〈…〉   royal blazon surmounted by a crown and flanked by the English lion and Tudor rose on one side and the Scottish unicorn and thistle on the other 〈◇〉 〈◇〉 〈◇〉 〈◇〉 〈◇〉 〈◇〉 ye MEINTIENDRAY  
BY THE Lords-Justices OF IRELAND.  


CHARLES PORTER,  
THO: CONINGESBY.    
WHereas Complaint has been made unto us by the Commissioners and Chief Governours of Their Majesties Revenue, that the Officers of Inland Excise employed under them, have been and daily are obstructed in the due Execution of their respective Employments, whereby Their Majesties Revenue of Excise is very much impaired; And We being desirous that all lawful means should be used for the Encouragement of Their Majesties Revenue, that so the said Duty may be fully Collected, being a considerable Support towards the Payment of the Army. We do therefore strictly Charge and Command, that no Person or Persons do hereafter presume to give any let, hindrance or Molestation to any Officer employed in the Excise, in the Execution of his Duty and Office. And being further informed by them, that divers loose and wandring Persons, not fixed to any Habitations, in great numbers taking the advantage of the Disorders of the times, do follow the Camp and Army, and under Hedges and Ditches and other obscure places Brew and make Beer and Ale, which not being well boiled, and wanting Convenience to work the same as it ought, becomes very unwholesome for the Body, and begets Fluxes and other Distempers in the Army, and by this fraudulent practise escape paying the Duty of Excise, to Their Majesties great prejudice. For prevention of which Mischief for the future, We do hereby strictly Charge and require, that no Person whatsoever presume to carry any unwholesome, half-boil'd, unwrought, raw, new Beer or Ale to the Camp, nor any but such as hath been brewed above six days; And that they and every of them first take a Certificate under the hand of the Gauger of Excise, where such Beer or Ale was Brewed, that it is not only good, wholesome and well Brewed Drink, but that the same hath been Brewed above six days, and paid Their Majesties Duties accordingly. And We further require, that all Persons subject to the payment of Excise, do without fraud, Pay and Discharge the same, in such manner as the Law of Excise requires, upon the peril of being proceeded against for such their neglect, according to the utmost rigour of the Law.  
Given at Their Majesties Castle of Dublin, the 23th day of May, 1691. In the Third Year of Their Majesties Reign. By the Lords-Justices Command. Geo: clerk. 
 God Save the KING and QUEEN.   

Dublin, Printed by Andrew Crook Assignee of Benjamin took, Printer to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties on Ormonde-Key.