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<HEAD>REASONS humbly offered to the Con&s;ideration of the PARLIAMENT, by the Company of <HI>Tallow-Chandlers, London,</HI> again&s;t Pa&s;&s;ing the Bill re|lating to <HI>CONVEX LIGHTS.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>THE Setting up and U&s;e of <HI>Convex Lights</HI> in all publick Places, (as the Bill provides), extending as well into the City of <HI>London</HI> as into all other Places for the time pa&s;t hath been, and for the future will be, a great Prejudice.</P>
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<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> To the Kingdom in General, as to all Owners and Farmers of Pa&s;ture and Feeding Grounds, by le&s;&s;ening the U&s;e and abating the Price of <HI>Tallow;</HI> which being Prohibited to be Exported, the greate&s;t and almo&s;t whole Con&s;umption thereof con&s;i&s;ts in the making of Candles; the U&s;e and Expence of which will be greatly hindred, if tho&s;e <HI>Convex Gla&s;&s;es,</HI> or any other &s;uch like Lights, &s;hall receive any Countenance (tho not Injunction) from the Publick Authority of the Nation; for thereby the Expence of at lea&s;t 60000 Dozen of Candles, in and about the City of <HI>London,</HI> and in other Places where they &s;hall be u&s;ed proportionably, will be prevented, and by con&s;equence &s;o much <HI>Tallow</HI> left u&s;ele&s;s, which mu&s;t needs abate the value of <HI>Tallow,</HI> and &s;o much in the Price of every Bullock and Sheep proportionably. And tho formerly great quantities of <HI>Tallow</HI> were Imported, which yet, with the <HI>Engli&s;h Tallow,</HI> did but &s;erve the U&s;e of the Kingdom; yet in the Year 1689. no more than 370 Tuns and 14 Hundred; in the Year 1690. 127 Tun, 7 Hundred, 3 Quarters and 13 Pound; in the Year 1691. 63 Tun and 11 Hundred; and to the 29<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>November,</HI> 1692. 11 Tun, 5 Hundred, 1 Quarter and 14 Pound of <HI>Tallow,</HI> have been Imported, as appears by the <HI>Cu&s;tom Hou&s;e</HI> Books, and ready to be proved. So that for want of the Vent of our own <HI>Engli&s;h Tallow,</HI> the Price thereof hath fallen a fourth part, or near thereabouts: And when the <HI>Tallow</HI> (which is ordinarily valued at 21 <HI>s.</HI> in a Fat Ox, and 3 <HI>s.</HI> 6 <HI>d.</HI> in a Fat Sheep,) can|not find a Vent at home, (and abroad it mu&s;t not be carried), it nece&s;&s;ary falls the Price of every Fat Ox and Sheep to the value above, <HI>viz.</HI> 7 <HI>s.</HI> in a Fat Ox, and proportionable to a Fat Sheep. And it is not to be thought, that the Expence of &s;o much <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Rape Oyl, (if &s;uch it be) as may &s;erve their <HI>Convex,</HI> and other new fangled Lights, will bear any pro|portion to &s;o great and National a lo&s;s, as that of the <HI>Tallow</HI> hath been, and mu&s;t be, if the expence of Candles &s;hall be dimini&s;hed, as of nece&s;&s;ity they mu&s;t, if the&s;e new Lights ob|tain the Countenance of a Parliament.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> To the Company of <HI>Tallow Chandlers,</HI> in taking from them the U&s;e of their Lawful Trade, to which they have Serv'd, and taken many Apprentices, and made &s;uitable Provi&s;ions for carrying on their Trades, for the &s;ub&s;i&s;tence of them&s;elves and Families, ha|ving been a Company in <HI>London</HI> about 230 Years, and have to their utmo&s;t, a&s;&s;i&s;ted towards the &s;upport of the Government, and carrying on the War again&s;t <HI>France,</HI> by lending con|&s;iderable Sums of Money, great part whereof is &s;till owing. For reckoning 6 <HI>d. per.</HI> Dozen only for the making of 60000 Dozen of Candles, the Expence whereof, in and about <HI>London,</HI> by the u&s;e of the&s;e New Lights will be taken away. That lone, be&s;ides the lo&s;s to the Kingdom in the <HI>Tallow,</HI> brings a Lo&s;s of about 1500 <HI>l. per annum,</HI> to the <HI>Tallow-Chandlers,</HI> and &s;o much is taken away from the Maintenance of them&s;elves and Families, and the Support of their lawful and hone&s;t Trades.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly.</HI> To other Trades, as the Horners in making of the Leaves for Lanthorns for burning Candles in, Butchers, Spinners and Twi&s;ters of Cotton, whereof the 22th part is not u&s;ed in Lamps which is in Candles, and mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily deprive great numbers of Per&s;ons, that Live by tho&s;e Trades, of their Manitenance and Livelyhood.</P>
<P>It is humbly hoped, That a Project &s;o pernicious to the Publick Good of the Kingdom, and the private and lawful Trade of many Thou&s;ands of their Maje&s;ties Subjects, who as the Law now &s;tands, have as great a right as any other of Their Maje&s;ties Subjects have to their Trades, and the lawful U&s;e and Advantages thereof: Will not find or receive any Encourage|ment in Parliament, and the rather, for that the Per&s;ons named in the Bill, have not any Right or Title by the Letters Patents, (the time wherein is thereby &s;ought to be enlarged) to the &s;etting up of Convex Lights nor is there &s;uch a Term of <HI>Convex lights</HI> therein; Nor have they or any other, claiming under the &s;aid Letters Patents, Expended any Money's in promo|ting or advancing any publique Good; But the Prices and Rates at which they value their re|&s;pective Intere&s;ts, have been rai&s;ed from 200. <HI>l.</HI> to 1100. <HI>l.</HI> for a 32th part by that ignomi|nious way of Stock-Jobbing; and the further advancement of tho&s;e Shares by &s;uch wayes, for the future, is conceived to be the cheife&s;t De&s;ign the Petitioners have to endeavour the Pa&s;&s;ing of this Bill.</P>
<P>That the&s;e Lights are no Publick Good, and greatly dangerous to Coaches in the Night-time by their fal&s;e or glaring Light.</P>
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