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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48551	The humble representation of Samuel Lambe of London merchant	Lambe, Samuel.	1658 (1658)	Wing L228; ESTC R216134	5,437	5

it by stretching that with the overplus of measure they are enabled to undersell our true made cloth at Market which is dyed and drest in England So they buy our Tynne part of which they make into Pewter for their own use and to sell again in other Countries as formerly to our plantations and the rest they cast again and mix it with an Allay of Lead and send it into other Countries by which meanes they so undersell our fine Tynne The Remedy First for the Lead If a Bank were setled in England it would so much increase the Generall stock that the English would buy it themselves at the cheapest season and so hinder strangers buying it or keep the market at a certain price and then we could not be undersold in it abroad Secondly for our Tynne If the Merchant the Pewterer and the Tynner be consulted with much more may be manufactured at home into pewter and much lesse sent abroad in kind except what is sent into Turky by the English Merchants Fiftly for our Fishing The wonderfull providence of Almighty God storing our Seas with severall kindes in the respective Seasons of the year for the sustenance of mankind may condemn us of slothfullness if not ingratitude for so great blessings when our Neighbours make so great advantage of it beyond our selves that it proves to them as our Draperies used to do to us viz. as the West Indies to the King of Spain and an East Indies to the Dutch bringing home with the proceed thereof out of severall Countries from Archangell to the Gulfe of Venice sundry sorts of Commodities bought at the best hand and selling them again in other Countries at the best price This noble and profitable work I have heard long talke of but is not yet undertaken peradventure by reason of our Domesticke Broiles but chiefly I conceive through want of a good Stock to begin The Remedy First a considerable joynt Stock should be raised and managed as the East-India Company doth theirs with fitting Orders and Priviledges for their Government and Encouragement which with Gods blessing will prove very advantageous to the Nation in generall by increasing Shipps and Mariners employing many people therein and profitable to the Adventurers in particular my selfe having gained clear above two of one within one year dealing therein and Vessells enough for the worke may be built in New-England cheaper than in Old and save Timber here Secondly in the mean time that no duty be imposed upon Fish now taken and shipt beyond Seas by the English Merchants And that all Fish be transported in English Ships sailed onely with Englishmen Sixtly for Coles The great blessing of God to this Nation hath made the very Bowells of the Earth aswell as the Waters to yeild us Treasure if we do but stretch forth the hand to receive it and improve it to our advantage this being so usefull a Commodity that some places in England cannot well subsist without them and so much desired in many Countries abroad for their especiall usefullness that their necessities also cannot well want them aswell those of Scotland as of Newcastle and Sunderland The Remedy That as a greater duty is layd on those transported than on those spent within our selves so none should be transported but in English Ships sailed onely with English men Seventhly for our Trading Shipping The losses of our great Ships tradeing to the Southward by the French before the Peace And the losse of some such besides many lesser Ships since the Spanish Warre And so few built in lieu thereof doth manifest a very great decay of Trading Shipping in generall besides the losse every one feels in his particular that is concerned therein Therefore to strengthen us and build up the Walls of our Land again to keep off a Foreigne Enemy ought to be the true endeavour of every Englishman that is well affected to his Native Countrey and to deny himselfe the hope of a small profit irregularly gain'd which doth enrich and strengthen another Nation and weaken and impoverish his own by subtilly contriving how to undermine and abuse the intent of the law for increase of Navigation The Remedy To enlarge the sayd Act and make it more severe also to employ onely English Marriners and Ships wholly belonging to Englishmen in the two last trades mentioned Eighthly for the Spanish Trade at present Although it is believed that that trade in time of Peace did vent more English Manufactures and did employ as much trading shiping as any one Countrey yet it is as certain that the Spaniards since the Warre have strictly prohibited all English Manufactures within his Dominions So that those few that are sold by connivance go off at a lower rate than formerly and not without danger And those Spanish Goods imported bought at a dearer rate than usually and colourably brought in Dutch Shiping to the impoverishing our selves and enriching of our Enemies many scores of thousand pounds this last yeare The Remedy is short That as the Spaniard hath prohibited English Manufactures so we may prohibit Wine and Fruit if not all Spanish Goods till a Peace be made Ninthly touching a Banke I have in my Seasonable observations shewed some of the benefits the Dutch have received by the help of their Banks the prejudice we receive by their Banks and the good we may doe our selves by setling them in England which are very many and exceedingly usefull and advantagious to trade supplying the want of Money and encreasing the Stock of a Nation also helpfull to many great undertakings by means whereof the Dutch have grown to such greatnes and riches which is beleived they have gained by our losse The Remedy Is to settle one at London to countermine them in all their tricks and devices in governing Exchanges and Trade which I have in part described and have also the Orders of their Banks to produce when called thereunto Tenthly touching a Court of Merchants Which may be also a Councell or Committee for Trade to continue aswell in the Intervalls as during the Session of Parliaments And if it be thought fit to choose such a one as I have described in my Proposalls for a Banke I humbly conceive it may be as great an advantage to Trade for the future as hitherto it hath been hindred for want of one in England Our neighbours have found such benefit thereby as they are unwillng to be without one aswell for their Advice in regulating Trad as for their speedy determining Controversies among Merchants with small charge who now are often hindred in their trades if not undone by following the Law at great cost and charges The Remedy Is to settle one at London a Modell whereof I have ready to produce when called thereunto To the Honorable the Grand Committee for Trade siting in the Parliament-House at Westminster The humble Petition of Samuel Lambe of London Merchant Humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner lately presented to the Honorable Members of this present Parliament a Booke touching increase of Shipping and trade entituled Seasonable Observations And your Petitioner understanding that the Members of this Honorable Committee are the same Members of Parliament which received the said Booke a Breviate whereof is hereunto annexed with Remedies to every Inconvenience mentioned therein which your Petitioner contrived for the Publicke good and for the better carrying on of so good and publique a worke He humbly craves your advice and furtherance therein being willing to be guided by such Order as in your grave wisdomes shall seeme meet And he shall humbly shew his Reasons thereunto when required And your Petitioner shall pray c. Friday the Fourth of March 1658. At the Grand Committee for Trade ORDERED M. Knightly in the Chaire THat the Sub-Committee to whom it is referred to bring in a Bill or Bills to prevent the Transportation of Wooll Woollfells c. be revived and do meet to morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon at the Treasury Chamber The humble Petition and Representation of Mr. Samuell Lambe of London Merchant was this day read ORDERED THat the Paper and Representation of Mr. Samuell Lambe of London Merchant be referred to the consideration of the said Sub-Committee and that Mr. Samuell Lambe do attend the said Sub-Committee Ordered that Sr. Tho. Dickenson Mr. Topham Mr. Slingsby Bethell Captain Lilborne Sr. Robert Honywood Mr. Ramsden Mr. Marshall Mr. Vincent Mr. Foley Coll. Morley Mr. Long. Mr. Minors Mr. Creston Mr. LLoyd Mr. Delves Mr. Jackson Mr. Collins Mr. Thompson Mr. Jones Mr. Bence Alderman Rich. Mr. Herle Mr. Bankes Mr. Thompson Mr. Higgins Colonell Gibbon Mr. Biddulph Mr. Kendall Mr. Boscawen Be added to the Sub Committee touching Wooll and Woollfells FINIS