A proposal for raising sixty thousand pound per annum, without charge of collecting, in a treble benefit to the nation by the payment. / Humbly offered to the Parliament of Great Britain. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B18672 of text R225232 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. 7KB 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 B28432 Wing P3694 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 516.m.18[40] ocm99887013

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 eng Lotteries -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo A proposal for raising sixty thousand pound per annum, without charge of collecting, : in a treble benefit to the nation by the payment. / Humbly offe n/a 1700 2 1129 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. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-09 Sampled and proofread 2014-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A PROPOSAL FOR Raising Sixty Thousand Pound per Annum , Without Charge of Collecting , In a Treble Benefit to the NATION by the Payment . Humbly Offered to the Parliament of GREAT BRITAIN .

I. THE Duke of Roan , in his Treatise of the Interest of all Christendom , tells us , That England is a mighty Animal , that will never die , unless it kills it self : That the Swiss seems to be made for the Mountains , and the Mountains for the Swiss : That the Hollanders seem to be made for the Sea , and the Sea for the Hollanders : That it 's the Interest of the Swiss to be always in Peace , and that it 's the Interest of the Hollanders to be always in a War ; and where Force fails , Money prevails , is a Dutch Proverb .

II . The Interest and Prosperity of this Kingdom depending upon Trade , I shall here shew , by Instances of Fact , how far Foreign Money hath prevail'd in making Laws to the Destruction of our Commerce : Edward the Third made the first Advance , by stopping of our Wooll from Exportation , and in the first Settlement of Custom , where the Denizen paid Six Shillings and Eight Pence , the Alien paid Ten Shillings , Anno vicesimo septimo Ed. 3. cap . 1. But the Government being left to his Grandson , Richard the Second , in his Infancy , Foreign Money prevail'd in getting a Parliament , that made Laws to destroy what he had so happily advanc'd , and by Act of Parliament made Anno secundo Rich . 2. cap . 1. all Restraints laid upon Aliens were taken off , and they were put upon an Equal Foot in Trade with the Denizens . Anno decimo quarto Rich . 2. cap . 5. a Law was made , that no Denizen should carry Wooll , Leather , Woollfels , nor Lead , out of the Realm of England , to the Parts beyond the Sea , upon pain of Forfeiture of the same , but only Strangers . And I hope it will not be denied here , but that this was a Foreign Parliament . This unhappy Prince was hereby soon dethron'd , and the Government fix'd in a wrong Line , which kept up such Differences between the Houses of York and Lancaster the succeeding Reigns , that Merchant Aliens had the Benefit of our Merchandize and Commerce , until the Reign of Henry the Seventh , who turn'd the Tide , and by the Second Law that he made , obliged Merchant Aliens , made Denizens by Letters Patents , or by Act of Parliament , to pay Aliens Duties ; and if any Goods or Merchandize were Enter'd in any other than the true Merchant Owner's Name , he should Forfeit his Goods , be Imprison'd and Fin'd at the King's Pleasure . Anno tertio Hen . 7. cap . 7. the Merchants of the Stillyard , by their Bribes in the next Reign , destroy'd what was so happily set up in this , and Rooted out the English Factory at Antwerp ; which was happily Retrieved in the Fifth and Sixth Year of Edward the Sixth , and upon the fame Foot carry'd on the whole Reign of Queen Elizabeth , who in her first Year called Aliens Duties the Antient Revenue for her Crown , and made them a Security to our Navigation , by obliging all Merchants to pay Aliens Duties that shipp'd upon Foreign Bottoms , Anno primo Eliz . cap . 13. All which was overturn'd by Act of Parliament , in favour of Scotland , in the first Year of King James , by a Subsidy granted to the King for his Life out of Wooll exported , Anno primo Jacobi , cap . 33. Which laid the Foundation of our Civil Wars . At the Restoration of King Charles the Second , the Book of Rates was settled , and the Aliens Duty established ; where the Natural Born Subject paid One Shilling upon the old Subsidy , the Merchant Alien paid Two Shillings ; where the Natural Born Subject paid Three Shillings and Four Pence upon a Cloth exported , the Merchant Alien paid a Noble , Anno duodecimo Car . cap . 4. In the Twenty-fifth Year of King Charles , Aliens Duties were taken off our Woollen Manufactures exported by Act of Parliament , which gave a fatal Stroke to our Merchandize and Navigation . And in the Convention Parliament , Lilli-bo-lero , the Dutchman in every particular was put upon an Equal Foot with the Natural Born Subject . In the Tenth Year of King William , a Bill came from Holland , which was pass'd into a Law , to take off all Duties from our Woollen Manufactures exported . No Application was ever made by any English Merchant to have the Duties taken off , but a Surprize when it appear'd in the Votes . One Millner a Merchant , who bought Goods for Mr. Dorvel of Holland , kept several Bails of Cloth at a Pack-house in Coleman-street , that were pack'd up some Weeks before the Bill came in , and had the Benefit of the Act , who always in former time took the first opportunity of Shipping . But that which at this time gives the true Proof , whether this was a Dutch or an English Parliament , A Petition was put in by the English Merchants , to desire that this Benefit should be limited to the Natural Born Subjects ; and a Debate arising , whether their Petition should be consider'd , upon a Divison of the House , it passed in the Negative .

III . It is therefore humbly Proposed , That Ten Groats upon a Cloth exported by Aliens may be added to the Bill depending , for the better Collecting her Majesties Customs upon Goods imported , which will advance Sixty Thousand Pounds per Annum : And shall only add , that no British Merchant in Foreign Parts is upon an Equal Foot in Trade , with the Natural Born Subject ; and that Money in Holland at this time upon good Security is at Three per Cent .

IV . That this Duty upon the Woollen Manufactury is but One and a Half per Cent . as likewise the Duty upon Importation ; when many of our Woollen Manufactures are loaded with Eight per Cent . Unnecessary Charge .

A PROPOSAL for Raising 60000 l. per Annum .