REASONS Humbly Offered for Supporting the Company of Mercht. Adventurers of England, In their TRADE to GERMANY.  
THE Securing and Promoting of the Trade of Exporting the Woollen Manufactures to Germany, so as may be most Beneficial for the Nation, is a Matter of such Importance, that it is hoped it may not be unworthy the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons, to whom it is Humbly Represented.  
THAT the Supporting the Ancient Company of Merchants Adventurers of England in the said Trade, will be the most Effectual Means to conduce thereunto. For this Company having First Introduced the Woollen Manufactures into this Kingdom, and been the sole Exporters thereof, the same did Flourish, under their Government and Conduct, in a Regulated Way of Trade, for above Two Hundred and Fifty Years, until Foreigners, in the Reign of King CHARLES the II. were indulged, and admitted to become Principals in Exporting thereof; since which, few or no English are concerned as Principals in the Trade for Holland, but only employed as Factors for the Dutch. Whereby the Woollen Manufactures have been Falsified and Debased.  
That Foreigners, as soon as they can be accommodated, Prefer their own Natives to be their Factors, who, most of them, live obsurely, and bare no Charge to the Government.  
That the Clothiers have had Great Losses by the Foreigners intermeddling in the said Trade.  
That the laying open the said Trade about the beginning of the Reign of His present MAJESTY, and the late Queen, hath not had its designed Effect, as is evident by the Complaints of the Clothiers.  
That by the Preserving and Supporting of this Company in their Trade to Germany, the following Benefits will accrue, viz.  
The Merchants Profit will be Secured to the Nation, which will otherwise go to Foreigners.  
The Younger Sons of the Gentry may be Employed in this Trade.  
The Reputation of the Woollen Manufacture will be kept up, and the Goods not suffered to be Debased, or go out altogether Unmanufactured, whereby a very great Number of Handicrafts Men have of late been Impoverished.  
The Market abroad will be plentifully furnished with great Quantities and choice of Goods, as was formerly done. Whereas by the laying open that Trade, English Men have been discouraged from keeping their Magazines abroad so fully stored, whereby the Market hath not been sufficiently supplied.  
The Companys privileges at Hamburgh, which are very Advantageous to the Nation, will be thereby preserved, which if once lost will be irrecoverable.  
The Company, by virtue of their Grants from the City of Hamburgh, will be able to prevent the Importation there of Woollen Manufactures from Ireland.  
The Customs at Hamburgh, Inwards and Outwards, will, by the Stipulations made with that City, be prevented from being Raised, wherein the Members of this Company have greater privilege, and pay much Less than their own burghers; but if the Company is not Supported, there is no doubt but, in a little time, the Customs there on English Commodities will be advanced.  
The English Navigation to those parts will be Restored. Whereas there hath not of late been One English Ship in Fifty Employed.  
Foreigners will be Prevented from becoming the sole Masters of this Trade, which can never be for the Interest of England.  
And many other Advantages will Accrue to the Nation thereby.  
It is not Proposed but that the Trade from Exeter, and all other parts of England, to Holland and Flanders, may be left Open and Free, as it hath been for several Years past.  
There can be no Restraint of Trade, or Want of Buyers, by keeping up this Company, since they are willing to Admit all English Men into their Society, for as Small a Fine as the Honourable House of Commons shall think fit; and every. Member, so coming in, may Buy and Sell as much as he pleases, every one Trading for his own Account.  
Wherefore, It is Humbly Hoped, that the said Company may be Supported in their Trade to Germany. And that a Foreign Interest may not be preferred in Opposition to the True Interest of England.   

REASONS For Supporting the Merchant Adventurers of England, in their Trade to Germany.