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B05568 A proclamation, discharging merchants and other traffickers to sell or exchange any prohibite [sic] commodities, with themselves, or amongst others. Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1649-1685 : Charles II) 1683 (1683) Wing S1750; ESTC R183441 1,500 1

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A PROCLAMATION Discharging Merchants and other Traffickers to Sell or Exchange any Prohibite Commodities with themselves or amongst others CHARLES by the Grace of GOD King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To _____ Macers of Our Privy Council or Messengers at Arms our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting Forasmuch as We from the great care We alwayes had of the Advancement of the Trade and Manufactories of this Our Ancient Kingdom have made several good Laws and Acts thereanent and particularly by the 12th Act of our Current Parliament in the Moneth of September 1681. Relative to our former Proclamation in April preceeding The Importing Selling Venting Bartering or Exchanging of diverse Commodities therein named is Prohibited and Discharged under the Certifications and Penalties exprest therein And albeit We then understood that the Importing and Venting of these Prohibited Commodities could hardly be restrained without a total Prohibition had been given to the wearing thereof yet out of a tenderness to the Merchants who might have have had great parts of their Stocks in these Commodities upon their hands We thought it not then fit to make a total and immediat Prohibition to the Wearing but ordained them to be put under Bond not to Import any of these Prohibited Goods thereafter nor to Vent Sell Barter or Exchange any thereof upon hazard of incurring the certifications contained therein And notwithstanding there hath been more then sufficient time allowed to the Merchants to have sold off these Prohibited Goods yet upon pretext thereof and of the Ambiguity of the words in the Bond that they are only obliged not to Vent Sell Barter or Exchange any of these Goods that at the buying or receiving thereof were known to have been Imported contrary to the Laws diverse Persons have presumed to Import at the least to Reset Commodities unwarrantably Imported and to Vent Sell Barter and Exchange the same so that thereby the Execution of the Law hath been hitherto evacuated and eluded and honest Men who out of Conscience and Duty have given obedience in hazard to be ruined and the Trade and Manufactory of the Kingdom overturned and destroyed and although we had more then reason to have inforced the Execution of the saids good Laws by the examplary punishment of persons most guilty Nevertheless We according to Our accustomed Clemency have thought fit to continue any Sentence upon the Process in dependence against them at the instance of Our Advocat till We shall have occasion to know their future behaviour And in the mean time for Explicating and making the said Act of Parliament effectual for the good ends therein designed We with Advice of Our Privy Council hereby Prohibite and Discharge all Merchants within this Kingdom or other Trafficquers Men or Women to Buy or Sell Barter or Exchange with themselves or among others any Cloaths Stuffs Sarges Holland Cambridge Silk-stockings or any Goods made of Wool or Lint after the Date hereof except they know and can be able to declare upon Oath they were either made in the Kingdom or lawfully Imported preceeding the Prohibition contained in the Act of Parliament and Proclamation foresaid under the Penalties and Certifications therein contained to be inflicted on them without favour or desalcation And in respect diverse persons have or may pretend to have such Goods in their custody as to which they cannot positively declare upon Oath that they were Imported before the Prohibition as having come through several hands We do allow the Merchants Burgesses of Edinburgh and others havers of such Goods in their possession before the Date hereof who did take the Bond and give up Inventar and none others liberty to Retail the same to the Liedges or Export them out off the Kingdom at any time betwixt and the first of November next Certifying such as shall upon pretext hereof Import any Prohibited Commodities or Vent Sell Barter or Exchange any thereof after the said day the same shall be Confiscat Burnt and Destroyed and the Persons guilty otherwise punisned conform to the said Act of Parliament Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the sixteenth day of August One thousand six hundred eighty and three And of Our Reign the thirtieth and fifth Year Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii WILL. PATERSON Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD save the KING Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Sacred Majesty 1683.