Reasons most humbly offer'd by the po[or] tradesmen, for passing the salt-petre bill This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B43793 of text R182509 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. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B43793 489265140 ocn 489265140 Wing R570A

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 eng Saltpeter industry -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- Early works to 1800. Tariff -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Reasons most humbly offer'd by the po[or] tradesmen, for passing the salt-petre bill. n/a 1693 3 618 1 0 0 0 0 0 16.18 C The rate of 16.18 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 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 most humbly offer'd by the po●● Tradesmen , for Passing the Salt-petre Bill .

WHereas in a printed Paper , against passing the said Bill , delivered at this most Honourable House , it is most falsely ( and self-interestedly ) asserted , by some Engroslers of that small quantity of Salt petre now in England , That the Pretences of the poor Tradesmen , who sollicite the passing the said Bill , are frivolous and inconsiderable , the said Engrossers well knowing , if the East-India Company's Salt-petre should arive safe , the same must be kept for Their Majesties use , and the poor Tradesmen must be forced to buy of them at their extravagant Prizes ; which the passing the said Bill will prevent .

The Refiners , Glass-makers , and Dyers , do attend , and are ready to make out , to the full satisfaction of this most Honourable House ,

That without Salt-petre , the said Trades cannot be carried on .

That in these Trades , upwards of 300 Tons is yearly expended .

That if Salt-petre bears the intollerable high Price it now doth and hath done , for a long time past , the said Tradesmen and their Families must inevitably be ruined .

For by the dearness of Salt-petre in England , Scarlet and Bow Dyers cannot Dye so cheap as the Dutch , therefore Merchants send Cloths to Holland to be Dyed . And they also have a great Advantage of us , by Dying their own Cloths cheap for the Turkey Trade , to the prejudice of the Woollen Manufacture of this Nation .

For the same Reason the Refiners are forced to send their Silver to Holland to be separated .

And for the like Reason the Glass-makers cannot make Glass to sell at Reasonable Rates , as formerly , by which the Nation suffers in general .

By these Advantages the Dutch are enrich'd , and the poor Tradesmen impoverish'd . As also the Gunpowder-makers , Merchants , and Masters of Ships ; for when Salt-petre was cheap in England , there was upwards of 900 Tuns used yearly , for Gunpowder to Export , besides what Their Majesties and the Tradesmen expended .

But by reason of the dearness of Salt-petre now in England , we lose the benefit of manufacturing so much Salt-petre yearly , which will make 1200 Tons of Gunpowder , and also lose the Exporting of the said 1200 Tons of Gunpowder . And Ireland , and our Plantations in the West Indies , cannot be supplyed by us , when Gunpouder is above 5 l. the Barrel ; for by Law it cannot be then Exported . And at the Price Salt-petre now bears , and hath done for a long time past , Gunpouder cannot be made under 6 l. the Barrel ; but the Dutch find ways to supply them .

And whereas the East-India Company , in their Petition to this most Honourable House , desire , if leave be given to Import Salt-petre , it may be to them only . If so , they may choose if they will Import any or no : And so do , as has been done , make no publick Sale for three or four Years together , but impose upon the Tradesmen , by Selling by private Contracts .

And it is not yet certain , whether they shall continue a Company or no .

Their Case is most humbly recommended to the Compassion of this most Honourable House .

REASONS Most humbly offer'd by the poor Tradesmen , For passing the Salt-petre Bill .