Reasons humbly offered to the Honourable the House of COMMONS, why new Impositions should not be laid upon Brass-Wire and Tin-Plates.  
I. IT will greatly prejudice the Woollen Manufacture, which is sent out for these Commodities; especially from York-shire, no Money being paid for Brass Wire, but Cloth, and other Woollen Manufactures only; which, by this new Imposition, will, in all probability, be discouraged, or prohibited by the King of Sweden: As it happened in Portugal, upon our laying a great Imposition upon Lisbon-Sugars, that Government prohibiting English Cloth: So that whereas there was before that 50000 l. in Cloth sent yearly thither, there has not been since one Cloth sold.  
II. Because there is none of either of those Commodities made in England, therefore it cannot be any Encouragement to our own Manufacturies.  
III. It will greatly impoverish, if not quiter ruin two considerable handicrafts, Pin-makers, and Tin-plate-workers: And the great quantities of Pins and Tin-Wares, which are now daily exported, will by this Advance be obstructed, and our foreign Trade put into the Hands of the Dutch; more Tin-Ware being exported than is used in England.