WM RR  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT  royal blazon or coat of arms of England By the King and Queen, A PROCLAMATION For Publishing the several Marks or Stamps to be used for Velum, Parchment and Paper, pursuant to a late Act of Parliament for Charging certain Duties thereupon.  
MARIER.  
WHereas in and by an Act made in the last Session of this present Parliament (Entitled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesty's several Duties upon Velum, Parchment and Paper for Four years, towards Carrying on the War against France) it is Enacted, That from and after the Eight and twentieth day of June in the Year of our Lord, One thousand six hundred ninety four, there shall be, throughout the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, Raised, Collected and Paid unto Their Majesties, during the Term of Four years, for the several and respective things therein mentioned, which shall be Written or Ingrossed during the Term aforesaid, the several and respective Rates, Impositions, or Duties therein expressed; And that Commissioners, to be appointed by Their Majesties, should, within the time by the said Act limited, provide six several Marks or Stamps differing from each other, for the several and respective Duties thereby Granted; And that the said several Marks and Stamps should be published by Proclamation, in such manner as by the said Act (amongst other things therein contained, relation being thereunto had) may more fully appear: Their Majesties are graciously pleased by this Their Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of England, to Publish and give Notice, and do hereby Publish and give Notice to all persons who are or may be concerned, That Their Majesty's Commissioners, namely, Christopher Montague, John Stanley, Edward Lloyd, Henry Cornish, Henry Harris, Jacob Ʋander Esch, and James Isaacson, Esquires, who are appointed under the Great Seal of England, for Marking and Stamping of Velum, Parchment and Paper, and for the Execution of several other Matters and Things in the said Act contained, and who keep their Head Office in Lincolns-Inn, Have, pursuant to the Direction of the said Act of Parliament, provided Six several Marks or Stamps, to Stamp, or Impress all Velum, Parchment and Paper, upon which any the Records, Deeds, Instruments, Writings, Copies, or other things by the said Act charged, may be Ingrossed or Written, That is to say,  
One Mark or Stamp (the Impression whereof is here made in the Margin) for all Velum, Parchment and Paper by the said Act charged with the Payment of Forty Shillings, Namely, For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment, on which any Grants or Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England, or the Seal of the Duchy or County Palatine of Lancaster, or of any Honour, Dignity, Promotion, Franchise, Liberty or Privilege to any Person or Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, or Exemplifications of the same, shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum, Parchment or Sheet of Paper, on which any Pardon of or for any Crime, or Offence, or of any Sum of Money or Forfeiture whatsoever, or on which any Warrant of Reprieve or Relaxation from any Fines, Corporal Punishments, or other Forfeiture shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin of Velum or Parchment or Sheet of Paper upon which any Grant from Their Majesties of any Sum of Money exceeding One hundred pounds, which shall pass the Great Seal, or Privy Seal (not directed to the Great Seal) shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin of Velum or Parchment or for every Sheet of Paper upon which any Grant of any Office or Employment, which shall be above the value of Fifty pounds per Annum shall be Written or Ingrossed. For every Skin of Velum or Parchment on which any Grant of Lands in Fee, Lease for Years, or other Grant of Profit not therein particularly charged, that shall pass the Great Seal of England, the Seal of the Exchequer, the Seal of the Duchy or County Palatine of Lancaster, or the Privy Seal (not directed to the Great Seal) shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or Sheet of Paper upon which any Presentation or Donation which shall pass the great Seal of England, or upon which any Collation to be made by any Archbishop or other Bishop, or any Presentation or Donation to be made by any Patron whatsoever, of or to any Benefice, Dignity or Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Promotion whatsoever shall be Ingrossed or Written, (provided such Benefice, Dignity or Promotion be of the yearly value of Ten pounds or above in the King's Books.) For ●●●●y Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or Sheet or piece of Paper upon which any Register, Entry, Testimonial or Certificate of any Degree taken in either of the Two Vni●●●ities, or Four Inns of Court shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or Sheet of Paper on which any Dispensation to hold Two Ecclesiastical Dignities or Benefices, or both a Dignity and a Benefice, or any other Dispensation or Faculty from the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Master of the Faculties for the time being, shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment, Sheet or piece of Paper, upon which any Admittance of any Fellow of the College of Physicians, or of any Attorney, Clerk, Advocate, Proctor, Notary, or other Officer or Officers in any Court whatsoever shall be Ingrossed or Written. And for every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or Sheet of Paper, upon which any Appeal from the Court of Admiralty, Arches, or the Prerogative Courts of Canterbury or York shall be Ingrossed or Written.  
One other Mark or Stamp (the Impression whereof is here made in the Margin) for all Velum, Parchment and Paper by the said Act charged with the Payment of Five shillings, Namely, For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment, or sheet of Paper upon which any Conveyance, Surrender of Grants or Offices, Release or other Deed whatsoever which shall be Enrolled of Record in any of the Courts at Westminster, or in any other Court of Record whatsoever, or by any Custos Rotulorum, or Clerk of the Peace, shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every piece of Velum or Parchment upon which any Writ of Covenant for Levying of Fines shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every piece of Velum or Parchment upon which any Writ of Entry for suffering a Common Recovery shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin of Velum or Parchment upon which any Exemplification of what nature soever that shall pass the Seal of any Court whatsoever shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or sheet of Paper upon which any Institution or Licence that shall pass the Seal of any Arch Bishop or Bishop, Chancellor or other Ordinary or any Ecclesiastical Court whatsoever shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or sheet of Paper upon which any Writ of Error, Certiorari, Habeas Corpus or Appeal (except to the Delegates) shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or sheet of Paper upon which any Significavit pro Corporis deliberatione shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or sheet of Paper upon which any Sentence that shall be Given in the Court of the Lord high Admiral of England or the Cinque Ports, Exercising Admiralty jurisdiction, or upon any Attachment that shall be made out of any of the said Courts of Admiralty, or any Relaxation of any such Attachment shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or sheet or piece of Paper upon which any Licence for, or Certificate of Marriage or any Letters of Mart shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment, sheet or piece of Paper upon which any Probate of a Will or Letters of Administration for any Estate above the value of Twenty pounds shall be Ingrossed or Written. And for every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment, sheet or piece of Paper upon which any Recognisance, Statute-Staple or Statute-Merchant, shall be Ingrossed or Written or Entered of Record in any Court or Office.  
One other Mark or Stamp (the Impression whereof is here made in the Margin) for all Velum, Parchment and Paper by the said Act charged with the Payment of Two shillings and six pence, Namely, For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment upon which any Record of Nisi prius or Postea shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or Paper upon which shall be Ingrossed or Written any judgement whatsoever which shall be Signed by the Master of any Office or his Deputy or Secondary or by any Prothonotary or his Secondary, Deputy or Clerk, or any other Officer belonging to any of the Courts at Westminster, who have Power or usually doth or shall sign judgements. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or sheet of Paper upon which any Commission Issuing out of any Ecclesiastical Court not herein otherwise particularly charged shall be Ingrossed or Written. And for every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or sheet of Paper upon which any Warrant, Monition or Personal Decree in any Court of Admiralty or the Cinque Ports shall be engrossed or Written, or upon which any Beneficial Warrant or Order under Their Majesty's Sign Manual (except Warrants or Orders for the Service of Their Majesty's Navy, Army and Ordnance) shall be Ingrossed or Written.  
One other Mark or Stamp (the Impression whereof is here made in the Margin) for all Velum, Parchment and Paper by the said Act charged with the payment of One shilling, Namely, For every piece of Velum, Parchment or Paper, upon which any Special Bail to be taken in any of the Courts at Westminster, or before any of the judges of the said Courts, or in any other Court whatsoever that shall be Filled in any of the said Courts, shall be Ingrossed or Written; and for every piece of Velum, Parchment or Paper, upon which shall be Ingrossed or Written any Appearance upon such Special Bail. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment upon which shall be Ingrossed or Written any Bill, Answer, Replication, rejoinder, Interrogatories, Depositions taken by Commission, or any other Plead whatsoever in the Courts of Chancery, Exchequer, Duchy Court, and County Palatine Courts, or other Courts of Equity. And for every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment, and for every Sheet or piece of Paper, upon which any Admission into any Corporation or Company, or any Matriculation in either of the Two Universities, or any Admission into any of the Inns of Court or Inns of Chancery shall be Ingrossed or Written.  
One other Mark or Stamp (the Impression whereof is here made in the Margin) for all Velum, Parchment and Paper by the said Act charged with the payment of Six pence; Namely, For every piece of Parchment or Paper upon which any Affidavits shall be Ingrossed or Written (except Affidavits taken pursuant to the several Acts made in the Thirtieth and Two and thirtieth Years of the Reign of King Charles the Second for the Burying in Woollen, and except such Affidavits as shall be taken before the Officers of Their Majesty's Customs, or any justice or justices of the Peace, or before the Commissioners appointed or to be appointed by any Act of Parliament for the Assessing or Levying any Aids or Duties Granted or to be Granted to Their Majesties, and which Affidavits shall be taken by the said Officers of the Customs, justices or Commissioners by virtue of their Authority as justices of the Peace or Commissioners respectively and not otherwise;) For every piece of Parchment or Paper upon which any Copy of such Affidavit as is therein before charged, that shall be Filled or Read in any Court whatsoever shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or Sheet of Paper upon which shall be Ingrossed or Written any Indenture, Lease or Deed-Poll, not hereby otherwise charged. For every piece of Velum or Parchment, or piece of Paper upon which any Original Writ (except such Original on which a Writ of Capias Issues) Sub poena, Bill of Middlesex, Latitat, Writ of Capias quo minus, Writ of Dedimus potestatem, to take Answers, examine Witnesses or appoint Guardians, and any other Writ whatsoever, or any other Process or Mandate that shall issue out or pass the Seals of any of the Courts at Westminster, Courts of the Great Sessions in Wales, Courts in Counties Palatine, or any other Court whatsoever holding Plea, where the Debt or Damage doth amount to Forty shillings or above, or the Thing in Demand is of that Value, shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every piece of Velum, Parchment or Paper upon which any Entry of any Action in the Mayors and Sheriffs Courts of London, and in Courts in all Corporations and other Courts whatsoever, out of which no Writs, Process or Mandates, Issue, holding Plea, where the Debt or Damage doth amount to Forty shillings or above, shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every piece of Velum, Parchment or Paper upon which any Common Bail to be Filled in any Court whatsoever, and upon which any Appearance that shall be made upon such Bail, shall be Ingrossed or Written, which Appearance or Common Bail the Defendant shall cause to be Entered or Filled within Eight days after the Return of the Process on which the Defendant was Arrested, upon Penalty of Five pounds to be paid to the Plaintiff, for which the Court shall immediately award judgement, whereupon the Plaintiff may take out Execution. For every piece of Velum, Parchment or Paper upon which any Rule or Order, made or given in any of the Courts at Westminster, either Courts of Law or Equity shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every piece of Velum, Parchment or Paper upon which any Copy of such Rules or Orders Entered, or the Copies of any other Records or Proceed in any of the said Courts at Westminster not hereby otherwise Charged, shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or sheet of Paper upon which shall be Ingrossed or Written any Citation or Monition made in any Ecclesiastical Court, or any Libel or Allegation, Deposition, Answer, Sentence or Final Decree or any Inventory exhibited in any Ecclesiastical Court, the Courts of Admiralty or Cinque Ports, or whereupon any Copies of them respectively shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin of Velum or Parchment, or sheet of Paper upon which any Decree or Dismission made by or in the Court of Chancery, Exchequer, Court of the County Palatine or Duchy of Lancaster, Courts of the Counties Palatine of Chester, Durham or other Courts of Equity whatsoever, shall be Ingrossed or Written, and for every Skin or piece of Velum, Parchment or sheet of Paper upon which any Charter-Party, Policy of Assurance, Passport, Bond, Release, Contract, or other obligatory Instrument, or any Protest, Procuration, Letter of Attorney or any other Notarial Act whatsoever, shall be Ingrossed or Written.  
And one other Mark or Stamp (the Impression whereof is here made in the Margin) for all Velum, Parchment and Paper by the said Act charged with the payment of One Penny, Namely, For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment, or Sheet of Paper, upon which any Declaration, Plea, Replication, rejoinder, Demurrer or other Plead whatsoever, in any Court of Law shall be Ingrossed or Written, and for every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment upon which any Copy thereof shall be Written or Ingrossed. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or Sheet of Paper upon which any Depositions taken in the Court of Chancery or other Court of Equity (except the Paper Draughts of Depositions taken by virtue of any Commission before they are Ingrossed) which are not therein before Charged, or upon which any Copy of any Bill, Answer, Plea, Demurrer, Replication, rejoinder, Interrogatories, Depositions, or other Proceed whatsoever in any Court of Equity shall be Ingrossed or Written. For every Skin or piece of Velum or Parchment or Sheet of Paper upon which a Copy of any Will shall be Ingrossed or Written.  
But the said Act doth not extend to Charge any Bills of Exchange, Accounts, Bills of Parcels, Bills of Fees, or any Bills or Notes (not Sealed) for Payment of Money at Sight, or upon Demand, or at the end of certain days of Payment. Or the Probate of any Will or Letters of Administration of any Common Seaman or Soldier, who shall be slain or die in Their Majesty's Service, a Certificate being produced from the Captain of the Ship or Vessel, or Captain of the Troop or Company under whom such Seaman or Soldier served at the time of his Death, and Oath being made of the truth thereof before the proper judge or Officer by whom such Probate or Administration ought to be granted, which Oath is to be Administered without Fee or Reward.  
And none of the said Rates are to be paid by any person or persons that shall be admitted to Sue or Defend in Forma Pauperis.  
Given at Our Court at Whitehall the One and thirtieth day of May, 1694. In the Sixth Year of Our Reign.  
God save King William and Queen Mary.   

London, Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceased; Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties. M DC XC IU.