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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<FIGDESC>royal blazon surmounted by a crown</FIGDESC>
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<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For the more effectual Uplifting and Inbringing the Annexed and Additional Exci&s;e.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Edinburgh, <DATE>Augu&s;t 14. 1655.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>_WILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, To <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> Macers of Our Privy Council, 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, by the late Act of Parliament for the additional and annexed Exci&s;e, it is provided, that the Lords of Our Privy Council &s;hal pre&s;cribe &s;uch other Methods and Orders, be&s;ides the&s;e contained in the &s;aid Act, as they &s;hall judge nece&s;sary for making the &s;ame effectual, which two Exci&s;es are now &s;et in Tack, for the &s;pace of eighteen Months after the fir&s;t of <HI>September</HI> next. Therefore, and for the more effectual uplifting and inbringing of the fore&s;aid Exci&s;es, We have thought fit to Ordain, and do hereby with advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council Ordain and Appoint, that no Brewer within Burgh of Royalty or Regality vend or &s;ell any part of their Brou&s;ts, until fir&s;t they make entry thereof to the Exci&s;e-Office within the Burghs, and there obtain a Sufferance for the quantity browen, which the Keeper of the Office is to give <HI>gratis,</HI> and without delay: and that in ca&s;e of non-entry, or wrongous entry, the Brewer be lyable in the &s;um of ten Pounds <HI>Scots toties quoties,</HI> which entries may be di&s;proven before any Magi&s;trat, Ju&s;tice of Peace, or Commi&s;&s;ioners of Exci&s;e, by Witne&s;ses, or Oath of Party, notwith&s;tanding any Survey made by the Surveyours and Waiters, That in regaird the Exci&s;e of strong Waters, Aquavitae, Brandy, and Forreign-beer is ordered by the &s;aid Act of Par|liament, to be payed by the Retailers, Therefore all Brewers of Aquavitae, and strong Waters, make Month|ly Entries of the quantities of the &s;aid Liquors, brown by them, and give in &s;ub&s;cribed Li&s;ts to the next Ex|ci&s;e Office, of the Names of the Per&s;ons to whom they &s;ell their Aquavitae, or strong Waters, to be again &s;old by retail: as likewi&s;e, that the Collectors, Clerks, or Surveyours at Sea-ports, do give up a true and particular Accompt to the &s;aids Tacks-men of the Exci&s;e, or their Deputs, of the Quantities of Forraign &s;trong Wa|ters, Brandy and Forreign Beer, Imported from time to time, and who is tbe Merchant Importer: as al&s;o, that the &s;aid Merchant Importer be lyable and obliged to give and deliver &s;ub&s;cribed Li&s;ts to the &s;aid Tacks-men and their Deputs, of the per&s;ons Names to whom they &s;ell the &s;aid Brandy, strong Waters or Forraign Beer for re|tail; and of the Quantities &s;old to them. <HI>Item,</HI> that all Brewers Barrells be for hereafter marked with their own Name, and the Seal of the next Exci&s;e Office, which Seal &s;hall be furni&s;hed to them <HI>gratis. Item,</HI> that no per&s;on pre&s;ume to re&s;ett any Ale or drinking Beer in their Hou&s;es, in order to the Imbazling of the &s;ame, under the pain of ten pounds <HI>Scots toties quoties,</HI> to be payed to the fore&s;aid Tacks-men. And la&s;tly, that all Tap|&s;ters and Vintners of Ale and drinking Beer, &s;hall for hereafter, before they tap or vent the &s;ame, take fir&s;t a Licence from the next Exci&s;e Office, and there give Bond and Caution that they &s;hall not tap and &s;ell for le&s;s prices than the&s;e appointed by the Act of Parliament, under the penalty of ten pounds <HI>Scots toties quoties,</HI> ap|pointed by the &s;aid Act. O&V;R 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 to the Mercat-Cro&s;&s;es of the remanent Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires of this our ancient Kingdom, and there be open Proclama|tion, make intimation hereof, that none may pretend Ignorance: and Ordains the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet, at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the Fourteenth day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> and of Our Reign the Seventh Year 1695.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii. <HI>GILB ELIOT.</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii&punc;</SIGNED><LB> God &s;ave 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 Kings mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty, 1695.</P>
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