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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION</HI> For Ob&s;erving the Staple-port at <HI>Camphire,</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> and <HI>MARY</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King and Queen of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defenders of the Faith; </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span">  Macers of our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;en|gers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as by many antient Contracts pa&s;t betwixt the Royal burghs of this our antient Kingdom, and the Town of <HI>Camphire</HI> in <HI>Zeland,</HI> and which have been approved by the Kings our Predece&s;&s;ors, the whole Trade and Commerce, as to the Staple-commodities ex|ported from this our Kingdom, to the seventeen Provinces of the <HI>Nether-lands,</HI> has been Settled and E&s;tabli&s;hed at the &s;aid Town of <HI>Camphire,</HI> as being found by experience the fitte&s;t place for the Scots Staple, and there being in the former Reigns of our Royal Predece&s;&s;ors many Proclamations i&s;&s;ued forth, requiring all our Subjects traveling to the &s;eventeen Provinces of the <HI>Nether|lands,</HI> to export all Staple-goods and Commodities to the &s;aid Staple-port, and to no other Port nor place, and ordaining the Laws and Acts of Parliament, and Acts of the Convention of the Royal-burghs to be put to due and vigorous Execution, for the full Ob&s;er|vance of the &s;ame: And We being informed, that of late, the Staple-trade of this Kingdom, hath been altogether diverted from the &s;aid Staple-port at <HI>Camphire,</HI> and carried to <HI>Roterdam,</HI> and other places in the <HI>Nether-lands,</HI> to the great Prejudice and Di&s;couragement of Trade, and contrair to the fore&s;aid Agreement with <HI>Camphire,</HI> from pre&s;ences that the &s;aid Town of <HI>Camphire</HI> neither could, nor would furni&s;h &s;ufficient Convoyes, for convoying the &s;aids Ships, both out-ward and in-ward bound, from and to the &s;aid Port now in the time of War. And now it being Certified to us, that the Magi&s;trats of the Town of <HI>Camphire</HI> have engadged to the Royal-burghs, that they will furni&s;h &s;ufficient Convoyes, for &s;ecuring of the Trade betwixt that Port and the Firth and Road of <HI>Leith,</HI> twice in the year, <HI>viz.</HI> again&s;t the middle of <HI>September,</HI> and the middle of <HI>March</HI> yearly, commen&s;ing from the middle of <HI>September</HI> next; And We being fully Re&s;olved, that all the &s;tanding Laws and Acts of Parliament, and Acts of Convention of our Royal-burghs, be put to full and vigorous Execution, for the more due Ob&s;ervance of the &s;aid Staple-port for the future; Do therefore with Advice of the Lords of our Privy Council, hereby require all our Subjects to give all due and exact Obedience to the fore&s;aids Acts made for ob&s;erving of the Staple-por<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter"> Di&s;charging all Merchants and Skippers, or any other our Subjects, to export forth of this our Kingdom, any Goods or Commodities, that are or &s;hall be declared to be Staple Commodities, to any other Port or Place in the <HI>Nether-lands,</HI> but only to the &s;aid Staple-port and Town of <HI>Camphire</HI> in <HI>Zeland,</HI> under the Pains and Certifications mentioned in the &s;aids Acts of Parliament, and Acts of the Convention of Burghs, which Pains and Penalties, We ordain to be exacted from the Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors with all rigour, and that they be further proceeded again&s;t, as our Council &s;hall find Cau&s;e. And further, We with Advice fore&s;aid, do hereby Require the General Farmers, Tack&s;men, or Collectors of our Cu&s;toms, and their Sub-collectors, Surveyers for the time being, that they make exact &s;earch and tryal of all Staple goods and Commodities that &s;hall be hereafter tran&s;ported forth of this Kingdom, to any Port of the &s;eventeen Provinces of the <HI>Nether-lands,</HI> and take &s;ufficient Security from the Merchants or Skippers tran&s;porters thereof, that they &s;hall tran&s;port the &s;ame to the &s;aid Staple-port at <HI>Camphire,</HI> and at no other Place nor Port within the &s;aid &s;eventeen Provinces, and that they &s;hall not break Bulk before their arrival thereat, conform to the Acts of Parliament, oblidging the &s;aid Exporters to report Certificats from the Con&s;ervator, or his Deputs at <HI>Camphire,</HI> bearing, that the &s;aid Staple-commodities were livered thereat, without breaking Bulk; And We do Ordain the &s;aids Te&s;tificats, to be delivered in Quarterly by the Collectors at the &s;everal Ports, to the Agent of our Roy|al-burghs for the time, to the end exact Diligence may be done by him, again&s;t all the Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors of the &s;aid Staple, conform to the &s;aids Acts. 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 whole remanent Royal-burghs of this Kingdom, and other places needful, and thereat, in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation make publication of the Premi&s;&s;es, to the effect, Our Royal-burghs, and all Mer|chants and other Per&s;ons, may have timeous notice hereof, and give due and punctual Obedience thereto, as they will be an&s;werable at their outmo&s;t Perril, The which to do, We commit to you conjunctly and &s;everally Our full Power by the&s;e Our Letters, delivering them by you duely Execute, and Indor&s;ed again to the Bearer, And Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Eleventh day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and of Our Reign the fourth Year, <HI>1692</HI></DATE>.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. In Supplementum Signeti. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii</SIGNED><LB>
GOD &s;ave King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to Their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, <HI>Anno DOM,</HI> 1692</P>
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