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A46717	East India Company.	The Argument of the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench concerning the great case of monopolies, between the East-India Company, plantiff, and Thomas Sandys, defendant wherein their patent for trading to the East-Indies, exclusive of all others, is adjudged good.	1689.0		.xml	application/xml	19706	504	51	yet he may make an Alien a Denizen , and by that means he becomes to have as much priviledg as any of the King 's natural Subjects hath , as to Trade and Commerce , which is the onely question now before us ; and I cannot help being of Opinion , that this Kingdom was in greater regard abroad , and the Inhabitants thereof more prosperous at home , when the Prerogative of the Crown was more absolute than now it is ; therefore it is our Duty as good Judges as well as good Subjects , to endeavour to support it as much as we can by Law. If the King proclaims a War with any Country , which is a general Prohibition of Trade , and should order , that John a Styles , or a dozen or any greater number of his Subjects , &c. and give them Instructions to treat for a Peace , and the Persons so appointed should carry on a Trade , would not Mr. Sands , do you think , have as much reason to murmur , that he was none of those Ambassadors , as he has now by being not comprized within the Charters ? And would it not be thought an Arrogancy and Sauciness in him to demand an account of the Instruction given by the King to such Ambassadors ? or durst he Trade there till a Peace were proclaimed with that Country ? And the gloss upon that Law says Mercatores non faciant inter Monopolium de re non vendenda nisi pro certo pretio , vel de non exercendo officium nisi per eos recipiatur Officiales & Socios : Possunt tamen haec facere cum consensu & scientia Regis & contra facientes perpetuo exulabunt , & eorum bona Regi applicantur . Ex Privilegio ergo Regis possunt similiter & Consuetudine vel praescriptione , quia quod Privilegio acquiritur , etiam praescriptione acquiri potest .	cache/A46717.xml	txt/A46717.txt
