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<HEAD>The CASE AND Circum&s;tances of Paper-making IN <HI>ENGLAND</HI> TRULY STATED.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">And by the PAPER-SELLERS Humbly Offered to the Con&s;ideration of this Pre&s;ent PARLIAMENT, As REASONS again&s;t the Pa&s;&s;ing of a BILL, intituled <HI>An Act for the Encouragement and better Establi&s;hing the making of White-Writing and Printing-Paper.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The &s;ame being Mi&s;repre&s;ented in a Paper &s;tiled, <HI>The Ca&s;e of the Company of White-Paper-makers.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THAT the Art of making White and Brown-paper was brought into <HI>England</HI> by Sir <HI>John Spelman</HI> a German, to whom King <HI>James</HI> I. in the Second year of his Reign granted a Patent for fourteen years, and al&s;o for his encou|ragement to &s;ettle the Trade in this Kingdom gave him an E&s;tate of 200 <HI>l. per Annum</HI> at <HI>Dartford</HI> in <HI>Kent,</HI> where he erected a Paper Mill, which is to this day imployed in making of White and Brown-paper.</P>
<P>That White Writing and Printing Paper is but a degree of goodne&s;s from Cour&s;er Sorts, and the making there|of no New Invention.</P>
<P>That the Grant to the Pretended Inventors for their &s;ole making of White Paper, upon which the intended Act is grounded, is a Monopoly and again&s;t Law; and all &s;uch Grants are declared to be void in Law, and all Bodys Politick and Corporate are di&s;abled to exerci&s;e any &s;uch by the Statute, 21. <HI>Jac. cap.</HI> 3.</P>
<P>That the &s;ame Grant was obtained through their &s;pecious pretences of &s;upplying the whole Kingdom, and im|ploying of Fifty Mills, which they have not performed, nor can, for that in fifteen years &s;ince they had their Fir&s;t Patent, they have im|ployed but five Mills; and if they had more, cannot procure Materials &s;ufficient for making of a twentieth part of the quantity of White Paper u&s;ed in <HI>England;</HI> and their want of &s;uch materials is mo&s;t evident by their u&s;ing their Mills, de&s;igned for White Paper, in the mak|ing of very great quantities of Brown.</P>
<P>That whereas they have in&s;inuated that va&s;t &s;ums of mony have been &s;ent out of this Nation yearly to <HI>France</HI> for Paper, by a com|putation taken thereof, there is not above 50000 <HI>l.</HI> worth of Paper in a year imported from <HI>Germany, Holland, France, Italy,</HI> and other plac<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s, and a great part of that is the Returns of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Manufactures and Merchandizes, and of great advantage for the imployment of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Shipping; the Freight, by rea&s;on of the Bulk thereof, being very con&s;iderable.</P>
<P>That Foreign Paper was not brought into <HI>England,</HI> becau&s;e the like was not, or could not be made here, but becau&s;e Materials propor|tion<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ble to the quantity required, could not be had here to make a &s;ufficient &s;upply, and that it was made abroad at a cheaper rate; &s;o that the prohibiting the importation of <HI>French</HI> Commodities, as was done by an Act of the la&s;t Parliament, whereby the prizes of &s;uch Paper is advanced, is incouragement &s;ufficient for the Paper Makers in general to make&punc; and they now imploy them&s;elves in making of &s;uch Papers, and having above a hundred Mills in <HI>England,</HI> can make greater quantities than the new Pretenders thereto, who have but five: and if the Paper-makers in general, and not a &s;elect Company, do exerci&s;e the &s;ame, they will endeavor to exceed one another, and by that means &s;uch Paper will be made better, and &s;old cheaper than otherwi&s;e, and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation better &s;upplied, and the &s;ame, or a greater number of Poor maintained.</P>
<P>That the Importation of <HI>French</HI> Paper being already prohibited by the la&s;t mentioned Act, there is no benefit can accrue by this intend|ed Act to the Nation or Trade of Paper-making, nor can &s;uch Act an&s;wer the Title given it: For in&s;tead of <HI>encouraging,</HI> it will di&s;|courage ingenuous Workmen, who through &s;ervitude are free of the Trade, to &s;erve others who have no right to it, and dividing the Trade will ruine it, and not <HI>e&s;tabli&s;h</HI> it.</P>
<P>That the intended Act is not to make all the Paper Makers a Corporation or to Regulate the Trade, or to furni&s;h the Makers with Mate|rials, or to limit the Work only to Engli&s;h men, and &s;uch as have &s;erved Apprenti&s;hips, or to a&s;certain the goodne&s;s, or prizes of Paper, or for the like good purpo&s;es, as other Societies of men have been incorporated; but to &s;ubject the whole to the power, and for the bene|fit of &s;ome particular men, as evidently appears by their Propo&s;als added to their Ca&s;e; which Propo&s;als can be of no Advantage to the Sub&s;cribers, unle&s;s the per&s;ons concerned, by impo&s;ing upon Owners of Mills, to have them at &s;mall Rents, and by paying &s;mall Wages, and exacting great prizes for their Paper, de&s;ign to make their gain out of other mens E&s;tates, and poor mens Labours.</P>
<P>That if the &s;aid intended Act &s;hould pa&s;s, it will allow of a Monopoly, which is repugnant to the Act 21. <HI>Jac.</HI> which expre&s;ly &s;aith among&s;t other things, that all Grants for the &s;ole making of any thing within this Realm &s;hall be void, and that all Bodies Politick and Corporate &s;hall be di&s;abled to put in ure any &s;uch Monopoly.</P>
<P>That thereby al&s;o above a hundred Paper Mills and all dependents thereupon will be de&s;troyed, and divers Paper-makers who have taken long Lea&s;es, and are in Bonds and Covenants to pay great Rents will be di&s;abled to pay the &s;ame, to the Ruin of them, and of above a thou&s;and Families.</P>
<P>That the &s;ame will al&s;o be a bad Pre&s;ident, and of dangerous Con&s;equence to all other Crafts; for &s;ome men pretending to a greater Ex|cellency in any Craft than others, may by the like means &s;trip all the re&s;t of their Freedoms, Trades, and Livelyhoods, and then impo&s;e upon all that &s;hall work, or buy of them at their plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>That the Ca&s;e of the Paper makers, doth much concern the Paper Sellers? for that as the Makers have truly &s;et forth the making of Brown Paper alone will not pay the Charges; and that if (as by the intended Act) they &s;hall be Limited in making White Sort of Paper, their Mills will be their Ruin; and then by Con&s;equence, no Paper of any Sort can be made but by the Patentees, and, there being no other Market to go to, may Sell it when, where, in what manner, and at what prize they plea&s;e; by which means all the Paper Sellers in <HI>London,</HI> who are very numerous, and have &s;erved Apprenti&s;hips to, and brought up in that Trade, which is a di&s;tinct Trade of it &s;elf, will be deprived of their livelyhoods, and many of them and other Families impoveri&s;hed.</P>
<P>It is therefore manife&s;t (by the &s;mall Number of Mills now imployed by the &s;aid New Pretenders, as al&s;o by the &s;mall quantity of Materials to be found for making White paper, the advance of their price being already more than double) that it is unrea&s;onable as well as again&s;t Law; for &s;ome few per&s;ons to have the &s;ole priviledge of making Writing and printing Paper, which will mo&s;t certain|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="2 letters"> ruin very many of the Ancient Paper makers, and be a very great detriment to the many Traders in Paper; and how mi&s;chievous it <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> to e&s;tabli&s;h a Monopoly, for ingro&s;&s;ing an Ancient Engli&s;h Manufacture, is Humbly Submitted to your Honours Con&s;ideration.</P>
<P>This Sheet is the Common Printing Paper made by the Old Paper Makers.</P>
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