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 CLAMOUR FOR OPEN TRADE TO INDIA 269 the nation. This feeling had at first expressed itself in a demand for increased state protection of foreign trade. "It is not our conquests, but our commerce," runs a powerful appeal by Lewes Roberts in 1641, just after the meeting of the Long Parliament, " it is not A ROAD 8CENE IN INDIA IN THE BOMBAT PRESIDENCY". our swords but our sayls, that first spred the English name in Barbary, and thence came (sic) into Turkey, Armenia, Moscovia, Arabia, Persia, India, China, and indeed over and about the world. It is the traffic of their merchants and the boundless desires of that na- tion to eternize the English honour and name, that hath