The fift cause of the decay of Trade, by making Cloth in forraine Countries, hath beene considered of, whereupon the late Proclamation was made, prohibiting Th'exportation of Wooll, Wooll-fells, Wooll-yearne, Fullers earth, and Wood ashes, and all materials, serving for the making of Cloth. The Rules also to be described of the true making of Cloth (wherein the said Author hath been a good observer) may be (with a vigilant eye of the Officiers to be imployed therein by the Corporation, and the increase of Merchants to manage Trade:) a Remedie to the seventh causes: as also to the eight Cause of the decay of Trade: but the sixt cause concerning the Policy of Merchants, is not to be omitted, whose orders already made, and hereafter to bee made, may be thought convenient to be Surveyed by a Committie, who (upon complaints of the parties grieved in all Societies:) may take order by way of approbation or deniall, to execute things for the generall good, and not for the particular: as I have noted in all this Discourse. So that other Merchants upon reasonable considerations, may be admitted (upon this especiall occasion) to be of the said Societies or Companies; for otherwise it may seeme somewhat dissonant from reason, to prohibite all Merchants, as well English as Strangers, to bring in any of the Commodities of Turkie or of the Levant, and now lately from Eastland and those Countries: but to prohibite the importation of Commodities in Strangers Bottomes concurreth with the Law.
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