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A65081	An appeal to Caesar wherein gold and silver is proved to the Kings Majestie's royal commodity : which, by the lawes of the kingdom, no person of what degree soever but the Kings Majestie and his Privy Council can give licence to transport either gold or silver ... / by Tho. Violet ...	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing V580; ESTC R34727	48,995	59

to get a head destructive to mankind witness the late horrible Tragedies fomented and continued onely by the pleasure and power of the Merchants and the wealth of London The burnt Child dreads the fire I lost twentie thousand pounds by the late Rebellion which was hatched and kindled for the greatest part by those of London They surfeited with Plenty Riches and Trade the late Royall King Charles the first by his late Royall Fleets laid the Foundation of the Merchants of Londons greatness and reputation all over the World no Prince nor Commonwealth daring to injure the Merchants of London but the King with the first winde had his Royal Fleets in their Harbours to demand reparation to the Merchants content else their harbours debarred Trade The late glorious King got the envy of the Ship monies but never a penny of it in his Exchequer The Merchants of London got the profit advantage and security by Trading safely and the Seas scoured from Pyrates How unthankfully the Merchants required his Majesty was shown in this late Rebellion I speak not this that any should be punished but that they might be prevented for the future to do the same things again as they did this last seventeen years In King James and King Charles their raigns those good Kings was got into the Citie of Londons debt and to come out of it they did part with their Lands at half the value When Masters borrow Money of their Servants it makes them generally overvalue themselves and slight their Masters I hope in a few years his Majesty will be in that condition to lend the City of London money upon their Charter the like to the East India Company and other Companies to have their Lands bound This was King Henry the sevenths way he would alwaies have his Exchecquer full of money finding it to be the greatest security to prevent all mischief to have the King richer then his people In the year one thousand six hundred fourty seven your Royal Father being informed that many Members of Parliament and factious Citizens was transporting and packing away their estates in Gold beyond the Seas which these had in aboundance cozened the Kingdom of your Royal Father commanded me by one Mr. Francis Brogdou of London Gentleman on whom his Majesty constantly imploied to go between him and his loyal Subjects then Prisoners in the Tower This Mr. Francis Brogden brought me his Majesties your Royal Fathers pleasure that I should labour in the pretended Parliament-house to obtain a commission to discover the transporters of Gold and Silver but so that if I obtained it I should use my diligence to discover the Parliament-men and their factious Merchants of London to make them odious to the Kingdom that transported Gold and Silver out of the Nation I used my endeavour to make them publick to the World for several years to get this Commission to pass by the pretended Act of Parliament and it is well known to many of the then Parliament Sir James Harrington Fleetwood and several others but was particularly opposed by both the Ashes Allen Harvey Sir Henry Vane Strickland and many others of the Parliament and by swarms of Sectaries of the City of London which men had transported the Gold and Silver out of the Nation and therefore to be sure to have them within compass of the Law I caused a Gentleman to file in the Exchequer a hundred informations against the transporters of Gold and silver and to let them remain on record till your Majesties Royal Father did come to London this was about one thousand six hundred and fourty eight at that time being the hopes and prayers of all good men But God had decreed it otherwise by taking your Royal Father out of this World the World especially this unthankful Nation not being worthy of him so all things rested till your Majesties happy arrival in May 29. 1660. Concerning the transporting of Gold and silver though your Majestie hath pardoned the transporters of Gold till 29. May 1661. I humbly say your Majesty hath declared that for the future you will have all men conformable to your Laws without respect of persons if this rule be strictly observed your Majesty will never put this great business of transporting Gold and Silver to be at the Merchants will and pleasure least the same tumults and troubles be played over again by some Phanatick Merchants as they have done within twenty years your Majesty may as safely put a Sword into a Madmans hand or a Knife into a Childs as trust the Merchants to transport Gold or Silver without your Majesties licence after it is once landed TO THE KINGS most Excellent Majestie And to the most Honourable the LORDS of his MAIESTIES most Honourable PRIVY COVNCEL The Humble Petition of THO. VIOLET of London Goldsmith Most Dread Soveraign I Your Majesties most Humble and Loyall Subject for your Majesties service humblie pray that the East India and Persia Companie bring in their Charter whereby your Majestie and your Privie Councel will inform your selves by the Charter your Royall Father and Grand-Father passed with what priviledge they have granted them upon what conditions and restrictions 2. That your Majestie and your Privie Councel would be pleased to require an accompt of the East India and Persia-Companie of all the summes of monie Gold or Silver either Forrain or English which they have sent into India and Persia ever since July 1620. this is no new thing for they did in 1620. give an accompt and made it by their Books appear that from the Originall and first foundation of their Trade in Anno 1601 to July 1620. they had shipped awaie for India onelie 548090l sterling in Spanish monies and some Flemish and Germane Dollars which accompt was presented in Parliament at that time 3. Your Petitioner desires your Majesty to take notice that if the State in Parliament were then so carefull in times of peace and the Trade of the Nation flourishing to call the East India Company to an accompt for twentie years and to cause them to make their accompts plainly to appear by their Books for twentie years surely I humbly conceive your Majesties and your Privy Councell will exspect for the service of the Kingdom to have an exact accompt of all the Treasure the East India and Persia Companie have exported and to have them to Produce a just accompt what quantities of Gold or Silver they have bought in Holland and in other Forrein places immediately upon their proper accompt and what quantitie of English melted Silver in Bars they have bought of Gold smiths in London what quantities of Gold in Bars they bought of the Guinie and Barbarie Companies what quantities of English coined Gold they have sent into the East Indies and to Persia what quantities of Cardques Rix-Dollars Rials of Spain or any other Forrein Silver they have bought up in London of Merchants Goldsmiths or others which without the East India Company so buying

in your Majesty and Privy Council and the King Lords and Commons cannot be safe to suffer any other person upon any pretence whatsoever of the Crafty Merchant to have the disposals at their will and for their private lucre to have the power by Act of Parliament to transport Gold or Silver either to the Indies or other forraign Countries or to any part of Christendom Without your Majesties licence and order to take an exact account of what quantity of Gold or Silver is transported to what Country the Ship with the Ships masters name either to the Indies or any forraign Princes Country in Christendom or to any State or Commonwealth that so upon reasons of State they may either inlarg his Licences to the Merchant or straighten them according as the King and his Privy Council in their great wisdom shall think fit Your Majesty and Privy Council ever having regard that the Kingdome have alwayes such plenty of Gold and Silver as may be for the honour of the King and safety of the people and to maintain Trade and Comerce in the Kingdom to pay Rents Customs Excise and Subsidies to be a strength and an honour to the Kingdom and the King and his Privy Council to take the care to hinder Gold and Silver to be transported to the Kings enemies And of all and every part of these Heads and Branches and real Prerogatives in all Ages the King and none but the King and his Privy Council by Acts of Parliament are the onely proper Iudges at their will discretion and pleasure for the safety of the Kingdom and no other person whatsoever Upon the several Reasons of the Merchants to his Majesty and his privy Council and upon their petition and request the King can dispence with the penalty of the Law and give the Merchant licence to transport onely such quantities of Gold or Silver either forraign Coin or Ingots or the currant Coin of the Kingdom either in Gold or Silver as the King and his privy Council shall think fit for to carry on the Merchants trade in Christendom and out of Christendom to strengthen his Majesties friends and offend his foes and this is an undoubted right of his Majesties Crown and cannot be dispenced with or deposited into the Merchants hands or any other Subjects either Lords spiritual or temporal but to the dishonour of his Majesty and all the good people of the Kingdom I do humbly prove it true for these Reasons following If any person of what degree soever transport Gold or Silver without the Kings licence the Laws and Statutes heretofore hath made it Felony both for Bishops Noblemen or Commons as I shall shew by the St atutes hereafter following afterwards a praemunire and at this day forfeiture and imprisonment during the Kings pleasure viz. 9 Edward 3. 2 Henry 4 cap. 4 2 Henry 6 cap. 6. 18. Edw. 4 1 Henry 8. 5 and 6 of Edw. 6. When the Kings Majesty hath War with any Prince by the Law the King may prohibit the Merchant to export Corn Armes Ammunition to them or any other Commodities the Law provides the prohibiting the exportations of Wool Fullers earth and Timber as being destructive to the Nation Gold and Silver by the Law is free for any man to import at what place he please to land it without paying any Duty or Custome the reason whereof is that the Merchant is obliged to Coin it and upon the Coinage the King hath his duty paid but once being landed it cannot be transported but with leave from his Majesty or the forfeiture being taken and the party claiming the Gold and Silver so taken on shipboard to be committed to prison without Bail till the King or his privy Council please to discharge him This is the Law this the Custome before these mad Phanatick daies that we had no King in Israel And this in all Ages was the practice both in your Exchequer and the Star chamber for otherwise the Merchant for his private profit would send all the Gold and Silver out of the Nation and make the Kings proclamation wait upon the Merchants Exchange as at this day it is with the Gold The Merchants and some Goldsmiths have raised Gold above the Kings proclamation may it please your Majesty we want a Star chamber to punish them I humbly leave it to consideration no Gold to be had under one shilling six pence in twenty shillings more then silver I humbly pray an Act might pass this present Parliament against this abuse of the Gold Coin and several other abuses and cheats put on the Nobility and Gentry by the adulterating and undue making Gold and Silver Lace in London whereby the wearers are daily cozened by course flight adulterate Gold and Silver and by putting a slight body of Silver on a great threed of silk to the damage of this Nation above fifty thousand pound a year as I will prove it to your Majesty and your Privy Council and this is done for want of a Regulation of the Work-masters and Workmen in London that make Gold and Silver Lace without an Essay or Finenesse or proportion of Silver to Silk I humbly desire your Lordships to consider what a loss the King will have in his Customes to suffer Gold and Silver to be exported at the pleasure of the Merchant and pay no Custome here will be for the profit of particular Merchants a Trade driven both inwards and outwards and the King have neither Excise nor Custome for all the World knows Gold and silver payes no duty inwards it is free to be imported at the pleasure of the Merchant when and how and where he please for the reasons abovesaid And if you give the Merchant leave to transport the Gold and Silver freely he imports what is the King the better by this Trade of the Merchants either inwards or outwards let this be granted to the Merchants to send out Silver and Gold freely for their private profit and in a few years they will leave neither Gold nor Silver in the Nation May it please your Majesty It is profit that is some Merchants guide not honour nor the safety of the Nation and this is most apparent by some mens actions and demands touching this great businesse The King will lose in point of His Excise and Customs for if the Merchant invest his Silver and Gold in Merchandies the King hath thereby His Excise and Customs the King will lose in point of His Mintage if no money be coyned no profit by coynage this hath made the Mint a great part of their Work-houses fall down It is for the Kings honour to have His Kingdoms full of Gold and Silver for His and the Subjects defence And if this Fanatick project should take the King loses one of the principal prerogatives of His Crown and Dignity for those that have the command of the peoples purses have the principal part of the Militia This is a Common-wealth trick but tends to the