The complaint of many free-holders, farmer, and others, of the Common-wealth of England Against the unlawfull planting of English tobacco. With an act of Parliament prohibiting the same.
         Read, Robert, fl. 1653-1656.
      
       
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             The complaint of many free-holders, farmer, and others, of the Common-wealth of England Against the unlawfull planting of English tobacco. With an act of Parliament prohibiting the same.
             Read, Robert, fl. 1653-1656.
          
           1 sheet ([1] p.)
           
             s.n.,
             [London :
             1653]
          
           
             Signed at end: Robert Read.
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             Annotation on Thomason copy: "August 9 1653".
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           Tobacco -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
        
      
    
       A92203  R211674  (Thomason 669.f.17[42]).  civilwar no The complaint of many free-holders, farmer, and others, of the Common-wealth of England. Against the unlawfull planting of English tobacco. Read, Robert 1653    1110 4 0 0 0 0 0 36 D  The  rate of 36 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 
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           The
           Complaint
           of
           many
           Free-holders
           ,
           Famer
           ,
           and
           others
           ,
           of
           the
           Common-wealth
           of
           ENGLAND
           .
           Against
           the
           unlawfull
           planting
           of
           English
           Tobacco
           .
           With
           an
           Act
           of
           PARLIAMENT
           Prohibiting
           the
           same
           .
        
         
           WHereas
           divers
           great
           quantities
           of
           Tobacco
           have
           been
           of
           late
           yeares
           ,
           and
           now
           are
           planted
           in
           divers
           parts
           of
           this
           Nation
           ,
           tending
           to
           the
           decay
           of
           husbandrie
           and
           tillage
           ,
           the
           prejudice
           and
           hindrance
           of
           the
           Plantations
           abroad
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           trading
           ,
           commerce
           ,
           Navigation
           and
           Shipping
           of
           this
           Nation
           ;
           For
           prevention
           thereof
           ,
           Be
           it
           Enacted
           or
           Ordained
           by
           this
           present
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           Authority
           of
           the
           same
           ,
           That
           no
           person
           or
           persons
           whatsoever
           ,
           doe
           or
           shall
           at
           any
           time
           from
           and
           after
           the
           first
           day
           of
           
             May
             ,
          
           one
           thousand
           six
           hundred
           fifty
           and
           two
           ,
           plant
           ,
           set
           ,
           grow
           ,
           make
           or
           cure
           ,
           or
           cause
           to
           be
           planted
           ,
           set
           ,
           grown
           ,
           made
           or
           cured
           ,
           any
           Tobacco
           whatsoever
           as
           aforesaid
           ,
           in
           any
           ground
           ,
           field
           ,
           place
           or
           places
           as
           aforesaid
           ,
           contrary
           to
           the
           true
           intent
           and
           meaning
           of
           this
           present
           Act
           ,
           every
           such
           person
           or
           persons
           so
           offending
           shall
           forfeit
           the
           sum
           of
           twenty
           shillings
           for
           every
           Pole
           or
           Rod
           of
           ground
           ;
           and
           so
           after
           the
           Rate
           for
           a
           greater
           quantity
           that
           shall
           be
           so
           used
           or
           imployed
           ,
           the
           one
           moyety
           of
           such
           forfeiture
           ,
           to
           the
           use
           of
           the
           Common-wealth
           ,
           the
           other
           moyety
           thereof
           ,
           for
           the
           discoverer
           or
           Prosecutor
           ,
           to
           be
           recovered
           by
           Action
           or
           Debt
           ,
           Bill
           ,
           Plaint
           or
           Information
           ,
           in
           any
           Court
           of
           this
           Nation
           ,
           wherein
           no
           Essoyn
           ,
           wager
           of
           Law
           or
           Protection
           shall
           lye
           :
           And
           for
           the
           more
           effectuall
           preventing
           the
           planting
           of
           Tobacco's
           as
           aforesaid
           ,
           That
           it
           shall
           be
           lawfull
           to
           or
           for
           any
           person
           or
           persons
           whatsoever
           ,
           to
           enter
           into
           and
           upon
           all
           and
           every
           ,
           or
           any
           place
           or
           ground
           within
           this
           Common-wealth
           ,
           where
           any
           Tobacco
           shall
           be
           planted
           ▪
           growing
           ,
           curing
           or
           making
           ,
           contrary
           to
           this
           present
           Act
           ,
           and
           to
           grub
           ,
           cut
           up
           ,
           destroy
           ,
           and
           utterly
           to
           consume
           all
           and
           every
           such
           Tobaccos
           :
           And
           the
           Commissioners
           ,
           Sub-Commissioners
           and
           Officers
           of
           Excise
           ,
           are
           especially
           inioyned
           and
           required
           to
           look
           to
           the
           due
           execution
           hereof
           .
        
         
           
             The
             Weed
             .
          
           
             
               ENgland
            
             is
             called
             by
             the
             Nations
             of
             the
             world
             ,
             the
             Garden
             of
             the
             world
             ,
             but
             in
             it
             there
             is
             many
             weeds
             ,
             and
             although
             divers
             have
             been
             at
             work
             to
             pull
             them
             up
             ,
             yet
             still
             they
             grow
             ,
             and
             more
             when
             they
             that
             indeavour
             to
             pull
             them
             up
             ,
             seeme
             to
             take
             the
             greatest
             pains
             and
             care
             .
             Weeds
             grow
             faster
             then
             good
             herbs
             ,
             yet
             weeds
             are
             never
             planted
             ,
             being
             they
             desetve
             not
             pains
             of
             planting
             but
             are
             unprofitable
             unnecessary
             and
             unwholsome
             .
             I
             shall
             say
             little
             concerning
             the
             allegory
             that
             may
             be
             upon
             weeds
             in
             generall
             ,
             but
             in
             particular
             ,
             one
             weed
             that
             cumbereth
             and
             anoyeth
             this
             garden
             of
             
               England
            
             is
             Tobacco
             :
             the
             which
             some
             who
             have
             been
             and
             now
             are
             evill
             Members
             of
             this
             Common-wealth
             do
             indeavour
             to
             plant
             ;
             the
             onely
             rise
             of
             it
             is
             coveteousness
             ,
             a
             sinne
             of
             high
             nature
             ,
             and
             the
             cause
             of
             much
             evill
             in
             all
             persons
             and
             places
             ,
             and
             to
             be
             abandoned
             ,
             the
             continuance
             of
             it
             is
             ,
             through
             the
             subtilty
             of
             a
             resolute
             people
             ,
             who
             have
             no
             regard
             to
             obey
             ,
             neither
             feare
             any
             threat
             ,
             nor
             regard
             any
             publick
             good
             the
             end
             of
             it
             will
             be
             the
             beggering
             of
             our
             forraign
             Plantations
             who
             have
             had
             ,
             and
             doe
             depend
             on
             our
             Brethren
             natives
             for
             relief
             by
             traffique
             with
             them
             the
             great
             hindrance
             of
             shipping
             and
             navigation
             ,
             and
             the
             continuation
             of
             a
             long
             and
             impoverished
             condition
             among
             divers
             manufactors
             that
             might
             supply
             forreigne
             parts
             with
             needfull
             things
             .
          
        
         
           
             As
             for
             English
             Tobacco
             it
             is
             thus
             caractered
             .
          
           
             A
             Subject
             of
             deceit
             ,
             causing
             many
             quarrels
             and
             law
             suits
             ,
             a
             destroyer
             of
             all
             sorts
             of
             graine
             ,
             by
             occupying
             the
             best
             ground
             ,
             and
             using
             all
             the
             Dung
             they
             can
             get
             to
             force
             their
             seed
             to
             plants
             ,
             and
             after
             to
             inable
             the
             Fields
             for
             such
             a
             stinking
             ,
             rotten
             ,
             unprofitable
             ,
             unwholsome
             ,
             unnaturall
             stuff
             ,
             an
             inhauncer
             of
             Rents
             ,
             a
             barrenner
             of
             good
             land
             ,
             an
             expugner
             of
             lawfull
             trades
             ,
             an
             increaser
             of
             idleness
             ,
             distructive
             to
             health
             of
             a
             perishing
             condition
             ,
             a
             thing
             not
             worthy
             to
             have
             its
             being
             in
             our
             Nation
             ,
             alwayes
             by
             every
             power
             prohibited
             ▪
             not
             accounted
             as
             a
             commodity
             ,
             but
             as
             expeld
             exild
             and
             banished
             .
             That
             it
             doth
             deterr
             and
             hinder
             many
             thousand
             pounds
             a
             year
             to
             this
             Nation
             of
             Excise
             and
             Custome
             that
             might
             be
             paid
             for
             other
             Tobacco
             ,
             if
             this
             were
             not
             pernicious
             in
             the
             roome
             of
             Forraigne
             ,
             besides
             the
             imployment
             of
             our
             ships
             and
             men
             ,
             and
             other
             inconveniences
             ,
             it
             is
             also
             not
             fit
             to
             grow
             in
             our
             climate
             ,
             it
             never
             commeth
             to
             maturity
             it
             was
             not
             on
             the
             list
             for
             Excise
             ,
             but
             accounted
             as
             Docks
             or
             Hemlock
             .
          
           
             Tobacco
             of
             forraign
             Plantations
             is
             on
             the
             co●…trary
             beneficiall
             to
             Merchandises
             and
             manufacture
             ,
             profitable
             in
             the
             support
             of
             our
             Nation
             ,
             it
             officiates
             as
             money
             abroad
             ,
             and
             gives
             content
             ,
             to
             the
             buyer
             at
             home
             ,
             and
             is
             accounted
             a
             commodity
             that
             hath
             sustained
             life
             upon
             the
             Seas
             in
             time
             of
             distress
             ,
             as
             also
             in
             Prisons
             and
             Garrisons
             when
             need
             hath
             been
             ,
             it
             groweth
             in
             its
             proper
             place
             ,
             comes
             to
             perfect
             maturity
             ,
             and
             of
             all
             that
             are
             affected
             with
             Tobacco
             ,
             it
             is
             loved
             and
             desired
             ▪
             and
             of
             all
             powers
             and
             people
             allowed
             in
             all
             Nations
             ,
             being
             of
             a
             sound
             quality
             ,
             and
             fit
             for
             exportation
             to
             many
             places
             .
             The
             dammage
             that
             may
             grow
             by
             this
             English
             Tobacco
             〈◊〉
             the
             decay
             of
             Merchandise
             ,
             tillage
             ,
             Husbandrie
             ,
             the
             causing
             of
             Corne
             to
             grow
             deare
             ,
             the
             discomforting
             of
             our
             Merchants
             ,
             the
             undoing
             of
             our
             Artificers
             ,
             the
             increase
             of
             an
             idle
             and
             disobedient
             and
             rebel
             lious
             people
             ,
             the
             Plnaters
             of
             Collonies
             will
             be
             discouraged
             ,
             and
             the
             people
             that
             are
             abroad
             wanting
             necessaries
             must
             return
             home
             for
             reliefe
             :
             and
             be
             forced
             to
             trade
             with
             other
             Nations
             that
             are
             our
             enemies
             .
             I
             shlll
             referre
             all
             things
             else
             that
             may
             be
             said
             to
             your
             best
             skill
             .
             And
             remaine
             Your
             Friend
             .
          
           
             
               Robert
               Read
               .
               Servant
               both
               to
               the
               Merchants
               of
               
                 Bristol
              
               and
               
                 London
                 .