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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Lord&s;hip,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>VVE the <HI>Embroiderers, Drawers,</HI> and others concerned in the further Improvement of <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Silks, and other Goods after their Importation, Humbly Crave leave to repre&s;ent to your Lord&s;hip, That our Council informs us, That the Bill now before the mo&s;t Noble Hou&s;e of Peers for re&s;training the Wear|ing tho&s;e Goods in <HI>England,</HI> Subjects all Noble Per&s;onages as well as Com|moners to an Indictment for wearing thereof after the Fir&s;t of <HI>May</HI> 1697. as it doth all Per&s;ons what&s;oever for di&s;po&s;ing of any of them, though long &s;ince brought in and paid for, or that &s;hall be brought in before that day if worn or di&s;po&s;ed of after.</P>
<P N="1">I. So that in Ca&s;e of Death, or otherwi&s;e, your Lord&s;hip can't Sell any Furniture of a Hou&s;e that is <HI>Indian</HI> Wrought Silk or painted <HI>Callico,</HI> if le&s;s than Fifty Pound Value.</P>
<P N="2">II. And would your Lord&s;hip give it away, the Party receiving can't make u&s;e of it, nor is an <HI>&V;phol&s;terer</HI> or <HI>Taylor</HI> permitted to alter it or put any <HI>Engli&s;h Manufacture</HI> to it: Which Furniture and Cloths in the Hands of the Nobility and Commons of <HI>England</HI> are mode&s;tly computed worth a Million of Pounds <HI>Sterling;</HI> notwith&s;tanding which the <HI>Weavers</HI> have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> to Addre&s;s the Noble Hou&s;e of Peers, and A&s;&s;ert it is Theirs and the Nations Intere&s;t at this time to Pa&s;s the Bill, which makes all this u&s;ele&s;s, and to &s;upply the Place with <HI>Norwich Stuffs</HI> or <HI>Engli&s;h Silks.</HI></P>
<P N="3">III. We had not at this time pre&s;umed to Addre&s;s your Lord&s;hip, had the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons taken the like Care which the Noble Hou&s;e of Peers did before the Act pa&s;t for prohibiting <HI>Allamodes.</HI></P>
<P>It was Saturday before we knew our danger, and then about Twenty of us met together who are <HI>Embroiderers, Drawers,</HI> and others who Employ the Poor in the like way, and have the &s;aid Goods now on our Hands to upwards of One Hundred Thou&s;and Pounds Value, one Fourth part of which we are Debtors for; and if the pre&s;ent re&s;triction pa&s;&s;es, we fear the whole quantity of Goods will yield little more than to di&s;charge that Debt, and all the re&s;t lo&s;t: It being rea&s;onable to believe that People will give very little for that which they mu&s;t not long enjoy.</P>
<P N="4">IV. Be&s;ides our &s;elves, there are more than a Hundred Families that we know of under the like Circum&s;tances, who though le&s;s in Fortune will &s;uffer more &s;everely, it taking from them their whole Sub&s;i&s;tence.</P>
<P N="5">V. To Ship our Goods abroad is at pre&s;ent Fifty <HI>per Cent.</HI> Lo&s;s, and the time Limited for wearing them being &s;o &s;hort prevents our Markets here. Which being &s;o, We Humbly hope your Lord&s;hip will think it very equi|table and ju&s;t, That we may have Free Liberty to di&s;po&s;e of the Goods bought, with our Fellow Subjects in the &s;ame Market, which are now lying on our Hands.</P>
<P N="6">VI. Again&s;t the Bill in General, We &s;hall Object no further than to the Damage it may do us in dimini&s;hing our Future livelihood, and therefore mo&s;t humbly intreat that the annexed particulars which are Manufactured here to an improvement equal to our highe&s;t <HI>Wrought Silks</HI> may be excepted out of the Bill. And if this Reque&s;t (which we hope is very rea&s;onable, con&s;idering it is only in Favour of our own Manufacturers) be not allow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">d; We humbly pray a Clau&s;e may be added to the Bill.</P>
<P><HI>That we may &s;ell the Goods now lying on our hands after the Prohibition takes place in &s;uch Parcels as our Chapmen and Cu&s;tomers have occa&s;ion for, and not to be compell'd to &s;ell no le&s;s than</HI> 50 l. <HI>Value at a time, and that only for Exportation.</HI></P>
<P>And, <HI>That the</HI> Weavers <HI>Seal the Goods in our hands at the Prohibition day as was done before by the</HI> Lu&s;tring <HI>Company, that &s;o we may have the Liberty of our be&s;t Market.</HI></P>
<P>And if your Lord&s;hip thinks not fit to relieve us herein, we humbly Pray,</P>
<P><HI>That the</HI> VVeavers <HI>be obliged to take our Stocks of the&s;e Goods at prime co&s;t and be allow'd Five years time to &s;ell them in, they being as we conceive as fit to change their Employments, as they deem us, this their Bill giving them a favour Tantamount to the bearing &s;uch a Lo&s;s.</HI></P>
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