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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE CASE OF THE RESPECTIVE ARTIFICERS Belonging to Their Maje&s;ties Office of the Ordnance, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>THE &s;aid Artificers being a Society of &s;everal &s;orts of People, who for many Years have made it their bu&s;ine&s;s in their divers Qualifications, to furni&s;h the &s;aid Office with all manner of Stores, Provi&s;ions, and Uten&s;ils of War, <HI>viz.</HI> Great Guns, &s;mall Guns, great Shot, &s;mall Shot, Powder, Match, Cordage, Ship and Field-Carriages, and all &s;orts of Arms. Tents, Bedding, and near 2000 Species of other Stores, too tedi|ous here to Enumerate, &s;uch as are daily adapted to the proper Service of the Crown in that Office; and in which Service are concerned the whole Body of Artificers, who&s;e Callings have dependance thereon, and who have been at all times ready, to their utmo&s;t Power, to &s;erve the Crown with their E&s;tates and Fortunes; and are now left to bemoan their unhappine&s;s of being deprived of their good Intentions of proceeding in their accu&s;tomed Methods in &s;erving the &s;aid Office, being therein totally di&s;abled as followeth, <HI>Viz.</HI></P>
<P N="1">I. By a Debt left upon them by King <HI>Charles</HI> the Second for Stores &s;erved in, and Services performed by <HI>Direction from the Officers of the</HI> Ordnance, amounting to about 100000 <ABBR>l.</ABBR> which hath been fre|quently Sollicited for, and often promi&s;ed, though yet unpaid: Great part of which Stores have been Transferred to the Service of the pre&s;ent Crown, and all applied for the Service of the Nation.</P>
<P N="2">II. By Debts owing them from the &s;aid Office, contracted &s;ince their pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty's Acce&s;&s;ion to the Crown, amounting to about 150000 <ABBR>l.</ABBR> Which &s;aid great Debts having &s;o Exhau&s;ted both the Stocks and Credits of the &s;aid Artificers, that they are left (though willing) altogether uncapable of proceeding any further in the Performance of the afore&s;aid Services, without a &s;peedy Supply of Money.</P>
<P>They <HI>therefore humbly Supplicate this Honourable Hou&s;e, to take into their &s;peedy Con&s;iderations, the deplo|rable Condition of the &s;aid Artificers (Great part of tho&s;e In&s;truments of War, which by them are to be provided, cannot be had at a Moments warning, but at certain Sea&s;ons in the Year,) That &s;ome &s;peedy Provi&s;ion may be made to &s;atisfie the late Debts contracted; As al&s;o the former Debt in this following Method, or any other way or means as this Honourable Hou&s;e &s;hall think convenient, the bet|ter to Enable them to pro&s;ecute their Wonted Vigor in &s;erving their Maje&s;ties in the &s;aid Office, which otherwi&s;e they will be Compelled into an Incapacity of doing, and will prove the Ruine of them and their Po&s;terities.</HI></P>
<P>WE are informed that <HI>SALT</HI> in &s;everal Countries pays a very great Duty, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Forty pu&s;h|els makes a Way and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1+ letters">ere is Im|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">ted a|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">out 22000 Way in a <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"></NOTE> as it has done here in former Years, and great Quantities being here Imported, there is laid upon it but 12 d. <HI>per</HI> Way, which, in truth, may bear 4 l. <HI>per</HI> Way; So that in &s;ome time, the Artificers may be paid the Debt owing to them in King <HI>Charles</HI> the Second's time, if this Honourable Hou&s;e &s;hall not Order &s;ome other way to &s;atisfie it: And if this Duty be found convenient to be continued and appropriated to the Office of the Ordnance, it will go a great way in defraying the ordinary Charge of that Office; and this Duty will hardly be felt in Vending the &s;aid Commodity, computing how &s;mall a quantity a Family u&s;es in a Year. The great Objection that has been made again&s;t laying a higher Duty on this Commodity, is the <HI>Fi&s;hery:</HI> To overcome that Difficulty, We pray this Honourable Hou&s;e, That all Salt, made u&s;e of for the Fi&s;hery, may be drawn back out of His Maje&s;ties Cu&s;toms, it will prevent the Ruine of many Hundreds of Families, and pay a ju&s;t Debt, which, in Proce&s;s of time, will be a greater benefit to the Nation, in encouraging the making of that Commodity.</P>
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