Reasons humbly offered to the Honourable the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, against the intended bill for 12 l. 12 s. per tun upon wines. By the Company of Coopers, London. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28782 of text R224790 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 B28782 Wing R558ZA Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.14[40] ESTC R224790 ocm99885656

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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 Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, against the intended bill for 12 l. 12 s. per tun upon wines n/a 1693 4 542 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 2014-07 Sampled and proofread 2014-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
REASONS humbly offered to the Honourable the Commons of England , in Parliament Assembled , against the Intended Bill for 12 l. 12 s . per Tun upon Wines . By the Company of Coopers , London .

I. THAT whereas by the great Duty already laid upon Wines , there is not half the Importation , nor consequently half the Consumption as was before the War with France . Now , if this Act should pass , it would be in the Nature of a Prohibition , so that not half of what is now , will be Imported for the time to come ; whereby not only His Majesty's Duty of Customs will be very much reduced ; but that part of the Trade , which relates to the Cooperage of Wines will be almost wholly lost .

II . That since the Prohibition of French Wines , the Company of Coopers have been much employed in Making and Fitting of Empty Cask , to be Exported to Spain and Portugal , &c. but especially to Portugal for bringing in of Wines , that Country being not able to supply them with Cask for the same ; who , if this Act should pass , would utterly lose that Benefit also ; which hath been a means to supply themselves , and their Families , in this time of dead Trading , Scarcity and Dearness of all Provisions .

III . Whereas many of the said Company are great Traders in Wines , and Deal with Inn-keepers and Country-Customers ; their said Country-Chapmen have already made a very little Consumption since these Wars , in regard that Wines are at so high a Price already : And if this Act should pass , Wines must consequently be so much the dearer , that Gentlemen and Travellers will not go to the Price ; and so the Trade in the Country will be utterly lost . And this the said Company have the greater Reasons to believe , because several of their Country-Chapmen have already given order not to renew their Wine-Licenses for any further Term , altho this is the usual time for renewing the same .

IV . That the Premisses considered , His Majesty will not only lose in his Customs and Wine-License ; but most of the Country Inn-keepers will be ruined and undone , if the said Wine-Traders should draw their Stocks out of their Hands , which they will be necessitated to do , they having been so greatly Impoverished , especially since the Quartering of Soldiers , wanting their Subsistence , lies so heavy upon them . Besides the great Prejudice that may be to the Kingdom in hindring the Vending the Native Commodities , and that of Newfoundland , and the other Fisheries .

That the Passing this Bill tends to the Ruin of the Cooper's Trade , with many hundreds of Families , and to the utter Destruction of a Company so useful and necessary at Land , and to His majesty's Navy at Sea .

And therefore 't is humbly hoped the Bill will not pass this Honourable House .

Company of Coopers

REASONS . Against the Duty upon Wines .