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A33494 The Coal-traders and consumers case humbly offered to the High Court of Parliament, in relation to the orphans of the city of London 1692 (1692) Wing C4748; ESTC R9074 2,912 1

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●he COAL-TRADERS and CONSUMERS CASE humbly offered to the High Court of PARLIAMENT in Relation to the ORPHANS of the CITY of LONDON THERE has been ever since Queen Elizabeth's Reign paid to Her Successors or their Assigns Twelve Pence per Chaldron at Newcastle out of which the Citizens of London have for the Benefit of the Poor of the said City two hundred Pounds per Annum Next at Newcastle there is paid to the Poor and Town-House and at other Places betwixt London and Newcastle for Lights Buoys and Beacons in all the Sum of Twelve Pence per Chaldron Next at London is paid to the Building and Finishing S. Paul's 1 s. 6 d. per Chaldron Next at the same Port of London is paid 4 d. per Chaldron by way of Meetage-Money out of which 1 d. per Chaldron goes to the Coal-Meeter that really measures the Coals but the other 3 d. per Chaldron which amounts to and has so done for six or seven Years past 4000 l. per Annum little more or less goes to sundry Gentlemen called Master-Meeters but what Service they do for the said 4000 l. per Annum more than paying a Clerk and finding of Vatts to measure the Coals with or by what Authority they receive the same is unknown to such who pay the said Money into the Meeter's-Office These sundry Taxes on Coals at all Places amount to 3 s. 10 d. on every Chaldron which falls very heavy on two forts of People First on those that relate to Navigation or the Importers of them for they advance the Money in every Place Next on the Consumers of Coals who by reason of such Tax must pay the dearer for them and they are the ordinary sort of Tradesmen and those who live not in the City but in the Out Places and all the Counties both East and West from London bordering on the River of Thames are the greatest Consumers of the said Coals Yet notwithstanding there is so much as 3 s. 10 d. already paid pro Coals the Citizens of London Pray That a further Duty of 18 d. per Chaldron may be laid on Coals to pay the Orphans Debts which will make in all 5 s. 4 d. per Chaldron the said Citizens alledging That it was once paid to the City before and they felt not the Burthen of it It would be well if the poor Inhabitants in the Out-Parts and the great Consumers of Coals in all other Places could say the same or that the great Towns to which the Shipping of the Coal-Trade belongs viz. Ipswich Albrough Yarmouth Scar●ough Burlington Whitby Newcastle c. had no Reason to address themselves to the High Court of Parliament to prevent any further Tax being laid The Just Complaints they have to make are too many to be here inserted for the twenty Years last past during which Time or thereabouts the City of London have for their Share had by way of Impost and Meetage about 800000 l. However if the High Court of Parliament shall think fit to lay a further Tax on Coals towards paying the Orphans Debts the Coal-Traders and the greatest Consumers of Coals do in all Humility Pray That a small Sum on every Chaldron be added to the 4 d. per Chaldron already paid for Meetage as is under-neato proposed which will be far easier to be paid for ever than 18 d. per Chaldron for twenty Years for 8 d. in that nature will answer the same End and pay 250000 l. of the Debt The Orphans of London have owing to them 508000 l. Principal Money and such who have lent their Money about 100000 l. As to the Orphans their Money was compelled out of their Hands into the Chamber of London so it is a Debt most highly reasonable to be paid by such equal Ways and Means as may the least burthen one sort of Poor to pay the other But as for the 100000 l. lent by such who might have chosen whether they would have lent it or not seems not reasonable to come under equal Consideration with the Orphans So shall only cast up what the Interest of the Orphans Money comes to for it is to be feared that so great a Sum as 508000 l. cannot be raised to pay them down and the Interest of the same at 4 l. per Cent. per annum comes to 20340 l.   lb First towards Payment of which the City-Lands may yearly advance 4000 Next the adding of 8 d. per Chaldron per way of Meetage to the 4 d. already paid will yearly raise besides a sufficient Sum to pay all the Coal-Meeters off that hold their Places by Lives even to the full of what they are now worth and to defray all Charges relating to managing the said Imploy and also to pay every Lord Mayor full as much as ever has been yearly paid by the said Meetage 12000 Next the Meetage on all sort of Grain Salt c. imported into London if so small a Matter as 1 d. per Quarter be added to what is already paid and be appropriated to the Benefit of the Orphans is hoped will raise towards a farther satisfying ●●e said Debt 2000 ●●xts If the Benefit of Hackney-Coaches be also appropriated to the said Use and if the same shall amount to the Sum of 2340 Then all the above Sums together will amount unto the Sum of 20340 which 20340 l. if setled by Act of Parliament for ever will be a sure Fund for the Orphans from Age to Age on which the Young Orphans during their non-age may safely pay those off that are now in want of their Money and so the Chamber of London may once more regain that Credit which on good Grounds it has not had for many Years past and yet never be in their Power to wrong Orphans any more because a Publick Register may be kept in such Manner and Form as the Fund can never be exceeded As to 4000 l. on City-Lands and 12000 l. on Coals if the Parliament think fit to lay it will be a sure Fund for 16000 l. per Annum And as to the the 2000 l. on Meetage of Corn and 2340 on Hackney Coaches if the Parliament do not think fit to lay it or that if laid they may not amount to 4340 l. per Annum there are many other things which if put together may easily answer in the room thereof But seeing there is already 3 s. 10 d. per Chaldron Taxes on Coals how shall 8 d. per Chaldron more be added and not be burthemsome to the poor Tradesmen c. I answer If the High Court of Parliament shall think fit to take 6 d. per Chaldron from the 18 d. now paid to the Building and Finishing S. Pauls and in lue thereof give a longer Time for 12 d. than the present Act has allotted for 18 d. And also a Power to borrow Money on the Credit thereof S. Paul's will not at all be hindred thereby And then put 2 d. more to the Tax paid so taken off from S. Pauls which makes the 8 d. above specified and add them to the Meetage-Money already and make it in all 12 d. per Chaldron to the Orphans as well as 12. per Chaldron to S. Pauls then still S. Pauls will be built and the Orphans paid too and so one sort of Poor will not be burthened to pay the other any more than 2 d. per Chaldron more than what is already paid by Coals May not every Landlord having the Benefit of a House within the City and every Tenant the Benefit of a Trade within the City pay some small matter towards the Orphans Debt as well as so many unconcerned with the City should pay to it by Coals Such a Way has been sometimes mentioned viz. an equal Tax on Landlord and Tenant but the Citizens will by no means hear of that alledging That they had nothing to do with what the Government did twenty or forty Years past If so pray if they that dwell in the City and are the Free-Men thereof say 'T is unreasonable they should pay the Orphans how much more unreasonable must the Citizens acknowledge it to be for such to pay them as never Eat or Drank for the Mony so spent yet such must pay it if the Parliament think fit to lay a further Tax on Coals