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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>ACT For a new Impo&s;ition upon Engli&s;h COMMODITIES.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>At <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the twenty one of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty three.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe E&s;tates of Parliament con&s;idering, how much it concernes the credit and wealth of the Kingdom, that our own native Commodities be manufactured among&s;t our &s;elves, and that the endeavours of &s;uch per&s;ons as are &s;etting up Manufacturies and Trades have been, and are much retarded, by the importation of &s;uch forreign Commodities as may be made within the Kingdom. Therefore, and for their due encouragment, the Kings <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> with advice and con&s;ent of the E&s;tates of Parliament, Statutes and Ordains, that from and after the fir&s;t day of <HI>September</HI> next, twelve pounds <HI>Scots</HI> upon ilk ell of broad Engli&s;h Cloath; &s;ix pounds upon ilk ell, of <HI>York-&s;hire</HI> and all narrow Cloath; two pounds eight &s;hillings upon ilk ell of Searge; thirty &s;hillings upon ilk ell of Ca&s;tilians; fourty eight pounds upon ilk Beaver-hat; twenty four pounds upon ilk <UNCLEAR>Demy beaver</UNCLEAR> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <UNCLEAR>vigon</UNCLEAR>; and three pounds upon the piece of ilk common Hat; thirty &s;ix pounds upon the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> four pounds upon the dozen of <UNCLEAR>Stag-gloves&punc;</UNCLEAR>, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> pounds upon the <UNCLEAR>dozen</UNCLEAR> of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words">, C<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">s, Kid or Shiverings; and twenty four &s;hillings upon ilk pound of Tobacco imported <UNCLEAR>either for &s;ale</UNCLEAR> or private u&s;e into this Kingdom from <HI>England,</HI> all <HI>Scots</HI> money, Be exacted, levied and collected and four&s;core <HI>per cent.</HI> upon all other &s;orts of Commodities imported into this Kingdom from <HI>England,</HI> and not particularly <UNCLEAR>named</UNCLEAR> in this Act, and upon all the growth and manufactury of that Kingdom, though imported from any other place, and that over and above all other impo&s;itions put upon the &s;ame already. And to the effect this pre&s;ent Act may be the more exactly put to execution, It is Statute and Ordained, that all Goods imported from <HI>England,</HI> or of the growth and manufactury of <HI>England,</HI> not above particularly expre&s;t, &s;hall be valued, after &s;ighting, by two skilfull hone&s;t men upon oath, to be nominate by the Dean of Gild or his A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, or Magi&s;trates of the Burgh, or next adjacent Burgh to the Cu&s;tom-office where the &s;aids G<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> are entered, or by the oath of the party to whom the &s;aids Goods belongs, and accordingly pay the &s;aid f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">&s;core <HI>per cent.</HI> And the Lords The&s;aurer and The&s;aurer-depute, and Lords of His <HI>Maie&s;ties</HI> Exchequer, are hereby required to take an Oath, and Bond with &s;ufficient Caution, from the Farmers or Collectors of the &s;aids impo&s;itions, that they &s;hall exactly collect the &s;ame, without any abatement thereof, directly or in directly; and that they &s;hall not &s;uffer any of the &s;aids Goods to pa&s;s or be conveyed away un-entered, and that under the penalty of the worth of the &s;aids Goods, if the contrary &s;hall be made appear, the one half thereof to His <HI>Maie&s;ties</HI> u&s;e, and the other half to the informer, and under the pain of forfaulting their Lacks and Commi&s;sions, and being declared incapable to farm or collect, in any time thereafter, any Cu&s;tom, Ex|ci&s;e, or other Impo&s;ition what&s;oever within this Kingdom. And if any of the fore&s;aids Goods or Com|modities &s;hall be informed and made appear to be brought in, or &s;hall be &s;eized upon, not being entered in the Cu&s;tom-office, or any other Office appointed for that effect, then the &s;ame to be wholly confi&s;cate, the one half to His <HI>Maie&s;ties</HI> u&s;e, and the other half to the fir&s;t informer or &s;eizer thereof. And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be printed, and publi&s;hed at the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places needfull, where-through none may pretend ignorance of the &s;ame.</P>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1663.</P>
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