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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
ACT For a new Imposition upon English COMMODITIES.  
At Edinburgh, the twenty one of August, one thousand six hundred and sixty three.  
THe Estates of Parliament considering, how much it concerns the credit and wealth of the Kingdom, that our own native Commodities be manufactured amongst ourselves, and that the endeavours of such persons as are setting up Manufacturies and Trades have been, and are much retarded, by the importation of such foreign Commodities as may be made within the Kingdom. Therefore, and for their due encouragement, the King's Majesty, with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament, Statutes and Ordains, that from and after the first day of September next, twelve pounds Scots upon ilk ell of broad English Cloth; six pounds upon ilk ell, of Yorkshire and all narrow Cloth; two pounds eight shillings upon ilk ell of Serge; thirty shillings upon ilk ell of Castilians; forty eight pounds upon ilk Beaver-hat; twenty four pounds upon ilk Demy beaver 〈◊〉 vigon; and three pounds upon the piece of ilk common Hat; thirty six pounds upon the 〈…〉 four pounds upon the dozen of Stag-gloves▪, and 〈◊〉 pounds upon the dozen of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, C 〈…〉 s, Kid or Shivering; and twenty four shillings upon ilk pound of Tobacco imported either for sale or private use into this Kingdom from England, all Scots money, Be exacted, levied and collected and fourscore per cent. upon all other sorts of Commodities imported into this Kingdom from England, and not particularly named in this Act, and upon all the growth and manufacture of that Kingdom, though imported from any other place, and that over and above all other impositions put upon the same already. And to the effect this present Act may be the more exactly put to execution, It is Statute and Ordained, that all Goods imported from England, or of the growth and manufacture of England, not above particularly expressed, shall be valued, after sighting, by two skilful honest men upon oath, to be nominate by the Dean of Gilled or his Assessors, or Magistrates of the Burgh, or next adjacent Burgh to the Custom-office where the said's G●●●● are entered, or by the oath of the party to whom the saids Goods belongs, and accordingly pay the said f●●●●score per cent. And the Lords Thesaurer and Thesaurer-depute, and Lords of His Majesty's Exchequer, are hereby required to take an Oath, and Bond with sufficient Caution, from the Farmers or Collectors of the said's impositions, that they shall exactly collect the same, without any abatement thereof, directly or in directly; and that they shall not suffer any of the saids Goods to pass or be conveyed away un-entered, and that under the penalty of the worth of the saids Goods, if the contrary shall be made appear, the one half thereof to His Majesty's use, and the other half to the informer, and under the pain of forfaulting their Lacks and Commissions, and being declared incapable to farm or collect, in any time thereafter, any Custom, Excise, or other Imposition whatsoever within this Kingdom. And if any of the foresaids' Goods or Commodities shall be informed and made appear to be brought in, or shall be seized upon, not being entered in the Custom-office, or any other Office appointed for that effect, than the same to be wholly confiscate, the one half to His Majesty's use, and the other half to the first informer or seizer thereof. And Ordains these presents to be printed, and published at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, and other places needful, wherethrough none may pretend ignorance of the same.   

EDINBURGH, Printed by Evan Tyler, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1663.