Proposals humbly offered for the relief of the hackney-coachmen This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28458 of text R220861 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. 2KB 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 B28458 Wing P3753B 99832246

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 eng Urban transportation -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Carriages and carts -- Licenses -- England -- Early works to 1800. Coaching -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo Proposals humbly offered for the relief of the hackney-coachmen n/a 1692 2 398 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
PROPOSALS Humbly Offered for the Relief of the Hackney-Coachmen .

WHEREAS , in the Act for Regulating Hackney and Stage-Coaches , the Stage-Coaches were to Pay Eight Pounds a Year , by Quarterly Payments ; and those Licenses expiring with the Year , they may , as it seems , Drive where they please , without a License , out of the Bills of Mortality .

That there being about Four Hundred of these Stage-Licenses , It is Proposed , That they may be Licensed for One and Twenty Years , Paying Eight Pounds every Year , to be imployed towards the Discharge of the Transport-Ships , or otherwise , as your Wisdoms shall seem meet ; and that some Act may be passed to that Purpose , or some Clause added to some other Act for that End , that none may Drive , either in the Town , or Countrey , without their Figure .

And , Whereas several Rich Men , who have got Licenses for Keeping Hackney-Coaches , endeavour the having Liberty to Drive in the Countrey without Figures : Above 600 of the Licensed Hackney-Coachmen here in Town , who have paid their Fines , and have large Families , do humbly desire , that no Hackney-Coachmen may have Liberty to Travel without their Figure ; and for that purpose they make the Proposal above-written : For if such Liberty to Travel without Figure be allow'd , there will always be 700 Coaches in Town , which will be very pernicious to the Poorer Sort , by reason of their being over-Numbred ; and the Rich Men , who can keep Ten or Twelve Horses , will have much the Advantage of all the rest ; and the Poor Men and Widows , who cannot keep above Two or Three Horses ( can only work in Town ) will be utterly undone : Whereas , if their Figures are imployed for Countrey Journies in the Summer , there will be more Work for the Poorer Sort , who can only serve in the Town , which are above 600.

It is therefore humbly hoped , That either all Drivers in the Countrey may be Licensed as Stage-Coaches , and none may Drive there without License ; or else , that no Licensed Hackney-Man may Travel into the Countrey without their Figure .