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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31167	The Case of the makers and wholesale traders in the manufacture of English bone-lace		1698 (1698)	Wing C1108; ESTC R14755	1,279	1

THE CASE OF THE Makers and Wholesale Traders in the Manufacture of English Bone-Lace BY an Act of Parliament held in the Eighth and Ninth Years of King William III. Ch. 24. which has been since continued by several subsequent Acts it was Enacted That there should be paid to his said Majesty his Heirs and Successors by every Hawker Pedlar Petty-Chapman and every other Trading Person going from Town to Town or to other Mens Houses and travelling either on Foot or with Horse Horses c. except as therein is excepted carrying to Sell or exposing to Sale any Goods Wares or Merchandises the Yearly Sum of 4 l. And upon Payment or giving Security for the Duty in such manner as is thereby directed a License was to be granted to him or her so to Travel or Trade And if any such Hawker Pedlar c. should be found Trading as aforesaid without such License such Person should for every Offence forfeit 12 l. one Moiety to th e Informer the other to the Poor of the Parish Which Penalty was by Warrant from a Justice of the Peace to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods Provided That the said Act should not extend to hinder the real Workers or Makers of Goods c. from carrying abroad or exposing to Sale any Goods of his or her making in any Mart Fair Market or elsewhere The Makers and Wholesale Traders in English Bone-Lace most of them living in the Counties of Bucks Bedford and other adjacent Counties usually come to London once a Week to the Lace-Chambers where they have fixed certain Shops and Standings And sometimes it so happens that they carry some Goods to the Houses or Shops of Milliners and other Retailers who are their Customers For which some of the said Makers and Wholesale Traders have been informed against and forced to pay the Penalty of 12 l. altho' it is apprehended that they are not Hawkers Pedlars or Petty-Chapmen within the Meaning of the said Act for the Reasons following I. That by the said Act such only were intended who had no fixed Shops or Standings where they carried on their Trades but carried them on chiefly if not altogether by travelling from Place to Place But the same was not intended to extend to those that chiefly or constantly kept and traded in certain Shops or Standings and only casually carried out some Goods to the Houses or Shops of their Customers II. That those who Sell by Wholesale to the Retailers were never intended by the said Act to be obliged to take Licenses but only such as go from Place to Place to Sell their Goods by Retail And only such can be intended or described by the Names of Pedlars or Petty-Chapmen III. That they being Makers as well as Wholesale Sellers of their Manufacture are exempted by the above-mentioned Clause in the said Bill N.B. That soon after the making the said Act viz. March 13. 1698. upon the Petition of Edward Hooton preferred to the House of Commons complaining of the Hardships put upon them as aforesaid The Consideration of the said Petition was referred to a Committee Which Committee made their Report And thereupon it was resolved That the Workers of Bone-Lace his her or their Children Apprentices Servants or Agents and all Wholesale Dealers in the said Manufacture tho' they go about from Shop to Shop to any of their Customers who sell the same by Retail again shall not be deem'd Hawkers and Pedlars by the said Act of the Ninth and Tenth of his Majesty's Reign The said Makers and Wholesale Traders having lately been disturbed and prosecuted upon the Pretences aforesaid a Bill is now depending for their Relief