Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	great_a	part_n	1,570	5	3.8915	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94643	To the right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, the petition and case of the embroiderers flourishers, raisers and stitchers of East-India silks, and other goods, and stainers thereof, together with those that employ them, and of many others; in relation to the bill, for prohibiting the wearing of East-India and Persia wrought silks, Bengals, &c.		1696 (1696)	Wing T1668; ESTC R230432	3,805	18

Subsist by Improving East-India Goods than by means of the Silk Manufacture All which will appear plainly to such as consider how great the Consumption is of these Wares by both Sexes and among all Degrees of People The Head-Dressings for Women Waste-Coats and Night-Caps for Men Stitch'd Quilts Embroideries and Flourish'd Muzslins for both Sexes with many other things that might be enumerated must of Necessity set many Hands at work upon different Manufactures of which the Prime Cost of the first Materials at the East-India Sales is not one with another above a third the other two thirds being divided among the Poorer sort and such as Employ ' em We are afflicted from the bottom of Our Hearts at the Case of the Poor Weavers who want Work but we must Crave leave to lay before Your Lordships That VVe the Employers of these Embroiderers and other Manufacturers are credibly Informed that the Weavers want of Business does not arise from the Importation of East-India Goods but from other Causes For First Before the VVar when much greater Quantities of Wrought Silks were brought from India they had full Employment and there was no Complaint Secondly The Excessive Price of Raw Silk and the present Scarcity of Money occasion'd by the VVar are Causes that the Head Weavers cannot set the Poor to VVork So long a VVar must needs afflict all the different Ranks of Men and the Weavers bear but their proportion in the Common Calamity The Nobility and Gentry pay in Taxes a Fifth part of their Revenues besides well nigh double for all Materials of a Foreign Growth The Merchant pays more now for Freight and Seamens VVages than ever besides the hazzard he runs from an Enemy who has diverted his whole Naval Strength to a Pyratical War The present Want of Species makes Trading dead every where and we who are now Petitioners before Your Lordships have Our full Share in this general Misery being forc'd to keep at Work and Pay Our People though Our Goods can have but little Vent But we live in hopes that the High Wisdom and Valour of the King will restore Our Affairs either by a Peace or by His Victories Abroad And in the mean while we Your Petitioners humbly submit it to the Consideration of Your Lordships how far it may be Consistent with Your Piety and Justice to relieve one sort of Men at the Expence of others a yet more helpless People We hope the Blessed Memory of Her Sacred Majesty now Deceased will prevail upon Your Lordships to take Our Case into Your Thoughts and the sad Condition of such as depend upon Us who are generally Orphans Poor Widows and Young Virgins who must be depriv'd of their Subsistance if the Prohibition of East-India Goods passes which is now Propos'd in Parliament The Hearty Prayers of Widows and Virgins VVe hope will undoubtedly bring Success to Your Lordships Councils and Prosperity to the Kings Arms who will be shortly Contending in the Field for the Liberties of Europe Not only some Thousands of VVomen subsist from VVork meerly occasion'd by East-India Goods as well as very many Families of other Manufacturers but many Virgins also have been thereby preserv'd from Vice and Corruption And 't is upon this Score chiefly that we presume to Implore Your Lordships assistance who are the Principal Protectors of Modesty and Vertue The Protection of the VVeaker Sex and the keeping of them within the Bounds of Modesty and Goodness have been alwayes the Care of VVise Governments because in all Countries the Courage of Men does very much depend upon the Vertue of their VVomen For at all Times and in all Places where the VVomen have grown Vicious either through too much VVealth or too much VVant the Men have immediately become Fearful and Effeminate The Premises consider'd VVe humbly hope Your Lordships will not think it Adviseable nor for the Publick Good to pass this Bill now Propos'd for Prohibiting the VVearing East-India and Persia Wrought Silks Bengals c. And Your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever Pray for the Welfare and Prosperity of your Lordships FINIS