To which purpose it hath been considered, that the Manufactures of Wool, yearly exported out of England, into several parts of the World, viz. All sorts of Cloth, Serges, Stuffs, Cottons, Bays, Sayes, Prize, perpetuanus; as also Stockings, Caps, Rugs, &c. Exported out of England Scot- land, and Ircland do amount unto Five Millions per annum.
The value of Lead, Tynn, and Coals, to be Five hundred thousand pounds.
The value of all Cloaths, Houshold-stuff &c. carried into America, Two hundred thousand pounds.
The value of Silver, and Cold, taken from the Spaniards Sixty thousand pounds.
The value of Sugar; Indico, Tobacco, Cotton, and Caccao, hrought from the Southward parts of America Six hundred thousand pounds.
The value of the Fish, Pipe-staves, Masts, Bever, &c. brought from New-England and the Northern parts of America, Two Hundred Thousand pounds.
The value of the Wool, Butter; Hides, Tallow, Beef Herring, Pitchers, and Salmon, exported out of Ireland, Eight hundred thousand pounds.
The value of the Coals, Salt, Linnen, Yarn, Herrings, Pilehers, Salmon, Linnen-Cloth, and Yarn, brought out of Scotland, and Ireland 5000001.
The value of Salt-peter, Pepper, Callicoes, Diamonds, Drugs, and Silks, brought out of the East-Indies, above what was spent in England; Eight hundred thousand pounds.
The value of the Slaves, brought out of Africa, to serve in our A merican Plantations Twenty thousand pounds; which with the Freight of English Shipping, Trading into Foreign parts, being above a Million and a ½ makes in all Ten Millions one Hundred and Eighty thousand pounds.
Which computation is sufficiently justified by the Customs of the Three Kingdoms, whose intrinsick value are thought to be near a Million per annum, viz. Six hundred thousand pounds, payable to the King; 100 thousand Pounds, for the charges of Collecting, &c. Two hundred thousand pounds smuckled by the Merchants, and one Hundred thousand pounds gained by the Farmers; according to common Opinion, and Mens Sayings: And this agrees also with that proportion, or part of the whole Trade of the World, which I have estimated the Subjects of the King of England to be possessed of; viz, of about Ten of Forty Five Millions.
But the value of the French Commodities, brought into England, (notwithstanding some currant estimates,) are not above one Million Two hundred thousand pounds per annum; and the value of all they export into all the World besides, not above Three or Four times as much; which computation also agreeth well enough, with the account we have of the Customs of France; so as France not exporting above the value of what England doth; and for that all the Commodities of France (except Wines, Brandy, Paper, and the first patterns and fashions for Cloaths, and Furniture (of which France is the Mint) are imitable by the English; and having withal more People than England; it follows that the People of England, &e. have Head for Head, thrice as much Foreign Trade as the People of France; and about Two parts of Nine of the Trade of the whole Commercial World; and about Two parts in Seven of all the Shipping: Notwith- standing all which it is not to be denied, that the King and some great Men of France, appear more Rich and Splendid, than those of the like Quality in England; all which arises rather from the nature of their Government, than from the Intrinsick and Natural causes of Wealth and Power.
