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<HEAD>The Mi&s;erable CASE OF THE <HI>Poor</HI> GLASS-MAKERS, Artificers, <HI>and &s;everal Hundred Fami|lies that were Imployed in the &s;aid Manufacture; Humbly Offered in reference to the Duty on Gla&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THAT the &s;aid Art of Gla&s;s-making being &s;o much Improved in this Kingdom, hath cau&s;ed great encrea&s;e of Workmen and Artificers, and &s;everal Hundred of Families were Imployed and Maintained in the &s;aid Art.</P>
<P>That the Poor Workmen, Artificers and Families, have been great Sufferers by the pre&s;ent War, not having near &s;o much Work as formerly; and the pre&s;ent Duty on Gla&s;s makes our Mi|&s;eries and Hard&s;hips much greater.</P>
<P>That &s;ince the Duty, e&s;pecially on the Bottle-hou&s;es, from whence it is &s;uppo&s;ed the chief part of the Duty comes, is &s;o great, <HI>viz.</HI> One Penny each Bottle, being Sixty <HI>per Cent.</HI> here, and in &s;ome parts of the Kingdom above 90 <HI>per Cent.</HI> of what the Goods was before Sold for; and indeed on all &s;orts of Gla&s;s &s;o great, as makes the vent &s;o &s;mall, that many of us the Artificers, have not had any Work this &s;even or Eight Months, nor like to have for &s;everal Months longer; the Ma&s;ters having great Quantities on their Hands, and made &s;ince the Duty: And we the poor Artificers, being always u&s;ed to Work in the Fire, are un&s;uitable for other Callings, are reduced to that Extremity, that excepting tho&s;e whom &s;ome Ma&s;ters lend Money to, &s;ome are &s;orced to Pawn their Goods, others to Sell their very Beds, and mu&s;t come to the Pari&s;hes for Relief, if the Duty be continued.</P>
<P>That there is already, &s;ince the Duty Commenced, &s;everal of the greate&s;t, olde&s;t, and be&s;t &s;cituated Gla&s;s-hou&s;es in <HI>England</HI> laid down, and offered to Sale; and it is &s;uppo&s;ed that mo&s;t of the Gla&s;s-hou&s;es in <HI>England</HI> will be forced to do the &s;ame, if the Duty be continued.</P>
<P>And we hear there is two Gla&s;s-hou&s;es already going to be &s;et on Work in <HI>Holland,</HI> which if once they get the Art, we may in effect loo&s;e it.</P>
<P>To prevent the Evils whereof, and to take off the Burthen of this great Duty, which chiefly lyes upon poor Men's Labours, which we pre&s;ume will appear to be very incon&s;iderable when the Accounts of the &s;aid Duty are &s;tated, the charge of Collecting and Debentures, for w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> hath been and will be Exported, is Deducted.</P>
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<HEAD>We most Humbly Propo&s;e to this Honourable Hou&s;e</HEAD>
<P>The&s;e &s;everal Ways following, in Liew of the pre&s;ent Duty on Gla&s;s-Wares, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> as to your grtea Wi&s;dom &s;hall &s;eem mo&s;t meet.</P>
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<CELL>That in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> from Dr. <HI>Davenant</HI>'s Book of E&s;&s;ay, upon Ways and Means; ap|pears &s;tated to the Year 1690. when (by gathering in of the Hearth-Money) the Number of Hou&s;es there were</CELL>
<CELL>872457</CELL>
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<CELL>And is &s;uppo&s;ed to be &s;ince new Built</CELL>
<CELL>002543</CELL>
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<CELL>Making</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">875000</CELL>
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<CELL>That admit of the U&s;e of One Pound of Soap a Week to each Hou&s;e, when few u&s;ing le&s;s, and in many Hou&s;es is more u&s;ed makes to each Hou&s;e 52 l. a Year; and for Total</CELL>
<CELL>100 weight. 455000</CELL>
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<CELL>Which at 4 s. the Hundred makes</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="total">90000 l. a Year.</CELL>
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<P>That this &s;ingle Commodity, if Taxed, will not offend any Artificers, as does the now Duty on Gla&s;s-Wares, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to their alone Ruine, nor be grievous to either Buyer or Seller; is of ge|neral and certain U&s;e, but a trifling Charge on the Subject, and readily Collected, for a mode|rate <HI>per Annum. November</HI> 1696. Form'd by <HI>Charles Palmer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Or by an Additional Po&s;tage of Letters of one third more.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> Or by a Duty upon all Lead or Lead Oar Exported, of two Shillings <HI>per</HI> Hundred more then it now pays, which amounting to 50000 Tun <HI>per Ann.</HI> amounts to 100000 l. a Year, and requires no charge in Collecting.</P>
<P><HI>Fourthly,</HI> Or by a Duty on Flax and Hemp imported, of five Shillings <HI>per</HI> Hundred on Flax, and 2 s. 6 d. per Hundred on Hemp, more then the pre&s;ent Duty, which, 'tis pre&s;umed may Encourage our own Growth, and is Collectable without Charge, and &s;uppo&s;ed to amount to 200000 l. a Year.</P>
<P><HI>Fifthly,</HI> Or by a Duty on Hops of one Penny <HI>per</HI> Pound, being 9 s. 4 d. per Hundred, to be paid by the fir&s;t Proprietor, and upon all Foreign Hops the &s;ame Duty, more than is now paid, which, computing the Expence 11000 Tun <HI>per Ann.</HI> amounts to 100000 l. per Ann. Collectable by a &s;mall Charge of one Month in a Year.</P>
<P><HI>It is therefore mo&s;t Humbly Hoped, that this Honourable Hou&s;e will be plea&s;ed to take into their &s;erious Con&s;ideration the&s;e Propo&s;als, which being general, and no ways tending to the Ruine of poor Artificers, as doth the pre&s;ent Duty on</HI> Gla&s;s Wares.</P>
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