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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34949	To the Right Honourable and Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesties treasury Sir William Creagh ...	Creagh, William, Sir.	1687 (1687)	Wing C6866; ESTC R7705	12,418	32

made to discover them And if it should be thought strange why the said Robinson should thus oppose a business wherein he and his Partners would gain as much as the King it were not amiss to know his reason for giving the late Sir William Blackett one of his Partners who dealt much in the over Sea Coal-Trade some years ago order to clear his over Sea Ships for the Cost which I am sure did not look like a benefit to the King nor his Partners but he is best able to answer the meaning of that Practice VIII And for these Reasons and much more which may be said upon occasion I humbly conceive than His Majesties Revenue the English Navigation and the Town of Newcastle has suffered more by the said Mr. Robinson's refractoriness than he will be ever able to make amends for all which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships by May it please your Lordships Your Lordships Most humble Servant WILLIAM CREAGH E THE PRESENT STATE OF THE FOREIN COAL-TRADE Most humbly offered to His MAJESTIES Consideration BY Sir WILLIAM CREAGH Of Newcastle upon Tyne Kt. THE said Forein Coal-Trade from Newcastle and its Members whence ariseth most of His Majesties Revenue by that Trade and known to be the greatest Nursery of His Majesties Seamen has been much discouraged by the inequality of the Customs laid upon Coals in England and Scotland as followeth viz. In England one Chalder of Coals Newcastle Measure pays for Custom Tonage and petty Duties viz.   Sterling In a French Ship 30 shill In a Dutch or any other Forein Ship 20 shill In an English Ship 8 shill Whereas in Scotland they pay no more than 8 d. or 10 d. per Chalder in any sort of Ships and the Ships clear generally for a third or a quarter of their Burthen so the Custom is reckoned in a manner nothing and the Coal Owners there do generally Sell their Coals clear a Board to make things more easie to the Buyer and to smother the inconsiderableness of the Duty and Clearing and by this means begins to draw the Trade from Newcastle especially since the finding out of a new sort of small Coals within these late years which has been plentifully Transported to Forein Markets within these two or three years as by a Certificate appears and sold there at as high a Rate as Newcastle Coals whereas formerly Newcastle Coals sold for 8 s. per Chalder more than Scotch and that and the length of the Voyages did in a manner ballance the inequality of the Customs but now that the Scotch Coals gives as great a price abroad as those of Newcastle the said Forein Coal-Trade from Newcastle will be wholly destroyed and laid aside to the great discouragement of the English Navigation and diminishing His Majesties Customs in a very high degree especially at a juncture of time when there never was such an opportunity of encouraging the one and augmenting the other for since the Project of cutting the River Eure and carrying on the Works at Versailles were resolved on the said Sir William Creagh had Commissions proposed to him by the Undertakers in France for no less than a hundred thousand Chalders of Newcastle Coals which were to be Shipped for the River of Rouen besides what might be Transported to other Forein Parts but before a thousand Chalders of the said number could be Shipped off there went so many Scotch Coals to the River of Rouen and other parts that the said great Commission lyes now Dormant and will not be awaked if some means be not found to ballance the Customs in both Kingdoms by raising the Duty in Scotland or making some abatement here The first is conceived may be done by the King and the Lords Commissioners of His Treasury in Scotland as by the preamble to the Scotch Book of Rates whereof a Copy is herewith appears and as for the latter it is left to His Majesty in His Royal Wisdom to consider whether it be not better to make some reasonable Abatement than to let slip by the said Commissions alone   Sterling   l. s. d. If Loaden in English Ships 40000 00 00 If in Dutch or other Forein Ships 100000 00 00 If in French Ships 150000 00 00 All which is most humbly left to His Majesties Determination by His Majesties most Faithful and most Dutiful Subject and Servant WILLIAM CREAGH F The Scotch CERTIFICATE An Accompt of what Coals have been Shipped off and Transported beyond the Seas to France Holland and other Forein Parts from the under-written Ports in Scotland for the space of one whole year commencing the first of December 1685. and ending the first of December 1686. as by the Accompt given by the several Stewards and Factors of the said Ports appears viz.   Ships   Tons   From Carron Water 21 Containing 2900   From Cockney 64 Containing 4300   From Grainge-Pans 74 Containing 4500   From Airth 3 Containing 350   From Alloway and Clackmanan 29 Containing 4750   From Culross and Valey-field 3 Containing 475   From Lyme-kills 40 Containing 2755   From Kirkaldy 8 Containing 607   From Dysert 22 Containing 1800   From Carrin or Tory-burne 3 Containing 450   From the Weymes and Methall 44 Containing 3300   From Borrowstonness 30 Containing 3600   In all 341 Containing 29787 Tons We whose names are under-written Stewards and Factors in the above several Ports do hereby Certifie to all whom it may Concern That the above quantity of 29787 Tons of Coals every Ton computed to be two thousand pounds Amsterdam weight were Shiped off and Transported as aforesaid within the time aforesaid As Witness our Hands and Seals in Edinbrough Cockney and Barrowstoness respective the 5. 14. 20. 22. and 31. days of January in the year 1687. For Cockney James Watt. ☉ For Grainge-Pans Daniel Hamilton ☉ For Airth and Carron Water John Willson ☉ For Borrowstonness John Artbone ☉ For Clackmanan Alloway Valey-field and Tory-burne John Neilson ☉ For the Weymes and Methall Andrew Krhie ☉ For Dysert John Hamilton ☉ For Kirkaldy William Anderson ☉ Certified Attested Signed and Sealed before me George May Notary Publick as Witness my Hand and Seal in Edinbrough and the other Towns above mentioned upon the respective days and year above written Copia Vera. George May Notary Publick G Charles R. CHARLES by the Grace of GOD King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To Our Lovits Our Heraulds Pursivants Macers and Messengers Forasmuch as by the 57th Act of the first Session of Our first Parliament of our Kingdom of Scotland the Lords Commissioners of Our Exchequer are thereby Warranted to establish a New Book of Rates for Our Customs as also by the 27th Act of the third Session of Our said Parliament It is declared That the ordering and disposal of Trade with foreign Nations doth belong to Us and Our Successors as an undoubted Priviledge of Our Crown and that by virtue hereof We may so order and dispose of foreign Trade as We shall think fit for the good of Our said Kingdom And being desirous that the Trade thereof be so ordered as may be most for Our Interest and the good and ease of Our Subjects And considering how necessary it is for that end that the Rates or Customs which have been heretofore most unequal by reason of the great difference of the true value of Goods at present and of late from what they were many years ago should be now regulated and stated as We may have Our Custom paid and Our Subjects may not only be ascertain'd what they have to pay but also find a considerable ease of the Proportion of the Customs formerly due from the Native Commodities of Our said Kingdom at the Exportation thereof Therefore We with the Advice and Consent of the Commissioners of Our Treasury and Exchequer having taken the Rates of Our Customs into Our Consideration and having also had therein the Opinions of some Persons of good Knowledg and Interest in the Trade of Merchandize have thought fit to Settle and Determin the Rates of Our Customs to be in all time coming according as they are set down in the Alphabet thereof and such Goods and Merchandize as are contain'd therein that they pay Twelve Pence upon each Pound value and that the same Rates be rais'd and manag'd conform to the Acts of Parliament and Instructions subjoyn'd to the said Alphabet And to the effect all Our Lieges may have timous notice thereof It is Our Will and Pleasure that these Presents with the Rates of Customs and Instructions be Recorded in the Books of Our Exchequer and Printed and Published at the Market-Cross of Our Borough of Edenborough and other Places needful Given at Our Court at White-Hall the 4 th day of March 1670. and in the 22 d Year of Our Reign By His Majesties Command LAUDERDAILL