The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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I} eo Y m 28 11. d y ne _ al TO nN THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN 417 of freedom of intercourse, during the Interregnum, led many AD Lim of the Scotch to desire a commercial union between the ’ countries. The project was the subject of negotiations in 16677, but no terms were arranged and the distress in Scot- land continued. It was asserted that Scotland had declined Le Dug) rapidly both in population and wealth since the union of hag ~~ the Crowns. “Into this Condition hath this Nation been ¥or%ed brought by this loose and Irregular tye of the Union of the Lily oa Crowns, a state wherein we are not considered as Subjects nor allies, nor Friends nor Enemies, but all of them, only when, where, how and how long our Task Masters pleases.” It had thus become apparent that some change was requisite in the relations which subsisted between the two countries; and when the Commissioners met to devise a scheme, the English were determined to have a legislative, as dis- tinguished from any form of a federal union, and insisted that this matter should be voted on first, before entering on the discussion of any points of details, When this principle was once secured, they appear to have treated the 28 ie Scotch Commissioners generously on all points of detail. oe The quota which Scotland was to pay towards a land tax eme of four shillings in the pound was £48,000 as against £2,000,000 from England, while certain duties on malt and coals, which were to expire within a brief period, were not imposed upon Scotland at all. But besides this, Scotland received a considerable payment as an equivalent for in- curring a share of responsibility in the debt with which England was burdened. The portion of each class of taxation, whether customs or excise, which was appropriated to the English debt was taken, and the proportion which they bore to the whole customs and excise in England was calculated out®. Similar calculations in regard to the different branches of the Scottish revenue brought out the fact that £398,085. 10s. would be a fair equivalent to be paid to Scotland, for accepting obligations in respect of 1 Hist. M88. Comm. 1. Ap. 55. Mackinnon, Union of England and Scotland, 10. ? Proposals and Reasons for Constituting a Council of Trade, 1701. Intro- duction, p. 8. Brit. Mus. 1029. a. 6 (1). % Burton, 1. 407. 4 7h. 1, 412, 8 Ib. 1. 415. 2

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