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I say, the Repealing of these Laws may encrease, or ra∣ther restore the Navigation of England which it formerly enjoyed before them. And in truth I am content this Trade and Navigation should, so far as it can, be carried on only by
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I say, the Repealing of these Laws may encrease, or ra∣ther restore the Navigation of England which it formerly enjoyed before them. And in truth I am content this Trade and Navigation should, so far as it can, be carried on only by
English; yet in such Vessels, as the English can manage it to their best benefit, whereby only this Nation might be the Store-house of supplying the Irish with all sorts of Com∣modities they want; and that the Nation might have the home-benefit of working their Wools, and the forrein be∣nefits of vending their Hides, Tallow, and Yarn, &c. for it is as much our Interest the English should enjoy these Trades and Navigation depending thereon, as that only the Eng∣lish should have the benefit of the Trade and Navigation to our Plantations; or the Dutch Interest alone to have the Spice-Trade and the Navigation which depends thereon.
But since Navigation is a mean of preserving the Sove∣reignty of the British Seas to the Crown of England, the loss of it is as much dangerous to it. It is not the number and greatness of the French Navy Royal which makes the French King neer so formidable at Sea as either the English or Dutch, but their want of such Trades as might encrease their Navigation and Mariners.