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<HEAD>REASONS humbly offered by the Company of Gla&s;s and Earthen Ware Sellers, in An&s;wer to the Pot-Makers printed Rea&s;ons for their Bill now Depending in this Honourable Hou&s;e.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Fir&s;t of their printed Rea&s;ons is,</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>THat the Manufacture of Earthen Ware is of general u&s;e in private Families of all Conditions, and of ab&s;olute nece&s;&s;ity in divers Trades and Profe&s;&s;ions, &s;ufficient Quantities whereof are, and with ea&s;e might be made at home, for &s;upply of the whole Nation, in all re&s;pects as good as any Imported, the &s;ame having been fully Demon&s;trated to the late King</HI> Charles, <HI>and King</HI> James <HI>the Second; who in Te&s;timony of their Satisfaction therein, i&s;&s;ued out their &s;everal Proclamations for the better putting the Statute again&s;t the Importation of &s;uch Foreign Ware in Execution.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> They never did, neither can they make &s;uch Painted Earthen Ware as is Imported; And the Proclamations they mention were Clande&s;tinely got (and the fir&s;t of them was in the time of the <HI>Dutch</HI> Wars) without any notice given to the &s;aid Company of Gla&s;s and Earthen Ware Sellers, and the Act they mention does not take notice of Earthen Ware.</P>
<P N="2">II. <HI>That the &s;aid Manufacture is wholy made of</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Materials, great Quantities of Tin, Lead, Clay, and Kelpe to a con&s;iderable Value being therein yearly u&s;ed; and if the &s;ame were duly Encouraged, a much greater Con&s;umption would be had, the &s;aid Art be Improved, and the Exportation and Vent thereof in Foreign Parts be Promoted.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> Far greater Quantities then are or could be here Con&s;umed of the &s;aid Materials, are Exported to <HI>Holland, Germany, Spain, Portugall, Italy, Turkey, Genoa, Per&s;ia,</HI> and the <HI>Ea&s;t Indies,</HI> to make the &s;aid Wares &s;o de&s;ired to be Prohibited.</P>
<P><HI>Note,</HI> The &s;aid Materials do Pay Cu&s;tom, both at their Exportation and Importation, and all Earthen Ware now Imported pays Four Shillings in the Pound; and all &s;uch Ware has con&s;tantly been Rated in the Book of Rates, and never pretended to be Prohibited till within the&s;e Twenty Years by the &s;aid Proclamations &s;o &s;urreptitiou&s;ly got.</P>
<P N="3">III. <HI>That the &s;aid Trade cannot be managed without great Numbers of Artificers and Labourers, &s;o as &s;everal hundreds of Poor Families do wholy depend thereon, be&s;ides the &s;everal Trade&s;men, as Brick|layers, Ma&s;ons, Mill-Wrights, Coopers, Smiths, Watermen, Bargemen,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>who are frequently Im|ployed in Matters relating thereto, to &s;o great a Degree, That a full Moiety of what the Goods are &s;old for, is paid and expended by the Ma&s;ter for Labour.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> There are but Six or Seven of the &s;aid Pot-Makers in <HI>England,</HI> who may Imploy Fifty Families or thereabouts; &s;eve|ral of the Artificers they mention, as Bricklayers, Ma&s;ons, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> being but very &s;eldom Imployed, and that only in the Building and Repairing of their Kilnes, which are not Twenty in the whole, and the Profit thereof to the Per&s;ons, &s;o &s;eldom Imployed, can be but very incon&s;iderable, and they but few in number; Whereas there are &s;everal hundreds of Families maintained in the Dealing and Retailing of Foreign and Inland Earthen Wares, whom this Bill, if it &s;hould pa&s;s, would utterly Ruin.</P>
<P N="4">IV. <HI>That &s;o great Quantities of Foreign Wares are now on divers Pretexts Imported, That unle&s;s a more effectual Prohibition be E&s;tabli&s;hed, the Con&s;umption of the &s;aid</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Materials will cea&s;e, the Poor be unimployed, and the &s;aid Manufacture be totally lo&s;t, and Foreigners thereby inabled to &s;et what price they plea&s;e on the &s;aid Commodities.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> That very little or no Foreign or Earthen Ware is Imported, which they do or can make here, but chiefly <HI>China</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ia</HI> Earthen Ware, and Melting Pots, (though &s;ome have had Patents for the &s;ole making Fine Earthen Wares here, after the manner of <HI>Holland,</HI> and have had all Encouragement imaginable from the &s;aid Company of Gla&s;s Sellers and others, but could never make &s;uch Ware or Tiles for Chimneys) and therefore cannot hinder the Con&s;umption of &s;uch Earthen Ware as is made here; but the Importing of Foreign Earthen Ware has been a great Example to the very Pot-makers them&s;elves, by making their Wares after Foreign Patterns, to their great Intere&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;erve.</HI> That if the &s;aid Bill &s;hould Pa&s;s, it would be very prejudicial to the Nation in general for the&s;e Rea&s;ons, <HI>Viz.</HI></P>
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<ITEM>I. It would give the &s;aid Pot-Makers an Opportunity of &s;etting what high Prizes they plea&s;e on their Commodities, which they already threaten to do, in ca&s;e the Bill &s;hould Pa&s;s, and have formerly done the &s;ame, upon the fir&s;t putting out of the &s;aid Proclamations.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. It will le&s;&s;en His Maje&s;ties Cu&s;toms, for mo&s;t of the Materials of which the &s;aid Commodities are made, are had from hence, and pay Cu&s;tom, both at the Exportation and Importation, and at the latter it pays Four &s;hillings in the Pound by Act of Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. The &s;aid Wares have been con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">tantly Rated in the Book of Rates, and never Prohibited till by the fir&s;t Proclama|tion, which was Clande&s;tinely obtained in the time of the <HI>Dutch</HI> Wars, and by vertue of that the Prizes of all Earthen Wares were here very much Enhanced.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. It would be a great Prejudice to the Mint, and to all Silver Smiths, Chymi&s;ts, and others, who u&s;e Crucibles and Melting Pots, the &s;ame being Imported from Abroad, and cannot be made here.</ITEM>
<ITEM>V. It would hinder the Exporting of &s;everal Thou&s;and pounds a year of our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Commodities which would never be Sold were it not in Barter for Foreign Earthen Ware.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>Note,</HI> This Bill Prohibites the Importation of <HI>China,</HI> and all other curious Earthen Wares which can never be made here.</P>
<P><HI>All which is humbly &s;ubmitted to this Honourable Hou&s;e, and 'tis hoped for the Rea&s;ons before mentioned, that the &s;aid Bill will not be &s;uffered to Pa&s;s.</HI></P>
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<P>REASONS Again&s;t the BILL for Preventing the Importation of Fo|reign Earthen Ware.</P>
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