The hard case of the glass-makers of England and the danger of losing the said manufacture, by reason of the duties laid upon glass-wares, most humbly represented to this honourable House.

The hard case of the glass-makers of England and the danger of losing the said manufacture, by reason of the duties laid upon glass-wares, most humbly represented to this honourable House. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B23923 of text R220820 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. 3KB 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 B23923 Wing H696A 99832205

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eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Glass trade -- Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Glassware -- Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Glassworkers -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo The hard case of the glass-makers of England : and the danger of losing the said manufacture, by reason of the duties laid upon glass-wares, most humb n/a 1697 1 428 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. 2014-04 SPi GlobalKeyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-06 Anne Simpson Sampled and proofread 2014-06 Anne SimpsonText and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 pfsBatch review (QC) and XML conversion

The Hard CASE OF THE GLASS-MAKERS Of England , and the Danger of losing the said Manufacture , by reason of the Duties laid upon Glass-Wares , most Humbly Represented to this Honourable House .

INasmuch as the said Duty ( if continued ) will unavoidable prove the Ruine of the Artists , who have , to the great Advantage of this Nation , brought the Glass-Manufacture to very great Perfection , even to a Prohibition of the Importation thereof .

1st , For the Reason Glass before the said Duty was Sold as cheap as possible , to get a Livelyhood thereby .

2dly , The said Duty hath so lessened the Consumption of Glass , that one third part of the Glass made the last Quarter , lyes on the Makers Hands ; and the Consumption grows lesser and lesser every Day : By which means the Maker is forced to Sell his Glass 20 per Cent . Cheaper then before the said Duty , rather than to have their Glass lye on their Hands , to break and grow out of Fashion , ( as it will do ) and want Money to pay Wages to Workmen , who by Contract before the said Duty , they are obliged to Imploy , or pay them Play-Wages for nothing .

Which being considered , must unavoidably Ruine the Maker in a short time , and then consequently the Workmen must be Ruined , and forced into Ireland , Scotland , and other Places to get Bread ; which Places are so sensible of Matter of Fact , as already to Erect Works for their Reception ; which , if not prevented , must undeniable prove the Loss of Glass-Manufacture to this Nation .

It is therefore most Humbly Hoped , the Members of this Honourable House , will take into their serious Consideration the Ruine of the poor Workmen ( some of which have not had 14 Days Work , since the Commencement of the said Duty ) and be Gratiously pleased to prevent the same ; especially considering the said Duty is very inconsiderable to the Crown ; it being most evident , and plainly to be made appear , the Duty of what Glass was made the last Quarter , did not amount to 5000 l. out of which the Drawback and Collecting must be Deducted , and then not 3000 l. will be coming to the Crown ; and that is more then any following Quarter will produce , for the Reasons aforesaid .