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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<BYLINE>By the King. </BYLINE>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION For recalling and prohibiting Sea-men from the Services of Forraign Princes and States.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty hath been adverti&s;ed, that great num|bers of Mariners and other Seafaring men, His Maje&s;ties natural born Sub|jects many of them, by occa&s;ion of the late disbanding, and &s;ome others before have betaken them&s;elves to the &s;ervices of Forraign Princes and States, to the great di&s;&s;ervice of his Maje&s;ty and their Native Countries; and whereby his &s;aid Maje&s;ty and his Realms are unfurni&s;hed of men of their &s;ort and cal|ling, if there &s;hall be cau&s;e to u&s;e them: Therefore for redre&s;s thereof at pre&s;ent, and preventing the like for the future, The Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, by this His Royal Proclamation, with the Advice of the Lords of his Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Honorable Privy Council, doth Will and &s;trictly charge and command all and &s;ingular Ma&s;ters of Ships, Pilots, Mariners, Seamen, Shipwrights, and other Seafaring men, what&s;oever and where&s;oever, being his Maje&s;ties natural born Subjects, who are in the &s;ervice of any Forraign Prince or State, or do &s;erve in any Forraign Ships or Ve&s;&s;els, That forthwith they do withdraw them&s;elves, and depart from &s;uch Forraign &s;ervices and return home to their native Countrys and lawful Vocations. And further His Maje&s;ty doth hereby prohibite and forbid all and &s;ingular Ma&s;ters of Ships, Pilots, Mariners, Seamen, Shipwrights, and other Sea-faring men what&s;oever, being his Maje&s;ties natural born Subjects from entring them&s;elves; And doth hereby &s;treightly charge and command them and every of them from henceforth to forbear to enter them&s;elves in|to pay, or otherwi&s;e betake them&s;elves to the &s;ervice of any Forraign Princes, or States, or to &s;erve in any Foraign Ve&s;&s;el or Ship, without Licence had and obtained in that behalf. To all which his Maje&s;ty doth and will expect due obedience and conformity; And doth hereby publi&s;h and declare, That the Offenders to the contrary &s;hall not onely incur his Maje&s;ties ju&s;t di&s;plea&s;ure, but be proceeded again&s;t for their con|tempt by &s;eizure of their Goods, Per&s;ons, and E&s;tates, where&s;oever they &s;hall be found, and otherwi&s;e, ac|cording to the utmo&s;t &s;everities of Law. And further His Maje&s;ty doth hereby authorize and command all and every the Captains, Ma&s;ters, and other Officers, &s;erving or imployed in any of his Maje&s;ties Ships, or Ve&s;&s;els at Sea, to &s;top and make &s;tay of, all and every &s;uch Per&s;on and Per&s;ons, as &s;hall en|deavour to tran&s;port or enter them&s;elves into the Service of any Forraign Prince, or State, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this his Maje&s;ties Royal Proclamation; And al&s;o to &s;eize upon, take and bring away all &s;uch Mariners, Seamen, and other per&s;ons afore&s;aid, as &s;hall be found to be imployed or &s;erving in any Ships or Ve&s;&s;els, of or belonging to any Forraign Prince or State, or to any Merchant or other per&s;on or per&s;ons other then to his Maje&s;tie or his Subjects.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> <DATE>the nineteenth day of <HI>April,</HI> in the thirteenth Year of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
<HI>GOD SAVE THE KING.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Bill,</HI> Printer to the KING'S mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY, 1661.</P>
<P>At the KING'S Printing-Hou&s;e in <HI>Black-Friers.</HI></P>
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