A proposal humbly offered to the King and Parliament, for raising a considerable sum of mony yearly to His Majesty. By James Lord Mordington, B. Whitelocke Esq; and Rich. Cotton cloth-worker. Mordington, James Douglas, Lord, b. 1651. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28441 of text R224797 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 B28441 Wing P3707A Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.6[77] Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.6[31] ESTC R224797 ocm99885662

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 eng Woolen goods industry -- England -- Early works to 1800. Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century eebo A proposal humbly offered to the King and Parliament, for raising a considerable sum of mony yearly to His Majesty. / By James Lord Mordington, B. Whi Mordington, James Douglas, Lord, 1651- 1695 1 680 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 offered To the King and Parliament , FOR RAISING A Considerable Sum of Mony Yearly to His MAJESTY . BY James Lord Mordington , B. Whitelocke Esq ; and Rich . Cotton Cloth-Worker .

THAT an Imposition be laid upon all Broad Cloth ; Viz . on the finest Sort of 12 Shillings per Yard and upwards , the Sum of Three Pence per Yard ; On the middling Sort from Six to Twelve Shillings per Yard , the Sum of Two Pence per Yard ; On all Broad Cloth under Six Shillings per Yard , One Penny per Yard . And proportionably on all Stuffs , Serges ; and all other woven wollen Manufactures .

That Offices be erected in requisite Places , with leaden Seals and Stamps to be set on the Cloth , Stuffs , &c. upon pain of Forfeiture , if sold without .

This by Computation will produce to His Majesty about Two Millions per Annum , from what is Imported , Exported , and Spent here . Which will be a very considerable Revenue to the King , for His carrying on the present War with France .

And , far from proving a heavy Tax upon the Commodities aforesaid , 't will scarce be felt by the Nation . For he that wears the finest Cloth shall pay but Nine Pence for a Suit consisting at most of Three Yards , and perhaps of Three or Four Pounds Value or more ; For the middling Sort , Six Pence per Suit ; and for the courselt , Three Pence per Suit . The Wearer or Spender in reality paying the Tax ; and the Clothier , Merchant , and Retailer paying nothing but what they receive again from the Spender .

The Turks , and all forein Nations , will Contribute by the Exportation , more than Our Selves ; the Exportations being generally far beyong the Quantity of What we spend at Home , and the Merchants receiving again from their forein Correspondents what they Pay here for the Tax .

And , whereas there are great Quantities of our English Wool and Fullers Earth Transported daily beyond Sea ( which is the greatest Detriment to the Cloathing Trade , the chief Manufacture of this Kingdom ) an Effectual Law to prevent the Exporation thereof for the future will much Advance the Interest of the Kingdom in general , and of the King in particular , as will appear by these Two following Reasons .

I. That English Wool is naturally Oily and Fat , and will mix with any other Wool . Whereas Forein Wool being naturally Dry , and either too Course or too Fine , cannot be Milled or Fulled to any Perfection , without a Mixture of ours . II . That without English Wool and Fullers Earth , no good Cloth can be made in any Part of the World , besides England . And consequently by such Effectual Prohibition the whole Trade universally will be our own . Which will very much Inrich the Nation , and with this Imposition will yield a very great Yearly Revenue to the King ; easy to every one in particular , and an Ease to the Nation in general , in Raising the present necessary Supplies for the War .

And this moreover answers all Objections of the Clothiers . Who , besides their Paying nothing but what they receive again upon Sale as before , will by such Effectual Prohibition receive far greater Advantage , than they can any ways pretend to be Grieved by this Tax .

The Discoveries of the several Ways and Methods used , together with the Advantages and Correspondencies made for the clandestine Exportation both of our Wool and Fullers Earth , being a great Help and Insight to Reform and Prevent these Abuses ; the said Proposers are ready to make out the same , with some other Precautions to that effect , if these their Propossals find Acceptance .