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authority_n	act_n	person_n	say_a	4,455	5	7.0879	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02985	The humble address of the right honourable Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled. Die Veneris 13 Decembris 1695.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1696 (1696)	Wing E1550A; ESTC R176112	1,640	1

The Humble Address of the Right Honourable 〈…〉 Temporal and Commons in Parliament A●●●● Die Veneris 13 Decembris 1695. We the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament Assembled having tak●● 〈…〉 Consideration the state of the Trade of this Kingdom Do find That besides many other Di●●●●●tages and Difficulties it now lyes under An Act of Parliament that hath lately received yo● Majesties Royal Assent in Your Kingdom of Scotland for Erecting a Company Trading 〈◊〉 Africa and the Indies is likely to bring many great prejudices and mischiefs to all You● Majestis's Subjects that are concerned in the Wealth of Trade of this Nation and therefore in all Duty to 〈◊〉 Majesty and the care we ought to have of this Kingdom we do humbly Represent to Your Majesty that the said Act does provide That all Ships Vessels Merchandize Goods and other Effects whatsomever belonging to that Company shall be free from all manner of Restraints or Prohibitions and of all Customs Taxes S●sses Supplies or other duties Imposed or to be Imposed by the Act of Parliament or otherwise for the space of One and Twenty Years And farther That the said Company whole Members Officers Servants or others belonging thereto shall be free both in their persons Estates and goods employed in the said Stock and Trade from all manner of Taxes Sesses Supplies Excises Quartering of Souldiers Transient or Local or Levying of Souldiers or other Impositions whatsoever during the space of One and Twenty years By reason of which great Advantages Granted to the Scots East India Company and the Duties and Difficulties that lye upon that Trade in England and a great part of the Stock and Shipping of this Nation will be carried thither And by this means Scotland be made a Free Port for all East India Commodities And consequently thoss several places in Europe which were supplied from England will be furnished from thence much Cheaper than can be dene by the English And therefore this Nation will lose the Benefit of supplying Forraign Parts with those Commodities which hath always been a Great Article in the Ballanee of our Forraign Trade Moreoverr the said Commodities will unavoidably be brought by the Scots into England by Stealth both by Sea and Land to the Vast Prejudice of the English Trade and Navigation and to the great Detriment of Your Majestie in Your Customs And when once that Nation shall have settled themselves in Plantations in America our Commerce in Tobacco Sugar Cotton-Wool Skins Masts c. will be utterly lost because the Priviledges of that Nation granted to them by this Act are such That that Kingdom must be the Magazine for all those Commodities and the English Plantation and the Traffick thereof loft to us and the Exportation of our own Manufactures yearly Decreased Besides these and many other Obstructions that this Act will unavoidably bring to the general Trade of this Nation Another Clause in the said Act whereby Your Majesty Promises to Interpose Your Authority to have Re●stitution Reparation and Satisfaction made for any Dammage that may be done to any of the Ships Goods Merchandize Persons or other Effects whatsomever belonging to the said Company and that upon the Publick Charge Does seem to Engage Your Majestie to Employ the Shipping and Strength at Sea of this Nation to Support this New Company to the great Detriment even of this Kingdom All which great Prejudices Inconveniencies and Mischiefs arising by the said Act we in all Duty and Faithfulness lay before Your Majesty And that thereupon His Majesty had been Pleased to make a most Gracious Answer to the Effect Following Viz. I Have been ill Served in Scotland but I hope some Remedies may be found to Prevent the Inconveniences which may arise from this Act. The Order of the Day for the House to Resolve it self into a Committee of the whole house to Consider of Wayes and Means for Raising the Supply to be Granted to his Majesty for Carrying on the War against France being Read Ordered That the said Committee have Power to send for P●rs●s and Receive Proposals in Relation thereunto Then the House Resolved it self into the said Committee of the whole House And after some time spent therein Mr. Speaker Resumed the Chair and Sir Thomas Littleton Reported from the said Committee That they had made some progress in the Matter to them Referred And had come to some Resolutions which they had Directed him to Report when the House will please to Receive the same Ordered That the said Report be made to Morrow Morning Ordered That the Committee of Priviledges and Elections be Adjourned And then the House Adjourned till the Morrow Morning Nine a Clock LONDON Printed And Re-printed in EDINBVRGH by JOHN Reid 1696.