England's improvements in two parts : in the former is discoursed how the kingdom of England may be improved ... : in the latter is discoursed how the navigation of England may be increased and the soveraignty of the British seas more secured to the crown of England ... / by Roger Coke.

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So that this permission, as it will more secure the Sove∣reignty of the British Seas, the Newcastle, East-Indie, and Turkie Trades, so it may increase the Navigation of Eng∣land in our Trades to and from our forrein Plantations, the Trades to Hamburg, into the Sound, Muscovy, France and Spain, but especially to Norway for Timber, Pitch and Tar; in which Trade, as we never built one ship since the Act of Navigation, nor, as the case stands, can ever hope to do: so in time of War between the Dutch and French, the New∣castle-ships are so employed in other Trades, as the home-vent of Coal is not only not throughly supplied, but our Norway-Merchants cannot hire enough to furnish us as at other times, especially in our Trades to Dromen Northward of Bergen; as Mr. Hammond a Norway-Merchant, who af∣firms, that in this Trade he vends more of our English Ma∣nufactures,

than all our Norway Merchants do in all their other Trades to Norway, has often complained to me. And though the King has been pleased to permit our Norway Merchants to buy about 50 Flyboats, yet these, with the ad∣dition of the Dutch Prizes taken in the late War, will not neer supply the defect. And I say moreover, in case the English be not permitted to buy Ships in this Trade, and in our Trades to our Plantations, Hamburg, Muscovy, to France, Spain, Guiny, and into the Sound, and other places, we shall endanger the loss of these Trades, as well as the Newcastle, East-Indie, and Turkie Trades, and the Sovereignty of the British Seas: And that the Title of the Act of Navigation is a contradiction, in affirming it to be for Increase and En∣couragement of Navigation and Mariners, yet confining them both to English-built Ships, and sailed by ¾ English.