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148 linen, paper, wine, brandy, and kid-skins. On the whole it appears that the trade with France was considerably less now than it had been in the time of free intercourse which immediately succeeded the Restoration. The trade with Holland, on the other hand, had greatly increased. Up to the year 1669, according to Davenant, our exports to that country consisted of only 45 species of rated goods, whereas by the beginning of the reign of Anne we exported thither 120 or 130 different kinds. Formerly our principal exports to Holland were woollen goods, tin, lead, brass, molasses, wrought silk, butter, and morkins (hides); our principal importations thence, linens, wrought silk, thrown silk, threads, inkles, spicery, madder, battery, stock-fish, whale-fins, hemp, flax, un-wrought copper, Rhenish wine, safflower, and iron ware. Of our woollens exported to Holland, the value in 1669 was 79,953l.; in 1703, 1,339,526l.: of our lead, 297l. in 1669; 38,283l. in 1703: of our tin, 1,635l. in 1669; 17,051l. in 1703. Altogether the value of our exports of the eight principal articles was 153,799l. in the former year, and 1,404,920l. in the latter. Of molasses, however, of which we exported thither to the value of 67,510l. in 1669, there appears to have been no exportation at all to Holland in 1703. On the other hand, many foreign, colonial, and East India goods entered into our exports in the latter year, which either formed no part of them, or a much smaller part, in the former. Of sugar and foreign fruits, we re-exported to Holland in 1703 to the value of 114,416l.; of pepper, drugs, and dyeing substances to the value of 63,865l.; of tobacco to that of 143,596l.; of foreign wool to that of 7,800l. ; and of cotton yarn to that of 1,783l. The East India goods re-exported to Holland this year amounted, in value to 345,647l. We also now sent a considerable quantity of corn to the Dutch, a commodity of which in 1669 none was exported. Davenant says that in the year 1703 there was entered for exportation in all sorts of grain to the value of 12,202l. from London, and of 168,067l. from the out ports; making altogether 180,269l.: but this appears to have been to all foreign parts. The