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A25720 An Appendix to the proposal for raising the price of tin containing reasons for raising the price, quality, and quantity of tin in the counties of Cornwall and Devon. 1697 (1697) Wing A3575; ESTC R27194 4,001 8

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and Policy of the King and Parliament shall think fit to Sit upon so Great and Advantagious a Work even an English Kitching hung as it were with Refined Pewter-Plate will be one of the Finest and Noblest Sights in the World AND as we Understand the good Nature of this Noble and Generous Nation and have regard to the Interest of the Poor and the Publick We may find out Means enough to overcome our greatest Adversaries withal And to make KING WILLIAM a Greater Friend than Queen Elizabeth was to the World when She was so near in Strength but not in Time to that Universal Empire which the King of Spain then aimed at and the French King hath since set up for AND Whereas Britain had its Name from the Tin which was first found in the County of Cornwall We cannot begin to regulate Trade and to raise the Nation better than by trying all Experiments upon that useful Commodity And therefore I should here shew some other Means to redress the Tinners Greviances But this being not the proper Time for that purpose but the most proper Time to keep the Price of Tin from falling at least under 3 l. per Hundred I shall draw these Reasons to a Conclusion with the two following Letters the one from a Cornish Gentleman and the other from a Gentleman of Devon Cornwall Feb. 18. 1696. SIR I Receiv'd your Proposal for Raising the Price of Tin together with a Manuscript containing some other Means to redress the Tinners Greviances all which indeed and several Things more seen absolutely necessary to be done for the good of the King and his poor Subjects the labouring Tinners especially in the County of Cornwall Devon Feb. 22. 1696. SIR WE have gotten our Petition Signed by the Tinners We could have a great many Names more to it but the Time being short we made all the haste we could possibly for we are doubtful the Parliament may break up before the Thing may be effected We have shewn and read your Book of Proposals to many Gentlemen and to a great many Tinners and all that read it or heard it do say That it is the truest and reasonablest Thing to be granted that ever was It will do good to many and hurt to none BY which it doth appear That the Tinners who know what they have had and believe what the may have again for their Tin are very desirous to have a Law this Session of Parliament according to the Proposal and the Prayer of their Petition That no one shall buy or sell Tin under 3 or 3 l. per Hundred As to the great Wisdom of the King and Parliament shall seem most meet AND as the Price of Tin riseth by degrees the Tinners will rise in Reputation and Estate And what shall be done for them by the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and the High Court of Parliament will put may others upon promoting those Trades which England now above all other Nations is capable of Improving AND as we weather this Point of War and come to wage Trade with the World as in point of Wisdom and true Policy we should do we may turn the Wheel of our Fortune AND as God and Nature hath done more for this Nation than for any other so by Trade and Justice and a necessity of some Regulations we may raise Great Britain to that degree of Riches Honour and Excellency for which God Nature and the Present Necessity seem to have designed it POSTCRIPT THE Proposal of the Pewterers would now do considerable Good to the King the Country and Themselves And tho' it is the Interest of the Factors the Pewterers and the Merchants to buy cheap and sell dear yet where the Private Gain doth not accompany the Publick Good there will be little Common-wealth to carry on a Vigorus War And I think the Common-wealth of the Tinners cannot be better founded at present than on a Law to keep the Price from falling under 3 l. ERRATA IN Page 32 of the Proposal for 16000 read 160000 Chequens and Page 16. of the Proposal or 61413 Hundred read 614 Tun and 14 Hundred Weight