To the most honorable assembly of the Commons House of Parliament the binders of bookes in London doe most humblie shew ... Bookbinders of London. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A06287 of text S3364 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 16768.8). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A06287 STC 16768.8 ESTC S3364 33143369 ocm 33143369 28423 2248550501

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A06287) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28423) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1885:27) To the most honorable assembly of the Commons House of Parliament the binders of bookes in London doe most humblie shew ... Bookbinders of London. 1 sheet ([1] p.). W. Stansby, [London : 1621] Imprint from STC (2nd ed.). Petition against the monopoly of the Company of Goldbeaters for importation and sale of gold leaf. Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries. eng Gold foil. Gold industry -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Metal foils. Bookbinding industry -- Great Britain. Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo To the most honorable assembly of the Commons House of Parliament the binders of bookes in London doe most humblie shew ... Bookbinders of London 1621 1 440 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2006-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-06 Sampled and proofread 2006-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the most Honorable assembly of the Commons House of Parliament . The Binders of Bookes in London doe most humblie shew

THat in Anno Domino 1619. the Goldbeaters in London by the procurement of Sir Henry Bretton Knight , and Docter Eglisham obtained a Charter of Incorporation : for procurement whereof ( besides other annuall payments ) Doctor Eglisham receiueth of the said Goldbeaters at the least 200. lib per annum . But what recompence Sir Henry Bretton hath ; the Petitioners cannot declare .

That by colour of that new Incorporation , & for satisfaction of the said yearelie payments the Goldbeaters haue combined and confederated together , and bound themselues , both by bond and oath to sell all Gold foliate onely at one place and at one rate , both good and bad : by which meanes they haue inhaunced the price thereof a ful eight part viz. 1. d. ob . in euerie shiling , to the great impouerishment of the Petitioners and other his Maiesties subiects .

That the said Companie of Gold beaters exceed not 30. in number , of which number sixe onely reape the profit of the others labours , for the residue are bound to sell all their Gold foliate to those sixe at the old rates : which sixe sell the same to the Petitioners at the new inhaunced prices .

That the said Goldbeaters are free of other seuerall Companies in London , where they still bind their Apprentices . That they vse all possible meanes to diminish their number . So that in short time although the Goldbeaters in London will be but few , yet they will sell their Gold foliate at what prices they list for their priuat gaine , but to the preiudice of the Common Wealth .

The petitioners further shewe , That of all the Gold foliate which is spent they spend vpon the binding and adorning of bookes not aboue the value of 300 lib. per annum . the residue being spent on Coaches and other vnnecessarie things .

The Petitioners therefore most humblie praie that either the Goldbeaters maie be ordered to sell at their owne houses their Gold foliate at the old Rates . Or that the importation of Gold foliate from forraine parts may be tolerated . By which meanes not onely Gold foliate wil be sold better cheape . But also a great quantitie of Gold will be brought to his Maiesties Mint yearely , which the Goldbeaters now spend , by reason of the prohibition of the importation of Gold foliate from beyond the Seas .