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<HEAD>CERTAIN PROPOSALLS In all humblene&s;&s;e Pre&s;ented to the Con&s;ideration of the Honourable A&s;&s;embly of PARLIAMENT, For Con&s;iderable advance of Monies, and augmentation of publick Revenue &s;or the future.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas there is in the&s;e three Nations of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> by the e&s;pecial providence of Almighty God, manifold appearances of Suffi|ciency of plenty, in reference to all outward comfortable enjoyments in this life. So is there indeed a &s;eeming &s;uperabounding &s;tore of Wealth and Trea&s;ure, demon&s;trably manife&s;t to be in&s;tanced in vi&s;ible exce&s;&s;ive <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">reat quantities of <HI>Plate</HI> now wrought and u&s;ed in <HI>England,</HI> and from hence &s;ent over, both into <HI>Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> &s;o that the va&s;t proportions o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Silver converted</HI> into <HI>Plate,</HI> of all &s;orts, for all imaginable u&s;es, (<HI>Viz. Tankerds, Cupps, Beakers, Bowles, Porringers, Sugger-Boxes, Spoons,</HI> all &s;orts and &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">zes of <HI>Plates, Salts, Di&s;hes, Ba&s;ons,</HI> and <HI>Ewers, Candle-&s;tiks, Standi&s;hes, Ink hornes, Tobacco-Boxes, Heads</HI> for <HI>Canes, Watches</HI> and <HI>Watch-Ca&s;es, Kettles, Skilets, Pre&s;erving-Panns, Ladles, Ce&s;terns, Flaggons, Ba&s;kets, Clo&s;e-Stool-Pans, Chamber-Potts, Bed-Panns Perfuming-Potts, Gridirons, Chafing-Di&s;hes, Tongs, Fire-Shovells, Andirons, Salvators, Plaister-Boxes,</HI> all &s;orts of <HI>In&s;truments</HI> for <HI>Chirurgeons, Spurrs, Sword Hilts, Buckles</HI> for <HI>Belts, Hafts</HI> for <HI>Knives,</HI> and indeed what not; In the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ow&s;es of <HI>Noble-men, Knightes, E&s;quires, Gentlemen</HI> of E&s;tates, in <HI>Gold-Smiths</HI> Shopps, ready wrought for U&s;e, and Sail: and al&s;o in <HI>Taverns, Inns, Ale-Hou&s;es, Vict<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">al-Hou&s;es,</HI> and el&s;ewhere,) is very exorbitant, vain, and &s;uperfluous, far exceed|ing (in the generality of able People only) all the &s;aid Per&s;ons Conditions, E&s;tates, and Fortunes, in their &s;everall qualifications.</P>
<P>For want of <HI>Bullion</HI> to &s;upply the &s;uper abounding u&s;e of <HI>Plate</HI> as above&s;aid, the current <HI>Coyn</HI> of the Nation, hath e&s;pecially been of late years and &s;til is &s;ubject to very great diminution and wai&s;t by the <HI>Gold Smiths</HI> con&s;tant ordinary Practice, not only c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lling out of the weightye&s;t of it, but melting down va&s;t proportions, and con|verting the &s;ame into <HI>Plate,</HI> whereby they bring in high advantage of profit to them&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lves, by &s;o much of the &s;aid <HI>Coyn</HI> as they find weighty, by the rates and prices &s;et for the Fa&s;hion, and Workman&s;hip upon every Ounce, and by the Allay and Sod<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ler, u&s;ed in working up the &s;aid <HI>Plate,</HI> and adding to it's wieght; but hereby the publick lo&s;&s;e and detriment of the Common-Wealth, by cau&s;ing &s;o great diminution, and &s;carcity of <HI>Money,</HI> and con&s;equently &s;o great decay of Trade for want there|of, is grown very prejudicial; and of dangerous con&s;equence.</P>
<P>There being impo&s;ition of <HI>Exci&s;e,</HI> upon &s;everal numerous Commodities, and in particular (among&s;t the re&s;t) upon <HI>Lead, Tinn, Copper Plates,</HI> and all <HI>Silver Wyer;</HI> Now in regard of the urgent nece&s;&s;ity for advance and &s;upply of very great Summes of <HI>Money,</HI> to &s;upport the weighty; and defray the publick incident Charges una|voidable, requi&s;ite for pre&s;ervation, and the &s;ecurity of the Common-Wealth's Peace and pro&s;perity for the future; It is humbly offered to the grave and &s;erious ap|probation and acceptance of the Honourable A&s;&s;embly of <HI>Parliament,</HI> that a Bill may be forthwith prepared and pre&s;ented, to pa&s;&s;e into an Act for an impo&s;ition of <HI>Exci&s;e</HI> upon all &s;orts of <HI>Silver Plate</HI> what&s;oever, which &s;hall amount to the waight of half one Once in the piece, and &s;o upward, either already wrought, or that &s;hall be wrought for the future, impo&s;ing the rate of &s;ix pence upon every Ounce at the lea&s;t: And that in order thereunto, all &s;uch Per&s;on, or Per&s;ons as are po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, or proprietors of any Plate, be it more, or be it le&s;s, may be &s;trictly enjoyned to bring it all in upon Oath, at, or before a certain time expre&s;ly to be limited unto &s;ome de&s;igned place, or places, fit and convenient for that purpo&s;e: there to pay the &s;aid <HI>Exci&s;e</HI> proportionably, according to the exact weight thereof, for the immediate u&s;e of the Common-Wealth; and that then al&s;o, every piece of <HI>Silver Plate</HI> &s;o <HI>Exci&s;ed</HI> &s;hall have &s;ome di&s;tingui&s;hing Stamp, or Mark &s;et upon it, be&s;ides the Hall mark, and likewi&s;e be duly Regi&s;tred, whereby it may be known to be <HI>Exci&s;ed,</HI> and that it be provided in the &s;aid Bill (&s;o to be prepared as afore&s;aid) in ca&s;e of any Per&s;on, or Per&s;ons refu&s;all herein, a clau&s;e of confi&s;cation, and forfeiture of the <HI>Plate,</HI> except the Owner, or Owners, do either &s;ell it unto the <HI>Gold-Smiths,</HI> or bring it into the <HI>Tower</HI> to be melted down and <HI>Coyned,</HI> which will be a means to make <HI>Money</HI> more ple<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tifull and advance Trade in the Nation, and con&s;equently be accompanied with certain benefit, and profit to the <HI>State</HI> for the <HI>Mintage</HI> thereof.</P>
<P>In drawing up of the &s;aid Bill, a &s;uitable Provi&s;ion to be made al&s;o for time to come, that all &s;ort and &s;izes of wrought <HI>Silver Plate</HI> what&s;oever, amounting to the weight of half one Ounce the Piece, and upward, &s;hall be &s;o <HI>Exci&s;ed</HI> as afore&s;aid, and receive in like manner the &s;aid publick di&s;tingui&s;hing Stamp or Mark, and be duely Regi|&s;tred before it be &s;ould, upon the penalty of forfeiture, as afore&s;aid: and that at the weighing, marking, and Regi&s;tring all &s;uch <HI>Plate,</HI> as is, or &s;hall be wrought up for Sail, the &s;aid <HI>Gold Smith</HI> to pay the &s;aid <HI>Exci&s;e,</HI> due unto the State: and be moreover &s;trictly enjoined, not to enhance the ordinary rate and price of <HI>Silver Plate</HI> unto the Buyer, above the proportionable value of the <HI>Exci&s;e</HI> he payes out of his own Pur&s;e: and if at any time, any <HI>Exci&s;ed Plate</HI> &s;hall be &s;old to the <HI>Gold Smith,</HI> which he &s;hall &s;ell again for old <HI>Plate,</HI> as he bought it, then <HI>Exci&s;e</HI> Money not to be demanded, or paid a &s;econd time, but in ca&s;e it &s;hall be melted, and wrought up anew, then onely to be <HI>Exci&s;ed,</HI> and Marked Regi&s;tred, before the Sail thereof, at the receipt of the Touch, and Hall mark, as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>Whereas there is much <HI>Silver Plate,</HI> &s;ome &s;orts whereof, are parcell-guilded, and others richly guilded all over; It is humbly conceived requi&s;ite that Provi&s;ion be al|&s;o made in the &s;aid Bill for the bringing in of all &s;uch <HI>Plate,</HI> as afore&s;aid: and that an impo&s;ition of three Pence on the Ounce be &s;et on that which is parcell guilded, more then is upon plain <HI>Silver Plate,</HI> that is, nine Pence the Ounce: and that which is double-guilded, &s;ix Pence on the Ounce more then upon plain <HI>Silver Plate,</HI> that is twelve Pence on the Ounce, which by rea&s;on of the great wai&s;t of <HI>Gold</HI> being &s;o &s;carce in the Nation, is but moderate: and that if any <HI>Silver Plate,</HI> richly guilded, or parcell guilded <HI>Plate</HI> what&s;oever, &s;hall not, according to the &s;aid Provi&s;ions and appointments, from time to time be brought in, to be Weighed, <HI>Exci&s;ed,</HI> Marked and Regi&s;tred, as afore&s;aid, the &s;ame &s;hall (after a certain time in the &s;aid Bill to be limited) become liable to confi&s;cation and forfeiture by way of di&s;covery, the one moie|ty, ot half part, to accrew unto the State, and the other moiety, or half part, to the di&s;cover<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> or di&s;overers, for reward and encouragement, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>An Additional <HI>PROPOSAL.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe great &s;caricty of <HI>Golden Coyn</HI> in the three Nations (as is humbly conceived) de&s;ervedly requireth your Honours &s;erious reflection, and due con&s;ideration: that as our <HI>Gold</HI> hath been tran&s;ported, to the lo&s;&s;e of the publick Stock of the Nation, and general decay of Trade, &s;o al&s;o hath it been, and is in too great mea&s;ure convert|ed unto &s;everal things of unnece&s;&s;ary u&s;es which might well be &s;pared, e&s;pecially in &s;uch times as the&s;e: as <HI>Bowles, Cupps,</HI> and &s;everal other <HI>Ve&s;sels, Chaines, Bodkins, Thimbles, Seales, Rings, Watches, Watch-Ca&s;es, Lockets,</HI> and <HI>Medalls, Tablets</HI> for <HI>Pictures, Handles</HI> for <HI>Fanns,</HI> &amp;c. It is therefore mo&s;t humbly offered to the Honurable A&s;&s;embly of <HI>Parliament,</HI> that all <HI>Gold,</HI> &s;o converted and wrought up for any kind of u&s;e be&s;ides current <HI>Coyn,</HI> or that &s;hall hereafter be &s;o wrought, may in like manner as <HI>Silver Plate,</HI> have an impo&s;ition of <HI>Exci&s;e,</HI> &s;et, at the rate of &s;ix Pence at lea&s;t upon every Penny-weight, with the &s;ame Provi&s;ions and limitations as are mentioned in the foregoing <HI>Propo&s;alls</HI> for <HI>Silver Plate:</HI> and the like Provi&s;ion to be made, that the Owners may have liberty (within &s;ome certain time limited) either to &s;ell all &s;uch <HI>Gold,</HI> &s;o converted, to the <HI>Gold-Smiths,</HI> or to bring the &s;ame to the <HI>Mint</HI> to be <HI>Coyned</HI> for them&s;elves; otherwi&s;e, being <HI>Vnexci&s;ed,</HI> and made out by way of di&s;covery, to be confi&s;cate, and forfeited, as in the foregoing <HI>Propo&s;als</HI> is expre&s;&s;ed. This impo&s;ediate of <HI>Exci&s;e</HI> on <HI>Gold,</HI> amounteth to ten Shillings upon the Ounce, which Ounce of <HI>Gold</HI> &s;urmounteth the value of an whole pound weight of <HI>Silver.</HI></P>
<P>For the avoiding of any &s;uppo&s;ed hindrance or di&s;couragement to Merchants, in reference to the importation of <HI>Bullion;</HI> It may be further provided al&s;o, that no <HI>Exci&s;e</HI> be put upon <HI>Bullion,</HI> before it be wrought into <HI>Plate:</HI> and that the <HI>Gold-Smiths</HI> do give no le&s;&s;e price for <HI>Bullion</HI> to the Merchant, or for workman&s;hip to the <HI>Silver-Smith,</HI> then formerly hath been accu&s;tomed to be given: and that there be no abatement made of the u&s;ual price of old <HI>Plate:</HI> &s;o that the impo&s;ed rates of <HI>Exci&s;e</HI> in the&s;e particular <HI>Propo&s;als,</HI> relating to <HI>Silver</HI> and <HI>Gold,</HI> (without burthening any poor mean Per&s;ons at all) reflects and wholly re&s;ts upon the Buyers only, men wealthy, or of competent E&s;tates, and &s;o be&s;t able to &s;pare the&s;e &s;mall incon&s;iderable proportions, tending much to Gods glory, and the pre&s;ent and future good of their Countrey: e&s;pecially being &s;o, that it is impo&s;ed but once, and holding no equivalent proportion with the rate of <HI>Exci&s;e</HI> put upon other things indi&s;pen&s;ibly nece&s;&s;ary for &s;u&s;tenta|tion of life: For in&s;tance; Every <HI>Barrell</HI> of &s;trong <HI>Beer,</HI> payes two Shillings &s;ix Pence <HI>Exci&s;e</HI> (the price of the <HI>Barrell</HI> to the <HI>Brewer</HI> being ten Shillings) which amounts to five Shillings in the pound, and moreover is a continued charge.</P>
<P><HI>The&s;e</HI> Propo&s;alls <HI>are in all humblene&s;&s;e &s;ubmitted to your Honours grave Wi&s;domes, and Iudgements to determine of.</HI> </P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By your Honours mo&s;t humble Servant, a zealous well-wi&s;her to the publick. MARM- MARSHALL.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Dic Jovis 14 <HI>Martii,</HI> 1643.</HEAD>
<P>IT is this day Ordered by the Commons A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, that the Committee for the Navy, do receive &s;uch propo&s;itions as &s;hall be pre&s;ented unto them for rai&s;ing of Moneyes, for the &s;ervice of the State: And if the Propo&s;itions be &s;uch, as will produce advantage to the Kingdome, that then the Parties that propound the &s;ame, &s;hall be imployed, and well rewarded for their pains and indu&s;try.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen. El&s;ing Cler. Par. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>A True Coppy examin'd.</CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>To the Supream Power, the PARLIAMENT</HI> Of the Common-Wealth of England, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> The Humble <HI>Petition</HI> of <HI>Marmaduke Mar&s;hall, Gent.</HI> on behalf of him&s;elf, and others interested</HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>_THat by an <HI>Order</HI> of this pre&s;ent <HI>Parliament</HI> bearing date the 14 of <HI>March.</HI> 1643. the then <HI>Committee</HI> of the <HI>Navy</HI> were impowered to receive Propo&s;itions for rai&s;ing Monies for &s;ervice of the <HI>State,</HI> and for &s;uch of them as &s;hould produce advantage, the Parties propounding &s;hould be imployed, and well rewarded for their pains and indu&s;try.</P>
<P>That the <HI>Petitioner</HI> hath <HI>Certain Propo&s;als</HI> for pre&s;ent advance of con&s;idera|ble &s;umms of Money, in all humblene&s;s to be pre&s;ented, and &s;ubmit|ted to the grave Wi&s;domes and Iudgement of this Honourable A&s;|&s;embly; and if the &s;aid propo&s;ed Overtures, &s;hall merit your Honours acceptance, and approbation, to be made u&s;e of, to pa&s;&s;e into an <HI>Act</HI> for putting the &s;ame in execution.</P>
<P>It is mo&s;t humbly prayed, that in pur&s;uance of the abovemen|tioned <HI>Order,</HI> (a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed) your Honours will be plea&s;ed to allott and appoint &s;uch competent meet reward unto &s;ome few intere&s;ted per|&s;ons, and al&s;o &s;uch imployments, and &s;allaries in the &s;aid &s;ervice as by your Honours &s;hall be deemed &s;uitable for them, and according as they &s;hall be found and appro|ved faithfull tru&s;ty men, qualifyed &amp; capable to perform and di&s;charge their re&s;pective duties therein: and that the Petitioner may have the place or office of Chiefe Regi&s;ter in that Service with &s;allary &s;uitable for that im|ployment conferred upon him.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>And (as in duty bound) he shall euer pray,</HI> &amp;c. MARM. MARSHALL.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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