WHereas by an Act of 12 Car. 2. Intituled, An Act for Prohibiting the Transportation of Wooll, &c. there was liberty, given to Transport from Southampton certain quantities of Wooll to the said Islands; viz. to Guernezey 1000 Tods, to Jersey 2000 Tods, to Alderney 200 Tods, and to Serk 100 Tods. But since the making of that Act the Inhabitants, and the Manufacture of Stockins be­ing very much increased, double that quantity will not be suf­ficient to carry on the said Manufacture, by which alone the aforesaid Inhabitants do subsist.

Therefore 'tis Humbly desired, That to the Act which is now passing a Clause may be inserted, to increase the Number of Tods to be Transported to the said Islands, which is conceived may be fit to be granted, for the following Reasons.

1. A further supply will appear to be necessary, if it be con­sidered that there are in the sole Isle of Guernezey at least 4000 Knitters, who making 4000 pair of Stockins a Week; do there­by weekly Manufacture about 60 Tods of Wooll, and consequent­ly above 3000 Tods in the Year: Which being so, and the Parlia­ment taking now effectual care for preventing the Transporta­tion of Wooll into France, from whence the said Inhabitants were necessitated to supply themselves with English Wooll, with­out which they cannot possibly work there Stockins. It is from thence evident, that unless some greater quantity be now al­lowed them out of this Kingdom, more than half of the said Knit­ters will remain Idle; and not being able to subsist, must either Starve, or be an Unsupportable burthen to the rest of the Islanders.

2. The King's Service doth require it; for otherwise the King must be at extraordinary Charges to preserve those Islands, if through want of what is so absolutely Necessary for their Subsistance, the Inhabitants should be reduced to extre­mity of Want and Misery, which must render them incapable of making any Defence against the Publick Enemy.