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tobacco ; do most humbly pray that it may be 

 enacted by your Majesty ; and it is hereby 

 enacted .... N'o person, after 1st January, 

 1660, to set or plant, improve or grow, make or 

 cure, any tobacco in England, Wales, Guernsey, 

 Jersey, Berwick-upon-Tweed, or Ireland. Pe- 

 nalty, forfeiture of tobacco and value thereof, 

 or 40s. for every rod or pole planted. 



" Direction to Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, 

 Mayoi'S, Bailiffs, and Constables, to burn, pluck 

 up, consume, and utterly destroy all tobacco so 

 growing." 



Three years later, the penalty of 40s. a rod 

 having proved insufficient to deter the tobacco- 

 growers from continuing their lucrative trade, a 

 fresh law was passed. 



1663, 15 Car. II. c. 7, s. 18.—" And forasmuch 

 as planting and making tobacco within this 

 Kingdom of England doth continue and encrease 

 to the apparent loss of his said Majesty in his 

 Customs, the discouragement of English planta- 

 tions in those parts beyond the seas, and preju- 

 dice of this kingdom in general, no withstanding 



(above-mentioned Act). And forasmuch 



as it is found by experience that the reason why 

 the said planting and making of tobacco doth 

 continue, is that the penalties prescribed and 

 appointed by the Law arc so little, as have 



