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<HEAD>REASONS Humbly Offer'd to the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, FOR Continuing the DUTY or &s;ome Part thereof, formerly granted for Rebuilding St. <HI>PAUL</HI>'s Cathedral and other Churches in <HI>London,</HI> for &s;ome time longer.</HEAD>
<P>_THE Quarries of the I&s;land of <HI>Portland,</HI> are of great U&s;e and Publick Conern; having the large&s;t Blocks of beautiful Stone, and the mo&s;t proper for magnificent Buildings; and in regard of their Situation upon Sea, &s;upply all the We&s;t Coa&s;t, and the City of <HI>London</HI> in the Building of St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s and other Churches, and all both Publick and Private Works; much being al&s;o u&s;ed in the Docks of <HI>Port&s;mouth, Plimouth,</HI> and the Forti|fications upon the Coa&s;t, and other His Maje&s;ty's Works.</P>
<P>The whole Sub&s;i&s;tance of many Hundreds of Families in <HI>London,</HI> the &s;aid I&s;land, the Neighbouring Counties and Coa&s;ts de|pend upon the&s;e Quarries; and the Shipping of <HI>Weymouth, Brighthelm&s;ton,</HI> and divers other Ports, manage this Trade to &s;everal Parts of <HI>England;</HI> and in time of Peace tran&s;port con&s;iderable Quantities of this Native Product.</P>
<P>Upon the Third of this In&s;tant <HI>February,</HI> 1695. a prodigious Calamity befel the &s;aid I&s;land; all the Ground betwixt the Quarry and the Sea extending at lea&s;t &s;ixty Acres, moving for three Days together, and &s;inking thirty Foot and more, and &s;pread|ing it &s;elf farther into the Sea; whereby the Harbours and Peers of Moles (built at great Expence) were ruined and de&s;troyed; the Cranes lately built of va&s;t Timber, Broke; the Ways and Pa&s;&s;ages, cut through the Rocks to the Peers, &s;unk and intercepted; &s;o that without great Expence the Quarry is become u&s;ele&s;s, and Thou&s;ands of People are depriv'd of their Sub&s;i&s;tence.</P>
<P>The U&s;e of the King's Quarry there, was granted by King <HI>Charles</HI> II. to the Dean and Chapter of St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s, to rai&s;e Stone for Rebuilding the Church of St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s; but the Ways, Cranes and Peers, have been upheld and repaired out of the Coal Duty of Eighteenpence <HI>per</HI> Chaldron, appointed for Rebuilding the Cathedral and Parochial Churches of <HI>London,</HI> by Two Acts of Parliament formerly made for that Purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Duty determines at <HI>Michaelmas</HI> in the Year 1700. after which time Sixpence <HI>per</HI> Chaldron is granted to the Or|phans of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>For &s;ome Years pa&s;t Fraight of Shipping hath &s;o increa&s;ed, that it is become near double to what it was formerly: By rea&s;on whereof, and the Impo&s;itions upon Forreign Timber and Iron, and the great Rate of Oak Timber (altho the Works of the Cathedral are very far advanced) it will not be po&s;&s;ible to compleat the &s;ame by the Duty afore&s;aid within the time allotted. Al&s;o &s;ome Parochial Churches tho u&s;ed at pre&s;ent for Divine Service are not fini&s;hed; and it is adjudged convenient, that &s;ome Hou&s;es which are too near to the North &s;ide of St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s be removed farther, to prevent the danger of Firing that great and expen&s;ieve Fabrick.</P>
<P><HI>VVherefore it is Humbly de&s;ired, that in order to Compleat the &s;aid Cathedral and other Churches, and to recover the Quarries and defray the Charge of Repairing the Peers, Cranes and VVays (without which al&s;o they cannot be Built) the &s;aid Duty upon Coals, or &s;uch part thereof as &s;hall be thought nece&s;&s;ary, be continued for <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Years after</HI> Michaelmas 1700. <HI>without which a great part of what has been already done to St.</HI> Paul<HI>'s Church will go to Decay again, and be in danger of being Lo&s;t.</HI></P>
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