Reasons humbly offered by the Company of Glass and Earthen Ware Sellers, in answer to the pot-makers printed reasons for their bill now depending in this honourable House. Company of Glass Sellers (London, England) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28738 of text R220815 in the English Short Title CatalogTextual 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. 7 KB 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 B28738 Wing R531A Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.12[120] ESTC R220815 99885133 ocm99885133 190271 2240890454

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B28738) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 190271) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; C19:1[120]) Reasons humbly offered by the Company of Glass and Earthen Ware Sellers, in answer to the pot-makers printed reasons for their bill now depending in this honourable House. Company of Glass Sellers (London, England) 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London? : 1695?] Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Pottery, English -- England -- Early works to 1800. Pots -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800. eebo Reasons humbly offered by the Company of Glass and Earthen Ware Sellers, : in answer to the pot-makers printed reasons for their bill now depending in n/a 1695 2 1115 1 0 0 0 0 0 8.97 B The rate of 8.97 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2013-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-07 Sampled and proofread 2013-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
REASONS humbly offered by the Company of Glass and Earthen Ware Sellers , in Answer to the Pot-Makers printed Reasons for their Bill now Depending in this Honourable House . The First of their printed Reasons is ,

1. THat the Manufacture of Earthen Ware is of general use in private Families of all Conditions , and of absolute necessity in divers Trades and Professions , sufficient Quantities whereof are , and with ease might be made at home , for supply of the whole Nation , in all respects as good as any Imported , the same having been fully Demonstrated to the late King Charles , and King James the Second ; who in Testimony of their Satisfaction therein , issued out their several Proclamations for the better putting the Statute against the Importation of such Foreign Ware in Execution .

Answer . They never did , neither can they make such Painted Earthen Ware as is Imported ; And the Proclamations they mention were Clandestinely got ( and the first of them was in the time of the Dutch Wars ) without any notice given to the said Company of Glass and Earthen Ware Sellers , and the Act they mention does not take notice of Earthen Ware .

II. That the said Manufacture is wholy made of English Materials , great Quantities of Tin , Lead , Clay , and Kelpe to a considerable Value being therein yearly used ; and if the same were duly Encouraged , a much greater Consumption would be had , the said Art be Improved , and the Exportation and Vent thereof in Foreign Parts be Promoted .

Answer . Far greater Quantities then are or could be here Consumed of the said Materials , are Exported to Holland , Germany , Spain , Portugall , Italy , Turkey , Genoa , Persia , and the East Indies , to make the said Wares so desired to be Prohibited .

Note , The said Materials do Pay Custom , both at their Exportation and Importation , and all Earthen Ware now Imported pays Four Shillings in the Pound ; and all such Ware has constantly been Rated in the Book of Rates , and never pretended to be Prohibited till within these Twenty Years by the said Proclamations so surreptitiously got .

III. That the said Trade cannot be managed without great Numbers of Artificers and Labourers , so as several hundreds of Poor Families do wholy depend thereon , besides the several Tradesmen , as Bricklayers , Masons , Mill-Wrights , Coopers , Smiths , Watermen , Bargemen , &c. who are frequently Imployed in Matters relating thereto , to so great a Degree , That a full Moiety of what the Goods are sold for , is paid and expended by the Master for Labour .

Answer . There are but Six or Seven of the said Pot-Makers in England , who may Imploy Fifty Families or thereabouts ; several of the Artificers they mention , as Bricklayers , Masons , &c. being but very seldom Imployed , and that only in the Building and Repairing of their Kilnes , which are not Twenty in the whole , and the Profit thereof to the Persons , so seldom Imployed , can be but very inconsiderable , and they but few in number ; Whereas there are several hundreds of Families maintained in the Dealing and Retailing of Foreign and Inland Earthen Wares , whom this Bill , if it should pass , would utterly Ruin .

IV. That so great Quantities of Foreign Wares are now on divers Pretexts Imported , That unless a more effectual Prohibition be Established , the Consumption of the said English Materials will cease , the Poor be unimployed , and the said Manufacture be totally lost , and Foreigners thereby inabled to set what price they please on the said Commodities .

Answer . That very little or no Foreign or Earthen Ware is Imported , which they do or can make here , but chiefly China and Persia Earthen Ware , and Melting Pots , ( though some have had Patents for the sole making Fine Earthen Wares here , after the manner of Holland , and have had all Encouragement imaginable from the said Company of Glass Sellers and others , but could never make such Ware or Tiles for Chimneys ) and therefore cannot hinder the Consumption of such Earthen Ware as is made here ; but the Importing of Foreign Earthen Ware has been a great Example to the very Pot-makers themselves , by making their Wares after Foreign Patterns , to their great Interest .

Observe . That if the said Bill should Pass , it would be very prejudicial to the Nation in general for these Reasons , Viz.

I. It would give the said Pot-Makers an Opportunity of setting what high Prizes they please on their Commodities , which they already threaten to do , in case the Bill should Pass , and have formerly done the same , upon the first putting out of the said Proclamations . II. It will lessen His Majesties Customs , for most of the Materials of which the said Commodities are made , are had from hence , and pay Custom , both at the Exportation and Importation , and at the latter it pays Four shillings in the Pound by Act of Parliament . III. The said Wares have been conâ—Źtantly Rated in the Book of Rates , and never Prohibited till by the first Proclamation , which was Clandestinely obtained in the time of the Dutch Wars , and by vertue of that the Prizes of all Earthen Wares were here very much Enhanced . IV. It would be a great Prejudice to the Mint , and to all Silver Smiths , Chymists , and others , who use Crucibles and Melting Pots , the same being Imported from Abroad , and cannot be made here . V. It would hinder the Exporting of several Thousand pounds a year of our English Commodities which would never be Sold were it not in Barter for Foreign Earthen Ware .

Note , This Bill Prohibites the Importation of China , and all other curious Earthen Wares which can never be made here .

All which is humbly submitted to this Honourable House , and 't is hoped for the Reasons before mentioned , that the said Bill will not be suffered to Pass .

REASONS Against the BILL for Preventing the Importation of Foreign Earthen Ware .