XIII.
That Flax being one of the principal and na∣tive-Commodities of that Kingdom of Ireland, * 1.1 the said Earl having gotten great quantities thereof into his hands, and growing on his own Lands, did issue out several Proclamations, viz. One dated the One and twentieth day of May, in the Eleventh of his Majesties Reign, and the other dated the One and thirtieth of Janua∣ry, in the same year, thereby prescribing and en∣joyning the working of Flax into Yarn and Thread, and the ordering of the same in such ways, wherein the Natives of that Kingdom were unpractised and unskilful: Which Procla∣mations so issued, were, by his Commands and Warrants to his Majesties Justices of Peace, and other Officers, and by other rigorous means, put in execution, and the Flax wrought or ordered in other manner then as the said Proclamation prescribed, was seized and imployed to the use of him and his Agents, and thereby the said Earl endeavoured to gain, and did gain in effect the sole sale of that Native Commodity.