Forasmuch as We, from the great care We always had of the Advancement of the Trade and Manufactories of this Our Ancient Kingdom, have made several good Laws and Acts thereanent, and particularly, by the 18th. Act of our Current Parliament, in the Month of September, 1681. Relative to our former Proclamation in April, preceeding; The Importing, Selling, Venting, Bartering, or Ex­changing of diverse Commodities therein named, is Prohibited and Discharged, under the Certifications and Penalties exprest therein: And albeit We then understood that the Importing, and Venting of these Prohibi­ted Commodities could hardly be restrained without a total Prohibition had been given to the wearing there­of; yet out of a tenderness to the Merchants, who might have had great parts of their Stocks in these Commo­dities upon their hands, We thought it not then fit to make a total and immediate Prohibition to the Wearing, but ordained them to be put under Bond, not to Import any of these Prohibited Goods thereafter, nor to Vent, Sell, Barter, or Exchange any thereof, upon hazard of incurring the Certifications contained therein: And notwithstanding there hath been more then sufficient time allowed to the Merchants to have sold off these Pro­hibited Goods, yet upon pretext thereof, and of the Abiguity of the words in the Bond, that they are only o­bliged not to Vent, Sell, Barter, or Exchange any of these Goods, that at the buying or receiving thereof were known to have been Imported, contrary to the Laws; diverse Persons have presumed to Import, at the least to Reset Commodities unwarrantable Imported, and to Vent, Sell, Barter, and Exchange the same, so that there­by the Execution of the Law hath been hitherto evacuated and eluded, and honest Men, who out of Consci­ence and Duty have given obedience, in hazard to be ruined, and the Trade and Manufactory of the King­dom overturned and destroyed; and although we had more then reason to have inforced the Execution of the saids good Laws, by the examplary punishment of persons most guilty: Nevertheless We, according to Our accustomed Clemency, have thought fit to continue any Sentence upon the Process in dependence a gainst them, at the instance of our Advocat, till we shall have occasion to know their future behaviour. And in the mean time, for Explicating and making the said Act of Parliament effectual for the good ends therein design­ed, We with Advice of Our Privy Council hereby Prohibit and Discharge all Merchants within this King­dom, or other Trafficquers, Men, or Women, to Buy, Sell, or Barter, or Exchange with themselves, or among others, any Cloaths, Stuffs, Sarges, Holland, Cambridge, Silk stockings, or any Goods made of Wool, or Lint, after tho Date hereof, except they know and can be able to declare upon Oath they were either made in the Kingdom, or lawfully Imported, preceding the Prohibition contained in the Act of Parliament and Proclamati­on aforesaid, under the Penalties and Certifications therein contained, to be inflicted on them, without favour or defalcation. And in respect diverse Persons have, or may pretend to have such Goods in their custody, as to which they cannot positively declare upon Oath that they were Imported before the Prohibition, as having come through several hands: We do allow the Merchants Burgesses of Edenburgh, and others, havers of such Goods in their Possession, before the Date hereof (who did take the Bond, and give up Inventar, and none o­thers) liberty to Retail the same to the Liedges, or Export them out of the Kingdom at any time betwixt this and the first of November next; Certifying such as shall upon pretext hereof Import any Prohibited Commodi­ties, or Vent, Sell, Barter, or Exchange any thereof after the said day, the same shall be Confiscat, Burnt, and Destroyed, and the Persons guilty otherwise punished, conform to the said Act of Parliament.

GOD save the KING.