Proposals humbly offered to the consideration of the Honourable House of Commons to support the manufacture of England and raise money to pay the poor distressed people concerned in quartering and cloathing the army disbanded in 1679 ... This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09802 of text R233093 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 2KB 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 B09802 Wing P3753E ESTC R233093 ocm 62369611

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 eng England and Wales. -- Parliament. -- House of Commons. Great Britain. -- Army -- Equipment and supplies -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Proposals humbly offered to the consideration of the honourable House of Commons, to support the manufacture of England, and raise money to pay the po n/a 1680 3 365 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. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
PROPOSALS Humbly Offered to the Consideration of the Honourable House of COMMONS , TO SUPPORT The Manufacture of England , and Raise Money to pay the poor distressed People concerned in Quartering and Cloathing the Army Disbanded in 1679.

FIrst , That all Foreign Goods prohibited to be brought into this Kingdom , which afford no Moyety to the Seizor , are privately brought in ; No Revenue comes to the Crown , and the Workmen of England ruined thereby : Which if a considerable Custom were laid upon them , with severe Penalties upon all Masters , Merchants , and others that do bring over such Goods , and not make a true Report and due Entry thereof , would advance the price of Work here , bring in a great Revenue to the Crown .

Secondly , All Guns , Musquets , Pistols , Carbines , Sword-Blades , Iron and steel Wire , Hilts , Pannels , Lockets , Chapes , Hooks , Gunpowder , Arms , Ammunition , and all Utensils of War , with divers other Goods , would bear a very considerable Custom upon them : ( Yet great Quantities would be brought in . ) Also Padlocks , Snuffers , Bitts for Bridles , Stirrups , Spurs , Gerth , Buckles , Snaffles , and many other Goods wrought in Iron , as Frying-pans , Dripping-pans , which are all privately brought in , pay no Custom : Which if a large Custom were laid upon them , would encourage the Workmen , and advance the Customs also . Other Goods which are Free to come in , which pay little or no Duty at all , as Bar , Iron , Rod Iron , Iron Plates , Black , Tin Plates from Hamburgh , all sorts of Dantzick , Swede , and German Steel , Salt , Iron Backs , Stoves and Furnaces , Chafing-Dishes , and many other Goods that would bear a very considerable Custom , and do a kindness to all Workmen in that way ; and many other wrought Goods , which the Officers of the Custom-House can well inform your Honours .