Foraſmuch as We, from the great care We alwayes 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 12th. Act of our Current Parliament, in the Moneth 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 have had great parts of their Stocks in theſe Commodities upon their hands, We thought it not then fit to make a total and immediat 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 Ambiguity 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 unwarrantably 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 againſt 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 Prohibite and Diſcharge all Merchants within this Kingdom, or other Trafficquers, Men, or Women, to Buy, or Sell, 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 the Date hereof, except they know, and can be able to declare upon Oath they were either made in the Kingdom, or lawfully Imported, preceeding the Prohibition contained in the Act of Parliament, and Proclamation foreſaid, under the Penalties and Certifications therein contained, to be inflicted on them, without favour or deſalcation. 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 Edinburgh, 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 off the Kingdom at any time betwixt 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 puniſned, conform to the ſaid Act of Parliament.