The case of the bailiffs, wardens, assistants, and commonalty of the Company of Weavers London, truly stated. Humbly submitted to the judgement of the Parliament, for the exempting themselves out of the bill, for heavy dyed silk. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B18630 of text R225248 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 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B18630 Wing C1015B Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.13[147] ESTC R225248 ocm99885976

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info(at)umich.edu for further information or permissions.

 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B18630) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 186345) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; C4:1[142]) The case of the bailiffs, wardens, assistants, and commonalty of the Company of Weavers London, truly stated. Humbly submitted to the judgement of the Parliament, for the exempting themselves out of the bill, for heavy dyed silk. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London : 1700] Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Header created with script mrcb2eeboutf.xsl on 2016-01-28.

Manually keyed and coded text linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

Issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).

Keying and markup guidelines available at TCP web site (http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/docs/)

 eng Worshipful Company of Weavers (London, England) -- Early works to 1800. Textile industry -- England -- Early works to 1800. Silk industry -- England -- Early works to 1800. England and Wales -- Commerce -- India -- Early works to 1800. eebo The case of the bailiffs, wardens, assistants, and commonalty of the Company of Weavers London, truly stated. : Humbly submitted to the judgement of t n/a 1700 1 321 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 Case of the Bailiffs , Wardens , Assistants , and Commonalty of the Company of Weavers LONDON , truly stated .

Humbly submitted to the Judgement of the PARLIAMENT , for the Exempting themselves out of the BILL , for Heavy Dyed SILK .

THis Bill being for the setting up an Office , The Weavers do for their parts humbly move , That they having formerly had the experience of the like Office in times past , have found it very greivous and burthensome to them , and Intollerable .

1. In respect of the attendance , wherein much time is spent by the Weaver .

Both in bringing his Raw Silk to the Office ,

And in returning with it back again to the Office , and there to stay till a Tryal be made ; which is a great Losse to the Artificer , who lives onely by his time , and must needs be destructive to his Servants .

2. In respect of the charge upon every pound of Silk which is so Died , wherein they humbly move , That as they are no parties to the abuse or fraud either one way or other , nor shall receive any benefit or advantage by the prevention thereof , in regard they buy their Silk Raw , and cause it to be Dyed themselves ; wherein their interest is to have it Dyed light and not heavy , for two Causes .

First , in regard their work runs the further in measure , according to which the Weaver sells his Commodity , and not by weight .

Secondly , in regard their Silk being light Dyed , renders the colour more beautiful and consequently the work more Saleable and strong for the Wearer , and therefore it is against the interest of the Weaver to cause his silk to be heavy Dyed .