The great designs of parliaments, have ever been, when duties are granted, that the subjects may have as little trouble and disturbance from the officers and collectors as is possible: and therefore, the consideration of what followeth, is humbly offered and presented to the honourable House of Commons, before passing the Act for a duty to be laid upon houses & windows. Canning, William, fl. 1686-1690. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B18469 of text R224873 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 B18469 Wing C444aA Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.6[89] ESTC R224873 ocm99885718

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B18469) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 201649) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; C25:3[93]) The great designs of parliaments, have ever been, when duties are granted, that the subjects may have as little trouble and disturbance from the officers and collectors as is possible: and therefore, the consideration of what followeth, is humbly offered and presented to the honourable House of Commons, before passing the Act for a duty to be laid upon houses & windows. Canning, William, fl. 1686-1690. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London : 1695?] Signed at end: W.C. = William Canning. Imperfect: trimmed, affecting docket title. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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 eng Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Housing, finance -- England -- Early works to 1800. Windows -- Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo The great designs of parliaments, have ever been, when duties are granted, that the subjects may have as little trouble and disturbance from the offic Canning, William, active 1686-1690. 1695 1 632 1 0 0 0 0 0 15.82 C The rate of 15.82 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 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 great Designs of Parliaments , have ever been , when Duties are Granted , That the Subjects may have as little Trouble and Disturbance from the Officers and Collectors as is possible : And therefore , the Consideration of what followeth , is Humbly Offered ●●d Presented to the Honourable House of COMMONS , before Passing the Act for a Duty to be laid upon Houses & Windows .

1. THE Way of Surveying will be as troublesome , and more difficult than that of the Fire-Hearth .

As for Example .

The Houses to be Survey'd in the Cities of London , Westminster , and all other great Towns and Places in England , we will say , may have the Fronts of those Houses viewed in the Streets ; but then the Doors must be opened , and the Surveyors must have leave sometimes to go through Two or Three Rooms into a fine Garden or Back-side , to inspect and take an Account of the Windows in that Part of the House , which will take up no small Time : Then the side Windows in the said House or Houses must , or ought to have a true Account taken of them ; some of which looking into the Neighbours Court or Garden cannot be done without Trespassing upon them , or having leave to go into those Yards or Gardens .

Suppose Storms , or Drunken Fellows , beat down the Windows in the Streets ; if so , then the Duty will be paid for nothing , in regard those Windows must be made up again , or the Proprietor have nothing for the same .

These Surveys will take up a great deal of Time , and give much Trouble ( as is Humbly conceived ) to the Subjects : Whereas the Duty upon Rooms will not give half a Quarter of an Hours trouble to a Family , if the Duty and House should continue for ever ; so that there must be Authority given to the Surveyor , to enable him to make a true Survey , which cannot be done without the Leave and License of the Neighbours adjoyning ; and how easie this will prove , we leave to better Judgments to determin .

Many other Disadvantages and Disputes will happen , if a Survey be made every Year , some Altering , others making up Windows ; and it is doubted that Duty will lye very hard upon the Poorer Sort of People : But this Duty upon Rooms , the Owner has always something for his Money ; and , for the most part , has all his Money repaid him again , either by Lodgers , or other Advantages , if driving Trades : Nor will the Duties on Houses and Windows , notwithstanding the Trouble , as is said before , bring in near so much Money to the King , as the Duties upon Rooms will ; which may modestly be computed to Raise the Sum of Two Hundred Thousand Pounds a Year , and that with as little Trouble as can be thought on .

All which is Humbly submitted to the Wisdom and Determination of the Great Council of the Kingdom ,

By W. C.

That if any shall reflect upon the Proposer , as to what is said by him , as in Relation to the Duty on Salt , &c. he Humbly Prays he may have leave to answer such Objections as may be made against it ; for what he hath alleadg'd is not in Prejudice to any , but that all concerned may have Justice done , as well to the Subject , as the King .