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PROCLAMATION Di&s;charging Export and allowing Import of Victual.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WILLIAM</HI> By the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith; To  <GAP DESC="blank">  Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting: Fora&s;much as through the extraordinary un&s;ea&s;onablene&s;s of the Weather for &s;ome Months pa&s;t, and the mi&s;giving of this Years Cropt and Harve&s;t; the Scarcity of Victual is Increa&s;ed to that height, as threatens a General di&s;tre&s;s and Calamity; So that it is mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary that the Prohibition of the Export of Victual made in the Month of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t, be renewed and extended with all Severity, again&s;t all who &s;hall pre&s;ume to contemn Our Authority, in a matter &s;o ju&s;t and Indi&s;pen&s;iblie requi&s;it for the relief of the Poor, and Good and welfare of the Kingdom. Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of our Privy Council, have thought fit to Prohibite, and hereby mo&s;t &s;trictly Prohibite and Di&s;charge the Exporting furth of this Kingdom by any Per&s;on what&s;oever, either by Land or by Sea, of all kinds of Victual, either Meal, Wheat, Rye, Oats, Pea&s;e, Barley or Bear, Malted or not Malted, or any other Grain or Victual what&s;oever, after the day and date of the&s;e Pre&s;ents, under the pains following, <HI>viz.</HI> The Forfaulture of the Victual offered to be Exported for the u&s;e of the Poor of the Bounds, where the &s;ame &s;hall be attached and &s;ea&s;ed, or the value thereof, where the &s;amen is proven to be Exported: As likewayes of the Forfaulture of the Hor&s;e, Ship, Boat or other Ve&s;&s;el whereby the &s;ame &s;hall be attempted to be Exported, and al&s;o of the pain of ten Pounds <HI>Scots</HI> over and above for each Boll that &s;hall be found to be Exported or offered to be Exported, and proven or attacked and &s;ea&s;ed as &s;aid is, to be payed by the Owner, Skipper or Exporter; And that &s;uch as &s;hall be found tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing, and have not to pay the for&s;aid pains, &s;hall be Puni&s;hed in their Bodies by Impri&s;onment, to be Fed with Bread and Water, or Scourging at the di&s;cretion of the Judge. And We hereby require and charge all Sheriffs, Steuarts, Baillies and their Deputs, Magi&s;trats of Burghs, Ju&s;tices of Peace, and other Officers of the Law; to &s;ee and cau&s;e the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be put to &s;trict Execution in all Points, with certifica|tion, if they &s;hall be found negligent or remi&s;s, they &s;hall be Puni&s;hed by the Lords of Our Privy Council, as De&s;pi&s;ers of Our Authority, and Betray|ers of the Tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them. And Further, We do hereby Authorize Our Cu&s;tomers and all Collectors, Surveyers, Waiters and other Officers at Sea-ports, &amp; Generallie all Our Leidges to Di&s;cover, Attach &amp; Sea&s;e the for&s;aid Victual that &s;hall be Exported or offered to be Exported as &s;aid is, promi&s;ing and allowing them the half of the Pecunial pains Abovementioned for their reward, with this certification, that if they or any of them be remi&s;s or negligent in the due Execution of the Premi&s;&s;es; So that Victual be Exported by Sea or Land, within the Bounds of their Re&s;pective Precincts, they &s;hall not only lo&s;e their Commi&s;&s;ions, but be them&s;elves lyable to the pains and Penalties for each Boll Exported, as the Owner and Exporter are declared lyable in manner Abovementioned: Likeas, We hereby require all our &s;aids Judges, Magi&s;trates and Officers of the Law, and all Our &s;aids Cu&s;tomers, Collectors and their Officers Above-named, imediatly to cau&s;e &s;earch to be made into all Ships, Boats and other Ve&s;&s;els within the Ports and Roads of this Kingdom, for Victual to be Exported, and that they Arrea&s;t and Stop the &s;ame, and the for&s;aids Ve&s;&s;els by taking away their Sails, and otherwayes, and cau&s;e the &s;aid Victual be in&s;tantly unloaded and brought on Shoar, for the u&s;e of the Owner, and to remain within the Country, and in ca&s;e any Victual already put on Board, or which &s;hall be put on Board, &s;hall be pretended not to be Exported, but only Tran&s;ported from one Port or Place to another within the Kingdom, then and in that ca&s;e, the Owners &s;hall fir&s;t find &s;ufficient Caution, under the pain of twenty Pounds <HI>Scots</HI> for each Boll, Acted in the Books of the next Burghs Royal, and the Skippers &s;hal give their Oath before the Magi&s;trates thereof, that they &s;hal not Export, but only Tran&s;port, as &s;aid is; And that they &s;hall report a Certificat thereof upon it's Arrival from the Port or Place to which it &s;hall be Tran&s;ported, certyfeing that what Victual shall be offered to be otherways Tran&s;ported from Port to Port within this Kingdom, &s;hall be held to be offered to be Exported contrary to this Prohibition, and Lyable to the pains thereof. And We with advice fore&s;aid, for the better ea&s;e and relief of the Countrey, do hereby permit and allow the Import of all forts of Victual from all Forraign Parts, free of all Cu&s;tom or other Publick Duty, and the&s;e pre&s;ents to endure ay and while they be recalled. 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 remanent Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries, &amp; to all the &s;everal Sea-port Towns within this Kingdom, and make Publication hereof, and appoints Our Sollicitor to tran&s;mit a &s;ufficient number of Coppies hereof to the Sheriffs of the &s;everal Shires, Stewarts of Stewartries, Baillies of Regalities, their Deputs or Clerks, to be Published at their &s;everal Burghs, and likewayes &s;ent by them to the Magi&s;trates of the &s;everal Sea-port Towns, there to be Published by them, under the certification fore&s;aid, as al&s;o appoints Our Solicitor to deliver a &s;ufficient Number of Coppies of thir Pre&s;ents, to the Tacks-men of Our Cu&s;toms, to be &s;ent by them to the &s;everal Parts and Places of this Kingdom, where they keep Offices for Collecting and Imbringing of our Cu&s;tomes to be Published thereat by the Collector or Surveyer, re&s;iding there for the time: And ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed, that none pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the Ninth Day of</HI> November, <HI>and of Our Reign the Tenth Year,</HI> 1698.</DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.</HI> <SIGNED>GILB. ELIOT. <HI>Cls. Sti. Concilii.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God Save the 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 King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Auno Dom.</HI> 1698.</P>
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