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A79314 By the King. A proclamation for payment of the duty of excise, together with the arrears thereof England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) 1660 (1660) Wing C3352; Thomason 669.f.26[11]; ESTC R210777 1,635 1

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CR DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ❧ By the King A PROCLAMATION For Payment of the Duty of Excise together with the Arrears thereof CHARLES R. WHereas divers great Sums of money for Publique Vse and Concernment for the great Affairs of the Kingdom have been charged upon the Receipts of Excise And many and great Arrears are due and owing thereupon as well in Our City of London as in several of Our Counties Cities and Towns Corporate within Our Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Our Town and Port of Berwick upon Tweed The Collecting and Levying of which hath been of late times much Obstructed and become very Ineffectual through the Practises and Contrivments of Subtil and Disaffected Persons for their own private Lucre and Gain And forasmuch as by an Act of this present Parliament the Duty of Excise is contitinued and the Arrears thereof directed thereby to be paid We at the desire and by the Advice of Our Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled have thought fit and do by this Our Proclamation Command Require and Charge all and every Our loving Subjects within Our said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed aforesaid who are liable to pay Excise or from whom any the Arrears thereof are due and unpaid Speedily and without Delay to conform themselves unto the Rules Regulations Orders and Powers whereby the aforesaid Duty or Imposition hath been or ought to be Levyed not onely for paying the same for the Future as it shall become due but also for satisfying all and every the Arrears thereof Which are Excepted from Pardon by an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion to the end the Orders and Rules made for payment thereof be not eluded And We do hereby straitly Charge and Command all Our Iustices of the Peace and other Our Magistrates and Ministers whatsoever within this Our said City of London and the respective Counties Cities and Towns Corporate to whom is committed the care of seeing such of the Rules Orders and Powers as are under their Cognizance executed vigorously and diligently to proceed in putting the same in Execution to the end the Obstructions and Defects of Execution whether in remisness or neglect may be removed and the aforesaid Duty of Excise together with the whole Arrears thereof may be duly and speedily Levyed and Paid in for the purposes aforesaid And whereas it was Resolved and Declared by the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled the sixth of September last That the Act for continuance of the Excise doth enable the Commissioners therein named and their Sub-commissioners to Act and proceed according to the Rates and Rules of the late pretended Powers We therefore do hereby more particularly require and command Our said Iustices of Peace to put in full Execution the two and thirtieth Article of an Act so called And Entituled An Act for the Speedy Raising Levying Moneyes by way of New-Impost of Excise made and Published the fourteenth day of August One thousand six hundred forty nine Whereby it is mentioned to be Enacted That no Vintner Inkeeper Victualler Ale-house-keeper or other Person whatsoever That Retailes or Sells Ale or Beer shall Brew his own Beer or Ale unless he give security to pay the Excise thereof Or otherwise to take all such Beer and Ale as he shall Sell or Vtter of or from some common Brewer of Ale or Beer In which case upon due proof made as by the said Article is prescribed before any one Iustice of the Peace within the County City or Town Corporate where the Party offending doth reside and dwell the said Iustice of the Peace hath power to Impose and Levy upon the Party so offending the several Penalties and Forfeitures by the said Article limited Wherefore We do further hereby straitly Charge and Command every such Iustice of the Peace before whom any such Proof shall be made or tendred to be made as aforesaid That he do forthwith without delay proceed against the said Party so Offending by hearing and determining the said Offence and by the speedy issuing out there Warrants for Levying and Executing of the several Penalties and Forfeitures therein Limited according as by the said Article is Directed and Required And Lastly We expect Obedience hereunto from all and every Person and Persons whom it doth or may concern as they tender Our Displeasure and will answer the contemning of this Our Royal Command at their utmost Peril Given at Our Court as Whitehall the Twenty sixth day of September in the Twelfth year of Our Reign London Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1660.