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<HEAD>REASONS Humbly offered Again&s;t the <HI>CLAUSE</HI> intended in the <HI>ACT</HI> for the Establi&s;hing the <HI>LAND-BANK</HI> for Denizing or Naturalizing of all Aliens that &s;hall &s;ub&s;cribe <HI>500. l.</HI> to the &s;aid Bank.</HEAD>
<P>IT has been the Prudence of the Princes of this Nation, always to take care to make a Di&s;tinction be|tween Natural born Subjects and Aliens of other Kingdoms, and have never incouraged, nor indeed tollerated them in any thing further than that which migh directly or collaterally be judged and e&s;teem|ed for the Intere&s;t of their Natives: Neither were Aliens, in any Age, for any propo&s;ed Advantages, favoured and ea&s;ed in any thing, but Experience immediately di&s;covered many great Mi&s;chiefs to attend. Some of which are enumerated in an Act made for redre&s;&s;ing the&s;e Grievances, <HI>Anno Henrici &s;eptimi, Cap.</HI> 2. and are hereafter mentioned.</P>
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<ITEM>Fir&s;t and Principally, <HI>The advancing Aliens in Riches and Honour, and impoveri&s;hing the Mative Subjects.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Secondly. <HI>The exhau&s;ting the Trea&s;ure of the Nation, and remitting the &s;ame into Forreign Nations,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Thirdly. <HI>The great hurt in imparing and le&s;&s;ening the King's Cu&s;toms, the Publick Revenue of the Nation.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fourthly. <HI>That Marchants Aliens colour the Goods and Merchandizes of other Strangers (not Naturalized or made Denizons) and Export great and con&s;iderable Sub&s;tance in their Names.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>Herewith agree the Statutes of 11 <HI>H.</HI> 7. <HI>cap.</HI> 14. and 22 <HI>H.</HI> 8. <HI>cap.</HI> 8. pur&s;uant to the de&s;ign of which Laws, few or no Aliens were Naturalized during the Reigns of King <HI>Edward</HI> the Sixth, Queen <HI>Mary,</HI> Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and King <HI>James.</HI> And how greatly the Trade and Wealth of the Nation were thereby increa&s;ed, during the p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;perous Reigns of the two latter of the &s;aid Princes, none that are conver&s;ant in Hi&s;tory can be igno|rant of.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides which Mi&s;chiefs, Experience hath di&s;coverd further Inconveniencies, in admitting Aliens and Strangers to have and enjoy a free Trade upon equal Terms with his Maje&s;ties Native Subjects: As,</P>
<P>That the Trade, by Commi&s;&s;ion would be by Aliens taken out of the hands of his Maje&s;ties Subjects, both at home and abroad, and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Merchants would be under &s;old in the Prizes of their Commodities by Aliens, who can live more hardly, and at le&s;s charges, in Lodgings, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> than the King's Subjects, to the di&s;couragement of the Gentry, in training up their younger Sons in Trade, which was formerly e&s;teemed and proved a good Pro|vi&s;ion for them, and many arrived thereby to great E&s;tates and Preferment, which few now do.</P>
<P>By the &s;econd Rule in the Book of Rates, annexed to the Act of Tonnage and Poundage, Goods Importe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> and again Exported by <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in Twelve Months, and Aliens in Nine Months, draw back from Their Maje&s;tie<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> half the Cu&s;tomes paid by them on the Importation; and in &s;ome Ca&s;es more than half.</P>
<P>By the Act of Tonnage and Poundage, Merchants <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;u&s;taining lo&s;s in their Goods Exported, by Enemies<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Pirates, or peri&s;hing in the Sea, draw back the whole Cu&s;tome from his Maje&s;ty, which Prejudice his Maje&s;ty will &s;u&s;tain from Aliens Naturallized.</P>
<P>Now upon &s;erious Con&s;ideration, If all <HI>Jews</HI> and <HI>Roman Catholicks</HI> (that are Enemies to our Faith and Religi+on) are (for &s;uch &s;ub&s;cribing 500 <HI>l.</HI> to this Land Bank) to receive equal Priviledges with our own Natives, i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> will render this Bank a very <HI>Weak Fund,</HI> and give good Cau&s;e of <HI>Su&s;picion</HI> to our <HI>Allies</HI> and <HI>Enemies</HI> of our <HI>Poverty</HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> That we our &s;elves cannot rai&s;e pre&s;ent <HI>Supplies</HI> to his Maje&s;ty without the&s;e <HI>Mean Helps,</HI> which in the end will be none at all, but a great lo&s;s to his Maje&s;ty in his Revenue, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;ing by <HI>Petty Cu&s;tomes,</HI> upwards of 40000 <HI>l. per Ann.</HI> wherein by Law they are obliged to pay more than Natives, which will be a great di&s;appointment to tho&s;e, that have advanced Mony on that Fund in the Cu&s;tomes, and bring a further Charge upon our &s;elves, in&s;tead of a help.</P>
<P>But if it &s;hall be thought fit &s;till to continue this great favour to Strangers, it is humbly de&s;ired that it may be with this Provi&s;oe; <HI>(That they may not be in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">etter Circum&s;tances than our Natives, Freemen,</HI> Viz.</P>
<P><HI>Provided alwayes, and be if further Enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid, That nothing in this Act contained &s;hall ex|empt, or be con&s;trued to exempt any Forreigner? who &s;hall ub&s;cribe the &s;um of</HI> 500 l. <HI>or more as afore&s;aid from the pay|ment of any Tolls or Duties heretofore lawfully enjoyed, o received by any Body Corporate or Politick, but the &s;ame &s;hall &s;till be paid, as if this Act had not been made.</HI></P>
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