Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and John Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majestie. Anno Dom. M.DC.XXV.
2 pp. folio. There are two issues, varying only in the cut of the royal arms. Copies in Antiq., B. M., Crawf., I. T., P. C, and P. R. O. Entered on Patent Rolls. Printed in Rymer's "Fœdera," xviii, 72.
FOOTNOTE:
[1] For the proceedings whereby the patent was overthrown by the quo warranto, June 26, 1624, see Brown, First Republic in America, p. 601.
[1627, February 17.]
[Importation of Tobacco.]
BY THE KING.
A Proclamation touching Tobacco.
Whereas Our most deare Father, of blessed memory, deceased, for many weighty and important reasons of State, and at the humble suit of his Commons in Parliament, did heretofore publish two severall Proclamations, the one bearing date the nine and twentieth day of September, in the two et twentieth yeere of His Highnesse Reigne of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the eight and fiftieth, and the other the second day of March then next following, by both of them utterly prohibiting the importation et use of all Tobacco, which is not of the proper growth of the Colonies of Virginia, and the Summer-Ilands, or one of them, with such Cautions and under such Paines and Penalties, as are in those Proclamations at large expressed.