The apparent ruine of the glass-makers in England and loss of the said manufacture, by reason of the duties laid thereon, most humbly laid before this honourable House, in hopes to prevent the same. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B17196 of text R220827 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. 4KB 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 B17196 Wing A3564A 99832212

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 eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Glass trade -- England -- Early works to 1800. Glass -- Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Glassworkers -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo The apparent ruine of the glass-makers in England : and loss of the said manufacture, by reason of the duties laid thereon, most humbly laid before th n/a 1696 2 618 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 2014-04 Sampled and proofread 2014-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Apparent Ruine of the GLASS-MAKERS in England , and loss of the said Manufacture , by reason of the Duties laid thereon , most Humbly laid before this Honourable House , in Hopes to prevent the same .

1st , THE said Manufacture not being capable to bear a Duty , ( especially of 20 per Cent . ) inasmuch as Glass , before the said Duty , was Sold for much less then 20 per Cent . Profit .

2dly , And that notwithstanding the said Duty , the Prices of Glass are not Advanced , but the contrary , being now Sold Cheaper then before , and that not for the reason , which Persons Interested in Collecting the said Duties , give out in Speeches for their own Interest , and to continue their Sallary . But for that the Maker endeavouring to sell Glass at such Price , whereby to repay him the Duty already paid his Majesty , hath so lessened the Consumption , that he is forced to sell at any Rate to pay Workmen ; and rather than to let his Glass lye longer to grow more out of Fashion , thereby to loose more by it .

3dly , For this Reason the Maker cannot put himself forward to make any quantity of Glass , in as much as the Duty is payable for all Glass , as soon as the same is made , by which the Maker pays as if the same were free from any Hazard or Danger , but sure to be sold at the Price , according as the Duty is paid for , when the same is Whole and in Fashion ; Whereas 't is quite contrary , for Glass will unavoidable fly considerable in lying , break in packing in and out ; and by lying grow out of Fashion , insomuch , that the Maker would be glad to sell the same for less then it Cost , besides the Duty thereof .

4thly , The Trade of Glass-making is not like other Trades , who can have what Workmen they will , and when they will ; for Glass-makers being bread up always to the Fire , cannot turn themselves to other things ; so that if they cannot be Imployed in their own Trade in England , must be forced into Foreign Parts , which have always been ready to entertain any Art from us , and very careful to keep any from us . And to shew how sensible they are of our Workmens necessity to leave their own Countries , have in Holland , Ireland , Scotland , &c. Erected Glass-works for their Reception ; and by late Advice from Ireland it appears , they have laid a great Duty upon all Glass Imported .

All which being Considered , with the many Reasons already Presented to this Honourable House , 't is Humbly Hoped will find Relief ; that a Manufacture so greatly improved in this Nation , may not be lost ; and the Improvers thereof ( willing to continue in their Native Countrey ) forced to fly the same , greatly doubting as Fugatives , to have such great Care taken of them , as Fugatives have here in England .

And Lastly , 't is Humbly Hoped , this Honourable House will not suffer so Improved a Manufacture to be lost , and the Improvers thereof Ruined , when the Duty , the occasion thereof , brings so very little to the Crown , as in several Printed Papers has been laid before this Honourable House , and plainly to be made appear .