A proclamation, discharging the importation of forraign apples, except from France Scotland. Privy Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09978 of text R183448 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S1762). 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. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B09978 80923624 Wing S1762 ESTC R183448 80923624 ocm 80923624 191996 2240864213

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B09978) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 191996) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; 1641-1700 ; 2897:22) A proclamation, discharging the importation of forraign apples, except from France Scotland. Privy Council. Paterson, Wil. James II, King of England, 1633-1701. Scotland. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James VII) 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson ..., Edinburgh, : anno Dom [1687]. Signed: Will. Paterson ... Proclaimed in the name of the King on Nov. 10, 1687. Imperfect: stained with loss of date and text; date of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Fruit trade -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Foreign trade regulation -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Scotland -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo A proclamation, discharging the importation of forraign apples, except from France. Scotland. Sovereign 1687 2 472 1 0 0 0 1 0 233.05 F The rate of 233.05 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2010-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2010-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2010-10 Sampled and proofread 2010-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2011-06 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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A PROCLAMATION , Discharging the Importation of Forraign Apples , except from France . JAMES by the Grace of God , King of Great Britain , France and Ireland , Defender of the Faith , To Macers of Our Privy Council , or Messengers at Arms , Our Sheriffs in that Part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , Greeting ,

Forasmuch as We understanding , that several Merchants and others , have , or are intended to Import into this Kingdom , Apples from Flanders , and other Places abroad , most unnecessarly : And whereas Our Leidges may be sufficiently furnished with Apples of all sorts within Our own Dominions , and from the Kingdom of France ; We therefore with Advice of Our Privy Council , do hereby expresly Prohibite and Discharge the Importing into this Kingdom any Forraign Apples from abroad , especially from Flanders , except those which shall be brought from France ; with Certification to the Importers or Resetters , that they shall not only be Confiscated as to the Apples themselves , or Price and Value thereof , but shall incur what Penalty Our Privy Council shall think fit for such Contravention . And We hereby Require and Command all Our Tacksmen , Collectors , Waiters and Customers , to take special notice , that no such prohibite Goods be Imported or Entered , as they will answer at their highest Peril : Impowering hereby them or either of them , to make Seazure of the same ; and ordaining them in case they shall be Clandestinely Imported , upon Information to make Intimation thereof , and of the Owners , Importers or Resetters , to the Clerks of Our Privy Council , that Our Privy Council may proceed against them as they shall find cause . And to the end Our Pleasure in the Premisses may be known , OVR WILL IS HEREFORE , And We Charge you strictly , and Command , that incontinent these Our Letters seen , ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh , and remanent Mercat Crosses of the Head-Burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom , and other places needful , and there in Our Name and Authority , by open Proclamation , make Publication of Our Pleasure in the Premisses , that none may pretend Ignorance .

Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh , the tenth day of November , One thousand six hundred eighty seven . And of Our Reign the third year . Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii . WILL . PATERSON , Cls , Sti. Concilii . GOD save the KING .

Edinburgh , Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most Sacred Majesty , Anno DOM ●●●● .