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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

THe Amendment of the Silver Coins being lookt upon as 〈◊〉 Matter necessary to be Perform'd i● is thought convenient that this Report should be Printed to the en● that any Persons who have Considered an Affair of this Nature m●● if they please Communicate the●● Thoughts for Rendring the Desig● here aim'd at more Perfect or Agreeable to the Publick Service 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 c. 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. London Printed Anno 1696. TO The Right Honourable THE Lords Spiritual and Temporal NOW Assembled in PARLIAMENT May it Please Your Lordships WE Humbly Address this Paper to Your Lordships in General But adventure in an especial manner ●o Implore the Favour of You Our good Lords the Bishops because Matters relating to Piety and Vertue are more immediately under the Care of Your Lordships The Late Queen of Ever Blessed Memory well knowing That most Vices have ●heir Original from Sloth and Idleness did by Her own Good Example give great Encouragement to all kind of Works with the Needle and otherwise relating to your Petitioners respective Employments where by those of Better Quality might find Diversion and Employment and the Meane● Sort receive an Honest Maintenance There is hardly any Country in the World where the Women have been so much a Burthen to the Publick as in England whereas in other Nations they Contribute a large Proportion to the Livelyhood of their Families But the Countenance Her Sacred Majesty did give to Needle Works of all kinds has made them for these Six Years last past so Fashionable and of such General Use in this Kingdom that many Thousands of Women do thereby Maintain themselves their Aged Parents and Young Children By which Means the Weaker Sex have been preserved from those Temptations t● which Want might otherwise incline them and by this Houswisery many Mode●● Virgins have recommended themselves t● Frugal and Industrious Husbands We must crave leave to lay before Yo●● Lordships That the long War Abroa● the Civil War in Ireland and other Acc●dents at Home have made great Chang● in Families heretofore Rich and Prosperous And we the Principal Employers of these Embroiderers Stitchers c. in and about London if it were fit and proper could make it appear to the Parliament That very many Gentlewomen of good Birth and Education have not any Bread or Subsistance but what they Earn Dayly by their Work as 't is deliver'd to us We have not thought it Dutiful or Decent to trouble either Houses of Parliament with Complaints or Clamours Not but that our Numbers are exceeding great and our Case full as deplorable as that of the Weavers We shall not pretend to Calculate how many Hands are thus employ'd but this in some measure may be guess'd at by Considering of what general Use from the highest to the lowest those Indian Goods are which we improve in England If as some People apprehend the intended Prohibitions should Occasion the intire Loss of the East-India Trade we may venture to affirm That many Thousand Families will thereby be utterly ruin'd who have no Other Subsistance than by bettering those Sort of Goods by their Skill and Fancy If the Prohibitions should so Opperate as as to loose the Trade it would undo some Hundreds of Families who live by Printing Dying and Staining the Courser Callicoes For in such a Case those who set these Men at Work must be forc'd either to buy Callicoes of the Dutch or Scotch-Cloth at near double the Price Many Thousand Hands are likewise employ'd in Stitching Callicoes and Flourishing Muzslings which must intirely lose their Work if these Prohibitions should destroy the East-India Trade no●● other kind of Linnen being proper for that Use but fine Callico and Muzslin But may it please your good Lordships The intended Prohibitions will certainly ruin yet a greater Number of People who intirely Subsist by Staining Painting Printing Embroidering Stitching and Flourishing a great part of the Ginghams Plain Damask Bengals Taffaties and Satins and several other sorts of Goods that come from India If it should be Objected That this Workmanship may be employ'd upon Silks Manufactur'd at home We humbly Answer That it will not be Worth Our while so to do and that it cannot be practicable because many of the foremention'd Wares come as Cheap into Our Hands as the Silk comes into the Weavers Reed As for Example The first Cost to us of an Indian Silk may be Two Shillings the Yard which when We have improv'd by Embroidering Stitching or otherwise may Sell for Nine Shillings per Yard whereby there is gain'd for the Manufacturers Livelyhood Seven Shillings per Yard A Silk of very little better Substance either brought from Italy France and Holland or Wrought at Home shall Cost Nine Shillings per Yard Notwithstanding which the Indian Silk so improv'd by us shall do equal the Service and be More acceptable to the Customer than any European Silk And may it please your Lordships generally Speaking We can afford Wares so improv'd Cheaper as Serviceable and more pleasing to the Eye than any Silkman Because among the Silk-Weavers a good Workman will expect half a Crown a-day and not work hard from Six in the Morning to Six at Night whereas Our People begin at Five and are at their Needles till Nine at Night and much the greatest part of them earn not above Six Penc● by the Day It must without doubt import an● Country that the prime Cost in Manufactures wrought from foreign Material● should be as low as possible And those Manufactures are to be encourag'd which Employ many Hands though at small Wages because the Profi●… thereby arising becomes so more dispers'd among the Common People And 't is humbly hop'd such Work may be Countenanc'd by the State tha● Employ hands which would otherwise b● Idle We who Employ many Thousand F●milies in the second Manufacturing an● Improving East-India Goods are ready t● make it appear before Your Lordships when call'd upon by the Oaths of Credible Persons First That the Prime Cost of ou● Goods is so low that we can affor● to let the Poor Manufacturers be reasonable Gainers by Us. Secondly That this Gain is widely dispers'd among the Common People reaching to Parts very distant from London Thirdly That we Employ some Thousands of Children and Women who probably could not otherwise get an honest livelyhood And Lastly May it please Your Lordships We shall perhaps be able to prove That upon the whole not many fewer Families