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A44989 An Hvmble petition and remonstrance presented unto both the high and honourable Houses of Parliament concerning the insupportable grievance of the transportation of leather. 1641 (1641) Wing H3439; ESTC R11462 5,593 16

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AN HVMBLE PETITION AND REMONSTRANCE PRESENTED Unto both the High and Honourable Houses OF PARLIAMENT CONCERNING The insupportable grievance of the Transportation of Leather Printed in the yeare 1641. TO THE HONOVRABLE Assembly of the House of Commons now assembled in Parliament The humble Petition and Remonstrance of many thousands whose names are here subscribed of the City of London Middlesex Southwarke and other places of the Kingdome in behalfe of themselves and of the Subject in generall SHeweth that amongst other the grievances of this Kingdome the insupportable burthen of the inhanced prices of all sorts of Commodities which are made of Leather is exceeding great and doth daily increase so that the whole Nation is much oppressed and impoverished thereby especially the poorer sort of your Petitioners who are not any longer able to undergoe the same That the same is caused by reason of the exportation thereof beyond the Seas and of the grossers and forestallers of Markets Tanners Curriers Shoemakers and other ill affected persons who buy up and ingrosse great quantities to export and inhance the prices of the rest That under pretence of exporting of small skins all sorts of Leather is sent away whereby Roots Shooes and all Commodities that are made of Leather is within these two or three yeares inhanced in the prices above eight shillings in the pound That the Patentees and others as your Petitioners are informed endeavour to procure an Act for the tolerating of their transportation of Leather which if effected will be a perpetuall damage to the King and Kingdome and the utter ruine of many hundred thousands That the said oppression is heavier upon the Subject then any project whatsoever or the insupportable burthen of Ship-money All which more at large may appeare in your Petitioners humble Remonstrance Wherefore your Petitioners most humbly implore the just favour of this great and Honourable Assembly to give speedy redresse to this inconceiveable Grievance And in the meane time that the transportation of all sorts of skins and Leather may be forthwith sequestred And your Petitioners together with the generall of the Kingdome shall ever pray c. Above twelve thousand hands subscribed to this Petition An Humble Remonstrance touching the Grievances of Leather IT is a maxime in Phylosophy that all things in nature tend to perfection by rules of order and degrees of goodnesse so in a commonwealth all things should be for its advancement by the rules of policy and experience and whatsoever apeares to the contrarie that thing is to bee abolished and the Projectors punished Now amongst the sufferings of this Kingdome the Insupportable burthen of the inhanced prices of such commodities as are made of Leather is exceeding great and doth daily increase so that the whole nation is oppressed and impoverished thereby especially the poore who are not able any longer to undergoe so great a misery Which grievance the petitioners doe here humbly remonstrate and present unto the great judgement of this honorable assembly wherein may be considered 1. the greatnesse of the evill 2. the causers therof Together with answers to some frivolous allegations which have or may be made therein For the greatnesse of the evill It is the greatest oppression that ever hath beene upon the subject beyond all projects or monopolies that ever was set on foote in England Sope Starch Tobacco c. but petty things to this for many an able country man lost not above six pence or twelue pence in a yeare by one of these and the poorer sort nothing at all for they seldome bought any But all sorts of people from the rich to the wandering begger are sharers in this misery of inhanced prices of Leather It is a grievance beyond the insupportable burthen of shipmony as may plainly appeare by descending to some comparative particulars of severall 1. Parishes in and about London and 2. Townes and Hamlets in the country For Parishes Saint Olaves Southwarke hath in it above 3600. families wherof 2800. are not able to pay subsidies or shipmony and there is not a poore family that can be excused under ten shillings a yeare or more which the charges of shoes and other things of Leather stands them in more then it did two or three yeares since which amounts to above 1400. pound a yeare that the poore of this parish are put unto in the expence of an inhanced commodity St. Brides in Fleetstreet a Parish in the heart of London in respect of trade yet there is above 700. poore families that was never within the list of Ship-mony which after the same proportion is above 350. pound per annum which is exhausted from these poore who are most of them ready for reliefe of the Parish St. Sepulchres hath in it almost 2000. poore families St. Giles Cripplegate as many which after the same proportion is 1000. pound per annum which the poore of each severall Parish lose enough to make many of them turne rogues and beggers and thus wee might instance in other Parishes Besides it is conceived every Parish hath in it as many lodgers as there are families which suffer in the prices of shoes that never payd Ship-mony So for Townes and Country Villages some husbandmen are assessed for subsidie or shipmony at two or three shillings a yeare but in the inhanced prices of Leather what for boots and shoes for himselfe and family and calveskins to cloath himselfe and children and Leather for sadles cartsadles horse collers and other accomodations about husbandry will amount to above five times as much as he payd for Ship-mony And which is most miserable a poore man that hath nothing but what he gets by his day labour and is so far from paying Ship-mony that he is ready for releife from the parish what for cloathes for himselfe and family and for calves leather to cloath himselfe and children to broyle in the woods hedging and other servile work is almost five times as much per annum as the husbandmans part of Ship mony A poore man is now compelled for every paire of shoes that he buyes for himselfe to work three of foure daies more then he formerly used to doe and in the meane time his wife and children want bread at home for shoes are dearer by twelve pence in a paire then formerly There is not a poore servant that sends his shoes to a Cobler but it costs a penny in three pence more then formerly nor a begger that wanders from doore to doore but is oppressed although hee hath nothing but what he begs or steals And it is an unanswerable rule that to inhance the prices of any commodities that are usefull for supply of a Kingdome is the increasing of theeves and beggers The rich escape not although better able to beare it for there is not a family of any ranke that can bee excused in the inhanced prices of bootes and shooes under thirty or forty shillings per Annum besides the leather of a Coach and