WHereas the King and Queén's most Excellent Majesties, Considering the great Prejudice and Damage to the En­glish Artificers and Handicrafts, and the general Impo­verishment of this Kingdom, by the extraordinary Impor­tation and Use of the Commodities and Manufactures of France: And Resolving with the help of Almighty God by a Iust and necessary War, to Deliver this Kingdom, and other Their Dominions, from the Injuries, Aggres­sions, and Dangers done, made, and occasioned by the French King, did Issue Their Proclamation bearing Date the Twenty fifth day of April last, Intituled (A Proclama­tion Prohibiting the Importation of all sorts of Manufactures and Commodities whatsoever, of the Growth, Production, or Manufa­cture of France) which War Their Majesties have lately Declared. Now Their Maje­sties finding it expedient to alter the said Proclamation, and to the Iutent to render Their Royal Purposes more duly and effectually Practicable, Have thought fit by and with the Advice of Their Privy Council, to Discharge the said Proclamation; and by the same Advice, do hereby Publish and Declare, and straitly Charge and Command, That no Goods, Merchandizes, or Commodities whatsoever of the Growth, Product, or Manufacture of France, or of the Dominions of the French King, shall at any time af­ter the Five and twentieth day of this instant May, be brought or Imported into any of Their Majesties Realms or Dominions, or any Port or Creek of the same; Or if so brought or Imported, shall not be Retailed, Uttered, Bartered or Sold by any Per­son or Persons whatsoever, upon pain of Confiscation and Forfeiture thereof to Their Majesties Use; Of which Confiscation and Forfeitures, Their Majesties are pleased the Informer shall have one Moiety; And hereof Their Majesties Pleasure is, That all Persons whom it may Concern, do take Notice at their Peril; And to that End, do straitly Charge and Command as well all and every the Officers of the Admiral­ty, as also all and singular Customers, Comptrollors, Searchers, Waiters, and other Officers, and all other Their Loving Subjects, that they and every of them respe­ctively take special Care, that this Their Royal Pleasure and Command be put in due Execution.

Given at Our Court at Hampton-Court the Eighteenth day of May, 1689. In the First Year of Our Reign.

God Save King WILLIAM and Queen MARY.