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<HEAD><HI>PROCLAMATION</HI><LB>
Allowing the free Tran&s;porting of Victual from one Shire to another, and the Importation of Forraign Victual free of Custom, and twenty &s;hilling <HI>Scots</HI>for each Imported Boll thereof.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>WILLIAM</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> Defender of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>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;titut Greeting,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much as the growing Nece&s;&s;ity of the Poorer &s;ort of our Subjects, in many parts of this Kindom, do require our &s;peciall care for their Relief; And albeit &s;everal methods have been laid down, and Mea&s;ures Pre&s;cribed by former Proclamations of our Privy Council, to have &s;upplied and provided them at rea&s;onable and ea&s;ie Rates, by the native product and Grouth of this Kingdom: Yet through the pre&s;ent Scarcity there being &s;everal places in the Countrey, not able to Sub&s;i&s;t upon the Grouth and Victual within their own Bounds, and in other places the Poorer &s;ort not able competently to provid<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> them&s;elves at the Current Rates. All which does nece&s;&s;arly require that both there may be a free Cour&s;e of Buying and Selling Victual through the whole Kingdom, And likewi&s;e all Incouragment given for Importing Victual from any Foraign Country or Kingdom to this Nati|on, during the &s;pace aftermentioned; And that this hopeful Sea&s;on gives good ground to expect ane earlie Harve&s;t, &s;o that a &s;mall Supplie from Abroad, may affoord great Relief, and keep the Mercats at a Moderat Rate: Therefore, and to the Effect the Mercats may be duely Sup|plied and furni&s;hed with Victual that is yet within the Country, and likewi&s;e with Foraign Victual by any who &s;hall Import the &s;ame. We with advice of the Lords of our Privy Council, not only ratifie and approve all former Proclamations, Acts, Orders, and Commi&s;&s;ions a|gain&s;t Regraters of Victual, and For&s;talers of the Mercats, And ordain and require the &s;ame to be punctually ob&s;erved, and put to Executi|on according to the Tenor thereof, and Acts of Parliament made thereanent, In &s;o far as may extend to or concern Regrating of Victual, and For&s;talling of Mercats. But likewi&s;e we with advice fore&s;aid, do hereby grant Licence, and full Liberty to all per&s;ons what&s;oever, For|raigners or Natives, to Import Victual or Corns of all Sorts, either by Sea or Land, from any other Kingdom or Country what&s;omever, until the fifteenth day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> next to come, and that free of Cu&s;tom, Exci&s;e or other Impo&s;itions, for all that &s;hal be Imported, after the date hereof, during the time fore&s;aid, and recomends it to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of our The&s;aury, to Di&s;charge the exacting of any &s;uch Cu&s;tom, Exci&s;e or Impo&s;ition for the &s;aid Victual, to be Imported; Notwith&s;tanding of any Act of Parliament or Book of Rates Impo&s;ing the &s;ame. And for a farder Incouragement and invitation, to all &s;uch who &s;hall Import and bring in to this Kingdom, Victual or Corn of any Sort, betwixt and the day fore&s;aid. We with advice of the Lords of our Privy Council, do hereby Appoint and Ordain the Sum of twenty &s;hilling <HI>Scots,</HI> for each Boll of the &s;aid Foraign Victual Imported after the day and Date hereof, and before the &s;aid fifteenth day of <HI>August</HI> next, to be immedi|atly given and payed out of our Cu&s;toms to the Importer thereof, upon his Oath of Verity of the number of Bolls Imported by him, taken in pre&s;ence of any of the Sheriffs of the Several Shires of this Kingdom, Baillies of Regalities, or Bailliries, Stuarts of the Stewartries or their Re&s;pective Deputs, Magi&s;trates of Burghs, or any one of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of Supplie, or Ju&s;tices of Peace, within the &s;ame, Sub&s;cribed with their Hand, and atte&s;ted by the fore&s;aids Judges, and of which twenty &s;hilling Scots, We with advice fore&s;aid, Require and Command the Tack&s;-men and Farmers of our Cu&s;toms, and their Collectors and other Receavers at the Re&s;pective Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;es, to make pre&s;ent and im|mediat payment for each Boll of Foreign Victual Imported by Sea or Land, to the Importer thereof, upon his Recept to be given upon the Back of the fore&s;aid Subcribed Oath of the Number of Bolls Imported; And which Recept, We with advice fore&s;aid, declare and ordain to be a &s;ufficient Exoneration to the &s;aids Tack&s;-men and Farmers of our Cu&s;toms, and their Collectors of their &s;aid Tack-duty, and to be allowed to them in the fore-end thereof <HI>pro tanto.</HI> Certifying &s;uch of the &s;aids Collectors or other per&s;ons Imployed to receave mony at the Re&s;pective Cu&s;tom Hou&s;es, by the Tack&s;-men and Farmers of our &s;aids Cu&s;toms, That if they Fail&yogh;ie to make due and punctual payment of the &s;aid twenty &s;hilling <HI>Scots</HI> for each Boll of Imported Victual, or po&s;t pone &amp; delay the Impoters thereof, in the ready payment of the &s;aid Sum, when the &s;aid Sub&s;cribed Oath, &amp; Recept is offered to them, they &s;hal not only be declared &amp; <HI>ip&s;o facto</HI> thereby become Incapable to &s;erve or be Imployed by our &s;aid Farmers in any Office or Tru&s;t under them, in uplifting our &s;aids Cu&s;toms, but be farther lyable in the double of what they &s;hall &s;o refu&s;e or Po&s;tpone the Payment of as Penaltie and Damnages to be recovered from them by the partie, by thir pre&s;ents, and the fore&s;aid Sub&s;crib|ed Oath upon Proces to be Intented therefore, and verified by In&s;trument taken again&s;t the &s;aids Collectors or Receavers, requiring payment in manner abovementioned. And further to the effect all our Subjects within this Kingdom may be &s;upplied and releaved out of the Native Product and Grouth of this Kingdom with all po&s;&s;ible quality and proportion; in the mean time, We with advice fore&s;aid, give full Li|bertie and Permi&s;&s;ion to a free cour&s;e of Mercats for Selling Victual through all parts of the Kingdom, whether the &s;aid Victual or Corn was the Grouth of the Shire where it is &s;old or not, and that at what Rates and Prices either of ready Mony, or to a day the Buyers and Sellers can be&s;t agree upon, and hereby Di&s;charges all Per&s;ons what&s;oever from troubling and mole&s;ting any Per&s;ons what&s;oever, in the Tran&s;porting Victual to Mercats or otherwi&s;e from one Shire to another, under their Highe&s;t Perill. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE, and we Charge you strickly 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 Remanent Mercat Cro&s;&s;es of the Head-Burghs of the &s;everal Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom, and therat, in our Name and Authority, by open Pro|clamation, make Intimation hereof, That none 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 Ninth Day of <HI>June,</HI> and of Our Reign the Eleventh Year, 1699.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.
<HI>GILB. ELIO T.</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED><LB>
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 Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1699.</P>
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