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, Meal, 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 Foreign 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 Majesty's 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, 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 perilis. And We require all his Majesty's Officers in the several and respective Ports of this Kingdom: And the Commissioners for managing of his Majesty's Revenue in this Kingdom, 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 meaning hereof.  
Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin the fifth day of May, 1684 

Mich. Armah. C.  
Longford.  
Granard.  
Char. Meredith.  
William Davys.  
John Keating.  
Herald Hene.  
Rich. Reynell.  
John Cole.  
Rob. Hamilton.  
Tho. Newcomen.   
 God Save the King   

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