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, Meal 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 Majesty's 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, Barley, Rye, Bear, Oats, 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 Majesty's Officers in the several and Respective Ports of this Kingdom, and the Farmers of the Great Branches of His Revenue, that they do Seize all such Grain, Meal, or Malt as they shall find to be Shipped 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 1681. 

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.   

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