![91Wine.- Broadside.- Charles II. By the King. A Proclamation for Prizing of Wines, broadside printed on 2 sheets, c.480 x 250mm. overall, printed partly in black letter with woodcut Royal arms at head and large initial, a little spotted and stained, trimmed to edge and mounted on card within modern mount, [Wing C3359], folio, by John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1664.
*** Prizing or Prizage was a duty to be paid to the king in wine of one tun of any ship importing between 10 and 20 tuns, and two tuns for any ship importing 20 tuns or more.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/0270de02-6a93-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d/3a8ecb54-2da0-ee11-be38-000d3ad5b402.webp "91Wine.- Broadside.- Charles II. By the King. A Proclamation for Prizing of Wines, broadside printed on 2 sheets, c.480 x 250mm. overall, printed partly in black letter with woodcut Royal arms at head and large initial, a little spotted and stained, trimmed to edge and mounted on card within modern mount, [Wing C3359], folio, by John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1664.
*** Prizing or Prizage was a duty to be paid to the king in wine of one tun of any ship importing between 10 and 20 tuns, and two tuns for any ship importing 20 tuns or more.")
Lot 91
Wine.- Broadside.- Charles II. By the King. A Proclamation for Prizing of Wines, by John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1664
Hammer Price: £240
Description
Wine.- Broadside.- Charles II. By the King. A Proclamation for Prizing of Wines, broadside printed on 2 sheets, c.480 x 250mm. overall, printed partly in black letter with woodcut Royal arms at head and large initial, a little spotted and stained, trimmed to edge and mounted on card within modern mount, [Wing C3359], folio, by John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1664.
⁂ Prizing or Prizage was a duty to be paid to the king in wine of one tun of any ship importing between 10 and 20 tuns, and two tuns for any ship importing 20 tuns or more. "Canary Wines, Allegant and Muscadels be sold in gross at Twenty six pounds the pipe or But, and at Ninepence the pint retail; Sacks and Malagoes in Gross at four and twenty pounds the But, and Eightpence the pint retail."
ESTC lists copies at BL, Cambridge, Oxford (Queen’s), Longleat, Trinity College, National Archives, and one copy in America (Harvard).
Description
Wine.- Broadside.- Charles II. By the King. A Proclamation for Prizing of Wines, broadside printed on 2 sheets, c.480 x 250mm. overall, printed partly in black letter with woodcut Royal arms at head and large initial, a little spotted and stained, trimmed to edge and mounted on card within modern mount, [Wing C3359], folio, by John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1664.
⁂ Prizing or Prizage was a duty to be paid to the king in wine of one tun of any ship importing between 10 and 20 tuns, and two tuns for any ship importing 20 tuns or more. "Canary Wines, Allegant and Muscadels be sold in gross at Twenty six pounds the pipe or But, and at Ninepence the pint retail; Sacks and Malagoes in Gross at four and twenty pounds the But, and Eightpence the pint retail."
ESTC lists copies at BL, Cambridge, Oxford (Queen’s), Longleat, Trinity College, National Archives, and one copy in America (Harvard).
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