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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> Di&s;charging the Export, and allowing the Import of Victual.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WILLIM</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; To <GAP DESC="blank"> Macers of Our Pri|vy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjuctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting: <HI>For a&s;muchas,</HI> through the Goodne&s;s of GOD in the la&s;t &s;ea&s;onable Harve&s;t, there wants not &s;ufficiency of Victual for &s;ub|&s;i&s;ting of all Our Liedges at rea&s;onable and ea&s;ie Rates, if on the one hand, the Exporting of Victual to Forraign Places, and on the other hand, the ill Practices of For&s;tallers and Regraters, do not hinder &s;o great a Benefite. <HI>Therefore,</HI> and for preventing the&s;e Inconveniencies, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, hereby mo&s;t &s;trictly prohibit and di&s;charge the exporting forth of this Kingdom by any Per&s;on what&s;oever, either by Sea or Land, All, or any Kinds of Victual, ei|ther Meal, Wheat, Rye, Oats, Pea&s;e, Barley or Bear, Malted or not Malted, or any other Grain or Victual what&s;oever (<HI>Ex|cept what &s;hall be found nece&s;&s;ary to be exported for the u&s;e of the</HI> COMPANY <HI>trading to</HI> AFRICA <HI>and the</HI> INDIES) after the Day and Date of the&s;e pre&s;ents, under the pain of forefaulting the Victual offered to be exported, for the u&s;e of the Poor of the Bounds where the &s;amen &s;hall be Attacted and Sea&s;ed, or the value thereof, when the &s;ame is proven to be Exported, and of the Hor&s;e, Ship, Boat, or other the Vee&s;&s;els whreeby the &s;amen &s;hall be attempted to be exported, with the Sum of Ten Pounds <HI>Scots</HI> for each Boll that &s;hall be proven to be exported, or &s;ea&s;ed when tran&s;porting, to be payed by the Owner, Skipper, or Tran&s;porter; And We hereby Require and Command all Sheriffs, Stewarts, Baillies and their Deputs, Ma|gi&s;trats of Burghs, Ju&s;tices of Peace, or other Officers of the Law, to &s;ee and cau&s;e the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be put to &s;trict Execution, in all Points as they will be an&s;werable, And farder, We hereby Authori&s;e and Require Our Cu&s;tomers, and all Collectors, Survey|ers, Waiters, and other Officers at Sea-ports, and generally all Our Liedges, to di&s;cover and &s;ea&s;e the Victual that &s;hall be Ex|ported, or offered to be Exported, Promi&s;ing and Allowing them the half of the pecunial Pains above-mentioned for their Re|ward, and that they them&s;elves &s;hall be &s;ubject to the like Pains as the Skipper or Owner for the Victual that &s;hall be found ex|ported through their Default, Neglect or Connivance. And farder, We with Advice fore&s;aid, for the more effectual di&s;appoint|ing of the fore&s;aid ill Practices of Fore&s;tallers and Regraters, do hereby permit and allow the importing of all &s;orts of Forraign Victual, whether by Natives or Strangers from any forraign Kingdom or Countrey what&s;oever, and that ay and while this pre|&s;ent Licen&s;e &s;hall be di&s;charged or Recalled. <HI>Our Will is herefore,</HI> and We charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and remanent Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of the haill Head-burghs of the &s;eve|ral Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and to all the &s;everal Sea-Port-Towns within the &s;ame, and make Publication hereof, and Appoints Our Solicitor to tran&s;mit a &s;ufficient Number of Copies hereof to the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, Stewarts of Stewartries; Baillies of Regalities, their Deputs or Clerks, to be publi&s;hed at their &s;everal Burghs, and likeways &s;ent by them to the Magi&s;trats of the &s;everal Sea Port Towns, there to be publi&s;hed by them under the Certification fore&s;aid; As al&s;o Appoints Our Solicitor to deliver a &s;ufficient Number of Copies of thir pre&s;ents to the Taxmen of Our Cu&s;toms, to be &s;ent by them to the &s;everal Ports and Places of this Kingdom, where they keep Offices for collecting and in bringing of Our Cu&s;tomes, to be publi&s;hed thereat by the Collector or Surveyer re&s;iding there for the time, and Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed that none pretend Igno|rance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh <DATE><HI>the fourteenth day of</HI> December, <HI>and of Our Reign the Eleventh Year</HI> 1699.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Ex deliberatione Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> GILB. ELIOT. <HI>Cli. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1699.</P>
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