348.
v*** Naval Tracts, p.

329, 350.
v**** Raleigh's Observations.
A catalogue of the manufactures for which the English were then eminent, would appear very contemptible, in comparison of those which flourish among them at present.

Almost all the more elaborate and curious arts were only cultivated abroad, particularly in Italy, Holland, and the Netherlands.

Ship-building and the founding of iron cannon were the sole in which the English excelled.

They seem, indeed, to have possessed alone the secret of the latter; and great complaints were made every parliament against the exportation of English ordnance.
Nine tenths of the commerce of the kingdom consisted in woollen goods.[*] Wool, however, was allowed to be exported, till the nineteenth of the king.