^SS A. D. 1635. 



is made as good here as in England ; and the beft cloth of gold, finer 

 and cheaper than in Italy. 



King Charles, by proclamation, prohibited the importation of foreign 

 purles, cut-works, or bone-laces, or of any commodities laced or edged 

 therewith. This he declared to be at the requeft and for the benefit of 

 the makers of thole goods in London and other parts of the realm, now 

 brought to great want and neceflity, occafioned by the great import- 

 ation of thofe foreign wares : to prevent which for the future, he ap- 

 pointed the Englifli-made goods to be fealed or marked. [F^dera, V. 



xix, p. 600.] 



Another of his proclamations prohibits the importation of any fort 

 of glafs from foreign parts. It feems that King James, in the 13th year 

 of his reign, had prohibited the making of glafs with wood-firing, for 

 the better prefervation of timber, and alio prohibited the importation of 

 foreign glafs. ' Yet (fays King CharlesJ ill-minded perfons, to the pre- 

 ' judice of our own glafs works, having prefumed to import foreign 

 ' glafs, v.-e now ftridly prohibit the fame during the term granted by 

 ' King James to Sir Robert Manfell, for the fole making of glafs ; he 



* having, by his induftry, and great expenfe, perfeded that manufadure 

 ' with fea-coal or pit-coal ; whereby not only the woods and timber of 

 ' this kingdom are greatly preferved, but the making of ail kinds of 

 ' glafs is eilablifhed here, to the faving of much treafure at home, and 

 ' the employment of great numbers of our people ; and our fubjeds are 

 ' now furnifhed with glafs at far more moderate prices than they were 

 ' when brought from foreign parts.' Yet the king permits Sir Robert 

 Manfell to import fuch glalTes from Venice, Morana, or other parts of 

 Italy, as he Ihould think fit, for fpecial ufes and fervices. {F^dera, V. 

 xix, p, 693.] This permiffion doubtlefs related to the fine Venetian flint 

 glafles for drinking, the making of which in England was not brought 

 to perfedion till the reign of William III. 



He alfo gave a patent for fourteen years for making wines from dried 

 grapes or raifins, which the patentee by his travels in foreign parts had 

 learned ; which wines had been approved of by all Inch as have ufed 

 them, to be mofl; wholefome and good, and will keep for fea voyages : 

 the patentee paying 40/" yearly into the king's exchequer. [Fcedera, V. xix, 



We have a proclamation ' prohibiting any coin, plate, or bullion, 

 ' from being ufed in making gold and filver thread, copper-gilt or fil- 

 ' vered, gold or filver foliate, purles, ores, fpangles, wire, and fuch other 



* manufadures, except what fhall be imported from foreign parts, or 

 ' which fh'iU arife from the fame works and manufactures being melted 

 ' again : and that none of the current gold and filver coins of this realm 

 ' be hereafter molten down by any refiner, goldfmith, &c. And that 

 ' all gold and filver hereafter to be employed in the faid manufadures 



