To the honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the House of Commons now assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of the Company of Brewers of the citie of London. Worshipful Company of Brewers. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94491 of text R220659 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1460). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A94491 Wing T1460 ESTC R220659 47683495 ocm 47683495 172954 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. A94491) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 172954) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 21242:63 or 2659:8) To the honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the House of Commons now assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of the Company of Brewers of the citie of London. Worshipful Company of Brewers. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London : 1660?] Headpiece. Date and place of publication from Wing (2nd ed.). Imperfect: item at 2124.2:63 faded and torn with some loss of print. Reproductions of originals in: British Library and Eton College Library. eng Brewing industry -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century. A94491 R220659 (Wing T1460). civilwar no To the honourable the knights, Citizens, and burgesses of the House of Commons now assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of the Compa Company of Brewers 1660 745 1 0 0 0 0 0 13 C The rate of 13 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion TO THE HONOURABLE THE KNIGHTS , CITIZENS , AND BVRGESSES OF THE HOVSE OF Commons now assembled in PARLIAMENT . The humble Petition of the Company of Brewers of the Citie of London . Sheweth , THat your PETITIONERS are an ancient Corporation of great use in the Citie of LONDON for Service both for Sea and Land , and doe imploy in their Calling many thousands of poore Families in and about the said Citie , who yet have beene for about 30. yeares past mightily oppressed with many grievous Payments , purveyances and impositions to his Majestie contrary to Law ; and the like wherof no Corporation nor calling whatsoever hath suffered . All which have beene inforced from the abused sense or ill pursuance of a Statute 23. Hen. 8. which as it directs the Justices of Peace at their quarterly Sessions to order at their discretions the prizes of Beere and Ale ; so it limits the Brewer not to exceed the said rate under the penaltie of sixe shilling for every Barrell . That your Petitioners humbly conceive the intent of the said Statute was , that the prizes of Beere and Ale should be regulated by the said Justices and varied according to the prizes of Mault Hopps , and Fuell sutable to that ancient and unrepealed Statute of 51. Hen. 3. and which wee find was accordingly practized by the said Justices till about 30. yeares past at which time an imposition of foure pence for every quarter of Mault to the Kings Majestie was projected by some evill Members , and accordingly exacted with all rigour and severitie to the undoing of divers Brewers , their Wives and Children . That the Justices of peace in London and the neere adjacent parts have not for about 30. years past taken any consideration at all of the prizes of Mault , Hopps , and Coles being of late yeares much dearer then in former times , nor of the great increase of charges by servants wages house-rent , and caske necessarily used by the said Brewers , but ( as your Petitioners humbly conceive ) to countenance and continue the said imposition , have refused to set such a rate as at which the Beere and Ale might be serviceable and your Petitioners have any subsistence in their Callings . That upon complaint in the Parliament , Anno tertio Reg. the said imposition was voted illegall and so suppressed , but the said Parliament was no sooner dissolved but your Petitioners were sued by information on the same Statute of 23. Hen , 8. for very great summes of money , and had also their Beere taken by purveyance in great quantities and no money paid for the same , but after tedious and chargeable attendance , and for refusall were some of them a long time imprisoned ; by which then unresistable violence your Petitioners were drawne in●o a new composition for almost 3000. l. per annum towards the charge of furnishing his Majesties Houses with Beere and Ale , which continued till the beginning of this present Parliament , at which time your Petitioners not doubting but to have reliefe against so insupportable a grievance did refuse to pay it any longer , and did for remedy bring in a Bill long since into this Honourable House . That in Trinitie Terme last past severall new informations were brought by one Lionel Farington in the Courts of Exchequer and Common Pleas against your Petitioners upon the said Statute of 23. Hen. 8. it being to many of your Petitioners for more then their whole Estates are worth , and for which hee will have a Tryall against some of them within 20. dayes . Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray , that the Bill brought long since by them into this Honourable House may be speedily read and committed , and that such course may be taken by the great wisedome and favour of this Honourable House , that as your Petitioners may for the future be preserved from the like miserable grievances and troubles ; so for the present they with their Families and thousands more that depend upon them may be delivered from utter destruction . And they ( as in all dutie and conscience bound ) shall ever pray for the prosperous successe of your unwearied indeavors , &c.