Reasons humbly offered against reducing the duty of low wines from foreign materials. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28727 of text R224798 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 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B28727 Wing R525 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.14[44] ESTC R224798 ocm99885663

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info(at)umich.edu for further information or permissions.

 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B28727) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 185497) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; C1:3[44]) Reasons humbly offered against reducing the duty of low wines from foreign materials. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London : 1690?] Imprint from Wing. Caption title. Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Header created with script mrcb2eeboutf.xsl on 2016-01-28.

Manually keyed and coded text linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

Issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).

Keying and markup guidelines available at TCP web site (http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/docs/)

 eng Wine and wine making -- Taxation -- Early works to 1800. Wine and wine making -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo Reasons humbly offered against reducing the duty of low wines from foreign materials. . n/a 1690 4 615 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
REASONS Humbly Offered against Reducing the Duty of Low Wines from Foreign Materials .

THE Act of the Second of his Present Majesty's Reign for the Encouragement of Tillage , laid a Duty of 8 d . per Gallon on all Low Wines from Foreign Materials , and but 1 d . per Gallon on Low Wines from Corn . This great Difference in that Duty encouraged several Persons to erect Distilling-Houses ; and were at great Cost and Charges to Distil from Malted Corn only .

The Reducing the Duty of Foreign Materials to 4 d . per Gallon , and keeping up the Duty of 1 d . per Gallon upon Low Wines from Corn , will have the following Effects upon the Nation in general , as well as upon the Malt Distiller in particular .

First , The Malt Distillers must lose the Benefit of all those Utensils which they erected and prepared for Distilling Corn , and Distil Molossus , or else not work till there is such a difference between the Price of Malt and Foreign Materials , as the Reduction of 4 d . per Gallon on the Low Wines will amount to . For as the Duty at present is , there is but 6 l. per Tun difference in the Price of Spirit . And if 4 d . per Gallon is taken off the Low Wines , that will be 8 l. 8 s . per Tun ; which will make Molossus Spirit cheaper than Corn ; and then no Man can Distil from Corn ; and how much that will be to the Interest of the Landed Men of England , is left to them to judge . For it is evident , that nothing but the Difference in the Duty , can give Encouragement to Distil from Malt ; which was the Opinion of those who made that Act for the Good of the Country . And whatever Arguments they were that inclined the Parliament to make such a Difference in the Duty , they are still in force : For the Country ought now to be as much encouraged as ever : And if this Act pass , it will be as certain a Prohibition of Distilling from Corn , as if the late Act , which allowed an half Quantity , had forbid the Use of any at all .

The Plantations will not receive any great Benefit neither : For the Reducing the Duty of Low Wines from all Foreign Materials , will give a Liberty for Men to Distil from Wines , Lees , Figs , Raisins , Currans : And there is a long &c. that Men will prefer even to Sugar and Molossus . For the Distiller once prohibited the use of Malt , has no other Inconvenience than the first loss of his Brewing Vessels , and then can Distil from other Materials as well as any , and certainly will take to the more Profitable . Therefore , for the Good of England in general , and to preserve our selves from the Disadvantage of a Trade in French Brandy , it is humbly Proposed , That

The present Duty on French Brandy be kept up . That all Low Wines from Foreign Materials , not of the Growth of our Colonies , be 8 d . per Gallon . That all Low Wines from Materials of the Growth of the Colonies , be 6 d . per Gallon . That all Low Wines from English Materials be free from Duty of Excise .

REASONS Against Reducing the Duty of LOW WINES from Foreign Materials .