WHereas We ( by the aduice of Our Commissioners for Our Reuenue ) haue resolued to import a quantity of Spanish Tobacco ( not exceeding fifty thousand weight in any one yeere ) and vtterly to prohibite the importation of any other forreine Tobacco , which is not of the growth of Our owne Plantations , and to prohibite also the planting of all Tobacco within these Our Realmes of England and Ireland , and Islands there to belonging or adiacent , As by Our Proclamation , dated the seuenteenth day of February last ( for the reasons therein expressed ) it doth at large appeare : Now , because Wee are informed , that it will much conduce to Our Seruice , and the setling of that businesse , for the preuenting of the stealing in of all forreine Tobacco , and discouery of the offendours , and for the clearing of all others , who are not offendors , from future trouble , that all the Tobacco of the growth of Our plantations already imported , shal be sealed by Our Commissioners to that purpose appointed , aswell as that which shal be hereafter imported , in such sort as by our sayd Proclamation is already directed , That so the Tobacco of Our Plantations may bee distinguished from the forreine Tobacco , and the Tobacco planted within these Our Realmes , which are prohibited : Our will and command therfore is , and we doe hereby declare & publish Our Royall pleasure to be , That Our said Commissioners appointed by Us for this Seruice , shal with al conuenient speed , Seale all the Tobacco of the growth of Our said Plantations already imported in such sort , as they are directed to Seale that which shall be hereafter imported .

And if any person whatsoeuer , hauing any such Tobacco , of the growth of Our said Plantations , or any of them , which shall refuse to haue the same Sealed , or which shall not offer the same to be Sealed , as aforesayd , and the same shall hereafter , at any time after one moneth , from the date hereof , be discouered , that the same shall bee taken and reputed for forreine Tobacco , or for Tobacco of the growth of these Our Realmes , which hath been prohibited , and which they durst not auow the keeping of , and as such Prohibited Tobacco shal be taken , and seized as other prohibited Tobacco , according to the Tenor and true meaning of Our said former Proclamation , whereof Wee will , that euery person , whom it may concerne , do take notice at their perill .