item: #1 of 13 id: A23868 author: Bank of England. title: An abstract of the charter to the governour and company of the Bank of England date: 1695.0 words: 5134 flesch: 49 summary: That for the better ordering the Affairs of the Corporation , and for a succession of Persons to be Governor , Deputy , and Directors thereof , there shall be for ever a Governor , Deputy , and 24 Directors , who , or any 13 , or more of them ( whereof the Governor or Deputy to be one ) shall be , and be called a Court of Directors , for the ordering the Affairs of the said Corporation with such Powers as are hereafter mentioned . That the said Governor , Deputy , and Directors , shall continue in their Offices till the 25th . of March , 1696 , and till others be chosen and sworn , unless any of them shall dye , or be removed , as is after-mentioned . That all the Members of the Corporation may meet for the Choice of their Governor , Deputy , and Directors , and for the making By-Laws for the Corporation , or other their Affairs ( publick Notice being affixed at the Royal Exchange Two days at least before the said Meeting ) That all the Members , or so many as meet , shall be called a General Court , which shall assemble in manner hereafter mentioned . That all succeeding Governors , Deputies , and Directors , after the 25th . of March , 1696. shall be yearly chosen forever between the 25th . of March , and the 25th . of April in each Year , by the Majority of the Members , having each 500 l. Stock , who shall be personally present , and each have One Vote and no more ; which Governor , Deputy , and Directors , shall continue in their Offices for one Year , and till others be chosen and sworn . keywords: corporation; deputy; directors; general; governor; stock cache: A23868.xml plain text: A23868.txt item: #2 of 13 id: A34002 author: Collins, John, 1625-1683. title: A plea for the bringing in of Irish cattel, and keeping out of fish caught by foreigners together with an humble address to the honourable members of Parliament of the countries of Cornwal and Devon, about the advancement of tin, fishery, and divers manufactures / by John Collins. date: 1680.0 words: 16432 flesch: 57 summary: So that in time , if this were not redressed , Ireland would get all the Trade from England ; but if not , 't is better to Trade with them on an Over-Ballance than not at all ; and better to lessen their Markets abroad , than quite to obstruct our furnishing the same : Hence we must either allow Ireland a free Trade with others , to the subversion of the Cloth Trade of England , and the incredible prejudice of the Fishery , and of Trade and Staple Commodities in general ; or by agreement with them on equitable terms , ( hereafter propounded ) get so high a Duty of Customs laid on their Commodities as may , if exported by Foreigners or by themselves , unless to England , render them of equal or rather higher value than the like Commodities in England , and then take off as many of them as we can , and furnish them to others ( after improvement here ) at the second hand , the latter ( if we will avoid our own destruction ) is the choice to be made . keywords: commodities; company; england; english; fishery; flax; foreign; hemp; ireland; irish; majesty; provisions; ships; time; tin; trade; value; year cache: A34002.xml plain text: A34002.txt item: #3 of 13 id: A37238 author: Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626. title: Jus imponendi vectigana, or, The learning touching customs, tonnage, poundage, and impositions on merchandizes, asserted as well from the rules of the common and civil law, as of generall reason and policy of state / by Sir John Davis ... date: 1659.0 words: 32062 flesch: 59 summary: So Kings were no sooner made by the Law of Nations , but presently the same Law , cum creatus fuerit Rex ei omnia regalia conceduntur , & competit omnibus Regibus jus imponendi quantum habet Begalia , saith Baldus , Vectigalia introduct a sunt à jure , &c. which is the Law of Nature or Nations , Ideo non otiosased favoralia , saith another Doctor , did annex this Prerogative to their several Crowns , Vectigalorigine ipsa jus Caesarum & Regum partimoniale est , saith another , Inhaeret Sceptro saith another ; and therefore when our ancient British Kings took up Customes for Merchandizes transported into France , as Strabo writeth , Britanni vectigalia tollebant gravia earum rerum quas brevi trajectu in Galliam importabant ; Shall we presume they did it by Act of Parliament ? HIS Majesty likewise when he came to be King of England finding his Crown to be seized of this Prerogative , and finding withall the necessary charge of the Crown exceedingly to increase , did for the supportation thereof , not onely continue the Impositions layd by Queen Mary , and Queen Elizabeth , but also layd new Impositions upon sundry sorts of Merchandizes , over and above all Customes and Subsidies formerly due and payable for the same : And these are the Impositions now ; the principal of these is twelve pence upon the pound , or a second poundage set upon Merchandizes as well exported as imported , by Letters Patents 28. keywords: act; answer; cases; chap; charter; commodities; crown; customes; divers; doth; duties; edw; england; goods; grant; great; hath; impositions; king; king doth; king edw; law; law doth; law merchant; laying; like; merchandizes; merchants; nations; parliament; pence; people; power; prerogative; princes; reason; rot; saith; set; shillings; subjects; time; trade; wooll cache: A37238.xml plain text: A37238.txt item: #4 of 13 id: A37871 author: England and Wales. Parliament. title: Ordered by the Lord and Commons now assembled in Parliament that one subsidy called tonnage, and one other subsidy called poundage, and those other duties called or known by the name of new impost, shall continue to be paid after the rates, rules and proportions by which they are now due and payable ... date: 1660.0 words: 764 flesch: 71 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A37871 of text R36402 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E1733). Title from first 5 lines of text. keywords: parliament; text cache: A37871.xml plain text: A37871.txt item: #5 of 13 id: A46181 author: Arran, Richard Butler, Earl of, d. 1686. title: Whereas the late farmers of His Majesties customs and other revenues of this kingdom, have convenanted with His Majesty, that they shall, and will pay and discharge all debentures for repayments of customs for foreign goods made within the time of their farm ... by the Lord Deputy and Council, Arran. date: None words: 1259 flesch: 66 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). [1683] Title from first 6 lines of text. keywords: customs; eebo; tcp; text cache: A46181.xml plain text: A46181.txt item: #6 of 13 id: A46551 author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) title: By the King, a proclamation for continuing the collection of the customs and subsidies of tonnage and poundage date: None words: 1117 flesch: 61 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A46551.xml plain text: A46551.txt item: #7 of 13 id: A46577 author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) title: By the King, a proclamation for the putting in execution the laws and statutes of this realm, for the preventing the exportation of sheep, wooll, wooll-fells, woollen-yarn, mortlings, shorlings, wooll-stocks, fullers-earth, and fulling-clay out of this kingdom date: 1688.0 words: 1528 flesch: 54 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A46577) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 97125) keywords: eebo; laws; tcp; text; wooll cache: A46577.xml plain text: A46577.txt item: #8 of 13 id: A49043 author: City of London (England). title: Jovis duodecimo die Maii 1698, annoque regni Regis Willielmi ... this day an order and report made by the Committee for Letting the Cities Lands, touching several duties taken by several officers and others at Billingsgate ... date: 1698.0 words: 2638 flesch: 60 summary: this day an order and report made by the Committee for Letting the Cities Lands, touching several duties taken by several officers and others at Billingsgate ... City of London (England). this day an order and report made by the Committee for Letting the Cities Lands, touching several duties taken by several officers and others at Billingsgate ... City of London (England). keywords: boat; city; day; tcp; text; vessel; yeomen cache: A49043.xml plain text: A49043.txt item: #9 of 13 id: A51696 author: Malkin, G. (Gilbert) title: A proposal humbly presented to the Right Honourable the House of Commons, by which it is reasonable to suppose a million may be raised (and as it is hoped much more) without oppressing any person, every one being at their liberty to pay, or not to pay date: 1697.0 words: 1547 flesch: 56 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A51696) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 39242) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A51696.xml plain text: A51696.txt item: #10 of 13 id: A81290 author: David, John James. title: The case of Sir John Lambert, Bar. Samuel Shepheard, and John James David, merchants of London. Humbly offered to the consideration of this honourable house, for relief. date: 1700.0 words: 1217 flesch: 66 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 171692) keywords: eebo; john; tcp; text cache: A81290.xml plain text: A81290.txt item: #11 of 13 id: A83229 author: Browne, John, ca. 1608-1691. title: An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. For the raising and collecting of ten thousand pounds, for and towards the redemption of distressed captives. / Die Martis, 8. Julij, 1645. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. ; Jo: Brown, cleric. Parliamentorum. date: None words: 1820 flesch: 66 summary: for divers reasons did Order , That Bonds should be taken by the Collectors of that duty to stand to the Order of Parliament : And whereas both Houses of Parliament intending to carry on that good work , did on the 24. of October 1644. Order , that only one fourth part of the moneys due by the said Bonds being one shilling in every twenty shillings Custome , should be paid by the respective Merchants of the City of London , having by their Petition set forth ye great inconveniency that might happen , as well in relation to the Advancement of the work , as to the unequall burthen that might rest upon the wel-affected Merchants , in regard sundry persons ill disposed to that work , and dis-affected to the Parliament , did , during the time of the said Act , make ill use of the favour of the Parliament ; and did fraudulently make entry of their goods in the names of insolvent and unknown persons , by whom Bonds were likewise sealed . keywords: bonds; ordinance; parliament; text cache: A83229.xml plain text: A83229.txt item: #12 of 13 id: B05704 author: Scotland. Privy Council. title: A proclamation, imposing a further custom upon wines and tobacco, &c. date: 1681.0 words: 1605 flesch: 59 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Royal arms at head of text; initial letter. keywords: act; custom; scots; tcp; text cache: B05704.xml plain text: B05704.txt item: #13 of 13 id: B06077 author: Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates. title: Act for a new imposition upon English commodities. At Edinburgh, the twenty one of August, one thousand six hundred and sixty three. date: 1663.0 words: 1530 flesch: 61 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06077) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179538) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: english; pounds; tcp; text cache: B06077.xml plain text: B06077.txt