To the honourable The House of Commons in Parliament assembled: a brief scheme humbly presented, for raising 40000 l. per annum with great facility by a duty that may be laid on the postage of letters, viz. Weston, Charles. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A65525 of text R222294 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W1476D). 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 A65525 Wing W1476D ESTC R222294 99833477 99833477 37954 2240957410

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A65525) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 37954) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2182:3) To the honourable The House of Commons in Parliament assembled: a brief scheme humbly presented, for raising 40000 l. per annum with great facility by a duty that may be laid on the postage of letters, viz. Weston, Charles. Weston, Matthew. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed April 12. 1695. and reprinted March 20. 1696. for Charles and Matthew Weston, [London] : [1697] Place and actual date of publication from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Taxation -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702 -- Early works to 1800. eebo To the honourable the House of Commons in Parliament assembled: a brief scheme humbly presented, for raising 40000 l. per annum with great facility, b Weston, Charles 1697 1 348 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. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the Honourable The House of Commons IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED : A Brief Scheme Humbly Presented , FOR RAISING 40000 l. per Annum with great Facility , by a Duty that may be laid on the Postage of LETTERS , Viz.

WHich Duty thus Humbly Proposed , may likely meet with little Opposition , it not affecting any Art or Mystery in particular .

Letters not exceeding one Sheet within 80 Miles , which pays 2 d. is Propos'd to Advance 1 d. Letters not Exceeding Two Sheets within 80 Miles pays 4 d. to advance 2 d. Ounces of Pacquets and Deeds within 80 Miles , pays 8 d. to Advance 4 d. Letters not Exceeding one Sheet , and above 80 Miles , pays 3 d. to Advance 1 d. Letters not Exceeding two Sheets , and above 80 Miles , pays 6 d. to Advance 2 d. Ounces of Pacquets and Deeds above 80 Miles , pays 12 d. to Advance 4 d. Foreign Letters not Exceeding one Sheet , to Advance proportionable . Foreign Letters not Exceeding two Sheets , Foreign Pacquets Inward , per Ounce , Likewise all Letters , Pacquets and Ounces , not here Inferred , Chargeable as per Act of Parliament 12 Car. II. Penny-Post-Letters Single to Advance ½ in the Bills of Mortality All Parcels , not exceeding one pound , to Advance 1 d. All Letters or Parcels , Exceeding the Bills of Mortality , to Advance 1 d.

It 's Humbly Presumed no Duty can be less Chargeable or Difficult then this , it being considered how Regularly it may be Managed at the Grand Post-Office .

If it be supposed , That this Proposal may lessen the Revenue ;

It 's Humbly Answered , as Conceived , That Letters generally are of more Moment , then to be Omitted for so small Addition as this is .

Printed April 12. 1695. And Reprinted March 20. 1696 , for Charles and Matthew Weston .