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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37552	The petition and remonstrance of the governovr and Company of merchants of London trading to the East-Indies, exhibited to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons, in the high court of Parliament assembled	East India Company.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1641 (1641)	Wing E100F; ESTC R31404	16,173	38

THE PETITION AND REMONSTRANCE OF THE GOVERNOVR And Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies exhibited to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons in the High Court of Parliament assembled DEVS INDICA London Printed for Nicholas Bourne 1641. THE HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE OF Those Reasons which the Governour and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East-India doe make upon the Quaeres that are annexed unto their Petition exhibited in the Honourable House of COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT And First Strength Whether it doth not much increase the strength of the Kingdom with mariners Warlike Shipping Ammunition and all necessary Arts-men thereunto belonging Whether it doth not greatly increase 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 when we had warre with the Portugals did imploy fifteene thousand tunnes of Shipping all at once either going or comming or Trading there from Port to Port but since upon good experience we find that so great a charge is neither necessarie for our defence nor comportable by the benefit of the Traffique untill some further Discoveries may be made in China or else-where as is hoped Neverthelesse according to the present times there may be imployed and maintained eight thousand tunnes of great and warlike Shipping besides two thousands tunnes more here in the Kingdome continually repayring for the next supply of those Voyages 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 use but more especially for the necessary wants of forraigne Nations which hath greatly encreased the number of our Warlike Ships to export them from hence into Turkie Italy the East Countries and other places For proofe whereof we instance some former-times when wee have brought into England above eight thousand bagges of Pepper from the Indies in one year and may do so againe if the Trade subsist Where this Kingdome doth not consume above one thousand and three hundred bagges per annum at the most So the rest are transported into forraigne Countries and the like may be said for Callicoes Indigo and some other Indian Wares ALl which additions of shipping unto our former strength by Sea before this Trade began doe imploy many of his Majesties subjects in sundry Arts to build and repaire the said ships together with the making of Ordnance Muskets Powder Shot Swords Pikes Cordage Canvas and other necessary Amunitions and provisions thereunto belonging besides a multitude of Mariners whereof many of them are shipped from hence Land-men or such as were not formerly used to the Seas but are bred and made good Mariners by these Voyages which otherwise at home being without Arts or maintainance are a heavy burthen to their friends and Country ANd if it be objected that this great encrease of shipping which is here declared is not alwayes in the Kingdome upon occasion of service the answer is That neither are the shippes of any other Merchants heere at home but some are going some are comming and ever the least part are in the Kingdome yet still wheresoever they are his Majesties subjects have by them their imployment and maintenance and the Kingdome aswell as the East-India Company have had their service For how famous are their exploits to all Nations How many rich Carracks have they suncke and spoyled How many assaults of Spanish Gallions have they withstood and foyled What slaughter of their souldiers sacke of their Townes subversion of their trades and such like honourable actions have they performed and all with little losse of ships or men It would require a large discourse to declare the particulars Neither doth the East-India Company commonly want two thousand Tuns of shipping or more heere in the Kingdome which are either in building or repayring together with all their Ordnance and other Warlike furniture besides their store-houses and Dock-yards plentifully provided with Timber Plancke Cordage Powder shot and many other necessary Ammunitions both for themselves and oftentimes to help others with such provisions as cannot elsewhere be found for money in this Kingdome THere is yet one common Objection but it is so weake that it scarse deserves an answer which is that this East-India Trade destroyes our shipping and Marriners when cleane contrary to this we have already shewed the great encrease of both and if men dye in these long voyages and ships by length of time be layd up either here or in the Indies yet what 's all this but natures course and that which happens here at home in our neerest Trades although with farre lesse noyse and notice How many brave Commanders have we bred from meane degree whereof divers are still in our service some at this present are found worthy good places in his Majesties Navie others being growne rich doe either keepe at home or follow shorter voyages but leaving these advantages wee doe answer all with this that whatsoever is pretended in the decay of shipping or death of men yet notwithstanding the Kingdome by this trade hath obtained no lesse increase or cleare addition both of the one and the other which continually subsist and are in action then is before declared Whether it doth not increase the generall stocke and wealth of the Kingdome Whether it be not a meanes to save the particular Subjects much money yearly in their ordinary expences upon all sorts of Indian wares Whether it doth not much increase his Majesties Customes and Imposts in the yearely revenue VVhether it is not a good meanes to improve the price of Lands Woolls Tynne Iron Lead and other the Wealth native commodities of this Kingdome Wealth VVhether the King and the Kingdome also have not gotten much by this Trade even in these late disastrous times when the Adventurers have lost great matters HEre wee have five Quaeres which must be all proved severally the first is generall wherein wee must consider how the whole Kingdome may be inriched by our Commerce with strangers the which to performe although it hath one the same rule in all the particular places of the Trade yet is not every Country alike profitable to this Common-wealth for the remotest Traffique is alwayes most beneficiall to the publique Stocke The places of our remotest Traffique are most profitable to the Common-wealth the example may be framed thus Suppose we therefore that Pepper were constantly worth 2. shillings the pound here in England if wee should then fetch the same from Holland the Merchant may pay there to the stranger twenty pence the pound out of this Kingdomes stocke and gaine well by the bargaine but if he fetch this Pepper from the East-Indies hee cannot