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A32578 By the King, a proclamation for the preservation of frauds and abuses in the payment of excise for beer and ale England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1662 (1662) Wing C3501; ESTC R33280 2,452 3

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C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE By the King A PROCLAMATION For the prevention of Frauds and Abuses in the payment of Excise for Beer and Ale CHARLES R. WHereas by several late Acts of Parliament made for the setling of Our Revenue certain Rates Duties and Charges of Excise are granted unto Vs upon Beer Ale and other the Liquors in the said Acts mentioned For the better improvement whereof and to the end the same may be the more equally Assessed and Levied and Our Revenue thereby reduced to the more certainty We did lately give Order that the same should be let to Farm according to the limitations and directions of the said Acts which accordingly is done so as the said Duties and Charges of Excise in all or most of the Counties and Cities of this Our Kingdom are now let to Farm for the Term of Three years And whereas We are given to understand that divers Brewers and other persons concerned in the payment of the said Duties in or about the Cities of London and Westminster and other places of this Our Kingdom which We may hope is not so much out of disaffection to Our Government as for making to themselves unjust gain by defrauding Vs and Our said Farmers of their just Duties have set up and do daily make use of private and concealed Tuns Backs and other Brewing-Vessels to which the Gagers who are appointed by the said Acts of Parliament to take account of their Beer and Ale can have no access And by divers other Frauds and Concealments do practise and go about to diminish Our said Revenue and also to prejudice and under-sell such their fellow-Traders as do duely conform to the Acts of Parliament aforesaid And whereas since the letting of the said Excise to Farm the said Brewers to prevent the discovery of the true quantity and quality of the Beer and Ale made by them do deny entrance into their Brewhouses to the said Gagers contrary to the said Acts of Parliament and also to their former usage of admitting the said Gagers to search as well by night as by day the said Brewers in the mean time Brewing also and Cleansing likewise oftentimes on Sundaies to the great dishonour of Christianity and profanation of the Lords day and do also oppose and discourage the said Gagers in their Offices not only by reviling language but also by force of arms and otherwise divers of them having lately been assaulted beaten and wounded in the execution of their Duty in that behalf to the breach of Our Peace and manifest contempt of Our Authority And whereas divers Constables and other Officers upon the request of the said Gagers have refused to give them such assistance in their Services as by the said Acts of Excise they ought to give them We therefore minding the speedy reformation of the said abuses and the maintaining and upholding of Our said Revenue by all such just and lawful ways and means as are appointed by the said Acts of Parliament And to the end that Our Farmers of the said Duties in the said respective Counties and Cities may be the better enabled to Levy and Raise the same without opposition or disturbance and consequently to satisfie and pay their respective Farm-Rents reserved and payable unto Vs We have thought fit and do hereby publish and declare That We expect a ready and chearful obedience to be given by all persons concerned in the payment of the said Rates and Duties according to the said Acts of Parliament and that We intend to proceed with all severity and rigour against all such common Brewers Victuallers and other persons whatsoever concerned in the payment of the said Duties as shall be found to have erected set up or used any such private or concealed Tuns Backs or other Vessels as aforesaid for the Brewing or Making of any Beer or Ale or other the Liquors Exciseable or that shall Brew Cleanse or dispose of any Beer or Ale or other the Liquors aforesaid on Sundaies or that at any time hereafter shall refuse or delay to permit such Gager or Gagers as are or shall be appointed in that behalf to enter and take account of such Beer and Ale and other the Liquors aforesaid or that shall use or offer any force violence or opposition to any such Gager or Gagers or shall use any railing or reviling speeches whereby to terrifie or affright him or them from the execution of his or their Duty And that all person and persons whatsoever who shall suffer any such private Tuns or other Vessels to be erected set up or used in or about his or their house or houses by or for any such common Brewer or that shall attempt or endeavour by any of the said abuses ways and means to diminish Our said Revenue shall be taken and deemed as persons disaffected to Our Government disturbers of Our Peace and contemners of Our Royal Authority and of the said Acts of Parliament and shall be proceeded against accordingly And We do hereby strictly Charge and Require all Iustices of Peace and others to whom the Hearing Adjudging and Determining of or concerning any Forfeitures or Offences made and committed against the said Acts of Excise is intrusted That upon any Complaint or Information exhibited and brought before them touching any such Forfeiture or Offence they do forthwith proceed against the Offenders as in and by the said Acts is directed as they will answer the contrary at their perils And We do further straitly Charge and Command all Constables Headboroughs Tything-men and other Officers That from time to time upon request of any of the said Farmer or Farmers or of their Deputies Gagers and Officers constituted under their respective hands and Seals they be aiding and assisting unto them and every of them respectively as well in demanding and making entrance in the night-time according to the said Acts of Parliament if need be into any Brewhouse or other place belonging to or used by any common Brewer or other person concerned in the payment of the Excise aforesaid as in keeping Our Peace and in Publishing and Serving such General Summons Precepts and Warrants as by vertue of the said Acts of Parliament from time to time Our said Farmers or any of them shall send unto them And to the end that Our Will and Pleasure herein may be made known We do hereby Will and Require the several and respective Sheriffs Mayors Bayliffs in the several and respective Counties Cities and Towns-Corporate of this Our Realm to cause this Our Proclamation to be openly Read and Published in the Market-place of every Market-Town within their several and respective Sheriffwicks and Liberties upon some Market-day within Fourteen days next after their receipt hereof as they will answer the contrary at their perils Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Seventeenth day of December 1662 in the Fourteenth year of Our Reign God save the King London Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1662.