Reasons humbly offered to the honourable the House of Commons, against buying any foreign bottoms into England for the future, or for laying such a tax on them as may be greater than free ships of this kingdom pay. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28786 of text R226273 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 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B28786 Wing R558cA Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.7[104] ESTC R226273 ocm99886611

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 eng Shipbuilding -- Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Import quotas -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo Reasons humbly offered to the honourable the House of Commons, against buying any foreign bottoms into England for the future, : or for laying such a n/a 1700 2 500 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 the House of Commons , AGAINST Buying any Foreign Bottoms into ENGLAND for the future , or for laying such a Tax on them as may be greater than free Ships of this Kingdom pay .

FIrst , It has Caused since the said Act a visible decay of Building Ships ; as for instance , In Ipswich where many Ships used to be Built for the Coal-Trade , there hath not been one Built these Three years ; and at Alborough , Dunwich , Walderswick , Woodbridge and Harwich , many Ships have belonged to the Coal-Trade and now there is not in all these places above One Ship , a small Pink and a Dutch Buss or two excepted .

And whereas the places above mention'd , before the Act commenc'd , Built yearly stout good Ships , fit upon occasion to serve His Majesty in time of War , now so oft as they are lost or worn out , we are supply'd from Holland and other parts beyond the Seas , with slight Vessels built with Firr , which enjoys the same Priviledge in this Trade as the English Ships do , because the Trade is not able to bear the Charge of better Vessels ; and besides the decay of good Ships and loss of Building , great numbers of our Builders and Shipwrights ; &c. are discouraged and are not able to maintain themselves and breed servants in these Trades as formerly they used to do .

But it has been Objected by some , That the Building many Ships at home will waste our English Plank and may be a Prejudice to His Majesty in preventing the supply of Stores for the Navy Royal . To this we Answer ;

That we are as well able as the Hollanders to build all such ships for the Coal-Trade with Forreign Plank , &c. so that the Plank , &c. of our own growth cannot be Exhausted .

This will have these following good Effects .

We shall imploy our own Ships in fetching not only Plank but Pitch , Tarr , Hemp , Masts , Canvas , Iron , &c. and export our own Commodities for Payment , which will bring a Revenue to His Majesty , both outward and inward , if an Act were to Prohibit the buying and forreign Bottoms into England , or such a Duty laid on those that should Buy , as would Discourage such Buyer , and Encourage Building stout Ships at home ; many hundreds depending on Shipping , will find employment at home , by which means Building and Navigation will flourish , the money expended therein laid out with our Neighbours , would circulate among us , and no body could be Prejudiced by it , but Forreigners , who eat the Breat out of our Englishmens mouths , in whose hands the Building Trade now lyeth .