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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Di&s;charging the Importing of Forraign Linen, or Woolen Cloth, Gold and Silver Threed, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES</HI> by the grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the <HI>Faith,</HI> </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our She|riffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as the Lords of Our Privy Council, having for encrea&s;e of Money, and improvement of the Manufactures of this Kingdom, appointed a Committee, who with advice of the Merchants, and other Per&s;ons experienced in the&s;e Affairs, have agreed upon &s;everal Conclu&s;ions, which are with all po&s;&s;ible convenience and expedition, to be Formed into a Mature and Dige&s;ted Proclamation, for Regulation of the Manufacture and Trade of this Kingdom: But becau&s;e &s;everal Merchants may either by mi&s;take, or up|on a &s;ini&s;ter de&s;ign, give order for Importing of the&s;e Goods which are Prohibited, Therefore to prevent all inconveniencies which may ari&s;e to this Our Ancient King|dom, by the Import of tho&s;e Commodities, which are either to be debarred, as &s;uperfluous in them&s;elves, or &s;upplied by Dome&s;tick Manufactures, or private Indu&s;try of Our own Subjects, and to make the Importers thereof inexcu&s;able; We with Advice of Our Privy Council, Do hereby di&s;charge the Impor|tation of all Silver and Gold Threed, Silver and Gold Lace, Fringes, or Tracing, all Buttons of Gold and Silver Threed, all manner of Stuffs, or Ribbons in which there is any Gold or Silver Threed, all Philagram Work: as al&s;o, all Forraign <HI>Holland</HI>-Linen, Cambrick, Lawn, Dornick, Damesk, Tyking, Bou&s;ten, or Damety, Tutted or Stripped Hol|land, Calligo, Mu&s;line, <HI>Sele&s;ia</HI> and <HI>East-India</HI> Linen, and all other Cloathes, made of Linen or Cotton: As al&s;o, all Forraign Cloaths and Stuffs what&s;omever, made of Wool-Yarn, o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Wool and Lint: all Forraign Silk, and Woolen Stockings: all Forraign Laces made of Silk, Gimp, or Threed, and all manner of Laces and Point of any &s;ort or Collours: all For|raign made Gloves, Shoes, Boots and Slippers; And do hereby di&s;charge all Merchants and others what&s;omever, to import into this Kingdom any of the fore&s;aid Commodities, after the date hereof; excepting only &s;uch as can be made appear upon Oath, to have been ordered by preceding Commi&s;&s;ions, and Shipped before the tenth of <HI>March</HI> In&s;tant; which time they have to recal their Commi&s;&s;ions, if any &s;uch have been given: With certification, that all &s;uch Goods which &s;hall be Imported, &s;hall be burnt and de&s;troyed, and the Importers and Re&s;&s;etters &s;hall be fined in the value of the Goods &s;o Imported: and that if any Tack&s;men of the Cu&s;toms, Collectors or Waiters, &s;hall connive at the inbringing thereof, they &s;hall be likewi&s;e puni&s;hed by payment of the value of the Goods Imported, and by being removed from all Charge relating to Our Cu&s;toms, or any Employments depending thereupon. And We ordain the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed, and Publi&s;hed at the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the first day of <HI>March,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty and one, And of Our Raign, the thretty three Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per actum Deminorum Secreti Concilij.</HI> PAT. MENZIES. <HI>Cl. Sti. Concilij.</HI></SIGNED><LB>
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, <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1681.</P>
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