arms of James II HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT.  
BY THE KING:  
A PROCLAMATION.  
JAMES R.  
WHEREAS Certain Duties for Excise and Customs are made Payable to us by several Acts of Parliament out of all foreign Goods and merchandises that shall be imported into this Our Kingdom of Ireland; And to the end that greater quantities of such Goods and merchandises as are necessary for the support of Our Army, and common Good of Our People may be Imported, and that the Importation thereof may be made more easy; We have thought fit, by the Advice of Our Privy-Council, to remit all the Duties of such Imported Goods and merchandises: We do therefore hereby Publish and Declare, that We are pleased to remit, and do hereby remit all the Duties of Excise and Customs payable to us out of any such Goods or merchandises Tobacco and Silks only Excepted) as shall be Imported into this Our Kingdom at any time after the day of the date hereof. And we do hereby require the Commissioners of our Revenue, the Collectors, Customers, and other Officers of Our Ports and Creeks within this Our Kingdom, that they or any of them do not presume to Demand any Duty of Excise or Customs for any foreign Goods or merchandises which shall be hereafter Imported, except as aforesaid: This Freedom and Immunity to continue only during Our pleasure, and for six Months after We shall by Proclamation, or other public Declaration signify Our Pleasure herein.  
Given at Our Court at Dublin-Castle the 4th Day of April 1690. And in the Sixth Year of Our Reign.  
GOD SAVE THE KING.   

DUBLIN, Printed for Alderman James Malone Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty; and are to be sold at his shop in Skinnerrow. And by Andrew Crook on Ormond-key 1690.