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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Ancient Manufacture of White Saltmaking at <HI>South</HI> and <HI>North&s;hields, Sunderland</HI> and <HI>Blyth,</HI> ought to be pre|&s;erved and encouraged, for the en&s;uing Rea&s;ons mo&s;t hum|bly pre&s;ented.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Fir&s;t, That in the time of Ho&s;tility with <HI>Spaine</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> which was in <HI>Anno</HI> 1627, 28, 29, 30, there was &s;uch a &s;carcity of Salt in this Nation, that it was &s;old at extream rates, <HI>(viz.)</HI> 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 s. <HI>per</HI> Bu&s;hell, and upwards, and in many places in <HI>England</HI> not to be had for any mony.</P>
<P N="2">2. When Peace was concluded beween <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> the King of <HI>France</HI> made an Edict, that no Salt &s;hould be exported out of his Kingdom, upon confi&s;ca|tion of Ship, Goods, and Life.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Peace being concluded between <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Spaine,</HI> divers Merchants of <HI>England</HI> &s;ent between 2 and 300 &s;ail of Ships to <HI>Spaine,</HI> to fetch Salt for the &s;upply of this Nation, And the King of <HI>Spaine</HI> taking notice of <HI>Englands</HI> ne|ce&s;&s;ity thereof, did not only a long time imbarge the &s;aid Ships; but did im|mediately impo&s;e upon his Salt &s;uch a great Impo&s;ition, that it came to the double value of the Salt there u&s;ually &s;old: whereby the Merchants lo&s;t many 1000 l.</P>
<P N="4">4. By making Salt of Sea-water there's great quantities of cour&s;e Coles &s;pent there, which are the refu&s;e of their be&s;t Coal-mines, and fit for no other u<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e, and &s;o the Owners of them &s;elling them for that u&s;e, are the better enabled to go through with their Cole-mines, in preventing mixture of tho&s;e bad with good, which otherwi&s;e would be to the great annoyance of the whole Commonwealth.</P>
<P N="5">5. Con&s;idering the great charge, co&s;t and pains be&s;towed and disbur&s;ed before that Manufacture could be brought to perfection; as fir&s;t, out of a wa&s;te and roc|kie piece of ground adjoyning upon the River of <HI>Tyne,</HI> in taking up the &s;aid rocks and &s;tones, and in building Wharfs and Staiths along the &s;aid River, and after in placing Salt-pans thereupon; the removing of which rocks hath made the River there abouts far better navigable than before, though with great charge to them.</P>
<P N="2">2. After the Salt-pans were erected, the late Deane and Chapter compelled your Petitioners the Salt-makers, to take Lea&s;es of them for the &s;aid Wharfs and Salt|pans and forced them to pay an annuall rent for the &s;ame, and every &s;even years to renew their Lea&s;e, or otherwi&s;e to pay a great &s;umme if they continued them lon|ger; which brought a great charge upon them.</P>
<P N="3">3. In the time of the&s;e late di&s;tractions and wars their Salt-works were de&s;troyed and ruinated by the Kings Forces and the <HI>Scots,</HI> the re-building whereof hath co&s;t them many 1000 l.</P>
<P N="4">4. Since the repairing and re-building thereof, they have been lately compelled to purcha&s;e them of the Commonwealth, whereby mo&s;t of their E&s;tates are engaged, and likely to be the overthrow of them and their Families, who hath &s;pent their E|&s;tates in bringing &s;uch a Native and good Manufacture to perfection, which is able (if encouraged) to &s;upply the whole Nation of <HI>England</HI> with Salt &s;ufficient for pre|&s;erving both Fi&s;h, Fle&s;h, and other Victuals, without dependance upon any forreign State what&s;oever, and then he it war or peace, &s;carcity or plenty, this Commonwealth may be &s;upplyed with a &s;ufficiency of good Salt, and at moderate prices.</P>
<P N="5">5. If this Manufacture be not encouraged, it will tend to the de&s;truction of many Thou&s;ands of poor People in tho&s;e places who&s;e dependancy is wholly upon the &s;aid Salt-works, who eat their daily Bread by their dayly Labour in that Manufacture.</P>
<P><HI>It is humbly prayed, That for the&s;e Rea&s;ons the Petition of the Salt-markers of <HI>North</HI> and <HI>South&s;hields, Sunderland</HI> and <HI>Blyth,</HI> depending in the hands of a Member of Parliament, may be taken into &s;peedy con&s;ideration.</HI></P>
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