want And it is not much better with them of the City of London for there are many that do live in a Chamber that do take twice as much money as many Shop-keepers do who pay four times the Rent that they do so that it cannot be imagined what an innumerable company of Shop-keepers are in every place and such practices as these have utterly impaired all Shop-keeping Trades in this Kingdom which are Grievances never suffered in former times being against the common good of the People of this Nation and it 's desired they were speedily redressed for these following Reasons First Because the Shop-keeping Trade is both a convenient and easie way for the Gentry Clergy and Commonalty of this Kingdom to provide for their younger Sons that so the Bulk of their Estates may go to the Eldest For there are few younger Sons who are Tradesmen that have much above one years Revenue of their Fathers Estate for their Patrimony Now these being kept close to business is the time of their youth many of them come to be sober and industrious men and with this small Portion to live a little answerable to the Family from whence they descended being serviceable in their Generation both to their King and Country and many times keep up the Name and Grandeur of their Family when their Eldest Brother by his vitious and intemperate Life hath lost it And oftentimes it proveth advantageous to their Daughters too for it doth frequently happen when the Gentry die that they leave but small Portions to their Daughters scarce sufficient to prefer them to Gentlemen of great Revenues parallel'd to their Families yet nevertheless may be thought worthy and deserving of Tradesmen who are the younger Sons of Gentlemen and by their Matching with such as those do come to live a little suitably to their Birth and Breeding Indeed the Inns-of-Court and the Universities must be acknowledged to be both of them places fit for the preferment of younger Sons but every one hath not a Genius capable of learning those Noble yet abstruse Sciences there taught and profess'd who notwithstanding are capable enough of a Shop-keeping Trade Besides if every one were fit for either of these yet they would not suffice to receive a third part even of this sort of Youth and then what should be done with the rest should they be brought up to no Employment but he left to the Extravagancy of their youthful Lusts to commit such Impieties and Debaucheries which may justly entitle tham to the Compellations given by Augustus Caesar to his lewd Children viz. to be called The Botches and Boyls of their Family As it is observable in those Countries where the Gentry disdain to place forth their Children to Trades who therefore turn very dissolute and vicious and no way serviceable in times of peace in their Generation either to their King or Country where they live Secondly Because Shop-keepers by reason of their Education were never used to labour and should their Trades be destroyed by these means they will not know how to maintain themselves and their Families but they that have been bred to work they may labour in any other Employment if that to which they have been bred will not maintain them Thirdly Because this hath rendred the Shop-keeping Trade to be unprofitable like unto many unstinted Commons that no body is the better for Now where there is no Order or Rule there must be Confusion as it is in Trades at this time and yet there is Order and Rule observed in other Vocations and why not so in this The Minister must not preach until he is Ordained the Lawyer must not plead before he is called to the Bar the Chyrurgeon must not practise before he hath his License neither can the Midwife practise before she hath her License too And therefore why should any set up a Shop-keeping Trade before they have been made free of the same This is one Reason why so few Apprentices after they come out of their time do get into the World or can make any benefit of their Trades wherein it concerneth all whatsoever whether Gentlemen or Clergymen to be very sollicitous for the preservation of this way of life which is so conducing to the preferment of their Children Fourthly Because it will cost a round Sum of Money before a Child can be setled in any Shop-keeping Trade First to breed him at School and to make him fit for the same 2. To place him forth to the said Trade when he is fit which will cost in a Country Market Town not less then fifty or sixty Pounds but in London upwards of an hundred so that these Trades do seem to be purchased and that not only with Money by the Parents but with a Servitude also by the Son Therefore as I conceive they ought to have the properties of their Trades confirmed unto them even as other men have the properties of their Lands confirmed unto them That

part thereof again with them 7. If Cities and Market-Towns be impoverished and depopulated for want of Trade the Kingdom may then be obnoxious to its Enemies upon all occasions For these use to be the Fence and Bulwarks of a Country insomuch that in some other Countries they are so far from admitting of Tradesmen to live in Villages that their Gentry do not live there but in the great Cities and Towns by which means they have greater Towns than we generally have and most of their Towns are walled and so are not only able to resist an Enemy but also upon all occasions to succour and save those that shall fly unto them Furthermore the Kings of England have been always furnished with men for their Wars out of the Cities and Market-Towns of this Kingdom and the greater Trade there is in any place the more people commonly there are in that place Therefore it concerns this Kingdom to have Trade promoted and encouraged in Cities and Market-Towns that so we might have people enough at all times to resist an Enemy that shall oppose us Besides poor and beggerly Cities and Market-Towns are a very great disparagement to a Country but the contrary is a great honour For what more graceful to a Kingdom than the many rich and wealthy Cities and Towns therein for this reason as well as for all those already mentioned all Persons that are of publick spirits should do all they can to advance them by encouraging of their Trade and no one way can do it more effectually than to suppress those that do take their Trades from them And as Shop-keepers in Villages are a very great injury to Market-Towns in the Country even so are they to the City of London that have since the fire set up in Covent-Garden and on that side of the City by which means many of the Houses and Shops are not tenanted and those which are the Rents of them are exceedingly fallen and all this is for want of the Trade that they had formerly Now considering what a renowned City that is both for Government for Trade and for stately Edifices that it 's thought there is not the like in the whole World and considering the great charge that they have been at in the rebuilding of it it is very requisite that they should be encouraged as much as may be and that their Trade should not be taken may by such ways and means as these are Now there are some Trades whose Commodities are such that it would be very little more trouble for any one to go into the City to buy them than to go to Covent-Garden such as Woollen or Linnen-Cloth Stuffs or Hangings for Rooms or Plate or the like If then all such Trades were prohibited from setting up on that side of the City it would presently fill their Shops and Houses with People and their City with Trade I had thought to have treated here how the Shop-keepers are inconvenienced to get in their small debts which cannot be done any way without putting the People concerned to three times more charges than the debts are which is likewise a great hinderance to the poor as well as unto them but this I shall omit CHAP. XVI Of Pedlars and petty Chapmen THese are such that do proffer Wares to sale by Retail either by crying it in Cities and Market Towns or by offering it from door to door all about the Country and which do greatly add to the number of Shop-keepers for they carry their Shops at their backs and do sell more that way than many Shop-keepers do in their Shops which is not only a prejudice unto them but if they are suffered will in time be the utter ruine of all the Cities and Market Towns in England for of late there is not any Commodity to be named and that can be any way ported but that the Pedlar doth carry all about the Country to sell that people after awhile will have little or no occasion to come to the Cities or Market Towns for any thing This also was not wont to be formerly and ought not to be now as will appear if it be considered how much in these following particulars the Shop-keepers are beneficial to the Commonwealth of this Kingdom and in how few of these the Pedlars are beneficial unto the same 1. The Shop keepers do bear a very great proportion in all the Taxes of this Kingdom whether Parochial or National but the Pedlars do pay but little or no Taxes at all and if in Taxes they were to bear no more proportion than the Pedlars it may be quaeried whether or no Taxes might be so easily gathered 2. The Shop-keepers do bear likewise all manner of Offices whether Parochial or National which are very expensive unto them but Pedlars bear no Offices at all 3. The Shop-keepers do pay great Rents for the houses that they live in which are more certain Rents to the Gentry than their Lands but the Pedlars pay little or no Rent at all for most of them do lye in Barns And if the Rents should fall in Cities and Market Towns in England as they do in most places especially in the City of London they are never like to be rais'd again by Pedlars 4. The Shop-keepers do keep good Houses and do relieve the Poor at their doors spending abundance of meat and other of the Farmers Commodities in their Families for which they do always pay ready money But the Pedlars are so far from being beneficial to the Commonwealth in this particular that they are burthensom unto the same for they beg the most part of their Victuals and the Country people when the men are in the Field and there hath been none at home but Women and Children have been forced to relieve them for fear of being mischieved by them 5. They and their Families do wear out abundance of Cloths which doth promote the Trade of the Nation but it is very little advance of any Trade that the Pedlars do make herein for their Cloths do differ little from Beggars and did they wear better yet they could not wear out much because few of them have Families to do it 6. The Shop-keepers Trade is esteemed creditable enough for the preferment of the best mens Sons in the Kingdom next unto the Nobility but so is not the Pedlars Trade for surely sufficientmen would disdain to have their Sons Pedlars and to wander about the Country like Vagabond Rogues as they do 7. The Shop-keepers being sufficient mens Sons and being soberly and religiously Educated they come to have for the most part of them such principles in them that they detest to use any indirect way in their dealings And if they had not this inward principle yet the consideration how prejudicial any such thing would be unto them in their Trades by reason of their fixed Habitations doth make them to do that which is right and just in their dealings But neither of these can rationally sway