Reasons Humbly offered by the soap makers of the City of London to the honourable the House of Commons in Parliament assembled against a duty to be laid upon soap. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28742 of text R225252 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. 3KB 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 B28742 Wing R534 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.13[151] ESTC R225252 ocm99885979

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 eng Soap trade -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. England and Wales -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800. eebo Reasons Humbly offered by the soap makers of the City of London to the honourable the House of Commons in Parliament assembled against a duty to be la n/a 1695 4 531 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 by the Soap makers of the City of London to the Honourable the House of Commons in Parliament assembled against a Duty to be laid upon Soap .

1st . THat the Excise of Soap in the time of the late Civil Wars amounted but to about 7000 l. per Annum after all Charges of Collecting paid .

2dly . That since the present War with France , the Excise of Soap being discoursed of , it was thought more convenient to lay a Duty upon the Commodities it was made of , they being more easie to collect at the Custome House , and accordingly a great Duty was laid upon the Ingredients of which Soap is made , to the value of about a half peny per pound ( being 10 s . per Barrel ) by reason whereof , and of the present War , the Commodities are so dear , that the Trade of Soap is much decayed in London , for that in many Counties especially the North and West , the Chandlers and others privately make Cake Soap , Ball Soap , and white Soap of Wood and Fern Ashes and Kitchen-stuff , and the like , which much lessens the sale of Soap in London .

3. That if any Excise be laid upon Soap it will cause many People to make Soap in private , which will much lessen the Revenue , and tend to the Ruin of those that honestly pay the Duty .

4. That Soap in London , being made of Olive Oyl and foreign Pot-ashes , and Tallow , which Commodities are the return of Fish , Cloath , Lead , Tin , &c. A new Duty will make Soap so very dear , that the sale of it will be much lessened , and consequently the Exportation of these Commodities will be very much lessened also .

5. That if a Duty be laid upon Soap it will subject the Soap-makers to great grievance , by Officers continually Night and Day disturbing their Houses , as is well remembred by some Soap-makers , who were Traders in the time of the late Civil Wars .

6. That there being already great Duties laid upon the Ingredients , Soap is made of , as aforesaid , if an Excise be now laid on Soap it will be taxing the Labouring and Manufacturing of the Commodity , and a great Grievance to great numbers of poor People , who depend upon the said Trade , and those that use Soap , and what is got by the will in great measure be lost by the other .

7. That the Multitude of Officers necessary to look after this Duty in all parts of England will be such a very great charge and lyable to so much corruption that the Duty will signifie very little to the ends for which it is designed .

Which Reasons considered it is humbly hoped this Honourable House will be pleased to lay aside an Excise upon Soap .

Against laying a Duty upon Soap .