232 A. D. 1603. 



By an a6l againft the importation of foreign corrupt hops, and brew- 

 ing with fuch, it appears, that, though hops were produced in abundance 

 in England, ftill iome were imported, as it makes heavy complaints of 

 the adulteration of foreign hops, in the facks of which were found great 

 quantities of ftalks, powder, fand, llraw, &c. by means whereof the 

 fubjeds of this realm have been of late years abufed, &c. to the value 

 of L20,oco yearly, befide the danger of their healths, [i "Jac. I, c. 18.] 



The houfe of commons granted the king during life a fubfidy of ton- 

 nage and poundage for the guard of the feas, in fo abjeft a flyle, (the 

 words, your majefly's poor commons, being frequently I'epeated) and fo 

 unworthy of the Ipirit of free-born Englifhmen, that it is the lefs to be 

 wondered at that his fon and fucceflbr made fo free with this fublidy 

 without confulting his people, [i jfac. I, c. 2,3^ 



The tonnage duty was ^j/for every ton of wine, and i/for an aum of 

 Rhenifli wine. 



The poundage was i/on every 20/" value of goods exported and im- 

 ported, excepting woollen cloths exported, and fifli exported taken by 

 Englifh fubjeds. 



By this fame ad they granted him Li : 13 : 4 on every fack of wool ex- 

 ported, and the fame for every 240 woolfels, to be paid by aliens only, 

 who Ihould alfo pay 2/ for every 20/" value of pewter exported by them. 

 Yet the following year King James by proclamation prohibited the ex- 

 portation of wool, which, indeed, it was high time to do, our own ma- 

 nufadure of it being now fo confiderable, and fo much fent into foreign 

 parts, as to employ or work up all, or near all our own wool at home. 



About this time the Englifh Eafl-India company fettled their fadory 

 at Surat, in the province of Cambaya or Guzuratte, and were foon fol- 

 lowed thither by the Dutch. And there, at firft, the Portuguefe, pre- 

 tending to the fole and exclufive commerce to India, were very trou- 

 blefome to both Englilh and Dutch, by feizing their fhips and merchan- 

 dize, and murdering their people : yet in the end both thofe nations, 

 but more efpecially the Dutch, took a complete revenge on the Portu- 

 guefe in India. 



We may on this occafion briefly remark the very great benefits 

 which both the cities and potentates of Eaft-India have reaped from the 

 coming of the Europeans thither ; and more efpecially the dominions 

 of the Mogul, by the great increafe of his cufloms, and of his towns 

 and fea-ports. Even this famous town of Surat, though now the firfl 

 port of the continent of India for maritime commerce, was little better 

 than a village till that time, though fince containing above 200,000 

 fouls. The Europeans, moreover, have inftruded the Eafl-Indians in 

 many forts of manutadures, &c. and more particularly in building bet- 

 ter and fafer fliips. 



