The case of William Gutteridge, and other glass-makers, against passing a pattent for incorporating Sir Joseph Herne, and others, by the name of the glass-makers in the cities of London and Westminster, and ten miles compass of the same Gutteridge, William, fl. 1680. 1680 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A78282 Wing C1195A ESTC R213589 99899329 99899329 153091 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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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). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Herne, Joseph, -- Sir -- Early works to 1800. Glass manufacture -- England -- Early works to 1800. Glassworkers -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England 2007-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE CASE OF WILLIAM GVTTERIDGE , and other Glass-makers , against Passing a Pattent for Incorporating Sir Joseph Herne , and Others , by the Name of the Glass-makers in the Cities of London and Westminster , and Ten Miles Compass of the same . THE Allegations upon which they desire their Incorporations are false ; Namely , 1st . They suggest , That by their continued Pains , Industry , long Experience in the Trade of making of Glass , and at their great Cost and Charges , they have attained to greater Knowledge in the said Manufacture than any others , and make better Glass than any heretofore made , and some never before made . Respons . Supposing this were true ; then indeed where they proper to have a Patent for their New Invention , but not to have a Corporation . Besides in the Corporation of all the Persons therein named , not above two are Glass-Makers , all the rest are Persons to whom the Trade doth not of right belong . Besides , The very Artists that now mix their Mettal , and Work their Glass , oppose their being Incorporated . 2dly . They say , if the said Manufacture were well Managed , great Quantities might be Exported , and none Imported ; whereas now great Quantities are Imported . Respons . There were indeed some years since , great Quantities Imported , but now there is little or none , because the Petitioner make better and cheaper Glass , than any heretofore Imported , and do daily Export great Quantities of Glass , and could do more , were there a Market for the same ; and many of the Petitioner Glass-Houses now stand unimployed , there being more Glass by them than they can sell . 3dly . They pretend that Joynt-Stocks are necessary for carrying on the said Manufacture . Respons . That cannot be true ; for the said Manufacture is at present managed by separate Stocks , and so managed that more is made of all sorts , than can be sold at Home or Abroad . 4thly . They say many Artist have been forced for what of Imployment here , to go beyond the Seas for Work. Respons . This they ought to prove ; but admit they should , yet if more Glass of all sorts are here made than can be vended , what can a Joynt-Stock do more ? It is true ; two Artists indeed were forced to go beyond the Seas , but it was Mr. Bowles , one of the Glass-Makers named in the intended Corporation , forced them to go , having by Promising them greater Wages than Mr. Bellingham gave , drawn them into Covenants to serve them for a time , and then not performing their promise , not releasing their Covenants , they were forced to go . 5thly . They pretend that they had agreed with most of the Proprietors Interessed in the Glass-Houses in London and Westminster , and 10 Miles distance of the same . Respons . There are but about two and twenty Glass-Houses in London and Westminster , and ten Miles distance of the same , of which , those named in the intended Corporation have but five , and the Petitioners , have twelve ; the rest may be presumed to stand Neuters . Besides most of the Glass-makers at New-Castle and Sturbridge , oppose the said Corporation ; and though their Glass-houses are fair remote , yet there Market is here in London , and they have Agents here . And so if their Allegations and Pretensions , upon which they desire to become Incorporated are false , then the Corporation or Substructure on such a false Foundation should certainly be destroyed . But further ; they have not mentioned one Inconvenience that will attend the said Incorporation , so it must be done for them and 1st . It is plain , the Corporation , if passed , will destroy Mr. Bellingham's Patents and others , which have already been granted , to some Ingenious Artists , that have travelled , and spent much Money , and mightily improved the said Manufacture in England , and to whom the pretended Incorporators are beholden for the very Engine they now Work withall ; for they are in General called Glass-makers , without any Restriction , ad no restraining Words after , can prevent their overthrowing a less powerfull than themselves . 2dly . They are not obliged to take into their Corpo-ration all Glass-makers that shall be willing to come into them . 3dly . None must come in , without great Stocks , or if they doe , those of the Corporation , who bring in Money only , will have as great a share of the Profits , as any of the said Artists , who bring in Money and Art too . 4thly . The Thing plainly speaks it self to be a Corporation of Rich Men to oppress the Artists in the said Manufacture , and will in Effect be a Monopoly , and engross that Commodity into a few Hands , and so raise the price of it , and frighten the Artists away .