Reasons humbly offered to the Honourable the House of Commons, by the clothiers of Essex, viz. Colchester, Coxhall, Bocking, Braintree, Witham, and the towns adjacent, against the intended additional duty to be laid upon wines. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28773 of text R224804 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 B28773 Wing R558F Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.14[46] ESTC R224804 ocm99885669

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 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 to the Honourable the House of Commons, by the clothiers of Essex, : viz. Colchester, Coxhall, Bocking, Braintree, Witham, and n/a 1657 4 438 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 to the Honourable House of Commons , by the Clothiers of Essex , viz. Colchester , Coxhall , Bocking , Braintree , Witham , and the Towns adjacent , against the intended Additional Duty to be laid upon Wines .

1. AS our Bays , Says , Perpetuanos , &c. go Nine Tenths of them to Portugal and Spain , if a new Imposition be laid upon Wines , the King of Portugal ( we cannot but reasonably expect ) then will prohibit our Manufacture , having had an instance of the like ; which will prove fatal to us as the stagnation of the Blood .

2. It will totally destroy the Woollen Manufactury of Essex , for 50 or 60000 Families , as Spinsters , Weavers , and Combers , who are employed therein ; and have no other Employments whereby to get a livelyhood , will be inevitably all Ruined , by reason those Tradesmen who employ the Poor , will be forced to lay by their Trades .

3. When these Families have no Employment , the Lands of the County cannot maintain the Poor ; and what the Poor will do for maintenance , we humbly Pray the Wisdom of this House to take into their Consideration .

4. We humbly Pray , That if the Wisdom of this House will lay a new Imposition upon Wines ; That those Farmers may be obliged upon the Penalty of 100000 l. or give such Security as this Honourable House shall think fit , to buy those Goods that are now upon Tradesmens hands , at such Rates as the Merchants at this time will give , and oblige themselves to buy the same quantities of our Manufacture for Four Years ensuing , as has been sold for Four Years last past , to prevent the Ruine of so many Thousand Families .

5. We believe by the Importation of Spanish and Portugal Wines , &c. since the Prohibition of French Wines , &c. the Exportation of all our Manufacturies have been near one Third part increased ; which hath the better enabled us chearfully to bear our proportion of Taxes , &c. in the carrying on the present War hitherto , which we can give no other Reason for , but from the Benefit the Native Subjects of Spain and Portugal reap , by our Merchants bringing Returns , in the Fruits of those Countries , which formerly came from France ; and were not the Product of our Manufacturies , but of our Monies .