Reasons humbly offered to the high court of Parliament, to shew the great dammage the publick receives by the ill flawing of raw-hides and calves-skins. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28785 of text R225164 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. 2KB 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 B28785 Wing R558bA Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.13[40] ESTC R225164 ocm99885896

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 eng Leather industry and trade -- England -- Early works to 1800. Leather industry and trade -- Quality control -- Early works to 1800. eebo Reasons humbly offered to the high court of Parliament, to shew the great dammage the publick receives by the ill flawing of raw-hides and calves-skin n/a 1696 4 353 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. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-09 Sampled and proofread 2014-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
REASONS Humbly Offered to the High Court of Parliament , To shew the great Dammage the Publick Receives by the Ill Flawing of Raw-Hides and Calves-Skins .

WHereas by the Statute of the First of King James the First , Chap. 22. Provision is made , against the Ill Flawing of Raw-Hides , but by the smallness of the Penalty , being but Twenty Pence , and the difficulty of the Prosecution , being by Action of Debt , the same is become Ineffectual .

II . There is no Provision , by any Law , against the Ill Flawing of Calves-Skins , which are now become a great Ware in Bootes and Shoes .

III . The Nobillity and Gentry receive great Dammage in their Coaches and Harnesses , by their often breaking and receiving wet through the Flaws , which cannot be so well discerned when wrought up .

IV . The Commonalty receive great Dammage , in their Bootes , Shoes , Bridles and Stirrup-Leathers , by Holes wearing in the Upper-Leathers , and taking Water in the Soles of the Shoes ; to the Indangering the Healthes of the Wearers : And by the Bridles and Stirrup-Leathers breaking , Indangering Peoples Lives .

V. Hereby many Hides and Skins are Rendred unfit for many Special Uses , which tendes much to the lessening of the Commodity , in the Price thereof , to the value of above One Thousand Pounds per Annum in Leaden-Hall-Market , as is ready to be Attested by many Credible Persons . And what must the Dammage then be in all the other Markets in the Kingdome ? From several of which there is great Complaints : And all this to the loss of the whole Nation , and Profit to none .

VI . These Abuses are now become so General , that the Buyers of Leather cannot Buy One Parcel in Ten but what is much Abused thereby , so that they are forced to Work it up into made Wares with these Defects , or else must sustain great Losses .