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<DATE>2012-08-20</DATE>
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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD>The <HI>CASE</HI> of great Numbers of <HI>SILK-VVEAVERS,</HI> as well <HI>French</HI> Prote&s;tants as <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> who are Makers of <HI>Lute&s;trings</HI> and <HI>Ala|modes Silks</HI> in <HI>Spittle-fields,</HI> and other Parts of <HI>England,</HI> in relation to a Clau&s;e Offered by the <HI>Lute&s;tring Company,</HI> to be Incerted in the Cole Act, Concerning the Sealing the &s;aid Silks.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. FIr&s;t, they are very &s;en&s;ible that there is con&s;iderable Quantities of <HI>French</HI> Lute&s;trings, and Alamodes Imported into <HI>England,</HI> to the Prejudice of the &s;aid Manufactury here, and are ready to Join with the Lute&s;tring Company in Petitioning the Honourable Hou&s;e of Com|mons, to prevent the &s;ame for the future, being equally prejudiced by the &s;aid Importation with the Lute&s;tring Company.</P>
<P N="2">II. But it &s;eems by the Clau&s;e, That the Intent of the &s;aid Lute&s;tring Company is not only to prevent Importation of <HI>French</HI> Lute&s;tring, and Alamode, but to prevent all other Weavers (but what works to them) to make the &s;aid Silks, contrary to a Clau&s;e in&s;erted in their Patent upon the Petition of the Weavers, that nothing therein contained &s;hould be con&s;trued to Ob&s;truct or Hinder the Weavers from making the &s;ame; or to that Effect.</P>
<P N="3">III. The Clau&s;e offered by the &s;aid Patentees is, That all Alamodes, and Lute&s;trings &s;hall be Seiz'd, and a Fine of 100 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> on tho&s;e in who&s;e Cu&s;tody they are found that are not Seal'd at the Cu&s;tom-hou&s;e, or by their Company.</P>
<P N="4">IV. They know that they will Seal none at the Cu&s;tom-hou&s;e, but what are Imported from beyond Seas, or &s;eiz'd and condemned by Law, and the Lute&s;tring Company will Seal none, nor indeed can but what they make them&s;elves, and what is not Sealed is to be Forfeited, &s;o that here will be all the Weavers 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 imployed by the Lute&s;tring Company) if they were not inter|rupted in their Lawful Callings; and if not Relieved by the Honourable Hou&s;e, may be the Ruin of their Wives, Children and Families.</P>
<P N="5">V. The &s;aid Lute&s;tring Company will then oblige the &s;aid Per&s;ons to work to them at their own Prices, or to leave off working on the &s;aid Silks, and by that means di&s;courage the Growth of the Manufacture; and by Monopolizing to them&s;elves the Sole Dealing, and will &s;et what Price they plea&s;e on the &s;aid Silks in prejudice of all the Subjects of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P N="6">VI. Therefore, It is mo&s;t humbly prayed, That there may &s;ome Provi&s;ion be made, that may pa&s;s with the &s;aid Clau&s;e to appoint where tho&s;e Luto&s;trings and Alamodes &s;hall be Sealed that are made in <HI>En|gland,</HI> by Weavers that work for them&s;elves, and not for the Lute&s;tring Company; And that the &s;ame Penalty may be laid upon tho&s;e (that be|ing Appointed) &s;hall refu&s;e to Seal their Silks, as there is to be on them that do not Seal them at all.</P>
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<P>THE CASE OF THE Weavers.</P>
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