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<DATE>2014-08-12</DATE>
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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140638.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A PROPOSAL For Pre&s;erving and Encouraging the <HI>Woollen-Manufactures</HI> in divers Parts of this Kingdom.</HEAD>
<P>WHEREAS very great Numbers of Foreigners, as well as Natives of this Kingdom have of late Years re&s;orted to the City of <HI>London,</HI> and Parts adjacent, and have &s;et up the Making almo&s;t all &s;orts of <HI>Silk,</HI> and <HI>Woollen Manufactures,</HI> to the <HI>great Prejudice</HI> of &s;e|veral remoter Parts of this <HI>Nation;</HI> and to the Deba&s;ing of divers &s;orts of Manufacturers, and Damage of Trade: Which <HI>Mi&s;chiefs</HI> are daily Increa&s;ing, and, if not timely Prevented, may prove very De&s;tructive to the Trade of the <HI>Woollen</HI> and <HI>Silk-Manufactures</HI> in the remoter Parts, and of very Dangerous Con&s;equence to this Kingdom.</P>
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<HEAD>For Remedy whereof it is humbly Propo&s;ed,</HEAD>
<P>THAT from and after the <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> Day of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> no Per&s;on what&s;oever &s;hall be Imployed in the weaving of any <HI>Silk,</HI> or <HI>Woollen Manufactures,</HI> within the &s;aid City of <HI>London,</HI> or within <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> Miles thereof; but &s;uch as are now Inhabitants therein, and have a Right &s;o to do; or &s;uch as hereafter &s;hall have a Right, by &s;erving an Apprentice&s;hip to the Weaving-Trade, within the &s;aid City or Limits afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>THAT no Weaver &s;hall have above a Certain Num|ber of Apprentices at any one time.</P>
<P>THAT all Apprentices be Bound at <HI>Weavers-Hall</HI> in the &s;aid City: And none Bound for le&s;s than <HI>Seven Years.</HI></P>
<P>By which means the pre&s;ent Legal Workmen will be Pre&s;erved and Incouraged in their Trades; the <HI>Extravagant</HI> Increa&s;e of Weavers in the &s;aid City and Limits, Re|&s;trained; the Manufactures and Manufacturers, in the re|moter Parts of this Kingdom, Incouraged and Pre&s;erved from Ruine.</P>
<CLOSER>All which is humbly &s;ubmitted to Con&s;ideration.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>A PROPOSAL</HI> FOR Pre&s;erving and Encouraging THE <HI>Woollen-Manufactures</HI> In divers Parts of this Kingdom.</P>
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