Reasons offered to the consideration of His Grace, His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Hononrable [sic] Estates of Parliament, by several salt-masters, against the Act for a manufactorie of salt npon [sic] salt, given in by Mr. William Areskin Governour of Blackness Castle. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03132 of text R176772 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E3249B). 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 B03132 Wing E3249B ESTC R176772 52211819 ocm 52211819 175671 2240896918

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B03132) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175671) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2745:16) Reasons offered to the consideration of His Grace, His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Hononrable [sic] Estates of Parliament, by several salt-masters, against the Act for a manufactorie of salt npon [sic] salt, given in by Mr. William Areskin Governour of Blackness Castle. Erskine, William, d. 1700. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [Edinburgh : 1695] Caption title. Publication data suggested by Wing. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Salt industry and trade -- Law and legislation -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo Reasons offered to the consideration of his Grace, . . . by several salt-masters Erskine, William, 1696 1 531 1 0 0 0 0 0 18.83 C The rate of 18.83 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
REASONS Offered to the Consideration of his Grace , His Majesties high Commissioner , and the Honourable Estates of Parliament , by several Salt-Masters , against the Act for a Manufactorie of Salt upon Salt , given in by Mr. William Areskin Governour of Blackness Castle .

1. IF this Act in favours of Mr. William Areskin shall be past , it will make one Manufactrie destroy another which is of far greater Import and Advantage to the Nation , viz. The Manufactorie of small Salt , by which so many thousands of People are maintained , and by the Exporting of which , so much Advantage redounds to the Countrey ; For should it be past in his favours , under the Notion of making Salt upon Salt , he would import so much Foraign Salt , as should not only serve for Curing of Fishes , but all other Domestick Uses , and being free of Duty , will be able to sell it at a lower Rate than the Salt-masters can make their Salt at .

2. If the Advantage of the Countrey be consulted , it cannot be past in his favours and Partners only , for then the Buyers are confined to Buy as it were from one hand , and so must pay what Price they shall please to impose upon it , and thus it becomes a Monopoly , whereas if power be granted to every Salt-master to make Salt upon Salt , the Countrey shall be far better served , and the Merchants if they cannot buy from one may go to another , as in the buying of ordinary Salt .

3. The Art of making Salt upon Salt is not so great as Mr. William Areskin represents it , since any persons who have any Skill in Alchymie may do it , and it is ordinarly done in Holland by silly Women ; the Expense of bringing some of these home , cannot be so very great as he would have it to be .

4. It is offered by several of the Salt-masters , that each of them shall set up for themselves , and have their Works in readiness for accomplishing the Design betwixt and the time condescended on in the Act.

5. Should this Act be granted in his favours , Coal-masters might close up their Pits , to the great loss of the Countrey : for when small Salt cannot be made with some Advantage , the small Coals by which it is made must be left in the Coal-heugh , which in some places takes Fire , and in other places so Immures the Coal-heugh that they cannot work , and so in effect renders their Works altogether useless .

It is therefore humbly expected , that His Grace His Majesties High Commissioner and the Honourable Estates of Parliament in respect of the above Reasons , will not pass the Act in Mr. Areskines Favours , but in Favours of such of the Salt Masters as are willing to set up for themselves to make Sal● upon Salt ▪