Reasons humbly offered by the Corporation and Company of Glass-sellers of London, against passing the bill for laying duties on glass, &c. Company of Glass Sellers (London, England) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28740 of text R220826 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. 2 KB 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 B28740 Wing R531B Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.12[131] ESTC R220826 99885142 ocm99885142 190282 2240894994

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B28740) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 190282) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; C19:1[131]) Reasons humbly offered by the Corporation and Company of Glass-sellers of London, against passing the bill for laying duties on glass, &c. 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 England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Glass trade -- England -- Early works to 1800. Glassware -- Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo Reasons humbly offered by the Corporation and Company of Glass-sellers of London, : against passing the bill for laying duties on glass, e.t.c.c. n/a 1695 2 318 4 0 0 0 0 0 125.79 F The rate of 125.79 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more 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 Corporation and Company OF GLASS-SELLERS of LONDON , Against Passing the Bill for laying Duties on Glass , &c.

IF this Bill should pass , it will tend to the Ruine of many Glass-sellers , and ancient Shop-keepers of the City of London , whose Livelyhoods in a great measure depends upon selling of Glass-Wares , who being for the most part obliged to Dwell in large Houses , for the conveniency of Stowage thereof , wil● undoubtedly by this great Advance upon Glass , fin● such a decay of Trade , as will render their Returns s inconsiderable , as they will not be able to support the● Families , and pay Rent for their Houses .

For if the Glass-maker must pay the Duties of all Glass made and put into his Ware-house , to be sure the Glass-seller must pay so much the more before the Glass can come into his Ware-house , one quarter of which generally lies on the Glass-sellers hands , until out of fashion , by which he would be willing to lose 40 l. per Cent. so that the Duty itself of 20 l per Cent. will Ruine these Glass-sellers ; who by the return they have had , and the small Gain , have made shift to maintain themselves and Families , and pay all Duties to the Crown incumbent on them , as Citizens of London , which the intended Act will disinable them to perform for th● future .

Therefore 't is hoped , the great Wisdom of this Honourable House will take into Consideration , the great Oppression such intended Duties will be to this Corporation , as also the Glass-maker on whom they depend , and how little and inconsiderable an Advantage it will be to the Crown ; be Graciously pleased not to pass the said Bill .