WHereas by the Stature made in the Twenty eighth 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 Lord Chief Iustices of each Bench, or Five, or Four, or Three of them, shall have Power and Authority by their Discretion to set the Prices of all kind of Wines, as in the said Statute is expressed; By vertue whereof, the Lord Chancellour, Lord Treasurer, and the Lord Chief Iustices of each Bench, have Ordered, That Canary Wines be sold in Gross, at Thirty six pounds the Pipe, Twelve pence the Pint by Re­tail; Tents and Malagaes in Gross, at Thirty pounds the Butt, and Ten pence the Pint by Re­tail; That Allicants, Sherries and Muscadels, be sold in Gross, at Twenty seven pounds, and Nine pence the Pint by Retail; That French Wines be sold in Gross, at Thirty six pounds the Tun, and Twelve Pence the Quart by Retail; And that Rhenish Wines be sold in Gross, at Nine pounds the Aulm, and Eighteen pence the Quart by Retail: And according to these Rates (and no higher) in proportion for greater or lesser quantities, either in Gross or by Retail; and that none presume to sell at higher Prices during the year next ensuing, to be accounted from the First day of February, in the year of Our Lord God 1676. Now that all cause of excuse from such as Inhabit in remote parts of this Realm, and that such as shall be found Delinquents therein, may acknowledge their own wilfulness to be the cause of the danger and Penalty they fall into after advertisement, His Majesties Will and Pleasure is, and by the Advice of the said Lords, and the rest of the Privy Council, according to one other Statute in that behalf made, in the Fourth year of the Reign of His most Noble Progenitor King Edward the Third, by this His Royal Proclamation doth Publish and Declare, That for One year next following, to be ac­counted as aforesaid, Canary Wines be not sold in Gross, at above Thirty six pounds the Pipe, and Twelve pence the Pint by Retail; And that Tents and Malagaes be not sold in Gross, at above Thirty pounds the Butt, and Ten pence the Pint by Retail; And that Allicants, Sherries and Muscadels be not sold in Gross, at above Twenty seven pounds at Butt, and Nine pence the Pint by Retail; And that French Wines be not sold in Gross, at above Thirty six pounds the Tun, and Twelve pence the Quart by Retail; And that Rhenish Wines be not sold in Gross, at above Nine pounds the Aulm, and Eighteen pence the Quart by Retail; And according to those Rates (and no higher) in proportion for greater or lesser quantities, either in Gross or by Retail. Which Rates and Prices His Majesties Pleasure is, shall be duly observed in all His Ports and other places within this Realm where Wines are Landed, or within Ten Miles of those Ports and places. And it is His Majesties Pleasure, That in Those places where Wines by Land-Carriage shall be conveyed more then Ten Miles from the next Port, the several sorts of Wines aforesaid shall and may be sold according to the Rates aforesaid, with an allowance not exceeding four pounds the Tun; and One peny the Quart for the Carriage thereof every Thirty Miles, and according to that proportion, and not at greater Rates; Strictly Charging and Commanding such of His Majesties Subject, and others whom it may concern, That none of them (during the time aforesaid) presume to sell any of the said Wines in Gross, or by Re­tail, at higher Rates than by this His Majesties Proclamation are appointed, under the Forfei­tures and Penalties mentioned in the said Statutes, and other the Laws and Statutes of this Realm Orvained in that behalf , and such further Pains and Penalties as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm can or may be inflicted upon wilful Contemners of His Majesties Roy­al Command and Proclamation; Requiring and Commanding all Mayors, Sheriffs Iusti­ces of the Peace, Customers, Comptrollers, and other Officers of His Majesties Ports, and all others Whom it shall concern, diligently to observe, take notice of, and attend the Execution of this His Royal Pleasure, and to give Information to the Lords and others of the Privy Coun­cil, of the Delinquents, that they may be proceed against, and receive punishment according to their demerits.

Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Seventeenth day of January, 1676/7. in the Eight and twentieth year of Our Reign.

God save the King.