Their Linens Are Run In Very
Great Quantities, As Are Their Wine And Brandy, From The Land's End
Even To The Downs.
To Flanders are exported serges, a few flannels, a very few stuffs,
sugar, tobacco, tin, and lead.
England takes from them fine lace, fine cambrics, and cambric-lawns,
Flanders whited linens, threads, tapes, incles, and divers other
commodities, to a very great value.
To Holland the merchants export broad-cloth, druggets, long-ells,
stuffs of a great many sorts, leather, corn, coals, and something of
almost every kind that this kingdom produces; besides all sorts of
India and Turkey re-exported goods, sugars, tobacco, rice, ginger,
pitch and tar, and sundry other commodities of the produce of our
American plantations.
England takes from Holland great quantities of fine Holland linen,
threads, tapes, and incles; whale fins, brass battery, madder,
argol, with a large number of other commodities and toys; clapboard,
wainscot, &c.
To Ireland are exported fine broad-cloth, rich silks, ribbons, gold
and silver lace, manufactured iron and cutlery wares, pewter, great
quantities of hops, coals, dyeing wares, tobacco, sugar, East India
goods, raw silk, hollands, and almost everything they use, but
linens, coarse woollens, and eatables.
England takes from Ireland woollen yarn, linen yarn, great
quantities of wool in the fleece, and some tallow.
They have an extraordinary trade for their hides, tallow; beef,
butter, &c., to Holland, Flanders, France, Portugal, and Spain,
which enables them to make large remittances.
To the sugar plantations are exported all sorts of clothing, both
linen, silks, and woollen; wrought iron, brass, copper, all sorts of
household furniture, and a great part of their food.
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