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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Di&s;charging Merchants and other Traffickers to Sell or Exchange any Prohibite Com|modities, with them&s;elves, or among&s;t others.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of Great <HI>Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank"> Macers of Our Privy Council, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P> Fora&s;much as We, from the great care We alwayes had of the Advancement of the Trade and Manufactories of this Our Ancient Kingdom, have made &s;everal good Laws and Acts thereanent, and particularly, by the 12th. Act of our Current Parliament, in the Moneth of <HI>September,</HI> 1681. Relative to our former Proclamation, in <HI>April</HI> preceeding; The Importing, Selling, Venting, Bartering, or Exchanging of diver&s;e Commodities therein named, is Prohibited and Di&s;charged, under the Certifications and Penal|ties expre&s;t therein: And albeit We then under&s;tood that the Importing, and Venting of the&s;e Prohibited Commodities could hardly be re&s;trained without a total Prohibition had been given to the wearing thereof; yet out of a tenderne&s;s to the Merchants, who might have have had great parts of their Stocks in the&s;e Commodities upon their hands, We thought it not then fit to make a total and immediat Prohibition to the Wearing, but ordained them to be put under Bond, not to Import any of the&s;e Prohibited Goods thereafter, nor to Vent, Sell, Barter, or Exchange any thereof, upon hazard of incurring the cer|tifications contained therein: And notwith&s;tanding there hath been more then &s;ufficient time allowed to the Merchants to have &s;old off the&s;e Prohibited Goods, yet upon pretext thereof, and of the Ambiguity of the words in the Bond, that they are on|ly obliged not to Vent, Sell, Barter, or Exchange any of the&s;e Goods, that at the buying or receiving thereof were known to have been Imported, contrary to the Laws; diver&s;e Per&s;ons have pre&s;umed to Import, at the lea&s;t to Re&s;et Commodi|ties unwarrantably Imported, and to Vent, Sell, Barter, and Exchange the &s;ame, &s;o that thereby the Execution of the Law hath been hitherto evacuated and eluded, and hone&s;t Men, who out of Con&s;cience and Duty have given obedience, in hazard to be ruined, and the Trade and Manufactory of the Kingdom overturned and de&s;troyed; and although we had more then rea&s;on to have inforced the Execution of the &s;aids good Laws, by the examplary puni&s;hment of per&s;ons mo&s;t guilty: Neverthe|le&s;s We, according to Our accu&s;tomed Clemency, have thought fit to continue any Sentence upon the Proce&s;s in dependence again&s;t them, at the in&s;tance of Our Advocat, till We &s;hall have occa&s;ion to know their future behaviour. And in the mean time, for Explicating and making the &s;aid Act of Parliament effectual for the good ends therein de&s;igned, We, with Advice of Our Privy Council hereby Prohibite and Di&s;charge all Merchants within this Kingdom, or other Trafficquers, Men, or Women, to Buy, or Sell, Barter, or Exchange with them&s;elves, or among others, any Cloaths, Stuffs, Sarges, Holland, Cambridge, Silk-&s;tockings, or any Goods made of Wool, or Lint, after the Date hereof, except they know, and can be able to declare upon Oath they were either made in the Kingdom, or lawfully Imported, preceeding the Prohibition contained in the Act of Parliament, and Proclamation fore&s;aid, under the Penalties and Certifications therein contained, to be inflicted on them, with|out favour or de&s;alcation. And in re&s;pect diver&s;e per&s;ons have, or may pretend to have &s;uch Goods in their cu&s;tody, as to which they cannot po&s;itively declare upon Oath that they were Imported before the Prohibition, as having come through &s;e|veral hands: We do allow the Merchants Burge&s;&s;es of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and others, havers of &s;uch Goods in their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, before the Date hereof (who did take the Bond, and give up Inventar, and none others) liberty to Retail the &s;ame to the Liedges, or Export them out off the Kingdom at any time betwixt and the fir&s;t of <HI>November</HI> next; Certifying &s;uch as &s;hall upon pre|text hereof Import any Prohibited Commodities, or Vent, Sell, Barter, or Exchange any thereof after the &s;aid day, the &s;ame &s;hall be Confi&s;cat, Burnt, and De&s;troyed, and the Per&s;ons guilty otherwi&s;e puni&s;ned, conform to the &s;aid Act of Parliament.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh, <DATE><HI>the &s;ixteenth day of</HI> Augu&s;t, <HI>One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty and three. And of Our Reign, the thirtieth and fifth Year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. WILL. PATERSON,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>GOD &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty. 1683.</P>
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