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preventing the exportation of foreign linens, under the denomination of 

 JSritjfh or Irifh linens. 



And by the next ftatute [c. 25] it was enaded, that whereas the linen 

 maniifaftures of Britain and Ireland are of late years greatly improved 

 and increafed, whereby the price of linens, as well of foreign as of home 

 fabric, hath been confiderably reduced, a farther bounty on their ex- 

 portation was hereby enabled, of one halfpenny per yard on linen of 

 the value of s,d and not exceeding i 2J per yard ; and of three halfpence 

 per yard on linen from above i 2d to 1/6 per yard ; with fundry other 

 regulations for preventing frauds, &c. This flatute, it is hoped, will in 

 time produce great and good confequences for the increafe of our own,, 

 and the difcouraging of foreign, linens, for which fuch great fums are 

 and have fo long been paid, to fupply the Britilh, African, and Ameri- 

 can, trades, and all our other exportations of linens ; whereby our own 

 l^eople will be employed, and the money kept at home, fo long paid to 

 Germany, Pruffia, and Ruflia for the fame. 



As the next ftatute [c. 26] for repealing the inland duty of ^^ per 

 pound weight upon all tea fold in Great Britain, and for granting to his 

 majefty certain other inland duties in lieu thereof, &c. relates only to 

 the alterations thereby made in the manner of colledung the duty on 

 that commodity, we fliall take no farther notice of it, than merely to 

 remark, that it was provided, that if at any time the Britilh Eafl-India 

 company fhall negle6t to keep the London market fupplied with a fuf- 

 ficient quantity of tea at reafonable prices, to anfwer the confumption 

 thereof in Great Britain, the board of treafury may grant licences to 

 any other perfon or perfons, bodies politic or corporate, to import teas 

 into Great Britain from any part of Europe, fubjed to the like duties, 

 reflridions, and limitations, &c. as arc prefcribed with relpecft to tea to 

 be imported by the Eaft-India company from any part of Europe, &c. 



It being evidently for the advantage of Great Britain, and particu- 

 larly for the farther promoting of her own linen manufadtures and thofe 

 ot Ireland, that the wearing of foreign cambrics and Erench lawns 

 Ihould not be permitted, a ilatuie [18 Geo. 11, c. 56J for prohibiting 

 the wearing and importation of cambrics and French lawns, enaded, 

 that it fliall not be lawful for any perfon in Great Britain to wear any 

 cambric or French lawn, under the penalty of L5, and the like pe- 

 nalty on the fellers thereof, &c. If this law was I'erioully intended to 

 be executed, as its title and preamble feem to import, there is rcalbn 

 to apprehend it has not fully anlwered the intention ; neither, perhaps, 

 has a fubfequent fiiort ad [21 Geo. 11, c. 26] for explaining, amending, 

 and enforcing, the fimc, by farther extending the penalties to the 

 venders, and alio to the milliners making up fuch cambrics. 



Great Britain being at war with France, the province of Ncw-Eng> 

 land alone, a (lifted by the king's fliips of war, was now able to raife a 



