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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>REASONS</HI> Offered to the Con&s;ideration of his Grace, His Maje&s;ties high Commis&s;io|ner, and the Honourable E&s;tates of Parliament, by &s;everal Salt-Ma&s;ters, again&s;t the Act for a Manufactorie of Salt upon Salt, gi|ven in by Mr. <HI>VVilliam Areskin</HI> Governour of <HI>Blackne&s;s Ca&s;tle.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. IF this Act in favours of Mr. <HI>William Areskin</HI> &s;hall be pa&s;t, it will make one Manufactrie de&s;troy another which is of far greater Import and Advantage to the Nation, <HI>viz.</HI> The Manufactorie of &s;mall Salt, by which &s;o many thou&s;ands of People are maintained, and by the Exporting of which, &s;o much Advantage redounds to the Countrey; For &s;hould it be pa&s;t in his favours, under the Notion of making Salt upon Salt, he would import &s;o much Foraign Salt, as &s;hould not only &s;erve for Curing of Fi&s;hes, but all other Dome&s;tick U&s;|es, and being free of Duty, will be able to &s;ell it at a lower Rate than the Salt-ma&s;ters can make their Salt at.</P>
<P N="2">2. If the Advantage of the Countrey be con&s;ulted, it cannot be pa&s;t in his favours and Part|ners only, for then the Buyers are confined to Buy as it were from one hand, and &s;o mu&s;t pay what Price they &s;hall plea&s;e to impo&s;e upon it, and thus it becomes a Monopoly, whereas if power be granted to every Salt-ma&s;ter to make Salt upon Salt, the Countrey &s;hall be far better &s;erved, and the Merchants if they cannot buy from one may go to another, as in the buying of ordinary Salt.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Art of making Salt upon Salt is not &s;o great as Mr. <HI>William Areskin</HI> repre&s;ents it, &s;ince any per&s;ons who have any Skill in <HI>Alchymie</HI> may do it, and it is ordinarly done in <HI>Holland</HI> by &s;illy Women; the Expen&s;e of bringing &s;ome of the&s;e home, cannot be &s;o very great as he would have it to be.</P>
<P N="4">4. It is offered by &s;everal of the Salt-ma&s;ters, that each of them &s;hall &s;et up for them&s;elves, and have their Works in readine&s;s for accompli&s;hing the De&s;ign betwixt and the time conde|&s;cended on in the Act.</P>
<P N="5">5. Should this Act be granted in his favours, Coal-ma&s;ters might clo&s;e up their Pits, to the great lo&s;s of the Countrey: for when &s;mall Salt cannot be made with &s;ome Advantage, the &s;mall Coals by which it is made mu&s;t be left in the Coal-heugh, which in &s;ome places takes Fire, and in other places &s;o Immures the Coal-heugh that they cannot work, and &s;o in effect renders their Works altogether u&s;ele&s;s.</P>
<P>It is therefore humbly expected, that His Grace His Maje&s;ties High Com|mi&s;&s;ioner and the Honourable E&s;tates of Parliament in re&s;pect of the above Rea&s;ons, will not pa&s;s the Act in Mr. <HI>Areskines</HI> Favours, but in Favours of &s;uch of the Salt Ma&s;ters as are willing to &s;et up for them&s;elves to make Sal<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> upon Salt&punc;</P>
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