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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION Di&s;charging the Importing of Foreign Linnen and Woolen Cloth, Gold and Silver Thread, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_CHARLES by the grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our She|riffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, e&s;pecially con&s;titute Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as the Lords of Our Privy Council, having for increa&s;e of Mony, and improvement of the Manufactures of this Kingdom, appointed a Committee, who with advice of the Merchants, and other Per&s;ons experienced in the&s;e Affairs, have agreed upon &s;everal Conclu&s;ions, which are with all po&s;&s;ible convenience and expedition, to be formed into a mature and dige&s;ted Proclamation, for Regulation of the Manufacture and Trade of this Kingdom: But becau&s;e &s;everal Merchants may either by mi&s;take, or upon a &s;ini&s;ter de&s;ign, give order for Importing of the&s;e Goods which are Prohi|bited; Therefore to prevent all inconveniencies which may ari&s;e to this Our Antient Kingdom, by the Import of tho&s;e Commodities, which are either to be debarred, as &s;uperfluous in them&s;elves, or &s;upplied by Dome&s;tick Manufactures, or private Indu&s;try of Our own Subjects, and to make the Importers thereof inexcu&s;ible; We with Advice of Our Privy Council, do hereby di&s;charge the Impor|tation of all Silver and Gold Thread, Silver and Gold Lace, Fringes, or Tracing, all Buttons of Gold and Silver Thread, all manner of Stuffs, or Ribbons in which there is any Gold or Silver Thread, all Philagram Work: as al&s;o, all Forraign <HI>Holland</HI>-Linen, Cambrick, Lawn, Dornick, Damask, Tyking, Bou&s;ten, or Dametry, Tufted or Striped Hol|land, Callico, Mu&s;line, <HI>Sele&s;ia</HI> and <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Linen, and all Cloaths, made of Linen or Cotton: As al&s;o all Foreign Cloaths and Stuffs what&s;oever, made of VVooll-Yarn, or VVool and Lint: all Foreign Silk, and VVoolen Stockings: all Forraign Laces made of Silk, Grimp or Thread, and all manner of Laces and Point of any &s;ort of Colours; all For|reign made Gloves, Shoes, Boots and Slippers; and do hereby di&s;charge all Merchants and others what&s;oever, to Import into this Kingdom any of the fore&s;aid Commodies, after the Date hereof; excepting only &s;uch as can be made appear upon Oath, to have been ordered by preceding Commi&s;&s;ions, and Shipped before the <HI>10th.</HI> of <HI>March</HI> In&s;tant; which time they have to recal their Commi&s;&s;ions, if any &s;uch have been given; with certification that all &s;uch Goods which &s;hall be Imported, &s;hall be burnt and de&s;troyed and the Importers and Re&s;&s;etters &s;hall be fined in the value of the Goods &s;o Imported; and that if any Taxmen of the Cu&s;toms, Collectors or Waiters &s;hall con|nive at the inbringing thereof, they &s;hall be likewi&s;e puni&s;hed, by payment of the value of the Goods Imported, and by being removed from all charge relating to Our Cu&s;toms, or any Employments depending thereupon. And We Ordain the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed and Publi&s;hed at the Market Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the fir&s;t day of <HI>March,</HI>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty and one, And in the three and th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">rtieth Year of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilij. <HI>PAT.MENZIES.</HI> Cl. Sti. Concilij.</SIGNED><LB>
God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to his mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1681. And Reprinted at <HI>LONDON</HI> for <HI>S. J.</HI></P>
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