Neither is here to be omitted that company which is called the East-land Company, whose principal Trading also consists in the same commodity of Woollen-Cloaths, by which they do furnish all those Eastern Countries about the Baltick-Sea, and to Russia, by which means also our discoveries of those Northern parts of the World, have bin made very Evident, and well known to Us, to the great Advancement of our Navigation to the Northward, as far as Green Land; and of late years hath given occasion of that Discovery about Hudson’s Bay, commonly now called the North-west Passage, made by that stout and adventurous Seaman, Captain Zachariah Gillam.
Turkey Company.
But the main and cheif Trades of all, are the Turkey and East-India Trades, and the Riches by those Companies procured, cheifly by Woollen-cloaths, So highly Advantagious to the King in His Customs, to the Companies in particular, and to the whole Kingdom in the general, as is not a thing easily to be known or computed.
East-India Company.
The Dutch have spoiled our trade in the South seas.
How the Turkey Company in particular by their discreet management of the Trade in those parts, with that commodity of Woollen-cloaths chiefly, do bring into England, all the rich Goods from all parts of the Streights, and how the East-India Company, by their Trade in the same commodity, (in a great measure) do purchase the Rich commodities of India, Persia, China, and the South-seas, with the Odoriferous Drugs of Arabia, and all such Goods as those countries afford for necessary Use and Delight, although of late years the Dutch have wrought us out of a great part of the South-Sea Trade, of which more might be largely spoken concerning their usage of our English-men in those parts; but that it hath bin already sufficiently laid out in Print, to the veiw of the English Nation.
Good ships built yearly.
Seamen bred up.
Merchants grow rich.
Can lend the king money.