THe Estates of Parliament considering, how much it concernes the credit and wealth of the Kingdom, that our own native Commodities be manufactured amongst our selves, and that the endeavours of such persons as are setting up Manufacturies and Trades have been, and are much retarded, by the importation of such forreign Commodities as may be made within the Kingdom. Therefore, and for their due encouragment, the Kings Majesty, with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament, Statutes and Ordains, that from and after the first day of September next, twelve pounds Scots upon ilk ell of broad English Cloath; six pounds upon ilk ell, of York-shire and all narrow Cloath; two pounds eight shillings upon ilk ell of Searge; thirty shillings upon ilk ell of Castilians; fourty eight pounds upon ilk Beaver-hat; twenty four pounds upon ilk Demy beaver[?] [...] vigon[?]; and three pounds upon the piece of ilk common Hat; thirty six pounds upon the [...] four pounds upon the dozen of Stag-gloves▪[?], and [...] pounds upon the dozen[?] of [...], C [...]s, Kid or Shiverings; and twenty four shillings upon ilk pound of Tobacco imported either for sale[?] or private use into this Kingdom from England, all Scots money, Be exacted, levied and collected and fourscore per cent. upon all other sorts of Commodities imported into this Kingdom from England, and not particularly named[?] in this Act, and upon all the growth and manufactury of that Kingdom, though imported from any other place, and that over and above all other impositions put upon the same already. And to the effect this present Act may be the more exactly put to execution, It is Statute and Ordained, that all Goods imported from England, or of the growth and manufactury of England, not above particularly exprest, shall be valued, after sighting, by two skilfull honest men upon oath, to be nominate by the Dean of Gild or his Assessors, or Magistrates of the Burgh, or next adjacent Burgh to the Custom-office where the saids G [...] are entered, or by the oath of the party to whom the saids Goods belongs, and accordingly pay the said f [...]score per cent. And the Lords Thesaurer and Thesaurer-depute, and Lords of His Maiesties Exchequer, are hereby required to take an Oath, and Bond with sufficient Caution, from the Farmers or Collectors of the saids impositions, that they shall exactly collect the same, without any abatement thereof, directly or in directly; and that they shall not suffer any of the saids Goods to pass or be conveyed away un-entered, and that under the penalty of the worth of the saids Goods, if the contrary shall be made appear, the one half thereof to His Maiesties use, and the other half to the informer, and under the pain of forfaulting their Lacks and Commissions, and being declared incapable to farm or collect, in any time thereafter, any Custom, Ex­cise, or other Imposition whatsoever within this Kingdom. And if any of the foresaids Goods or Com­modities shall be informed and made appear to be brought in, or shall be seized upon, not being entered in the Custom-office, or any other Office appointed for that effect, then the same to be wholly confiscate, the one half to His Maiesties use, and the other half to the first informer or seizer thereof. And Ordains these presents to be printed, and published at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, and other places needfull, where-through none may pretend ignorance of the same.