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<HEAD>Rea&s;ons for the KING, THE Dutche&s;s of <HI>Richmond,</HI> and the Farmers, To be offered again&s;t the BILL for <HI>Transferring</HI> the Duties of <HI>Sub&s;idy</HI> and <HI>Aulnage</HI> to the Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings Title and Power to let to Farm.</NOTE> <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> THE <HI>Aulnager</HI> was an Antient Office of the Crown, as appears by <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> and other Statutes; and his Bu&s;ine&s;s was to Mea|&s;ure between the Buyer and Seller; and by the 27 <HI>Edw.</HI> 3. <HI>Cap.</HI> 4. his Fee is a&s;certain'd to a <HI>Half-Penny</HI> for a whole Cloath, and a <HI>Farthing</HI> on half a Cloath: But the <HI>Sub&s;idy</HI> which is <HI>Four Pence</HI> on a Broad Cloath, and &s;o proportionably on all Woollen Manufac|tures was, by other Statutes, given the Crown in Lieu of Antient Cu&s;toms the Kings of <HI>England</HI> had on Wool Exported, as appears by Records, and in the 2 d. part of <HI>Cooks</HI> In&s;titutes, <HI>Fol.</HI> 60. and not for any Office to be performed by the Aulnager, as is mo&s;t fal&s;ely &s;ugge&s;ted; and altho' by the Statute of 5 &amp; 6 <HI>Edw.</HI> 6. <HI>Cap.</HI> 6. and other Statutes, the Office of the Aulnager is transferred to Searchers and Over&s;eers, to be appointed by every County and City, with a Fee of <HI>Two Pence</HI> a Cloath, for their pains: Yet by tho&s;e Statutes the Aulnagers Fee is re&s;erved and made part of the Revenue: And the&s;e Revenues (with the moiety of Forfeitures) have been Let to Farm above two hundred Years, by virtue of the Stature of the 17 <HI>Edw.</HI> 4. <HI>Cap.</HI> 5. which enables the King to let the &s;ame to Farm: And the Seal now u&s;ed (which they would in&s;inuate to &s;ignifie No|thing) is not the Seal of the Aulnager, which was heretofore a Seal of Content; for his power is taken away by the beforementioned Statutes; but the Seal of the Collector of the Sub&s;idy mentioned in the Statute 27 <HI>Edw.</HI> 3. <HI>Cap.</HI> 4. and &s;ignifies only the Receit of the Duties; and the Forfeitures is not for want of the Aulnagers Seal, but the Seal of the Collector of the Sub&s;idy.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Dutche&s;s her Title.</NOTE> <HI>Secondly,</HI> The Dutche&s;s of <HI>Richmond</HI> hath 2000. l. <HI>per Annum</HI> out of the profits, &s;ecured by her Marriage-&s;ettlement, and by Decree in <HI>Chancery</HI> for 7600 l. (by her paid for the over-plus above her Joynture, and rent to the Crown to the Executors of the Duke) is a purcha&s;er for valuable con&s;ide|ration of the remainder of a term of Sixty Years to come, purcha&s;ed from the Crown by the late Duke her Husband in 1664. under the Rent of 997 l. 2. s. to which Rent the &s;ame had been reduced by Fines, and other con&s;iderations given the Crown, and of a &s;urrender of a former Lea&s;e for 60. Years made by King <HI>James</HI> I. to <HI>Lodowick</HI> Duke of <HI>Richmond</HI> for valuable Con&s;iderations.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Farmers Title.</NOTE> <HI>Thirdly,</HI> The pre&s;ent Farmers, for <HI>Nine Thou&s;and Pounds</HI> Fine, are Purcha&s;ers from the Dutche&s;s, and her Tru&s;tees, of the &s;ame Duties, for <HI>Twenty-One Years,</HI> from 1682. under the yearly Rent of 3138 l. The Rea&s;on of which Low-Rent, was, That mo&s;t of the chief Counties, As <HI>York, Lanca|&s;ter, Glouce&s;ter, Norfolk, &amp;c.</HI> were out in Lea&s;e for diver&s;e years then to come; and that the Farmers mu&s;t expend great Sums of Money, be|fore they could Repay them&s;elves any thing (as in Truth they did): The re&s;idue of the Term being <HI>Twenty-Two Years</HI> remaining &s;till &s;olely in the Dutche&s;s, under the &s;aid Rent to the Crown.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Recompence In&s;ufficient.</NOTE> The&s;e <HI>Three Rights</HI> appearing thus to be as legally and well ve&s;ted re&s;pectively, as any mans E&s;tate in <HI>England,</HI> and that under the &s;ecurity of the &s;aid Act of Parliament, enabling the King to grant the &s;ame, to Farm; The Pro&s;ecutors of the Bill will not appear Bare-faced to pray them to be de&s;troyed: But as by the Title of the Bill appears, they call it only, <HI>A Bill to Transfer the Duties to the Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e, and to give a Recompence for the &s;ame to the Crown.</HI> By which very Title of the Bill they Di&s;cover them&s;elves; for if it were only to be Transferred, and not Le&s;&s;ened, or taken Away, What need a Recompence for the &s;ame?</P>
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<HEAD>But to Shew that this Bill is not a &s;ufficient Recompence;</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the Crown.</NOTE> <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Not to the Crown, for it takes away the &s;aid Rent to the Crown, and gives nothing in Lieu thereof.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the Dutche&s;s.</NOTE> <HI>Secondly,</HI> Not to the Dutche&s;s: For the Bill does Impo&s;e little or no Duty on the Commodities Exported, more than they now pay, but &s;ome of them con&s;iderably Le&s;s, as by the particulars of the Duties now payable, compared with the Bill appears.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ea&s;es the Home Con&s;umption, to lay it on the Ex|portation.</NOTE> <HI>Thirdly,</HI> It Di&s;charges all the Commodities con&s;umed at Home ab&s;olutely from the&s;e Duties, which by Law the Makers are now to pay, and gives a Duty to be paid by the Merchant, only on the goods Exported, which in the times of Peace, and be&s;t Trade, were never above a Third part of the Woollen Manufacture made in the Kingdom; and not only in time of War mu&s;t be far Le&s;s, but al&s;o by the Increa&s;e and Improvement of Woollen Manufactures in Forreign parts, the Exportation mu&s;t yearly Decrea&s;e. This, and the former Rea&s;ons, are Demon&s;trations, That what the Bill gives, mu&s;t fall Short greatly above Two parts of the true Value, be&s;ides the Uncertainties.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Charge at the <HI>Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e</HI> as great as Now.</NOTE> The Pro&s;ecutors of the Bill would &s;upply this by pretence, that the Expences of Collecting are now great, and will be &s;aved by the Method of the Bill: Whereas they well know, that the Charge at the <HI>Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e,</HI> will be very great: But if they intend it &s;hould Depend upon the Collection of the Cu&s;toms, and by the Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e-Officers without Charge, there is no &s;uch provi&s;ion made by the Bill, nor what Officers &s;hall Collect and Account for it, nor can it be expected that ever a ju&s;t Care or Account can be had from Officers without an Allowance; and its hoped,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Cu&s;toms but Temporary.</NOTE> they would not have an E&s;tate of Inheritance depend upon what are but Temporary (as the Cu&s;toms are); for &s;hould they Cea&s;e five times the Value of the&s;e Duties upon exportation would not pay for the Collecting.</P>
<P>Two Bills of the &s;ame kind, have been brought before Your Lord&s;hips, but Your Lord&s;hips did not think &s;it to pa&s;s either of them, and the &s;ame Rea&s;ons &s;till remain.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Dutche&s;&s;es Pet' to the H. of Com' rejected, &amp; not Read.</NOTE> The pro&s;ecutors being &s;en&s;ible, tho&s;e Bills were not a Compen&s;ation, have obtained &s;ome &s;mall Additions of Rates to be added upon &s;uch Com|modities Chiefly; of which, little is Exported, which likewi&s;e (if the Hou&s;e of Commons had been plea&s;ed to have Heared the Per&s;ons intere&s;ted upon their Peritions, which they Rejected without being read) would have been Demon&s;trated to that Honourable Hou&s;e, that the &s;aid Bill was no manner of Compen&s;ation, either in Value, or in point of Remedy.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The pre&s;ent clear Yearly Value of the Duties.</NOTE> It hath been and will be made appear unto this mo&s;t Honourable Hou&s;e, that the Yearly value of the &s;aid Duties Amounts to 7000 <HI>l.</HI> and upwards, clear of all Charge, and that the &s;ame is received only for &s;uch <HI>Manufactures</HI> as are Legally Lyable to the Payment of the &s;aid Duties; and that the Rates given by this Bill,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Rates now given, not a Com|pen&s;ation.</NOTE> will Amount to nothing near that Value, be&s;ides the Charge of Collection, and all Contingences of Trade and otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P>It is al&s;o Objected, that the Grievances in the Collecting the&s;e Duties are &s;o many and great, That the Office and Seal of the <HI>Aulnager</HI> and Col|lector of the Sub&s;idy, ought to be taken away.</P>
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<HEAD>To which it is An&s;wered.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">An&s;wer to the Complaints in Collect ing the Duties.</NOTE> THat nothing has been done, but what the Law Directs for Recovering the Duty; and if any Per&s;on has &s;uffered, it was the Default of not pay|ing the Duties (or el&s;e <HI>u&s;ing</HI> indirect means to avoid the payment of it) there being no power to Search or Seize any Goods, until they are Expo&s;ed to Sail, or Sold.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The per&s;ons In|tere&s;ted willing to &s;ubmit to a Regulation.</NOTE> But if the pre&s;ent Legal way of Collecting be inconvenient, that is neither an Argument to take away, or le&s;&s;en the Right, but only to Regulate the manner of Collecting; and all per&s;ons concerned, are willing to con&s;ent to any Rea&s;onable Propo&s;als for Collecting thereof, &s;o the Legal Du|ty be continued and &s;ecured.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The pre&s;ent Du|ties adjudged Le|gal.</NOTE> That there is no Duty taken or Demanded, but what is expre&s;ly &s;ettled by Acts of Parliament, and by Antient Records of 300 Years' and upwards, Adjudged upon them, and particularly by all the Judges of <HI>England,</HI> 2 <HI>Jacobi</HI> 1. And by Lord Chief Baron <HI>Hales,</HI> and other Judges; and which pur&s;uant thereto, were Collected long before the Dutche&s;s or Farmers were Concerned.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Con&s;idera|tion of the Du|ties, Beneficial to the Kingdom.</NOTE> If they mean the <HI>Seal</HI> of the <HI>Aulnager</HI> to be taken away, that is &s;o already; but if they mean the <HI>Sub&s;idy,</HI> how comes that to be a Grievance now, which has been paid almo&s;t 350 Years, and for the be&s;t con&s;iderarations? <HI>viz.</HI> The increa&s;e of our <HI>Manufacture,</HI> by hindring the Exportati|on of Wool, whereby the Wealth of this Kingdom has &s;o much increa&s;ed.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>True Rea&s;on</HI> of the Bill.</NOTE> But the True Rea&s;on of this Duty being a Grievance, is the Great Contributions that have been rai&s;ed, and Sub&s;criptions that have been obtained by &s;ome per&s;ons that are the Pro&s;ecutors of the Bill, upon the Expre&s;s Conditions that the Duty &s;hall be taken from the Clothier, and laid upon the Merchants; and to Support this Undertaking, have obtained Petitions and Letters, to that purpo&s;e; and now pre&s;ume, by their circular Letters, to obtain the like to Your Lord&s;hips,<NOTE PLACE="marg">And the Dange|rous Con&s;equence of it.</NOTE> to incline Your Lord&s;hips to the pa&s;&s;ing of the Bill: Well knowing, if they once ab&s;olve the Clothier from pay|ment, and lay it upon the Merchant (as the Bill doth), it will be &s;uch a Burthen on Trade, that it is to be Feared, a Future Parliament may &s;ee greater cau&s;e to take the Duty Transferred to the Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e wholly away, and Con&s;equently all the E&s;tates therein utterly de&s;troyed.</P>
<P>Wherefore it is humbly hoped the Bill &s;hall not pa&s;s.</P>
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<P>Rea&s;ons for the KING, Dutche&s;s of <HI>Richmond,</HI> and the <HI>Farmers,</HI> again&s;t Pa&s;&s;ing the Bill relating to the <HI>Aulnage.</HI></P>
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