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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Prohibiting the Exportation of Victual furth of this Kingdom.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>WILLIAM</HI> 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 Sheriffs in that Part, conjunctly and &s;e|verally, &s;pecially Con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>FORASMUCHAS, the pre&s;ent cold and backward Sea&s;on, doth threaten the Scarcity of Victual, &s;o that it appears nece&s;&s;ary that there be a Re&s;traint and Prohibition of the Export of Victual, at lea&s;t of Meal, Oats, Pea&s;e, Barley and Bear, whereby the fore|&s;aid threatned Scarcity may be the better prevented. <HI>Therefore</HI> We with Ad|vice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to prohibite, and do hereby &s;trictly prohibite and di&s;charge the exporting forth of this King|dom, either by Land or by Sea, any of the fore&s;aids Kinds or Grains of Vict|ual, <HI>viz.</HI> Meal, Oats, Pea&s;e, Barley or Bear after the Day and Date hereof, under all highe&s;t Pains, to be inflicted upon the Contraveeners, either Mer|chants, Skippers, or others what&s;omever: And farder, We hereby require and Charge all Sheriffs, Stewarts, Baillies and their Deputs, Magi&s;trats of Burghs, Ju&s;tices of Peace, and other Officers of the Law, as al&s;o of Our Cu|&s;tomers; That they take all lawful and effectual Means and Methods to re|&s;train and hinder the &s;aid Export, as they will be an&s;werable, and the&s;e pre|&s;ents to be but prejudice of the former Order and Re&s;traint i&s;&s;ued out by the Lords of our Privy Council, of the date the twenty &s;ixth day of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, 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 to t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">e Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the remanent Hea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and to the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">aill Sea ports of this King|dom, and there in Our Name and Authority, make Publication hereof, that none 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 tenth day of <HI>May,</HI> and of Our Reign the tenth Year <HI>1698</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii <HI>GILB. ELIOT.</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD <HI>Save the</HI> 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 Kings Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1698.</P>
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