By the King a proclamation prohibiting the payment and receipt of customes, and other maritime duties upon the late pretended ordinance of both Houses of Parliament..
England and Wales.Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
CharlesI,King of England,1600-1649.
[London : s.n.,
1642]
Imprint from Wing.
"... As the customs afford the fuel to feed this war, it is ordered that no person is to pay or receive them in future. A free pardon to all who henceforth refuse to pay." -- Steele.
At end of text: Given under our signe manuall at our court at Oxford, the sixteenth day of December, in the eighteenth yeare of our reigne.
Steele notation: pre- an having; Arms 35.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb: 22 1642".
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
Thomason
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority, 1485-1714,
ESTC
Customs administration