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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>PROCLAMATION Appointing <HI>Twenty Shilling</HI> to be Payed for every Boll of Foraign <HI>Victual</HI> that <UNCLEAR>&s;hall</UNCLEAR> be Imported.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM By the Grace of GOD, King of Great-<HI>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 Sheriffs in that Part Conjunctly and Severally, Specially, Con&s;titute Greetings&punc;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>For as much as, by &s;undry Acts of the Lords of Our Privy Council, and Proclamations formerly emitted by Us; Foraign of the continuing Dearth of Victual in &s;everal places of this Kingdom, and of the Want and Di&s;tre&s; many of Our good Subjects Ly under there-through; And that the Un&s;ea&s;onablene&s;s of the Weather Threatning a Late Harve&s;t may make the Straits and Wants of many, e&s;pecially of the Poorer fort. In&s;upportable before they can be Relieved by the pre&s;ent Cropt We have re&s;olved to give all Incouragement to any who &s;hall Import Victual to this Kingdom from any Foraign Country during the Space after|mentioned. THEREFORE, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do hereby Grant Licen&s;e, and full Liberty to all Per&s;ons what|&s;omever, Foraigners or Natives, to Import Victual or Corns of all Sorts, either by Sea or by Land from any other Kingdom or Country what&s;oe|ver, until the <HI>fir&s;t</HI> Day of <HI>October</HI> next to come, and that Free of Cu&s;tom, Exci&s;e, or other Impo&s;&s;ition for all that &s;hall be Imported after the Day and Date hereof During the Time fore&s;aid; And Recommends it to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Our Thea&s;aury to Di&s;charge the Exacting of any &s;uch Cu&s;tom, Exci&s;e, or Impo&s;ition for the &s;aid Victual &s;o to be Imported, notwith&s;tanding of any Act of Parliament, or Book of Rates Impo|&s;ing the &s;ame; And for a farther Encouragement, and Invitation to all &s;uch who &s;hall <UNCLEAR>Import</UNCLEAR> and Bring into this Kingdom, either by Sea or Land betwixt and the Day fore&s;aid, Victual or Corn of any Sort, except Malt, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Do hereby Ap|point, and Ordain the Sum of Twenty Shilling <HI>Scots</HI> for Each Boll of the &s;aid Foraign Victual (Excepting as &s;aid is) to be Imported after the Day and Date hereof, and betwixt and the &s;aid <HI>fir&s;t</HI> of <HI>October,</HI> to be Given and Payed out of Our Cu&s;toms to the Importer thereof, upon his Oath of Verity, of the Number of Bolls Imported by him, taken in pre&s;ence of any of the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires of this Kingdom, Baillies of Bailliaries or Regalities, Stuarts of the Stewartries or their Re&s;pective Deputs Magi&s;trats of Burghs or any of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supply, or Ju&s;tices of Peace within the &s;ame, and Sub&s;cribed with his hand, and Atte&s;ted by the fore&s;aids Judges, and al&s;o by the Collector of the next Adjacent Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e; And of which Twenty Shilling <HI>Scots,</HI> We with Advice fore&s;aid Require and Command the Tack&s;men and Farmers of Our Cu&s;toms, and their Col|lectors and other Receivers at the re&s;pective Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;es to make pre&s;ent and immediate Payment for Each Boll of Foraign Victual Imported by Sea or Land to the Importer thereof upon his Receipt to be given upon the Back of the fore&s;aid Sub&s;cribed Oath of the Number of Bolls Imported; And which Receipt We with Advice fore&s;aid Declare, &s;hall be a Sufficient exoneration to the &s;aids Tack&s;men and Farmers of Our Cu|&s;toms and their Collectors of their &s;aid Tack-Duty, and be Allowed to them in the Fore-end thereof <HI>protanto,</HI> Certifying &s;uch of the &s;aids Collectors, or other Per&s;ons Imployed to Receive Money at the re&s;pective Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;es, by the Tack&s;men and Farmers of Our &s;aids Cu&s;toms; That if they &s;hall fail to make Due and punctual Payment of the &s;aid Twenty Shilling <HI>Scots</HI> for Each Boll of Imported Victual, (Excepting as &s;aid is) po&s;tpon or delay the Importers thereof in the ready Payment of the &s;aid Sum when the &s;aid Sub&s;cribed Oath and Receipt is offered to them. They &s;hall not only be Declared, and <HI>ip&s;o facto</HI> thereby become Incapable to Serve, or be Imployed by Our &s;aids Farmers in any Office or Tru&s;t under them in Uplifting Our &s;aids Cu&s;toms, but be farther Lyable in what Penaltie and Dammages to the Party, the Lords of Our Privy Council &s;hall think fit to inflict upon them. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you Strictly, and Command, that incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinhurgh,</HI> and to the remnant Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewarties within this Kingdom; And their in Our Name and Authority make Intimation hereof, that none pretend Ignorance: And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Print|ed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the Seventh Day of <HI>Augu&s;t, </HI> and of Our Reign the Eight Year. <ADD>1696</ADD></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Ex deliberatione Dominorum Secreti Concilli. <HI>GILB. ELIOT</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save the King. <ADD>William R&punc;</ADD></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 His Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1696.</P>
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