whereas we are informed that the price of corn, and all sorts of grain, meale and malt, is grown excessive high in several parts of this kingdom, which doth arise as is conceived from the great quantities of corn which have been of late carried out of this kingdom, into forreign parts ... by the lord deputy and council, arran. ireland. lord deputy. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm 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 . 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 , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas we are informed that the price of corn, and all sorts of grain, meale and malt, is grown excessive high in several parts of this kingdom, which doth arise as is conceived from the great quantities of corn which have been of late carried out of this kingdom, into forreign parts ... by the lord deputy and council, arran. ireland. lord deputy. arran, richard butler, earl of, d. . broadside. printed by benjamin took ... and are to be sold by mary crook ..., dublin : [ ] title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. date of publication suggested by wing. "given at the council chamber in dublin the fifth day of may ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.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 and 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 , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . 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. % (or 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 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 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- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- 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. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - pip willcox sampled and proofread - spi global rekeyed and resubmitted - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord deputy and council : arran . whereas we are informed that the price of corn and all sorts of grain , meale , and malt is grown excessive high in several parts of this kingdom , which doth arise as is conceived from the great quantities of corn which have been of late carried out of this kingdom , into forreign parts . we the lord deputy and council , for a timely and seasonable prevention of that scarcity which by such transportation of corn may be brought upon this kingdom ; do hereby in his majesties name strictly charge and command all manner of persons whatsoever , that they do from henceforth untill michaelmas next , forbear to ship , carry or transport , any wheat , barly , rye , beare , oates , pease , pulse , meslin or any meale or malt out of this kingdom , to any other place whatsoever beyond the seas , as they will answer the contrary at their perilis . and we require all his majesties officers in the several and respective ports of this kingdom : and the commissioners for manageing of his majesties revenue in this kingdom , that they do seize all such grain , meale or malt , as they shall find to be shipt after the date of this our proclamation , and before michaelmas next , with intent to export the same , contrary to the meaning hereof . given at the council chamber in dublin the fifth day of may , mich. armah . c. longford . granard . char. meredith . william davys . john keating . he. hene . rich. reynell . john cole . rob. hamilton . tho. newcomen . god save the king dvblin printed by benjamin took , printer to the kings most excellent majesty and are to be sold by mary crook , at his majesties printing house on ormonde-key . whereas by proclamation dated the fifth day of may, , we the lord deputy and council, did for the reasons therein exprest, restrain the transportation of all sorts of corn, meal and mault, out of this kingdom, unto any place whatsoever beyond the seas untill michaelmas next ... by the lord deputy and council, arran. ireland. lord deputy. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas by proclamation dated the fifth day of may, , we the lord deputy and council, did for the reasons therein exprest, restrain the transportation of all sorts of corn, meal and mault, out of this kingdom, unto any place whatsoever beyond the seas untill michaelmas next ... by the lord deputy and council, arran. ireland. lord deputy. arran, richard butler, earl of, d. . broadside. printed by benjamin took ... and are to be sold by mary crooke ..., dublin : [ ] title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council chamber in dublin the th. day of june, ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.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 and 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 , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . 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. % (or 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 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 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. b ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) proclamation discharging export and allowing import of victual scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign ( - : william ii) sheet ([ ] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson ..., edinburgh, : . 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 p using tcp tei.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 and 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 , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . 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. % (or 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 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 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- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- 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 . foreign trade regulation -- scotland -- early works to . broadsides -- scotland -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - megan marion sampled and proofread - megan marion text and markup reviewed and edited - 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 , . 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. . whereas we are informed that the price of corn, and all sorts of grain, meale and malt, is grown excessive high in several parts of this kingdom, which both arise as is conceived from the great quantities of corn which have been of late carried out of this kingdom, into foreign parts ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas we are informed that the price of corn, and all sorts of grain, meale and malt, is grown excessive high in several parts of this kingdom, which both arise as is conceived from the great quantities of corn which have been of late carried out of this kingdom, into foreign parts ... by the lord lieutenant and council, ormonde. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : ormonde) ormonde, james butler, duke of, - . broadside. printed by benjamin tooke and john crook ... and are to be sold by mary crook ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at the council chamber in dublin the first day of july ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.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 and 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 , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . 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. % (or 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 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 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- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- 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. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - pip willcox sampled and proofread - spi global rekeyed and resubmitted - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . ormonde . whereas we are informed that the price of corn , and all sorts of grain , meale and malt , is grown excessive high in several parts of this kingdom , which both arise as is conceived from the great quantities of corn which have been of late carried out of this kingdom , into foreign parts . we the lord lieutenant and council for a timely & seasonable prevention of that scarcity , which by such transportation of corn may be brought upon this kingdom ; do hereby in his majesties name strictly charge and commad all manner of persons whatsoever , that they do from henceforth until michaelmas next , forbear to ship , carry , or transport any wheat , barly , rye , beare , oates , pease , pulse , meslin , or any meal , or malt out of this kingdom to any other place whatsoever beyond the seas , as they will answer the contrary at their perils . and we require all his majesties officers in the several and respective ports of this kingdom , and the farmers of the great branches of his revenue , that they do seise all such grain , meal , or malt as they shall find to be shipt after the date of this our proclamation , and before michaelmas next with intent to export the same , contrary to the true meaning hereof . given at the council chamber in dublin the first day of july . mic. armach . c. jo. dublin . drogheda . longford . blesinton . granard . lanesborough . ca. dillon . rich. coote . char. meredith . wm. davys . h. hen. ol. st-george . john cole . god save the king . dublin , printed by benjamin tooke and john crook printers to the king 's most excellent majestie , and are to be sold by mary cro●ke and andrew crooke at his majesties printing-house skinner-row , . whereas by proclamation, dated the eighteenth of may, one thousand six hundred seventy four, we did for the reasons therein expressed, amongst other things therein set forth, inhibit the transportation of several sorts of corn and grain mentioned in the said proclamation ... by the lord lieutenant and council, essex. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : essex) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas by proclamation, dated the eighteenth of may, one thousand six hundred seventy four, we did for the reasons therein expressed, amongst other things therein set forth, inhibit the transportation of several sorts of corn and grain mentioned in the said proclamation ... by the lord lieutenant and council, essex. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : essex) essex, arthur capel, earl of, - . [ ] leaves. printed by benjamin tooke ... and are to be sold by joseph wilde ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. imprint from colophon. "given at the council chamber in dublin the th. of december, "--leaf [ ] broadside in [ ] leaves. reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.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 and 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 , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . 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. % (or 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 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 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- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- 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. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion cr honi soit qvi mal y pense diev et mon droit royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . essex . whereas by proclamation , dated the eighteenth of may , one thousand six hundred seventy four , we did for the reasons therein expressed , amongst other things therein set forth , inhibit the transportation of several sorts of corn and grain mentioned in the said proclamation , until michaelmas then next following ; and finding that the prices of corn do still continue very great , and that the stock and store of all sorts of grain is much lessened , by means whereof great scarcity may ensue , unless the said restraint of the exportation thereof be renewed for some longer time . we the lord lieutenant and council , doe therefore hereby in his majesties name , strictly charge and command all manner of persons whatso●ver , that they do from henceforth , and until easter next , forbear to ship , ●●rry , or transport any wheat , barly , rye , bare , oats , pease , pulse , meslin , or any sort of mault or meal out of this realm , to any other place whatsoever beyond the seas , as they will answer th● contrary at their perils . and we require all his majesties officers in the several and respective ports of this kingdom , and the farmers of the great branch of his majesties revenue , that they do seiz all such grain , mault , or meal , as they shall find to be shipt after the date of this our proclamation , and before easter next , with intent to export the same , contrary to the true meaning hereof . and we do hereby farther require , and in his majesties name straightly charge and command all country-farmers and corn masters , and all such who trade or deal in the buying and selling of corn , and have by them any stores of wheat , barley , rye , beans , oats , pease , pulse , or any other sort of grain , mault or meal , that they do bring , or cause to be brought such a competent part and portion thereof into the publick open markets every market-day weekly , as may supply the markets with corn , and furnish the poor with bread at such rates as the markets shall afford . and we do charge and command all mayors , sheriffs , bayliffs , portreeves , magistrates , and all officers whatsoever , in the several and respective cities and towns corporate of this kingdom , that they do in their several places and offices make diligent search , and strict inquiry after such as are ingrossers , forestallers , and regraters within any their cities , liberties , or towns corporate of this kingdom , and cause them to be punished and proceeded against according to law. and that all his majesties iustices of the peace in the several and respective counties of this kingdome , doe in their several and respective counties baronies , parishes , and places , inquire after and find such out as do ingross and hoard up corn , grain , mault or meal , to inhance the price thereof , and shall not bring the same , or send competent portions thereof , according to this our proclamation , every market day weekly , into the publick open markets , there to be sold at such rates as the market shall afford , and that they do advertise vs the lord lieutenant and council thereof , with all convenient speed , that thereupon such proceedings may be had against such ill-affected persons , as shall be according to iustice , and the laws of this kingdom , which we shall take special care shall be strictly put in execution against so evil doers . given at the council-chamber in dublin the th . of december , . ja : armachanus . mich : dublin . canc. conway and kilulta massereene . hen : midensis . ca : dillon . j : pove . will : stewart . theo : jones char : meredith . god save the king. dvblin , printed by benjamin tooke , printer to the king 's most excellent majesty ; and are to be sold by joseph wilde , book seller in castle street . . by the king, a proclamation for preventing the importation of foreign corn in time of plenty england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing c estc r ocm 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 . 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 , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) by the king, a proclamation for preventing the importation of foreign corn in time of plenty england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) charles ii, king of england, - . broadside. printed by the assigns of john bill and christopher barker ..., in the savoy [i.e. london] : . "given at our court at whitehall the th day of march, in the one and twentieth year of our reign." reproduction of original in the huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.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 and 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 , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . 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. % (or 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 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 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- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grain trade -- law and legislation -- england. proclamations -- great britain. great britain -- history -- charles ii, - . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the king. a proclamation for preventing the importation of foreign corn in time of plenty . charles r. the kings most excellent majesty being advertised , that great quantities of corn and grain are imported , and more intended to be imported into this his majesties kingdom of england ; whereby the liberty for transportation of corn will be rendred useless to his majesties subjects , the markets clogg'd , and the corn of the growth of this kingdom undersold , to the great discouragement of tillage and husbandry , and diminution and abatement of the rents and revenues of this kingdom . therefore the kings most excellent majesty , with the advice of his privy council , for remedy and prevention hereof , doth by this his royal proclamation straitly forbid and prohibit all persons whatsoever , aliens and denizens , and all his majesties subjects , from and after the publishing this his proclamation , to import or cause to be imported into any part or place of this kingdom , any foreign corn or grain , of what nature or kind soever , or to vtter , barter , or sell the same , until his majesties pleasure shall be declared , or other order taken , upon pain of forfeiting all that by law is forfeitable , and such other punishment as by the prerogative royal may be inflicted upon the contemners of his majesties royal authority . given at our court at whitehall the th day of march , in the one and twentieth year of our reign . god save the king. in the savoy , printed by the assigns of john bill and christopher barker , printers to the kings most excellent majesty , . act continuing the importation of irish meal & oats, and allowing bear to be imported until the fifteen day of may next. edinburgh, february th. . scotland. privy council. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. b ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) act continuing the importation of irish meal & oats, and allowing bear to be imported until the fifteen day of may next. edinburgh, february th. . scotland. privy council. sheet ([ ] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson, printer to his most excellent majesty, edinburgh : anno dom. . 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 p using tcp tei.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 and 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 , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . 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. % (or 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 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 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- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- 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 . grain trade -- law and legislation -- scotland -- early works to . beer industry -- scotland -- early works to . foreign trade regulation -- early works to . broadsides -- scotland -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - megan marion sampled and proofread - megan marion text and markup reviewed and edited - 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 th . . 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 〈…〉 a proclamation discharging the exporting of meal and oats off the kingdom till further order. edinburgh, the th of may, . scotland. privy council. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). b wing s estc r ocm 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 . 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 , no. b ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a proclamation discharging the exporting of meal and oats off the kingdom till further order. edinburgh, the th of may, . scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign ( - : james vii) sheet ([ ] p.) printed by the heir of andrew anderson, printer to his most sacred majesty, edinburgh : anno dom. . caption title. royal arms at head of text; initial letter. signed: col. mckenzie, cls. sti. concilij. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.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 and 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 , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . 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. % (or 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 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 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- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- 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 . export controls -- scotland -- early works to . broadsides -- scotland -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion j r royal blazon or coat of arms a proclamation discharging the exporting of meal and oats off the kingdom till further order . edinburgh , the th of may , . forasmuch as his majesties high commissioner , and the lords of privy council , finding it necessary in the present juncture of affairs , when his majesty has called out all heretors , and the militia , and his standing forces , to attend his host , against his enemies , that victual should be secured for their use , and not exported abroad ; do therefore hereby strictly prohibite and discharge any person or persons , upon what pr●t●xt soever , to send abroad from this kingdom , into any other kingdom or place , any meal or oats whatsomever , until further order , notwithstanding of any real or pretended contracts made to that purpose , since his majesty in the present service , may have use for the same ( the owners being to be paid at the ordinary and reasonable rates ) and discharges all masters of ships , skippers , mariners , and others , to suffer any meal or oats to be transported in their ships , boats or barks , off this kingdom , during the space foresaid , as they will be answerable at their highest peril ; and ordains all collectors , waiters and custom●rs , to see obedience given hereto , as they will answer in mannerforesaid ; and these presents to be published at the mercat cross of edinburgh , and other places needful , that none pretend ignorance . extracted forth of the records of privy council , by me col . m ckenzie , cls. sti. concilij . god save the king . edinburgh , printed by the heir of andrew anderson , printer to his most sacred majesty , anne dom. . whereas we are informed, that the price of corn, and all sorts of grain and meal, is grown excessive great in severall parts of this kingdom, and the same doth arise (as is conceived) not so much from the scarcity of the store, as from the great quantities of corn that have been of late carried out of this countrey into foreign parts, and also from the ill disposed minds of the countrey-farmers and corn-masters at home ... by the lord lieutenant and council, essex. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : essex) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing i estc r ocm 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 . 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 , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) whereas we are informed, that the price of corn, and all sorts of grain and meal, is grown excessive great in severall parts of this kingdom, and the same doth arise (as is conceived) not so much from the scarcity of the store, as from the great quantities of corn that have been of late carried out of this countrey into foreign parts, and also from the ill disposed minds of the countrey-farmers and corn-masters at home ... by the lord lieutenant and council, essex. ireland. lord lieutenant ( - : essex) essex, arthur capel, earl of, - . [ ] leaves. printed by benjamin tooke ... and are to be sold by joseph wilde ..., dublin : . title from first lines of text. statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. imprint from colophon. "given at the council-chamber in dublin, the th day of may, "--leaf [ ] reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.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 and 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 , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . 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. % (or 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 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 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- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- 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. ireland -- history -- - . ireland -- politics and government -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense cr royal blazon or coat of arms by the lord lieutenant and council . essex . whereas we are informed , that the price of corn , and all sorts of grain and meal is grown excessive great in severall parts of this kingdom , and the same doth arise ( as is conceived ) not so much from the scarcity of the store , as from the great quantities of corn that have been of late carried out of this countrey into forreign parts , and also from the ill disposed minds of the countrey-farmers and corn-masters at home , some whereof keep back their corn , and will not bring the same into the publick markets to be sold ; others some there are , who go into the near adjacent counties , where corn is sold at more moderate prices , and buy up all they can , with intention to hoard the same , either to export or sell it at their own rates : and others some do hasten early to meet such as are coming to the publick markets , and buy up all they can forestall , on purpose to inhance the price thereof , and sell the same again at their own wills and pleasures . and whereas so great misdemeanors are not to be suffered in any well govern'd commonwealth , and are against the laws and statutes of this realm ; and the several magistrates and officers in the respective cities and towns corporate of this kingdom , and the iustices of the peace in the counties at large ought to be very circumspect , and active , in their several and respective places , to discover and bring unto condign punishment all such persons as they shall find to be guilty of any the offences aforesaid . to the intent and purpose therefore , that all his majesties good subjects may know that we are very sensible of the aforesaid several misdemeanors , and intend to proceed to a speedy and orderly reformation of the same for the relief of the poor , and the due punishment of such as shall be found guilty of offending in that kind , and for a timely and seasonable prevention of that great scarcity , which otherwise may by such evil practices be brought upon this whole kingdom ; we the lord lieutenant and council do hereby in his majesties name , strictly charge and command all manner of persons whatsoever , that they do from henceforth , until michaelmas next , forbear to ship , carry , or transport any wheat , barly , rye , beare , oats , pease , pulse , meslin , or any meal out of this realm , to any other place whatsoever beyond the seas , as they will answer the contrary at their perils . and we require all his majesties officers in the several and respective ports of this kingdom , and the farmers of the great branches of his majesties revenue , that they do seise all such grain or meal as they shall find to be shipt after the date of this our proclamation , and before michaelmas next , with intent to export the same contrary to the true meaning hereof . and we do hereby farther require , and in his majesties name straightly charge and command all countrey-farmers , and corn-masters , and all such who trade or deal in the buying and selling of corn , and have by them any stores of wheat , barley , rye , beans-oats , pease , pulse , or any other sort of corn , grain , or meal , that they do bring , or cause to be brought such a competent part and portion thereof , into the publick open markets every market-day weekly , as may supply the markets with corn , and furnish the poor with bread at such rates as the markets shall afford . and we do charge and command all mayors , sheriffs , bayliffs , portreeves , magistrates , and other officers whatsoever , in the several and respective cities and towns corporate of this kingdom , that they do in their several places and offices make diligent search and strict inquiry after such as are ingrossers , fore-stallers , and regraters within any their cities , liberties , or towns corporate of this kingdom , and cause them to be punished and proceeded against according to law ; and that all his majesties iustices of the peace in the several and respective counties of this kingdom , do in their several and respective counties , baronies , parishes , and places , inquire after and find such out as do ingross and hoard up corn , grain , or meal to inhance the price thereof , and shall not bring the same , or send competent portions thereof , according to this our ▪ proclamation , every market-day weekly , into the publick open markets , there to be sold at such rates as the market shall afford ; and that they do advertise us the lord lieutenant and council thereof with all convenient speed , that thereupon such proceedings may be had against such ill-affected persons as shall be according to iustice , and the laws of this kingdom , which we shall take special care shall be strictly put in execution against so great and evil doers . given at the council-chamber in dublin , the th day of may , . ja. armachanus . mich : dublin canc. thomond : j : temple . jo : bysse . h : ingoldesby geo : rawdon . god save the king . dvblin , printed by benjamin tooke , printer to the king 's most excellent majesty ; and are to be sold by joseph wilde book-seller in castle-street , .