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<DATE>2010-12-04</DATE>
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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080712.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>An ANSWER to the <HI>Weavers</HI> CASE.</HEAD>
<P>WHere they Alledge, That
<Q>Great Numbers of <HI>Weavers</HI> as well <HI>French</HI> Pro|te&s;tants as <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> do make <HI>Alamodes</HI> and <HI>Lu&s;trings</HI> in <HI>England.</HI></Q></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;wer,</LABEL> There are few or none but the Royal <HI>Lu&s;tring Company,</HI> that make any Black <HI>Alamodes</HI> and <HI>Lu&s;trings</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> except &s;uch as have already wrought for the &s;aid Company which have been drawn from them by ill Mens per&s;wa&s;ions.</P>
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<P N="1">1. <Q>They are very &s;en&s;ible that there are con&s;iderable quantities of <HI>French Lu&s;trings</HI> and <HI>Alamodes</HI> Imported in <HI>England,</HI> to the Prejudice of the &s;aid Manufacture here.</Q></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;wer,</LABEL> Agreed.</P>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="objection">
<P>As to the 2d. Objection, <Q>That the <HI>Lu&s;tring Company</HI> do intend to prevent all other Weavers (but what works to them) to make the &s;ame Silks, Contrary to a Clau&s;e in their Patent.</Q></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;wer,</LABEL> The <HI>Lu&s;tring Company</HI> by their Patent have the Sole Power of making and dre&s;&s;ing Black <HI>Alamodes, Renforces</HI> and <HI>Lu&s;trings</HI> in <HI>England</HI> Exclu&s;ive to all o|thers; and that by the Approbation and Satisfaction of the <HI>Weavers Company, Lon|don,</HI> declared by them before the King and Council, at a hearing before the pa&s;&s;ing the Patent, and no &s;uch Clau&s;e in&s;erted as is objected.</P>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="objection">
<P>3. <Q>The forfeit is One Hundred Pound for all &s;uch Per&s;ons as &s;hall buy any Goods not Seal'd, be&s;ides the forfeiture of the Goods.</Q></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;wer,</LABEL> That is to prevent the defrauding His Maje&s;ties Cu&s;toms, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="objection">
<P>4. <HI>They &s;ay that</HI> <Q>the <HI>Weavers</HI> in <HI>England</HI> that make the &s;aid Silks, and are not of that Company (which are, and would be, a far greater Number than tho&s;e Employed in the <HI>Lu&s;tring-Company</HI>) if they were not interrupted in their lawful Calling.</Q></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;wer,</LABEL> There were no <HI>Weavers</HI> that made <HI>Alamodes</HI> in <HI>England</HI> at the time the Pattent was obtained, but what was made by one of the Pattentees: So that no Man can &s;ay he is interrupted in his <HI>lawful Calling,</HI> when he is only debarred from that he never had. And had not the <HI>Lu&s;tring Company</HI> forwarded this Undertaking, there had not been (in all probability) any of tho&s;e <HI>Silks</HI> made in <HI>England,</HI> at this time: But by the great Care and Charges of the &s;aid <HI>Company,</HI> many Thou&s;ands of Poor are Imployed at this time by them, to the great Relief of tho&s;e poor <HI>Weavers</HI> that could find no Imployment by tho&s;e of the <HI>Weavers Company;</HI> and more might be Imployed, if they plea&s;ed.</P>
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<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="objection">
<P>5. <HI>They &s;ay</HI> <Q>the <HI>Lu&s;tring Company</HI> will make their Men Work at their own Price or to leave off Working, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and &s;o di&s;courage the growth of that Manufacture and by Monopolizing &s;ell at what Price they plea&s;e.</Q></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;wer,</LABEL> The <HI>Lu&s;tring Company</HI> is &s;o rea&s;onable to their Workmen, that they have no cau&s;e to Complain; and as it is the Companies Intere&s;t to promote its growth, it cannot be &s;uppo&s;ed they &s;hould be again&s;t their own Intere&s;t, and &s;uch a Publick Good they have &s;o long labour'd for.</P>
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<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="objection">
<P>6. <HI>As for the Clau&s;e</HI> <Q>the <HI>Weavers</HI> de&s;ire to have all <HI>Allamodes</HI> and <HI>Lu&s;trings</HI> made in <HI>England</HI> by <HI>Weavers</HI> that are not of the Company, to be Seal'd, and a Penalty be laid upon tho&s;e that are appointed to Seal, that &s;hall refu&s;e to Seal their Silks</Q></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;wer,</LABEL> It is unrea&s;onable the <HI>Weavers</HI> &s;hould de&s;ire any &s;uch things, &s;eeing they agreed and con&s;ented to the Pattentees in the obtaining the Patent, and al&s;o acknow|ledge that it would be of great Good to the Publick if they could &s;ettle it in this Kingdom, it being a New Invention, as it doth al&s;o appear by the Report made by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Cu&s;toms to the Lords of the Trea&s;ury upon a hearing of the <HI>Weavers</HI> Company. And if there was a Penalty for not Sealing the <HI>Weavers Silks,</HI> it would encourage the Smugglers to get their Silks to be Seal'd upon pretence they were made in <HI>England,</HI> and the Per&s;ons appointed to Seal being afraid to undergo the Penalty for not Sealing, will Seal all that is brought to them. So that the <HI>French</HI> Smugglers will have their Goods protected by the Seal, and the <HI>French</HI> Trade and Corre&s;pondence with <HI>France</HI> will be kept on Foot, &s;o that the latter Evil will be greater than the Fir&s;t.</P>
<P REND="italic">The <HI>Lu&s;tring Company</HI> have offered the <HI>Weavers</HI> to receive any of them in their Company upon as equal or better Terms than them&s;elves.</P>
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