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IS GRACE Her Majety's High Commiioner, and Lords of Privy Council, having conidered a Petition given in to them by Daniel De Foe Eq;: And the amen being read in their Preence, his Grace, and the aids Lords do hereby grant Licence to the Petitioner and his Aigneys, to publih the Poem Entituled Caledonia, a Poem, in Honour of Scotland and the Scots Nation, and dicharges any other Peron to Print, Vend, Import, or Sell the aid Poem during the pace of Seven Years, without the Petitioner or his Aigneys Warrand or Commiion, under the pain of forefaulting and eiing the Copies o Printed, Imported, Vended, or Sold for the Ue of the Petitioner and by his Aigneys, and under the Penalty of Ten Pound Sterling for each Hundred of the aids Copics Imported, Printed, Vended or Sold in manner foreaid, and proportionably for a greater or leer Number.

Extracted by me A. MAITLAND. Cl. Scti. Concilii.