A proclamation for discovering and preventing the many fraudulent practices of under-officers, and others in stealing His Majesties customs England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A32430 of text R10036 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C3328). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A32430 Wing C3328 ESTC R10036 12275810 ocm 12275810 58440 2248561577

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A32430) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 58440) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 863:42) A proclamation for discovering and preventing the many fraudulent practices of under-officers, and others in stealing His Majesties customs England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 2 leaves. Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker ..., London : 1661. Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library. Imprint from colophon. Caption title. At head of title: By the King. At end of text: Given at the court at Whitehal, the nineth day of August, 1661. in the thirteenth year of His Majesties raign. eng Customs administration -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain. Customs administration -- Great Britain -- Officials and employees. eebo By the King. A proclamation for discovering and preventing the many fraudulent practices of under-officers, and others in stealing His Majesties custo England and Wales. Sovereign 1661 1 374 0 0 0 0 0 2 16042.78 F The rate of 16042.78 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

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By the King . A PROCLAMATION , For Discovering and Preventing the many Fraudulent Practises of Under-Officers , and others in stealing His Majesties Customs . CHARLES R.

WHereas the Kings Majesties Customs and Subsidy due and payable upon Goods and Merchandize exported and imported out of , and into the Kingdom of England , Dominion of Wales , Port and Town of Berwick , being the greatest and most considerable Branch of His Revenue , are not so well answered and paid as they ought to be , by reason of sundry Fraudulent and Deceitful courses daily practised by divers evil-affected persons , secretly combining with Vnder-Officers , Wharfingers , Lightermen , Watermen , Carmen , Porters , and others ; as also by a sort of leud people called Smuckellors , never heard of before the late disordered times , who make it their Trade and Profession , by many strange and new devices to steal and defraud His Majesty of His Customs ; and likewise by another sort of Head-strong and Malicious People , who in a violent way by open force with Clubs , Swords , and other Weapons , convey and carry away uncustomed Goods , and oftentimes rescue Goods seized , beating , wounding , and many ways evil-intreating the Officers attending His Majesties Service , and thereby giving evil example to others , who from these unlawful Courses and Proceedings , take encouragement to oppose the Officers in executing and performing their duty in entering into and searching of Houses , Ware-houses , and places where they may suspect or be informed of uncustomed Goods to be housed , hidden , or any way concealed . And besides , it is conceived and believed , That great quantities of Goods by the Laws prohibited to be exported or imported , are by like practises , subtil and unlawful courses , frequently exported and imported , to the great detriment as well of His Majesty as of His loving and faithful Subjects . And whereas the Commons House of Parliament , out of their great care of His Majesties Revenue , have by their