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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
</FIGURE> PROCLAMATION Again&s;t the Importation of <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> CATTLE, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Edinburgh,</HI><DATE><HI>the fir&s;t day of <HI>Feb.</HI> 1667.</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 all and &s;undry Our Liedges and Subjects whom it effeirs, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>For&s;omuch as by an Act of Our late Parliament, En|tituled, <HI>Act a&s;&s;erting Our Prerogative in the ordering and di&s;po&s;al of Trade with For|raigners;</HI> It is declared, that the laying on of Re&s;traints and Impo&s;itions upon forraign imported Commodities, doth belong to Us and Our Sur|ce&s;&s;ors, as an undoubted Priviledge and Prerogative of Our Crown; And that by vertue thereof We may &s;o order and di&s;po&s;e upon foraign Trade, as We &s;hall judge mo&s;t fit for the good of that Our Kingdom. And whereas many humble addre&s;&s;es have been made to Us by the Convention of Our E&s;tates, in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1665. And by the Lords of Our Privy Council, for re&s;training of Iri&s;h Cattle, Corn, and &s;ome other Commodities, from coming in to this Kingdom, as being mo&s;t prejudicial there|to, by rea&s;on that Our Subjects are more then &s;ufficiently provided within them&s;elves; And inca&s;e of Trade with forraign Kingdoms and States (which is now for the mo&s;t part &s;topped) are able to &s;pare and export con&s;iderable quantities of all the&s;e Commodities, and We being mo&s;t willing to grati|fie the Subjects of that Our ancient Kingdom: Therefore, and in te&s;timony of Our ju&s;t re&s;entment of their loyalty and affection to Our &s;ervice, We, with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, have di&s;charged; and by the&s;e pre&s;ents di&s;charges the importation of all Iri&s;h Cattle (except Hor&s;es) as al&s;o, Iri&s;h Salt Beef, and Corns of what&s;oever Grain, or Meal made thereof, to any Town, Port, or Harbour, or any other place of that Our ancient Kingdom, in any Ship or Ve&s;&s;el what&s;o|ever, after the fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> next to come. As al&s;o, di&s;charges all per&s;ons what&s;oever to receive or Pa&s;ture any of the &s;aids Cattle upon their Lands or Pa&s;turage, or to &s;ell and di&s;pone thereupon, or to re&s;et or receive any quantities of the Victual &s;o prohibited, or to conceal the &s;ame within their Hou&s;es or Cellers: And do hereby authorize and command all Magi&s;trates of Our Burghs Royal, Sheriffs, or Iu&s;tices of Peace in all Shires where the Goods or Ve&s;&s;els &s;hall arrive, to prohibit the unloading thereof: And inca&s;e of contravention, to &s;eize, or cau&s;e &s;eize upon the &s;amine, to be confi&s;cat, the one half thereof for Our u&s;e, and the other half for the u&s;e of the&s;e who &s;hall attach and &s;eize upon the &s;ame. And further, requires the &s;aids Magi&s;trates, or either of them, to apprehend the per&s;ons of the con|traveeners, and to &s;ecure them by impri&s;onment till they adverti&s;e the Lords of Our Privy Council, that order may be given to proceed again&s;t them as contemners of Our Royal Authority, that all con|dign puni&s;hment may be inflicted upon them without mercy. 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> Pear and Shore of <HI>Leith,</HI> and at the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of all Burghs Royal, and Burghs of Regality and Barony lying in the We&s;tern parts of this King|dom, where the &s;aids Goods and Victual are ordinarily imported, and other places needful, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Pet. Wedderburne<HI>Cl. S^t^i Concilii.</HI></HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Evin Tyler,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent MAjESTY, 1667.</P>
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