A proposal humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons; for an additional tax to be paid upon regulating and licensing pawn-brokers; and all manner of persons driving trades or occupations, that have not served apprentiships, or be not free of some city or town corporate. Testimonials also for servants, ... to be licensed by the justices of peace, as retaylers of wine ... This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28436 of text R225203 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 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B28436 Wing P3705C Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.13[85] ESTC R225203 ocm99885931

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 eng Licenses -- Fees -- England -- Early works to 1800. Pawnbroking -- Licenses -- Fees -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo A proposal humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons; for an additional tax to be paid upon regulating and licensing pawn-brokers; . and all m n/a 1680 2 678 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 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A PROPOSAL Humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons ; For an Additional Tax to be paid upon Regulating and Licensing Pawn-Brokers ; and all manner of Persons driving Trades or Occupations , that have not served Apprentiships , See 14. Eliz . 5th . or be not free of some City or Town Corporate . Testimonials also for Servants , Nigh 1000 Bayliffs and Followers depend on the Knt. Marshals Court . Bayliffs , Serjeants , Apparetors and their Followers , and Retaylers of all manner of Liquors ( except Wine ) to be Licensed by the Justices of Peace , as Retaylers of Wine are Licensed by Commissioners : And for the due answering the same , as well as the Duties upon Pedlers , &c. 't will be without any Charge to His Majesty , and with little trouble to the Persons Licensed .

THat Blank Licenses may be dispersed by the Proposer , in Parchment , Vellum or Paper unstamp'd , throughout the Kingdom , and a Receipt thereon , to be Sold at two Pence Price , for each License with the Receipt .

Thus an equal and more profit will be to the Clerks , than Ale-House Licences are now . That the Persons to be Licensed , may bring one of the said Licenses to some Justice of Peace , whose Clark may have three Pence for filling up the same .

That the same Licenses as filled up , may be carried to some of His Majesties Collectors They come to every Market-Town each Month . of His Duty of Excise , and upon paying the Duty to him , he may subscribe his Name to the Receipt , and put some Stamp upon it , to be Felony to counterseit : And may without a Stamp appoint a Deputy .

That the License so stamped , may be Registred by the Minister or Clerk of some Parish , who may Stamp the same , to shew it is Registred , and the Constable and Church-Wardens may transmit true Copies of the Registries , into the Exchequer , to be a Controll upon the Receivers or Collectors , to prevent fraud .

Apprentices above 16 , to have their Indentures stamped , and they as well as the licensed , to seize those who wander with out License . That all Servants whenthey depart from their Masters , Mistresles or Dames may have a Testimonial , under the hand of the Master , Mistress or Dame , of such Servants faithful and good Service and Deportment , to be Registred in the Parish , where the Master , Mistress or Dame reside or dwell ; and a Duty of two Pence or more for each Testimonial , may be paid to some of the Collectors of the Excise of his Majesty , and true Capies of the Registry of such Testimonials , may be transmitted into the Exchequer , as aforesaid , to be a Check and Controll upon the Collectors : And whoever entertains any one to be his or her Servant without such Testimonial , may be without Remedy , in case of Damage done by any Servant so entertained .

The Proposer hath a Draught framed of a License and of an Acquittance , and a Model of a Stamp can procure , which cannot easily be counterfeited .

That no one out of Fair or Market , Buy Goods but of whom they know , or some one to Vouch ; Nor Pawns for Reckonings of Strangers , without some Parish Officer be present , to prevent the Receiving or Buying stolen Goods .

These Proposals by modest computation would raise 300000 l. per Annum , and hurt no body ; for in each Parish there is a petty Chandlers Tippling Brandy-Shop , 600 in the late Reign were survey'd in one great Parish , and were to have such Pedlers Licenses Arbitrarly ; one of which may be produc'd , if desir'd .