arms of James II 
I2 R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT By The KING,  
A PROCLAMATION.  
JAMES R  
WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in this Kingdom in the 14th and 15th years of the Reign of Our late dear Brother of Blessed Memory, it is among other things Enacted, that for all foreign Commodities( except Wines and Tobaccoes, and Commodities from the English Plantations) imported into this Our Kingdom of Ireland by any of Our Subjects from any places beyond the Seas, other than from England or Wales, there shall be paid to us, Our Heirs and Successors, one third more in Subsidy, over and above the Subsidy payable for the same according to the Book of Rates in the said Statute inserted; and that for all or any the Commodities or merchandises in the said Acts or Book of Rates mentioned, which should be imported or exported by any aliens or strangers born out of Our allegiance, such aliens or strangers should pay double the Custom or Subsidy, payable by virtue of the said Act, for the same Commodities and merchandises imported or exported by Our natural born Subjects; And whereas the duty upon foreign Iron imported into this Kingdom, is now at four pounds per Tunn, and twenty shillings for every hundred of foreign Iron-Pots, And We being desirous to contribute what in us lies to the encouragement of all Trading Merchants, and the increase and advance of Trade in this Kingdom, even to the remitting or lessening such Customs, Duties and Subsidies as are payable to us; We have therefore thought fit, by the Advice of Our Privy-Council, to publish and declare, that Our Will and Pleasure is, that the said additional third part in Subsidy payable for all foreign Commodities as aforesaid, to be imported by any of Our Subjects from any part beyond the Seas, except England and Wales, as also the said double Subsidy or Custom payable by aliens or strangers, be and is hereby remitted as to all such Goods that shall hereafter be imported into, or exported out of this Kingdom by any such subjects or strangers: And that likewise all foreign Iron hereafter imported into this Kingdom, shall pay but forty shillings sterl. per Tunn, being the one moiety of the Duty heretofore payable for the same; and for every hundred of foreign Iron-Pots, the sum of twelve shillings sterl. and no more: And this freedom and immunity to continue for the space of two years from the date hereof, and from thence forward until We shall think fit to revoke the same by public Proclamation to be issued by the space of three months at the least before the said Duties, or any of them shall be again demanded or levied.  
Given at Our Court at Our Castle of Dublin the tenth day of January. 1689. And in the Fifth Year of Our Reign.  
GOD SAVE THE KING,   

DUBLIN, Printed by Andrew Crook the Assignee of Benjamin took, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and are to be Sold by Andrew Crook at His Majesty's Printing-House on Ormonde-Key. 1689.