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B05662 A proclamation for observing the staple-port at Camphire. Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1692 (1692) Wing S1880; ESTC R183519 1,786 1

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RR DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE A PROCLAMATION For Observing the Staple-port at Camphire WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD King and Queen of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith To Macers of our Privy Council Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting Forasmuch as by many antient Contracts past betwixt the Royal burghs of this our antient Kingdom and the Town of Camphire in Zeland and which have been approved by the Kings our Predecessors the whole Trade and Commerce as to the Staple-commodities exported from this our Kingdom to the seventeen Provinces of the Nether-lands has been Settled and Established at the said Town of Camphire as being found by experience the fittest place for the Scots Staple and there being in the former Reigns of our Royal Predecessors many Proclamations issued forth requiring all our Subjects traveling to the seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands to export all Staple-goods and Commodities to the said Staple-port and to no other Port nor place and ordaining the Laws and Acts of Parliament and Acts of the Convention of the Royal-burghs to be put to due and vigorous Execution for the full Observance of the same And We being informed that of late the Staple-trade of this Kingdom hath been altogether diverted from the said Staple-port at Camphire and carried to Roterdam and other places in the Nether-lands to the great Prejudice and Discouragement of Trade and contrair to the foresaid Agreement with Camphire from presences that the said Town of Camphire neither could nor would furnish sufficient Convoyes for convoying the saids Ships both out-ward and in-ward bound from and to the said Port now in the time of War And now it being Certified to us that the Magistrats of the Town of Camphire have engadged to the Royal-burghs that they will furnish sufficient Convoyes for securing of the Trade betwixt that Port and the Firth and Road of Leith twice in the year viz. against the middle of September and the middle of March yearly commensing from the middle of September next And We being fully Resolved that all the standing Laws and Acts of Parliament and Acts of Convention of our Royal-burghs be put to full and vigorous Execution for the more due Observance of the said Staple-port for the future Do therefore with Advice of the Lords of our Privy Council hereby require all our Subjects to give all due and exact Obedience to the foresaids Acts made for observing of the Staple-por● Discharging all Merchants and Skippers or any other our Subjects to export forth of this our Kingdom any Goods or Commodities that are or shall be declared to be Staple Commodities to any other Port or Place in the Nether-lands but only to the said Staple-port and Town of Camphire in Zeland under the Pains and Certifications mentioned in the saids Acts of Parliament and Acts of the Convention of Burghs which Pains and Penalties We ordain to be exacted from the Transgressors with all rigour and that they be further proceeded against as our Council shall find Cause And further We with Advice foresaid do hereby Require the General Farmers Tacksmen or Collectors of our Customs and their Sub-collectors Surveyers for the time being that they make exact search and tryal of all Staple goods and Commodities that shall be hereafter transported forth of this Kingdom to any Port of the seventeen Provinces of the Nether-lands and take sufficient Security from the Merchants or Skippers transporters thereof that they shall transport the same to the said Staple-port at Camphire and at no other Place nor Port within the said seventeen Provinces and that they shall not break Bulk before their arrival thereat conform to the Acts of Parliament oblidging the said Exporters to report Certificats from the Conservator or his Deputs at Camphire bearing that the said Staple-commodities were livered thereat without breaking Bulk And We do Ordain the saids Testificats to be delivered in Quarterly by the Collectors at the several Ports to the Agent of our Royal-burghs for the time to the end exact Diligence may be done by him against all the Transgressors of the said Staple conform to the saids Acts. OUR WILL IS HEREFORE and We charge you strictly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh and whole remanent Royal-burghs of this Kingdom and other places needful and thereat in Our Name and Authority by open Proclamation make publication of the Premisses to the effect Our Royal-burghs and all Merchants and other Persons may have timeous notice hereof and give due and punctual Obedience thereto as they will be answerable at their outmost Perril The which to do We commit to you conjunctly and severally Our full Power by these Our Letters delivering them by you duely Execute and Indorsed again to the Bearer And Ordains these Presents to be Printed Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the Eleventh day of August and of Our Reign the fourth Year 1692 Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii In Supplementum Signeti GILB ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD save King William and Queen Mary Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties Anno DOM 1692