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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	act_n	entitle_v	say_a	3,152	5	7.3700	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58265	Reasons humbly offered to the High Court of Parliament for an additional supply of wooll for the islands of Guernezey, Jersey, Alderney and Serk		1680 (1680)	Wing R557A; ESTC R5877	694	1

Reasons Humbly offered to the High Court for Parliament for an Additional supply of Wooll for the Islands of Guernezey Jersey Alderney and Serk WHereas by an Act of 12 Car. 2. Intituled An Act for Prohibiting the Transportation of Wooll c. there was liberty given to Transport from Southampton certain quantities of Wooll to the said Islands viz. to Guernezey 1000 Tods to Jersey 2000 Tods to Alderney 200 Tods and to Serk 100 Tods But since the making of that Act the Inhabitants and the Manufacture of Stockins being very much increased double that quantity will not be sufficient to carry on the said Manufacture by which alone the aforesaid Inhabitants do subsist Therefore 't is Humbly desired That to the Act which is now passing a Clause may be inserted to increase the Number of Tods to be Transported to the said Islands which is conceived may be fit to be granted for the following Reasons 1. A further supply will appear to be necessary if it be considered that there are in the sole Isle of Guernezey at least 4000 Knitters who making 4000 pair of Stockins a Week do thereby weekly Manufacture about 60 Tods of Wooll and consequently above 3000 Tods in the Year Which being so and the Parliament taking now effectual care for preventing the Transportation of Wooll into France from whence the said Inhabitants were necessitated to supply themselves with English Wooll without which they cannot possibly work there Stockins It is from thence evident that unless some greater quantity be now allowed them out of this Kingdom more than half of the said Knitters will remain Idle and not being able to subsist must either Starve or be an Unsupportable burthen to the rest of the Islanders 2. The King's Service doth require it for otherwise the King must be at extraordinary Charges to preserve those Islands if through want of what is so absolutely Necessary for their Subsistance the Inhabitants should be reduced to extremity of Want and Misery which must render them incapable of making any Defence against the Publick Enemy