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A72817 To the right honourable assembly of the Commons House of Parliament. The reasons mouing the hot-pressers to draw themselues into an orderly forme of gouernement under his Maiesties gracious protection 1621 (1621) STC 16778.4; ESTC S124109 2,358 1

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¶ To the Right Honourable Assembly of the Commons House of Parliament The Reasons mouing the Hot-pressers to draw themselues into an orderly forme of gouernement vnder his Maiesties gracious protection FIrst the extreame multitude of Suites by ordinarie Informers For that euerie Tearme some of vs were serued with Writs of Information both out of the Cheecker Common-pleas and Crowne Office so that some times it cost vs three or foure pounds a Tearme and oftentimes more Againe for that some Informers of the Citie or Officers of the Citie oftentimes meete with some of our Merchants Goods as they carried them home seized them to his Maiesties vse and take them from our Seruants oftentimes eight or ten pounds worth at one instant and more besides many other troubles that we by them were put to Then the Citie being exstreamely bent against vs vpon their Acts of Common Councell which were against the vse of the Hot-presses in London and the Liberties thereof in respect of the danger of Fire by them The first Act to pay fiue pounds for euerie Moneth it was vsed The second Act to pay fiue pounds for euery time it was vsed within London or the Liberties thereof Vpon these Acts we were exstreamely troubled and vexed not onely by the Lord Maior of the Citie but also by the Informers belonging to the Chamber of London And being therein ouerthrowne in triall of Law in the Citie were inforced some of vs to pay the vttermost penny we were condemned in And not onely so but were much more vexed and troubled by binding vs ouer to answere the same at the Sessions of Peace at the Guild Hall to our great charge and exspences These were some part of the causes that mooued vs to seeke for reliefe vnder his Maiesties gracious protection for our setled Gouernement and redresse in our Trade with many other grieuances as followeth FOr that diuers men of seuerall Trades haue vnconscionably entred into the Trade of Pressing within these foure yeeres or there about and some within lesse then two yeeres by some sinister meanes haue intised our Seruants and Iourneymen whereby they haue gotten some skill and exsperience by which sinister meanes they haue robbed vs of our Profession to the vtter vndoing of vs our Wiues and Families for euer being at the least in number in and about the Citie three hundred Persons And not only so but when they had gotten some experience from our Seruants They vnconscionably turned them out of doores to let them shift for them selues which tends not onely to their vndoing but also to ours For they vsing many Trades and ingrossing diuers Commodities to themselues haue gotten also the chiefest part of the Worke within the Citie of London and Liberties thereof into their hands to the vtter ruine and vndoing of a number of poore people their Wiues and Families The principall of these Enterlopers be Packers Rich-men and of good estates which takes vpon them the benefit of many Trades First in the dressing of Clothes taking vpon them to Dresse and Sheare them Marchant like as they ought to doe But they carrie them Rooffe in the Woole to the Dyers without Dressing and after Dying drie them and so Presse them All which defects the Hot-presse couers in their priuate Houses to the great disgrace of Clothing and Pressing and hath beene a great hinderance to his Maiestie in his Customes They also make benefit by Dying as will appeare They keepe and make benefit by Hot-presses They be Factors and so reape benefit And some of these Packers be Marchants also Others there be that haue vnconscionably intruded themselues into the Art of Pressing as followeth Some Mercers Some Goldsmiths Some Stocking-sellers Some Grossers Some Vintners Some Brokers Some Shoomakers Some Ioyners All these hauing other Trades haue Enterloped into the Art and mysterie of Hot-pressing hauing gotten as abouesaid by sinister meanes an in-sight and knowledge of the Art of Prossing within these foure yeares or there abouts the most part of them lesse then within these two or three yeeres More humbly sheweth that a Stranger in London by name Burgman within these three yeeres or there about hauing gotten exsperience by these Enterloping Pressors is of late departed to Amsterdam in Holland and there haue gotten to himselfe a Preuiledge by Pattent That no man shall vse the Art of Pressing there but he and his Assignes for seuen yeeres and hath to that end put in vse twentie Hot-presses prohibiting thereby all such Perpetuanies or any other commodities Prest in the Hot-presse here in England transported thither by way of Merchandise Seising and Forfeiting them the one halfe thereof to the States of the Countrie and one other part to the poore and the third part to the Seisure and himselfe Thus our Trade or Mysterie of Hot-pressing whereon our liuing wholly dependeth hauing no other Trade or meanes is by these Enterlopers vtterly taken from vs so that a great number of vs our Wiues and Children are like to perish Wherefore we humbly craue this Honorable Assembly of high Court of Parliament to commisserate our lamentable estates by taking such good Order therein as by your good Honours shall be thought fittest both for redresse in the former abuses and for your Petitioners reliefe The Reasons which caused vs to haue a setled Gouernment according to his Maiesties directions be these as followeth FIrst that there were grosse abuses daily vsed and practised by some Enterlopers and others tending not onely to the hurt of the Merchant but the discredit and ouerthrow of Clothing in forraine parts the ruine and vndoing of a Common-wealth Oftentimes abusing the Merchants goods by cutting of Remnants of Perpetuanies some times two yards sometimes more somtime lesse Others by Burning Scorching taking away the Colour cleane And being thus vnconscionably done and abused they make them vp in Tillets and Packe them away which tends to the great abuse and scandall of this our Kingdome These things being well wayed and considered of vs caused vs to seeke the meanes to redresse these soule abuses which we presently put in vse setling our selues in one place by a speciall direction from his Maiestie to the Lord Maior of London and being there setled we forthwith made choyse of foure men weekely to view and looke ouer euery mans worke to be well and workman-like done and warrantable according to an article of his Maiesties priuie Seale And in this good course we went cheerfully on with much good comfort to our selues and to the Merchant vntill these troublesome Enterlopers repining at his Maiesties good and orderly Gouernement Vexing and troubling vs contrarie to his Maiesties Grant Wherefore for redresse we humbly submit our selues to this Honorable Assembly of this high Court of Parliament And your Petitioners with their Wiues and Families will euer pray c.