❧ By the Queene.
A Proclamation for the prices of Wines.
WHere it is ordained and prouided by a Statute, made and established in the Parliament holden at Westminster the eight day of Iune, in the xxviii. yeere of the raigne of the Queens Maiesties dearly beloued Father, of famous memorie, King Henry the eight, that the prices of all kinde of Wines (that is to say) of the Tunne, Butt, Pype, Punchion, Hogshead, Tyerse, Barrel & Rundlet, when it should be sold in grosse, should be limited and declared by the Lord Chauncelour of England, Lorde Treasourer of England, Lord President of the said Kings most honourable priuie counsel, Lord priuy Seale, & the two chiefe Iustices of either bench, or fiue, foure, or three of them, & that the same shoulde bee solde according to the same prices so by them set and taxed, vpon payne and penalty contayned in the sayd Act: Forasmuch as the Lord Chancelour of England, Lord Treasourer of England, and the two Lord chiefe Iustices, for diuers considerations them mouing, and according to the effect and meaning of the sayde [...]tatute and Acte, haue in writing by their deliberate aduises, vpon conference had with sundry persons thereto requisite, taxed, limitted, assigned and appoynted the prices of Gascoigne and French wines to be sold within this her highnesse Realme for this yeere following (that is to say) Euery Tunne of the best Gascoigne and French wines to be solde (the seller bearing all the charges due and payable to her Maiesty in her Custome house) after the rate and price of xv. li. sterling the Tunne and not aboue: The buyer bearing all the sayd charges, after the price and rate of xii. li. vi. s. viii. d. sterling the Tunne, and not aboue. And euery Pype, Butte, Hogshead, Tyerse, Barrel, Rundlet, and other vessels of the same seuerall wines to be sold in grosse after their quantities according to the same rates, and not aboue. And euery Tunne of Rochel and other small & thinne wines to be solde (the seller bearing all the charges due and payable to her Maiestie in her Custome house) [...]ter the price and rate of xiii. li. sterling the Tunne, and not aboue. And the buyer bearing the said charges, at x. li. vi. s. viii, d. sterling the Tunne, and not aboue. And euery Butte, Pipe, Hogshead, Tyerse, Barrell, Rundlet, and other vessels of the same seueral wines to be sold in grosse after their quantities, according to the same rates, and not aboue.
The Queenes most excellent Maiestie therefore straightly chargeth and commandeth all and singular her louing Subiects and others putting any maner Gascoigne, French, Rochel, or other small or thinne wines to sale within this her highnesse Realme, that they, ne any of them in any maner of wise by any craft, couin, to priuate agreement shall sell any Gascoigne, French, Rochel, or other small or thinne wines, otherwise then is aboue limitted, vpon paine to forfait and pay such penaltie as is conteined and expressed in the said statute, or in any other statute made or ordeined for the same. And moreouer her highnes pleasure and commandement is, that all and singular Maiors, Sheriffes, Bayliffes, Constables and other officers to whom it apperteineth, that they, and euery of them with diligence, cause and see that this her Proclamation be put in due execution after the tenour of the same, and also according to an other Acte of Parliament established in the [...] Parliament aboue rehearsed, against such as will refuse to sell their wines at prices taxed as is aforesayde, as they will answere thereto at their perils.
Giuen at our mannor of Richmond the eighteenth day of December in the xxxii. yeere of our raigne.
God saue the Queene.
❧ Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie.