REASONS Humbly offered for Preventing The Exportation of Wool, And for Encouraging A FREE TRADE IN English Woollen Manufacture TO lander, Brabant, Zealand, Holland, West and East Friezland, Germany, Switzerland, and Hungary.  
EVery Nation beyond the Seas encourage the Exportation of their own Commodities, and their Markets are open and free for all Buyers, because they every themselves thereby. And certainly it is the Interest of this Nation to prohibit the Exportation of Wool, and to invite all Persons to Buy and Export the Woollen Manufacture of England; for that a Pound of Wool, when wrought, yields ten times the value of the Wool, and many Thousand Families are maintained thereby, there being many several Trades whose livelihood depend upon the Woollen Manufacture (viz.) The Washer, Shearer, Picker, Comber, Spinner, Knitter, Wea●er, Clothworker, Tucker or Dresser, Fuller, Drawer, Napper, Kalenderer, Dyer, Setter, Presser, and Packer.  
Several Statutes have prohibited the Exportation of Wool unmanufactured for the better setting on work the poor People▪ this Kingdom, and to the intent the benefit of working the same into Cloth, Searges, Stuffs, Bays, Kerseys, Blankets, Hats, and ●●ockings, may come to the Subjects of this Kingdom, and not to Foreigners. For the same Reason the obstructing ●he Exportation of those Commodities, when wrought, is injurious to the Crown, and destructive to the Subject; for ●t is plain and obvious, that the hindrance of the Exportation of the woollen Manufacture prevents the consumption of Wool in this Kingdom, and brings down the price thereof, and empoverishes the Subject, so that he is not able to pay his Rent; and consequently the mischief falls on the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom; and the more woollen Manufacture is Exported, the greater will be the King's Revenue, and the more Ships employed. Therefore, and for the ●easons following, the Hamborough Company, who pretend to have the sole Trade in Cloth, and all other woollen Manufactures to the places abovementioned, are destructive to the Trade of this Kingdom.  
The Hamborough Company in a few years last passed have been the occasion of the loss of vast Sums of Money to ●his Kingdom, for they have arrested the Ships and Goods of all Persons not Free of their Company, by Process out of ●he Admiralty Court, for endeavouring to send Cloth, Searges, and Stockings to Germany.  
They have also Summoned others before the Privy-Council, and caused them to be imprisoned, and others they ●ave sued at Law, and in the High-Court of Chancery, for Trading in the woollen Manufacture of this Kingdom, and ●ave by such means put so great a stop to the Trade here, that in Silesia, and other parts beyond the Seas, they have learned to make Cloth themselves, and do make several Thousand clothes in a Year; and they many times attempt ●o Import Cloth into England. And this hath been occasioned by the Hamborough Company's putting a stop to the Trade here.  
The Germans, and others, are now, very curious, and will have Cloth, Stuffs, and Stockings, sent them according to their Patterns, and will not go to Hamborough to buy, but send their Patterns into England, where they can be supplied with all varieties much sooner, and at less charge.  
Those of the Hamborough Company send all their Cloth to Hamborough and Dort, where all Persons must come to ●uy, which they will not do, by reason those places are far distant from the habitations of the buyers; and when they ●ome there perhaps cannot be supplied according to their Patterns; so that if they cannot have Cloth, Stuffs, and Stockings immediately from England according to their Patterns, they will and do buy Cloth made in parts beyond ●he Seas, which hath already much impoverished the Clothiers of this Kingdom.  
The Hamborough Company do not Trade in a joint Stock, as other Companies do, but every Man Trades for himself with his own Stock; and all persons free of that Company must take an Oath not to send their Cloth to any Towns beyond the Seas, but Hamborough and Dort; and to observe all Orders by them made, and to be made, so that they ●o as much as in them lies, obstruct a Free Trade, and, if not prevented, will in all probability ruin most of the Clothier's and Dealers in Cloth of this Kingdom.