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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Di&s;charging the Importation of Forraign Victual.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> and <HI>MARY,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith;</SIGNED>
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Macers of Our Privy Council, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as the Importing and bringing from Forreign Countries, any Wheat, Bear, Barly, Oats, Meal, Malt, Pea&s;e, Beans, or Ry into this Kingdom, is highly prejudicial to the Native Product thereof, and to the Trade upon the growth of the &s;ame, and gives occa&s;ion to the unwarrantable Exporting of much Money forth of this Realm; For preventing whereof, and obviating the incon|veniencies that follow whereupon, We, with the Advice of the Lords of Our Pri|vy Council, Do hereby &s;trictly Prohibit and Di&s;charge, all per&s;ons what&s;omever, to Import, or bring by Sea or Land, into this Kingdom, or any of the Ports, Har|bours, Towns, or Places thereof; any &s;ort or quantity of the Victual abovemen|tioned, excepting White-pea&s;e allanerly, under the pain of Confi&s;cation of the &s;aid Victual, the one half to the per&s;on or per&s;ons who &s;hall Seize or make Di&s;co|very, and prove the Importing of the &s;ame, either contrary to Our former Pro|clamation, of the Date the &s;ixth Day of <HI>January,</HI> 1691. or to the&s;e Pre&s;ents; and the other half thereof, with the Ships, Barks or Boats, wherein the &s;ame &s;hall be Imported: to Our The&s;aury, for Our u&s;e, and other Puni&s;hments to be inflicted upon them, conform to the Acts of Parliament made thereanent; And Ordains all Our Collectors, Surveyers, and Waiters within this Kingdom, and the re&s;pective Ports, Harbours, and Places, where they &s;erve, to &s;ee this Act punctually ob|&s;erved, as they will be an&s;werable at their highe&s;t peril; With Certification to &s;uch as &s;hall be found negligent therein, they &s;hall incur the lo&s;s of their re&s;pective Offices. OUR WILL IS HERE FORE, and We Charge you &s;trait|ly and Command, that incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mer|cat-Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and whole other Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Royal Burghs, and Sea-ports within this Kingdom, and thereat, make publick Intimation of Our Plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es, to the effect none may pretend ignorance. And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the third day of  <HI>May.</HI>And of Our Reign, the fourth year, <HI>1692.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. In Supplimentum Signeti. <HI>DA, MONCREIF,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Ex|cellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1692.</P>
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