FOr further Explanation of the late Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, touching the Excise, or New-Impost, upon the severall Commodities therein mentioned.

Be it now Declared and Ordained by the said Lords and Commons in Parliament, for the better inabling and incoura­ging of the Brewers, and Makers of Beer, Ale, Perry, and Cider, (who are the parties that are to pay the Excise, as by the said Ordinance is appoin­ted) to make due payment thereof accordingly, That no Beer, Ale, Perry or Cider, shall be delivered out by the Brewer or Maker thereof, or any for them, to any Retailer or other Buyer thereof, till the Rate and Price which is by them to be paid, for, and in respect of the Excise, be paid by the Vi­ctualler or Retailer thereof, to the Brewer, or first Seller thereof, on pain, That as well the Retailer or Buyer, as the Brewer, or the first Seller there­of, shall forfeit for the first offence, double the value of every quantity of Beer, Ale, Perry, or Cider, so delivered out, or received by the party so offending, and for the second offence treble the value thereof, and the party so offending, to be disabled from using their said Trades or Professions, re­spectively for the space of one whole yeer then next ensuing, the said for­feitures to be levyed and imployed in such manner and to such uses, as by the said Ordinance is appointed for the penalties therein mentioned. And be it Declared, and further Ordained, That the Rates set upon every Barrell of Beer and Ale, by the said Ordinance, shall be paid for every greater or lesser quantity, proportionably after the same Rate; And be it also further Ordered and Ordained, That for all Beer of four shillings the Barrell or un­der, the Excise shall be paid after the Rate of six pence for every Barrell, and so after that Rate for a greater or lesser quantity, under the penalties and forfeitures in and by the said Ordinance appointed: Provided alwayes, and be it Ordained, That no Brewers, or Retailers of any Beer, Ale, Perry or Cider, shall take any more in the Price thereof upon the sale of the same Commodities, then according to the usuall Rates and Prices appointed by Law for the same (excepting onely the Rate of the Excise) as they will answer their contempts herein to both Houses of Parliament.

And as touching old and new Draperies, It is Declared and Ordained, That the Excise due and payable for the same, shall be paid by the Shop­keeper, who buyes the same to sell again.