sentences:  In his "Free Trade, or the Means to make Trade flourish", London, 1622, he discussed the causes of the alleged decay of trade, which he attributed to excessive consumption of foreign commodities, exportation of bullion by the East India Company, and defective searching in the cloth trade.His object appears to have been to disarm the opposition to the regulated companies, especially the Merchant Adventurers', and turn it against the joint-stock associations.The views he put forth on the East India trade were inconsistent with those he advocated in the following year.