A REPRESENTATION Of the great EVILS arising by the EXPORTATION of WOOL   

A REPRESENTATION of Great EVILS arising by the EXPORTATION of WOOL, Humbly Offered to the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS.  By WILLIAM WOODFORD. 
I. Exportation of Wool will certainly Impoverish our own Nation, and Enrich others, By taking away the Employment of the Poor. By Ruining Our Trade of the Woollen Manufactures, and Dependers thereupon; and By enabling France, Holland and Flanders, etc. (now greatly striving for that End) to deprive us of it.  
II. The want of Employment of the Poor will be a Cause of great Charges upon Land and Estates, to maintain them.  
Or of their Starving.  
Or of Exporting themselves whether Wool is Exported, etc.  
And Exporting themselves will be a Cause of the falling of the Value of Lands, by Lessening the number of the Consumers of the Product thereof.  
For the Fewer the People shall be, the Lesser the Value of Lands must needs be.  
III. The Less Occasion there shall be of our Manufactures abroad (by means of the Exportation of Wool) the poorer the Nation in General must needs be.  
Our Manufactures (and not the single Products of our Lands) being the chief Cause of our Riches, which are brought from other Nations in Return for the same.  
iv The Exportation of Wool has been modestly reckoned to be 60000 l. per annum Loss to the King in his Customs outwards, besides the consequential Loss inwards.  
V There are several good intended Laws already made for remedy thereof; But the same could not be effectually put in Execution for want of a Fund to defray the Charge of the Management of so good a Work.  
All which is Humbly offered to the Great Wisdom of the Honourable House with all Submission, etc.