Reasons humbly offered against the intended duties on coals and glass This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28730 of text R220822 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 B28730 Wing R529A 99832207

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 eng Glassware -- Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Coal -- Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Glass -- Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo Reasons humbly offered against the intended duties on coals and glass n/a 1697 2 378 2 0 0 0 0 0 52.91 D The rate of 52.91 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 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 the Intended Duties on Coals and Glass .

1st . THAT the Duty on Coals , will not only be a Discouragement to Navigation , but it will prove an absolute Ruine to the Poor in general ; especially poor Seamens Wives , ( and Children ) whose Husbands are venturing their Lives in His Majesties Service , and are forced to Buy Coals by the Peck , and pay 6 d . per Peck at present , and 't is feared , the Consequence of the said Duty may advance the Price thereof .

2dly . That the intended Duty will not effect the Gentry nor Inland Counties , but only lye hard upon the very poor and meaner sorts of Trades , as Dyers , Cooks , Brick-ma●ers , Lime-burners , Stillers , Smiths , Brewers , Glass-make &c. who use such considerable quantities of Coal● in their Trades , that the said Duty must unavoidably put a stop thereto , and make them uncapable to pay the several Duties to the Crown already charged upon them , and send Trade to Holland and other Places .

3dly . That there is no probability of having Coals Cheape , by Conveys for Shipping ; for if Conveys sufficient should be provided , the same would be a greater Expence to the Crown , then the intended Duty on Coals would bring thereto ; besides the disappointment and damge His Majesty would meet with for want of the Seamen protected for that purpose .

4thly . That the Duty on Coals is also a further Duty on Glass-Wares , then the intended Duty thereon , which intended Duty thereon , is a far greater hardship , than ever yet was known to be laid on any Art ; which ought rather to be encouraged than disincouraged , to which end a Bill is depending in this Honourable House , to Prohibite the Importation of Earthen-ware , to encourage the Art of making the same here : Therefore 't is humbly hoped , shortness of time , will not prevent means to keep so improved a Manufacture in this Nation , Trade at home , and the Poor of this Nation from Perishing .