The Proposition.
That weekly there is made in and about London, near 700 Barrels of Sept, out week with another, all which is made by themselves, only some very small quantities. Now the Revenue of the said Exci•…•… doth
A looking-glasse for sope-patentees: or A prospective-glasse, making discovery of a new project contrived and propounded (by the sope-projectors) to the Parliament, to monopolize the soping-mystery, under pretences of good to the state in the duty of excise.:
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- A looking-glasse for sope-patentees: or A prospective-glasse, making discovery of a new project contrived and propounded (by the sope-projectors) to the Parliament, to monopolize the soping-mystery, under pretences of good to the state in the duty of excise.:
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- Soap trade -- England
- Excise tax -- England
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"A looking-glasse for sope-patentees: or A prospective-glasse, making discovery of a new project contrived and propounded (by the sope-projectors) to the Parliament, to monopolize the soping-mystery, under pretences of good to the state in the duty of excise.:." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A88529.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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annually amount to near the sum of 5000. l. Look upon your Acco•••…•••…▪ and then tell whether you may not say to these Projectors as once Elijah in said to Ahab, It is not the oppressed Sope-boylers, but your selves that have deceived the State of the Excize of Sope.
I come now to speak the Propositions themselves, (or the reme∣dies by them propounded) which is the second general part, wherein they have propounded three things:
1. That the Excize of Pot-ashes which is but 6. d. per pound, may be advanced to 6. s. upon every hundred wait, and 3. s. a barrel may be taken off which is charged upon Sope; And they give you two Arguments to enforce this Proposition: The first Argument is in∣cluded, not expressed, and it is this, That it is the most feasable way to prevent the deceiving of the State of the duty of Excize, and this is limited in this expression, without which Sope cannot be made. Their second Argument is this, That it will be advantage to the State in the Revenue of the Excize. The other two Propositions are but a prescription of a way how this remedy shall be acted.
- 1. That they be made searchers. (which have been P••tentees) likely men to be trusted by a State, which have been barbarous and cruel oppressors of the Kingdom, and great introducers of the present troubles that now lyes upon us.
- 2. That they may farm of the State the said Excize. But before they are trusted, it were meet, as I conceive, under correction, that they did give satisfaction, first, for the re-infringing of the subject; liber∣ties and birth-right in point of Trade, by taking their illegal Patent for their general oppressing of the Subject in the price of Sope, and cruel prosecution of their Patent upon hundreds of Free-born Sub∣jects, as is already expressed.
These things being premised, I will briefly, but satisfactorily, (in Answer to these Propositions) speak to these two particulars.
1. These Propositions as they are groundlesse and upon false pre∣tences, propounded by these Patentees; so they are deceiving and oppressing, tending to the damage of many Tradesmen in all parts of the Kingdom.