A proclamation, imposing a further custom upon wines and tobacco, &c. Scotland. Privy Council. 1681 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B05704 Wing S1938 ESTC R183562 52612336 ocm 52612336 179639 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05704) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179639) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2794:33) A proclamation, imposing a further custom upon wines and tobacco, &c. Scotland. Privy Council. Scotland. Sovereign (1649-1685 : Charles II) 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to his most sacred Majesty, Edinburgh : Anno Dom. 1681. Caption title. Royal arms at head of text; initial letter. Intentional blank spaces in text. Dated at end: Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the sixth day of October, one thousand six hundred and eighty one, and of Our Reign, the thretty three year. Signed: Pat. Menzeis, Cls. Sti. Concilii. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. 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Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. 2008-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-10 SPi Global Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-12 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-12 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A PROCLAMATION , Imposing a further Custom upon Wines and Tobacco , &c. CHARLES , by the Grace of GOD , King of Great-Britain , France and Ireland , Defender of the Faith , To Our Lovites _____ Macers of Our Privy Council , or Messengers at Arms , Our Sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , Greeting : Forasmuch , as by the twenty sixth Act of the third Session of Our first Parliament , The Ordering and Disposal of Trade with Forreign Countreys , and the laying of Restraints and Impositions upon Forreign Imported Commodities , is asserted to belong to Us and Our Royal Successors , as an undoubted Priviledge and Prerogative of the Crown ; and that by vertue thereof , We may lay such Impositions and Restraints upon Forreign imported Commodities , and so Order and Dispose upon the Trade of them , as We shall judge sit for the good of Our Kingdom : And whereas , by an Act and Proclamation of the eleventh of April last , upon consideration of the great detriment Our Customes and Excise might sustain by a Prohibition put upon several Forreign Commodities , deduction of the Excise of that imployed upon Fishes and other allowances , given for the encouragement of Manufactures and building of Ships ; We did for ballance of some part thereof , appoint a further Duty to be put upon Wine and Tobacco , which is found to be very far short in ballancing and compensing the foresaid loss : Wherefore We , with advice of Our Privy Council , conform to the Power given Us by the said Act of Parliament , Ordain , that each Tun of French , Spanish and Rhenish Wine , which formerly payed thirty pound Scots of Custom , shall hereafter pay thirty pound Scots more , being in all threescore pounds Scots , with the burden of the Bullion as formerly , by way of Custom : And each pound of Tobacco coming immediatly from the Plantations , pay hereafter two shilling four pennies Scots of Custom , and eight pennies Scots of Excise : And each pound of all other Tobacco , coming from any other place , except the Plantations , pay five shilling Scots of Custom ; and twelve pennies of Excise , making in all six shilling Scots of Custom and Excise , each pound weight . And whereas , by the Act of Parliament , Anno 1669. the Merchant exporter is to have allowed or repayed by the Customers , ten pounds four shilling Scots for the Salt of each exported Last of Herrings : And that by an Act of Parliament , Anno 1673. anent the taking away the Pre-emption of Salt , It is appointed that the exporters of Herring , shall only be free of Custom at the export , being only twenty four shilling Scots per Last ; And that by the foresaid Proclamation following thereupon , the Merchant exporter is to have allowance according to the first Act of Parliament , without considering that We did quite the Excise then payable to him upon In-land Salt , being fifteen shilling Scots per Linlithgow Boll , which would have extended to much more then what is to be returned to the Merchants for their exported Herrings ; and that the Act 1673. does take away all pretences thereto . Therefore We Ordain , that the said Act , 1673. shall stand in full force , and that no allowance be given for exported Herrings , notwithstanding of the said Act of Council and Proclamation foresaid , following thereupon , appointing repayment for exported Herrings , according to the Act of Parliament foresaid , in the year , 1669. And Ordains the Collectors or Fermorers of Our Custom and Excise , present and to come , their Deputs , Servants and Waiters , to uplift and exact the said Custom and Excise upon the saids Goods , as the same is now Imposed in time coming , whether Our Customes and Excise be uplifted by Collection or Ferm , any former Act to the contrair notwithstanding . And We ordain these Presents to be Published at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh , and other places needful , that none pretend ignorance . Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the sixth day of October , one thousand six hundred and eighty one , And of Our Reign , the thretty three year . Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii . PAT . MENZEIS , Cls Sti. Concilii . God save the KING . Edinburgh , Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most Sacred Majesty , Anno DOM. 1681.