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 Peice in length , and proportionably in breadth , by Tackles and Pullies fasten'd to an Head-bar , and so strain'd , are set into the Racks or Tenters , and dried ; and our Merchants plead for this , that they must be so strain'd , because they are done so by our Neighbours .

How is it possible but these Practises 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 peice of fine Bockin Bays , or a peice of fine half quarter , or a good mixt Serge , or our ordinary Wool broad Clothes , can be made without English or Irish Wooll ; why then shall we suffer our Goods to go out unmanufactured ? which is of as ill consequ●nce as sending abroad our Wooll . 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 Allmighty having bless'd 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 Wooll , can make Druggets that wear like a peice of brown paper when it is wet , which cannot prejudice our Trade ; our Wooll will yeild 18d . the pound in other Countreys ; and this is the Encouragement that makes people adventure their Lives and Estates to transport it .

But a peice of Colchester-Bays is 40 l. weight , when made , and takes up 60 l. weight of Wooll in the Fleece to make it ; and this 60 l. weight of Wooll 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 Wooll abroad .

Sir Walter Rawleigh , 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 undrest ; 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 .

't is 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 subtilty 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 trick'd 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 vye 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 Imploy 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 Wooll , but beat it down all they can . 't is observable throughout the whole Trade , that those that make Mixt Goods , or that die their Goods , do get Mony , and are useful in the Nation , and will have choice Wooll , and give a Price for it ; but of the White Men , 't is a Rarity if there be Twenty in England worth any thing .

There is no 2 s . the Peice got by Colchester Bays throughout the Year , when by a Peice of Kersy of the same Vallue 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 Dye 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 Dye our Goods in Forreign Countreys , the King Pays back 4 l. to the Exporter : It Discourageth Merchandizing , for that our Neighbours have their Dye stuffs by Reason of the Draw backs cheaper then our Dyers , so that they can afford our Goods cheaper in Foreign Markets then our selves .

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 Shiping , the Planters of Woad and Weld , of the Makers of Allum and Coperas , and ma● , other great losses and hinderances , that come by not Dying our Goods .

As for whitened Goods that are worn white , they are perfectly Manufactured ; and cost as 〈…〉 the dying . All which is humbly offered to the Consideration of the Ho 〈…〉 〈…〉