A. D» 1641, 41^ 



1641 It may not be improper to note, that the ingenious Dr. Hey- 



lin, who wrote thefirfl, or rather perhaps the iecond, edition of hisCof- 

 mography, about the year 1641, remarks of the famous Hanfeatic city 

 of Lubeck, ' that there were then ftill belonging to it, tliough decUn- 

 ed from its former grandeur, above 6co Ihips of all forts, fome of which 

 were of 1000 tons and upwards.' And he adds (what could not then be 

 faid of London itfelf), ' that to every private houfe a pipe of water was 

 conveyed from the public conduit, and that from the pattern thereof 

 the firfl conduits were made in London, though very long before this 

 century.' 



We have a notable inflance of the induftry of the town of ^Lanchef- 

 ter in Lancafhire fo early as the year 1641, from an author of credit, 

 Mr. Lewis Roberts a merchant, author of the noted book intitled the 

 Merchant's map of commerce ; it is, in a fmall treatife, intitled the 

 Treafure of traffic, publifhed in this year : ' the town of Manchefter 

 ' (fays he) buys the linen-yarn of the Trifh in great quantity, and, weav- 



* ing it, returns the fame again in linen into Ireland to fell,' (which might 

 pofllbly and naturally give the firfl hint towards the Irilh linen manu- 

 faftures). ' Neither doth her induflry reft here, for they buy cotton- 

 ' wool in London, that comes firft from Cyprus and Smyrna *, and work 



* the fame into fuftians, vermillions, dimities, &c. which they return 

 ' to London, where they are fold, and from thence, not feldom, are 

 ' fent into fuch foreign parts where the firft materials may be more 

 ' eafily had for that manufacture f.' 



So early as in this year we find, (in a judicious pamphlet, intitled, 

 England's fafety in trade's increafe, by Henry Robinfon) that the French 

 had already begun to make ordinances and laws which proved prejudi- 

 cial to the commerce of England; and the author exprefles his fears left 

 they fhould in time be able to beat us out of our trade, more efpecially, 

 fays he, when Chriftendom fliall be at peace, whereby the trade of 

 Spain will be free for other nations, which at prefent, as it were, we 

 monopolize to ourfelves. (He has proved in too great a degree a true 

 prophet.) 



Roberts, 'in his Treafure of traflic, fays, that the cufioms of England 

 are eftimated at L50o,ooo yearly ; a vaft increafe fince the death of 

 Queen Elizabeth ! 



The piratical ftate of Algiers feems to have been now in its zenith of 

 naval power. Morgan, in the fecond volume of the hiflory of that 

 ftate, quoting D'Aranda, fays, ' that in the fummer of this year the 



* It may be inferred from th!?, that no confider- tons, long before the year 1600. \_Camtlini Bri- - 



able quantity of cotton was as yet imported from tannia, p. 673, ed. 1600.] The manufacture ot 



our Well- India iflands. y/ real cotton goods appears not to have been begv^n 



f Manchefter was a populous town, and noted there in Camden's lime. M, 

 for its woolleu manufatlutts, called Manchefter col- 



