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<HEAD>REASONS Humbly offered for Prohibiting all <HI>Lustrings</HI> and <HI>Alamodes</HI> Wrought in Foreign Parts.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. NOtwith&s;tanding the various Laws which have been made again&s;t the Importation of all Goods of the Growth and Manufacture of <HI>France,</HI> yet it is notoriou&s;ly known, as hereunder demon&s;trated, That very great Quantities of <HI>Alamodes, Lu&s;trings, &amp;c.</HI> have been Imported under the Name of <HI>Dutch</HI> or <HI>Italian</HI> wrought Silks, which were no other than <HI>French;</HI> whereby that Kingdom have made a great Profit, and this Nation a con&s;iderable Lo&s;s.</P>
<P N="2">II. It may be Judged of what concern to the Nation is the Con&s;umption of <HI>Lu&s;tring, Alamodes, &amp;c.</HI> by the u&s;e of <HI>Hoods, Scarffs, Tippets, Peticoates,</HI> and other u&s;es by the Women. For &s;uppo&s;ing that of 3 Mi&s;&s;ions of Females, as there are computed to be in <HI>England,</HI> That only 300 Thou&s;and u&s;e any of the &s;aid Goods, and that their Expence therein amounts one with another to Twenty Shillings <HI>per Annum,</HI> (which is the lea&s;t that can be &s;uppo&s;ed) it Evidences an expence of 300 Thou&s;and Pounds <HI>&s;terling</HI> yearly in tho&s;e Silks. But by what is Paid, to Their Maje&s;ties <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> the Duties, the value con&s;umed &s;hould be but Two or Three Thou&s;and pounds, and con&s;equent|ly the Per&s;ons con&s;uming it in <HI>England</HI> but Two or Three Thou&s;and: But it manife&s;tly appears to be infinitely greater, for the very Clergy of this Kingdom con&s;umes Six times more.</P>
<P N="3">III. This Clande&s;tine Trade is of late Years mo&s;t in the hands of <HI>French</HI> Papi&s;ts, <HI>Jews,</HI> and Per&s;ons that &s;teal the Duties of at lea&s;t &s;even Eighths of what is Imported, and but &s;eldom Enteer at the <HI>Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e</HI> &s;ome &s;mall quantity, and that as Fabricated in <HI>Holland,</HI> though its known that in Reality they are &s;ent from <HI>Lions</HI> to <HI>Flanders</HI> and thence to <HI>Holland,</HI> and &s;o into <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P N="4">IV. Even that &s;mall quantity which doth pay any Duty is commonly kept on purpo&s;e to be &s;ent for <HI>Ireland,</HI> or the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Plantations to draw back mo&s;t of the &s;aid Duty.</P>
<P N="5">V. That to Evidence fully the greatne&s;s of the quantity of <HI>Alamodes</HI> and <HI>Lu&s;trings</HI> that comes from <HI>France,</HI> a Seizure made in <HI>Kent</HI> the 12th. of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, containing Two Packers of Ten Pieces each, marked ML, Number 295 and 296, &s;hews that 2940 Pieces were Run before that Seizure, and tho&s;e two Packers &s;o &s;iezed were Condemned as <HI>French</HI> Goods, having the Names of the Fabricators upon each piece, and the Seals of the City of <HI>Lions,</HI> than which nothing can be more convincing, except the &s;ight of the Goods, which is offered by them that bought the &s;ame the Fir&s;t of <HI>December</HI> la&s;t at the <HI>Cu&s;tom-Hor&s;e, London.</HI></P>
<P N="6">VI. Therefore if the Con&s;umption of <HI>Alamode</HI> and <HI>Lu&s;trings</HI> is granted to be no le&s;s than 300 Thou&s;and Pounds yearly in <HI>England,</HI> and that according to the Book of Rates, Their Maje&s;ties Duties for the &s;aid Goods, being 17 <HI>per Cent.</HI> it Evidences that Their Maje&s;ties are deprived of Fifty Thou&s;and Pounds yearly that the Cu&s;tom of the &s;aid Goods amounts unto which is both True and Surpri&s;ing, being proved Litterally by the <HI>Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e</HI> Books.</P>
<P N="7">VII. it appears that &s;ince the Month of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t there hath been Imported into <HI>England</HI> only 780 <HI>l.</HI> weight of the Goods afore&s;aid Rated at 40 <HI>s. per</HI> lb, and the Duties paid amounting only to 487 <HI>l.</HI> 10 <HI>s.</HI> whereof part is al|ready drawn back, and probably before the year be out the whole &s;hall be &s;o too, and &s;o little or no Duties remain to Their Maje&s;ties, to the great Lo&s;s of Their good Subjects.</P>
<P N="8">VIII. As tho&s;e Goods are Fabricated in <HI>France,</HI> and are of &s;mall Bulk and great value, there is more Rea&s;on and need to Prohibit them to Ruin the Manufacture of the Common Enemy, and encrea&s;e that of <HI>England,</HI> The Rather &s;ince a Total Prohibition of tho&s;e Silks can give no Di&s;atisfaction to our Allies, becau&s;e it is evidently known that there are not any made in <HI>Italy</HI> (though they did once attempt it), neither doth <HI>Holland</HI> now make any quantity of <HI>Alamodes, &amp;c.</HI> &s;upplying them&s;elves ea&s;ily by Land from <HI>France.</HI> So that the prohibiting of all Foreign <HI>Alamodes, Lu&s;trings, &amp;c.</HI> is in effect no more than a Corroborating of the Act that prohibits Commerce with <HI>France,</HI> by tak|ing from the Importers that Colour which they make u&s;e of that the &s;aid Goods are wrought in <HI>Holland,</HI> whereby they have often Evaded the Effects intended and de&s;igned by the &s;aid act; for the pretence of <HI>Dutch Alamodes</HI> can no longer &s;ub&s;i&s;t &s;eeing that in this la&s;t Year there is hardly any Duties paid for any.</P>
<P N="9">IX. Therefore by a General Prohibition, Their Maje&s;ties Revenues will much increa&s;e in that the Royal <HI>Lu&s;tring</HI> Company of <HI>England,</HI> having a con&s;iderable Fund, have al&s;o by their Indu&s;try and Charge now brought their Work to &s;uch perfection that they make <HI>Alamodes</HI> and <HI>Lu&s;trings</HI> as well as any made in <HI>France,</HI> and do now imploy about 2000 poor <HI>Weavers, Wind&s;ters, Dyers</HI> and other Trade&s;men, who otherwayes would have been Reduced to great &s;treights, and if this Prohibition take effect, the &s;aid Company might employ five Times as many as now they do, and &s;o work out in <HI>England</HI> &s;uch quantities of Raw Silks, that they will &s;upply not only <HI>England, Scotland, Ireland,</HI> and our Plantations, but al&s;o our Neighbours with <HI>Lu&s;trings</HI> and <HI>Alamodes</HI> Fabricated by Their Maje&s;ties Subjects. So that the Duties upon the Raw Silk would amount to great Sums of Money as may be gue&s;&s;ed by what hath already been done by the &s;aid Company, &s;ince by one Ship only they paid for their Raw Silk near 460 <HI>l.</HI> Cu&s;tom, though the Company is in its Infancy, and none of the&s;e Duties are to be drawn back. Contrariwi&s;e, when any of their Wrought Silks are Exported they mu&s;t pay a further Duty. Be&s;ides by Prohi|biting Foreign <HI>Lu&s;trings, Alamodes, &amp;c.</HI> great Sums of Money Remitted to <HI>France,</HI> will be kept in <HI>England,</HI> where|as the Raw Silk u&s;ed by the &s;aid Company comes from the Duke of <HI>Savoy</HI>'s Dominions, and are purcha&s;ed with the Woollen Manufactures Wrought in <HI>England,</HI> by which means there is a Reciprocal help to both.</P>
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<HEAD>Entries of all Foreign <HI>Alamodes</HI> and <HI>Lu&s;trings</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> for which any Duties have been paid and Licences granted, &s;ince the fir&s;t of <HI>March</HI> 1692/3. as appears by Publick Regi&s;ters.</HEAD>
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<CELL>17 <HI>June</HI></CELL>
<CELL>98 lb weight</CELL>
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<CELL>7 <HI>Augu&s;t</HI></CELL>
<CELL>110</CELL>
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<CELL>14 <HI>Augu&s;t</HI></CELL>
<CELL>104</CELL>
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<CELL>9 <HI>September</HI></CELL>
<CELL>62</CELL>
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<CELL>18 <HI>September</HI></CELL>
<CELL>167 lb weight</CELL>
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<CELL>20 <HI>November</HI></CELL>
<CELL>128</CELL>
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<CELL>28 <HI>November</HI></CELL>
<CELL>111</CELL>
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<CELL ROLE="total">780</CELL>
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<P>18 <HI>December</HI> drawn back already 64 lb weight, and till the 28th. <HI>November</HI> next none knows what &s;hall Remain.</P>
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