Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	act_n	parliament_n	say_a	1,050	5	6.6432	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80363	Considerations humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons, by the planters, and others, trading to our British plantations, in relation to the African Company's petition, now before this Honourable House		1698 (1698)	Wing C5909CA; ESTC R231635	1,030	2

CONSIDERATIONS Humbly Offer'd To the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS BY THE Planters and Others trading to our British Plantations in Relation to the African Company 's Petition now before this Honourable HOUSE THAT it being of so great Importance to this Nation to encourage and support the Plantations it will be of absolute Necessity to have them plentifully supply'd with Negroes by whose Labour all the Commodities of those Countries are produc'd which Production is all clear Gains to this Nation and better than the Mines of Gold and Silver are to the Spaniards which can never be throughly done otherwise than by a free open Trade without being confin'd to the narrow Compass of a few People in a small Joint-Stock There is not a Negro but produceth as much Commodity either Sugar Indigo Tobacco c. as will load one Tun of Shipping the Increase of which Produce will also largely increase the Consumption of the Woollen and other British Manufactures and augment the Revenues of the Crown A great Quantity of the Product of our Plantation-Commodities will enable the British Merchants to make large Exportations to foreign Markets and put them into a Capacity to under-sell all other Nations that vie with us in the same Commodities which will not only discourage their Plantations but greatly encourage our own Since the African Company do set forth in their Petition That by their Charge in maintaining their Forts and Castles in securing that Trade on the Coast of Africa the Western Plantations have been furnished with Negroes we the Planters do say That we have paid a Duty of 10 per Cent. for the same and that had it not been more for the Separate Traders than the African Company since the opening of the said Trade by the late Act of Parliament the Plantations had been but poorly served for by Experience we have found much greater Numbers of Negroes brought to our Plantations than ever were during the time of the said African Company 's having that Trade in their own Hands exclusive of all others Therefore since the Plantations have receiv'd a more visible Advantage from the African Trade by having greater Quantities of Negroes brought among them by the Separate Traders since the said Trade has been laid open than ever were before And as the Product of our Islands are largely increas'd thereby we are humbly of Opinion that the Interest of the Plantations is of infinitely greater Concern to be preserved than any Company with a Joint-Stock can pretend to Wherefore we hope That the Honourable House of Commons will free us from the heavy Burden of the Duty of 10 per Cent. which we conceive must be advanced on the Price of Negroes and that the said African Trade may be continu'd free and open to all People that desire to trade thither under such Regulations as the Trade to Turky or as shall be thought fit CONSIDERATIONS Humbly offer'd by the Planters and Others trading to our British Plantations In Relation to the AFRICAN Company 's PETITION