SOME CONSIDERATIONS ●umbly offered to the Honourable the House of COMMONS, by the Governor and Company of Merchants of England, Trading into the Levant Seas, touching the Bill, Entitled, A Bill for the further encouragement of the Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom.  
I. THat the Consumption of Broad Clothes in Turkey hath been of late years increased, from 14 or 15 Thousand, to 25 or 30 Thousand Clothes per Annum; and that this increase hath been chiefly effected by taking Raw-Silk and Mohair-Yarn in exchange for them: And if the consumption of Silk and Yarn be lessened in England, the consumption of English Cloth will be proportionably lessened in Turkey; for that Turkey doth not afford Commodities proper for England to be brought in returns, to a fourth part of the value of the Cloth sent thither, other than the aforesaid Commodities of Raw Silk, and Mohair-Yarn, of which two Commodities about three fourth parts of the value is in Silk, and one fourth part in Mohair-Yarn.  
II. That if we do not exchange our corpse Clothes for Silk and Mohair-Yarn, the Dutch will thereby have an opportunity (which they will certainly make use of, not only to introduce a Manufacture of corpse Cloth of their own; but also extremely to depress ours; and in a great measure gain the Manufacturing of Silk and Yarn, and supply England therewith.  
III. That it may be feared, the Grand Signior, taking notice of any restraint of the expense of his Native Commodities in England, may by way of Retaliation, prohibit the use of our Cloth in Turkey, which would be of very great damage to this Nation, Turkey being now the place of its greatest Consumption: And if corpse Clothes be not vended there, the Clothiers must decline the making them, and consequently corpse Wool lie on hand, and be of little use or value.  
iv That many Thousands of Families in this Kingdom do wholly subsist upon the Manufacturing of Silk and Mohair-yarn, who will be thereby thrown out of their Livelyhoods, and constrained to remove themselves into other Countries, and particularly into France, whether they are already invited by Promises of great Rewards. Whereas the Manufacturing of Silk and Mohair-yarn in England, doth daily bring over great numbers of Manufacturers from Foreign parts (who are generally Protestant's) to the great benefit of the Kingdom both in People and Wealth.  
V That the forbidding the wearing Silks in the Winter Season, doth in a great measure exclude the Manufacturing of Silk in England, because most of the English Fabrics being thick and substantial are fittest for the Winter Season: Whereas the thinner and slighter Silks that are worn in the Summer time, are brought in fully Manufactured from the East-Indies, and other Foreign Parts.  
VI That if this Bill shall pass into a Law, the Consumption of Spanish Wool, may be augmented; but in no proportion to recompense the loss which the English Wool will sustain thereby; because the Wearers of Silks and Chamblets being generally persons of better Quality, will probably only wear Garments made of Spanish Cloth: