Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	parliament_n	scot_n	1,747	5	9.2868	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06077	Act for a new imposition upon English commodities. At Edinburgh, the twenty one of August, one thousand six hundred and sixty three.	Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates.	1663 (1663)	Wing S1081; ESTC R183888	1,270	1

C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ACT For a new Imposition upon English COMMODITIES At Edinburgh the twenty one of August one thousand six hundred and sixty three THe Estates of Parliament considering how much it concernes the credit and wealth of the Kingdom that our own native Commodities be manufactured amongst our selves and that the endeavours of such persons as are setting up Manufacturies and Trades have been and are much retarded by the importation of such forreign Commodities as may be made within the Kingdom Therefore and for their due encouragment the Kings Majesty with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament Statutes and Ordains that from and after the first day of September next twelve pounds Scots upon ilk ell of broad English Cloath six pounds upon ilk ell of York-shire and all narrow Cloath two pounds eight shillings upon ilk ell of Searge thirty shillings upon ilk ell of Castilians fourty eight pounds upon ilk Beaver-hat twenty four pounds upon ilk Demy beaver 〈◊〉 vigon and three pounds upon the piece of ilk common Hat thirty six pounds upon the 〈…〉 four pounds upon the dozen of Stag-gloves and 〈◊〉 pounds upon the dozen of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 C 〈…〉 s Kid or Shiverings and twenty four shillings upon ilk pound of Tobacco imported either for sale or private use into this Kingdom from England all Scots money Be exacted levied and collected and fourscore per cent upon all other sorts of Commodities imported into this Kingdom from England and not particularly named in this Act and upon all the growth and manufactury of that Kingdom though imported from any other place and that over and above all other impositions put upon the same already And to the effect this present Act may be the more exactly put to execution It is Statute and Ordained that all Goods imported from England or of the growth and manufactury of England not above particularly exprest shall be valued after sighting by two skilfull honest men upon oath to be nominate by the Dean of Gild or his Assessors or Magistrates of the Burgh or next adjacent Burgh to the Custom-office where the saids G●●●● are entered or by the oath of the party to whom the saids Goods belongs and accordingly pay the said f●●●●score per cent And the Lords Thesaurer and Thesaurer-depute and Lords of His Maiesties Exchequer are hereby required to take an Oath and Bond with sufficient Caution from the Farmers or Collectors of the saids impositions that they shall exactly collect the same without any abatement thereof directly or in directly and that they shall not suffer any of the saids Goods to pass or be conveyed away un-entered and that under the penalty of the worth of the saids Goods if the contrary shall be made appear the one half thereof to His Maiesties use and the other half to the informer and under the pain of forfaulting their Lacks and Commissions and being declared incapable to farm or collect in any time thereafter any Custom Excise or other Imposition whatsoever within this Kingdom And if any of the foresaids Goods or Commodities shall be informed and made appear to be brought in or shall be seized upon not being entered in the Custom-office or any other Office appointed for that effect then the same to be wholly confiscate the one half to His Maiesties use and the other half to the first informer or seizer thereof And Ordains these presents to be printed and published at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh and other places needfull where-through none may pretend ignorance of the same EDINBVRGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1663.