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<HEAD>A <HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> Again&s;t Importing of <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Cattel, or Re&s;etting thereof.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WILLIAM</HI> By the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ire|land,</HI> Defender of the Faith: To  <GAP DESC="blank">  Macers of Our Privy Council, Me&s;&s;engers at Arms Our Shireffs in that part conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute Greeting: <HI>Fora&s;much|as,</HI> by the fourteenth Act of the Parliament holden in the Year one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred eighty &s;ix, it is expre&s;ly enacted and ordained, that no Hor&s;e, Mare or Cattle what&s;omever &s;hall be imported from <HI>Ireland</HI> to this Kingdom, under the pain and Penalty of Forefaulture of the Hor&s;e, Mares or Cattel that &s;hall be imported, and further of paying the Sum of one hundred Merks <HI>Scots</HI> for each Bea&s;t, that &s;hall be &s;o imported, the one half of both the Bea&s;t and Fines, to belong f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> the Seizer and Di&s;coverer, and the other half to his Maje&s;ty, As likewi&s;e, that no Per&s;on within this Kingdom re&s;et or buy any Hor&s;e, Mares or Nolt, that they know to be imported out of <HI>Ireland,</HI> under the pain of one hundred Merks <HI>Scots,</HI> for each Bea&s;t, be&s;ides the Forefaulture of the Bea&s;ts them&s;elves, the one half to belong to the Di&s;coverer, (he alwi&s;e pur&s;uing and in&s;tructing the Importation within &s;ix Moneths after) and the other half to his Maje&s;ty: And We being re&s;olved, that due and exact obedience &s;hall be given to the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament for the time to come, and that the &s;ame &s;hall be execute, with all rigour again&s;t &s;uch as tran&s;gre&s;s the &s;ame. Therefore, We with the Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council in pur&s;uance of, and conforme to the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, &s;trictly prohibite and di&s;charge the importing of any Hor&s;e, Mares, Cows or other Cattel from <HI>Ireland</HI> into this Kingdom, either by the Natives thereof or Inhabi|tants in <HI>Ireland,</HI> or any other Forraigners what&s;omever, and all Per&s;ons to buy or re&s;et any Hor&s;es, Mares or Nolt, that they know to be imported out of <HI>Ireland,</HI> after the Day and Date hereof under the pains above-mentioned re&s;pective, contained in the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, for importing buying or re&s;etting any Hor&s;e, Mares or Nolt imported from <HI>Ireland</HI> contrary thereunto. Likeas, We with advice fore&s;aid for the more effectual Execu|tion of the Premi&s;&s;es, Require and Command all Collectors, Surveyers, Waiters or others imployed in uplifting and collecting Our Cu&s;toms and forraign Exci&s;e, at the &s;everal Sea|ports of this Kingdom, and all Officiars of the Law what&s;omever, to &s;eaze upon all Hor&s;e, Mares and Cattel what&s;omever imported from <HI>Ireland</HI> after the date hereof, or bought or re|&s;et by what&s;omever Per&s;on or Per&s;ons within this Kingdom who knew the &s;ame, to have been imported, and to detain and confi&s;cat the &s;ame, comform to the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, and to pur&s;ue and exact from the &s;everal per&s;ons who &s;hall Import, Buy or Re&s;et, any Hor&s;e, Mares or any other Cattle imported from <HI>Ireland</HI> contrair to the fore&s;aid Act of Parliament, the Sums and Penalties re&s;pectively above-mentioned, incurred by them through the fore&s;aid Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, the one half thereof to be applyed for His Maje&s;ties u&s;e, and the other half to be detained by them&s;elves, in manner &s;pecified in the &s;aid Act. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and We Charge you &s;traitly 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 to the Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the &s;eve|ral Head-Burghs and Sea-port-touns within this Kingdom, and make Publick Intimation thereat of Our plea&s;ure in the Premi&s;&s;es, that none may pretend Ignorance. And Ordains the&s;e pre&s;ents to be Printed; And Our Solicitor to tran&s;mit Copies thereof to the Shireffs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewarts of the Stewartries, their Deputs or Clerks, and to the Ma|gi&s;trats of the &s;everal Sea-port-tounst, to be by them publi&s;hed accordingly.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh <DATE><HI>the eleventh day of</HI> May <HI>one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred nine|ty and eight years, and of our Reign the tenth Year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii</HI> 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 MAJESTAY, <HI>Anno. Domini</HI> 1698.</P>
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