Reasons
shewing
that
the
desires
of
the
Cloathiers
,
and
Woollen
Manufacturers
of
ENGLAND
expressed
long
since
in
their
Petition
presented
to
the
Parliament
(
against
Ingrossing
and
Transporting
of
Wooll
and
Fullers-Earth
,
and
that
none
might
use
it
,
but
those
that
make
it
into
Manufactures
)
will
not
be
prejudiciall
to
the
Grower
;
but
greatly
beneficiall
to
the
generall
Trade
of
the
whole
Nation
.
-
1.
Witnesse
Spanish
and
Irish
Wooll
,
imployed
in
this
Nation
.
TO
begin
with
the
Growers
,
Whereas
the
Wooll
of
the
growth
of
England
,
is
not
sufficient
to
maintain
the
severall
Manufacturers
that
are
imployed
about
Wooll
in
England
,
as
Cloathiers
,
Bay-makers
,
Saymakers
,
Serge-makers
,
Cottons
,
Freezes
,
Penistones
,
Purpetuanaes
,
Stuffes
of
Norwich
of
all
sorts
,
&c.
Therefore
seeing
all
must
be
used
by
them
,
the
Grower
may
sell
all
unlimited
to
price
or
time
.
-
2.
The
Cloathiers
aforesaid
,
are
constrained
to
buy
the
greatest
part
of
their
Wooll
,
at
or
about
shear
time
,
when
the
poor
Growers
(
if
any
there
be
)
want
mony
.
And
that
by
reason
of
the
Summer
time
,
to
get
their
Wooll
home
,
to
dye
it
,
and
dry
it
,
for
the
Winter
imployment
,
for
the
poor
which
they
imploy
about
it
.
To
which
end
(
when
they
sell
for
time
)
they
so
order
it
,
as
to
have
their
mony
due
at
shear
time
;
which
debts
when
they
cannot
receive
,
they
procure
mony
upon
their
credit
,
or
their
goods
by
pawn
.
-
3.
If
the
Cloathiers
aforesaid
must
use
all
the
Wooll
,
then
the
Ingrosers
would
not
by
Wooll
,
except
to
sell
to
the
Cloathiers
for
great
profit
,
or
to
transport
it
.
-
4.
The
Ingrossers
or
forestallers
do
hinder
the
Cloathiers
from
going
to
the
Grower
,
by
reason
they
go
before
the
Market
,
and
prevent
the
Cloathiers
comming
there
.
-
5.
The
more
the
Wooll
is
imployed
into
severall
Manufactures
,
the
greater
price
will
be
to
the
Grower
;
but
if
the
Wooll
be
forstalled
,
or
ingrossed
,
it
wil
hinder
greatly
the
trade
of
all
the
Manufacturers
,
and
so
the
losse
redownds
to
the
Grower
.
-
6.
From
experience
,
when
for
sixty
years
and
above
,
the
Cloathiers
only
had
the
sole
buying
of
Wooll
,
they
gave
as
good
a
price
to
the
Grower
,
if
not
better
,
then
since
the
Stapler
,
or
Jobber
had
liberty
to
buy
,
till
these
distracted
times
.
-
7.
We
hope
the
Growers
,
though
many
and
great
,
do
not
so
desire
their
own
profits
,
as
thereby
to
prejudice
the
generall
trade
of
this
Nation
;
for
so
much
Wooll
as
costs
the
Cloathiers
12
l.
of
the
Growers
,
will
cost
them
16
l.
more
at
least
,
to
make
it
into
a
Manufacture
fit
to
be
sold
in
the
Market
.
-
Lastly
,
As
for
the
fear
of
a
Monopoly
by
the
Cloathiers
,
it
is
impossible
,
by
reason
of
their
multitude
,
and
great
distance
one
from
another
,
through
the
whole
Nation
.
They
never
were
,
or
ever
can
be
,
in
a
society
or
corporation
as
the
Staplers
are
;
and
therefore
can
never
agree
to
ingrosse
Wooll
,
or
hinder
the
Grower
of
his
price
.
The
reason
is
,
if
one
will
not
buy
,
another
will
.
That
the
Woollen
Manufacturers
having
the
sole
buying
of
Wooll
,
tends
exceedingly
much
to
the
Nations
good
.
-
1.
THis
is
,
and
must
be
taken
for
granted
,
as
the
foundation
of
the
work
,
That
all
the
wooll
that
growes
in
England
,
and
more
,
witnesse
,
Spanish
,
and
Irish
,
and
Cotton
Woolls
,
is
and
might
be
spent
,
or
used
in
severall
Woollen
Manufactures
in
this
Nation
;
as
Cloth
,
Bayes
,
Sayes
,
Serges
,
Purpetuanaes
,
Stuffes
of
severall
sorts
,
Freezes
,
Cottons
,
Caps
,
Garters
,
Gloves
,
Stockings
,
&c.
-
2.
The
vending
of
the
aforesaid
Manufactures
beyond
the
Seas
,
is
it
that
causeth
so
much
and
so
many
of
the
Manufactures
,
to
be
made
in
this
Nation
,
which
were
heretofore
made
in
other
Countries
.
-
3.
The
cheapnesse
or
reasonablenesse
,
of
the
prizes
;
and
goodnesse
of
the
Commodity
at
the
Market
:
is
that
which
causeth
so
many
of
our
woollen
Commodities
,
to
sell
beyond
Seas
,
before
other
Countries
.
-
4.
The
many
hundred
Thousands
of
people
that
are
imployed
in
making
the
aforesaid
Commodities
,
doth
cause
such
great
quantities
of
goods
,
that
are
brought
home
in
return
of
our
English
Commodity
;
to
be
spent
in
England
.
And
doth
furnish
Merchants
,
with
all
manner
of
goods
,
to
trade
with
all
Nations
abroad
.
As
(
for
one
particular
)
the
Silk
that
comes
in
return
of
Cloth
,
doth
imploy
many
Thousands
,
in
making
all
manner
of
silken
Commodities
,
as
Velvets
,
Plushes
,
Sattens
,
Grograms
,
Lace
,
&c.
which
by
reason
of
Trade
,
are
used
much
in
this
Nation
.
Likewise
all
sorts
of
Spices
,
Fruits
,
Furres
.
Sugers
,
Wines
,
dying
stuffe
of
all
kinds
,
Hemp
,
Flax
,
Pitch
,
Tarre
,
Potashes
,
Cordage
,
with
many
other
things
;
nay
,
we
may
say
,
even
gold
and
silver
,
all
which
are
used
in
this
Nation
,
by
reason
of
the
Woollen
Trade
.
-
5.
The
poor
of
the
Nation
,
will
,
or
may
be
governed
,
and
kept
from
stealing
if
they
have
work
.
But
if
they
want
work
,
their
necessities
and
idlenesse
,
doth
often
occasion
Rebellion
and
theft
,
with
many
other
evills
,
as
dayly
experience
proveth
.
-
6.
It
is
the
great
and
chief
cause
of
so
much
shipping
in
this
Nation
.
And
so
many
thousands
of
Marriners
to
be
imployed
about
it
.
And
likewise
of
so
much
Customs
to
be
paid
in
this
Nation
,
to
defray
all
the
charge
of
them
.
All
which
are
the
walles
and
strength
of
England
.
But
that
which
chiefely
,
and
especially
,
doth
prejudice
and
destroy
,
that
rich
and
precious
life
of
Trade
in
this
Nation
,
is
Ingrossing
and
Transporting
of
Wooll
and
Fullers
Earth
.
-
1.
FOr
the
Ingrossers
,
Jobbers
,
and
Broggers
,
doe
goe
between
the
bark
and
the
Tree
;
between
the
Growers
and
the
Manufacturers
,
;
and
ingross
the
greatest
part
of
the
Wooll
,
and
makes
it
so
deare
to
the
Clothiers
,
that
they
cannot
live
upon
their
Trades
,
and
maintaine
the
poore
with
work
,
nor
bring
their
goods
to
the
Market
at
reasonable
rates
,
so
that
the
Merchants
may
carry
them
Cheap
to
their
Markets
beyond
Seas
,
because
other
Countries
can
afford
cheaper
then
we
,
which
is
the
maine
hinderance
to
the
trade
of
England
,
-
2.
The
Ingrossers
doe
usually
abuse
and
corrupt
the
Wooll
,
when
they
have
it
in
their
hands
,
and
mix
severall
Countries
Woolls
together
,
which
deceives
the
Clothiers
;
causeth
much
false
and
bad
Cloth
to
be
made
in
England
,
and
consequently
bringeth
our
English
Commodity
and
Nation
to
be
out
of
Credit
and
esteeme
in
other
Countries
,
which
destroies
the
Trade
of
England
.
Their
corrupting
and
abusing
of
Wooll
,
hath
been
fully
proved
before
a
Committee
of
Parliament
.
-
3.
When
the
Ingrossers
cannot
have
unreasonable
prizes
for
their
Wooll
,
of
the
Clothiers
,
or
the
Manufacturers
;
they
will
,
and
doe
Transport
it
beyond
Seas
,
and
there
it
s
made
into
Manufactures
,
and
causeth
many
Workmen
to
goe
from
hence
,
to
be
imployed
there
;
which
doth
,
nay
,
hath
already
,
almost
lost
the
Trade
of
this
once
flourishing
Nation
.
-
4.
It
occasions
much
Fullers
Earth
to
be
Transported
to
other
Parts
;
both
which
heretofore
were
restrained
by
Law
,
and
judged
destructive
to
the
Nation
;
but
now
frequently
practised
and
connived
at
,
by
many
Covetous
Wretches
and
Enemies
to
their
Countrey
.
It
was
a
Principle
that
ruled
in
the
mindes
and
hearts
of
Parliament
men
,
in
Edward
the
sixth
dayes
,
that
the
plenty
of
Wooll
in
England
,
should
and
ought
to
cause
the
cheapness
of
Commodities
made
of
it
;
and
thereupon
did
forbid
any
to
buy
,
but
those
that
made
it
into
Manufactures
.
They
would
not
feed
the
greedy
covetous
mindes
of
some
men
;
but
preferred
the
common
good
before
all
.
But
if
it
be
objected
to
savour
of
a
Monopoly
.
-
1.
Something
hath
been
said
to
it
,
in
the
close
of
our
reasons
for
the
Wooll-Grower
:
yet
more
particularly
in
Answer
to
this
Objection
;
by
discovering
the
nature
and
being
of
a
Monopoly
;
which
is
,
when
one
,
or
some
few
men
,
Doe
ingrosse
into
their
owne
hands
a
generall
Commodity
of
the
Nation
,
to
the
prejudice
of
all
the
rest
of
the
Common
wealth
,
which
are
concerned
in
it
;
as
in
Sope
and
Salt
of
late
;
and
so
of
any
other
generall
Commodity
whatsoever
.
-
2.
But
the
Woollen
Manufacturers
are
not
a
few
men
;
but
a
very
great
considerable
part
of
the
Nation
;
and
they
buy
the
Wooll
to
worke
it
into
severall
Manufactures
.
Which
first
and
last
sets
the
whole
Nation
on
worke
,
in
severall
imployments
,
in
which
the
profit
of
the
Wooll
,
is
divided
amongst
all
Tradesmen
and
Merchants
.
-
3.
But
if
any
one
man
,
may
buy
Wooll
,
and
sell
it
againe
unwrought
;
then
any
,
or
all
men
may
do
the
like
;
and
then
the
Wooll
will
be
Ingrossed
into
a
few
mens
hands
,
to
the
great
damage
of
the
puplique
good
of
all
Tradesmen
of
this
Nation
,
which
is
the
true
and
proper
nature
of
a
Monopoly
:
as
is
in
great
part
already
begun
amongst
us
,
and
will
be
more
practised
by
men
that
have
money
,
and
given
to
selfe-interest
,
against
the
Nations
good
.
Secondly
,
Yet
some
may
thinke
it
is
against
free
Trade
.
-
1.
If
by
free
Trade
,
be
meant
absolute
free
Trade
,
without
any
limitation
,
or
qualification
at
all
,
but
every
man
doe
what
he
list
.
Then
we
may
as
well
transport
Corne
,
Wooll
,
and
Fullers
Earth
,
out
of
the
Nation
,
as
any
other
Commodity
.
And
the
Rich
men
may
Ingrosse
all
the
Corne
,
(
and
other
things
of
livelyhood
)
into
their
owne
hands
;
and
no
man
say
,
why
doe
yee
so
.
But
its
hoped
,
no
man
will
desire
to
have
,
or
use
such
a
freedom
.
-
2.
Then
we
humbly
conceive
,
Free
Trade
must
have
its
Interpretation
,
or
limitation
and
bounds
,
which
is
the
Nations
good
.
Such
freedome
we
plead
for
;
and
have
already
made
it
appeare
,
that
our
desires
tend
to
it
;
and
against
those
that
hinder
it
with
all
their
might
.
What
hinderance
is
is
to
free
Trade
(
for
Tradesmen
to
have
Freedome
)
to
buy
their
Commodity
at
first
and
best
hand
;
and
thereby
enabled
to
set
on
worke
,
so
many
poore
of
the
Nation
,
and
make
good
Commodities
of
it
,
which
the
Law
binds
them
to
doe
:
and
also
be
able
to
bring
it
at
reasonable
prizes
to
the
Market
,
and
Merchants
.
And
what
but
destruction
to
Free
Trade
is
it
,
to
suffer
Ingrossers
and
Ingrossing
of
the
chiefe
Materialls
of
Trade
.
Much
might
be
added
by
more
knowing
experienced
men
;
but
these
are
for
a
taste
.
And
are
presented
to
the
view
and
consideration
of
all
that
love
and
preferre
the
Nations
good
,
before
their
own
private
Interest
,
and
in
speciall
to
the
faithfull
Patriots
of
this
Nation
;
in
whose
hands
it
is
to
redresse
this
grand
evill
,
and
from
whom
we
expect
it
,
and
pray
for
it
;
so
that
in
fine
,
the
Ingrosser
and
Transporter
of
Wooll
,
is
the
cause
of
all
the
bad
and
deare
Cloth
made
in
this
Nation
.
By
Edmond
Rozer
in
the
behalfe
of
the
Clothiers
of
England
.
February
the
first
.
1648.