OPEN   blazon of the Commonwealth  
❧ By the Protector.  
A PROCLAMATION For putting the Laws in execution for setting Prices on Wines.  
WHerras by the Statute made in the eight and twentieth year of King Henry the eight, for prising of Wines, It is provided, That the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, Lord Precedent of the Kings most Honourable Council, Lord Privy Seal, and the Lords Chief justices of either Bench, or Five, Four or Three of them, shall have Power and Authority by their Discretions to set the Prices of all kind of Wines as in the said Statute is expressed; His Highness the Lord Protector taking notice, That for want of the due putting the said Statute in execution, the prices of Wines have been of late years raised to excessive rates, to the great wrong and injury of the people; For redressing therefore of the said Evil, and preventing the same for the future, and to the end the Merchants, and others, concerned herein, may have timely notice hereof, His Highness (by the advice of His Council) hath thought fit to publish and declare, and doth hereby publish and declare His pleasure herein; And doth hereby enjoin and require the persons authorized by the said Statute, and all and every of them to take care, That the Laws and Statutes for setting the prices of Wines be from henceforth duly put in execution, and the said prices set accordingly. And His Highness doth straight charge and command all justices of Alssize, Mayor, justices of the Peace, Bailiffs and other Officers and Ministers of Justice, to whom the same doth or shall appertain, to take care, That the Laws and Statutes for preventing the abuses in and about the Sale and Uending of Wines, be from time to time duly observed, and the Offenders punished according to Law, as they and every of them will answer the contrary at their perils.  
Given at White-Hall this 20. day of July 1655.   

Published by His Highness special Command.   

London, Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, Printers to his Highness, MDCLV.