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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21084	The petition and remonstrance of the Gouernor and Company of Merchants of London, trading to the East Indies exhibited to the Honorable the House of Commons assembled in Parliament. Anno 1628.	East India Company.	1628 (1628)	STC 7449; ESTC S100234	17,919	44

THE PETITION AND REMONSTRANCE OF THE GOVERNOR And Company of Merchants of LONDON Trading to the East Indies Exhibited to the Honorable the House of COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT Anno 1628. Printed at LONDON for NICHOLAS BOVRNE 1628. TO THE HONORABLE THE HOVSE OF COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the Gouernor and Company of Merchants of London Trading to the East Indies Humbly shewing THat whereas by the speciall industry and great Charges of divers Merchants of London and others of his Maiesties Subiects the Trade to the East Indies was begunne now twentie eight yeares past and hath beene ever since continued by a Company of all degrees of persons in this Kingdome incorporated vnder the royall Charters of the late Queene Elizabeth and King Iames of blessed memory which haue beene since ratified and confirmed by the Kings most excellent Maiesty that now is with such priviledges and immunities as are therein at large conteined whereby many and sundry Voyages haue beene performed into those remote Countries with good successe and great gaine vntill of late yeares some evill Encounters not onely of the Seas and enemies but more especially the vndue proceedings and actions of our professed friends and Allies haue infinitely damnified the said Traffique which otherwise might haue prospered and growne much better even as it is by time and industrie greatly inlarged and discovered for a more ample Vent and Consumption of our Cloath and other our natiue Commodities Neverthelesse the afore-written disasters and the carring of forreigne Coines out of this Kingdome into the Indies haue begot such causelesse Complaints in the mouths of many his Maiesties Subiects of all degrees and in all places of the Realme that the Adventurers are thereby much discouraged to Trade any longer vnder the evill censure of the multitude desiring nothing more then to obteine their private wealth with the publique good Therefore the petitioners humbly pray this Honorable House to take the annexed Articles or any others into your most graue wise consideration that so if vpon the due examination of the same the said trade be found vnprofitable to the Common-wealth it may be SVPPRESSED And if otherwise that then it may be SVPPORTED AND COVNTENANCED BY SOME PVBLIQVE DECLARATION for the satisfaction of all his Maiesties Subiects and better encouragement of the present Adventurers or any others who thereby might be the more forward and willing to adventure their Estates in a businesse of such consequence when they shall know that it hath obteined such great and honorable approbation Queres vpon the Trade to the East Indies Strength WHether it doth not much increase the strength of this Kingdome with Marriners Warlike-Shipping Ammunition and all necessarie Arts-men thereunto belonging Whether it doth not greatly increase the generall traffique of this Kingdome not onely as it is a very ample trade of it selfe betweene England and the Indies but also as it is an ample Staple or Magazine of many rich Indian wares to send from hence into other forreigne Countries Wealth Whether it doth not increase the generall Stocke and wealth of the Kingdome Whether it be not a meanes to saue the particular Subjects much money yearly in their ordinarie expences vpon all the sorts of Indian wares Whether it doth not much increase his Majesties Customes and Imposts in the yearely revenue Whether it be not a good meanes to improue the price of Lands Woolls Tynn Iron Lead and other the Natiue commodities of this Kingdome Whether the King and the Kingdome also haue not gotten much by this Trade even in these late disasterous times when the Ad-venturers haue lost great matters Safetie Whether it be not a meanes greatly to weaken the KING of SPAINE and his Subjects and to exhaust their Treasure Whether it be not a meanes to counterpoize the HOLLANDERS swelling greatnes by trade and to keepe them from being absolute Lords of the Seas if they may driue vs out of this rich traffique as they haue long endeavoured to performe both by pollicie and force Treasure Whether it be not the best meanes wee haue to increase the Treasure or Money of this Kingdome Honour Whether it be not an honour sutable to the Majestie of so great a King and Kingdome THE HVMBLE REMONSTRANCE OF THOSE REASONS which the Gouernour and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East India doe make vpon the Queres that are annexed vnto their Petition exhibited vnto the Honourable House of COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT And First Whether it doth not much encrease the strength of the Kingdom with Marriners Warlike Shipping Amunition and all necessary Arts-men there vnto belonging Whether it doth not greatly encrease the generall Traffique of the Kingdome not onely as it is a very ample Trade of it selfe betweene England and the Indies but also as it is an ample Staple or Magazine of many rich Indian wares to send from hence into other forraigne Countries THE Trade to the East Indies some few yeares past did imploy fifteene thousand tunns of Shipping all at once either going or comming or Trading there from Port to Port but since vpon good experience wee finde that so great a Charge is neither necessarie for our defence nor comportable by the benefit of the Traffique vntill some further Discoueries may be made in China or else-where as is hoped Neuerthelesse according to the present times there is and may be imployed and maintained tenn thousand tunns of great and warlike Shipping besides three thousand tunns more now here in the Kingdome repayring for the next Supply of those Voyages THe said Shipping doe imploy two thousand and fiue hundred Marriners wherof one third part at least are shipped from hence Land-men or such as were not formerly vsed to the Seas but are bred and made good Marriners by these Voyages which otherwise at home being without Arts or maintenance are a heauie burthen to their friends and Country THis Trade as it is thus great in it selfe so doth it yet further enlarge our Traffique and strength by furnishing this Kingdome with all sorts of Indian wares not onely for our owne vse but more especially for the necessary wants of forraigne Nations which hath greatly encreased the number of our Warlike Shippes to export them from hence into Turky Italy the East Countries and other places For proofe whereof wee instance the last yeare when wee brought in Pepper from the Indies to the value of two hundred and eight thousand pounds sterling whereof one hundred and fourescore thousand pounds was within few weekes after Shipped or sould to be transported into forraigne Countries the like is done with Indico either in the same kinde it is brought in or else after wee haue gotten the benefit of the manufacture in the dye of our Clothes and so likewise of Callicoes and divers other rich Wares in so much that wee may boldly affirme that by these exportations as from a Staple Magazine of Indian Commodities for divers