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<STC T="G">l.r.305.a.7.[2]</STC>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es in Parliament A&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Propo&s;al of <HI>Lewis Rawlins,</HI> Whether the Re&s;training of Retailers of Beer and Ale within the Kingdome of <HI>England</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales</HI> from Brewing, may not only prove profitable to the Crown, but be expedient; upon due con&s;iderati|on of &s;ub&s;equent Rea&s;ons.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. BEcau&s;e it will &s;upply his Maje&s;ties Exchequer in pre&s;ent with three hundred thou&s;and pounds of lawful money or thereabouts; without the lea&s;t trouble <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o the King, or Kingdome, to which Sum the pre&s;ent Farmers of the Exci&s;e can make no claim.</P>
<P N="2">II. It will advance his Maje&s;ties Annual Revenue in the Exci&s;e of Beer and Ale for the fu|ture, and that con&s;iderably.</P>
<P N="3">III. It will &s;ave his Maje&s;tie near 30000 <HI>per annum,</HI> which hath hitherto been di&s;|bur&s;ed out of that part of his Revenues in contracting the number of Officers which at|tend that duty.</P>
<P N="4">IV. It will obviate that general Fraud which is practi&s;ed by the&s;e brewing Retailers, to the detriment of his Maje&s;tie &s;ome thou&s;ands yearly.</P>
<P N="5">V. Hereby the common Brewer will receive encouragement from his encrea&s;e of Trade.</P>
<P N="6">VI. No damage can hereby accrue to the Farmers of the Exci&s;e, for they &s;till enjoy their contract: The con&s;umption of Beer and Ale will not be le&s;&s;ened by reducing the Brew|ing only of &s;uch Exci&s;eable Liquors to the common Brewer, whil&s;t the Victuallers, In|holders and the like, retail as great quantities as formerly, which in &s;hort, is but for Country Retailers to conform to the Example of the City of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P><HI>This Propo&s;ition may perhaps be excepted again&s;t by the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Exci&s;e, who&s;e andor in the Kings bu&s;ine&s;s is hardly ju&s;tified by the en&s;uing Narrative.</HI></P>
<P>The Propounder <HI>L.R.</HI> Gager in the year 1573. did exhibit as many Informations in the Exci&s;e office again&s;t <HI>W.C.</HI> a common Brewer in <HI>London,</HI> as the forfeitures thereupon amoun|ted to above 2000 l. &s;ome of tho&s;e were heard by the Commi&s;&s;ioners, and <HI>W.C.</HI> the offen|der thereupon comdemned in the &s;um of 340 l. or thereabouts.</P>
<P>The Pro&s;ecutor continued &s;olliciting the Commi&s;&s;iioners by Petitions, and otherwi&s;e during the &s;pace of &s;ix Moneths, to hear and determine the remaining Propo&s;itions, upon which, the &s;aid <HI>W.C.</HI> (if Ju&s;tice had accordingly been done) mu&s;t as inevitably have been pronounced guilty, as he was upon tho&s;e which were tryed.</P>
<P>While&s;t Ju&s;tice was thus delayed. <HI>W.C.</HI> makes his Addre&s;s to Sir <HI>William Bucknall</HI> and other Farmers of the Exci&s;e, and with the payment of 200 <HI>l.</HI> or &s;uch like &s;um to them con|tracts to purcha&s;e his peace, and excu&s;e his crime.</P>
<P>At this Contract <HI>Robert Huntingdon</HI> and <HI>Richard Kingdon</HI> E&s;quirs, two of the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners connive, and from that day hitherto, the pro&s;ecutor could not by any means be admitted to make good the charge again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>W.C.</HI> a practi&s;e infinitely tending to the prejudice of the Kings intere&s;t, and contrary to the Act of Parliament in that ca&s;e made and provided, which gives one moyety of the Fines to the Informer, whereof the Infor|mer <HI>L.R.</HI> hath not as yet received one penny.</P>
<P>Hereupon the Pro&s;ecutor being in effect denyed Ju&s;tice by the Commi&s;&s;ioners, humbly acquaints his Maje&s;ty by Petition with his greivance, who gratiou&s;ly referred the exami|nation of the matter to the pre&s;ent Lord High Trea&s;urer, of which &s;o &s;oon as the afore|named Comi&s;&s;ioners had notice, they and the Farmers without any other cau&s;e di&s;mi&s;&s;ed the &s;aid <HI>L.R.</HI> out of his office of Gager, of which injury the Propounder ju&s;tly com|plains, and prays upon the whole matter Redre&s;s, as the wi&s;edom of Parliament &s;hall judge meet.</P>
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