PROCLAMATION
,
Recalling
former
Acts
or
Proclamations
,
declaring
Forraign
Victual
free
of
Duty
,
and
ordaining
all
Victuall
to
be
Imported
to
pay
Duty
as
before
the
Saids
former
Acts
and
Proclamation
.
WILLIAM
by
the
Grace
of
GOD
,
King
of
Great-Britain
,
France
and
Ireland
,
Defender
of
the
Faith
,
To
Our
Lovits
,
_____
Macers
of
Our
Privy
Council
,
Messengers
at
Arms
,
Our
Sheriffs
in
that
part
,
conjunctly
and
severally
,
specially
constitute
,
Greeting
;
Forasmuch
,
as
by
Our
Proclamation
of
the
Date
,
the
Sixth
day
of
August
,
One
thousand
six
hundred
ninety
six
years
,
The
exacting
of
any
Custom
,
Excise
,
or
other
Imposition
said
upon
Victual
Imported
into
this
Kingdom
by
Sea
or
Land
,
from
any
other
Countrey
,
by
any
Act
of
Parliament
,
or
Book
of
Rates
,
was
discharged
:
And
sicklike
,
by
an
Act
of
the
Lords
of
Our
Privy
Council
,
dated
the
29
day
of
December
,
One
thousand
six
hundred
ninety
six
years
,
all
Victual
Imported
into
this
Kingdom
from
Abroad
,
was
declared
to
be
free
of
all
Custom
and
Excise
,
or
other
Publick
Duties
whatsomever
:
And
seing
the
foresaid
Proclamation
and
Act
of
Council
were
past
and
Published
,
for
encouraging
such
who
should
Import
Victual
,
for
relief
of
the
Poor
,
under
the
then
scarcity
and
dearth
,
which
now
are
competently
provided
against
,
by
the
plenty
of
Victual
already
Imported
,
and
the
old
Victual
yet
in
the
Countrey
not
consumed
or
spent
:
And
there
being
likewise
the
Prospect
of
a
very
good
Harvest
,
and
plentiful
Cropt
approaching
.
Therefore
We
,
with
Advice
of
the
Lords
of
Our
Privy
Council
,
have
discharged
the
foresaid
Proclamation
,
and
Act
of
Council
,
and
declare
the
same
to
be
of
no
furder
force
;
and
hereby
ordain
the
Collectors
,
and
others
imployed
in
Uplifting
and
Collecting
Our
Customs
,
to
Levy
and
Collect
the
Custom
,
Excise
,
and
other
Duties
Imposed
upon
Victual
Imported
from
any
Forraign
Countrey
:
by
Sea
or
Land
,
by
whatsomever
Law
,
or
Act
of
Parliament
,
and
appoint
them
to
be
Comptable
to
Us
therefore
,
conform
to
the
Laws
made
thereanent
,
as
they
were
lyable
to
do
before
the
said
Proclamation
,
or
Act.
Our
Will
is
herefore
,
and
We
Charge
you
straitly
,
and
Command
,
that
incontinent
these
Our
Letters
seen
,
ye
pass
to
the
Mercat-Cross
of
Edinburgh
,
and
to
the
remanent
Mercat-Crosses
of
the
Head
Burghs
of
the
several
Shires
and
Stewartries
within
this
Kingdom
,
and
there
in
Our
Name
and
Authority
make
intimation
hereof
,
that
none
pretend
ignorance
.
And
ordains
these
presents
to
be
Printed
.
Given
under
Our
Signet
at
Edinburgh
,
the
Twenty
one
day
of
July
,
and
of
Our
Reign
the
ninth
Year
,
1697.
Per
Actum
Dominorum
Secreti
Concilii
GILB
.
ELIOT
Cls.
Sti.
Concilii
.
GOD
save
the
King
.