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till them from 16. to 20s. per Chaldron but that from thence forward they would never be under 22. or 23s. & might come to be rais'd to 2,3, or £ 4. which would proportionably lessen the consumption of Coals, & consequently the Tonnage of Ships, & number of hands employ'd therein; that many Labourers & Artificers would lose their bread, & the miserys of the poor be deletion unclear /deletion addition agrevated /addition to a degree scarce Supportable.

All these objections tho publish'd without doors, & enforc'd within, fail'd of their desir'd effect, while not a single member had Virtue or Spirit enough to recommend the Irish forfeitures as a Substitute by applying to the Public Service tho the Bill then laid on the Table