The hackney coachmens case humbly offered to the consideration of the right honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament assembled. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A43570 of text R215856 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing H175A). 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 A43570 Wing H175A ESTC R215856 99827618 99827618 32040 2248494184

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A43570) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 32040) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1849:13) The hackney coachmens case humbly offered to the consideration of the right honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament assembled. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1692] Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. London (England) -- Charters, grants, privileges -- Sources -- Early works to 1800. eebo The hackney coachmens case, humbly offered to the consideration of the right honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament assembled. [no entry] 1692 1 458 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. 2007-11 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 Sampled and proofread 2008-12 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE Hackney Coachmens CASE , Humbly offered to the Consideration of the Right Honourable the Knights , Citizens , and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled .

BY an Act of Parliament made in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth of Charles the Second , only Four hundred Coaches were Licensed , by which Regulation they were able to live , maintain their Families , and pay each of them Five Pounds per Annum , towards Paving , Repairing , and Enlarging the Streets , but that Expired long since .

Since which time there hath been so great an increase of Hackney Coaches , Gentlemens Coaches , and Coaches that drive short Stages , and Chairs , about this Town , that 't is impossible for them to live , much less to pay Five Pounds out of their small Gain , Wear and Tear considered ; great numbers of which Hackney Coaches must in a short time be undone , and rendred incapable to pay the Five Pound intended to be laid on them , unless reduced to some Regulation , which is humbly offered as followeth . I. That no Person or Persons , Drive , or Lett for Hire , any Coach or Coach Horses ( except Stage-Coaches , directly from one Stage to the other ) within the City of London or Westminster , or Parishes within the Weekly Bills of Mortality , without a License , on pain of forfeiting Five Pounds for each Offence , being thereof Convict , the one half to the King , the other to the Informer . II. That the Number of Hackney Coaches to be Licensed , may not exceed Five hundred ; the Four hundred Ancient Licensed Hackney Coaches by Authority of the said Act to be preferred , each Licence to be taken out every Year , but the Power of Licensing to be for Ten or Twenty Years ; and all the Clauses in the said Act , relating to Licensing and Regulating Coaches revived . III. That every of the said Five hundred Coaches so Licensed , do pay yearly , to such Person appointed to receive the same , Six Pounds , to be disposed of as shall be thought convenient .

Obs. There is not now above Seven hundred Hackney Coaches , which at Five Pounds each , for One Year , amounts but to Three thousand five hundred Pounds .

If Five hundred be Licensed at Six Pounds each Coach , for Ten Years , is Thirty thousand Pounds ; for Twenty , Sixty thousand Pounds , the Town sufficiently served , and the Streets much less spoiled or torn up ; and a present good Fund to raise Money .