WHEREAS We are informed that the Price of Corn, Meal, Wooll, Leather, and other Commodities is so high, that the persons imployed by Vs to make Stores and Magazines of Grain, and to provide clothes and other necessaries for Our Troops, cannot Buy the same but at Excessive Rates, though We are well assured there are great quantities of all sorts of Grain, of Wooll, Leather, and other Commodities within this Our Kingdom; and having on the one hand con­sidered the absolute necessity of making Magazines and stores of Grain and Meal for the support of Our Army, and of pro­viding clothes and other necessaries for Our Troops; and on the other hand, at what rate the Farmers, Husbandmen, and other Dealers and Traders may [...]ll the same to discharge their Rents, Subsidies, and other incumbrances, reserving a com­petency for the use of their Families, and a sufficient propor­tion of Seed for Tillage; We have thought fit, by the Advice of our Privy Council, to sett a rate upon such Eorn, Meal, Wooll, Leather, and other Commodities as shall be bought for Our use: We do therefore, by the Advice aforesaid, strictly Charge and Command all Farmers, Husbandmen and Others, who have any Wheat, Bear, Barley, Mestin, Oats or Oatmeal, that they dispose of the same, or so much thereof as We shall think fit to make use of, at the rates following; That is to say, twenty shillings the Barrel of the best Wheat, eighteen shillings the Barrel of ordinary Wheat, fifteen shillings the Barrel of Mestin, twelve shillings the Barrel of the best Bear, eleven shillings the Barrel of ordinary Bear, thirteen shillings the Barrel of the best Mault, and twelve shillings the Barrel of ordinary Mault, fourteen shillings the Barrel of good Barley, and six shillings the Barrel of good Oats, in the Counties of Du [...], City of Du [...]n, [...]eath, Westmeath, Wi [...]klow, and Kilda [...]e; And fifteen shillings the Barrel of the best Wheat, thirteen shillings the Barrel of ordinary Wheat, eleven shillings the Barrel of the best Bear, ten shillings the Barrel of ordinary Bear, twelve shillings the Barrel of the best Mault, eleven shillings the Barrel of ordinary Mault, twelve shillings the Barrel of good Barley, four shillings the Barrel of good Oats, and twelve shillings the Barrel of good Oatmeal in all other parts of the Kingdom; the said Barrel to be Briston measure, and the said respective rates to be paid upon the delivery of the said Corn or Meal at Our Store next the pla [...]e where the Corn or Meal lyes. And in case the Farmers, Husbandmen, and others that have such [Page] Corn or Meal of sell, shall Refuse to bring the same to Our Stores at the Rates aforesaid, at the Request of the Commissioner General of Our Provisions and Stores, or of Our Commissaryes of Bread, or his or their Deputies or Agents, We do hereby strictly Charge and Command Our respective Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants and Sheriffs of Our Counties of this Our Kingdom, that they or any of them do Immediately compell the said Farmers, Husband▪men and others to thrash and prepare their said Corn and Meal, and to bring the same to Our said Stores, or such Proportion thereof as shall be thought necessary for Our Service; at the rates aforesaid, in which case Our said Lieutenants, Depu­ty Lieutenants and Sheriffs, Our said Commissioner General of Our Provisions and Stores, Our Commissaries of Bread, his and their Deputies and Agents are to take special care that the said Farmers, Husbandmen and others having such Corn and Meal be permitted to keep a sufficient Proportion thereof for the subsistence of them and their Families, with sufficient quan­tity of Barly and Oates for Tillage as aforesaid: And We do further strictly Charge and Com­mand Our said Commissioner generall of Our Provisions and Stores, Our Commissaryes of Bread, his and their Deputies or Agents upon the delivery of any such Corn or Meal into a­ny of Our Stores, that they thereupon pay down to the owners of such Corn and Meal accord­ing to the rates aforesaid. And We do further require Our said Commissioner general of Our Provisions to appoint several Storehouses in such places as may lye convenient for such Farmers, Husbandmen, and others to carry such Corn or Meal to Our Stores as aforesaid. And We do further by the advice of Our Privy Council strictly Charge and Command all such as have any Store of Wooll, Leather, Tallow or salted Hides, that they dispose of so much thereof, for Our use, as We shall have occasion for, at the rates following, that is to say, for good Merchantable Wooll ten shillings the stone, and for good Merchantable tanned Leather seven pence the pound sole Leather, and six pence the pound upper Leather; for Tallow thirty shillings the hundred weight, and for large oxe Hides salted twenty shillings the hundred weight, and for other salt Hides thirteén shillings the hundred weight: And in case the owners of such Wooll, Leather, Tallow or Hides, shall refuse to supply Our occasions at the rates aforesaid, We do hereby Declare that We will give directions to the Commissioners of Our Treasury to cause so much of the said Wooll, Leather, Tallow and Hydes to be seized upon for Our Vse at the rates aforesaid, as we shall have occasion for.

Given at Our Court at Dublin Castle the 28th day of February. 1689. And in the sixth year of Our Reign.

God Save the King.