Reasons against the Exportation of wool.  
1. BEcause it is expressly contrair to Our Laws and Act of Parliament, Ja. 6. P. 7. C. 113 p. 12. C. 129. P. 15. C. 250. Car. 2. p. 11. Ses. 1. C. 40. p. 3. C. 12,  
2. It is contrair to the practise of other well governed Nations, as England especially, who by strict prohibition of the Exportation of wool, have made themselves Masters of the Manufactory of Woollen clothes; which is the chief prop of their Riches and power.  
3. It is the Interest of all Nations; especially of these who have many idle hands, to Manufacture their Native Product; so that thereby, when it is Exported, it may Produce a greater Return, than the Native Product could do, if not Manufactured; and several Manufacturies of Wool, will exceed the value of the wool, not Manufactured by 3. 4, 5, &c. Yea, to 10, or 20. times the value, all which is so much loss to the Nation, if the wool be Exported not Manbfactured.  
4. A multitude of hands will want work, and consequently Meat, and so must starve; as many Thousands in Scotland have, since the wool was Exported.  
5. Without this, we have not Goods exportable to the value of the Goods imported; and consequently the Nation must fall into Decay, and in a short time be exhausted, and all our money must be drained, to make a balance twixt the Export and Import; whereas by prohibiting the Export of our own wool, all the people, who are willing to work it, will be employed, and subsist; the idle will be encouraged to work, the wool will return 3. 4, 5. times its value, yea, o●tentimes 10. valves and more; ●nd t●e money now sent abroad, for Manufactured Wool, will be keeped at home, or employed on an other Trade when foreign Wollen Manufacturie is prohibited to be imported, Audit Native Wool either be altogether, or most part Exported, it is probable, if not certain, that the third part of the Nation must go Naked.  

Objections against the prohibition of Exportation of Wool.  
1. OBjection, It is unjust and Tyrranical, and an Encroachment on the property of the the Subject, to impede his using of his own, and to put a restraint on the Export of one Native Product more than any other Ex. Gra. to prohibit Exportation of wool, more than of Victual, Fish, &c. is unequal and unjust.  
Answer, It is a good office in magistrates, to hinder any person to abuse their own 〈◇〉 yea, by legal and honest methods to induce and oblige every man to make a good use of his own, and the Commonwell or patria hath an Interest and Title, in all the persons within the Commonwealth, and in all the Goods belonging to them; and thereby a transcendent Title over our Persons and Estates; when the Common and Universal Good requires, either to preserve from evil, or to do good; but so it is, that to Export Native commodity( as wool) before it be Manufactured hath all the evils in it, mentioned in the Reasons against the Exportation thereof, and the Manufacturing of Wool, before it be Exported, will employ many idle Hands, and feed many hungry Bellies, and double or quintuble the value of Export; and therefore the Magistrates had good right or rather are obliged, to prohibit the Export Unmanufactured. And the Magistrates thereby may oblige the Havers of the wool, to Manufacture it themselves, or to give it to those of the Country who will do it, for the advantage of the Commonwell.  
So the wool is not prohibited to be Exported, but the Exportation is only stopped till the Owner of the wool, or some other Scotsman, make its Export much more valuable, and advantageous to the Nation. Therefore none must be Exported, until it be Manufactured. The Owner may Manufacture it: if he will not, Scotland must not loss that adavantage for his neglect. But still the wool is Exported( if Unmanufactured) at a single value; if Manufactured, at a double, perhaps at more.  
Th● Parallel betwixt the Freedom of Exporting Victual, and the Exporingt of Wool, is altogether i●epte, if not worse; for tho both be native Products, yet the Wool may undergo many kinds of Manufactory before it be Exported; which will render its Export much more Beneficial to the Nation; but Victual cannot be so Manufactured, as that by the Export of it, the Nation may be Advantaged: But on the contrair. The same is to be said of Fish, Flesh, &c. all which cannot be brought in parallel with any Native Product, that can be Manufactured with Advantage for Export.  
2. object, The Nation cannot consume the Native Product of Wool.  
Ans. It is above a 100 years, since the Export of Wool was Prohibited; and it is within this 14. years, that any considerable quantity of Wool was Exported, so that for a 100 years, the Wool of the Nation was Manufactured within the Nation, and yet the Number of People, and the Trade of the Nation is rather Increased, than Decreased; So if it was Manufactured then; much more now. 2. The Prohibition of the Import of any Wool Manufacture, will necessitate the greater consumpt at Home. 3. It's the public Interest, that the Subjects be necessitate to work and travail for the Common-Good and if the Wool cannot be Exported, People will work it, for so England did force their People, into that great and excellent Manufactory of Woollen Cloath.  
3. Object. The Workers of Wool will set the dice on Sellers to the Sellers Loss.  
Ans. If any Person, or a few Persons in the Nation had the sole privilege of Manufacturing of Wool; This Argument might infer the prescription of a Price, but would not prove, that the magistrates should not hinder the Export until it were Manufactured: But since there is no such Monopoly of the manufacture, the Danger is imaginary; for all having liberty to work, the Price of the Manfactured Goods, whither they be consumed in the Country, or vented by Export, will always give a Law, and Regulate the Price of the Wool in a just proportion, and still there is no impediment on the Owners of the Wool to Manufacture it themselves, or to have People to do it for them.  
4. Ob. Why should not Scots Men give as much to the Sellers of Wool, as others do?  
Ans. Since Wool may be Manufactured to a great Advantage, it's the magistrates Interest and Duty to make Scots Men to have that Gain: especially since there are some Scots Men that want Work and Provision; and likewise to foresee what designs foreigners may have, in advancing the Price of our Wool Ex. Gr. if rhey see, that foreigners would have that Manufactory taken from among our People; that they might give it to their own People, and thereby to Feed their People, whilst ours would Starve; and enhance to themselves, the Value of the Manufacturing; which may be five or six times the Value of the Wool: and deprive the Nation thereof: and for that end, it may be very probable that a wise Nation will Double, yea Triple the Valne of the Wool, for a while; that thereby they may once bring the Manufactory to their own hands; and either Starve, or dissipate our Workmen; that thereafter rhey may oblige us to Sell the Wool to them, at their pleasure; after we have uncapacitated ourselves, to Manufacture it at home; as it is said both the French, and Swedish Kings do at present, in this very matter; On this Foresight, it were the Duty of the Scots magistrates, to disappoint the foreigners Design, which would be so Destructive to this Nation; and to hinder the Wool Sellers from a temporary Gain; with the same Justice, that he should hinder our Corn to be Exported to Feed foreigners, whilst the People at Home were Starving by that Export.  
Ob. That the Prohibition of the Export of Wool will deprive the Nation of an advantageous Trade, viz. of Exporting the English Wool to France, and other places.  
Ans. The Advantage by Exporting of English accresses to a very few, and very little knowing Persons; Whereas the Loss by export of our own Wool is National: 2. The total of that Gain will come to no great Sum, and will not by many Thousand times balance the Loss we can have by the exportation of our own Wool. 3. Under the pretence of exporting English Wool, our own Wool will be carried away. 4. This Objection contradicts the Wool Sellers their own strongest objecting, viz. That Scotland cannot consume our own Wool, and that foreigners gives a great Price for our Wool, which( as they say) will be a great Loss; now if we export English Wool to these places they will care the less for our Wool, and if we have more Wool then we can consume, then we should Manufacture it, and sand it abroad: But if we Furnish these places with English Wool they will make Manufacturie to themselves, and not care for our Manufactorie. And this is so sad a Truth, that as the exporting of our own Wool hath Sta●ved our Work People, and Furnished Wool to foreigners to hinder their buying of our own Goods; So the exporting of English Wool makes the foreigners both the less need our Wool and Manufacturie, and particularly, Swedden has set up Manufacturies of the Wool we sell to them, and lately clothed a whole Regiment at Stockholm with it, at which there was a public rejoicing as at a new Conquest; But yet that very Cloath cost them thrice the Value of what foreign Cloath did cost there. But the King did Repair that Loss to them to encourage them to persist, well knowing that in short time when we had lost the Manufacturie, they could set the Dytes upon our Wool; It is a Demonstration of their Prudence, and our Folly.  
Albeit we had no regard for England, yet for our own sake, we should not Export their Wool to furnish foreign Manufacturie, especially if it be true that we have more, Wool of our own than we can consume; for we should desire that foreigners had no Wool carried to them, that so they might buy our Manufacturie.  
The truth is we should rather Import English Wool not to Export it in Wool, But t● Manufacture it first and then to Export it.  
Yet the Wool Sellers will not at present allow us this advantage, for a pretended Fear that Scotland cannot Manufacture all its own Wool. This I do not believe, because Scotland hath for many Years Manufuactured all its own Wool, when foreign Wool Manufacturies was abundantly Imported, and therefore cannot but do so now when all foreign Wool Manufactories is Prohibit.  
I little d ubr but that a short Experience will show that we may Import English Wool, without loss to our own, because we will have Hands enough to work all our own, and all that we steal from England beside, but our Wool Sellers fears hinders us at present, until a Year or two's Expense convince them and the Nation.