The miserable case of the poor glass-makers, artificers, and several hundred families that were imployed in the said manufacture, humbly offered in reference to the duty on glass.

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Title: The miserable case of the poor glass-makers, artificers, and several hundred families that were imployed in the said manufacture, humbly offered in reference to the duty on glass.
Publication: [London :: s.n.,; 1696]
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Subject terms: Glass trade -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Glass -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Broadsides -- England -- 17th century.
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We most Humbly Propose to this Honourable House

These several Ways following, in Liew of the present Duty on Glass-Wares, &c. as to your grtea Wisdom shall seem most meet.

That in England and Wales, from Dr. Davenant's Book of Essay, upon Ways and Means; ap∣pears stated to the Year 1690. when (by gathering in of the Hearth-Money) the Number of Houses there were	872457
And is supposed to be since new Built	002543
Making	875000

That admit of the Use of One Pound of Soap a Week to each House, when few using less, and in many Houses is more used makes to each House 52 l. a Year; and for Total	100 weight. 455000
Which at 4 s. the Hundred makes	90000 l. a Year.

That this single Commodity, if Taxed, will not offend any Artificers, as does the now Duty on Glass-Wares, &c. to their alone Ruine, nor be grievous to either Buyer or Seller; is of ge∣neral and certain Use, but a trifling Charge on the Subject, and readily Collected, for a mode∣rate per Annum. November 1696. Form'd by Charles Palmer.

Secondly, Or by an Additional Postage of Letters of one third more.

Thirdly, Or by a Duty upon all Lead or Lead Oar Exported, of two Shillings per Hundred more then it now pays, which amounting to 50000 Tun per Ann. amounts to 100000 l. a Year, and requires no charge in Collecting.

Fourthly, Or by a Duty on Flax and Hemp imported, of five Shillings per Hundred on Flax, and 2 s. 6 d. per Hundred on Hemp, more then the present Duty, which, 'tis presumed may Encourage our own Growth, and is Collectable without Charge, and supposed to amount to 200000 l. a Year.

Fifthly, Or by a Duty on Hops of one Penny per Pound, being 9 s. 4 d. per Hundred, to be paid by the first Proprietor, and upon all Foreign Hops the same Duty, more than is now paid, which, computing the Expence 11000 Tun per Ann. amounts to 100000 l. per Ann. Collectable by a small Charge of one Month in a Year.

It is therefore most Humbly Hoped, that this Honourable House will be pleased to take into their serious Consideration these Proposals, which being general, and no ways tending to the Ruine of poor Artificers, as doth the present Duty on Glass Wares.