Exporting Unmanufactured Goods the Only Cause of the want of Employ for our Poor, the beating down of the Price of wool, the Fall of Estates, the Diminishing of the King's Revenues, the Discouraging Merchandising, and Impoverishing of the Nation in General.  
IF ever we design to make our Manufacture beneficial, for keeping up the Price of Wool, and for Improvement of Estates, which always go together, we must keep up the Price of our Goods, which can be done no other way but by keeping up their Goodness, and this will support their Reputation. And the only way to get our Goods a good Name abroad, is to destroy all Cheats and Tricks used in making and dressing of our broad Clothes Kersys and Serges; Our broad Clothes are strained Eight or Ten Yards in a piece in length, and proportionably in breadth, by Tackles and pulleys fastened to an Head-bar, and so strained, are set into the Racks or Tenters, and dried; and our Merchants pled for this, that they must be so strained, because they are done so by our Neighbours.  
How is it possible but these practices must beat down the Price of our Goods, and make them of no Reputation where they are sent? and could they get any other Clothes, they would never wear such.  
But no man can pretend that a piece of fine Bockin Bays, or a piece of fine half quarter, or a good mixed Serge, or our ordinary Wool broad Clothes, can be made without English or Irish wool; why then shall we suffer our Goods to go out unmanufactured? which is of as ill consequ●nce as sending abroad our wool. If our Neighbours will have our Goods unmanufactured, they ought to pay 3d the pound weight Custom; And if this Honourable House think fit to impose it, they must pay it, or shut up their Shops, and lay up their Ships, and starve; for our Manufacture is the Axil of their Trade, the Employ of their Ships, the support of their Government, and that which sets many thousands of them at work; and seeing they can be supplied no where else, they must pay it. But if not, and they should leave our Goods on our hands, God almighty having blessed us with a Peace, if we make our Goods Proof, we may make our own Price, and shall have all the Trade in our own hands.  
Our Neighbours without our wool, can make Druggets that wear like a piece of brown paper when it is wet, which cannot prejudice our Trade; our wool will yield 18d. the pound in other Countreys; and this is the Encouragement that makes people adventure their Lives and Estates to transport it.  
But a piece of Colchester-Bays is 40 l. weight, when made, and takes up 60 l. weight of wool in the Fleece to make it; and this 60 l. weight of wool at 18d. the pound is 4 l. 10 s. when our Bays are sold in London for 4 l. and the 3d. the pound Duty is 10 s. so that when this Duty is imposed, our Bays will go out for the value of our wool abroad.  
Sir Walter raleigh, in his Remains, p. 205. bewails it as a lamentable thing, that this Nation should lose a Million a Year by exporting our Goods undyed and undressed; and there are as many exported now in a Month, as were then in a Year. Who then can compute our Loss? It is incredible.  
'tis true there was once a Patent granted to the Duke of Monmouth, for preventing of our Goods going out unmanufactured; and our Neighbours made a Law upon it, That no dyed Goods should be imported into their Dominions; upon which, through the subtlety of those that had Commissions for sending abroad those Goods, the said Patent was laid aside; but is it an Argument, that because we have been tricked and cheated these many ages, that we must be so for ever?  
The English Dratery Rule the Market, and govern the Price wherever they come, and being made proof, will carry and Price with great Reputation; for none can vie with us: but if they could, the Price of Goods is like a Pool of Water, if you pour into it, in any part of the Pool, the whole Pool riseth alike, and all parts have equal benefit; so that this Duty will be a general good to all Clothiers and Merchants in the World.  
The Merchant will have advantage by it, for he will charge it on all the Goods he hath unfold abroad, and afterwards he hath no damage, for being in the same case with other Men, none can have Goods cheaper; and the dearer his Goods cost, the more he gets by them.  
If our Goods are Manufactured at home many Thousand Families will have a full employ that now want bread; above 100 several Trades depend upon the Dying Trade. Our long Ells, Bays, &c. That are sent out Undyed, are made and sold so very cheap, that the Makers are starved, and cannot afford to give a Price for wool, but beat it down all they can. 'tis observable throughout the whole Trade, that those that make mixed Goods, or that die their Goods, do get money, and are useful in the Nation, and will have choice wool, and give a Price for it; but of the White Men, 'tis a Rarity if there be Twenty in England worth any thing.  
There is no 2 s. the piece got by Colchester Bays throughout the Year, when by a piece of Kersy of the same value that is dyed wrought, there is above Forty Shillings comes among the Workmen, from which can be something afforded to buy bread and flesh, which is the improvement of Land, and so it is most eminently throughout the whole Trade.  
Sending out our Goods undyed, diminisheth the Revenue unaccountably in the Custom, Divers ways, not only for die stufs, but in returns that are made for the Goods, the King hath Duty for all the Charges of Dying and Working the Cloth.  
Now if a Tun of Logwood comes in, it Pays the King 5 l. Duty, if it be Exported again to die our Goods in foreign Countreys, the King Pays back 4 l. to the Exporter: It Discourageth Merchandizing, for that our Neighbours have their die stuffs by Reason of the Draw backs cheaper then our Dyers, so that they can afford our Goods cheaper in Foreign Markets then ourselves.  
It Impoverisheth the Nation in General, for that it is deprived of several Millions a Year, that the Dying and Mannufacturing of our Goods would amount to. I have said nothing of Seamen, and shipping, the Planters of Woad and wield, of the Makers of alum and Coperas, and ma●, other great losses and hindrances, that come by not Dying our Goods.  
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