1. A Strict Prohibition of the Exportation of White Cloaths, will very much improve our Trade both at Home and Abroad, it being well known that there hath been year­ly transported by Bayes, Northern Kersies, &c. above 200000 Cloaths, or Pieces, which hath been carried to the Nether­lands. and there Dressed, Dyed and Shipped to Spain, Portu­gal, &c. So it is obvious, were they Dressed and Dyed at Home, a mighty Advantage would accrew to the Merchants in Importing, Buying and Selling of Dye-Stuff, and to the Subjects in general, in preparing such materials, Dying, Ful­ling and Packing, &c. To prove that an Imposition on the Woolen Manufacture will not be Grievous but Advantageous, it is well known in Trade, that a Rise on a Commodity is an Advantage to the Retayler.

2. By having of our Cloaths, Stuffs, Stockins, Hats, &c. care­fully Sealed by Officers appointed for that purpose, with a Distinction between the Right Good and what is Defective, lay­ing a severe Penalty on any Officer that neglects his Duty, will give great Reputation to the Manufactory abroad, as well as a general Advantage to the Subjects at Home.

A Rebate, or Draw-back, may be made out of the Cu­stom-House to part, or the whole paid on the Account of this Imposition, as it shall seem meet to your Honours, by which means the Merchants may sell his Goods in any [Page]Foreign parts, as if the Imposition was not laid, and to a greater Reputation, the Goods being as before Examined, so that the Tax will only lie at Home.

That all Drapers, Cloathiers, Factors, Hosiers, Hatters, &c. pay the Duty imposed within [...] weeks after an Ac­count taken of all the present stock of Goods they have Ready-made, they cannot put a stop to the present Trade, which otherwise they may do to their own private Advan­tage, this will raise his Majesty a great Summ of Ready-money for his present Occasion; and this will be no more Loss to the Draper, Clothier, Hosier, Hatter, &c. than the sealed Paper is to the Lawyers and Attornies who are paid by their Clients. We find in the last Sessions of Parliament, that there was a Motion made touching this Imposition, but nothing coming to perfection (as we have been informed) for want of Particulars how to lay it, and how to gather the Tax; but we have for above these three Years last past been industrious to settle this point, some of the Honour­ble Members of Parliament having had some of our Parti­culars so long, and some since, as also some have fallen in­to Mens hands that have set up to be the first Contrivers, which know little of it. Therefore we think fit to inform your Honours, that we know the true use of the Wool to the best Advantage, from the Sheeps back, to the Clothier, Merchant and Retaler's hands, but are very unwilling to publish our Method for the use of other pretenders; but are ready to shew the Particulars where to lay it, and how to gather it, for the best Advantage for the King and Sub­jects, when this Honourable House shall command us so to do, as likewise to Answer all manner of Objections.