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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>REASONS Humbly offered again&s;t the Bill for granting a General Liberty to all Per&s;ons what&s;o|ever, to Export the Woollen Manufactures of this Nation to <HI>Hamburgh, Germany, Hol|land, Flanders</HI> and the parts adjacent.</HEAD>
<P>_WHEREAS by an Act made in the Fir&s;t Year of their Maje&s;ties Reign, Entituled, <HI>An Act for the better Pro|moting the Exportation of Wooll, and Encouraging the Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom,</HI> it was, among&s;t other things, Enacted, That from thence forward it &s;hould and might be Lawful to and for any Per&s;on or Per&s;ons what&s;oever, to Buy any of the &s;aid Manu|factures; and the &s;ame freely, without any Mole&s;tation or Trouble what&s;oever, to Export into divers Places beyond the Seas (whereof <HI>Hamburgh, Germany, Holland, Flanders</HI> and the parts adjacent are part) upon Payment of the u&s;ual Cu&s;toms: Which Act was to Continue from thence to the End of this pre&s;ent Se&s;&s;ion of Parlia|ment.</P>
<P>And whereas, upon a &s;urmi&s;e, That the &s;aid General Liberty, granted by the &s;aid Act, hath occa&s;ioned a far greater Exportation of the &s;aid Wooller. Manufactures, and occa&s;ioned the Price of Wooll to ri&s;e, leave hath been given, by the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, to bring in a Bill for the Con|tinuing of the &s;aid General Liberty of Exportation.</P>
<P>It is humbly hoped, That it will be made to appear to the &s;aid Honourable Hou&s;e, That the &s;aid General Liberty in and by the &s;aid Act Granted, hath not occa&s;ioned any greater Quantity of the &s;aid Manufactures to be Exported to the parts afore&s;aid, nor occa&s;ioned the price of Wooll to ri&s;e; but that the Con|tinuance of &s;uch a Liberty will be very prejudicial to the Intere&s;t of this Na|tion in general; And particularly, That it hath and will more and more le&s;|&s;en the imploying of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Shiping; That it will wholly remove the &s;aid Exportation, as it hath in a great mea&s;ure already done, out of the Hands of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Merchants and Subjects, into the Hands and Power of Foreigners; That it will be very prejudicial to the Rights and Priviledges of the City of <HI>London;</HI> That it will Impoveri&s;h the Clothing Countries, and make the price of Wooll to fall; and, That it will not only le&s;&s;en, but endanger the to|tal Lo&s;s of the &s;aid Manufactures to this Kingdom, and the great Priviledges and Immunities which to the Honour and Profit of this Nation have been and may be acquired in the parts afore&s;aid, in and by a Regulated way of Trade in the &s;aid Manufactures, whereof the Nation in general, and every <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Merchant and Subject in particular, may have the Benefit.</P>
<P>That a Petition is prepared, &s;ub&s;cribed by many <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Merchants and others, praying leave to be heard again&s;t the &s;aid Bill.</P>
<P>All which is mo&s;t humbly recommended to the &s;erious Con&s;ideration of every particular Member of this Honourable Hou&s;e, as being a Matter of great Moment and Con&s;equence to the Trade and Intere&s;t of this Nation.</P>
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