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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>REASONS humbly offered to the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, by the Clothiers of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> viz. <HI>Colche&s;ter, Coxhall, Bocking, Braintree, Witham,</HI> and the Towns adjacent, against the in|tended Additional Duty to be laid upon <HI>Wines.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. AS our Bays, Says, Perpetuanos, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> go Nine Tenths of them to <HI>Portugal</HI> and <HI>Spain,</HI> if a new Impo&s;iti|on be laid upon Wines, the King of <HI>Portugal</HI> (we cannot but rea&s;onably expect) then will prohibit our Manufacture, having had an in&s;tance of the like; which will prove fatal to us as the &s;tagnation of the Blood.</P>
<P N="2">2. It will totally de&s;troy the Woollen Manufactury of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> for 50 or 60000 Families, as Spin&s;ters, Weavers, and Combers, who are employed therein; and have no other Em|ployments whereby to get a livelyhood, will be inevitably all Ruined, by rea&s;on tho&s;e Trade&s;men who employ the Poor, will be forced to lay by their Trades.</P>
<P N="3">3. When the&s;e Families have no Employment, the Lands of the County cannot maintain the Poor; and what the Poor will do for maintenance, we humbly Pray the Wi&s;dom of this Hou&s;e to take into their Con&s;ideration.</P>
<P N="4">4. We humbly Pray, That if the Wi&s;dom of this Hou&s;e will lay a new Impo&s;ition upon Wines; That tho&s;e Farmers may be obliged upon the Penalty of 100000 <HI>l.</HI> or give &s;uch Security as this Honourable Hou&s;e &s;hall think fit, to buy tho&s;e Goods that are now upon Trade&s;mens hands, at &s;uch Rates as the Merchants at this time will give, and oblige them&s;elves to buy the &s;ame quantities of our Manufacture for Four Years en&s;uing, as has been &s;old for Four Years la&s;t pa&s;t, to prevent the Ruine of &s;o many Thou&s;and Families.</P>
<P N="5">5. We believe by the Importation of <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> and <HI>Portugal</HI> Wines, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;ince the Prohibition of <HI>French</HI> Wines, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> the Exportation of all our Manufacturies have been near one Third part increa&s;ed; which hath the better enabled us chear|fully to bear our proportion of Taxes, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> in the carrying on the pre&s;ent War hitherto, which we can give no other Rea&s;on for, but from the Benefit the Native Subjects of <HI>Spain</HI> and <HI>Portugal</HI> reap, by our Merchants bringing Returns, in the Fruits of tho&s;e Countries, which formerly came from <HI>France;</HI> and were not the Product of our Manufacturies, but of our Monies.</P>
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