dieu ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon surmounted by a crown  
❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation for the prising of Wines.  
WHereas by the Statute made in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of King HENRY the eight for prising of Wines, it is provided, that the Lord chancellor, Lord Treasurer, Lord President of the Kings most honourable council, Lord privy Seal, and the Lords chief Iustices of either Bench, or five, four, or three of them, shall have power and authority by their discretions, to set the prizes of all kind of Wines, as in the said Statute is expressed: And whereas the Lord keeper of the great Seal of England, the Lord chief Iustice of the Kings Bench, and the Lord chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas, the nine and twentieth day of December last past, upon consideration of the Prizes that Wines bear this year in foreign parts, did order, That Canary Wines, and Allegant should be sold in gross at eighteen pounds the Pipe, and Muscadels in gross at eighteen pounds the Butt, and at twelve pence the quart by Retail: Sacks and Mallagoes at sixteen pounds the Butt in gross, and at eleven pence the quart by Retail: the best Gascoin and French Wines at eighteen pounds the Tun, and the Rochel Wines, and other small and thin Wines at fifteen pounds the Tun in gross, and at six pence the quart by Retail; and according to these proportions for greater or lesser quantities, either in gross or by Retail: And that none presume to sell at higher Prizes during the next year now ensuing, whereof the Clerk of the Crown is to take notice, and to see the same proclaimed the next term in Chancery, according to the Statute. And the said ds did think fit, that a Proclamation should be drawn up for our Signature, to be published throughout this Kingdom, declaring the Prizes of Wines as they are ranted, as aforesaid, to be observed in all the Ports of this Kingdom, and within ten miles of the Ports, allowing some addition of price from places which are more remote, so as the same do not exceed the proportion of a penny in the Quart, or four pounds in the Tun, for the distance of thirty miles of land carriage from the next convenient Port.  
Now that all excuse may be removed from such as inhabit in remote parts of this Realm, and that such as shall be found Delinquents herein, may aclowledge their own wilfulness the cause of the danger, and penalty they fall into after advertisement, Our Will and Pleasure is, and by this Our Proclamation We do publish and declare, That the said Prizes and Rates so ordered and set, shall be observed and kept, according as by the laws of this Kingdom they ought to be, for one year next following, in all Our Ports, and other places within this Realm, where Wines are landed, and within ten miles of those Ports and places. And it is Our Pleasure, that in places where Wines by Land carriage shall be conveyed more then ten miles from the next Port, the several sorts of Wines aforesaid, shall and may be sold according to the Rates aforesaid, allowing four pounds in the Tun, or one penny in the Quart for the carriage thereof upon Land, every thirty miles from the next convenient Port, And according to that proportion, and not at greater Rates: Straitly charging and commanding such of Our Subjects, and others whom it shall concern, that none of them, during the time aforesaid, presume to sell any of the said Wines at higher Rates, then by this Our Proclamation are declared, under the forfeitures and penalties mentioned in the said Statute, and other the laws and Statutes of this Realm ordained in that behalf.  
Given at Our Court at Windsor, the two and twentieth day of January, in the seventeenth year of Our Reign. 
 ❧ God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent majesty: And by the assigns of JOHN BILL. 1641.