WHEREAS We are informed that the Price of Corn , Meal , Wooll , Leather , and other Commodities is so high , that the persons imployed by vs to make Stores and Magazines of Grain , and to provide clothes and other necessaries for Our Troops , cannot Buy the same but at Excessive Rates , though We are well assured there are great quantities of all sorts of Grain , of Wooll , Leather , and other Commodities within this Our Kingdom ; and having on the one hand considered the absolute necessity of making Magazines and stores of Grain and Meal for the support of Our Army , and of providing clothes and other necessaries for Our Troops ; and on the other hand , at what rate the Farmers , Husbandmen , and other Dealers and Traders may ●●ll the same to discharge their Rents , Subsidies , and other incumbrances , reserving a competency for the use of their Families , and a sufficient proportion of Seed for Tillage ; We have thought fit , by the Advice of our Privy Council , to sett a rate upon such Eorn , Meal , Wooll , Leather , and other Commodities as shall be bought for Our use : We do therefore , by the Advice aforesaid , strictly Charge and Command all Farmers , Husbandmen and Others , who have any Wheat , Bear , Barley , Mestin , Oats or Oatmeal , that they dispose of the same , or so much thereof as We shall think fit to make use of , at the rates following ; That is to say , twenty shillings the Barrel of the best Wheat , eighteen shillings the Barrel of ordinary Wheat , fifteen shillings the Barrel of Mestin , twelve shillings the Barrel of the best Bear , eleven shillings the Barrel of ordinary Bear , thirteen shillings the Barrel of the best Mault , and twelve shillings the Barrel of ordinary Mault , fourteen shillings the Barrel of good Barley , and six shillings the Barrel of good Oats , in the Counties of Du●●●● , City of Du●●●n , ●eath , Westmeath , Wi●klow , and Kilda●e ; And fifteen shillings the Barrel of the best Wheat , thirteen shillings the Barrel of ordinary Wheat , eleven shillings the Barrel of the best Bear , ten shillings the Barrel of ordinary Bear , twelve shillings the Barrel of the best Mault , eleven shillings the Barrel of ordinary Mault , twelve shillings the Barrel of good Barley , four shillings the Barrel of good Oats , and twelve shillings the Barrel of good Oatmeal in all other parts of the Kingdom ; the said Barrel to be Briston measure , and the said respective rates to be paid upon the delivery of the said Corn or Meal at Our Store next the pla●e where the Corn or Meal lyes . And in case the Farmers , Husbandmen , and others that have such Corn or Meal of sell , shall Refuse to bring the same to Our Stores at the Rates aforesaid , at the Request of the Commissioner General of Our Provisions and Stores , or of Our Commissaryes of Bread , or his or their Deputies or Agents , We do hereby strictly Charge and Command Our respective Lieutenants , Deputy Lieutenants and Sheriffs of Our Counties of this Our Kingdom , that they or any of them do Immediately compell the said Farmers , Husband ▪ men and others to thrash and prepare their said Corn and Meal , and to bring the same to Our said Stores , or such Proportion thereof as shall be thought necessary for Our Service ; at the rates aforesaid , in which case Our said Lieutenants , Deputy Lieutenants and Sheriffs , Our said Commissioner General of Our Provisions and Stores , Our Commissaries of Bread , his and their Deputies and Agents are to take special care that the said Farmers , Husbandmen and others having such Corn and Meal be permitted to keep a sufficient Proportion thereof for the subsistence of them and their Families , with sufficient quantity of Barly and Oates for Tillage as aforesaid : And We do further strictly Charge and Command Our said Commissioner generall of Our Provisions and Stores , Our Commissaryes of Bread , his and their Deputies or Agents upon the delivery of any such Corn or Meal into any of Our Stores , that they thereupon pay down to the owners of such Corn and Meal according to the rates aforesaid . And We do further require Our said Commissioner general of Our Provisions to appoint several Storehouses in such places as may lye convenient for such Farmers , Husbandmen , and others to carry such Corn or Meal to Our Stores as aforesaid . And We do further by the advice of Our Privy Council strictly Charge and Command all such as have any Store of Wooll , Leather , Tallow or salted Hides , that they dispose of so much thereof , for Our use , as We shall have occasion for , at the rates following , that is to say , for good Merchantable Wooll ten shillings the stone , and for good Merchantable tanned Leather seven pence the pound sole Leather , and six pence the pound upper Leather ; for Tallow thirty shillings the hundred weight , and for large oxe Hides salted twenty shillings the hundred weight , and for other salt Hides thirteén shillings the hundred weight : And in case the owners of such Wooll , Leather , Tallow or Hides , shall refuse to supply Our occasions at the rates aforesaid , We do hereby Declare that We will give directions to the Commissioners of Our Treasury to cause so much of the said Wooll , Leather , Tallow and Hydes to be seized upon for Our Vse at the rates aforesaid , as we shall have occasion for .