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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT.</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>BY THE KING</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A Proclamation prohibiting the payment and receipt of Cu&s;tomes, and other Maritime Duties upon the late pretended ORDINANCE of both Hou&s;es of PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<P>_WEE have made &s;o many Declarations of Our Royall Intentions concerning the pre|&s;erving of the Religion and Lawes of this Land, That Wee thinke it not fit oft to re|peate, Though by Gods grace We &s;eriou&s;ly intend never to decline or depart from the &s;ame. But this &s;eemes mo&s;t &s;trange unto Vs, that whil'&s;t (e&s;pecially at, and about LONDON) Our ju&s;t and Legall Commands are not obeyed, other Orders and Ordinances, (for which there is no Legall foundation) which not onely di&s;counte|nance but overthrow the Lawes of the Land that &s;ettle Religion, and were the &s;ences of the Subjects property, are &s;ubmitted unto and obeyed by many of Our wea|ker Subjects: And among&s;t the&s;e a blind obedience hath been yeelded unto the pre|tended Ordinance, for &s;etling Cu&s;tomes without an act; of Parliament, when an Act this Parliament (received from Vs, and &s;o under&s;tood by Vs, as one of the greate&s;t graces the Crowne ever conferred on the Subject) declares, no Cu&s;tome is due without an Act; and all &s;uch per&s;ones as receive the &s;ame incurr the forfeiture of a premunire. This We thought would not have found obedince from the Merchant, who under&s;tood what his owne benefit was thereby and could not be ignorant how penall it was in him to breake this Law; e&s;pecially when he found he paid his Cu&s;tome for &s;upport of an unnaturall Warr again&s;t his Prince, and to foment an inte&s;tine and Civill di&s;&s;ention which hath already, and may in the future pro|duce &s;o many Evills upon this poore People. But upon the menaces and u&s;age &s;ome received that denyed it, We find &s;ince a more generall Obedience in &s;uch as Trade, then We expected, though We under&s;tand by it the Trade of the Kingdom is much le&s;&s;ened. Neverthele&s;&s;e We thought not fit untill this pre&s;ent, by any of Our Proclamations to pro|hibite the &s;ame, becau&s;e We hoped before this time; We having &s;o often and by &s;o many meanes endeavoured the &s;ame, &s;ome happy under&s;tanding might have beene between Vs, and both our Hou&s;es of Parliament. But at pre|&s;ent finding that the monyes ari&s;ing from the&s;e Duties, are a great part of the fewell that maintaines this fire, and &s;upports this unnaturall Rebellion again&s;t Vs, and heightens the Spirits of &s;uch as have no Spirit to Peace, unle&s;&s;e they may de&s;troy Vs Our Po&s;terity, and the &s;etled government both of Church aod State; We doe hereby Declare to all Our People of what &s;ort &s;oever, That who&s;oever henceforward &s;hall, by vertue of the pretended Ordinance of Par|liament, pay any Monyes for Cu&s;tome or other Dutyes therein mentioned, other then to Our proper Mini&s;ters, what is due to Us by the knowne Laws of the Kingdome, That We will proceed again&s;t him or them in due time, as an ill-affected per&s;on or per&s;ons to the Peace of this Kingdome, and as &s;uch as endeavour (as much as in them lyes) to hinder a true Intelligence betwixt Vs and Our People. And for &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as &s;hall continue to require or receive the &s;ame contrary to the Statute made this Parliament, We &s;hall likewi&s;e proceed again&s;t them according to the penalty in the &s;aid Act, And becau&s;e (though the Law ought to have been every mans prohibition) We did not, untill this time, forbid the &s;ame, We doe hereby grant our free pardon to all &s;uch as formerly having either paid, or received the&s;e cu&s;tomes, &s;hall henceforth refu&s;e the &s;ame, And to no other.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signe Manuall at Our Court at</HI> Oxford, <DATE><HI>the &s;ixteenth day of</HI> December, <HI>in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Reigne.</HI></DATE></DATELINE><LB>
<HI>GOD SAVE THE KING.</HI></CLOSER>
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