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The soap-makers complaint for the losse of their trade, by reason of a double excise laid first upon the materials they make their soap of, and then secondly by reason of an excise of 4 s. 8 d. per barrel laid upon the soap after they have made it which hath occasioned the spreading of their trade into holes and corners in all parts of the nation; by reason of which, they commonly steal the excite of 4s. 8d. per barrel, and so are-able to sell under those that by reason of the visibility and fixedness of their houses are forc'd to pay it
