❧ By the King.  
¶ A Proclamation for the settling and increase of the manufacture of Pins in this Realm.  
WHereas many differences have long depended, and sundry complaints have been to Us and Our Counsel made by the Company of Pinmakers of London, against the haberdashers and traders in Pins there, for want of taking off that manufacture, here made, from their hands. For the composing of which differences, sundry orders have been heretofore conceived by Our said Counsel in favour of the said Pinmakers, which nevertheless have not yet given an end thereunto. We therefore, desirous to end the same differences, and intending the relief of the said Pinmakers, by the settling and increase of the said manufacture in Our own Realm, where by so many of Our poor Subjects, their wives and children may be employed and maintained by their labours, which We hold to be just & equal. And finding no fit way to effect the same, then by appointing to the said Company of Pinmakers, the first vent and sale of Pins, as well foreign as home made, but yet at such moderate rates & prizes, as We have prescribed them; Do hereby declare Our royal will and commandment to be: That all Pins whatsoever, from the fifth day of August next following, to be imported into this Our Realm from any the parts beyond the Seas, for the space of three years next coming, shall be brought and landed within Our Port of London only, and in none other Port or place whatsoever. And the same pings, being there duly customed, shall be at usual rates uttered and sold by the Importers thereof, to the said Company of Pinner's of London only, and to none others: Who having bought such quantities of good and merchantable stuff, as, together with their own Pins here made, will serve to supply the necessary use of Our Realm, are first to seal, and then to utter them again to the Haberdashers and traders in that commodity, at such reasonable rates as we have prescribed: whom we do hereby also expressly charge and command, from time to time, as nerde shall require, to buy and take the same off, and from the hands of the said Company of Pinner's only, and from none other person or persons whatsoever: Under the pain of the forfeiture of all such pings as shallbe Imported, bought or sold, contrary to the Tenor of this Our Royal Commandment.  
Provided, that all such Merchants, or others that now have shipped any Pins beyond the Seas, for any other Port than the Port of London, shall within fourteen days after the date of this Our Proclamation, forbear to import or unlade them in any other Port or place, then in the said Port of London: nor shall utter or sell them to any others, but to the said Pinner's of London: Under the pain of the forfeiture thereof, to be seized and taken as forfeited to Us, Our Heirs and Successors. Willing, and hereby straightly charging and Commanding all Majors, sheriffs, Bailiffs, justices of Peace, Customers, controllers, Searchers, Waiters, Constables, Headburroughes, and other Our Officers and Ministers, to be aiding and assisting to the due execution and accomplishment of this Our Royal will and Commandment, as they tender Our pleasure, and will answer the contrary at their perils.  
Given at Basin the two and twentieth day of july, in the sixteenth year of Our Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland. 
 God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and john Bill, Deputy Printers for the Kings most Excellent Majesty.  
ANNO. M.DC.XVIII.