Proposals most humbly presented to the honourable House of Commons offering these, in hopes to serve his Majesty, by raising a supply on cattle, supposed only to be killed for sale, whereby the subject may be no ways opprest. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28465 of text R220751 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. 5KB 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 B28465 Wing P3764 99832143

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 eng Cattle -- England -- Early works to 1800. Meat -- Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo Proposals most humbly presented to the honourable House of Commons : offering these, in hopes to serve his Majesty, by raising a supply on cattle, sup n/a 1695 1 812 2 0 0 0 0 0 24.63 C The rate of 24.63 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
PROPOSALS most humbly presented to the Honourable House of Commons , offering these , in hopes to serve his Majesty , by raising a Supply on CATTLE , supposed only to be killed for Sale , whereby the Subject may be no ways opprest .

I. FOR Oxen , Steers , Bulls , Cows , Heiffers and Stucks , or by what other names they are distinguished , there is not , by modest computation , less killed , for the supply of the Cities of London , Westminster , and the liberties thereof , than 83200 Oxen &c. per Year

And I humbly suppose , if this number be kill'd in London , &c. then for all England and Dominion of Wales , and the Victualing of Shipping , not less than 12 times that number ; which will amount in the Year to 998400 Oxen , &c.

And it may reasonably be supposed , the half of that number to be large-siz'd Cattle , whereof none doth weigh less than 8 C. weight ; which if each of these were to pay 1 s . 7. d . per Head , it will come to no more than ⅔ of a Farthing per Stone , or the 1 / ●2 ; of a Farthing per Pound weight .

Likewise , the small siz'd Cattle being the other half of the above number , and they weighing 5 C. weight at least ; and if each of them were to pay 1 s . 2 d . per Head , will be no more upon the Stone and Pound than before .

The above number of Oxen , &c. per Year , one with another , at the aforesaid Rate given , will amount to 68640 l. per Annum

II . For Calves , by the least computation that can be given , there cannot be less killed in London , &c. than 20800 per Year , and at this proportion in all England , &c. I may modestly account 6 times that Number , which will come to 124800 Calves per Year

And supposing them to weigh one with another 2 C. weight at 4 d . 1 / ● per Head , amounts to 2340 l. per Annum And exceeds not the former in the Stone or Pounds per price .

III . For Sheep , I think there may be computed to be killed in England , &c. 1400000 per Year And if each of these weigh 21 Stone , Large and Small , one with another , at 3 d . ⅓ per Head , will bring in 20416 l. per Annum Which will be in proportion on the Stone and Pound as the former .

IV . For Hoggs and Shouts , I presume may reasonably be adjudged for the supply of all England , &c. and Shipping , 3 times the number of Oxen , &c. which will amount in the Year to 2995200 Hoggs &c. per Year

And supposing them to weigh 36 Stone one with another at 6 d . per Head , comes to 74880 l. per An. not exceeding on the Stone and Pound as aforesaid .

V. For Lambs , by computation of those expended in the King's Houshold , I believe , by a modest account for supplying of London , &c. 68000 per Year , and for all England , not less than 204000 per Year supposing them to weigh Young and Old 5 Stone , and at 2 d . per Head , amounts to 1700 l. per Annum Which will not be the ⅙ part of a Farthing per Pound Weight .

In this Estimate I presume not to give the true number of any sort of Cattle killed , but have taken such care that I verily believe if an accurate Inspection be made , I am below the number and have not exceeded the weight . I humbly suppose that at the aforesaid Rates , the Imposition will be so small per Head , that it will not amount to any more per Stone and Pound than what hath been before expressed ; so at the said Rates , the Butcher , Retailer or Seller , cannot well exact on the Poor ; and so inconsiderable a Price , that , I hope , to the Rich it is not worth taking notice of .

I presume that if each of the aforesaid Cattle were to pay no more than ⅔ parts of a Farthing per Stone proportionable to their bigness , it will come to a far greater Sum per Year .

Whereby may be raised a Fund of Mony , without ( I hope ) any Grievance to the Subject , amounting to , per Annum , 167976 l.