Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	assemble_v	city_n	london_n	3,070	5	7.6466	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57391	The treasure of traffike, or, A discourse of forraigne trade wherein is shewed the benefit and commoditie arising to a commonwealth or kingdome, by the skilfull merchant, and by a well ordered commerce and regular traffike / by Lewes Roberts ...	Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.	1641 (1641)	Wing R1602; ESTC R15138	44,502	131

THE TREASURE OF TRAFFIKE OR A DISCOURSE OF FORRAIGNE TRADE Wherein is shewed the benefit and commoditie arising to a Common-Wealth or Kingdome by the skilfull Merchant and by a well ordered Commerce and regular Traffike Dedicated to the High Court of PARLAMENT now assembled BY LEWES ROBERTS Merchant and Captaine of the City of LONDON LONDON Printed by E. P. for Nicholas Bourne and are to be sold at his Shop at the South Entrance of the Royall Exchange 1641. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS and COMMONS IN THE High Court of PARLAMENT now assembled PArdon me Right Honourable if amongst your other more serious present affaires I presume to dedicate to your acceptance and perusall this short discourse of forraigne Traffike It hath ever beene accounted a branch of Englands Royall Stem and a commoditie that for many yeeres hath brought a wonderfull Revenue to Englands Diadem It now presseth to your presence as an agrieved weight laden with many setters imposed thereon by the covetousnesse of some and by the Envyers of our prosperous Traffike yet seeing that like religious Pilots you guide the helme of our Kingdome with your hand whilst your eyes are fixed on heaven taking from thence the conduct of your earthly directions it hopes by that your good and gracious aspect to be now freed from them all and florish againe in its fi●st lustre It is now about forty yeares since it began to be ingrafted in our English Climat and ever since found our soyle proper for i●s further grouth but if it find not your Honors favourable protection and future cherishing a few yeares more may see it withr●d and reduced to its first nothing I dare not undertake in this discourse to demonstrate the burthens that cloggeth it in this Kingdome the severall Societies of incorporated Merchants of the Citie of London being called before you will best particularise the same onely I have labour'd to shew what may best gaine it in those parts of this Kingdome where it is wanting and augment that portion thereof in those places where it is settled already Let not then Right Honorable so excellent a Jem and so hitherto profitable and eminent a revenew for want of a little of your helpe die in your dayes nor yet perish in our age but release it from those subtle Gives that cunningly have beene intruded upon its liberties and goes about to kill the root thereof decking it once againe as primarily with some of those lasting beautifull immunities that can and may make it live longer and spred it selfe much fairer that the times to come may deservedly attribute to your names and memory that splendor glory it shall obtain by your benignity so shall the King our gracious Soveraig●e have just cause to commend your care for your preserving to Himselfe and Kingdome this so noble a Royalty your Honours be justly applauded for imploying your industrious hands and heads in pruning and lopping the disordered branches of so excellent a graft and the Merchants of this Kingdome that have hitherto sowne in Expectation live in hope to reape a fruitfull crop of their foraigne adventures and hartily pray for the good successe of all your other weighty affaires and amongst the rest so shall ever ascend the devout Orisons of Your Humble Servant L. R. Merchant of London To The READER COurteous Readers It is needlesse for mee here to tell you how good a common wealths man a Regular merchant is nor yet trouble you in relating the severall benefits accr●●ing to a Kingdome by his adventrous paines and industry this short discourse though unpolished if well considered will I hope sufficiently speake the one and questionlesse make good the other My well-wishes to our Countries present Commerce and the enlargement thereof the great need in the encouragement to the one and the insensible ruine and decay of the latter was herein and still is my greatest hope and obiect I have lately discerned that our industrious Neighbours were ready at a deare rate to purchase that treasure by Traffike which wee our selves by means of the enviers of our Countreys foraigne Trade were ready to yeeld them gratis and as it were unsought and for nothing yet if it may be rightly said as undoubtedly it may be accounted that Englands trade is Englands treasure why should our gracious King and his people lose that so excellent a profit in a moment which cost his Merchants so many yeares to compasse and so many hazards and charges to obtaine and settle a few priviledges and a little protect on a faire aspect and a gentle encouragement from both these honourable assemblies will quickly settle this Kingdomes Traffike and not only preserve it in its present splendour but also easily augment and enlarge it w●i●h will adde a wonderfull honour to our Soveraigns Name throughout the World and an eminent commodity and profit to the subjects of all his Dominions which every true subiect I thinke doth earnestly wish for and every honest Merchant doth truly pray for as doth unfainedly Lewes Roberts Merchant and Captaine of the City of LONDON THE TREASURE OF TRAFFIKE THat we are not borne for our selves is a saying no lesse ancient then true the heathens as well as the Christians have held it a rule worthy to be practised and every good man of what quality and profession soever that will give evidence to the world of his faire intentions for the benefit either of the publike or private are daily seene to follow and observe it The religious Divine that with much labour and long study having learned himself the wayes of Godlinesse is daily noted to take care and pains to instruct others therein the valiant sould●er that weares hi sword to d●fend himselfe yet is ever ready to draw the same in defence of his Countrey the skilfull Lawyer that hath learned by the Lawes to make good his owne interest and right is ever also ready to right the title of others and the judicious Merchant whose labour is to profit himselfe yet in all his actio●● doth there with benefit his King Countrey and fellow Subjects Politicians that have written of State Government have observed three principall meanes wherby a Kingdome may be inriched the first whereof is by arms and conquest but this way must be confessed to be both chargeable bloody hazardable The second is by planting of colonies building of well scituated Townes and the like and this is also accounted uncertain chargeable and tedious But the third and last is by traffike and foraign trade which is held the most certain easiest and soonest way money and time must bee consumed to effect the two former but immunities priviledges and liberties to the Merchant wil not only assure but perfect the latter In the management of these there is required an orderly proceeding and Salomons counsell is the safest that his advice is stil to bee taken who is best versed in the way that is prescrib'd when