The case of the transport-ships for reducing Ireland. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B18717 of text R225257 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 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B18717 Wing C1169A Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.17[58] ESTC R225257 ocm99885983

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 eng Great Britain. -- Army -- Organization -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Military policy -- Early works to 1800. Ireland -- History -- War of 1689-1691 -- Early works to 1800. eebo The case of the transport-ships for reducing Ireland. . n/a 1692 2 709 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 CASE of the TRANSPORT-SHIPS For Reducing Ireland .

THERE is a Tax voted to be laid on the Tonnage of Shipping not only upon such who import Goods , but also on Coasters : To which Shipping there is already a considerable Sum of Mony due for reducing Ireland .

Now Shipping is that by which the Nation hath formerly obtained its Riches and Greatness , and by all possible Ways and Means should be encouraged , more especially in these Times of War , and when more than ordinary Losses , such as few others in the Nation have sustained , have been the Portion of the Owners thereof .

There is expressed ( among the sundry Duties intended to be laid ) 6 d . per Tonn on all Coasters : Which 6 d . per Tonn will be unequal , some Coasters making more and some less Voyages in a Year . That such a way of collecting the Duty cannot possibly be equal : But if instead of 6 d . per Tonn on Coasters , by the Voyage , there be 12 d . per Tonn laid on all English Shipping whatsoever , to be paid at two several Payments yearly . In such Case all the Shipping in the Kingdom will bear a just proportion , and although some Shipping may be abroad , and not come home in Two or Three Years , yet before such Ships enter their Goods , they may be liable to pay the yearly Tax so laid .

And to the end that Strangers may baer a Ballance , who Import Goods , the laying 12 d . per Tonn on all Ships lying North from Dunkirk , and 2 s . per Tonn on all Ships South from Dunkirk , inclusive for every Voyage they make ; it may together raise about Eighty Thousand Pound per Annum , purely on the bottom of their Ships .

But if the Ships who are under such calamitous Circumstances already , should be left Unpaid , and yet Taxed towards Raising Mony otherwise , then the Case will be very hard .

For 12 d . a Tonn yearly paid for Shipping , is full as much as 4 s . in the Pound for Land ; and if laid for four Years , will be equal to a Land-Tax for four Years to come : For take all the Shipping in England in an Averidge , and 't is not worth five Pound per Tonn . But grant it be so Rated , then the Owner that has 500 l. in Shipping , or 100 Tonn , pays five Pound per Annum ; which is just what the Farmer pays for 500 l. in Land .

And 12 d . per Tonn on Shipping will appear to be very great , if it be considered . ( 1. ) That the one half part of what makes a Compleat Ship , pays a considerable Custom already , viz Pitch , Tar , Iron , Masts , Sails and Cordage . ( 2. ) It pays as it is Taxed by way of Stock ; for there are many who have no other Estate but Shipping , yet are rated for it as their Stock .

So that if what is now Voted pass into an Act , then Shipping will first pay at the Custom-house , next as Stock , and ( 3. ) as high as Land ; though but a floating Interest , and not at all to be compar'd with Terra firma .

Yet if in the Parliaments Great Wisdom it shall seem meet that a Tax must come on the Tonnage of Shipping , purely as Shipping , 't is humbly hoped that what is so Raised , shall be appropriated to the discharging the Debt which His Majesty , in His late most Gracious Speech , was pleased to Recommend to the Care of His House of Commons ; that so Shipping may discharge the Debt due to Shipping , which in a few Years it will do , if the Tax be so laid .

THE CASE OF THE Transport-Ships .