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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE
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By the King.
A PROCLAMATION For Prising WINES.
CHARLES R.
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WHereas by the Statute made in the Eight and twentieth year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, for Prising of Wines, It is provided, That the Lord Chancellour, 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 Discretion to set the Prices of all kinds of Wines, as in the said Statute is expressed: By virtue whereof the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, the Lord Treasurer, the Lord Privy Seal, and the Lord Chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench, the Nineteenth day of December last, did Order, That Canary Wines, Allecants, and Muscadels, be sold in Gross at Thirty six pounds the Pipe or Butt, and Twelve pence the Pint by Retail; Sacks and Malagaes at Thirty two pounds the Butt, and Eleven pence the Pint by Retail; And that French Wines be sold at Thirty six pounds the Tun, and Twelve...