Promise, taking other than by Demise, Grant, or Lease of Land
or Tythes, any Corn growing in the Fields or any other Corn or
Grain, to the Intent to Sell again, except Badgers, Laders,
Hidders and Carriers licenced by three Justices of the peace
for that purpose, or where the Same is bought to make
Malt or Oatmeal< no role > , or to Victual Ships, Forts or Castles in the
King's Dominious, or for Transportation by water from one
part of the Realm to another, by persons licensed for that
purpose by three Justices, and on the terms therein mentioned,
Shall be deemed an unlawfull Ingrosser, and Shall Suffer
Imprisonment for two Months for the first Offence, half a
year for the Second, and for the third, the Pillory, and Forfeit
all his Goods and Chattels, and be imprisoned during the
King's pleasure And whereas their Excellencies the Lords
Justices have been informed, That tho' the prices of Corn are
raised to a great Height, far beyond the prices in the Said Act
mentioned, divers [..] ill disposed
Persons, for their private Lucre, do presume to buy up and
ingross great Quantities of Corn and Grain, in order to export
and Sell the Same beyond the Seas, contrary to the Said Laws,
and to the great Oppression of the poor-Their Excellencies, by
and with the advice of his Majesty's Privy Council, have
thought fit, in order to prevent the many Inconveniences
that may arise to the publick by the Scarcity of Corn and Grain,
to Order, That all the Laws relating to Forestalling, Regrating
and Ingrossing of Corn, and particularly the Said Act of the
Fifth and Sixth of Edward the Sixth, be Strictly observed and
effectually carried into Execution. And to the Intent that all
persons who Shall break the Same, may be discovered, do order,
that the Commissioners and Officers of the Customs at the Several
part of this Kingdom, do take care when any Corn or Grain Shall
be brought to be entred for Exportation, to inform themselves by
the best Ways and means they can, of the Names and Places of
Abode of the persons So bringing the Same, or making Such
Entry and of the Places from whence the Corn or Grain is
brought, and who is the true Owner thereof, and whether the
Same be really the Growth of the Land of the person exporting
or bought of any other persons, and to give an Account
immediately of Such particulars to two or more Justices of
the peace of the County, Place or Division where Such Entry is
made, to the End Such Persons may be apprehended and
proceeded against according to Law, in case they Shall not
appear to be within Some of the Said excepted Cases out of the
Said Act, And that the Commissioners do also forthwith Send
their Orders and Directions to the Officers of the Several
ports of this Kingdom for the purposes before mentioned and
requiring them to use their utmost Endeavours in putting