arms of Charles II 
C R  H●NI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT By the King. A PROCLAMATION For appointing Commissioners for granting of Licences and Dispensations for Retailing of Wines.  
CHARLES R.  
WHereas by Our Royal Proclamation( bearing date at Our Court at Whitehall, published in pursuance of a late Act of Parliament, entitled, An Act for the better ordering and selling of Wines by Retail( amongst other things) We did Will and Require all Our loving Subjects who were Retailers of any Wine or Wines within Our Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town and Port of Berwick upon Tweed, to appear and address themselves to Our Agents for the time being, at their respective Offices, and to Contract, Conclude and Agree with them for Licences and Dispensations to Sell and utter Wine by retail. And whereas We have settled upon Our dear and most entirely beloved Brother, James Duke of York, the Rents, Issues, and Profits of the said Wine-Licences, towards the maintenance and support of Our said dear Brother, together with all the Powers and Authorities settled in us by the said Act, which are now also settled upon Our said dear Brother by Act of Parliament in that behalf made and provided. And whereas Our said dear Brother hath thought fit to reassume the said Farm and Revenue, and to Manage the same by His Commissioners and Agents: In pursuance whereof, and of the Powers and Authorities given by the said Act, Our said dear Brother James Duke of York, hath under His Hand and Seal authorised and Deputed Henry Brounckard Esq; Sir John Colliton Knight and Baronet, and Richard Downs Esq; to be Agents and Commissioners for granting Licences and Dispensations for selling and uttering all kind of Wine and Wines by Retail within the places and limits aforesaid, in the place and stead of Sir Richard Braham Knight and Baronet, Sir Nicholas armourer Knight, and Sir George Smith Knight, Stephen Fox, Richard Mason, and Nicholas Oudart, Esqs We do hereby strictly Charge and Command all Our Subjects who are Retailers of Wine within Our Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town and Port of Berwick upon Tweed, That they and every of them do appear and address themselves unto the said Henry Brounckard, Sir John Colliton and Richard Downs, or to any Two of them, at their Office in Durham Yard in the Strand, at the several time and times herein after limited and appointed, then and there to Contract with the said Agents and Commissioners, at such Rates and Prices as they shall agree, for Licence and Dispensation for Retailing Wines; and likewise such as have formerly Contracted with any of Our aforesaid Agents or Commissioners, or their Officers, or paid any money to them for Rents, Fines, or any other ways concerning Wine-Licences, that they bring with them such their Licences, and Acquittances to manifest such their respeceive Contracts, and Moneys paid, and that they duly and punctually pay all their Arrearages and growing Rents, unto the said Agents and Commissioners herein nominated, sitting in Durham-Yard aforesaid. And We do hereby further Declare Our Royal Will and Pleasure is, That all and every person and persons who are Retailers of Wine, or that shall desire to have Licence and Dispensation to Retail Wine within Our said Dominions, and dwelling within Eighty miles of Our City of London, shall and do appear before the said Agents or Commissioners at their Office aforesaid, and shall and do Agree, Contract and give such good Security for payment of their Rents, and performing of Covenants, as the said Agents or Commissioners shall like and approve, and likewise pay their Arrears of Rent, at or before the last day of this present February; And that all Retailers of Wine, and such as desire to Retail Wine, and dwelling One hundred and sixty miles from London, shall appear and perform as aforesaid, at or before the Five and twentieth day of March next; and that all other person or persons as aforesaid, inhabiting at a greater distance from London then One hundred and sixty miles, shall appear and perform as aforesaid, at or before the Three and twentieth day of April next. And We do hereby Declare, That if any person or persons whatsoever, in any City, Town-Corporate, or other place or places, shall by virtue or colour of any Letters Patents, Grants, Contracts, or Authorities whatsoever, not warranted by the said Acts, shall presume to utter or Retail any Wine or Wines whatsoever, without making such Contract, and giving Security for payment of their Rents within the respective times herein limited, they and every of them are and shall be liable to the Penalties and Forfeitures in the said Act Set and Imposed upon all such who utter and Retail Wine without Licence, contrary to the said Acts, and are to be proceeded against as the Act directeth. And We do straitly further Charge and Command all Sheriffs, Mayors, bailiffs, Constables, and all other Our Officers whatsoever, to be aiding and assisting unto the said Agents or Commissioners of Our said dear Brother, for the exact obeying and putting in execution of this Our Royal Proclamation, and the said Acts of Parliament. And We do hereby Declare to all Our loving Subjects, That it will be good and acceptable service to us, in any of Our said Subjects, to prosecute such Offenders who shall presume to Sell or Retail any Wines without Licence as aforesaid, for which they shall receive the Reward and Advantage by the said Acts proposed, being the moiety of Five pounds for every such offence committed.  
Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 16th day of February, 1663/ 4. in the Sixteenth year of Our Reign.  
God save the King.   

London, Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the KINGS most excellent Majesty. 1663/ 4.