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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<BYLINE>BY THE KING.</BYLINE>
<HEAD>A Proclamation prohibiting the buying or di&s;po&s;ing of any the lading of the Ship called the <HI>SANCTA CLARA,</HI> lately brought into <HI>South-Hampton.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_COMPLAINT having been made unto His Maje&s;ty, by <HI>Don Alonco de Car|denas</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador from the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> that a Ship called the <HI>Sancta Cla|ra</HI> belonging to the &s;aid King and His Subjects, hath been lately treache|rou&s;ly brought to <HI>South-Hampton,</HI> by one Captain <HI>Bennet Strafford</HI> and o|thers, from <HI>Sancto Domingo,</HI> the &s;aid Ship being laden with Silver, Coche|neale, and other Wares and Merchandizes to a very great value; And that the &s;aid Ship and Goods, being by the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador arre&s;ted, and the &s;aid <HI>Bennet Strafford</HI> apprehended, whil'&s;t a &s;uite for the &s;aid Ship and Goods is depending in the Court of <HI>Admiralty,</HI> the Silver (part of the lad|ing of the &s;aid Ship to a very great value) hath been di&s;po&s;ed of contrary to Law, without any other &s;ecurity given for the &s;ame, then the empty Name of publicke Faith, which without His Maje&s;ty cannot (as is well knowne to all the world) be engaged, or if engaged without His Maje&s;ty, is not valid, or to be relyed on for &s;atisfaction. And it is further complai|ned by the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador, That the Cocheneale, and other Merchandizes formerly &s;eque&s;tred at <HI>London</HI> and <HI>South-Hampton,</HI> albeit they are not peri&s;hable, but have rather encrea&s;ed in their Price and Value, are likely to be &s;old again&s;t the Will of tho&s;e who pretend to be the Owners, (Parties to the &s;uite depending in the &s;aid Court of <HI>Admiralty</HI>) which is alleadged to be apparently again&s;t the Rules of Law, and practices of that Court in &s;uch Ca&s;es. His Maje&s;ty well weighing what may be the ill Con&s;equences of &s;uch injurious Proceedings, manife&s;tly contrary to the Law, and the Articles of Treaty between the two Crownes, and plainly fore&s;eeing how heavily it may light upon &s;uch of His good Subjects, who have E&s;tates in <HI>Spaine,</HI> and how de&s;tructive it may prove to the Trade and Commerce of his Subjects and Kingdomes, doth here|by not only expre&s;ly Charge and Command the Judge of his <HI>Admiralty,</HI> and all others whom it may con|cerne, to proceed in a Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of &s;uch Value and con&s;equence, with Care, Expedition, and accor|ding to Ju&s;tice; But doth al&s;o expre&s;ly prohibite all per&s;ons, of what condition &s;oever, upon pretence of any Order or Warrant from one or both Hou&s;es of Parliament, or any Authority derived from thence, to buy, meddle with, or di&s;po&s;e of any part of the &s;aid Cocheneale, or other Goods or Merchandizes be|longing to the &s;aid Ship, untill the propriety thereof &s;hall be judicially decided and determined, Upon paine of His Maje&s;ties high Di&s;plea&s;ure, and of being re&s;pon&s;ible and lyable to payment and &s;atisfacton for what&s;oever damage &s;hall happen to any of His Maje&s;ties Subjects, who&s;e Goods or E&s;tates &s;hall for that Cau&s;e be embargued or &s;eized in <HI>Spaine:</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Court at <HI>Oxford,</HI> <DATE>the &s;econd day of <HI>January,</HI> in the Eigh|teenth yeare of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Reigne.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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