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CHA P. XIV.

(Hen. VII.) The King recommends to the Parliament, a Regard for Trade and Manufacture. Subfidy on Wool: a Treaty of Commerce: Statutes limiting the Buying and the Exportation of Wool, to Times and Places. Inclosures grow frequent: Intercurfus magnus: a Treaty of Commerce. Philip of Spain in England. Intercurfus malus: a Treaty with the Low Countries. The League of Cambray.

CHA P. XV.

Page 72-76

(Hen. VIII.) Statutes, refpecting the Woolen Manufacture; against exporting fome of the Norfolk Wools. An Infurrection: many Inclofures. The Price of Wool advanced: the Buying and the Exportation of Wool continued under former Limitations, of Time and Place. A Limitation of the Number of Sheep to be kept by any one Perfon. The Price of Wool. The Woolen Manufacture increases; alfo a Spirit of Monopoly and Abuses : a Statute, giving to the Merchant Staplers a Monopoly of Wool, to be exported. p. 77-85.

CHAP. XVI.

(Edw. VI.) Tonnage and Poundage, with the Subfidy on Wool included: Difcontents and Infurrections. The pretended Grievances are, Inclofures, and the high Price of Wool. The Redress obtained: the greater and more real Caufe of thofe Infurrections was, Reformation of Religion, and the debafing of the Coin. Statutes touching

touching the Woolen Manufacture. Project for a Mart, or Marts in England, where.

CHA P. XVII.

Page 86-90

Concerning the Merchants of the Stillyard. The
Company is diffolved; the Reasons thereof al-
ledged: the true Reafons. An Error noted in
Grotius, and Thuanus.

CHAP. XVIII.

P. 90-95

(2. M. Ph. and M.) A Subfidy on Wool; the fame as in Edw. VI. except as to Denizens made or to be made. Statutes concerning Drapery. Manufactures increase; and therewith a Spirit of Monopoly. The Mufcovy Company erected. The Woolen Manufacture in England appears to be vastly extended; the Places where.

CHA P. XIX.

Pp. 96-99

(2. Eliz.) A Navigation Act, with Exceptions in
Favour of Cloth and Wool fhipping. Subfidy
on Wool, for Life, included in Tonnage and
Poundage. Statute against foreign Wares, its
Confequences.
p. 100-101

CHA P. XX.

(2. Eliz.) Differences with the Low Countries. The Amount of the English Cloth Trade (1564.) 1564. to Antwerp, according to Mr. Camden; the Credibility of bis Account.

b 3

p. 101-7

CHAP.

-79.

CHA P. XXI.

(2. Eliz.) Statutes touching Sheep and Woolen
Manufacture.
Page 107-8

CHA P. XXII.

1568 (2. Eliz. 1568-79.) French and Flemish fly from Perfecution, are received in England; they introduce the new Drapery. English Merchants ill treated in Spain and the Netherlands. The Ruffia Trade interrupted, and restored; the fame with Spain. Antwerp Jacked. Turkey Trade commenced.

1581.

CHAP. XXIII.

The

p. 108-10

A Compendium, or brief Examination of certain ordinary Complaints of divers of our Countrymen, in these our Days; which although they are in fome Part unjust and frivolous, yet they are all by way of Dialogue, thoroughly debated and difcuffed: By W. S. Gent. 1581.

N. B. Wool rifen from its ancient Price, of 13 s. 4 d. to 20 and 22 s. per Tod.

CHA P. XXIV.

(2. Eliz. 1585-95.) The Ruffia Trade dwindles.
The Company Jaid to have behaved ill. A new
Emperor of Ruffia; Q, Eliz. intercedes with
bim for the Ruffia Company: he is complaifant
to her. A Licenfe granted for an exclufive Trade
to Barbary. Several Statutes concerning the
Woolen Manufacture.
P. 114-15

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CHAP. XXV.

A Treatife of Commerce: By John Wheeler,
Secretary to the Society of Merchants Adven-
turers: Printed at Middleburgh 1601. This 1601.
Company, how ftiled at first; when changed
their Title; charged with being arbitrary, and
as Monopolifts: their Numbers, State, Govern-
ment: the Number of Cloths by them exported
yearly; the Value of them; what they buy, and
of whom.
Page 116-19

CHA P. XXVI.

A Review of the English Woolen Trade, during
the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Circumstances
that were favourable to it; that made against it.
A Comparison, upon the whole, between the for-
mer and the latter Part of her Reign, in that
Refpect.
P. 120-27

CHA P. XXVII.

(King James, 1604-13.) Subfidy on Wool: 1604
Denizens, Jhipping Wool, to pay as Merchant 13.
Strangers. Peace with Spain. Trade to Spain
and Italy monopolized. Upon Complaint made,
that Trade laid open. Inclofures: a Riot about
them: Complaints, that Provifions are grown
dear, for fix Years paft; the Reafon. Spain
makes a Truce with the United Provinces. It
burts the Trade of England. Exports and Im-
ports, 1612-13. The Exports are short of
paft Accounts; but exceed feveral that follow.

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