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.

Prop. 6. Theorem 5.

Forreigners may cheaper encrease Woollen Ma∣nufactures in England, than France, or the Ʋnited Netherlands.

1 Ax. 3. For things will be so much cheaper done, as done with less charge.

3. Prop. 3. But Forreigners may encrease Woollen Manu∣factures in England.

15 Pet. 3. And Forreigners may work Woollen Manu∣factures in England, with less charge than in France, or the Ʋnited Netherlands.

Therefore they may cheaper encrease them.

Annot.

If Forreigners did cheaper encrease the Woollen Manu∣factures in England, which the Dutch supply Hamburg, Sweden, Poland, Muscovy, Spain, Italy, and Turky with; and which the French supply Spain, Italy, and Turky with; and with which the French and Dutch cloy our Markets here in England; we might then, so far as the Woolls of England and Ireland would permit, not onely cheaper supply all those places which the French and Dutch do, but also so much better, as our Woolls and Fullers-Earth is better in England than in France or the Ʋnited Netherlands: And also conserve all that Treasure in the Nation which is ex∣pended in buying the Dutch Blacks, French Druggets, and other Woollen Manufactures of those Countries.

An ingenious Gentleman, not long since, said, that the Dutch supplied Sweden with course Woollen Clothes, for the Souldiery and poor people of Sweden; and that by order of the Councel of Trade there (I wish such a thing might ever be heard of in England) many people attempted without Success, and much loss, to make these Clothes in

Sweden. But about four years since, the Lord Landscroone (of a Merchant made one of the Nobility of Sweden, and a Member of the Council of Trade) propounded the wor∣king these Manufactures in Sweden, in case the Council would represent it to the King when he came to his Majori∣ty as an acceptable service, and that for some time the Council would take of the Manufactures at the same terms the Dutch supplied them. The Council assented to both; and a piece of those Clothes was divided, and the Arms of Sweden and of the Lord Landscroone stamped upon both, that the Goodness of the future Cloath to be made in Swe∣den, might be compar'd with the Dutch. Hereupon Land∣scroone, at his own charges, hires Artificers from England and Holland, who so well plied their business, that last year Sweden was supplied with these Clothes by the work of the Natives, and upon the same terms the Dutch supplied them. And for the future, the Lord Landscroone expects to be a considerable gainer, as he well deserves; I am sure the King∣dom of Sweden will be much more.