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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI><LB>
Again&s;t the Importing Victual or Cattel from <HI>Ireland.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD, <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Queen</HI> of Great-<HI>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, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, Conjunctly and Severally, Specially Con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as the Importing of Victual; Hor&s;e and Cowes from <HI>Ireland</HI> into this Kingdom, hath been by divers Laws and Acts of Parliament, made in the time of Our Royal Predece&s;&s;ors Di&s;charged under great Pains, notwith&s;tand|ing whereof, and by Rea&s;on of the un&s;ettled State of both Kingdoms, the Ob&s;ervation of the &s;aids Laws hath been of late much neglected; And We being re&s;olved, that due and exact Obedience &s;hall be given to the &s;aids Laws for the time to come, and that they &s;hall be Execute with all Rigour, again&s;t &s;uch as Tran&s;gre&s;s the &s;ame: Therefore, We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, Strictly Prohibite and Di&s;charge the Importing of any Meal, or other Victual what&s;omever, or of any Hor&s;e, Mares, or Cowes from the &s;aid Kingdom of <HI>Ireland</HI> into this Kingdom, either by the Natives thereof, or Inhabitants in <HI>Ireland,</HI> or any other Foraigners what&s;omever, from, and after the Day and Date hereof, under the Pains and Penalties following, <HI>viz.</HI> as to the Importing of any Meal and other Victual, that all the Meal and Victual which &s;hall be Imported, &s;hall be Sunk and De&s;troyed; And the Seizer or Di&s;coverer, for his Reward &s;hall have the Boat, Bark, or Ve&s;&s;el, wherein the &s;aid Meal or Victual &s;hall be Imported, to Di&s;po&s;e of at his plea&s;ure, Conform to the fourteenth Act of the Parliament 1686: As al&s;o, the half of the Fines Impo&s;ed upon the Importers, Re&s;etters, and Heretors by the third Act, third Se&s;&s;ion, Parliament <HI>&s;econd, Charles</HI> Second; And as to the Importing Hor&s;es, Cowes, and other Cattel, that no Hor&s;e, Mart, Cowes, or other Cattel what&s;omever, &s;hall be Imported from <HI>Ireland</HI> to this Kingdom, under the Pain and Penaltie of Forefaulting thereof; and &s;urder, under the pain of paying the Sum of an 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;ts and Fines, to belong to the Seizer and Di&s;coverer, and the other half to Us and Our The&s;aury: And We with Advice fore&s;aid, Prohibite and Di&s;charge any Per&s;on, or Per&s;ons what&s;omever, to Buy, U&s;e, or Retail any <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Meal, or Victual, or Re&s;et, or Buy any Hor&s;es, Mares, or Nolt, that they know to be Imported out of <HI>Ireland,</HI> after the Day fore&s;aid, under the Pains Contained in the &s;aids Acts of Parliament. And We with Advice fore&s;aid, have Nominate and Appointed <HI>David Craufoord</HI> of <HI>Drum&s;uie,</HI> to &s;ee the fore&s;aids Acts of Parliament made again&s;t Importing of <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Victual, Vigorou&s;ly put to Execu|tion, during &s;uch time and &s;pace as Our Privy Council &s;hall think Fit, with Power to him to appoint Servants, and others under him, to attend in all Places, betwixt the Head of <HI>Kintire</HI> and <HI>Lochryan,</HI> and from <HI>Lochryan</HI> to <HI>Dumfreis</HI> for the more Effectual performing, and Di&s;charging their Duty in the Premi&s;&s;es. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, And We Charge you Straitlie, and Com|mand, 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 of the Burghs of <HI>Gla&s;|gow</HI> and <HI>Dumfreis,</HI> and of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires within that Bounds, and thereat make Publick Intimation 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.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Thirteenth Day of <HI>March,</HI> and of Our Reign the Fifth Year, 1694.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
GOD Save the King.</CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>EDINBURGH, <DATE>September 8. 1697.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lords of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, do hereby Revive the fore&s;aid <HI>Proclamation</HI> emitted by their Lord&s;hips upon <HI>March</HI> the <HI>Thirteenth,</HI> 1694, <HI>Intituled a</HI> Proclamation <HI>again&s;t the Importing of Victual, or Cattel from</HI> Ireland: And Ordains the &s;ame to be put to farder Execution in all Points. And Ordains it to be Re-printed, and again Publi&s;hed at the Head-Burghs upon the <HI>We&s;tern-Coasts:</HI> And appoints His Maje&s;ties Solicitor to cau&s;e Tran&s;mitt Printed Coppies thereof to the &s;everal Offices of His Maje&s;ties Foraign Cu&s;tom and Exci&s;e where there is a Collector; And appoints the Collectors to affix a Printed Coppie of the &s;aid <HI>Proclamation</HI> upon their &s;everal Offices: And Ordains thir Pre&s;ents to be Printed with the &s;aid <HI>Proclamation,</HI> and to be &s;ent and affixt as the &s;aid <HI>Proclamation</HI> it &s;elf, to the Effect that none may pretend Ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>GILB. ELIOT,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></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 Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno DOM&punc;</HI> 1697.</P>
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