Reasons offered to the consideration of His Grace, His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Hononrable [sic] Estates of Parliament, by several salt-masters, against the Act for a manufactorie of salt npon [sic] salt, given in by Mr. William Areskin Governour of Blackness Castle. 1696 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B03132 Wing E3249B ESTC R176772 52211819 ocm 52211819 175671 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 Salt industry and trade -- Law and legislation -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. 2008-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion REASONS Offered to the Consideration of his Grace , His Majesties high Commissioner , and the Honourable Estates of Parliament , by several Salt-Masters , against the Act for a Manufactorie of Salt upon Salt , given in by Mr. VVilliam Areskin Governour of Blackness Castle . 1. IF this Act in favours of Mr. William Areskin shall be past , it will make one Manufactrie destroy another which is of far greater Import and Advantage to the Nation , viz. The Manufactorie of small Salt , by which so many thousands of People are maintained , and by the Exporting of which , so much Advantage redounds to the Countrey ; For should it be past in his favours , under the Notion of making Salt upon Salt , he would import so much Foraign Salt , as should not only serve for Curing of Fishes , but all other Domestick Uses , and being free of Duty , will be able to sell it at a lower Rate than the Salt-masters can make their Salt at . 2. If the Advantage of the Countrey be consulted , it cannot be past in his favours and Partners only , for then the Buyers are confined to Buy as it were from one hand , and so must pay what Price they shall please to impose upon it , and thus it becomes a Monopoly , whereas if power be granted to every Salt-master to make Salt upon Salt , the Countrey shall be far better served , and the Merchants if they cannot buy from one may go to another , as in the buying of ordinary Salt. 3. The Art of making Salt upon Salt is not so great as Mr. William Areskin represents it , since any persons who have any Skill in Alchymie may do it , and it is ordinarly done in Holland by silly Women ; the Expense of bringing some of these home , cannot be so very great as he would have it to be . 4. It is offered by several of the Salt-masters , that each of them shall set up for themselves , and have their Works in readiness for accomplishing the Design betwixt and the time condescended on in the Act. 5. Should this Act be granted in his favours , Coal-masters might close up their Pits , to the great loss of the Countrey : for when small Salt cannot be made with some Advantage , the small Coals by which it is made must be left in the Coal-heugh , which in some places takes Fire , and in other places so Immures the Coal-heugh that they cannot work , and so in effect renders their Works altogether useless . It is therefore humbly expected , that His Grace His Majesties High Commissioner and the Honourable Estates of Parliament in respect of the above Reasons , will not pass the Act in Mr. Areskines Favours , but in Favours of such of the Salt Masters as are willing to set up for themselves to make Sal● upon Salt ▪