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May it please Your Honours,

IT is the greatest Happiness of the People of England that the Laws by which they are govern'd cannot be made without the Consent of their Representatives, who as they obtain good Onesfrom the Favour of their Prince, so 'tis their own fault if they pass such as are bad.

Amongst all our Laws none tend more to the promoting the Wealth of this Nation than those which advance its Trade and Manufactures, by the latter we not only imploy our Poor, and sotake off that Burthen which must otherwise lie heavy on our Lands, but also grow Rich in ourCommerce with Foreign Nations, to whom we thereby sell our Product at greater Prices than itwould otherwise yield, and return them their own Materials when wrought up here, andencreased in their Value by the Labour of our People.

This little Tract I humbly offer to this Honourable House, not to direct, but with all Humility to lay before Your Honours an Anatomy of the Trade of England, dissected and laid open so as todiscover its Vitals, which have seemed to be struck through by some late Acts.