^10 A. D. 1663.' 



as that its grofs produce, by a medium of three years, amounted per 

 anmim to about L90,440 : 15 *. 



For the encouragement of agriculture and trade, permiflion was given 

 to export all kinds of grain, when wheat fliould be currently fold in 

 England at 48/ a quarter, and other grain in proportion ; and they 

 might be imported when above thofe prices, on paying 5/4 of cufl;om» 

 with poundage, per quarter for wheat, &c. [15 Car. II, c. 17.] 



By this fame fiatuie it was enaded, ' that for the farther improve- 



* ment of former navigation ads, no merchandize of the growth, pro- 



* dudion, or manufacture, of Europe fliall be imported into any of the 

 ' Englifh plantations or fadories in Afia, Africa, and America, (Tan- 

 ' gier only excepted), but what fliall be laden in England, and in En- 

 ' glifli-built fliipping, and navigated by at leafl three fourths Englifli 

 ' mariners, and fliall be carried to thofe places diredly from England, 

 ' and no where elfe, on forfeiture of fliips and ladings, excepting, how- 



* ever, fait for the fiflieries of New-England and Newfoundland, and 

 ' wines frona Madeira and the Azores, fervants, vidual, and horfes, 

 ' from Scotland or Ireland ; and that none of the produft of the Eng- 

 ' lifli plantations (viz. fugar, tobacco, cotton, ginger, fuftic, and other 



* drugs) fliall be carried any where (except to other plantations) till 

 ' they be firfl: landed in England, under forfeiture of fliips and car- 



* goes.' And here Ireland was firfl left out, though inferted in the 12th 

 of this king, r. i 8, § 9. 



' And for the encouragement of the herring and North-fea, Ice- 



* land, and Wefl:raony fiflieries, no frefli herring, cod, haddock, &c. 

 ' fliall be imported into England, but in Englifli-built fliips, navigated, 



* &c. as before.' 



' And forafmuch as the planting of tobacco in England doth conti- 

 ' nually increafe, notwithflanding the a6l of the 1 2th year of this king, 

 ' [f. 34] a farther penalty of Lio is laid upon every rood or pole of 

 ' land fo planted in England, Ireland, Jerfey, or Guernley, excepting, 

 ' however, tobacco planted in the phyfic-gardens of either univerfity, 

 ' or in other private gardens for furgery, fo as the quantity exceed not 



* half a pole of land in any one garden.' 



In this act of parliament we have the firfl legal licence for the ex- 

 portation of foreign coin and bullion for the benefit of commerce, in 

 the remarkable words following, viz. ' and forafmuch as feveral confi- 

 ' derable and advantageous trades cannot be conveniently driven and 

 ' carried on without the fpecies of money and bullion, and that it is 

 ' found by experience that they are carried in greatefl: abundance (as 



* Mana^emen! here means the government making the mod of tlie revenue, in contradiftinftion to 

 faniti/ig it at a certain fum. In comparing the two Tunis, the charges of management muft be dedufted 

 from the grofs produce, yf. 



