By
the
King
and
Queen
,
A
PROCLAMATION
For
Prohibiting
the
Importation
,
or
Retailing
of
any
Commodities
of
the
Growth
or
Manufacture
of
France
.
William
R.
WHereas
the
King
and
Queén's
most
Excellent
Majesties
,
Considering
the
great
Prejudice
and
Damage
to
the
English
Artificers
and
Handicrafts
,
and
the
general
Impoverishment
of
this
Kingdom
,
by
the
extraordinary
Importation
and
Use
of
the
Commodities
and
Manufactures
of
France
:
And
Resolving
with
the
help
of
Almighty
God
by
a
Iust
and
necessary
War
,
to
Deliver
this
Kingdom
,
and
other
Their
Dominions
,
from
the
Injuries
,
Aggressions
,
and
Dangers
done
,
made
,
and
occasioned
by
the
French
King
,
did
Issue
Their
Proclamation
bearing
Date
the
Twenty
fifth
day
of
April
last
,
Intituled
(
A
Proclamation
Prohibiting
the
Importation
of
all
sorts
of
Manufactures
and
Commodities
whatsoever
,
of
the
Growth
,
Production
,
or
Manufacture
of
France
)
which
War
Their
Majesties
have
lately
Declared
.
Now
Their
Majesties
finding
it
expedient
to
alter
the
said
Proclamation
,
and
to
the
Iutent
to
render
Their
Royal
Purposes
more
duly
and
effectually
Practicable
,
Have
thought
fit
by
and
with
the
Advice
of
Their
Privy
Council
,
to
Discharge
the
said
Proclamation
;
and
by
the
same
Advice
,
do
hereby
Publish
and
Declare
,
and
straitly
Charge
and
Command
,
That
no
Goods
,
Merchandizes
,
or
Commodities
whatsoever
of
the
Growth
,
Product
,
or
Manufacture
of
France
,
or
of
the
Dominions
of
the
French
King
,
shall
at
any
time
after
the
Five
and
twentieth
day
of
this
instant
May
,
be
brought
or
Imported
into
any
of
Their
Majesties
Realms
or
Dominions
,
or
any
Port
or
Creek
of
the
same
;
Or
if
so
brought
or
Imported
,
shall
not
be
Retailed
,
Uttered
,
Bartered
or
Sold
by
any
Person
or
Persons
whatsoever
,
upon
pain
of
Confiscation
and
Forfeiture
thereof
to
Their
Majesties
Use
;
Of
which
Confiscation
and
Forfeitures
,
Their
Majesties
are
pleased
the
Informer
shall
have
one
Moiety
;
And
hereof
Their
Majesties
Pleasure
is
,
That
all
Persons
whom
it
may
Concern
,
do
take
Notice
at
their
Peril
;
And
to
that
End
,
do
straitly
Charge
and
Command
as
well
all
and
every
the
Officers
of
the
Admiralty
,
as
also
all
and
singular
Customers
,
Comptrollors
,
Searchers
,
Waiters
,
and
other
Officers
,
and
all
other
Their
Loving
Subjects
,
that
they
and
every
of
them
respectively
take
special
Care
,
that
this
Their
Royal
Pleasure
and
Command
be
put
in
due
Execution
.
Given
at
Our
Court
at
Hampton-Court
the
Eighteenth
day
of
May
,
1689.
In
the
First
Year
of
Our
Reign
.
God
Save
King
WILLIAM
and
Queen
MARY
.