The case of the stationers, relating to the act of Parliament for granting a duty upon velum, paper and parchment. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B18716 of text R220634 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. 6KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B18716 Wing C1167A Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.12[47] ESTC R220633 ESTC R220634 ocm99885086

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 eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Stationery trade -- England -- Early works to 1800. Tariff on paper -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Customs administration -- England -- London -- Officials and employees -- Early works to 1800. eebo The case of the stationers, relating to the act of Parliament for granting a duty upon velum, paper and parchment. . n/a 1698 3 976 2 0 0 0 0 0 20.49 C The rate of 20.49 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 CASE OF THE STATIONERS , Relating to the Act of Parliament for granting a Duty upon Velum , Paper and Parchment .

THE Duties are so very high , that before the making of the said Act , the Stationers could Trade further with 100 l. Stock , than they can now with 1000 l. the Duty of a Ream of of Paper value 12 s . with the 6 d . Stamp ( the most general Stamp ) being 12 l.

THAT the Commissioners of the said Duty have not only dispers'd all sorts of Velum , Paper and Parchment ready Stampt , into all Parts of the Kingdom , ( which , before the said Act , was supplied by the Stationers , ) but do likewise sell by Retail , at their Office at Lincolns-Inn , and in Southwark ; and in order to Engross the whole Trade , they have dispersed Printed Lists of the Goods they sell , with the Prizes of them ; publish'd Advertisements of the same ; and discourage Attorneys , &c. from bringing their own Goods to be Stampt , by telling them they need not give themselves that Trouble , for they may be supplied with Goods ready Stampt at their Office . They likewise shut up their Stamping-Office at Six at Night ; but their Selling-Office they keep open till Seven . All which will be the utter Ruine of the Stationers , who have obain'd their Trade by Servitude , and are incorporated to exercise the same .

There are but Three Stationers that supply the Commissioners , and those Undertakers have engross'd the greatest part of the Parchment in the Kingdom ; by which means , the Price thereof is advanced at least 4 s . in every 20 s .

THAT the said Commissioners do allow all their Agents in the Country Three Months Credit , and Eighteen-pence in the Pound ; but have refused to make the Stationers the like Allowance , on payment of present Money .

Object . It is Objected by the Commissioners , That they offer'd the Supplying of the Kingdom to the Company of Stationers , upon their giving Security .

Answ . It was Answer'd by the Master of the said Company , That it was not only impracticable for them to give Security : but if they should undertake the whole Trade , it would be look'd upon as a Monopoly in them ; for that the Profit of the Goods could be divided amongst those only that had Shares in the said Company , which not One in Twenty or Thirty have ; and the greatest part of those that have Shares are Booksellers and Printers , and do not trade in Velum , Paper or Parchment .

Object . It is also Objected by the Commissioners , That they sell much Cheaper than the Stationers ; and than the Stationers , in some things , get above 100 l. per Cent .

Answ . The Stationers , before the said Act was put in execution , did Petition the Commissioners , and afterwards the Lords of Their Majesty's Treasury , for an Allowance on Prompt-payment , that they might be enabled to sell their Goods at the usual Price , but could not be relieved : Yet 't is well known , and has been proved , that the Stationers , notwithstanding they have lost three parts of their Trade , do still sell at the usual Price over and above the King's Duty , except only in a single Blank or two , or single Sheet of Paper , for which the Stationers are often-times called up at unseasonable Hours ; and which is so inconsiderable , that it does not pay Portridge , or Servants Shooe-leather to and from the Office . This Objection is rais'd by the sale of six Stampt-Bonds , and six Stampt Sheets of Paper only , designedly bought by Colonel Hatley ( one of the Stationers that supplies the Commissioners ) of Mr. Vincent ; which is a very small Quantity of Goods , to make a Comparison of Hundreds by .

The Stationers always deal with the Attorneys in the Country , as well as those in Town , and are sent to for Goods ready Stampt , for which they are obliged to give Credit ; so that they not only run great Hazards of losing their Commodity , but the Duty also . But the Commissioners Agents run no Hazard at all , nor are no Money out of Pocket ; the Goods being sent down to them from the Commissioners , for which they are obliged to return their Money but once in Three Months , and then for no more than what they have disposed of . So t is humbly hop'd ( there being always a difference between Ready-Money and Time ) the Stationers ought rather to have a greater Allowance than the Commissioners Agents ; for they did not desire any Credit to be given to them , but proposed the Payment of Present Money .

If therefore this Honourable House shall not be pleased to take off the whole Trade from the Commissioners , it is humbly pray'd that the said Commissioners may be disabled from Selling at their Office , and in the Cities of London and Westminiter , and within Five Miles of the same : And that the Stationers may be enabled to sell their Goods at the usual Price , they pray that the like Discount or allowance may be made to them upon Prompt-Payment of the King's Duty , as is made to the Commissioners Agents in the Country . All which is humbly submitted 〈◇〉 this Hon●●rable House .