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<HEAD>At the Court at Hampton-Court, June 29. 1662.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>PRESENT</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>The Kings Most Excellent Maje&s;ty.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>His Royal Highne&s;s the Duke of</HI> York.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>His Highne&s;s Prince</HI> Rupert.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lord Chancellour.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lord Trea&s;urer.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Duke of</HI> Albemarle.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Duke of</HI> Ormond.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Marque&s;s of</HI> Dorche&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lord Great Chamberlain.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lord Chamberlain.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Earl of</HI> Berk&s;hire.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Earl of</HI> Portland.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Earl of</HI> Norwich.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Earl of</HI> Sandwich.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Earl of</HI> Angle&s;ey.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Earl of</HI> Carli&s;le.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Earl of</HI> Landerdaill.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lord</HI> Wentworth.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lord</HI> Hatton.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lord</HI> Holles.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lord</HI> A&s;hley.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> William Compton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>M^r <HI>Trea&s;urer.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>M^r <HI>Vice-Chamberlain.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>M^r <HI>Secretary</HI> Nicholas.</ITEM>
<ITEM>M^r <HI>Secretary</HI> Morrice.</ITEM>
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<P>WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament in the Twelfth Year of His Maje&s;ties Reign, Entituled, <HI>An Act for the Encouraging and Increa&s;ing of Shipping and Navigation of this Nation,</HI> among&s;t &s;undry other particulars it was Enacted, That no Goods or Commodities that are of Forreign Growth, Production, or Manufacture, and which are to be brought into <HI>England, Ireland, Wales,</HI> the I&s;lands of <HI>Guern&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Jerzey,</HI> or Town of <HI>Berwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed</HI> in Engli&s;h-built Shipping, and other Shipping belonging to &s;ome of the afore&s;aid places, and Navigated by Engli&s;h Mariners, &s;hall be Shipped or brought from any other place or places, Country or Countries, but only from tho&s;e of their &s;aid growth, production or Manufacture, or from tho&s;e Ports where the &s;aid Goods and Commodities can on|ly, or are, or u&s;ually have been fir&s;t &s;hipped for Tran&s;portation, and from none other places or Countries, under the Pe|nalty of forfeiture of Ship and Goods; And al&s;o that no &s;orts of <HI>Ma&s;ts, Timber</HI> or <HI>Boards,</HI> no forreign <HI>Salt, Pitch, Tar, Rozin, Hemp,</HI> or <HI>Flax, Ray&s;ons, Figgs, Prunes, Olive-Oyls;</HI> no &s;orts of <HI>Corn</HI> or <HI>Grain, Sugar, Pot-a&s;hes, Wines, Vinegar,</HI> or <HI>Spirits</HI> called <HI>Aqua-vitae,</HI> or <HI>Brandy Wine,</HI> &s;hall from and after the fir&s;t day of <HI>April,</HI> which &s;hall be in the year of our Lord 1661. be Imported into <HI>England, Ireland, Wales,</HI> or Town of <HI>Berwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed,</HI> in any Ship or Ve&s;&s;el what&s;oever, but &s;uch as do truly and without fraud belong to the people thereof, or of &s;ome of them, as the true Owners and Proprietors thereof, and whereof the Ma&s;ter and three fourths of the Mariners at lea&s;t are Engli&s;h, under the penalty afore&s;aid: And al&s;o that all French and Germane Wines Imported into the &s;aid Ports and Places, in any other Ve&s;&s;el then <HI>Engli&s;h, Iri&s;h, Welch,</HI> or <HI>Ber|wick,</HI> and Navigated as afore&s;aid, &s;hall be deemed Aliens Goods, and pay Cu&s;tome accordingly.</P>
<P>And whereas notwith&s;tanding the &s;aid Act &s;everal Letters or Warrants (through mi&s;-information) have been obtained from His Maje&s;ty, by which the <HI>Lubeckers,</HI> their Ships, Mariners and Merchants, are licen&s;ed to come into <HI>England,</HI> and other His Maje&s;ties Kingdoms and Dominions, freed from the penalty of the &s;aid Act, upon pretence of a former Cu|&s;tome, and tran&s;port thence in their own Ships Merchandizes not only of the Growth of <HI>Germany</HI> or coming from thence, but al&s;o out of <HI>Norway, Swedeland, Leifland,</HI> and other places &s;cituate on the <HI>Baltick</HI> Sea; All which this Board taking into &s;erious con&s;ideration, and well weighing the ill con&s;equences by trenching upon the &s;aid Act, and damages and incon|veniences which (by &s;uch toleration) will accrue to the Engli&s;h Owners of Shipping, Mariners, and Merchants; It was this day Ordered by His Maje&s;ty in Council, That all and every &s;uch Letters, Licences, or Warrants at any time hereto|fore obtained from His Maje&s;ty, or any other Authority, for permitting any &s;uch Ships or Ve&s;&s;els as afore&s;aid to trade contra|ry to the &s;aid Act <HI>for Encouraging and Increa&s;ing the Shipping and Navigation of this Kingdom,</HI> be, and hereby they are re|voked, recalled, and declared void to all intents and purpo&s;es, as if no &s;uch Letters, Licences, or Warrants had ever been had or obtained: And hereof as well the Commi&s;&s;ioners and Officers of His Maje&s;ties Cu&s;toms in all and every the Ports and Harbours of His Maje&s;ties Kingdoms and Dominions, as al&s;o all other per&s;ons therein concerned are required to take no|tice, and to conform hereunto: And the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners and Officers of His Maje&s;ties Cu&s;toms are to take care that by convenient time given to tho&s;e who are already come, or hereafter &s;hall adventure upon any former Order into this or any other Port, that by this Revocation they be not damnified by any &s;udden &s;urprizal: For all which this &s;hall be to them and every of them &s;ufficient Warrant.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>RICHARD BROWNE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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