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A25720 An Appendix to the proposal for raising the price of tin containing reasons for raising the price, quality, and quantity of tin in the counties of Cornwall and Devon. 1697 (1697) Wing A3575; ESTC R27194 4,001 8

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AN APPENDIX TO THE PROPOSAL For Raising the Price of Tin CONTAINING Reasons for Raising the Price Quality and Quantity of Tin in the Counties of Cornwall and Devon 1. BECAUSE the Publick Use of Silver-Plate is so much abated in the Nation 2. BECAUSE Tin improv'd by Art is next in Nature to pure Gold and Silver And it is the Interest and Honour of the Nation to Refine Tin it being our own Commodity rather than to use Allay'd and Course Silver for Common Plate 3. THE higher the Price and Quality of Tin shall be the more it will be in Fashion The more it is in Fashion the more it will be Refin'd The more it is Refin'd the more fitter it will be for Plate The more Tin there is in Plate the more Silver we sall have in Mony The more Silver there is in Mony the more Mony we shall have to lay out on the most Refin'd and Fashionable Pewter The finer the Pewter is in Quality and Fashion the higher will be the Price of Tin The higher the Price and Quality of Tin shall be the greater quantity will be Consum'd The greater the Consumption is the better it will be both for the Rich and Poor The Poor will get more Wages and the Rich more Wealth For All Markets are govern'd by the first Market-Price And as the Quantity Quality and Price of Tin shall rise the more it will be for the Honour and Interest of the Nation in general And the Counties of Cornwall and Devon in particular will be the better enabled thereby to serve their King and Country in Mind Body and Estate NOW The better to prevent the Cornish Factors underbuying one another and bringing down the Price of Tin to the Prejudice of the Publick as our Merchants do often Limit their Factors to prevent the rising Prizes of Foreign Commodities so a Law may be made here That no one shall buy or sell Tin under 3 l. 3 l. 10 s. or 4 l. per Hundred I have already shewn in the first Proposal that the Price of Tin abroad will bear that Price at home And it is as much Policy to keep the Price of Tin from falling as it would have been to have kept the Price of Silver from rising and its Quality from being debas'd There was more Work done for the Roman Penny which was pure Silver than can be done now for an English Pound For as we have Allay'd and Corrupted our Coin we have lost much of our Constitution with the ancient Standard And as our English Constitution hath been corrupted with our Coin so the Strength and Courage of the Cornish Men hath much declin'd with the Prince of their Tin I will take away all their Tin Isa 1.25 was once said to a degenerating and then unthinking People because they did not Improve the Talent But it is better that God should take the Tin from us than that we should be ruin'd by so Rich a Commodity as Tin may be made I have see at Venice and elsewhere Plate made of Refin'd Tin which have exceeded some made of Allay'd Silver And Mr. Joseph Benmer of Panzance in Cornwall having been a Scholar and a great Traveller and an honest and ingenious Pewterer and having ou done all others of his Profession here in making Tin-Plate for such as esteem'd it and paid him a Price according to the Excellency of the refined Metal and Curiosity of the Workmanship There was a great Wager laid That one of the Pewterers of London should exceed him in the Art of Refineing Tin and making a Plate thereof But Mr. Benmar's Plate exceeded the others both in Lightness and Fineness and the Wager being won Mr. Benmer to shew a farther excellency in the Improvement of Nature by his Art made a fierce Fire And putting his Plate thereon and the other Pewterers Plate into his his melted down the other Plate and remain'd in its former Excellency and Perfection And certainly if our Tin had not an exceeding Quality in Nature to imploy the Arts of ingenious and industrious Men so many Nations of the World and even those that have Tin in it would not have taken so much from our Merchants Agents abroad at 10 l. 20 l. and 30 l. Sterling a Hundred nor could our Merchants at home as heretofore they did give the Tinners above 6 l. a Hundred first Price for it And the higher the Price hath been the better the Commodity hath gone off AND farther to shew the Nature of our Tin I shall inform my Reader and I could give many such Instances That about 20 Years ago some engineers or rather Men of Cunning Art came down into Cornwall And often Visiting the blowing or melting Houses of the Tin and as often making the Blowers Drink Whilst the Blowers were busy Drinking those cunning Men were as busy dipping their Rods in the Flote or Mould where the Tin was melting hot And by that means using both ends of their Rods Considering our Proportion of Gold and Silver from the Indies If no small quantity of both had not been Extracted from the Metals of England we could never have endured the late over-ballance of Trade nor have so long carried on such a War they extracted a great deal of Gold and Silver And if they had not been mistrusted and forced to fly the Country uon the discover'd want of that Vertue which by that means was gone out of the Tin they would have gotten many Thousand Pounds in a little time and spoil'd all the Tin which they should so touch The Pewterers and Merchants upon the Discovery complaining to the Tinners the Tinners brought their Action against the Blowers And after a Stannery Law-suit as long as from hence to the Lands-End they had more Satisfaction then I think should have been given them And some time since one of those cunning Men confessed the Matter of Fact to me and some others and how they were forced to fly the Country for Committing it NOW the Nature of Tin in its refined Purity being so nearly related to Gold and Silver We should use all possible Art and Policy to refine and esteem its Quality and thereby also to raise the Price thereof AND if We do so now in the time of the Tinners necessity it cannot but increase the Tin-Trade and be an Act of Charity and Justice very acceptable and well-pleasing both to God and the Nation Because the Improvement of this Rich Talent will much Increase our Coin which is so much wanting to carry on a Vigorous War against our greatest Adversary AND as all Kingdoms and Common-wealths have Risen by Trade and Justice so we may now begin to Aggrandize this Great Land and Nation by one of the Capital Commodities thereof Vast Quantities whereof may be risen and consumed by Refining and Esteeming the Quality and by Raising and Advancing the Price to the greater Interest and Honour both of the King and Country And when the Great Wisdom