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Show .d'.l:.etter, to the King,_of Advice~_&c. .. I is no Thinking of .Arraignments, unull thefe Thmgs, be fome~l~~t date Alld 1ome outw'lrd a:nd fuperfi.Cial, ReconCiha-accommo ; 11 " ' , d L ·d · leail. made between m'lf Lord Chanceber, an my or . uon, at u., ( ' · 1 · 11 1 D 1' h · ·c, te 1· u ,Jf'.l._ ·t ce. Fo· r tl1'is Acodent' iS a Banquet, to a t 1c .e in- queinf ts F n·e nds · ButthisisaThinon- , t· hatf·a lle· thout,d nanuLal lyd, of it Self; In refpe6t, of~hc !MdgesGomgCtrc~tt , an n1y o! chancellers Infirmity) With Hope of Recovery. And alth?~bh this totra6'tion ofTime, may breed [orne doubt of Mutabiluy, et l have lately learned, out of an excellent Letter, of a certain kin0'; That the Sun fhew~th, [ometimes, watry, to our Eyes, hut wbe~ the ~loud is gone, the Sun ~s 1M hefore. God ever prefervc your Ma ;e~ie. Your Majefties, moft hmnble Subie£1, and bounden Servant. ----·--------..... --------:----.---~ A Letter, to the King, of Ad.vice,upon the 'Breach of the New · Company. 1 Pebr:. ~ 5.~ 1615. . It m~y pleafeyour moft exetllent Maj.efly, . r _' . • Our Privy Council, have wifely, and truly, c.hfcerned, of the Y orders, and Dem&nds, of the New CompanJ, t11at they are unlaw- • full, and unjufr ·; And themfelves, ha~eno':"'.ac~no~l~~ged, the Work~imrofiible,without thern,~y th~rr Petttton m ~ntmg~ now re iftred, 111 the Council-Book: So as th1s Condufion,( of thcu own m~king,) is become pe;:remptory, and. final to themfelves; And the Impoffibility confetfed, .the Pra6t1~e, and Abu[e, referved to the Judgement; the State ilia~ make of 1t, . . . Tnis Breach then of this g1:·eat Contra6t, 1s wholly on their part; which could not have been, if your Majepy? ~.ad broken, . upo11 the Patent: For the P~tent, was your Mattfite$ Aet; The orders, arc their A·6t; ~nd 1n the former Cafe, they had not been liable, to further QEeft1on, now they are. . . There reft two Things, to be confide:red: .The one if r.hey, (hke Prate~, when he is hard held,) ih.all yet aga~n, .vary their iliap~; And fhall quit their Ordtrs, convmced~flnJufhce, and lay theu Impofition.onely, upon the Trade of whztes, w~er?er.your Ma7~~y, fi1all further expeCt? Th: o.rher, if yo~r Maftftte dl{folve t"hem, · u on this Breach-,. on their parr, what iS further to be done, for t~e[ctting ofrhe Trade, again,. in joy_nr, and ~or your own Honour , an'"d profit ? In both wh1eh pomrs,_ I wtll not prefum.e ~o give Opinion, but onely, to b:eak the Bu{mefs, for your lJ!aleft.t.ts better Judgement. i For the firfi:, I am forry, the Qccafion ~as given, (by my Lore Coo/us S peecb, at this time, of the Comm~nnent of fome of them;) That thev iliould [eek, (_Jmnem movere lapidem, to h.cl p thcmfel ves · , ~ cJ ' Better .,.1,' Letter, to tbe King, of Advice, &c • Better it had been, if (as my Lord Fenton faid to me, that tv1<Urning, very judicioufiy, and. with a great Deal ofFordight;) Thar, for th3.t ttme, they fi1ould i1Gvc had, a BriJge, made for tl1cm, to be gone. B11t my Lord (orJI.:e fiowcth, according to his own,Tid.cs, 3.l1d not according ro the Tides ofBufin ~fs.. The thing, which uq Lord Cook faid,was good,and too little,but,~t this timc,ir.was>ioo much. But that is pafl:. Ho\tv[ocver, if they iliould goe back, and feck again, to entertain your ilt.tje{ty, with new Or de, s, or Offers, (as is faid to.b~ intended,) ym.1r Maiefiy hath ready, two An- .fwers, of Repulfe, if 1t plea[e your i\1ajefty to ufe rhcn1. . , _. T11c one, that this is now the Fou,rth time, that they have mainly broken, with your Maje~y, and contraditted thcmfelvcs. Firfl:, they undertook~ to dye, and drefs, all the CloaLhes of the Realm; Soon after, they wound themfclves, into the Trade, of wbites, and came down to the proportion conrratted. Secondly, they ought co have perfonned that Contra6t according to their Subfcr~ption, pro rata~ witho~t any of.th~fe Orde~s,and Impojitians . Soon after, they deferred their Subfcrtpnon, ana had recou.rfe, to thcfe Devices, of orders. Thirdly, if by Order, and not by Sulfcrip· tion, yet their Orders, {hould have lai:i it, upon the wbt'trs, which is an Unlawfull, and Prohibited; Trade. Nevenhde[s, they would have brought in, Ia.wfull, and fetled Trades, full ManufaEfures, Merchandize of all Natures; PoU.Money, or Brotherhood- Money, and I cannot tell what. And now laftly, it fcemeth, they would goe Back, tolay it; upon ~he whites: And therefore, wheth. er you Maiefty, will any tnore refi, and build this great Wheel, of your Kingdom, upon thefe broken, and brittle, Pinns, and try Experiments further, tipon the Health, and Body, of your State, I leave to your Princely ]ud~tment. The othe~ t.An[wtr, .Pf Rtpulfe, is a kinde of Appofing them, what they Will doc, after the three years, contraCted for ? Which is a point, hitherto, not much fiirred, th<;mgh Sir Lionell Cranfield, hath ever beaten upon it, in his Speech with me : For after the three years, they are not ryed, othcrwaycs; than as Trade iliall . give Encouragement; Of which Encouragement 1 .your Majefly, hath a bitter Taft. And if they f11ould hold on,. according co the third years Proportion, and not rife on, by further gractatipn, your Maieffy hath not your End. No, I fear, and have long feared, that this Feeding of the Foreincr, may be dangerous': For as we may think, to hold up our Cloathing, by Vent of whites, till · we c_an dye, and drdfe; So they, (I tnean the Dutch,) will think . to hold up, their ManufaCture, of Dying.,and Dreffing, upon our whites, till they can cloath : So as your Maiefl1, hath the greateft reafon, in the World, ro make the 1Vew Company, to come in, and Hrengthen that pan, of their Contra6t; And they rcfufing, (as it is confidently beleeved they will,) to make their Default; more vifiblc, to all Men. - - - Kkk For |
