England defrauded, by the Exportation of Boxes, Cases, and Dial-Plates for Clocks and Watches, without their Movements.  
Humbly Represented to the Honourable House of Commons.  
ENGLAND hath( of late Years) deservedly gained the Reputation of making the best Clocks and Watches now made in the World, and have made very great Improvement by several useful Inventions in that Art, such as Repeating Clocks and Watches, and the like, so that great Numbers have been Annually Exported. Some of the most Considerable Watchmakers( until of late) did sand Abroad Two parts in Three of the Clocks and Watches they made, but for some time past this Exportation hath been much hindered by the fraudelent practices of some Frenchmen, and others, now residing in England, who have abused most Parts of the World to which we formerly sent Clocks and Watches, by sending into those Parts Boxes, Cases, and Dial-Plates, and Springs, for Clocks and Watches, without their Movements, and there Buy up Base Foreign Movements, and with them make them up, and( for the most part) Engrave upon them London, and the Name of some Eminent English Watch or Clockmaker, to gain them the better Reputation Abroad, and so Sell them for English, although the Movements were never made here, nor the Watches here made up, to the Abuse of those Parts, and to our great Loss both in Reputation and Interest; for by the New Watches and Clocks that we do Export, we Gain in the Cheapest, Five times more( but in others our Gains are from Five to Fifteen times as much or more) than we should have done had the Boxes, Cases, and Dial-Plates of those Clocks and Watches been Exported without their Movements.  
To regain therefore our Reputation abroad, relating to this Ingenious Art and Manufacture, and to prevent for the future this Nation's being cheated of many Thousands per Annum, by the beforementioned fraudulent Practices: It's humbly hoped, That in this Bill now depending, for Liberty to export Watches, &c. some Clause or Clauses may be inserted, to prevent the Exportation of any Boxes, Cases, or Dial-Plates( of either Gold, Silver, or other Metal) for Clocks or Watches, without their Movements.  
And also, That every Watchmaker or Clockmaker, before he makes up his Clock or Watch, may Engrave thereon his Name, and City, Town, or Place of Abode, or of which he is a Freeman: So that neither ourselves or Foreigners may be abused in buying those Watches or Clocks, on which Good Mens Names are falsely Engraven, to colour and put off Bad Mens base Works.