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</FIGURE> A PROCLAMATION Again&s;t Importing of CORNS.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE><HI>the fourth day of <HI>May,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;eventy one.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES</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">  Macers or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, con|junctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P> Fora&s;much as when Native Commodities, and in &s;pecial Corns, are of that plenty within this Kingdom, that Our Subjects are, and may be provided and furni&s;hed with the &s;ame, at rea&s;onable rates and prices; the Importing thereof from other Countreys, will be a great prejudice to the Kingdom: And albeit &s;uch Corns of the growth of the Kingdom as are in u&s;e to be Imported from Forraign parts, are under the prices mentioned in the eleventh Act of the third Se&s;sion of Our fir&s;t Parliament, allow|ing the Exporting of Corns when there is no &s;carcely and dearth, and when the &s;ame are under the prices fore&s;aids; neverthele&s;s divers per&s;ons do, and may Import Corns from Forraign parts, unle&s;s they be re&s;trained. Therefore We, with Ad|vice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to re&s;train and di&s;charge, and hereby do re&s;train and di&s;charge the Importing of any Corns into this King|dom, after publication hereof, under the pain of confi&s;cation of the &s;aids corns, with the Ships and Ue&s;&s;els in which the &s;ame &s;hall happen to be Imported, the one half thereof to belong to Us, and the other half to the di&s;coverer; be&s;ides the inflicting and impo&s;ing of &s;uch Cen&s;ures, Puni&s;hments and Fines upon the per&s;ons guilty, as the Lords of Our Privy Council &s;hall think fit. And Ordains all Sheriffs, Stewarts, Bailiffs of Regalities, Magi&s;trates of Burghs, Ju&s;tices of Peace, and other per&s;ons in Authority under Us, to &s;eize upon all &s;uch Corns and Ue&s;&s;els, for the u&s;e fore&s;aid, and to Impri&s;on the per&s;ons of the Merchants and Ma&s;ters of the Ue&s;&s;els, while they be proceeded again&s;t according to Law. And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to &s;tand and continue in force, ay and while the &s;ame be expre&s;ly di&s;charged by Us, or the Lords of Our Privy Council. And that the &s;ame be printed and pu|bli&s;hed at the Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of <HI>Edinburgh, Gla&s;gow, Air, Dundee, Aberdene,</HI> and other places needful, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Al. Gib&s;on, <HI>Cl. S^t^i Concilii.</HI></HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1671.</P>
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