to his grace, his majestys high commissioner, and the honourable estates of parliament the petition of several nobles and barrons [sic] concerned in burghs of regality and barrony, and other inhabitants within this kingdom. 1698 approx. 2 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b06103 wing t1363d estc r185109 53299317 ocm 53299317 180044 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b06103) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 180044) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2811:11) to his grace, his majestys high commissioner, and the honourable estates of parliament the petition of several nobles and barrons [sic] concerned in burghs of regality and barrony, and other inhabitants within this kingdom. scotland. sovereign (1694-1702 : william ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [edinburgh : 1698?] caption title. place and date of publication suggested by wing (2nd ed.). reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. scotland -commerce -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-02 elspeth healey sampled and proofread 2008-02 elspeth healey text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to his grace , his majesty's high commissioner . and the honourable estates of parliament the petition of several nobles and barrons concerned in burghs of regality and barrony , and other inhabitants within this kingdom . humbly sheweth that there being an act offered to your grace and lordships , for explaining the import of the words in the act of parliament 1693 ( anent communication of trade ) discharging all persons whatsomever to exercise any kind of trade ; which we humbly conceive did not extend to the trading in the native commodities of the kingdom , or to handycrafts-men following their several imployments , or to retailing forreign commodities bought from burgesses of royal burghs ; the saids priviledges being secured to us by former laws , no ways abtogat or rescinded . when the said act was moved , after some little debate it was laid aside and delayed . and seing the explaining of the saids words is a matter of universal concern to this kingdom , may it therefore please your grace and lordships to call for the said act , which lyes in the clerk's hand , and to explain and declare your meaning by the forsaid words ; that the leidges may be determined thereanent , and freed from the expenses of further quibbling thereupon . act continuing the importation of irish meal & oats, and allowing bear to be imported until the fifteen day of may next. edinburgh, february 25th. 1696. scotland. privy council. 1696 approx. 2 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05309 wing s1406 estc r182986 52528901 ocm 52528901 178921 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05309) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 178921) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2774:60) act continuing the importation of irish meal & oats, and allowing bear to be imported until the fifteen day of may next. edinburgh, february 25th. 1696. scotland. privy council. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson, printer to his most excellent majesty, edinburgh : anno dom. 1696. caption title. initial letter. signed: gilb. eliot, cls. sti. concilii. imperfect: cropped with slight loss of text. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grain trade -law and legislation -ireland -early works to 1800. grain trade -law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. beer industry -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2009-01 megan marion sampled and proofread 2009-01 megan marion text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion act continuing the importation of irish meal & oats , and allowing bear to be imported until the fifteen day of may next . edinburgh , february 25th . 1696. the lords of his majesties privy council , being informed that the prices of meal , oats and bear in the western shires of this kingdom , does still continue above the rates set down in the act of parliament one thousand six hundred and seventy two : do therefore according to the power given to them by the foresaid act , allow the importation of meal , oats and bear ( but of no other grain ) from ireland , to any port or part betwixt the mouth of annand , and the head of kintyre , and that until the fifteen day of may next to come inclusivè : and therefore , do hereby suspend all proclamations and commissions made for restraining the said importation during the said time and space of permission , but prejudice always to the prohibition contained in the foresaid act , after the said fifteen day of may next inclusivè and like ways , as to all the other ports and parts of this kingdom not hereby priviledged , as if this allowance had not been granted ; and ordains these presents to be published and printed , extracted by me gilb . eliot , cls. sti. concilii . edinburgh , printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson , printer to his most excellent majesty 〈…〉 by the king, a proclamation for the free exportation of woollen manufactures of this kingdom from the twentieth day of may until the five and twentieth day of december next. england and wales. sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii) 1662 approx. 2 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a32558 wing c3483 estc r33423 13304450 ocm 13304450 98967 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a32558) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 98967) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1546:37) by the king, a proclamation for the free exportation of woollen manufactures of this kingdom from the twentieth day of may until the five and twentieth day of december next. england and wales. sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii) charles ii, king of england, 1630-1685. 1 broadside. printed by john bill and christopher barker ..., london : 1662. "given at our court at whitehal, the fourteenth day of may 1662, in the fourteenth year of our reign." reproduction of original in the harvard library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng foreign trade regulation -england. wool industry -law and legislation -england. 2008-07 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-09 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-09 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion c r diev et mondroit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the king. a proclamation for the free exportation of woollen manufactures of this kingdom , from the twentieth day of may , until the five and twentieth day of december next . charles r. whereas his most excellent majesty is informed of much decay in the trade of cloth , and other woollen manufactures of this kingdom , and that great quantities of woollen clothes do at present lie dead on the hands of many poor clothiers : his majesty therefore out of his princely clemency , and tender compassion to the necessities of his poor subjects , doth by the advice of his privy council , and with the free consent of the company of merchant adventurers of england , hereby give free liberty and licence to all his loving subjects , from the twentieth day of may instant , until the five and twentieth day of december next , to transport and carry out of this kingdom , all woollen manufactures whatsoever , to any port or place beyond the seas , lying within the limits and bounds of the said merchant adventurers patent , except the mart towns of dort and hamburgh . yet his majesty would not hereby be thought to have a light esteem of the services of that company to himself , and the crown in former times ; nor of their usefulness towards the advance and increase of the trade of this kingdom ; nor doth his majesty by this temporary dispensation , intend to lessen the authority of their charter , as to the government of that society , either at home or abroad . and his majesty doth hereby require and command , that during the time of this licence and dispensation , due payment be made of all duties for licensing the exportation of white clothes to the said company , being lessees to his majesties farmers thereof . given at our court at whitehal , the fourteenth day of may , 1662. in the fourteenth year of our reign . god save the king. london , printed by john bill and christopher barker , printers to the kings most excellent majesty . 1662. by the king and queen, a proclamation william r. england and wales. sovereign (1689-1694 : william and mary) 1689 approx. 2 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a66249 wing w2526 estc r14698 12940085 ocm 12940085 95849 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a66249) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 95849) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 991:25) by the king and queen, a proclamation william r. england and wales. sovereign (1689-1694 : william and mary) mary ii, queen of england, 1662-1694. william iii, king of england, 1650-1702. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by charles bill and thomas newcomb ..., london : 1689. reproduction of original in huntington library. broadside. prohibits trade between england and ireland without specific royal permission. at end of text: given at our court at hampton-court, the sixth day of june, 1689. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng foreign trade regulation -england -early works to 1800. ireland -history -war of 1689-1691 -sources. great britain -history -william and mary, 1689-1702 -sources. broadsides 2008-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-08 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-08 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion by the king and queen , a proclamation . william r. whereas the french king hath lately caused our kingdom of ireland in a hostile manner to be invaded by a great number of officers , soldiers , and others , and hath raised and carried on a war against vs in our said kingdom , and furnished our rebellious subjects there with arms , ammunition , and money , to the apparent danger and hazard of that our kingdom ; we have therefore thought fit , and by and with the advice of our privy council , we do by this our royal proclamation , strictly prohibit and forbid all and every our loving subjects , and all other persons whatsoever , within these our dominions , to trade or traffick with any person or persons whatsoever in our said kingdom of ireland , without our leave first obtained in that behalf , or correspond or have communication with any person in any parts or places within the same , except such as are in obedience to our government , upon pain of our utmost displeasure , and of being proceeded against as persons holding correspondence with rebels and enemies . and we do hereby require and command all and singular iustices of the peace , mayors , sheriffs , bailiffs , constables , and other our officers and subjects , to use their endeavours in and for the discovery and apprehending of all offenders herein , to the intent that they may be prosecuted and punished according to the utmost rigour and severity of law. given at our court at hampton-court , the sixth day of june , 1689. in the first year of our reign . god save king william and queen mary . london , printed by charles bill , and thomas newcomb , printers to the king and queen's most excellent majesties . 1689. a proclamation against the importation of victuall scotland. privy council. 1676 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05474 wing s1610b estc r183345 52612438 ocm 52612438 179595 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05474) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179595) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2793:67) a proclamation against the importation of victuall scotland. privy council. gibson, alexander, sir, d. 1693. scotland. sovereign (1649-1685 : charles ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by andrew anderson, printer to his most sacred majesty, edinburgh : anno 1676. caption title. royal arms at head of text; initial letter. intentional blank spaces in text. dated: given under our signet at edinburgh, the twenty fourth day of february, 1676 and of our reign the twenty eight year. signed: al. gibson cl. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. food law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2009-01 scott lepisto sampled and proofread 2009-01 scott lepisto text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion royal blazon or coat of arms c r 〈…〉 a proclamation against the importation of victuall . charles , by the grace of god , king of great brittain , france and ireland , defender of the faith ; to our lovits , _____ macers , or messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly , and severally , specially constitute , greeting : forasmuch , as upon representation to our privy council , of the great scarcity and dearth of victual in some western shires of this kingdom ; they did , by their act , of the second of december last , grant licence for importing oats , oat-meal , and pease , to the shires of vvigtoun , air , renfrew , and stewartrie of kircudburgh , for supplying the necessity of these places until furder order : and seeing now , by reason of great quantities of victual imported since the said licence was granted , the rates and pryces of victual in this kingdom are much fallen , and that the continuation of the said licence any longer , would prove very prejudicial to our subjects of this kingdom ; we have thought fit , with advice of the lords of our privy council , to discharge and take off the foresaid licence , and to renew our former proclamation against importing of victual , of the date the fourth of may , 1671. likeas , we , with advice foresaid , do hereby restrain and discharge the importation of victual of any kind into this kingdom after the eleventh day of march next , under the pains following , viz. for such victual as shall be imported from ireland , under the pains contained in the third act of the third session of our second parliament , and for any victual imported from other forraign places , under the pains contained in our said former proclamation , which shall be inflicted upon the contraveeners with all rigour . and ordains thir presents to be printed , and published at the mercat-crosses of edinburgh , glasgow , air , and other places needful , that none may pretend ignorance . given under our signet at edinburgh , the twenty fourth day of february , 1676. and of our reign the twenty eight year . al. gibson cl. s ti . concilii . god save the king. edinburgh , printed by andrew anderson , printer to his most sacred majesty . anno. 1676. by the king. a proclamation for the free exportation of woollen manufactures, until the twenty fifth day of december next proclamations. 1667-03-29. england and wales. sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii) 1667 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a32560 wing c3485 estc r214849 99826905 99826905 31316 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a32560) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 31316) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2048:4) by the king. a proclamation for the free exportation of woollen manufactures, until the twenty fifth day of december next proclamations. 1667-03-29. england and wales. sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) in the savoy, printed by the assigns of john bill and christopher barker, his majesties printers, [london] : 1667. "given at our court at whitehall the 29th day of march, in the nineteenth year of our reign. 1667.". arms 75; steele notation: of turers practise. reproduction of the original in the cambridge university library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng foreign trade regulation -england -early works to 1800. wool industry -law and legislation -great britain -early works to 1800. 2008-07 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-09 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-09 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion c r diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the king. a proclamation for the free exportation of woollen manufactures , until the twenty fifth day of december next . charles r. whereas the kings most excellent majesty , by his proclamation of the 15 th of april last , upon the considerations therein expressed , did give freé liberty and licence to all and every person and persons whatsoever , from the day of the date thereof , until the twenty fifth day of december then next , to transport and carry out of this kingdom , all woollen manufactures whatsoever , to any port or place beyond the seas , lying within the limits and bounds of the merchant-adventurers patent ( except the mart-towns of dort and hamburgh ) and whereas several merchants and clothiers in the western , and other parts of this kingdom , have humbly besought his majesty , that by reason of the great decay in the trade of cloth , and other woollen manufactures of this kingdom , his majesty would be graciously pleased to grant them twelve moneths longer , for a free exportation of the said manufactures ; his majesty therefore doth by the advice of his privy council , hereby give freé liberty and licence to all and every person and persons whatsoever , as well natives and denizens , as strangers and forreigners , until the five and twentieth day of december next , to transport and carry out of this kingdom all woollen manufactures whatsoever , to any port or place beyond the seas , lying within the limits and bounds of the said merchant-adventurers patent ( except the mart-towns of dort and hamburgh ) yet his majesty would not hereby be thought to have a light esteém of the services of that company to himself , and the crown in former times , nor of their usefulness towards the advance and increase of the trade of this kingdom ; nor doth his majesty by this temporary dispensation intend to lessen the authority of their charter , as to the government of that society either at home or abroad . and his majesty doth hereby require and command , that during the time of this licence and dispensation , due payment be made of all duties for licensing the exportation of white clothes , according to former use and practise . given at our court at whitehall the 29 th day of march , in the nineteenth year of our reign . 1667. god save the king. in the savoy , printed by the assigns of john bill and christopher barker , his majesties printers , 1667. a proclamation discharging the importation of forraign victual scotland. privy council. 1691 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05579 wing s1763_variant estc r226022 53299280 ocm 53299280 180012 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05579) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 180012) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2810:37) a proclamation discharging the importation of forraign victual scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1689-1694 : william and mary) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heir of andrew anderson ..., edinburgh, : 1691. caption title. title vignette: royal seal with intertwined initials wm rr. initial letter. intentional blank spaces in text. reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng food law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-10 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-10 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion monogram of 'w' (william) superimposed on' m' (mary) diev et mon droit honi soit qui mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms a proclamation , discharging the importation of forraign victual . william and mary by the grace of god , king and queen of great britain , france and ireland , defenders of the faith , to our lovits , macers of our privy council , messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting ; forasmuch as the importing and bringing from forraign countreys , any wheat , bear , barley , oats , meal , or malt , into this kingdom , is highly prejudicial to the native product thereof , and to the trade upon the growth of the same , and gives occasion to the unwarrantable exporting of much money forth of this realm : for preventing whereof , and obviating the inconveniencies that follow thereupon , we with advice of the lords of our privy council , do hereby strictly prohibite and discharge all persons whatsoever , to import or bring by sea or land into this kingdom , or any of the ports , harbours , towns , or places thereof , any sort or quantity of the victual above-mentioned , without licence had from our saids lords for that effect , under the pain of confiscation of the said victual ; the one half thereof to the person or persons , who shall make discovery of , and seiz upon the same , and the other half thereof , with the ships , barques , or boats , wherein the same shall be imported : to our thesaurie , for our use ; and other punishments to be inflicted upon them , conform to the acts of parliament made thereanent ; and ordains all our collectors , surveyers , and waiters within this kingdom , at the respective ports , harbours , and places where they serve , to see this act punctually observed , as they will be answerable at their highest perril ; with certification to such as shall be found negligent therein , they shall incur the loss of their respective offices . our will is herefore , and we charge you straitly , and command that incontinent , these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and whole other mercat-crosses of the royal burrows , and sea-ports within this kingdom , and thereat make publick intimation of our pleasure in the premisses , to the effect none may pretend ignorance . given under our signet at edinburgh , the sixth day of january , and of our reign the second year , 1691. per actum dominorum secreti concilii . gilb . eliot cls. sti. concilii . god save king william and queen mary . edinburgh , printed by the heir of andrew anderson , printer to their most excellent majesties , anno dom. 1691. a proclamation, discharging the importation of forraign victual. scotland. privy council. 1692 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05580 wing s1763 estc r226022 52528954 ocm 52528954 179028 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05580) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179028) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:17) a proclamation, discharging the importation of forraign victual. scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1689-1694 : william and mary) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heir of andrew anderson, printer to their most excellent majesties, edinburgh : anno dom. 1692. caption title. initial letter. intentional blank spaces in text. dated: given under our signet at edinburgh, the third day of may. and of our reign, the fourth year, 1692. signed: da. moncrief, cls. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng food law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-10 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-10 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion depiction of scottish thistle, fleur-de-lis, tudor rose a proclamation , discharging the importation of forraign victual . william and mary , by the grace of god , king and queen of great-britain , france , and ireland , defenders of the faith ; to macers of our privy council , or messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting : forasmuch , as the importing and bringing from forreign countries , any wheat , bear , barly , oats , meal , malt , pease , beans , or ry into this kingdom , is highly prejudicial to the native product thereof , and to the trade upon the growth of the same , and gives occasion to the unwarrantable exporting of much money forth of this realm ; for preventing whereof , and obviating the inconveniencies that follow whereupon , we , with the advice of the lords of our privy council , do hereby strictly prohibit and discharge , all persons whatsomever , to import , or bring by sea or land , into this kingdom , or any of the ports , harbours , towns , or places thereof ; any sort or quantity of the victual abovementioned , excepting white-pease allanerly , under the pain of confiscation of the said victual , the one half to the person or persons who shall seize or make discovery , and prove the importing of the same , either contrary to our former proclamation , of the date the sixth day of january , 1691. or to these presents ; and the other half thereof , with the ships , barks or boats , wherein the same shall be imported : to our thesaury , for our use , and other punishments to be inflicted upon them , conform to the acts of parliament made thereanent ; and ordains all our collectors , surveyers , and waiters within this kingdom , and the respective ports , harbours , and places , where they serve , to see this act punctually observed , as they will be answerable at their highest peril ; with certification to such as shall be found negligent therein , they shall incur the loss of their respective offices . our will is here fore , and we charge you straitly and command , that incontinent these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and whole other mercat-crosses of the royal burghs , and sea-ports within this kingdom , and thereat , make publick intimation of our pleasure in the premisses , to the effect none may pretend ignorance . and ordains these presents to be printed . given under our signet at edinburgh , the third day of may. and of our reign , the fourth year , 1692. per actum dominorum secreti concilii . in supplimentum signeti . da , moncreif , cls. sti. concilii . god save king william and queen mary . edinburgh , printed by the heir of andrew anderson , printer to their most excellent majesties , anno dom. 1692. by the king and queen, a proclamation for prohibiting the importation, or retailing of any commodities of the growth or manufacture of france england and wales. sovereign (1689-1694 : william and mary) 1689 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a96584 wing w2598 estc r42666 38875554 ocm 38875554 152514 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a96584) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 152514) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2299:24) by the king and queen, a proclamation for prohibiting the importation, or retailing of any commodities of the growth or manufacture of france england and wales. sovereign (1689-1694 : william and mary) william iii, king of england, 1650-1702. mary ii, queen of england, 1662-1694. 1 sheet ([1] p.). printed by charles bill, and thomas newcomb ..., london : 1689. "given at our court at hampton-court the eighteenth day of may, 1689. in the first year of our reign." reproduction of original in: bodleian library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng foreign trade regulation -great britain -early works to 1800. great britain -commerce -france -early works to 1800. france -commerce -great britain -early works to 1800. great britain -history -william and mary, 1689-1702. broadsides -london (england) -17th century. 2007-06 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-08 jason colman sampled and proofread 2007-08 jason colman text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion by the king and queen , a proclamation for prohibiting the importation , or retailing of any commodities of the growth or manufacture of france . william r. 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 . london , printed by charles bill , and thomas newcomb , printers to the king and queen's most excellent majesties . 1689. proclamation discharging the importation of forreign victual. scotland. privy council. 1695 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05581) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179029) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:18) proclamation discharging the importation of forreign victual. scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1694-1702 : william ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heir of andrew anderson, printer to his most excellent majesty, edinburgh : 1695. caption title. royal arms at head of text; initial letter. intentional blank spaces in text. dated: given under our signet at edinburgh, the twenty day of november, and of our reign, the seventh year, 1695. signed: gilb. eliot cls. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng food law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-07 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-07 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion w r diev et mon droit honi soit qui mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms proclamation discharging the importation of forreign victual . wiliam by the grace of god , king of great-britain , france and ireland , defender of the faith , to macers of our privy council , messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting ; forasmuch , as the importing and bringing from forreign countries , any wheat , bear , barley , oats , meal , malt , pease , beans , or rye , into this kingdom ; is highly prejudicial to the native product thereof , and to the trade upon the growth of the same , and gives occasion to the unwarrantbale exporting of much money forth of this realm : for preventing whereof , and obviating the inconveniencies that follow thereupon , we , with advice of the lords of our privy council , do hereby strictly prohibite , and discharge all persons whatsomever , to import , or bring by sea or land , into this kingdom , or any of the ports harbours , towns , or places thereof , any sort or quantity of the victual above-mentioned , excepting white pease allenarly , without licence had from our saids lords for that effect , under the pain of confiscation of the said victual , the one half thereof to the person or persons , who shall make discovery of , and seize upon the same , and the other half thereof , with the ships , barques , or boars wherein the same shall be imported , to our thesaurie for our use ; and other punishments to be inflicted upon them , conform to the acts of parliament made thereanent : and ordains all our collectors , surveyors and waiters , within this kingdom , at the respective ports , harbours and places where they serve , to see this act punctually observed , as they will be answerable at their highest peril ; with certification to such as shall be found negligent therein ; they shall incur the loss of their respective offices . our will is herefore , and we charge you strictly , and command , that incontinent these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and whole other mercat-crosses of the royal-burghs and sea-ports within this kingdom , and thereat , make publick intimation of our pleasure in the premisses , to the effect , none may pretend ignorance : and ordains these presents to be printed . given under our signet at edinburgh the twenty day of november , and of our reign the seventh year . 1695. per actum dominorum sti. concilii . gilb eliot cls. sti. concilii . god save the king . edinburgh , printed by the heirs and successors of andrew andrsoen printer to his most excellent majesty , 1695 a proclamation, for setling of the staple-port at campvere scotland. privy council. 1676 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05689 wing s1921 estc r183545 52612334 ocm 52612334 179637 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05689) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179637) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2794:31) a proclamation, for setling of the staple-port at campvere scotland. privy council. gibson, alexander, sir, d. 1693. scotland. sovereign (1649-1685 : charles ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heir of andrew anderson, printer to his most sacred majesty, edinburgh : anno dom. 1676. caption title. dated at end: given at edinburgh, the eleventh day of october, one thousand six hundred and seventy six years, and of our reign the 28 year. signed: al. gibson, cl. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng free ports and zones -law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. free ports and zones -netherlands -veere -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. scotland -commerce -netherlands -early works to 1800. netherlands -commerce -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-03 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-03 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion cr honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms a proclamation , for setling of the staple-port at campvere . charles , by the grace or god , king of scotland , england , france and ireland , defender of the faith , to our lovits , macers , messengers at arms , our sheriffs , in that part conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting : whereas upon occasion of the unsetled condition of the scots staple in the low-countreys ; the merchants of this our ancient kingdom of scotland have for diverse years past , suffered great prejudice , intheir trade and comerce to those provinces . and being graciously inclined to countenance all fair and just means , for setling of the said staple : we therefore gave full power and commissios to our resident and conservator of the priviledges granted to our subjects of scotland in the low-countreys ; to treat with any town or place most convenient and advantagions for the merchants and trade of this our kingdom : so the articles agreed by him with the commissoners of the prince of orange , and deputies of the town of campvere , for the re-setling of the scots staple-court within the said town , are approven by us : whereupon the said staple court is removed from dort to the town of campvere . and to the end this our royal pleasure , may be made known to all our loving subjects of this our ancient kingdom , we with advice of the lords of our privy council , do ordain pablick proclamation to be made thereof at the usual places of this our kingdom ; that no person may pretend ignorance , but duely obey our royal pleasure herein , as they will answer at their peril . and further , we , wish advice foresaid , do declare that the ancient standing acts of parliament made by our royal progenitors , in favour of the staple-court , and the conservator , are in full force and strength . and further , we ordain the royal burroughs in their meetings to make strick acts , that the staple may be duely observed , which we with advice foresaid , declare to be binding upon all our subjects whatsoever trading to , or residing within any town , or place of the united provinces . and we ordain thir presents to be printed and published at the market cross of edinburgh , and other royal burghs and sea-ports needful , that none may pretend ignorance therof . given at edinburgh , the eleventh day of october , one thousand six hundred and seventy six years , and of our reign the 28 year . al. gibson , cl. sti. concilii . god save the king. edinburgh , printed by the heir of andrew anderson , printer to his most sacred majesty : anno dom. 1676. proclamation, discharging the importing of salt beeff [sic] from ireland into scotland. scotland. privy council. 1695 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05584 wing s1769 estc r233605 52528956 ocm 52528956 179031 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05584) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179031) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:20) proclamation, discharging the importing of salt beeff [sic] from ireland into scotland. scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1694-1702 : william ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson, printer to his most excellent majesty, edinburgh : anno dom. 1695. caption title. royal arms in decorative border at head of text; initial letter. intentional blank spaces in text. dated: given under our signet at edinburgh, the twenty two day of january, and of our reign the sixth year. 1695. signed: gilb. eliot. cls. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng beef industry -law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -ireland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-07 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-07 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion royal blazon or coat of arms proclamation , discharging the importing of salt beeff from ireland into scotland . william by the grace of god king of great britain , france and ireland : defender of the faith ; to macers of our privy council , messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute greeting : forasmuch , as by divers laws and acts of parliament , made by our royal predecessours , the importing and bringing into this kingdom , of any cattel from the kingdom of ireland is discharged , and that by former proclamations emitted thereupon , the importing of salt beeff from the said kingdom of ireland , to this our ancient kingdom , by any of our subjects , is likewise prohibited and discharged under the certifications therein mentioned : and we being resolved , that the saids laws and acts of parliament and proclamations shall be duely execute , and obeyed in time coming . therefore we with advice of the lords of our privy council , do strictly prohibit and discharge the importing , and bringing into this kingdom any irish salt beeff , by whatsomever person or persons , after the first day of march next to come : unless by merchants , who buyes the same in ireland to be exported , and does accordingly export the same to any forraign countrey , out of this kingdom : but no ways to be sold disposed , or made use of within the kingdom of scotland after the day foresaid : and that the saids merchants , who shall buy any irish salt beeff to be exported in manner above-mentioned , shall on no ways liver , or put the samine on shoar at any part within this kingdom , but shall keep the same on board of their ship , or vessel water-born , until the samine shall be exported by them in manner foresaid ; certifying all such who shall contraveen the premises , or reset , conceal , or make use of any of the salt beeff so imported from the kingdom of ireland , the samine shall not onely be confiscat , but the importers , resetters , vsers and concealers thereof shall be otherwise punished , as the lords of our privy council shall judge their transgression to deserve . and we with advice foresaid , require and command all magistrats of burghs , collectors , and waiters at the several sea ports within this kingdom , to see the premises duely observed , and exactly put to execution , as they will be answerable . our will is herefore , and we charge you strictly aud command , that incontinent , these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and to the remnant mercat-crosses of the head burghs of the several shires within this kingdom , and there in our name and authority , by open proclamation make intimation of the premises . given under our signet at edinburgh , the twenty two day of january , and of our reign the sixth year . 1695. per actum dominorum secreti concilii . gilb . eliot . cls. sti. concilii . god save king william . edinburgh , printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson , printer to his most excellent majesty , anno dom , 1695. proclamation, recalling former acts or proclamations, declaring forraign victual free of duty, and ordaining all victuall to be imported to pay duty as before the saids former acts and proclamation. scotland. privy council. 1697 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05726 wing s1973 estc r183582 52529002 ocm 52529002 179112 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05726) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179112) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2777:5) proclamation, recalling former acts or proclamations, declaring forraign victual free of duty, and ordaining all victuall to be imported to pay duty as before the saids former acts and proclamation. scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1694-1702 : william ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson, printer to the king's most excellent majesty, edinburgh : 1697. caption title. initial letter. intentional blank spaces in text. dated: given under our signet at edinburgh, the twenty one day of july, and of our reign the ninth year, 1697. signed: gilb. eliot cls. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng food law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. taxation -law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-03 john pas sampled and proofread 2008-10 spi global rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-12 john pas sampled and proofread 2008-12 john pas text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion proclamation , recalling former acts or proclamations , declaring forraign victual free of duty , and ordaining all victuall to be imported to pay duty as before the saids former acts and proclamation . william by the grace of god , king of great-britain , france and ireland , defender of the faith , to our lovits , _____ macers of our privy council , messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting ; forasmuch , as by our proclamation of the date , the sixth day of august , one thousand six hundred ninety six years , the exacting of any custom , excise , or other imposition said upon victual imported into this kingdom by sea or land , from any other countrey , by any act of parliament , or book of rates , was discharged : and sicklike , by an act of the lords of our privy council , dated the 29 day of december , one thousand six hundred ninety six years , all victual imported into this kingdom from abroad , was declared to be free of all custom and excise , or other publick duties whatsomever : and seing the foresaid proclamation and act of council were past and published , for encouraging such who should import victual , for relief of the poor , under the then scarcity and dearth , which now are competently provided against , by the plenty of victual already imported , and the old victual yet in the countrey not consumed or spent : and there being likewise the prospect of a very good harvest , and plentiful cropt approaching . therefore we , with advice of the lords of our privy council , have discharged the foresaid proclamation , and act of council , and declare the same to be of no furder force ; and hereby ordain the collectors , and others imployed in uplifting and collecting our customs , to levy and collect the custom , excise , and other duties imposed upon victual imported from any forraign countrey : by sea or land , by whatsomever law , or act of parliament , and appoint them to be comptable to us therefore , conform to the laws made thereanent , as they were lyable to do before the said proclamation , or act. our will is herefore , and we charge you straitly , and command , that incontinent these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and to the remanent mercat-crosses of the head burghs of the several shires and stewartries within this kingdom , and there in our name and authority make intimation hereof , that none pretend ignorance . and ordains these presents to be printed . given under our signet at edinburgh , the twenty one day of july , and of our reign the ninth year , 1697. per actum dominorum secreti concilii gilb . eliot cls. sti. concilii . god save the king. edinburgh , printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson , printer to the king 's most excellent majesty , 1697 by the king a proclamation prohibiting the importation of earthen ware. england and wales. sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii) 1676 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a32606) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 110262) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1736:21) by the king a proclamation prohibiting the importation of earthen ware. england and wales. sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii) charles ii, king of england, 1630-1685. 1 sheet ([1] p.). printed by the assigns of john bill and christopher barker ..., london : 1676. "given at our court at whitehall the fifteenth day of december 1676. in the eight and twentieth year of our reign." reproduction of original in the huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng clay industries -great britain -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -great britain -early works to 1800. broadsides -london (england) -17th century. 2008-07 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-09 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-09 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion c 2 r diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the king. a proclamation prohibiting the importation of earthen ware . charles r. whereas by the statute made in the third year of the reign of king edward the fourth , it is enacted , that no merchant native born , denizen or stranger , nor other person , shall bring , send or convey from beyond the sea into the realm of england , or dominion of wales ( among other things ) any painted wares to be vttered and sold within the said realm or dominion , by way of merchandise , upon pain to forfeit the same , as often as they be found in the hands of any person or persons to be sold ; the one half of the said forfeiture to go to the use of his majesty , and the other half to him that shall first seize the same . and whereas complaint hath been made to his majesty by several persons using the trade of potters in and about the city of london , and suburbs thereof ; that notwithstanding the said statute , several persons , as well subjects of this kingdom , as foreigners , have presumed to import , and daily do bring several great quantities of painted earthen wares privately into the port of london , and publickly into the out-ports ( where there is little or no care taken to prevent it ) to the inevitable ruine of many hundred of his majesties poor subjects , who get their subsistance and livelihood by the said trade , and to the great hazard of losing the said manufacture within this realm ; the said manufacture being made to as great perfection by his majesties said subjects , as by any foreigners , and that for the most part with materials of english growth : his majesty therefore ( with the advice of his privy council ) out of his princely care of the artificers of this his kingdom ( to whom he resolves to give all good encouragement ) and for prevention of like mischiefs for the time to come , hath thought fit by this his royal proclamation , particularly to take notice of the said statute , and the penalties therein mentioned , to the end that all persons concerned , may not for the time to come pretend ignorance thereof : and his majesty doth also ( by like advice ) by this his royal proclamation straitly charge and command all merchants , as well natives , denizens , as strangers , and all other persons whatever , not to presume at any time hereafter , to bring , send , or convey into the kingdom of england , or dominion of wales , from any part beyond the seas , any painted earthen wares , be the same painted with white , blew , or any other colours , by way of merchandise , or to be sold , bartered or exchanged , contrary to the said statute , upon the pain and penalties therein expressed , and such others as can or may be inflicted upon the offenders , according to the utmost severity of law and iustice . and for that end his majesty doth hereby strictly charge and command all searchers , waiters , and other officers of his customs whatsoever , to use their utmost care and diligence to discover the wares abovesaid which shall be imported contrary to the said statute , and to seize the same , to the end such proceedings may be thereupon had , as shall be agreeable to law , and as they will answer the contrary at their utmost peril . given at our court at whitehall the fifteenth day of december 1676. in the eight and twentieth year of our reign . god save the king . london , printed by the assigns of john bill and christopher barker , printers to the kings most excellent majesty . 1676. proclamation against the importation of irish cattle, &c. edinburgh, the first day of feb. 1667. scotland. privy council. 1667 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05472) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179593) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2793:65) proclamation against the importation of irish cattle, &c. edinburgh, the first day of feb. 1667. scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1649-1685 : charles ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by evan tyler, printer to the kings most excellent majesty, edinburgh : 1667. caption title. royal arms at head of text; initial letter. text in black letter. signed: pet. wedderburne cl. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. animal industry -law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. scotland -commerce -ireland -early works to 1800. ireland -commerce -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2009-01 scott lepisto sampled and proofread 2009-01 scott lepisto text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion royal blazon or coat of arms c r honi soit qvi mal y pense proclamation against the importation of irish cattle , &c. edinburgh , the first day of feb. 1667. charles , by the grace of god , king of great britain , france and ireland , defender of the faith. to all and sundry our liedges and subjects whom it effeirs , greeting : forsomuch as by an act of our late parliament , entituled , act asserting our prerogative in the ordering and disposal of trade with forraigners ; it is declared , that the laying on of restraints and impositions upon forraign imported commodities , doth belong to us and our surcessors , as an undoubted priviledge and prerogative of our crown ; and that by vertue thereof we may so order and dispose upon foraign trade , as we shall judge most fit for the good of that our kingdom . and whereas many humble addresses have been made to us by the convention of our estates , in august , 1665. and by the lords of our privy council , for restraining of irish cattle , corn , and some other commodities , from coming in to this kingdom , as being most prejudicial thereto , by reason that our subjects are more then sufficiently provided within themselves ; and incase of trade with forraign kingdoms and states ( which is now for the most part stopped ) are able to spare and export considerable quantities of all these commodities , and we being most willing to gratifie the subjects of that our ancient kingdom : therefore , and in testimony of our just resentment of their loyalty and affection to our service , we , with advice of the lords of our privy council , have discharged ; and by these presents discharges the importation of all irish cattle ( except horses ) as also , irish salt beef , and corns of whatsoever grain , or meal made thereof , to any town , port , or harbour , or any other place of that our ancient kingdom , in any ship or vessel whatsoever , after the first day of march next to come . as also , discharges all persons whatsoever to receive or pasture any of the saids cattle upon their lands or pasturage , or to sell and dispone thereupon , or to reset or receive any quantities of the victual so prohibited , or to conceal the same within their houses or cellers : and do hereby authorize and command all magistrates of our burghs royal , sheriffs , or iustices of peace in all shires where the goods or vessels shall arrive , to prohibit the unloading thereof : and incase of contravention , to seize , or cause seize upon the samine , to be confiscat , the one half thereof for our use , and the other half for the use of these who shall attach and seize upon the same . and further , requires the saids magistrates , or either of them , to apprehend the persons of the contraveeners , and to secure them by imprisonment till they advertise the lords of our privy council , that order may be given to proceed against them as contemners of our royal authority , that all condign punishment may be inflicted upon them without mercy . and ordains these presents to be printed and published at the mercat cross of edinburgh , pear and shore of leith , and at the mercat crosses of all burghs royal , and burghs of regality and barony lying in the western parts of this kingdom , where the saids goods and victual are ordinarily imported , and other places needful , that none pretend ignorance . pet. wedderburne cl. s ti concilii . edinbvrgh , printed by evin tyler , printer to the kings most excellent majesty , 1667. proclamation against importing victual from ireland. scotland. privy council. 1697 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05458) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 178978) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2775:49) proclamation against importing victual from ireland. scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1694-1702 : william ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson, printer to the king's most excellent majesty, edinburgh : anno dom, 1697. caption title. initial letter. signed: gilb. eliot, cls. sti. concilii. dated: given under our signet at edinburgh, the fifth day of august, and of our reign the ninth year, 1697. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng food law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -ireland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2009-01 scott lepisto sampled and proofread 2009-01 scott lepisto text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion proclamation against importing victual from ireland . william by the grace of god , king of great-britain , france , and ireland , defender of the faith ; to _____ macers of our privy council , messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute greeting ; forasmuch , as the importing of victual , of any sort , whether , wheat , bear , barley , oats , meal , malt , pease , beans , or rye , from the kingdom of ireland , into this kingdom , is prohibite by diverse laws , and acts of parliament ; and highly prejudicial to the native product of scotland ; and gives occasion to the unwarrantable exporting of much money furth of this our realm ; wherethrough , the poorer sort of people are altogether destitut of the necessary means of buying , and providing themselves in the dayly mercats of this kingdom . for the better obviating the inconveniencies that may follow thereupon ; we , with advice of the lords of our privy council , do , hereby prohibite , and discharge all persons whatsoever , to import , or bring into this kingdom , or any of the ports , harbours , towns , or places thereof , from the kingdom of ireland , any sort or quantity of the victual above-mentioned , from , and after the first day of september nixt to come , under the pain of confiscation of the said victual ; the one half thereof to the person , or persons who shall make discovery of , and sease upon thesame ; and the other half thereof , with the ships , barks , or boats , wherein the samen shall be imported , to our thesaury for our use ; and other punishments to be inflicted upon them , conform to the acts of parliamens made thereanent : and ordains all our collectors , surveyors , and waiters within this kingdom , at the respective ports , harbours , and places where they serve , to see this act punctually observed , as they will be answerable at their highest peril , with certification to such as shall be sound negligent therein , they shall incurr the loss of their respective offices . our will is herefore , and we charge you strictly , and command , that incontinent , these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and to the mercat-crosses of the head-burghs of the several shires within this kingdom ; and thereat , make publication of our pleasure in the premisses , that none may pretend ignorance : and ordains these presents to be printed . given under our signet at edinburgh , the fifth day of august , and of our reign the ninth year , 1697. per actum dominorum secreti concilii . gilb . eliot , cls. sti. concilii . god save the king. edinburgh , printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson , printer to the king 's most excellent majesty , anno dom , 1697. a proclamation appointing all passes to ships to be granted hereafter by the high-admiral, his deputes, judges and officers scotland. privy council. 1680 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05537) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179612) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2794:6) a proclamation appointing all passes to ships to be granted hereafter by the high-admiral, his deputes, judges and officers scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1649-1685 : charles ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heir of andrew anderson, printer to his most sacred majesty, edinburgh : anno dom. 1680. caption title. royal arms at head of text; initial letter. dated at end: given under our signet, at edinburgh, the sixth day of may, one thousand six hundred and eighty years; and of our reign the thirty two year. signed: will. paterson, cl. sti. concilij. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng maritime law -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-10 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-10 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion c r honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms a proclamation appointing all passes to ships to be granted hereafter by the high-admiral , his deputes , judges and officers . charles , by the grace of god , king of great britain , france and ireland , defender of the faith ; to our lyon king at arms , his brethren heraulds , macers of our privy council , pursevants , and messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting ; we having by our proclamation in the-year 1676 , for the security of the trade of our subjects of this our ancient kingdom , appointed that passes might be granted by some in the several districts therein-mentioned ; discharging all others ( except those therein appointed ) to grant passes to any ships within this our kingdom , and appointed a general surveyer for the whole kingdom , who was to receive his commission from our council : but now finding that these methods have proved ineffectual , and being fully informed that the granting of such passes and safe-conducts to ships , do of right appertain to the authority , power and priviledge of the admiral ; and that it is now the only undoubted right of our dearest and only brother , who is great admiral of this our ancient kingdom , and who by being lately here , has had occasion fully to know the concerns thereof : we have therefore , with advice of our privy council , thought fit to declare it to be our royal will and pleasure , that in all time coming , all passes to ships within this our ancient kingdom shall be granted by the high admiral of the same , his deputes and judges of the high-court of admiralty , and written , and sealed by the clerks of the said court , as formerly they were in use to be ; hereby evacuating all former passes , granted by any person whatsoever , and declaring them void and null in all time coming . and to the end that this our royal will and pleasure may be known and obeyed , we do hereby require and command all our subjects within this our ancient kingdom , to take passes for their ships when they go to sea , from the said high admiral , his deputes and judges of the said high-court of admiralty , and from none else , as they will be answerable to us upon their highest peril : having left it entirely to the care of our dearest brother , high admiral of this our ancient kingdom , ( who knows all the several treaties concluded betwixt us and our allies ; ) to give such directions from time to time to his deputes and officers of the admira'ty , as may be effectual for the securing the trade of our subjects , and for preventing all abuses and inconveniencies that may occur any time hereafter . our will is herefore , and we charge you strictly and command , that incontinent , these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinburgh , peer and shore of leith , and to the several mercat-crosses of the head-burghs of this kingdom , and other places needful ; and there by open proclamation , make publication of our royal pleasure in the premises , that all our subjects may have notice thereof , and give obedience thereto , as they will be answerable on their highest peril . and we ordain copies hereof to be posted up in every custom-house , to direct persons concerned where and from whom passes to ships hereafter are to be had . and we ordain these presents to be printed . given under our signet , at edinburgh , the sixth day of may , one thousand six hundred and eighty years ; and of our reign the thirty two year . will. paterson , cl. sti. concilij . god save the king. edinbvrgh , printed by the heir of andrew anderson , printer to his most sacred majesty , anno dom. 1680. a proclamation against importing of irish cattel, or resetting thereof scotland. privy council. 1698 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05457 wing s1590 estc r183330 53299260 ocm 53299260 179994 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05457) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179994) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2810:19) a proclamation against importing of irish cattel, or resetting thereof scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1694-1702 : william ii) 1 sheet ([2] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson ..., edinburgh, : anno domini 1698. caption title. imperfect: torn, dark with slight loss of text. reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng animal industry -law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. scotland -foreign economic relations -ireland -early works to 1800. ireland -foreign economic relations -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2009-01 scott lepisto sampled and proofread 2009-01 scott lepisto text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a proclamation against importing of irish cattel , or resetting thereof . william by the grace of god , king of great britain , france and ireland , defender of the faith : to _____ macers of our privy council , messengers at arms our shireffs in that part conjunctly and severally , specially constitute greeting : forasmuchas , by the fourteenth act of the parliament holden in the year one thousand six hundred eighty six , it is expresly enacted and ordained , that no horse , mare or cattle whatsomever shall be imported from ireland to this kingdom , under the pain and penalty of forefaulture of the horse , mares or cattel that shall be imported , and further of paying the sum of one hundred merks scots for each beast , that shall be so imported , the one half of both the beast and fines , to belong f●… the seizer and discoverer , and the other half to his majesty , as likewise , that no person within this kingdom reset or buy any horse , mares or nolt , that they know to be imported out of ireland , under the pain of one hundred merks scots , for each beast , besides the forefaulture of the beasts themselves , the one half to belong to the discoverer , ( he alwise pursuing and instructing the importation within six moneths after ) and the other half to his majesty : and we being resolved , that due and exact obedience shall be given to the foresaid act of parliament for the time to come , and that the same shall be execute , with all rigour against such as transgress the same . therefore , we with the advice of the lords of our privy council in pursuance of , and conforme to the foresaid act of parliament , strictly prohibite and discharge the importing of any horse , mares , cows or other cattel from ireland into this kingdom , either by the natives thereof or inhabitants in ireland , or any other forraigners whatsomever , and all persons to buy or reset any horses , mares or nolt , that they know to be imported out of ireland , after the day and date hereof under the pains above-mentioned respective , contained in the foresaid act of parliament , for importing buying or resetting any horse , mares or nolt imported from ireland contrary thereunto . likeas , we with advice foresaid for the more effectual execution of the premisses , require and command all collectors , surveyers , waiters or others imployed in uplifting and collecting our customs and forraign excise , at the several sea-ports of this kingdom , and all officiars of the law whatsomever , to seaze upon all horse , mares and cattel whatsomever imported from ireland after the date hereof , or bought or reset by whatsomever person or persons within this kingdom who knew the same , to have been imported , and to detain and confiscat the same , comform to the foresaid act of parliament , and to pursue and exact from the several persons who shall import , buy or reset , any horse , mares or any other cattle imported from ireland contrair to the foresaid act of parliament , the sums and penalties respectively above-mentioned , incurred by them through the foresaid transgression , the one half thereof to be applyed for his majesties use , and the other half to be detained by themselves , in manner specified in the said act. our will is herefore , and we charge you straitly and command , that incontinent these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and to the mercat crosses of the several head-burghs and sea-port-touns within this kingdom , and make publick intimation thereat of our pleasure in the premisses , that none may pretend ignorance . and ordains these presents to be printed ; and our solicitor to transmit copies thereof to the shireffs of the several shires and stewarts of the stewartries , their deputs or clerks , and to the magistrats of the several sea-port-tounst , to be by them published accordingly . given under our signet at edinburgh the eleventh day of may one thousand six hundred ninety and eight years , and of our reign the tenth year . per actum dominorum secreti concilii gilb . eliot , cls. sti. concilii god save the king . edinburgh , printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson , printer to the king' 's most excellent majestay , anno. domini 1698. at the court at hampton-court, june 29. 1662. whereas by an act of parliament in the twelfth year of his majesties reign, entituled, an act for the encouraging and increasing of shipping and navigation of this nation... england and wales. sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii) 1662 approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b03308 wing e827 estc r214574 52212021 ocm 52212021 175664 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b03308) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 175664) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2745:9) at the court at hampton-court, june 29. 1662. whereas by an act of parliament in the twelfth year of his majesties reign, entituled, an act for the encouraging and increasing of shipping and navigation of this nation... england and wales. sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii) browne, richard, sir, 1605-1683. charles ii, king of england, 1630-1685. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [london : 1662] title from caption and first lines of text. list of those present follows caption title. signed at end: richard browne. publication data suggested by wing. with royal coat of arms at head of text. reproduction of the original in the bodleian library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng england and wales. -parliament. -an act for the encouraging & increasing of shipping and navigation of this country. import quotas -england -17th century -sources. foreign trade regulation -england -17th century -sources. broadsides -england -17th century. 2008-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-10 megan marion sampled and proofread 2008-10 megan marion text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion at the court at hampton-court , june 29. 1662. present the kings most excellent majesty . his royal highness the duke of york . his highness prince rupert . lord chancellour . lord treasurer . duke of albemarle . duke of ormond . marquess of dorchester . lord great chamberlain . lord chamberlain . earl of berkshire . earl of portland . earl of norwich . earl of sandwich . earl of anglesey . earl of carlisle . earl of landerdaill . lord wentworth . lord hatton . lord holles . lord ashley . sir william compton . m r treasurer . m r vice-chamberlain . m r secretary nicholas . m r secretary morrice . whereas by an act of parliament in the twelfth year of his majesties reign , entituled , an act for the encouraging and increasing of shipping and navigation of this nation , amongst sundry other particulars it was enacted , that no goods or commodities that are of forreign growth , production , or manufacture , and which are to be brought into england , ireland , wales , the islands of guernsey and jerzey , or town of berwick upon tweed in english-built shipping , and other shipping belonging to some of the aforesaid places , and navigated by english mariners , shall be shipped or brought from any other place or places , country or countries , but only from those of their said growth , production or manufacture , or from those ports where the said goods and commodities can only , or are , or usually have been first shipped for transportation , and from none other places or countries , under the penalty of forfeiture of ship and goods ; and also that no sorts of masts , timber or boards , no forreign salt , pitch , tar , rozin , hemp , or flax , raysons , figgs , prunes , olive-oyls ; no sorts of corn or grain , sugar , pot-ashes , wines , vinegar , or spirits called aqua-vitae , or brandy wine , shall from and after the first day of april , which shall be in the year of our lord 1661. be imported into england , ireland , wales , or town of berwick upon tweed , in any ship or vessel whatsoever , but such as do truly and without fraud belong to the people thereof , or of some of them , as the true owners and proprietors thereof , and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are english , under the penalty aforesaid : and also that all french and germane wines imported into the said ports and places , in any other vessel then english , irish , welch , or berwick , and navigated as aforesaid , shall be deemed aliens goods , and pay custome accordingly . and whereas notwithstanding the said act several letters or warrants ( through mis-information ) have been obtained from his majesty , by which the lubeckers , their ships , mariners and merchants , are licensed to come into england , and other his majesties kingdoms and dominions , freed from the penalty of the said act , upon pretence of a former custome , and transport thence in their own ships merchandizes not only of the growth of germany or coming from thence , but also out of norway , swedeland , leifland , and other places scituate on the baltick sea ; all which this board taking into serious consideration , and well weighing the ill consequences by trenching upon the said act , and damages and inconveniences which ( by such toleration ) will accrue to the english owners of shipping , mariners , and merchants ; it was this day ordered by his majesty in council , that all and every such letters , licences , or warrants at any time heretofore obtained from his majesty , or any other authority , for permitting any such ships or vessels as aforesaid to trade contrary to the said act for encouraging and increasing the shipping and navigation of this kingdom , be , and hereby they are revoked , recalled , and declared void to all intents and purposes , as if no such letters , licences , or warrants had ever been had or obtained : and hereof as well the commissioners and officers of his majesties customs in all and every the ports and harbours of his majesties kingdoms and dominions , as also all other persons therein concerned are required to take notice , and to conform hereunto : and the said commissioners and officers of his majesties customs are to take care that by convenient time given to those who are already come , or hereafter shall adventure upon any former order into this or any other port , that by this revocation they be not damnified by any sudden surprizal : for all which this shall be to them and every of them sufficient warrant . richard browne . proclamation discharging merchants and other traffickers, to sell or exchange any prohibite commodities, with themselves or amongst others england and wales. sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii) 1683 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a58727 wing s1751 estc r6555 13704269 ocm 13704269 101471 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a58727) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 101471) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 848:50) proclamation discharging merchants and other traffickers, to sell or exchange any prohibite commodities, with themselves or amongst others england and wales. sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii) charles ii, king of england, 1630-1685. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heir of andrew anderson, printer to his most sacred majesty ; for langley curtis ..., edinburgh : and reprinted at london : 1683. reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. proclamations -great britain. scotland -commerce -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -edinburgh (lothian) -17th century 2008-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-09 john pas sampled and proofread 2008-09 john pas text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a proclamation discharging merchants , and other traffickers , to sell or exchange any prohibite commodities , with themselves , or amongst others . charles by the grace of god , king of great britain , france and ireland defender of the faith , to _____ macers of our privy council , or messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting , 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 . given under our signet at edenburgh , the 16th of august , one thousand six hundred eighty and three . and of our reign , the thirtieth and fifth year . per actum dominorum secreti concilii . will. paterson , cls. sti. concilii . god save the king . edenburgh , printed by the heir of andrew anderson , printer to his most sacred majesty and reprinted at london , for longly curtis near fleet-bridge . 1683. a proclamation for observing the staple-port at camphire. scotland. privy council. 1692 approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05662 wing s1880 estc r183519 52528981 ocm 52528981 179080 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05662) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179080) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:69) a proclamation for observing the staple-port at camphire. scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1689-1694 : william and mary) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heir of andrew anderson, printer to his most excellent majesty, edinburgh : anno. caption title. royal arms at head of text; initial letter. intentional blank spaces in text. dated: given under our signet at edinburgh, the eleventh day of august, and of our reign the fourth year, 1692. signed: gilb. eliot, cls. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng maritime law -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. scotland -commerce -netherlands -early works to 1800. netherlands -commerce -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-03 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-03 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion rr diev et mon droit honi soit qui mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms a proclamation for observing the staple-port at camphire , william and mary by the grace of god , king and queen of great-britain , france and ireland , defenders of the faith ; to macers of our privy council , messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting : forasmuch as by many antient contracts past betwixt the royal burghs of this our antient kingdom , and the town of camphire in zeland , and which have been approved by the kings our predecessors , the whole trade and commerce , as to the staple-commodities exported from this our kingdom , to the seventeen provinces of the nether-lands , has been settled and established at the said town of camphire , as being found by experience the fittest place for the scots staple , and there being in the former reigns of our royal predecessors many proclamations issued forth , requiring all our subjects traveling to the seventeen provinces of the netherlands , to export all staple-goods and commodities to the said staple-port , and to no other port nor place , and ordaining the laws and acts of parliament , and acts of the convention of the royal-burghs to be put to due and vigorous execution , for the full observance of the same : and we being informed , that of late , the staple-trade of this kingdom , hath been altogether diverted from the said staple-port at camphire , and carried to roterdam , and other places in the nether-lands , to the great prejudice and discouragement of trade , and contrair to the foresaid agreement with camphire , from presences that the said town of camphire neither could , nor would furnish sufficient convoyes , for convoying the saids ships , both out-ward and in-ward bound , from and to the said port now in the time of war. and now it being certified to us , that the magistrats of the town of camphire have engadged to the royal-burghs , that they will furnish sufficient convoyes , for securing of the trade betwixt that port and the firth and road of leith , twice in the year , viz. against the middle of september , and the middle of march yearly , commensing from the middle of september next ; and we being fully resolved , that all the standing laws and acts of parliament , and acts of convention of our royal-burghs , be put to full and vigorous execution , for the more due observance of the said staple-port for the future ; do therefore with advice of the lords of our privy council , hereby require all our subjects to give all due and exact obedience to the foresaids acts made for observing of the staple-por● discharging all merchants and skippers , or any other our subjects , to export forth of this our kingdom , any goods or commodities , that are or shall be declared to be staple commodities , to any other port or place in the nether-lands , but only to the said staple-port and town of camphire in zeland , under the pains and certifications mentioned in the saids acts of parliament , and acts of the convention of burghs , which pains and penalties , we ordain to be exacted from the transgressors with all rigour , and that they be further proceeded against , as our council shall find cause . and further , we with advice foresaid , do hereby require the general farmers , tacksmen , or collectors of our customs , and their sub-collectors , surveyers for the time being , that they make exact search and tryal of all staple goods and commodities that shall be hereafter transported forth of this kingdom , to any port of the seventeen provinces of the nether-lands , and take sufficient security from the merchants or skippers transporters thereof , that they shall transport the same to the said staple-port at camphire , and at no other place nor port within the said seventeen provinces , and that they shall not break bulk before their arrival thereat , conform to the acts of parliament , oblidging the said exporters to report certificats from the conservator , or his deputs at camphire , bearing , that the said staple-commodities were livered thereat , without breaking bulk ; and we do ordain the saids testificats , to be delivered in quarterly by the collectors at the several ports , to the agent of our royal-burghs for the time , to the end exact diligence may be done by him , against all the transgressors of the said staple , conform to the saids acts. our will is herefore , and we charge you strictly and command , that incontinent these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and whole remanent royal-burghs of this kingdom , and other places needful , and thereat , in our name and authority , by open proclamation make publication of the premisses , to the effect , our royal-burghs , and all merchants and other persons , may have timeous notice hereof , and give due and punctual obedience thereto , as they will be answerable at their outmost perril , the which to do , we commit to you conjunctly and severally our full power by these our letters , delivering them by you duely execute , and indorsed again to the bearer , and ordains these presents to be printed . given under our signet at edinburgh , the eleventh day of august , and of our reign the fourth year , 1692 . per actum dominorum secreti concilii . in supplementum signeti . gilb . eliot , cls. sti. concilii god save king william and queen mary . edinburgh , printed by the heir of andrew anderson , printer to their most excellent majesties , anno dom , 1692 proclamation discharging export and allowing import of victual scotland. privy council. 1698 approx. 7 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05564) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 180011) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2810:36) proclamation discharging export and allowing import of victual scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1694-1702 : william ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson ..., edinburgh, : 1698. caption title. title vignette: royal seal with initials w r. reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grain trade -law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-11 megan marion sampled and proofread 2008-11 megan marion text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion royal blazon or coat of arms proclamation discharging export and allowing import of victual . william by the grace of god , king of great-britain , france and ireland , defender of the faith ; to _____ macers of our privy council , messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting : forasmuch as through the extraordinary unseasonableness of the weather for some months past , and the misgiving of this years cropt and harvest ; the scarcity of victual is increased to that height , as threatens a general distress and calamity ; so that it is most necessary that the prohibition of the export of victual made in the month of may last , be renewed and extended with all severity , against all who shall presume to contemn our authority , in a matter so just and indispensiblie requisit for the relief of the poor , and good and welfare of the kingdom . therefore we with advice of the lords of our privy council , have thought fit to prohibite , and hereby most strictly prohibite and discharge the exporting furth of this kingdom by any person whatsoever , either by land or by sea , of all kinds of victual , either meal , wheat , rye , oats , pease , barley or bear , malted or not malted , or any other grain or victual whatsoever , after the day and date of these presents , under the pains following , viz. the forfaulture of the victual offered to be exported for the use of the poor of the bounds , where the same shall be attached and seased , or the value thereof , where the samen is proven to be exported : as likewayes of the forfaulture of the horse , ship , boat or other vessel whereby the same shall be attempted to be exported , and also of the pain of ten pounds scots over and above for each boll that shall be found to be exported or offered to be exported , and proven or attacked and seased as said is , to be payed by the owner , skipper or exporter ; and that such as shall be found transgressing , and have not to pay the forsaid pains , shall be punished in their bodies by imprisonment , to be fed with bread and water , or scourging at the discretion of the judge . and we hereby require and charge all sheriffs , steuarts , baillies and their deputs , magistrats of burghs , justices of peace , and other officers of the law ; to see and cause these presents to be put to strict execution in all points , with certification , if they shall be found negligent or remiss , they shall be punished by the lords of our privy council , as despisers of our authority , and betrayers of the trust reposed in them . and further , we do hereby authorize our customers and all collectors , surveyers , waiters and other officers at sea-ports , & generallie all our leidges to discover , attach & sease the forsaid victual that shall be exported or offered to be exported as said is , promising and allowing them the half of the pecunial pains abovementioned for their reward , with this certification , that if they or any of them be remiss or negligent in the due execution of the premisses ; so that victual be exported by sea or land , within the bounds of their respective precincts , they shall not only lose their commissions , but be themselves lyable to the pains and penalties for each boll exported , as the owner and exporter are declared lyable in manner abovementioned : likeas , we hereby require all our saids judges , magistrates and officers of the law , and all our saids customers , collectors and their officers above-named , imediatly to cause search to be made into all ships , boats and other vessels within the ports and roads of this kingdom , for victual to be exported , and that they arreast and stop the same , and the forsaids vessels by taking away their sails , and otherwayes , and cause the said victual be instantly unloaded and brought on shoar , for the use of the owner , and to remain within the country , and in case any victual already put on board , or which shall be put on board , shall be pretended not to be exported , but only transported from one port or place to another within the kingdom , then and in that case , the owners shall first find sufficient caution , under the pain of twenty pounds scots for each boll , acted in the books of the next burghs royal , and the skippers shal give their oath before the magistrates thereof , that they shal not export , but only transport , as said is ; and that they shall report a certificat thereof upon it's arrival from the port or place to which it shall be transported , certyfeing that what victual shall be offered to be otherways transported from port to port within this kingdom , shall be held to be offered to be exported contrary to this prohibition , and lyable to the pains thereof . and we with advice foresaid , for the better ease and relief of the countrey , do hereby permit and allow the import of all forts of victual from all forraign parts , free of all custom or other publick duty , and these presents to endure ay and while they be recalled . our will is herefore , and we charge you strictly , and command , that incontinent these our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and remanent mercat-crosses of the head-burghs of the several shires and stewartries , & to all the several sea-port towns within this kingdom , and make publication hereof , and appoints our sollicitor to transmit a sufficient number of coppies hereof to the sheriffs of the several shires , stewarts of stewartries , baillies of regalities , their deputs or clerks , to be published at their several burghs , and likewayes sent by them to the magistrates of the several sea-port towns , there to be published by them , under the certification foresaid , as also appoints our solicitor to deliver a sufficient number of coppies of thir presents , to the tacks-men of our customs , to be sent by them to the several parts and places of this kingdom , where they keep offices for collecting and imbringing of our customes to be published thereat by the collector or surveyer , residing there for the time : and ordains these presents to be printed , that none pretend ignorance . given under our signet at edinburgh , the ninth day of november , and of our reign the tenth year , 1698. per actum dominorum secreti concilii . gilb . eliot . cls. sti. concilii . god save the king. edinburgh , printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson printer to the king 's most excellent majesty , auno dom. 1698. a proclamation against the importation of irish victual and cattel scotland. privy council. 1676 approx. 9 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05473) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179594) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2793:66) a proclamation against the importation of irish victual and cattel scotland. privy council. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heir of andrew anderson, printer to the king's most sacred majesty, edinburgh : 1676. caption title. royal arms at head of text; initial letter. intentional blank spaces in text. dated at end: given under our signet at edinburgh, the fourteen day of december, and of our reign, the twenty eighth year, 1676. signed: tho. hay, cl. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng foreign trade regulation -scotland -early works to 1800. animal industry -law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. scotland -commerce -ireland -early works to 1800. ireland -commerce -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2009-01 scott lepisto sampled and proofread 2009-01 scott lepisto text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion royal blazon or coat of arms c r 〈…〉 a proclamation , against the importation of irish victual and cattel . charles , by the grace of god , king of great britain , france , and ireland , defender of the faith ; to our lovites , _____ messengers , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute , greeting : forasmuch , as we and our estates of parliament , by several acts , have ( upon diverse weighty considerations , ) discharged the importation of all irish victual and cattel into this kingdom , under the pains , and certifications therein contained : and whereas the lords of our privy council have emitted several acts and proclamations in pursuance of the saids acts of parliament , notwithstanding whereof , and of all the care and endeavours taken , to hinder and prevent the importing of irish victuall and cattel , finding the same is imported into this kingdom : and considering the best and firtest way for preventing thereof , might be to commissionat some persons of power and authority in the several places of the countrey where the said victual and cattel is ordinarly brought in and landed . we therefore , with advice of the lords of our privy council have thought fit , to grant full power , authority , and commission to our right trustie and well beloved cousins and councellors , archibald , earl of argyle , and george , lord rosse , and to our well beloved , richard murray of brughtoun , by themselves , their deputs , servants , and such as they shall think fit to appoint ( for whom they will be answerable ) to search for , seize , and apprehend all irish victual and cattel , and salt-beef made thereof , that shall happen to be imported from ireland unto this kingdom in the particular places after-specified , viz. the said earl of argyle in all places , from lechlung to the mule of kintyre , and round about the same . the said lord ross in all places , from the burgh of glasgow , to the march of galloway on the south , and from glasgow , to lochlung on the north : and the isles of arran , bute and comray : and the said richard murray , from the march of galloway , to the march of nithsdale . and for the more ready and effectual prosecution of the said commission , have granted full power and authority to the saids earl of argyle , lord ross and richard murray by themselves , their deputs , servants , and such as they shall think fit to entrust in the respective bounds foresaids , to secure all barks , or travelling boats whether scots or irish , until the skippers or owners shall find caution that they shall import no irish victual or cattel hereafter . the saids commissioners or their foresaids are thereby authorized to search all barks , boats , or other vessels , wherein any irish victual or cattel are suspected to be ; and to seize and secure the same , incase they find the saids prohibited goods therein ; and for better discovery thereof , all merchants , skippers , or owners of boats , barks , or other vessels travelling to and from the places foresaids , are thereby ordered before they break bulk , or liver any goods , to advertise the saids commissioners , or these entrusted by them at one or other of the ports following , viz. at the point of garvel near greenock , the towns of largs , irving , turnberry , dumbarton , rothesay , brodick , dinnon , tarbet , campbletoun , innerarey , portpatrick , glenluce and kirkudbright ( at which ports , offices are stablished to receive these advertisements ; ) under the pain of confiscation of the saids vessels and goods , and being holden as confest importers of irish victual : provided that the skippers or owners , shall not upon such occasion be obliged to wait longer then one tydes water . if upon pregnant presumptions the saids commissioners , or these entrusted by them shall suspect any person or persons guilty of importing irish victual or cattel , they are thereby authorized to conveen any such person or persons before the nearest magistrat in burgh or landwart , and to lead all manner of probation against them for proving thereof : whereupon the saids magistrats are to give present and ready justice . all sheriffs , stewarts , bailyes of royalties , regalities , and baronies , and all heretors are thereby ordered to give their speedy and ready assistance to the saids commissioners , or these entrusted by them , when ever they shall be required , either as to the searching of vessels by night or day , making open and patent doors , searching of sellars , or other suspect places for irish victual or cattel , which they are thereby authorized to do . as also the officers of any garrison are obliged to concurr , and assist them with a party of souldiers as they shal be desired upon any extraordinary occasion . in case any seizure be made by the saids commissioners , or these entrusted by them ; the heretors next adjacent to the said place are thereby required to cause carry the victual to some convenient place nearest , untill our council shall give order thereanent : and these so employed shall be payed by the person who makes the seizure for each horse carriage ; not exceeding two shilling scots the mile . the saids commissioners , or these entrusted by them are thereby empowered with consent of the magistrat of the place to send any person or persons to prison who shall be found guilty of contraveening the saids laws , or shall be contumacious in refusing to depone ; the magistrats of the place being alwayes free of the prisoners charges : in which case , the magistrats are to secure the prisoners and their vessels , and to be comptable for them : and in case any person or persons shall make open resistance against the saids commissioners , or these entrusted by them in the execution of our said commission , and that there shall happen blood-shed , mutilation or slaughter to follow , through the said resistance ; it is declared that the saids commissioners , and these entrusted by , or giving assistance to them , shal never be called in question , or pursued therefore civily or criminally in time coming . and further , by the said commission , it is declared , that the same shall no wayes free or liberat the importers or resetters of irish victual or cattel , or heretors upon whose ground the same shall be imported , but that they shall continue still lyable to the pains and penalties appointed by the saids acts of parliament and council ; as if the said commission had never been granted : which commission is to begin and take effect , from , and after the first day of january next , and to continue until the first day of january , 1678 years . and to the effect , all our leidges and others concerned , may have due and timeous notice thereof , we have thought fit , that these our letters of publication of the same should be direct in manner under-written . our will is herefore ; and we charge you straitly , and command , that incontinent these our letters seen ye passe , to the mercat-crosses of edinburgh , glasgors dumbariours , and other places needful : and thereat , in our name and authority , by open proclamation , make publication of the premisses ; to the effect , that all our leiges , and others concerned , may have due and timous notice of our pleasure in the premisses , and may give ready obedience to our commands therein , as they will be answerable at their highest peril . given under our signet at edinburgh , the fourteen day of december , and of our reign , the twenty eighth year , 1676. per actum dominorum secriti concilii . tho. hay . cl. sti. concilii . god save the king. edinburgh , printed by the heir of andrew anderson , printer to the king 's most sacred majesty . 1676. commission for examining witnesses anent the importation of irish victual. edinburgh, the 4th day of february, 1696. scotland. privy council. 1696 approx. 10 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05355 wing s1488 estc r183049 52528917 ocm 52528917 178935 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05355) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 178935) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2775:6) commission for examining witnesses anent the importation of irish victual. edinburgh, the 4th day of february, 1696. scotland. privy council. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson, printer to his most excellent majesty, edinburgh : anno dom. 1696. caption title. initial letter. signed: giln. eliot. cls. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng craufurd, david, 1665-1726. food law and legislation -scotland -early works to 1800. foreign trade regulation -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2009-01 scott lepisto sampled and proofread 2009-01 scott lepisto text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion commission for examining witnesses anent the importation of irish victual . edinbvrgh , the 4th day of february , 1696. the lords of his majesties privy council considering , that they by their former commissions granted by them to david crawfurd of drumsuie , and to his deputs and servants , and others to be appointed by him , for whom ( by the tenor of the saids commissions ) he is to be answerable , they have given full power , authority and commission to seize and apprehend all irish victual imported into this kingdom , within the bounds specified in the saids commissions , and to stave , sink and destroy the victual , and to take the boats , barks and other vessels wherein the same shall be imported , and dispose thereupon at their pleasure . and the saids lords being informed , that the said david crawfurd of drumsuie , and his deputs , servants and others imployed by him , and for whom ( conform to the tenor of the commissions ) he is answerable as said is , have been remiss and negligent in exercising the power committed to them by the saids commissions , and that he or his saids deputs and servants , has ( contrair to the tenor of the saids commissions , and bonds given by him and his cautioners at the granting thereof , ) suffered and permitted divers and sundry persons to import irish victual into this kingdom , at least have connived at the importation thereof ; therefore , and to the effect the truth of this matter may the better appear and be knowen , they hereby give full power and commission to the persons afternamed , and ilk ane of them , for their respective places and bounds after-specified , viz. to the magistrats of glasgow for the town of glasgow and suburbs thereof . to the magistrats of renfrew for the town and paroch of renfrew . to the magistrats of dumbartoun for the town and paroch of dumbartoun . to the baillie of the regality of lenox , _____ noble of ferme , and claud hamilton of barns for the paroches of cardross and kirkpatrick . to sir john campbell of carick for the isle of rosneath . to john m●carter of milntoun for the paroch of dinnoon . to the sheriff-deput of the shire of argile , and magistrats of the burgh of inverrary for the town of inverrary and places adjacent thereto . to john campbell of kildalin and the baillies of loch-head for the town and adjacent bounds of kintyre . to sir james stuart sheriff of b●te , _____ bannatine of kaims and the magistrats of rothesay for the isle of bute . to the duke of hamilton's baillie of arran for the isle of arran . to the baillie of the regality of glasgow for the town and paroch of govan . to the laird of houstoun younger and the town of glasgows baillie at new-port glasgow for the town of newark and paroch of kilmacomb . to the lairds of greenock and crawfurdsburn for the paroch of greenock . to the laird of blackhall , the laird of kellie younger , and william cunninghame brother to gilbertfield for the paroch of innerkip . to the lairds of kelburn , bishoptoun younger , hunterstoun , kellie elder , and auchinnames for the paroches of largs and cumrayer . to the lairds of hunterstoun , aslimyard , and john park of littledub for the bounds from the largs to kilwinning . to the magistrats of irwine sir william cunninghame of cunninghame-head , and the baillie of cunninghame for the towns and paroches of irwine and kilwinning . to the lairds of corsbie , adamtoun younger , and william baillie of muncktoun for the bounds from irwine to air. to the magistrats of air william cunnnghame of brounhill , and william mctaggart merchants there for the town and paroch of air. to james ross of garvan , and john muir late provost of air , for the bounds from air to the town of girvan . to james agnew younger of lochnam and mr. william fullertoun from the bounds from the mule of galloway to ballantree . to the magistrats of strenrawer for the town of strenrawer ; to call before them and examine , and take the declarations of all such persons living within the respective bounds foresaids , as they shall think fit , and to interrogat them upon the interrogators following , viz. primo , if it consists with their knowledge , that drumsuie or his deputs did grant any licences for importing victual from ireland , and if they did , that they declare what composition or good deed he or his deputs ●… take for the granting of the saids licences . secundo , if drumsuie or his deputs did connive at , and know of the importing of victual from ireland , and if th●● did not transact and agree with the persons who did import the same . tertio , if they did not exact sums of money from the boat-men , and owners of t●● boats , in which the irish victual was imported , and did deliver back the saids boats , and if they did not make transactions of this nature for the same boat ●●…ner than once . quarto , if drumsuie and his deputs , or any of them did know where the victual imported was , and did not make seasure thereof . quinto , t●… they declare in general what they know concerning the exactions imposed by drumsuie or his deputs upon merchants or others who did import the said irish v●…ual . sexto , that they be special as to the precise time , that is , that they condescend upon the month and year , persons and sums , and the witnesses who will prove the matter of fact condescended upon . and lastly , upon such other interrogators as the saids commissioners , or any of them shall think fit , to propose to the persons who shall appear before them anent drumsuie and his deputs , servants and others imployed by him , their malversation in suffering the importation of irish or other forraign victual into this kingdom by collusion , or otherways , and what exactions of money by way of composition or otherways they have made upon any of his majesties liedges , upon pretence of their having right to the boats , barks or vessels imployed in importing the said victual , or as fines for the causes foresaids , or transactions upon that account : with power to the saids commissioners to issue furth precepts for citing of the persons foresaids within their respective bounds above-set down , to appear before them upon such days as they shall appoint betwixt and the fifteenth day of march next to come ; with certification to the persons cited , that if they failȝie to appear before the saids commissioners , or compearing shall refuse to give information , and declare what they know in the matters foresaids , that they shall be called and conveened before the lords of his majesties privy council , and be punished as controveeners of the laws and acts of parliament made against the importing of irish or other forraign victual ; with power to the commissioners foresaids within their respective bounds above-set-down , to put the refusers under sufficient caution to appear before the saids lords of privy council , upon the first tuesday of the month of april next ; with power likeways to the saids commissioners to elect and choi●e their own clerk within their respective bounds , for whom they shall be answerable : and appoints the saids commissioners their clerk , to draw up the examinations and declarations of the persons foresaids , within their respective bounds authentickly in write , and cause the parties subscribe the same , and transmit the same subscrived also by the commissioners , and their clerk in their respective bounds to the saids lords of privy council , betwixt and the first tuesday of april next to come . and the saids lords of privy council do hereby declare , that the examinations or declarations to be emitted by the persons foresaids , shall no ways militat , nor be made use of against the saids persons themselves at any time coming : and allows thir presents to be printed , and appoints his majesties sollicitor to send printed copies thereof to the several commissioners therein-contained . extracted by me gilb . eliot . cls. sti. concilii . god save the king. edinbvrgh , printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson , printer to his most excellent majesty , anno dom. 1696. some seasonable and modest thoughts, partly occasioned by, and partly concerning the scots east-india company humbly offered to r.h. esq., a member of the present parliament / by an unfeigned and hearty lover of england. c. k., unfeigned and hearty lover of england. 1696 approx. 95 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 19 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a47406) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 99143) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 460:3) some seasonable and modest thoughts, partly occasioned by, and partly concerning the scots east-india company humbly offered to r.h. esq., a member of the present parliament / by an unfeigned and hearty lover of england. c. k., unfeigned and hearty lover of england. 36 p. s.n.], [edinburgh : 1696. signed at end: c.k. reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng company of scotland trading to africa and the indies. foreign trade regulation -england -early works to 1800. great britain -commerce -17th century. 2006-06 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-06 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-06 taryn hakala sampled and proofread 2007-06 taryn hakala text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion some seasonable and modest thoughts , partly occasioned by , and partly concerning the scots east-india company . humbly offered to r. h. esq ; a member of the present parliament . by an unfeigned and hearty lover of england . printed in the year 1696. some seasonable and modest thoughts , partly occasioned by , and partly concerning the scots east-india company . sir , this paper would not come addressed to you , if i knew any in your house , to whom for all intellectual and moral qualities it might more justly be inscribed and dedicated : your admirable knowledg , steady vertue , unstained honour , and unwearied application , which do so well qualify you at all times , and especially at this critical juncture , to be an useful member of the great senato , and which do so singularly adapt you to co-operate with such others there , as are guided by love to their couutry , and the old maxims of english policy , to save this nation from menacing and impending ruin , to recover it to honour abroad , and preserve it in peace at home , and to retrieve our traffick , and render it safe and prosperous , do make you the worthy object of all honest mens love and esteem , and do conciliate all those to be your servants as well as your friends , who do either respect themselves or their posterity . nor could any thing have entitled you to be thus applied unto by an unknown person , save the opinion which i have of your wisdom and justice ; and that as you are able to judg of what is here represented , that you will likewise do it with an equity becoming the merit of the cause , and not under the biass either of antient piques , or of supposed present emulations between these two british kingdoms . sir , i shall not now dispute , whether the world might not have been happier by its continuance under consinement , and stak'd down to agriculture , and those mechanick arts that are needful to the conveniences of life , ( without purveying for our pride and sensuality ) than it is by launching out into that measure and degree of mercantile commerce which has excited our lusts as well as fed them , and given provocation to vice by yielding fewel to it . but some nation having departed from the antient simplicity of living concented with the productions of their own countries , and having by navigation and trade , raised themselves to wealth , power , and increase of inhabitants ; it thereupon grew necessary for other nations to fall into the like methods , lest otherwise they should have been a prey , as well as a derision , to them whom trade had rendred mighty and opulent : so that now the application unto , and the encouragement and protection of trade , is not a matter of meer choice and discretion , but of indispensible necessity for every kingdom that is qualified by their situation for it , and would not be contemned and insulted , and lie continually exposed to be conquered by any ambitious and encroaching neighbours , whom trade hath made wealthy and powerful : for as trade is a richer and more durable mine than any in mexico or peru , and whence a nation may constantly derive an increase of bullion and coin , so in proportion to its plenty of money will it flourish at home , and be terrible abroad ; and answerable to the measures that any country or kingdom arriveth at in foreign commerce and traffick , will it proportionably grow , not only in naval strength , but in military force by land : of which not only the phenicians and carthaginians of old , and long after them the venetians , genouese , and portuguese are famous instances ; but whereof the dutch are in a special manner an amazing and illustrious example ; who tho they have narrow and scanty territories , live under a bad air , dwell upon a watery and unhealthy soil , and have scarce any native productions of their own , but are forced to fetch their bread , their drink , their raiment from elsewhere ; yet through the meer pursuit of , and application to trade , they not only rival the greatest kings and most potent kingdoms in powerful navies , and warlike armies , but they give laws to several mighty monurchs and states in all the known parts of the world. and forasmuch as money will always procure men , they do in the virtue thereof supply themselves from time to time with vast numbers of souldiers from divers parts of europe ; and without imploying any , or at least very few of their own people , they do by their acquisitions in way of trade , muster and keep up large armies , both for their own defence in times of peace as well as of war ; which their living upon a continent surrounded with neighbours who envy their prosperity , and are jealous of their power , rendereth necessary ; and also for the offence of those that seek to encroach upon or insult them . so that by their meer money , which is the result and product of trade , they purchase men to shed their blood , and to lose their lives in defending them against , and in the making conquests for them upon others : and the nature of war being changed from what antiently it was , when courage and bravour often decided a quarrel between states and kingdoms in a day , and seldom missed putting an end to a war , either by victory or accommodation , within the circle of one campaign ; the success of it now is come to depend upon the largest purse , and not the bravest troops ; and they who have most money , tho not always the valiantest men , will have the better in the war , though they may sometimes have the worst in a battel : so that no poor nation can in the way that war is now managed , carry an offensive war against a wealthy , tho it may possibly through some advantages peculiar to it , be in a condition to maintain a defensive ; as the switzers , who through plenty of brave men , and by reason of the situation of their countrey , may continue a defensive war , at least for a time , against any nation that shall have the boldness to attack them . but i do say , that no necessitous and indigent nation can make an offensive war against a wealthy kingdom or state , unless they can make their enemies country the seat of it , and by the plenty and riches thereof both subsist and pay their own army : whereas the dutch , through their being wealthy by reason of trade , have heretofore lived many years in war without growing weary of it ; and tho they have seldom made great acquisitions , yet they have as seldom sustained any considerable losses , yea , they have been able by their money , which is the product of their commerce , to prevail upon others to assist them , when the subversion of their state has been most menaced , and their country in the greatest jeopardy ; tho they have also ( to be restored to the free and quiet following of their traffick ) purchased sometimes their own peace at their friends expence , and have abandoned those allies that came in to succour them . nor need i tell you , sir , that trade is like a nice and coy mistress , which you must not only industriously court to get possessed of it , but sedulously pursue , and as tenderly cherish if you would preserve and secure it : for the dangers inseparably incident to trade , are of that variety and number , that unless it be encouraged by immunities from grievous impositions , few will embark in it , and fewer persevere to follow it . for who would expose their whole fortune and capital to the hazards which unavoidably accompany navigation and traffick , if all that thereby accrues to them be , to bear the chiefest burden in the supporting the government , and by heavy taxes upon them to ease those from national impositions , who either wallow in plenty and luxury , through having estates in land , or who subsist comfortably on agriculture and mechanick imploys , without being exposed to the dangers or running the hazards which attend long voyages and foreign commerce ? and as the instances are many and obvious to every one's observations , that is in any degree acquainted with the world , or conversant in history , that as trade has always forsook and abandoned those places where it hath come to be too much loaded and burdened , tho its residence may have antecedently been fixed there , for ages as well as years : so it is not unworthy of remark , that trade seldom , if ever , returned to a place which it had once forsook ; nor has it been found , that they who by grievous impositions have at any time drove trade away , could be able to recover it again by any change of their conduct , or other methods which they have fallen upon . and considering the many advantages that arrive to kingdoms in the increase of manufactures and rise of rents , both of lands and houses , through the prosperity and success of trade ; it is a wonder that any people , who have but wit to govern themselves by interest , if they will not by the measures of more refined wisdom and justice , should burden and overload trade , which is the source and fountain of so many and great advantages to them : nor should there be more needful , both to inform and convince the nobility and gentry of the benefits arising by the protection and encouragement of trade , than that within the compass of little more than a century of years , in which trade began to augment , the value of lands in england is risen to a full moiety ; and it is as demonstrable as any problem in euclid , that were our tunnage and poundage and other impositions on trade , that starve and cripple it , taken off , or at least abated , both the lands of the gentry would still rise higher in their value , and the manufactures of the kingdom would be more plentifully exported , and thereupon proportionably increase and multiply : so that if trade were more eased and privileged from impositions in times of peace , tho lands might thereby come to be the more loaded ; yet such a method would not only be greatly to the advantage of the kingdom , but would turn to the benefit of the freeholder and landlord , in that lands and houses would thereupon be both lett and sold at such rates and values ( beyond what they now are ) as would be more than an equivalent of such a burden . and would men allow themselves to think calmly of this matter , the heritor at the rebound would sind his interest as much in the relieving trade from impositions and taxes as the merchant would do immediately : but then to continue not only burdens upon trade in time of war , but to increase them proportionably to the growth of the charge and expence that the kingdom is forced to be at , in the supporting and defraying it , is so irreconcilable to all the rules of wisdom as well as of justice , that the doing it is a reproach upon the understandings of people , as well as a reflection upon their equity : for the hazards which traders are then exposed unto more than other persons , and the losses which at such a time they must unavoidably meet with , in whatsoever they either export or import , will be found to affect the merchant's estate and capital so far , that it ought both in prudence and justice to be allowed to pass instead of his quota to all publick taxes . but alas ! such have been the ways and means of raising money for the carrying on the present war , that the merchants have not only born a great share in the whole charge and expence of it at home through taxes imposed upon shipping as well as upon merchandise , but they have also by reason of the neglects in protecting navigation , had the misfortune to defray a great part of the enemies expence in the war they make upon us , as you may easily comprehend , upon considering the vast number of ships with their cargoes , which they have taken from us since the commencement of it ; and which ( if calculated at the lowest value ) must amount to several millions sterling . in a word , the less the impositions are upon trade , the more money the merchant has to imploy in it , and to apply to the enlargement of it ; and the more vigorously it is carried on , the further it is enlarged , he more our manufactures will multiply at home ; and all that we can fabrick will be the better transported abroad . and as the trade of england is capable of great improvements , and of being far extended beyond what it is yet arrived at , and this both as to the productions of art and nature at home , and as to the enlarging our commerce in the commodities of foreign countries ; so nothing has so much discouraged , crippled and narrowed it , as the draining those large sums and vast proportions of money out of the merchant's stock and capital , by his paying high impositions , customs and taxes , which without those burdens upon trade would have been all applied unto the increase of his stock , and imployed in the enlargement of commerce and traffick . nor would it derogate from the prudence of our legislators , if the received practice and the present posture of affairs will not allow them to make this kingdom a free port ; yet at least to imitate the dutch , ( that know so well how to grow strong and opulent ) who tho they have little land to tax towards the defraying the charges of their government , and who are also by nature precluded from several other ways and means of raising money for the defence of their state , which lie open and are practicable to us ; yet even they do with singular care and in a most special manner , cover and excuse trade from all extraordinary and grievous impositions , and do chuse rather to raise money for the answering the necessities and exigencies of their government , in a hundred other methods , than to clog traffick , or to make the merchant uneasy through large and mortifying impositions . and , sir , you will readily imagine , that if trade , in order to the being preserved and enlarged , must be so tenderly cherished and so carefully indulged where it is already established , and has gained the esteem and affections of a people ; it must then be more amorously courted and addressed unto in all the ways that are charming , in order to give a beginning unto it , and six it a settlement where it has had little footing , and scarcely been entertained : and the more enticing must the means be to allure a people to it , and to make them espouse it with ardour , where not only the genius and inclinations of a nation have generally stood biassed another way , but where ( thro' being habituated to greater frugality than their neighbours ) they have for the most part sat down contented with their own home productions , as being sufficient both to accommodate all the needful cravings of nature , and to yield supplies for the common conveniencies of life ; or they have only extended their trade to an intercourse with those adjoining nations , that could both take off those few superfluities which their country yieldeth , and might furnish them with all those supplies which modern vanity , pride and luxury have rendered as it were necessary . and if penal laws have been found necessary to withdraw the native irish from their antient rude custom of making their horses plow and draw by the tails ; you will not wonder if beneficial laws be thought needful to turn the applications of the scots into another channel , than that in which most of them have hitherto exercised their parts , and imployed their industry : and by how much any kingdom or state findeth that others have been long embarked in traffick before them , by so much must the encouragement be the greater , and the prospects of success and advantage made the more visible and morally certain , to obtain their people to start so late , and so far behind those interested in trade previously to them , that they do in a manner see the prize of the course in which they are ingaging in the possession and enjoyment of others , before they can set out and begin . nor is there any thing more universally practised by all nations , and particularly by england , than to grant large privileges to the authors and inventors of any thing natural or artificial that may be profitable to makind , and beneficial to the community : and various as well as many instances , fall under every man's observation and view , how that the projectors and authors of the least thing that hath seemed to have a tendency to publick and national usefulness , have had all the profits that were likely for several years to accrue from it , vested in them in the way of a monopoly , as the recompence and reward either of their skill or of their industry ; nor can any be ignorant , who are conversant either in our history , or in our statute-book , what concessions , privileges and immunities have been heretofore granted to the walloons and others , to tempt them hither , and by them to get possession of , and to establish those various manufactures , which have been of so much reputation , as well as of advantage to the kingdom . yea , while the ingeny , vigour and industry of the natives of england , spent themselves heretofore in other ways , exercises and applications , than those of traffick ; what large favours and immunities were then granted unto , and bestowed upon foreigners , to procure them to settle a staple of commerce here , and to cultivate trade ? for how much soever the english have within this last age addicted themselves to trade and navigation ; yet before the middle of queen elizabeth's reign , their application was not much greater thereunto than that of their neighbours ; and so unprovided was this kingdom at that time , both of ships and mariners , and that no less for traffick than for war , that the government was forced to hire the one as well as the other , from the hanse-towns . 't is true , that long before , upon the burgundians having procured of john duke of brabant the incorporation of a company of merchant adventurers , anno 1248. our politick as well as warlike prince edward the 3 d , found means to allure it hither , and to get it transplanted into england ; where being established by him with many and great privileges , it was likewise afterwards confirmed by most of the kings of england that succeeded him : but besides its being fallen in queen elizabeth's time under some decline , had it been in its great vigour , it could not have been able to support , extend and enlarge trade to the measure and degree which the ballance of europe at that time , and the growth of navigation and traffick in other nations made necessary to be attempted here ; which as it occasioned commerce to be cast , as it were , into a new mould , and to put on a different face from that in which it formerly appeared ; so it procured those encouragements unto trade , and gained it such privileges as might serve to promote its propagation and increase , to a proportion that should not only equal that of other nations , but exceed it . nor is it improbable but that the prospect which all people then had of england and scotland's being likely soon after to be united under one soveraign , might give great encouragement to this kingdom to apply it to navigation and commerce more than it had been accustomed to do , and that not only upon the hopes of being delivered from those wars for the future , which had for , many ages been too frequent between these british nations , and consequently great obstructions to trade ; but ' en that these kingdoms becoming to be so far incorporated , as to be under one monarch , england should have thence forward little cause of apprehension of war with any of its foreign neighbours , and especially with france ; and that partly by reason or the addition of strength , which this conjunction of the two nations would give against any enemy , and partly because the alliance and friendship between scotland and france ( which had often rendered the french the bolder to make war against england , would by this vnion be unavoidably dissolved . nor is it needful that i should expatiate in representing , how that when this nation began to apply it self industriously and extensively to trade , all the methods imaginable of kindness unto , and care over merchants and navigation , were made use of by the government , to encourage them and cultivate it : for as there was a naval strength always in readiness , and ( upon every emergency and needful occasion ) imployed to protect it , so the impositions upon it were extreamly moderate , in comparison of what ( as appears by the book of rates , and the several acts of parliament which charge navigation and trade , with so many duties and imposts ) they are grown up into since : for all the taxes then exacted of merchants , were rather little recognitions of their dependence upon the crown , and small acknowledgments of the countenance and defence which they received from the government , than any burdens and grievous incumbrances , by which they might be discouraged , and traffick loaded ; so that the whole carriage of those then in authority towards commerce , and those embarked in it , spake an indulgent care towards it and them , and such a tender regard of both , as became the infancy of trade , and the difficulties which beginners were to encounter with : and particularly as to the society that was erected to trade to the east-indies , there was all the wisdom and goodness exercised towards it that might be subservient to the promoting of it ; for upon its first incorporation , anno 1599. it had not only many immunities granted unto it , but was incorporated into a company with a right and authority vested in it , of trading to the indies , preclusive of all their fellow-subjects that were not of that corporation . for tho it be inconsistent , both with the wisdom and the justice of the government of england , and also with the rights and liberties of the people , to erect all traders into every place , into companies , exclusive of other english natives and freemen , to traffick thither , where the trade may be effectually and advantageously carried on by single dealers , or by voluntary associations , seeing such incorporated societies would be so many monopolies , which are nusances in a countrey where the ends of commerce may be otherwise compassed and obtained ; yet it hath always been the prudence of the government , to devolve trade unto such places upon an incorporated company , where it could neither be protected nor enlarged , save by a society trading and acting on a joint stock . and as the interest of the kingdom , with respect to the quality of the place , where a trade is to be managed , must give rules for the method , and determine the way in which it is to be carried on : so in that case where it would be to the loss and prejudice of the kingdom , to have a trade laid open to whosoever will be dealing in it , the publick and national benefit ought to be prefer'd to that of particular persons . and as we do know how the trade of england to the east-indies , was in a manner wholly lost from the kingdom , during the vsurpation of the rump parliament , and of oliver cromwell , by their putting it out of the channel in which it had been managed by an incorporated society , and leaving to every one that pleased to venture upon it : so the indulgence given of late years to interlopers , has both had fatal effects upon that trade , and has not much commended their care of the nation , who either allowed or connived at it . for as single traders will be easily tempted at so great a distance , to commit depredations upon the natives of those countries , and thereby provoke them as well to make reprizals upon us , as to renounce all friendly and amicable commerce with us ; so no dealers save in the way of an incorporated company trading upon a joint-stock , can erect and maintain forts , establish factories , and raise , and pay that armed force in the places they have chosen for their residence and the seat of their traffick , as will either discourage those nations that rival us in trade from supplanting them , or the natives upon every imagined offence from insulting them . to which i crave liberty to add , that every nation or state in europe , which upon motives of interest have established a society that might trade to the indies , have at the first erection of such a corporation , granted vast privileges unto it for its encouragement ; of which the dutch are a famous and instructive example , who tho they had acquired some beginnings of a trade thither by the industry of private and particular dealers , yet that wise people being sensible that it could neither be much enlarged , nor long preserved in that method of trade , they thereupon in the year 1602 , gave establishment to a company that might trade thither , exclusive of all other of their own subjects ; and for their encouragement ( notwithstanding all the necessities of the state at that time ) excused them from all taxes and impositions upon that trade , for the space of 21 years , and only obliged them , in way of an acknowledgment of their dependence upon the states general , to pay in the whole , within the compass of the first ten years , the sum of five and twenty thousand florins , which amounted to little more than 2000 l. sterling ; and was rather a recognition of whom they held their right of trading thither , than a burden upon that traffick . so that through the privileges and immunities which were granted into them then , most whereof have been still continued to them since , they are become the most opulent and powerful trading society of the world , and the chief pillar of the dutch state ; and tho they be but in the quality of subjects at home , they are great soveraigns in the indies , and not only give laws to many easterr princes , but ingross from europeans what parts of the indian traffick they please . and if such encouragements have been thought needful towards the giving a beginning and an increase to an east-india trade , when there were none , or at least very few of those difficulties and dangers to be conflicted with , from rival nations , that are now unavoidably to be encountered ; and if such immunities were sit to be granted at a season when the trade was not forestalled , preoccupied , nor previously possessed to any considerable degree by other europeans ; it is easy to imagine how indispensibly necessary it is for those that would now begin a trade thither , to give all the encouragements to it that are under the power , and within the circle of a government and nation to grant . and experience in our neighbouring kingdoms may teach us , how weak and ineffectual the concession of the greatest privileges is towards the establishing such a trade to the indies , as may answer the pains and cost in endeavouring it , and bringing it to turn to such an account , as may bear proportion to the expence , as well as to the industry and hazards of attempting it , after so wealthy and potent nations as england and holland have gotten antecedent possession , and will endeavour to ingross that trade to the exclusion of all others : for not only all the large privileges and immunities granted by the king of denmark and the elector of brandenburgh , for the raising and promoting of an east-india trade , have proved insignificant in advancing the end and design which they proposed , at least , not to such a degree as may turn to their own honour , and the profit of their respective countries ; but even those vast encouragements given by the great monarch of france , to raise the genius and quicken the industry of his people to the beginning and carrying on of an indian trade , have proved little better than abortive : so that instead of blaming the scots for what we esteem extravagant concessions , in order to their founding a trade to the east-indies , all those indulgences may be rather look'd upon as means much below , and disproportioned to what they are aiming at : and they who will judg of things impartially , will rather judg them to have been deficient than excessive in the privileges they have granted ; for as some other besides those mentioned in the act , could not escape falling under their thoughts and view , so the granting them would have been wise and just in it self , and congruous to the undertaking which they would give being unto . however , as the offering and granting less would have left them under an imputation of folly and weakness , in proposing to compass mighty ends by feeble means ; so they will be more fortunate than others have been , if the success upon those encouragements do either answer the wishes they have , or the hopes they entertain . and , sir , instead of its giving any just occasion of surprize , that the parliament of scotland should endeavour at last to excite their people to a share in trade , somewhat proportionable to what other nations have attained unto , it is rather matter of astonishment and wonder that their nobility , gentry and burgesses who constitute their senate , being generally men of equal wit with those of the like qualities in neighbouring countries , and being also most of them so well acquainted with the world , as to understand the advantages which redound to kingdoms by traffick ; and that the figure which one nation maketh above another , proceedeth , caeteris paribus , from wealth , which is the result and product of trade ; they should have so long omitted the giving those encouragements to it , which they might , and which other nations have done . for tho the biass of their people seems generally to lie another way , as i have already said ; yet that is meerly the effect of custom and not of nature : and as it would not have been difficult at any time heretofore to have diverted and turned their inclination and humour from souldiery to commerce ; so it is not to be doubted , but that upon their being once brought to apply unto it , they would be found as ingenious and diligent in trade , as they have had the character to be skilful and brave in war ; nor are they worse qualified by their indian and african traffick than their neighbours are : but if any will in that pretend to an advantage above another , it indisputably falls to the lot of the scots , in that they have neither long and dangerous channels to pass , before they arrive at their ports from an indian or african voyage ; nor yet a tedious and perillous course to run about the north of ireland and scotland , but that they may immediately out of the ocean enter into safe and convenient harbours . and then as for convenient numbers of men fit to be imployed in navigation , they are by reason of the populacy of their country , answerable to the dimensions of it ; and that there are proportionably more of them of the inferiour rank , than are elsewhere , as well furnished with persons capable to be mariners , as any country whatsoever , and those generally , who through the strength of their constitution and the hardiness and frugality of their education , are not only as able as any to undergo long voyages , with all the incidents of heat , cold , and sometimes scarcity of provisions for subsistence , that do attend them ; and who , through an obedience they are bred to from their youth , are not so liable to mutiny as some others may be , but who can ( equally with , if not better than most ) endure foreign climates , and with less despondency of mind , and fee bleness of body , encounter those diseases which strangers are obnoxious unto , upon their first arrival in africa and the east-indies . so that considering all the natural advantages which the scots have to encourage their application to trade , it would strangely reflect upon the wisdom of the parliament of that kingdom , and greatly detract from the love which they ought to bear to their country , and from the care as well as zeal which they ought to express for the honour and prosperity of it , in their having so long neglected to establish , cultivate and promote trade with a greater vigour , and more extensively than they have done , were there not some reasons ( which tho they may already lie under the view of a person of your penetration , i shall nevertheless for the sake of others represent them unto you ) that may serve in some measure to excuse , though possibly they may not wholly justify their conduct in this matter . whereof take this for the first ; namely , that it is not long since the african and east-india trades grew into that reputation in europe of profitableness , or came so to flourish through the industry of these northern nations , as to raise emulation in their neighbours of obtaining a share in them : for as 't is within less than thirty or forty years , that this part of the world grew so fond of many of the productions of those places , or that trading societies to them being established , had outwrestled and conquered the difficulties that attend beginnings of that kind , or had brought them to answer the dangers and expence , which those companies were forced to be at , in laying the foundations of their traffick thither , and in rendring it first safe there , and then advancing it to be gainful and profitable here : so that it is no wonder if scotland ( that is a kingdom inferiour to england in power and opulency ) should suspend and delay attempts of endeavouring to settle a commerce thither , until they should see what success would ensue upon the care and industry of those english companies , which were erected for the cultivation and management of those two respective trades . nor did the conduct of scotland in this matter differ much from the behaviour of other kingdoms , and particularly of france , with which scotland pretends not to compare it self in largeness of territories , numbers of people , or greatness of treasure : and the adverse fortune which the english long wrestled with , with the difficulties and losses which they encountered to the weakning , if not almost ruining of the vndertakers , before they could bring the trade to india , to be either profitable to themselves and the kingdom , or honourable to the government , might well discourage the scots from being forward in embarking in a course of traffick , under the discouragements and arduousness whereof their richer and more powerful neighbours were ready to succumb ; whereas having now seen , that the establishing and carrying on of that trade both with credit and vast profit , is not only practicable , but that by reason of the humour that is now grown predominant in europe , of preferring the productions of those countries to any of the fruits of nature , or the manufactures of art , which nations nearer home do afford , the money of those states and kingdoms , who are not immediately interested in that trade , is drawn away from them , and comes into the possession of those , who deal in the original importing of the commodities of the east-indies , first into their own countries , and then in vending them to other nations : and the scots being as ready to run into the fashion of the world as other nations about them are , tho they cannot spare so much money to be drawn out of their country , as the gratifying their vanity in expences of that kind will require ; have therefore found it necessary to erect an east-india company , both for supplying themselves , and thereby keeping their money at home , and also to export and vend abroad to others , and by that means to draw bullion and cash into the kingdom from those countries , where their indian goods come to be disposed . and they have the more reason to to fall upon all the methods , and to use all the ways they can to increase their coin , seeing neither nations for persons are now valued , as antiently they were , by their ingeny , fortitude and moral worth , but according to their wealth , and the proportion of silver that they weigh at , in the scale of quantity ; the scarcity whereof in scotland , through want of trade ( which in the source and fountain of its being any where plentiful ) has given occasion to some of their opulent neighbours ( whom wealth hath made haughty and disdainful ) to fasten upon them the character of beggarly scots ; and the which , as it appears by their neglect of trade , they have hitherto born with a tameness , as if they were not ashamed of the reproach . and truly were the estimate of kingdoms and persons made now , as formerly it was wont to be , and as it really ought , poverty ( where it is compensated by true intrinsick moral and intellectual worth ) is not such an ignominy as it is meant , both by those that charge it upon others , and as it is commonly taken by them , upon whom it is fastned ; seeing as there may be sound kingdoms that are poor and indigent in coin , which nevertheless are valorous , noble and generous ; and nations ( on the contrary ) vastly rich , who can never emerge from being rustick and boorish ; so there is nothing more apparent , tho less acknowledged , than that some persons with a very light purse may be genteel , meritorious and honourable , while others of twenty and forty thousand pound capital , do deserve to be as much reckoned in the number of the mob , as they who sell brooms , or cry small coal . but then , sir , allow me to add in the second place , that the scots were for many years , after the english and they came under one soveraign , treated with that equality and indulgence , with reference to the mutual traffick of the kingdoms , or at least with that respect and fairness , that the scots had not that cause and occasion administred unto them , of establishing and pursuing trade upon a separate and distinct bottom of their own , as they have had for these several late years , and still have ; in that upon the two nations first coming to be the subjects of one and the same king , besides the prospect which the scots had , and the hopes that were given them , that the two kingdoms should be so cemented and united , as to become equally interested and vested in the same civil and political liberties , rights and privileges , they had in the mean time immediately granted unto them ( by the concession and adjustment of the commissioners of both nations , who soon after king james the first had attained to the crown of england , were called and authorized to meet and sit about the debating and perfecting a compleat vnion between the two kingdoms ) that the scots should be under no restrictions in matter of trade more than the english were , save that they were to stand prohibited from the exportation of wool , and a few other english productions . and as this privilege was not envied , or denied them by the english for many years : so the scots had no reason all that while of complaining , that they were unkindly or unequally dealth with , or of falling under the temptations of erecting trading societies , with larger immunities than were granted in england . but on the contrary , they lay under all the friendly obligations imaginable of acquiescing in that share and proportion of traffick , that was so chearfully allowed them . nor was the trade of england to the east-indies , and to the american plantations , and much less to africk , ( which have since proved the occasion of the english entering upon other measures of commerce , and of laying those restraints and inhibitions upon the scots in the matter of trade , that were not formerly dreamed of ) arrived at that maturity and perfection , as to be the mine of wealth for the enriching those that were licensed to pursue it ; and by consequence it would create no great emulations , and much less envy or discord between the kingdoms about being interested in it . and as there was not any considerable alterations made , from what i have mentioned , through the conduct of the english towards the scots in the business of trade , during the reigns of james i. and charles i. so every one knows that these privileges , during the administration of the parliament 1641 , and of oliver cromwell's usurpation , were rather enlarged towards the scots nation , than any ways diminished and abridged . so that except the diversion given to the scots from following trade with application , which the war begot , that scotland was for several years engaged in , sometimes for , and sometimes against england , they had no cause given them of offence or complaint , by reason of those preclusions , restrictions and hardships which have been put upon them in matter of trade since the restauration 1660. and i am sorry to say it , considering that they had both suffered so much for king charles , and cooperated with general monk , to the degree they did , towards his reestablishment upon his thrones , that they were soon after not only put out and debarred from all the privileges in traffick , which they had formerly enjoyed ; but were in all particulars , that respect trade , put into the perfect state and condition of aliens ; tho the doing so , was directly repugnant to all the laws and judged cases , relative to the postnati . for by several acts of the parliaments of england immediately , or soon after the restauration , particularly by that 12 car. 2. stiled . an act for the encouraging and increasing shipping and navigation ; and by another , 15 car. 2. called , an act for the encouragement of trade ; the scots are not only treated distinguishingly worse than any other of the subjects of the king of great britain , but they are placed in the same circumstances as to traffick , with french and hollanders ; which as the scots think , could be designed for no other end , than the putting them into a worse condition , than that both of a province , and a conquered people , which ireland is ; to which they grant the privileges which they refuse to scotland . you will not thereupon be amazed , or think it strange , if the scots have been endeavouring all along since , to vindicate themselves from that dishonour , as well as to relieve themselves from that loss and damage , by settling their nation on a basis and foot of trade , that may not leave them obnoxious to be so easily contemned as they have been , nor continue them exposed to those dependences upon the grace and favour of the english , which are meerly precarious , and may be withdrawn and denied when they please . which leads me to the third thing which i am to lay before you , on the head that i am upon , concerning the neglect which the scots seem guilty of , in their failing to countenance and advance trade ; namely , that the act of the late session of the parliament of scotland , for the erecting an east-india and african company , is not the first , since the year 1660 , ( in which the foundation of their being disabled and crippled in traffick was laid ) that they have passed and enacted with large immunities , for the settling , encouraging and promoting trade in their country . for besides the act for encouraging a foreign trade , made by the present parliament of scotland , anno 1693 , ( wherein there are divers concessions for the raising and quickning the genius of the kingdom , to an outlandish traffick ) and which was only designed to be preparatory and introductive to this latter act , and to pave the way for it , there were divers other acts , granting great liberties and immunities , enacted in the first parliament of charles ii. immediately after the many severe preclusions and restrictions laid upon the scots by the parliament of england , for debarring them from all share in the trade , which the english drive either with foreigners , or with the american plantations . among which other acts and statutes of the scots nation subservient hereunto , that act is in a special manner worthy of remark , which they past in the year 1661 , for fishings , and for promoting of the same ; in which , as the privileges and immunities vouchsafed by it , are both many and very considerable ; so they were all granted and ordained to continue for ever : whereas the concessions of the late act , which do make so much noise in world , are confined to a certain term of years , some of them being limited to tin , and those of the longest duration circumscribed to one and twenty . and the reasons why that act produced not better effects , nor more signally answered the end it was designed for , are so obvious , that they need not be insisted upon , but only to be hinted at , namely , that the said act was not so much designed to be put in execution , as it was projected to try what could be procured in behalf of scotland , from the grace and favour of our princes , and thereby to gain a precedent of their mercy and justice , in order to something that might be more conducible in point of trade , to the honour and interest of that kingdom . to which may be added , that it was enacted rather to alarm england , and to reduce the english from the unkind and severe methods they were upon towards scotland , than that any firm resolutions were taken by the scots for the pursuing of it . i may likewise subjoin , that a main reason of its failing in the execution , was the scarcity of money then in scotland , to support and promote it , to the degree that was necessary against our holland rivals ; and the not inviting foreigners to have a portion in the profit , upon their bearing a share in the expence . nor in the 4 th place is it improbable but that our opulent neighbours the dutch , who do in a manner wholly subsist , as well as gain so much by fishing on our seas , might bribe some one or more great men , imploy'd in the head of that concern , secretly to supplant , and clandestinely to overthrow it . and to conclude this paragraph , it may be farther added , that as the genius of the nation was not so much excited towards trade then , as it is now : so the business of fishery was not a game , that a people otherwise habituated , could be gained so easily to sly at , nor a quarry they would be prevailed upon so industriously to dig in , as a trade to the indies and africa is ; the prosecution whereof will both bring more reputation and gain , than the catching of herring and cod could be supposed , either by undertakers , merchants , or mariners to do . but suffer me , sir , to add , that upon the unequal terms which england and scotland stand together , in matter of traffick , it were better for scotland that the two nations should be under distinct kings , as they are distinct kingdoms , than that under one and the same soveraign their interests in point of commerce , should be made so inconsistent with , and repugnant to one another , as the english will have them to be . for were scotland a nation subdued by the people of england , it were neither prudent nor safe for them , to treat the scots with the rigour and severity which they do , by excluding them from all other share in the commerce of england , or with it , save what they do in a manner allow to all sorts of aliens and foreigners . nor is it unworthy of remark , that the romans of old carried for the most part better , and behaved themselves both more generously and gently to those states and nations which they conquered , than the english are willing to do to the kingdom of scotland ; which besides its being under the same king as they are , is as free a nation as england it self , and altogether independent upon it . for whensoever the romans subdued any people , unless they were such as had often revolted from , and rebelled against them , they not only left them in the enjoiment of all the rights and liberties which they had possessed before , but they both commonly enlarged , and increased them ; and many times admitted those they had subdued , to a share and participation of all the privileges of rome , and of the roman republick . and the more tenacious they found any people to be of their liberty , and the greater estimate they observed them to set upon it , the more favour and honour they judged that people worthy of . whereof tho it were very easy to give a multitude of examples , yet for brevity's sake , i shall assign only but one instance , which is that of their dealing with the privernates , whom having upon a revolt again subdued , and having brought some of them into the senate-house , to receive and hear their destiny ; they asked of them in what manner they would keep peace with the romans for the future , in case they should forgive them ? and being ( as livy tells us ) answered , si bonam dederitis , fidam & perpetuam ; si malam , haud diuturnam : that , if the terms were good , they would perpetually observe it ; but if they should be bad , they would in that case keep it no longer than they should find themselves in a condition with security to break it . with which reply , some of the wisest of the roman senators were so ravished , as well as pleased , that they cried out , viri , & liberi , vocem auditam esse ; nec ullum populum , aut hominem in ea conditione , cujus eum paeniteat , diutius quam necesse sit , mansurum . that they had heard the language of a brave people , and just valuers of freedom ; adding , that no nation , or particular person would be willing to remain longer in any state or condition that was disgustful to them , than until they were able to rescue and deliver themselves . and if this was the opinion of the wise romans , in reference to a people whom they had subdued ; can any that are masters of common sense imagine , and believe that a free , unconquered , and independent people will be contented to be depressed by a neighbouring nation , without seeking to relieve themselves in all the just and lawful methods that lie within their circle ? to which i might add , that there are many and fatal examples of the discords that have arisen between nations under the same monarch , when the one of them has endeavoured to ingross and monopolize either the foreign , or the home trade of that soveraign's dominions , and to preclude the rest from having a due and equal share in it ; witness the revolt of portugal from the crown of spain , because the castilians debarred them from all share in their trade to the west-indies . for that was the principal reason ( tho there were likewise some others of a different kind ) why the portuguise struck off the government of the king of spain , and set up the duke of braganza to be their king. nay , i might also subjoin how that it hath often come to pass , that through a nation 's precluding even foreign states and kingdoms , from a share in traffick to its own peculiar plantations , there hath been formed , as it were , an universal conspiracy of all those nations , that have been thus shut out and debarred , either for the wresting of that trade from it , or for making it unprofitable and useless to it . the first whereof is verified in the portuguise , who are in a manner wholly beaten out of their vast east-india trade , through the provocation they gave to other nations by their striving to ingross it . and as to the latter , the spaniards are now sunk under the experience of it , in relation to their traffick to their own west-indies ; whose trade thither , instead of continuing to be beneficial to them , is turned and improved to their prejudice , by those whom they excluded from all participation in it . how much less then will free and independent nations patiently endure , that one or two kingdoms or states should monopolize to themselves all the trade to africa , india and america ; as likewise in effect to several places of europe ? yea should the scots tamely acquiesce in this , all they would gain by their being under one and the same monarch with the english , would be to become involved in all the foreign wars and troubles , in which the english may be at any time ingaged ; but to have little or no share in the blessings and benefits of its prosperity and peace . and seeing most of the trade of scotland lieth with neighbouring nations , and especially those which england hath oftnest provocation to quarrel with ; and the scots driving very little traffick with countries far remote ; it consequently follows that upon the commencement of a war with those adjacent states and kingdoms , the scots do become in a manner , shut out from , and deprived of all foreign trade ; while in the mean time the english do continue to carry on a vast and beneficial trade to turky , africk and the east-indies , as well as to and from their own american plantations . of which , as the kingdom of scotland has had oftner than once the woful experience , upon any rupture that hath hapned between the crown of england and the states of holland , with whom , as most of the scots trade lieth , both as to the exportation of their superfluities , and the importation of what they want and need ; so the most of their traffick hath in those cases , been wholly interrupted and in a manner entirely ceased ; while at the same time the english have kept up a large and beneficial trade to other places , in which the scots are by several english acts of parliament debarred and precluded from all dealing . yea the present war with france doth , caeteris paribus , more affect scotland , in point of traffick , than it doth england ; because as those productions and commodities which the scots used to export thither , must necessarily lie upon their hands , through their having no other place , to which to carry them ; so they must be contented to want those french goods which they were accustomed to bring home in lieu and exchange of their own ; while in the interim the english make a shift both to vend their productions elsewhere , and to supply themselves in other places , with what may answer those commodities they used to import from france . to which may be added , that if scotland remain not only under those exclusions , limitations and restrictions in matter of trade , to which it is stak'd down and consined by the acts of the parliament of england , for the encouraging and encreasing of shipping and navigation , and for the encouragement of trade , and against the importation of foreign cattel ; but be withal discouraged , envied , depressed and counteracted , when ( to prevent the violation of , and out of respect to those english acts ) they apply themselves to a new method and course of traffick , and endeavour to settle themselves on another basis and bottom of trade than they were formerly accustomed to : i say ( if these be the circumstances they must abide under ) the scots instead of being gainers , are great losers by the two kingdoms coming to be united under one soveraign . in reference whereunto , tho i could assign several particulars , wherein they are thereby come to be endamaged ; yet i shall only give an instance in one ; namely , that by their incorporation with england under one and the same king , their antient , long and firm alliance with france is entirely dissolved , issued and come to a final period : which as it had been many times of singular advantage both to france and scotland ; so it was of great profit , as well as honour to the scots , through the many signal privileges arising from that confederacy , which the scots , in contradistinction from all other nations , peculiarly enjoy'd , but are now totally lost to them . upon which , sir , it were not difficult to make those just and natural reflections , which would shew that the present conduct of the kingdom of england towards scotland , is not ( if we will take the opinion of the scots ) so temperate , prudent and discreet , as might be expected from a people that are so grateful , generous and wise , as the english have been always charactered to be . but to prevent giving offence , i shall supersede and wave them all , and satisfy my self , in that i have by the bare mention of the last particular , started matter worthy of the maturest thoughts of those of the greatest penetration , either in our senate or out of it . and therefore i shall only , on this topick of discourse , further subjoin , that upon the terms on which the scots stand , with relation to all the beneficial trade in which the english are concerned , they are not only in as bad , but in a worse condition than the subjects of any foreign prince are ; because that as they of a foreign kingdom or state , may for and upon their being excluded from trading into the english american plantations , &c. make reprizals upon the english , in debarring them from the liberty and benefit of traffick to such places , as are under the power and jurisdiction of those respective kingdoms and states ; and from and with which they drive and pursue their most useful and enriching commerce ; so the subjects of foreign princes and states are through the alone countenance , concession and authority of their own proper and respective soveraigns , always at liberty to erect and establish what trade they please , to places either unpreocoupied , or where freedom of commerce is allowed promiscuously , to those of all countries that shall think fit to deal with them : wherein as foreigners fall not under the controul of the english , nor are discouraged by their menaces ; so in reference to those princes and rulers , under whom those foreigners live , there is no room to make impression upon them , to withdraw from countenancing their own people , by the little arts and the various means of influence which the english are in a condition to use , and are supposed sometimes to practise , for diverting the kings of great britain from giving that equal encouragement to the scots , in matter of trade , which the people of england think they have a right both to demand and to expect , and which ( through the favour of the common soveraigns of both nations ) has been distinctively vouchsafed them . which leads me to the next thing that i do crave the liberty to lay unpartially before you . which is , that the kingdom of scotland is as much a free and independent kingdom as the kingdom of england is . that it is neither a subdued nor a tributary nation , nor in the quality of a province , peopled by a swarm and colony from hence . for tho it may and doth acknowledg england to be a more large , more populous , opulent and powerful kingdom than it self , yet it is far from owning any subjection or inferiority to it . for as to all the mutual duties and offices , which may only argue the esteem and respect which one independent nation yieldeth to another ; these it both confesseth to be due , and is ready to pay unto england : but to receive laws from it , or yield an obedience to its authority , it neither ought to do it , nor will. and of how near affinity and alliance soever the two kingdoms may be to one another , with respect to identity of language , similitude of manners , analogy of customs , and agreeableness of essential rights and liberties , and by reason of their being under one and the same king : yet they do nevertheless preserve and maintain distinct and different jurisdictions and authorities , have separate and independent parliaments , and are governed by their own proper , peculiar and respective laws , as if they were the subjects of several kings , and each of them ruled by a distinct monarch . nor are the parliaments of scotland less the representatives of that kingdom and people , or under less obligations of consulting for , and promoting the welfare and prosperity of their country , than the parliaments of england are . neither can the latter comptrol or supersede the acts of the former , more than the former can the acts of the latter : for it is not with the parliament of scotland , as it is with that of ireland ; in that the irish parliament have not so much as a consultative power about a bill , and much less are they cloth'd with a right and authority so far to pass it , as to offer it prepared and agreed upon for the royal assent , unless it hath previously received the approbation of the privy council of england , and hath been transmitted thither , under the stamp and impression of the broad-seal of england , granting them liberty and permission so to do : whereas the parliament of scotland hath both a full and plenary , as well as the sole right of introducing , moulding , preparing and passing whatsoever bills it judges to be subservient to the king's honour , adapted to the preservation of the publick peace , and conducible to the advancing the trade and prosperity of that kingdom , without being obliged to have the least antecedent regard to what opinion the privy council , or the kingdom of england , either in its great senate , or in its inferiour courts , may have of those bills which the scots bring in , debate and vote in order to their being enacted into laws . nor is the king of great britain under less obligation , both by the duty of his high and sovereign station , and by his regal oath , to seek and promote the good and welfare of scotland , than he is bound by the like ties , to contrive and pursue the prosperity and happiness of england . and as england doth not allow it to fall within the circle and verge of the royal authority to supersede , vacate and dispense with laws once enacted : so the scots do no less disclaim such a prerogative in the soveraign , especially with respect to beneficial laws , and such as are of a civil and political nature : yea , they have as much blamed and withstood all pretensions of their monarchs , of dispensing with laws that are penal , and about religious and ecclesiastical matters , as the english themselves have done ; tho possibly they have both withstood that claim of their kings , as much to their own damage , and the prejudice of their true interests , as to the restraint upon , and diminution of the regal prerogative . and then as for that right , commonly granted to be resident in the kings of great britain , and to be an incident inseparable from the soveraignty , of putting a negative ( whensoever they judg it necessary ) on parliamentary bills , it is the same in whosoever is king of these two kingdoms , in reference to england , that it is to scotland ▪ and whatsoever limitations are conceived by the english to lie upon the prerogative of our monarchs , as to their giving a negative to bills of right , and such as are of a national vtility , the scots do plead the same restrictions to be upon the soveraign power , in reference to bills , claiming either the confirmation of antient legal privileges , or containing and making provision of such greater or lesser national benefits , which ( without extream prejudice to their publick and general interest ) they cannot be without , nor account themselves either happy or easy , through the want of their passing into laws . so that , sir , this being the nature , frame and constitution of the government of scotland , and a true and just account of the jurisdiction , power and authority of the parliaments of that kingdom ; i do not see why the scots ( while they do nothing that interferes with their allegiance to the king , or that doth lie in the least repugnancy to the two kingdoms remaining united under one monarch , or that importeth so much as shadow of hostility against england ) may not consult , contrive and enact laws for the promoting their own good and prosperity , without regarding whether such laws do either immediately , or in the remote consequences of them , lessen and prove somewhat prejudicial to the trade and opulency of england . nor can the english justly complain of , or blame this conduct of the scots , considering what they have so often done themselves , for the advancing their own traffick and wealth ; not only without respecting whether the methods , in which they did it , might not be prejudicial to the scots nation , but both under an apparent prospect that it would infallibly be so ; and upon the influence of those motives , which directly imported that what they did , should unavoidably be to the damage of scotland , by depressing it , and keeping it impotent and indigent . and so justifiable as well as lawful , the english judged this manner of procedure towards the scots to be , that they have adapted it for one of the maxims of the politicks of england , that in order to render this kingdom honourable , potent and wealthy , scotland must by all imaginable means be kept weak and poor , and thereupon contemptible . nor hath this been less the consequence and effect , than it was the projected and designed end of those english laws , bearing the titles which i have formerly mentioned : so that upon supposition that the late scots act was made not only under view , but out of intention of lessening and abridging the trade of england , by means of extending and enlarging the traffick of scotland ; yet it is no more but meting to the english , as they have measured to the scots ; and it is but drawing them a copy of what was an original of their own . to which i shall only add on this head , that there never was a nation that was independent upon another , ( under whatsoever incorporations , confederacies and unions they might otherwise be ) that did ever neglect , depart from , or forbear the endeavouring the advancement of its own benefit and reputation in the world , meerly because the consequence and effect thereof might be the lessening the profit , and obstructing the growing and menacing power and opulency of another nation , by which it was overshadowed and depressed . which conducteth me , sir , to the next thing , which i shall presume to lay before you , namely how much , many of your great people , through denying themselves liberty to think , as well as of your forty thousand pound men of the mob at garraways , ( to whom god hath given riches for denying them vnderstanding and good nature ) are mistaken , first in believing themselves , and then in attempting to impose their belief upon others , that the scots act for the erecting of a company to trade to africa and the east-indies , will be of prejudice to the kingdom of england , and to the commerce and traffick thereof . whereas upon the use of all the sense i have , and after the outmost exercise of that reasonable faculty which god hath given me , i am so far from being of their mind , that i do judg nothing to be more calculated and adapted for the advantage of this kingdom , than the establishment of that company is ; and that the obstructing the execution of that scots act , will be of fatal consequence to england , and especially to their societies trading to africa and the east-indies ; seeing this company which the scots are establishing , is not to drive a traffick with some little island , or diminutive place , where all the trade is already preoccupy'd , engross'd and monopolized , but it is to carry on a commerce on two vast continents , and all their adjacent islands ; where ( besides what is already entered upon and possessed by the english ) there are many large territories , for others to occupy and found a traffick in , and these no less fertile in productions and manufactures , fit to be imported into europe , and there vended and disposed to great profit , than they are willing , inclinable and prepared to take of what we can export unto them , of both kinds of our own . indeed were the scots act framed and intended to worm and supplant the english out of those shares of the indian and african trades , of which they are possessed , or to drive them from their forts and factories , i do think he should not have english blood in his veins , who would not warmly resent the design , and endeavour not only to prevent the execution of it , but to revenge the attempt upon those that have projected it . but as the scots have no intention of making the least encroachments upon the english , in any of those particular places where they have established a commerce : so it will be both for the honour of great-britain , and prove exceeding contributory to the opulency of england , as well as of scotland , to get a larger share of the african and east-india trades into their joint and associated hands , than the two companies of england of those denominations trading thither , have been hitherto able to compass and obtain , or can be in a condition singly to carry on and support . seeing as it may be done without the one 's encroaching upon , or interfering with the other there ; so there is vent in europe for more east-india goods than both the nations can import and bring from thence , were the stocks of each of them larger , and their trades more flourishing than that of the one ever was , or than there is any prospect that either of them will at any time hereafter come to be . and while several other nations ( betwixt whom and england there are none of the obligations of friendship , mutual aid , and assistance which are between the english and the scots ) are endeavouring to establish , promote and support trades both to africa and the east-indies , it is matter of wonder and surprize , that the english should rather desire to have the french , danes , brandenburgers , &c. become partakers and sharers in those trades , and with as large privileges and immunities as any mentioned in the northern act , than that the scots should have any portion in them ; which would provoke some , that are not very ready to entertain jealousies , to think that notwithstanding the two kingdoms have been so long under the same soveraign , and have lived in the mutual exercises of many offices which had an exterior shew of friendship , that yet after all there remaineth too much of the antient national pique : and god grant that it arrive not at last to a rupture , and thereupon to such an enmity as useth to be the effect of strife and discord , when those that have been friends , and supposed to lie in one anothers bosom , come to quarrel and fall out . nor is it unworthy of remark , how that in edward the confessor's days , the amity between these two nations was so warm and seemingly indissoluble , that ( notwithstanding their being under different monarchs ) that good king would not suffer the scots to be stiled nor accounted aliens , and much less to be treated as such , ( as some of late , in contempt as well as neglect of their being under one soveraign , have been endeavouring they should ) which yet soon after ( upon motives which i shall not now mention ) not only grew cold , but became exchanged into that mutual hatred , which many ages could not allay , nor those seas of blood , shed in their wars against one another , totally and finally extinguish , until by the wise and gracious providence of god , they became the subjects of one and the same king ; and instead of continuing to be distinguished by the titles of the kingdoms of england and scotland , which had been the badges of their variance , they grew so far united into one monarchy , as to be denominated by the stile of great-britain , which is equally applicable unto , and comprehends both . to which allow me to add , that the dutch having already possessed themselves of the most beneficial parts of the african , as well as of the east-india trades , and having not only raised themselves to wonderful grandure and opulency in the indies , but attained to that soveraignty of power , as both to give laws to most of the princes of those eastern dominions , and to make depredations and encroachments upon , and subdue and dispossess whom they please ; it is matter of great amazement , that the english should not be willing to admit the scots to establish a trade to the east-indies , if it were but that by their joining , and uniting their force and power with that of the english , the dutch may be resisted and withstood in those invasions and rapines which they are inclinable enough to commit upon the english . and there is reason to expect that england , even through the advice of their own east-india-company , should encourage the scots in what they are attempting , rather than to obstruct and dishearten them , considering what the dutch , by force as well as fraud , have wrested from and dispossessed the english of ; and that chiefly through their want of sufficient numbers of men in the east-indies , to protect and defend their forts , factories and plantations , with which scotland can both easily and abundantly furnish them , if the late act of that kingdom , for erecting an east-india company , obtain and have the success that is designed by it , and meet not with opposition from those , whose true interest it is to further and promote it . concerning which act and company it was enacted to give an establishment unto , i will assume the liberty further to say , that the one seems framed , and the other erected under view , and with an intention of as much advantage to accrue to england , as what scotland it self proposeth to gain , or can have any prospect of . for as a full moiety , if not two thirds , designed to be raised upon the encouragement and in the execution of that act , will ( or at least may ) be the money of english-men , continuing to live and reside in this kingdom : so the profit that ariseth from the management of the scots stock , will ( in proportion thereunto ) fall to the english , and become a part of their capital . so that besides the satisfaction which ( by this means ) will be given to many english , who have been discontented , through their want of shares in the east-india company of england , and have therefore run upon interloping , ( which this will also put a period to ) most of all the gain arising by the trade of the scots company , will center in england , and in time add greatly to the treasure of this kingdom . which benefit being national and universal , may be accounted more than a compensation for any damage , that the scots east-india company can be supposed to do to the english corporation of that denomination . and forasmuch as the northern society cannot prejudice their southern neighbours in the vent of their commodities , either as to what the scots themselves used to take off , nor in what they used to dispose elsewhere ; seeing that as the greatest part , if not the whole indian goods that have been consumed in scotland , were usually brought in and imported from holland , where they are purchased cheaper than they can be in england : so the english company can be no ways prejudiced , in relation to those indian commodities which they have hitherto disposed elsewhere in any parts of europe ; because that as these foreign countries are ready to take off and consume more than both the english and scots companies can furnish them with , it will likewise be many years before the scots company ( by reason both of the vast charge they must be at , in settling their trade , and the many difficulties and losses incident to beginners ) can be in a condition to under , sell the english , which is the only way they can be imagined to have , of worming the english out of the vent and sale of their commodities : so that the whole prejudice which can be supposed to befal the english east-india company , through the execution of the scots act , resolves it self into the immunity of the scots from paying customs for 21 years , while the english remain all that while under such a tribute , tax and imposition : which , sir , suffer me to say , is not a matter of that importance , as to deserve all the noise that is made about the scots company . and tho i be not so much a philosopher , as either to smile at the seeing an ass eat thistles , or at the beholding a gown-man of 70 reading a madrigal with his spectacles on ; yet i can hardly forbear laughing to find a nation that is called wise , and which really is so , to fill both the kingdom , and the adjacent parts of the world , with clamour and twattle , because the english east-india company pays customs for all it imports from thence , while the scots are for a few years to be exempted from it ; but who are during that time to be at the expence of double the value of that imposition in the necessary charges they must be at , in the erecting forts and establishing factories , and towards the settling of their trade , to make it practicable as well as safe : which if they prove so fortunate as to compass and effect , they will not only after the expiration of that term of years , be contented to be liable to pay customs ; but that kingdom may in that time , by the means of their acquired and improved trade , be in a condition to contribute more , both to the support of the civil government of these nations ; and to the defraying of the charges of any war , which the kingdoms may come to be engaged in , than they have hitherto been in a capacity to do , and thereby lessen the expenses of england , greatly beyond what they are for 21 years to be excused from in customs . sir , before i ease you of the trouble which i have given you , i should lay under your view the several ways and methods which your house , as well as the house of peers , are taking to defeat the design of the scots act , and should make those reflections upon them which are just and natural , as well as obvious . but the whole procedure in that matter being somewhat extraordinary , i shall not venture upon it , seeing it cannot be done as it ought , with that respect and reverence which is due to such awful and august bodies . and therefore all i will say , shall be only these two things : first , that the two houses seem to contribute fully as much to the interest and reputation of the scots company , as the parliament of that kingdom has done in giving it being , by thinking it worthy of so much of their notice , time and debate , as they have bestowed upon it ; especially at this season , when their whole time and utmost abilities are little enough to be imployed in the redressing the grievances of their own country , and in finding out ways and means for carrying on the war against france , and for enabling the king to touch that foreign monarch in the sensible part. for , believe me , sir , the generality of mankind have conceived a greater esteem for the scots east-india company , and have entertained more favourable thoughts of its success than otherwise they would , meerly from the jealousies you have exprest , and the opposition you are giving unto it . and then , secondly , that all the ways and methods you have hitherto fallen upon for the obstructing the execution of the scots act , and the giving discouragement to their trade to africa and the east-indies , is perfectly a conspiracy against your selves , and the carrying on a plot to endamage and mischieve england : for do you think , sir , that by forbidding any of the subjects of england to build ships for , or to sell to the scots such as are built already , you will disable and incapacitate them from proceeding in their undertaking ? seeing they may buy of the hollanders as many as they will , and of what bulk they please , and at cheaper rates than they could do here . so that this , instead of being an obstruction to the scots , will only injure your selves , and benefit the dutch. and then as for the prohibiting any of the subjects of england to become partners in the scots stock ; as it will tempt many of your wealthy people to leave england and to withdraw to scotland , which few men ( out of meer fondness to their country ) will forbear to do , when their interest tempts them to it ; so the scots cannot want enough of other nations to become partners in their stock and trade , upon the english declining of it . and as hundreds of the dutch particularly , will both greedily and thankfully embrace the proposal ; so i dread to mention the consequences which may ensue upon such a conjunction between the scots and them . nor will i call over the other methods you have been upon for frustrating the scots attempt in the erection of an east-india company , because the very mentioning of them would be to expose them , which the great honour that i bear for those assemblies at westminster , will not admit me to do : and therefore i will here end , and only assure you , that tho i be a stranger to you , yet the very taking the liberty to address this paper to you , sheweth how ambitious i am , and how much i do value my self , upon the obtaining any occasion of testifying with what sincerity i am , sir , jan. 1. 1695-96 . your most humble and most obedient servant , c. k. 