WHEREAS by the advice of the Lords and Commons of Parliament Assembled at Oxford , We have laid and set an Excise upon severall Wares and Commodities ; And have awarded severall Commissions under Our Great Seale of England , for the Levying , Collecting , and Gathering of the said Excise , according to such Articles , Instructions , Rates and Values , as are contained , set downe , and expressed , in Schedules annexed to Our said Commissions : which We have caused , or shall forthwith cause to be published in Print ; Whereby the grounds and reasons of laying and setling of the said Excise , the imployment of the Monies to be raised thereby for the present maintenance of Our Armies in the time of this Rebellion , and the Limitations and Provisions for qualifying , determining , and utter abolishing of the said Excise hereafter will fully appeare . We have therefore thought fit to publish this Our Proclamation , and doe hereby Order , Appoynt and Declare , That the payment of the said Excise , shall beginne and be accounted , as well by Our Commissioners and Officers intrusted , as by all others concerned therein , from the Twenty sixt day of this instant Moneth of April , in the Twentieth yeare of Our Reigne , to be Ordered and Collected in such manner , and to be imployed for such purposes , and to have continuance for such time only , as is limited and expressed in Our said Commissions , and the Articles and Instructions annexed to them , and no otherwise . And We doe hereby require all Our Subjects whatsoever , within the limits of Our said Commissions respectively , to conforme themselves thereunto ; Letting them hereby know , that whatsoever is mentioned or specified in Our said Commissions , or the Articles annexed to them , touching the qualifying , determining , or utter abolishing of the said Excise for future times , shall on Our part be inviolably observed . And We doe hereby straitly Charge and Command all Officers , Commanders and Souldiers of Our Armies and Garrisons , and likewise all Majors , Sheriffes , Bayliffes , Constables , and other Officers whatsoever , within their severall and respective limits , to be ayding and assisting , as occasion shall require , to Our Commissions , and the Substitutes , Deputies and Ministers to be nominated or appoynted by them by vertue of Our said Commissions , in the levying , collecting , and gathering of the said excise , according to the Tenor of Our said Commissions and Instructions annexed , as they will answer the contrary at their Perills .