THe Estates of Parliament considering , how much it concernes the credit and wealth of the Kingdom , that our own native Commodities be manufactured amongst our selves , and that the endeavours of such persons as are setting up Manufacturies and Trades have been , and are much retarded , by the importation of such forreign Commodities as may be made within the Kingdom . Therefore , and for their due encouragment , the Kings Majesty , with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament , Statutes and Ordains , that from and after the first day of September next , twelve pounds Scots upon ilk ell of broad English Cloath ; six pounds upon ilk ell , of York-shire and all narrow Cloath ; two pounds eight shillings upon ilk ell of Searge ; thirty shillings upon ilk ell of Castilians ; fourty eight pounds upon ilk Beaver-hat ; twenty four pounds upon ilk Demy beaver 〈◊〉 vigon ; and three pounds upon the piece of ilk common Hat ; thirty six pounds upon the 〈…〉 four pounds upon the dozen of Stag-gloves ▪ , and 〈◊〉 pounds upon the dozen of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , C 〈…〉 s , Kid or Shiverings ; and twenty four shillings upon ilk pound of Tobacco imported either for sale or private use into this Kingdom from England , all Scots money , Be exacted , levied and collected and fourscore per cent . upon all other sorts of Commodities imported into this Kingdom from England , and not particularly named in this Act , and upon all the growth and manufactury of that Kingdom , though imported from any other place , and that over and above all other impositions put upon the same already . And to the effect this present Act may be the more exactly put to execution , It is Statute and Ordained , that all Goods imported from England , or of the growth and manufactury of England , not above particularly exprest , shall be valued , after sighting , by two skilfull honest men upon oath , to be nominate by the Dean of Gild or his Assessors , or Magistrates of the Burgh , or next adjacent Burgh to the Custom-office where the saids G●●●● are entered , or by the oath of the party to whom the saids Goods belongs , and accordingly pay the said f●●●●score per cent . And the Lords Thesaurer and Thesaurer-depute , and Lords of His Maiesties Exchequer , are hereby required to take an Oath , and Bond with sufficient Caution , from the Farmers or Collectors of the saids impositions , that they shall exactly collect the same , without any abatement thereof , directly or in directly ; and that they shall not suffer any of the saids Goods to pass or be conveyed away un-entered , and that under the penalty of the worth of the saids Goods , if the contrary shall be made appear , the one half thereof to His Maiesties use , and the other half to the informer , and under the pain of forfaulting their Lacks and Commissions , and being declared incapable to farm or collect , in any time thereafter , any Custom , Excise , or other Imposition whatsoever within this Kingdom . And if any of the foresaids Goods or Commodities shall be informed and made appear to be brought in , or shall be seized upon , not being entered in the Custom-office , or any other Office appointed for that effect , then the same to be wholly confiscate , the one half to His Maiesties use , and the other half to the first informer or seizer thereof . And Ordains these presents to be printed , and published at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh , and other places needfull , where-through none may pretend ignorance of the same .