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<HEAD>THE CASE OF WILLIAM G&V;TTERIDGE, and other Gla&s;s-makers, a|gain&s;t Pa&s;&s;ing a Pattent for Incorporating Sir <HI>Jo&s;eph Herne,</HI> and Others, by the Name of the Gla&s;s-makers in the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and Ten Miles Compa&s;s of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P>THE Allegations upon which they de&s;ire their Incorporations are fal&s;e; Namely, 1&s;t. They &s;ugge&s;t, That by their continued Pains, Indu&s;try, long Experience in the Trade of ma|king of Gla&s;s, and at their great Co&s;t and Charges, they have attained to greater Knowledge in the &s;aid Manufacture than any others, and make better Gla&s;s than any heretofore made, and &s;ome ne|ver before made.</P>
<P>Re&s;pon&s;.</P>
<P>Suppo&s;ing this were true; then indeed where they proper to have a Patent for their New Invention, but not to have a Cor|poration.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides in the Corporation of all the Per&s;ons therein named, not above two are Gla&s;s-Makers, all the re&s;t are Per&s;ons to whom the Trade doth not of right belong. Be&s;ides, The very Arti&s;ts that now mix their Mettal, and Work their Gla&s;s, oppo&s;e their being Incorporated.</P>
<P N="2">2dly. They &s;ay, if the &s;aid Manufacture were well Managed, great Quantities might be Exported, and none Im|ported; whereas now great Quantities are Imported.</P>
<P>Re&s;pon&s;.</P>
<P>There were indeed &s;ome years &s;ince, great Quantities Imported, but now there is little or none, becau&s;e the Petitioner make better and cheaper Gla&s;s, than any heretofore Imported, and do daily Export great Quantities of Gla&s;s, and could do more, were there a Market for the &s;ame; and many of the Petitioner Gla&s;s-Hou&s;es now &s;tand unimployed, there being more Gla&s;s by them than they can &s;ell.</P>
<P N="3">3dly. They pretend that Joynt-Stocks are nece&s;&s;ary for carrying on the &s;aid Manufacture.</P>
<P>Re&s;pon&s;.</P>
<P>That cannot be true; for the &s;aid Manufacture is at pre&s;ent managed by &s;eparate Stocks, and &s;o managed that more is made of all &s;orts, than can be &s;old at Home or Abroad.</P>
<P N="4">4thly. They &s;ay many Arti&s;t have been forced for what of Imployment here, to go beyond the Seas for Work.</P>
<P>Re&s;pon&s;.</P>
<P>This they ought to prove; but admit they &s;hould, yet if more Gla&s;s of all &s;orts are here made than can be vended, what can a Joynt-Stock do more?</P>
<P>It is true; two Arti&s;ts indeed were forced to go beyond the Seas, but it was Mr. <HI>Bowles,</HI> one of the Gla&s;s-Makers named in the intended Corporation, forced them to go, having by Promi&s;ing them greater Wages than Mr. <HI>Bellingham</HI> gave, drawn them into Covenants to &s;erve them for a time, and then not performing their promi&s;e, not relea&s;ing their Covenants, they were forced to go.</P>
<P N="5">5thly. They pretend that they had agreed with mo&s;t of the Proprietors Intere&s;&s;ed in the Gla&s;s-Hou&s;es in <HI>Lon|don</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and 10 Miles di&s;tance of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Re&s;pon&s;.</P>
<P>There are but about two and twenty Gla&s;s-Hou&s;es in <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and ten Miles di&s;tance of the &s;ame, of which, tho&s;e named in the intended Corporation have but five, and the Petitioners, have twelve; the re&s;t may be pre&s;umed to &s;tand Neuters.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides mo&s;t of the Gla&s;s-makers at <HI>New-Ca&s;tle</HI> and <HI>Sturbridge,</HI> oppo&s;e the &s;aid Corporation; and though their Gla&s;s-hou&s;es are fair remote, yet there Market is here in <HI>London,</HI> and they have Agents here.</P>
<P>And &s;o if their Allegations and Preten&s;ions, upon which they de&s;ire to become Incorporated are fal&s;e, then the Corporation or Sub&s;tructure on &s;uch a fal&s;e Foundation &s;hould certainly be de&s;troyed.</P>
<P>But further; they have not mentioned one Inconvenience that will attend the &s;aid Incorporation, &s;o it mu&s;t be done for them and</P>
<P N="1">1&s;t. It is plain, the Corporation, if pa&s;&s;ed, will de&s;troy Mr. <HI>Bellingham</HI>'s Patents and others, which have already been granted, to &s;ome Ingenious Arti&s;ts, that have travelled, and &s;pent much Money, and mightily improved the &s;aid Manufacture in <HI>England,</HI> and to whom the pretended Incorporators are beholden for the very En|gine they now Work withall; for they are in General called Gla&s;s-makers, without any Re&s;triction, ad no re|&s;training Words after, can prevent their overthrowing a le&s;s powerfull than them&s;elves.</P>
<P N="2">2dly. They are not obliged to take into their Corpo-ration all Gla&s;s-makers that &s;hall be willing to come into them.</P>
<P N="3">3dly. None mu&s;t come in, without great Stocks, or if they doe, tho&s;e of the Corporation, who bring in Money only, will have as great a &s;hare of the Profits, as any of the &s;aid Arti&s;ts, who bring in Money and Art too.</P>
<P N="4">4thly. The Thing plainly &s;peaks it &s;elf to be a Corporation of Rich Men to oppre&s;s the Arti&s;ts in the &s;aid Manu|facture, and will in Effect be a Monopoly, and engro&s;s that Commodity into a few Hands, and &s;o rai&s;e the price of it, and frighten the Arti&s;ts away.</P>
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