REASONS
humbly
offered
to
the
Consideration
of
the
PARLIAMENT
,
by
the
Company
of
Tallow-Chandlers
,
London
,
against
Passing
the
Bill
relating
to
CONVEX
LIGHTS
.
THE
Setting
up
and
Use
of
Convex
Lights
in
all
publick
Places
,
(
as
the
Bill
provides
)
,
extending
as
well
into
the
City
of
London
as
into
all
other
Places
for
the
time
past
hath
been
,
and
for
the
future
will
be
,
a
great
Prejudice
.
First
,
To
the
Kingdom
in
General
,
as
to
all
Owners
and
Farmers
of
Pasture
and
Feeding
Grounds
,
by
lessening
the
Use
and
abating
the
Price
of
Tallow
;
which
being
Prohibited
to
be
Exported
,
the
greatest
and
almost
whole
Consumption
thereof
consists
in
the
making
of
Candles
;
the
Use
and
Expence
of
which
will
be
greatly
hindred
,
if
those
Convex
Glasses
,
or
any
other
such
like
Lights
,
shall
receive
any
Countenance
(
tho
not
Injunction
)
from
the
Publick
Authority
of
the
Nation
;
for
thereby
the
Expence
of
at
least
60000
Dozen
of
Candles
,
in
and
about
the
City
of
London
,
and
in
other
Places
where
they
shall
be
used
proportionably
,
will
be
prevented
,
and
by
consequence
so
much
Tallow
left
useless
,
which
must
needs
abate
the
value
of
Tallow
,
and
so
much
in
the
Price
of
every
Bullock
and
Sheep
proportionably
.
And
tho
formerly
great
quantities
of
Tallow
were
Imported
,
which
yet
,
with
the
English
Tallow
,
did
but
serve
the
Use
of
the
Kingdom
;
yet
in
the
Year
1689.
no
more
than
370
Tuns
and
14
Hundred
;
in
the
Year
1690.
127
Tun
,
7
Hundred
,
3
Quarters
and
13
Pound
;
in
the
Year
1691.
63
Tun
and
11
Hundred
;
and
to
the
29th
.
of
November
,
1692.
11
Tun
,
5
Hundred
,
1
Quarter
and
14
Pound
of
Tallow
,
have
been
Imported
,
as
appears
by
the
Custom
House
Books
,
and
ready
to
be
proved
.
So
that
for
want
of
the
Vent
of
our
own
English
Tallow
,
the
Price
thereof
hath
fallen
a
fourth
part
,
or
near
thereabouts
:
And
when
the
Tallow
(
which
is
ordinarily
valued
at
21
s
.
in
a
Fat
Ox
,
and
3
s
.
6
d
.
in
a
Fat
Sheep
,
)
cannot
find
a
Vent
at
home
,
(
and
abroad
it
must
not
be
carried
)
,
it
necessary
falls
the
Price
of
every
Fat
Ox
and
Sheep
to
the
value
above
,
viz.
7
s
.
in
a
Fat
Ox
,
and
proportionable
to
a
Fat
Sheep
.
And
it
is
not
to
be
thought
,
that
the
Expence
of
so
much
English
Rape
Oyl
,
(
if
such
it
be
)
as
may
serve
their
Convex
,
and
other
new
fangled
Lights
,
will
bear
any
proportion
to
so
great
and
National
a
loss
,
as
that
of
the
Tallow
hath
been
,
and
must
be
,
if
the
expence
of
Candles
shall
be
diminished
,
as
of
necessity
they
must
,
if
these
new
Lights
obtain
the
Countenance
of
a
Parliament
.
Secondly
,
To
the
Company
of
Tallow
Chandlers
,
in
taking
from
them
the
Use
of
their
Lawful
Trade
,
to
which
they
have
Serv'd
,
and
taken
many
Apprentices
,
and
made
suitable
Provisions
for
carrying
on
their
Trades
,
for
the
subsistence
of
themselves
and
Families
,
having
been
a
Company
in
London
about
230
Years
,
and
have
to
their
utmost
,
assisted
towards
the
support
of
the
Government
,
and
carrying
on
the
War
against
France
,
by
lending
considerable
Sums
of
Money
,
great
part
whereof
is
still
owing
.
For
reckoning
6
d
.
per
.
Dozen
only
for
the
making
of
60000
Dozen
of
Candles
,
the
Expence
whereof
,
in
and
about
London
,
by
the
use
of
these
New
Lights
will
be
taken
away
.
That
lone
,
besides
the
loss
to
the
Kingdom
in
the
Tallow
,
brings
a
Loss
of
about
1500
l.
per
annum
,
to
the
Tallow-Chandlers
,
and
so
much
is
taken
away
from
the
Maintenance
of
themselves
and
Families
,
and
the
Support
of
their
lawful
and
honest
Trades
.
Thirdly
.
To
other
Trades
,
as
the
Horners
in
making
of
the
Leaves
for
Lanthorns
for
burning
Candles
in
,
Butchers
,
Spinners
and
Twisters
of
Cotton
,
whereof
the
22th
part
is
not
used
in
Lamps
which
is
in
Candles
,
and
must
necessarily
deprive
great
numbers
of
Persons
,
that
Live
by
those
Trades
,
of
their
Manitenance
and
Livelyhood
.
It
is
humbly
hoped
,
That
a
Project
so
pernicious
to
the
Publick
Good
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
the
private
and
lawful
Trade
of
many
Thousands
of
their
Majesties
Subjects
,
who
as
the
Law
now
stands
,
have
as
great
a
right
as
any
other
of
Their
Majesties
Subjects
have
to
their
Trades
,
and
the
lawful
Use
and
Advantages
thereof
:
Will
not
find
or
receive
any
Encouragement
in
Parliament
,
and
the
rather
,
for
that
the
Persons
named
in
the
Bill
,
have
not
any
Right
or
Title
by
the
Letters
Patents
,
(
the
time
wherein
is
thereby
sought
to
be
enlarged
)
to
the
setting
up
of
Convex
Lights
nor
is
there
such
a
Term
of
Convex
lights
therein
;
Nor
have
they
or
any
other
,
claiming
under
the
said
Letters
Patents
,
Expended
any
Money's
in
promoting
or
advancing
any
publique
Good
;
But
the
Prices
and
Rates
at
which
they
value
their
respective
Interests
,
have
been
raised
from
200.
l.
to
1100.
l.
for
a
32th
part
by
that
ignominious
way
of
Stock-Jobbing
;
and
the
further
advancement
of
those
Shares
by
such
wayes
,
for
the
future
,
is
conceived
to
be
the
cheifest
Design
the
Petitioners
have
to
endeavour
the
Passing
of
this
Bill
.
That
these
Lights
are
no
Publick
Good
,
and
greatly
dangerous
to
Coaches
in
the
Night-time
by
their
false
or
glaring
Light
.