The case and circumstances of paper-making in England truly stated And by the paper-sellers humbly offered to the consideration of this present Parliament, as reasons against the passing of a bill, intituled An act for the encouragement and better establishing the making of white-writing and printing-paper. The same being misrepresented in a paper stiled, The case of the Company of White-Paper-makers.
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The case and circumstances of paper-making in England truly stated And by the paper-sellers humbly offered to the consideration of this present Parliament, as reasons against the passing of a bill, intituled An act for the encouragement and better establishing the making of white-writing and printing-paper. The same being misrepresented in a paper stiled, The case of the Company of White-Paper-makers.
Company of White Paper Makers (London, England)
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The
CASE
AND
Circumstances
of
Paper-making
IN
ENGLAND
TRULY
STATED
.
And
by
the
PAPER-SELLERS
Humbly
Offered
to
the
Consideration
of
this
Present
PARLIAMENT
,
As
REASONS
against
the
Passing
of
a
BILL
,
intituled
An
Act
for
the
Encouragement
and
better
Establishing
the
making
of
White-Writing
and
Printing-Paper
.
The
same
being
Misrepresented
in
a
Paper
stiled
,
The
Case
of
the
Company
of
White-Paper-makers
.
THAT
the
Art
of
making
White
and
Brown-paper
was
brought
into
England
by
Sir
John
Spelman
a
German
,
to
whom
King
James
I.
in
the
Second
year
of
his
Reign
granted
a
Patent
for
fourteen
years
,
and
also
for
his
encouragement
to
settle
the
Trade
in
this
Kingdom
gave
him
an
Estate
of
200
l.
per
Annum
at
Dartford
in
Kent
,
where
he
erected
a
Paper
Mill
,
which
is
to
this
day
imployed
in
making
of
White
and
Brown-paper
.
That
White
Writing
and
Printing
Paper
is
but
a
degree
of
goodness
from
Courser
Sorts
,
and
the
making
thereof
no
New
Invention
.
That
the
Grant
to
the
Pretended
Inventors
for
their
sole
making
of
White
Paper
,
upon
which
the
intended
Act
is
grounded
,
is
a
Monopoly
and
against
Law
;
and
all
such
Grants
are
declared
to
be
void
in
Law
,
and
all
Bodys
Politick
and
Corporate
are
disabled
to
exercise
any
such
by
the
Statute
,
21.
Jac.
cap.
3.
That
the
same
Grant
was
obtained
through
their
specious
pretences
of
supplying
the
whole
Kingdom
,
and
imploying
of
Fifty
Mills
,
which
they
have
not
performed
,
nor
can
,
for
that
in
fifteen
years
since
they
had
their
First
Patent
,
they
have
imployed
but
five
Mills
;
and
if
they
had
more
,
cannot
procure
Materials
sufficient
for
making
of
a
twentieth
part
of
the
quantity
of
White
Paper
used
in
England
;
and
their
want
of
such
materials
is
most
evident
by
their
using
their
Mills
,
designed
for
White
Paper
,
in
the
making
of
very
great
quantities
of
Brown.
That
whereas
they
have
insinuated
that
vast
sums
of
mony
have
been
sent
out
of
this
Nation
yearly
to
France
for
Paper
,
by
a
computation
taken
thereof
,
there
is
not
above
50000
l.
worth
of
Paper
in
a
year
imported
from
Germany
,
Holland
,
France
,
Italy
,
and
other
plac●s
,
and
a
great
part
of
that
is
the
Returns
of
English
Manufactures
and
Merchandizes
,
and
of
great
advantage
for
the
imployment
of
English
Shipping
;
the
Freight
,
by
reason
of
the
Bulk
thereof
,
being
very
considerable
.
That
Foreign
Paper
was
not
brought
into
England
,
because
the
like
was
not
,
or
could
not
be
made
here
,
but
because
Materials
proportion●ble
to
the
quantity
required
,
could
not
be
had
here
to
make
a
sufficient
supply
,
and
that
it
was
made
abroad
at
a
cheaper
rate
;
so
that
the
prohibiting
the
importation
of
French
Commodities
,
as
was
done
by
an
Act
of
the
last
Parliament
,
whereby
the
prizes
of
such
Paper
is
advanced
,
is
incouragement
sufficient
for
the
Paper
Makers
in
general
to
make
▪
and
they
now
imploy
themselves
in
making
of
such
Papers
,
and
having
above
a
hundred
Mills
in
England
,
can
make
greater
quantities
than
the
new
Pretenders
thereto
,
who
have
but
five
:
and
if
the
Paper-makers
in
general
,
and
not
a
select
Company
,
do
exercise
the
same
,
they
will
endeavor
to
exceed
one
another
,
and
by
that
means
such
Paper
will
be
made
better
,
and
sold
cheaper
than
otherwise
,
and
the
English
Nation
better
supplied
,
and
the
same
,
or
a
greater
number
of
Poor
maintained
.
That
the
Importation
of
French
Paper
being
already
prohibited
by
the
last
mentioned
Act
,
there
is
no
benefit
can
accrue
by
this
intended
Act
to
the
Nation
or
Trade
of
Paper-making
,
nor
can
such
Act
answer
the
Title
given
it
:
For
instead
of
encouraging
,
it
will
discourage
ingenuous
Workmen
,
who
through
servitude
are
free
of
the
Trade
,
to
serve
others
who
have
no
right
to
it
,
and
dividing
the
Trade
will
ruine
it
,
and
not
establish
it
.
That
the
intended
Act
is
not
to
make
all
the
Paper
Makers
a
Corporation
or
to
Regulate
the
Trade
,
or
to
furnish
the
Makers
with
Materials
,
or
to
limit
the
Work
only
to
English
men
,
and
such
as
have
served
Apprentiships
,
or
to
ascertain
the
goodness
,
or
prizes
of
Paper
,
or
for
the
like
good
purposes
,
as
other
Societies
of
men
have
been
incorporated
;
but
to
subject
the
whole
to
the
power
,
and
for
the
benefit
of
some
particular
men
,
as
evidently
appears
by
their
Proposals
added
to
their
Case
;
which
Proposals
can
be
of
no
Advantage
to
the
Subscribers
,
unless
the
persons
concerned
,
by
imposing
upon
Owners
of
Mills
,
to
have
them
at
small
Rents
,
and
by
paying
small
Wages
,
and
exacting
great
prizes
for
their
Paper
,
design
to
make
their
gain
out
of
other
mens
Estates
,
and
poor
mens
Labours
.
That
if
the
said
intended
Act
should
pass
,
it
will
allow
of
a
Monopoly
,
which
is
repugnant
to
the
Act
21.
Jac.
which
expresly
saith
amongst
other
things
,
that
all
Grants
for
the
sole
making
of
any
thing
within
this
Realm
shall
be
void
,
and
that
all
Bodies
Politick
and
Corporate
shall
be
disabled
to
put
in
ure
any
such
Monopoly
.
That
thereby
also
above
a
hundred
Paper
Mills
and
all
dependents
thereupon
will
be
destroyed
,
and
divers
Paper-makers
who
have
taken
long
Leases
,
and
are
in
Bonds
and
Covenants
to
pay
great
Rents
will
be
disabled
to
pay
the
same
,
to
the
Ruin
of
them
,
and
of
above
a
thousand
Families
.
That
the
same
will
also
be
a
bad
President
,
and
of
dangerous
Consequence
to
all
other
Crafts
;
for
some
men
pretending
to
a
greater
Excellency
in
any
Craft
than
others
,
may
by
the
like
means
strip
all
the
rest
of
their
Freedoms
,
Trades
,
and
Livelyhoods
,
and
then
impose
upon
all
that
shall
work
,
or
buy
of
them
at
their
pleasure
.
That
the
Case
of
the
Paper
makers
,
doth
much
concern
the
Paper
Sellers
?
for
that
as
the
Makers
have
truly
set
forth
the
making
of
Brown
Paper
alone
will
not
pay
the
Charges
;
and
that
if
(
as
by
the
intended
Act
)
they
shall
be
Limited
in
making
White
Sort
of
Paper
,
their
Mills
will
be
their
Ruin
;
and
then
by
Consequence
,
no
Paper
of
any
Sort
can
be
made
but
by
the
Patentees
,
and
,
there
being
no
other
Market
to
go
to
,
may
Sell
it
when
,
where
,
in
what
manner
,
and
at
what
prize
they
please
;
by
which
means
all
the
Paper
Sellers
in
London
,
who
are
very
numerous
,
and
have
served
Apprentiships
to
,
and
brought
up
in
that
Trade
,
which
is
a
distinct
Trade
of
it self
,
will
be
deprived
of
their
livelyhoods
,
and
many
of
them
and
other
Families
impoverished
.
It
is
therefore
manifest
(
by
the
small
Number
of
Mills
now
imployed
by
the
said
New
Pretenders
,
as
also
by
the
small
quantity
of
Materials
to
be
found
for
making
White
paper
,
the
advance
of
their
price
being
already
more
than
double
)
that
it
is
unreasonable
as
well
as
against
Law
;
for
some
few
persons
to
have
the
sole
priviledge
of
making
Writing
and
printing
Paper
,
which
will
most
certain●●
ruin
very
many
of
the
Ancient
Paper
makers
,
and
be
a
very
great
detriment
to
the
many
Traders
in
Paper
;
and
how
mischievous
it
〈◊〉
to
establish
a
Monopoly
,
for
ingrossing
an
Ancient
English
Manufacture
,
is
Humbly
Submitted
to
your
Honours
Consideration
.
This
Sheet
is
the
Common
Printing
Paper
made
by
the
Old
Paper
Makers
.