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</FIGURE> By the King. A PROCLAMATION Touching the Free Importation of Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Cloves and Mace into this Kingdom.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas by an Act made by the Lords and Commons A&s;&s;embled at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> in the Twelfth year of Our Reign, with Our Con&s;ent, Entituled, <HI>An Act for the encouraging and increa&s;ing of Shipping and Navigation,</HI> and after Confirmed by an Act made in this pre|&s;ent Parliament, It was Enacted and Declared, That no Goods or Commodities that were of Foreign Growth, Production, or Manufacture, and which were to be brought into <HI>England, Ireland, Wales,</HI> the I&s;lands of <HI>Guern&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Jer&s;ey,</HI> or Town of <HI>Berwick</HI> up|on <HI>Tweed,</HI> in <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> built Shipping, or other Shipping belonging to &s;ome of the a|fore&s;aid places, and Navigated by <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Mariners, as in the &s;ame Act is particularly mentioned, &s;hould be Shipped or brought from any Place or Places, Countrey or Countreys, but only from tho&s;e of their &s;aid Growth, Production or Manufacture, or from tho&s;e parts where the &s;aid Goods and Commodities could only, or were, or u&s;ually have been fir&s;t Shipped for Tran&s;portation, and from none other Places or Countreys; under the Penalty of the Forfeiture of all &s;uch of the afore&s;aid Goods as &s;hould be Imported from any other Place or Countrey, contrary to the true intent and meaning of the &s;ame Act, as al&s;o of the Ship in which they were Imported, with all her Guns, Furniture, Am|munition, Tackle and Apparel, as in and by the &s;ame Act (among&s;t other things) may more fully ap|pear: And whereas it is manife&s;t to Vs by the Certificate of the late Commi&s;&s;ioners of Our Cu&s;toms, made to Our High-Trea&s;urer and Chancellor of Our Exchequer, after Con&s;ultation and Advice with &s;everal Merchants, and the chief of the Grocers Company in <HI>London,</HI> That Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Cloves and Mace, Imported in <HI>England</HI> &s;ince the Making and Publi&s;hing the &s;aid Act for the encouraging and increa&s;ing of Shipping and Navigation, have been by &s;tealth only, and without paying any Cu&s;tom, brought in by the <HI>Dutch</HI> and Foreign Merchants, and foul Traders at home, and that it mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily be &s;o, becau&s;e the <HI>Dutch</HI> are Prohibited (who have for many years had the &s;ole Trade thereof) and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> cannot Tran&s;port them from <HI>Holland,</HI> becau&s;e they Import them not from the place of their Growth, and the <HI>Engli&s;h Ea&s;t-India</HI>-Company them&s;elves having no capacity to do it until they be re&s;tored to <HI>Poteroon,</HI> or gain &s;ome of the Spice-I&s;lands; &s;o as neither to them (until &s;uch a conjuncture) nor to any other would a general Freedom of Importing the &s;ame Spices be any prejudice, but would certainly render the Com|modity cheaper to Our good Subjects of this Our Kingdom, then now it is, and not only give great con|tent and &s;atisfaction to all Merchants and Traders in Spices, but redound to the univer&s;al good of Trade: We taking the &s;ame into Our Princely Con&s;ideration, and intending the Publick good and be|nefit of Our loving Subjects herein, Do by this Our Proclamation (with the Advice of Our Privy Council) Publi&s;h and Declare Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure to be, That it &s;hall and may be lawful, and We do hereby Give and Grant unto all Merchants and other per&s;ons what&s;oever, full and free Li|cence and Liberty from the Publication hereof, to Import Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Cloves and Mace, in any <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Ships from any parts beyond the Seas, into this Our Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> I&s;les of <HI>Guern&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Jer&s;ey,</HI> and Town of <HI>Berwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed,</HI> or any of them, paying the Cu|&s;toms and Duties thereof, according to the Book of Rates in that behalf made and e&s;tabli&s;hed, until the &s;aid <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI>-Company can &s;erve this Our Kingdom and the parts afore&s;aid with the &s;ame Commodi|ties from <HI>India,</HI> and Our Plea&s;ure be thereupon Publi&s;hed to the contrary, and that without any Pain, Penalty, or Forfeiture what&s;oever for the &s;ame: And We do hereby Will and Command all Our Offi|cers and Subjects what&s;oever, That they do not pre&s;ume to &s;eize or meddle with any Goods or Ship, or any the Tackle thereof, or any ways Mole&s;t, Sue, or Que&s;tion any Merchant, or other per&s;on or per|&s;ons what&s;oever, for, or by means or colour of Importation of any the Spices afore&s;aid, according to the Licence and Liberty therein hereby given and granted as afore&s;aid; the &s;aid Act of Navigation, or any Clau&s;e, Matter or thing therein contained, or any other Act, Ordinance, Provi&s;ion, or Proclamati|on what&s;oever to the contrary thereof in any wi&s;e notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI></HI>
<DATE><HI>the Twentieth day of <HI>December,</HI> 1662. in the Fourteenth year of Our Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Bill</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Barker,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1662.</P>
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