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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A PROCLAMATION For Payment of the Duty of Exci&s;e, together with the Arrears thereof.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas divers great Sums of money for Publique V&s;e and Concernment, for the great Affairs of the Kingdom, have been charged upon the Receipts of Exci&s;e; And many and great Arrears, are due and owing thereupon, as well in Our City of <HI>London,</HI> as in &s;everal of Our Counties, Cities, and Towns Corporate, with|in Our Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> and Our Town and Port of <HI>Berwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed,</HI> The Collecting and Levying of which hath been of late times much Ob&s;tructed, and become very Ineffectual, through the Practi&s;es and Contrivments of Subtil and Di&s;affected Per&s;ons, for their own private Lucre and Gain, And fora&s;much as by an Act of this pre&s;ent Parliament, the Duty of Excise is conti|tinued, and the Arrears thereof directed thereby to be paid: We, at the de&s;ire, and by the Advice of Our Lords and Commons in Parliament A&s;&s;embled, have thought fit, and do by this Our Proclama|tion, Command, Require, and Charge, all and every Our loving Subjects, within Our said Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> and Town of <HI>Berwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed</HI> afore&s;aid, who are liable to pay Excise, or from whom any the Arrears thereof are due and unpaid, Speedily and without Delay, to conform them&s;elves unto the Rules, Regulations, Orders, and Powers, whereby the afore&s;aid Duty or Impo&s;ition, hath been, or ought to be Levyed, not onely for paying the &s;ame for the Future, as it &s;hall become due; but al&s;o for &s;atisfying all and every the Arrears thereof (Which are Excepted from Pardon by an Act of this pre&s;ent Parliament, Entituled <HI>(An Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemp|nity and Oblivion)</HI> to the end the Orders and Rules made for payment thereof, be not eluded; And We do hereby &s;traitly Charge and Command all Our Iu&s;tices of the Peace, and other Our Magi&s;trates and Mini&s;ters what&s;oever, within this Our &s;aid City of <HI>London,</HI> and the re&s;pective Counties, Cities, and Towns Corporate, to whom is committed the care of &s;eeing &s;uch of the Rules, Orders, and Powers, as are under their Cognizance, executed vigorously, and diligently, to proceed in putting the &s;ame in Exe|cution, to the end the Ob&s;tructions and Defects of Execution, whether in remi&s;ne&s;s, or neglect, may be removed, and the afore&s;aid Duty of Exci&s;e, together with the whole Arrears thereof, may be duly and &s;peedily Levyed and Paid in, for the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And whereas it was Re&s;olved, and Declared by the Commons in this pre&s;ent Parliament A&s;&s;embled, the &s;ixth of <HI>September</HI> la&s;t, That the Act for continuance of the Exci&s;e, doth enable the Commi&s;&s;i|oners therein named, and their Sub-commi&s;&s;ioners, to Act and proceed according to the Rates, and Rules of the late pretended Powers; We therefore do hereby more particularly require and command Our &s;aid Iu&s;tices of Peace, to put in full Execution, the two and thirtieth Article of an Act &s;o called, And Entituled, <HI>An Act for the Speedy Rai&s;ing Levying Moneyes by way of New-Impo&s;t of Exci&s;e,</HI> made and Publi&s;hed the fourteenth day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred forty nine: Whereby it is men|tioned to be Enacted, That no Vintner; Inkeeper, Victualler, Ale-hou&s;e-keeper, or other Per&s;on what&s;oever, That Retailes or Sells Ale or Beer, &s;hall Brew his own Beer or Ale, unle&s;s he give &s;e|curity to pay the Exci&s;e thereof; Or otherwi&s;e to take all &s;uch Beer and Ale as he &s;hall Sell or Vtter, of or from &s;ome common Brewer of Ale or Beer, In which ca&s;e upon due proof made, (as by the &s;aid Article is pre&s;cribed) before any one Iu&s;tice of the Peace, within the County, City or Town Corpo|rate, where the Party offending doth re&s;ide, and dwell, the &s;aid Iu&s;tice of the Peace, hath power to Im|po&s;e and Levy upon the Party &s;o offending, the &s;everal Penalties and Forfeitures by the &s;aid Article limited. Wherefore, We do further hereby &s;traitly Charge, and Command every &s;uch Iu&s;tice of the Peace (before whom any &s;uch Proof &s;hall be made, or tendred to be made as afore&s;aid) That he do forth|with without delay, proceed again&s;t the &s;aid Party &s;o Offending by hearing and determining the &s;aid Offence, and by the &s;peedy i&s;&s;uing out there Warrants, for Levying and Executing of the &s;everal Pe|nalties and Forfeitures therein Limited, according as by the &s;aid Article is Directed and Re|quired.</P>
<P>And La&s;tly, We expect Obedience hereunto, from all and every Per&s;on and Per&s;ons whom it doth, or may concern, as they tender Our Di&s;plea&s;ure, and will an&s;wer the contemning of this Our Royal Command, at their utmo&s;t Peril.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court as <HI>Whitehall</HI> <DATE>the Twenty &s;ixth day of <HI>September,</HI> in the Twelfth year</DATE> of Our Reign.</HI></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Bill,</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Barker</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. 1660.</P>
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