Reasons humbly offered for continuing the right of foreign-built ships, now belonging to English owners, to load at and from any of the plantations for England directly This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92247 of text R230149 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing R536C). 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 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A92247 Wing R536C ESTC R230149 99895927 99895927 153514 2240915500

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A92247) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 153514) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2368:14) Reasons humbly offered for continuing the right of foreign-built ships, now belonging to English owners, to load at and from any of the plantations for England directly 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London? : 1700] Imprint from Wing CD-ROM, 1996. Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.. eng Plantations -- North America -- History -- Colonial period, 1600-1775 -- Early works to 1800. Ships -- Early works to 1800. Shipping -- North America -- Early works to 1800. eebo Reasons humbly offered for continuing the right of foreign-built ships, now belonging to English owners, to load at and from any of the plantations fo [no entry] 1700 2 444 1 0 0 0 0 0 22.52 C The rate of 22.52 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2013-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-11 Sampled and proofread 2013-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
REASONS Humbly Offered for Continuing the Right of Foreign-Built Ships , now belonging to English Owners , to Load at and from any of the Plantations for England directly .

THE Intent of the Bill for Preventing Abuses Committed to the prejudice of the Plantation-Trade , particularly by the Scotch , and to hinder the Trading in Foreign-Built Ships from Port to Port , and from one Colony to another in the Plantations , being now before your Lordships ,

It is Humbly proposed to your Lordship's Consideration .

I. That the present War hath very much decreased the Shipping of England , especially those Employed in the Plantation-Trade , so many having been Taken , and Lost . The Consequences of the War have made all Materials for Building Ships very dear , and the Great Occasion the King hath for Shipwrights , makes Building not only very Chargeable , but also Dilatory , for want of Ship-Carpenters , and altogether a great discouragement to Build many Ships during the War .

II. That Foreign-Built Ships , Called English Shipping , as belonging Bona Fide wholly to English Owners , and Bought for Valuable Considerations , and Navigated with the Master and three fourths English Seamen , are not even in Times of Peace Excluded by the Act of Navigation , nor by the Act of Frauds , from going to the Plantations to load there for England directly , Paying Aliens Customs if not made Free .

III. That during this War , there hath been a want of Shipping to bring off the Yearly Product of the Plantations , the Natural Consequences whereof are High Freights , and few Goods , and those Sold Dear here , and but little left to be Exported to Foreign Markets , for the want whereof we suffer so much in the Exchange , and are forc'd to send out the more Mony .

IV. That the English Merchants and Traders in this Kingdom being no● debar'd by the said Acts of Navigation and Frauds to Trade with Foreign-Built Ships , under the Conditions therein mentioned , have always been possess'd of such Ships , whereby the Customs as well as the Trade have been Increased .

'T is therefore Humbly Hoped that such Provision may be made in the said Bill , as may Preserve the Right and Property of the Subjects to continue such Foreign-Built Ships in the Plantation-Trade as before this time they are Possess'd and Owners of . Provided they do not Trade from Port to Port in the Plantations , nor from one Colony to another .