Die Lunæ 4. Martii 1643. An ordinance for the regulating of the rates on the customes and excise of tobacco. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82997 of text R212028 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.7[68]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A82997 Wing E1786aA Thomason 669.f.7[68] ESTC R212028 99870683 99870683 161049 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. A82997) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161049) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f7[68]) Die Lunæ 4. Martii 1643. An ordinance for the regulating of the rates on the customes and excise of tobacco. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) by Richard Cotes, and John Raworth, Printed at London : 1644. Signed: Joh. Browne Cleric. Parliamentorum. Annotation on Thomason copy: "1643."; the second 4 in the imprint date has been crossed out. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Excise tax -- England -- Early works to 1800. Tobacco -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A82997 R212028 (Thomason 669.f.7[68]). civilwar no Die Lunæ 4. Martii 1643. An ordinance for the regulating of the rates on the customes and excise of tobacco. England and Wales. Parliament. 1644 754 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Die Lunae 4. Martii 1643. An Ordinance for the Regulating of the Rates on the Customes and Excise of Tobacco . FOrasmuch as the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament , have taken notice of the Rates , Customes , and Excise , laid and imposed on Tobacco of all sorts , to bee greater and higher than it will now well beare , in regard of the disturbance of Trade in foraign parts , and present distractions of this Kingdom : For the regulating whereof , and for the incouragement and ease as well of the Importer , as Ingrosser , and Seller of Tobacco ; It is Ordained by the said Lords and Commons , that all Tobaccoes of the English Plantations , imported or remaining in the hands of the Merchant or Importer , or the Ingrosser or Buyer thereof , shall bee liable to such Rates for the Excise , and such rules observed for the same , as are set down and prescribed in a late Ordinance of the 23. December , 1643. And for all Spanish Tobacco , not of the English Plantation , imported and remaining in the hands of any Merchant or Importer , or the Ingrosser or Buyer thereof , at the day of the date of this Ordinance , there shall bee paid only six pence for every pound Excise for the same . Provided alvvayes , that no person shall have any benefit of this moderation , but only such as shall within foureteen dayes after the publication of this Ordinance , make his personall appearance at such Office of Excise , under which his dwelling place shall bee , and there deliver in a true particular account of all such Spanish Tobaccoes , not of the English Plantations , as were remaining in his hands at the date of this Ordinance , and for which the Excise hath not been paid as a foresaid , and shall presently , according to the respective rate of six pence upon a pound weight , pay and cleare the said duty of Excise , for all such Tobacco as hee had at , or before the day of the date hereof , remaining in his hands , but bee proceeded against without favour or pardon , according to the said former Ordinance of Excise of the eleventh September last . And it is further ordained by the said Lords and Commons , that for all Tobaccoes which have not before this Ordinance , paid the Custome and Excise , or shall from the day of the date hereof bee Imported by any Merchant or others , into the Kingdome of England , Dominion of Wales , and Port and Tovvn of Barwicke , the Importer or Ingrosser thereof , shall pay Custome and Excise for the same , as followeth , viz. For all Spanish and other Tobacco , not of the English Plantation , the Importer shall pay six pence for every pound weight for Custome , and the Ingrosser or first Buyer , one shilling Excise for the same . And for all Tobaccoes of the English Plantations , which shall bee Imported as aforesaid , the Importer shall pay one penny per pound Custome , and the Ingrosser or first buyer , two pence per pound for Excise of the same , which respective summes of one shilling and two pence , are to bee paid by the Ingrosser or buyer , upon sale thereof , as is prescribed in the said Ordinance of the eleventh September last . And lastly , It is ordered and ordained by the said Lords and Commons , that no part of the Customes or Subsidy paid by the Merchant or other , at the time of the Importation of his Tobacco , as is expressed in the second Article in the Booke of Rates , shall be allowed by the Commissioners of the Customes , or other officer or officers of the severall Custome-houses , to any Merchant or others upon the exportation of any Tobaccoes . Any order or Ordinance heretofore made to the Contrary in any wise , notwithstanding : Provided that this Ordinance shall continue in force for the space of one whole yeare from the day of the date of this Ordinance , and no longer . Joh. Browne Cleric . Parliamentorum . Printed at London , by Richard Cotes , and John Raworth , 1644.