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 eng Tobacco -- Early works to 1800. Customs administration -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo The advantages of the tobacco trade. . n/a 1685 2 501 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. 2014-02 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
THE ADVANTAGES OF THE TOBACCO TRADE .

1 IT imploys near two hundred Sail of Ships , from one hundred to five hundred Tuns , and breeds many Marriners .

2. It Vends vast quantities of English Manufactures and other things for Clothing , Building , Furniture , &c.

3. It pays yearly from one hundred thousand , to one hundred and thirty thousand pounds Custom to the King .

4. It is sent from hence to most parts of Europe , and thereby Shipping is imployed , and the stock of the Kingdom increased by return of Money and Commodities .

The Inconveniences that will follow , by laying a greater Imposition are ,

1 GReat quantities of Tobacco have been left in Warehouses , for that the Custom , Freight , &c. are more then oftentimes the Commodity yielded .

2. It hath been found by experience , that when the duty hath been more , the Revenue was less , and the Custom Books tells us , that His Majesty hath yearly received more at two pence the pound , then in former times when it was higher .

3. It will discourage the Importation , and incourage the defrauding of the Custom , especially in the Out Ports and Creeks .

4. A new Tax will make it dearer , and so less quantities will be Imported , and will , occasion the cutting of stalks amongst it , which are usually cast away , or sold for little .

5. As the Tobacco Trade hath of late been managed , it hath drawn the whole almost from other Nations .

6. It will incourage the planting of Tobacco in Ireland , Germany , France , and Holland , and put them upon finding out ways to Transport it privately hither to supply the Nation .

7. The Importation being less , the Exportation of our Native Manufactures will be so likewise , and many Families that depend upon them , and sitting Tobacco for Sale , will be ruined .

8. The great Ships built and imployed by the Traders will be laid aside as useless , and no more built for want of imployment , and so Navigation weakned .

9. The Tobacco will be carried into other Nations where the Duties are less , as Holland , Zeland , Hambrough , and Flanders , where it pays not above one half penny per pound , from whence the Planters will be supplyed with all necessaries , or they will be necessitated to leave their own , and go to the Dutch and French Plantations , where they may find better incouragement .

10. Necessity will cause the Inhabitants of the Plantations to turn their Lands to the increasing of Provisions , and imploy their hands in making those Manufactures which they have hitherto been supplyed with from England . 1685.