The Case of the fann-makers who have petitioned the honorable House of Commons, against the importation of fanns from the East-Indies. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A31155 of text R40312 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C1072). 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 A31155 Wing C1072 ESTC R40312 18842364 ocm 18842364 108412 2240864125

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A31155) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 108412) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1664:5) The Case of the fann-makers who have petitioned the honorable House of Commons, against the importation of fanns from the East-Indies. 1 broadside. s.n., [S.l. : 1695] Date of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. eng Restraint of trade -- England. Fans -- Economic aspects -- England. eebo The case of the fann-makers; who have petitioned the honorable House of Commons, against the importation of fanns from the East-Indies. [no entry] 1695 1 441 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. 2008-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE CASE OF THE FANN-MAKERS ; Who have Petitioned the Honorable House of Commons , against the Importation of Fanns from the East-Indies .

THE Petitioners are several Tradesmen , and Artificers , who are concerned in the manufacture of Fanns , in which great Numbers of Men , Women and Children , used to be constantly Employed , some in making the Sticks , Papers , Leathers , and in Ordering and Stiffning of the Silks , others in Painting , Varnishing , and Japanning , and in preparing other Materials wherewith Fanns are made , by which there used to be Yearly consumed great Quantities of Silk , Paper , Leather , Wyer , and several Tunns of Whale-bone , Tortoise-shell , Ivory , Box , Ebony , and other sorts of Wood , which were Imported from Turky , Russia , and other Foreign Parts , to the Increase of His Majesty's Customs , and to the great Benefit and Advantage of our Woollen Manufacture , for which such Foreign Goods were bought in Exchange ; so that by the making of Fanns here at home , not only the Woollen Manufacture , and the King's Customs are greatly advanced , but abundance of Poor People are continually kept at Work . All which Advantages to the Common-wealth are now likely to be destroy'd , by the Importation of vast Quantities of Fanns from the East-Indies , from whence there have been lately brought over above a 130000 , tho' scarce half that Quantity hath been Entred in the Custom-house , the rest having been Fraudulently conveyed on Shoar by the Seamen and others , without paying any Duty ; and as for the Duty which is paid , 't is but inconsiderable , in comparison of the Duty which arises from the Commodities Imported from Turky , Russia , and other Foreign Parts , which are consumed here about the Fanns ; and besides formerly great Quantities of our own Fanns have been Exported , for which a considerable Duty used to be paid to the King ; so that 't is hoped that this Honourable House will think fit to Prohibit the Importation of Indian Fanns , and Fan-sticks , as well as Silks and Callicoes ; for that thereby , not only the Woollen Manufacture , and His Majesty's Customs are considerably Lessen'd and Impair'd ; but also Multitudes of Poor Artificers , and their Families will be reduced to a Deplorable Condition . And many of them for want of Work are allready become a Burthen to the several Parishes where they Inhabit .