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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT.</P>
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</FIGURE>&para; By the King. </HEAD>
<HEAD>&para; A Proclamation again&s;t the di&s;orderly Tran&s;port|ing His Maie&s;ties Subiects to the Plantations within the parts of <HI>America.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent MAIESTIE being informed that great</HI> numbers of His Subiects haue bin, and are euery yeare tran&s;ported in|to tho&s;e parts of <HI>America,</HI> which haue been granted by Patent to &s;eue|rall per&s;ons, and there &s;ettle them&s;elues, &s;ome of them with their fa|milies and whole e&s;tates: among&s;t which numbers there are al&s;o ma|ny idle and refractory humors, who&s;e onely or principall end is to liue as much as they can without the reach of authority: His Maie&s;tie ha|uing taken the premi&s;&s;es into con&s;ideration, is minded to re&s;traine for the time to come &s;uch promi&s;cuous and di&s;orderly departing out of the Realme; And doth therefore &s;traitly charge and command all and euery the Officers and Mini&s;ters of his &s;everall Ports in <HI>England, Wales,</HI> and <HI>Barwick,</HI> That they doe not hereafter permit or &s;uffer any per&s;ons, being Sub&s;idie men, or of the value of Sub&s;idie men, to embarque them&s;elues in any of the &s;aid Ports, or the members thereof, for any of the &s;aid Plantations, without Licence from His Maie&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ioners for Plantations fir&s;t had and obtained in that behalfe; Nor that they admit to be embarqued any per&s;ons under the degree or value of Sub&s;idy-men, without an Atte&s;tation or Certificate from two Iu&s;tices of the Peace liuing next the place where the party la&s;t of all, or lately then before dwelt, that he hath taken the Oaths of Supremacie, and Allegiance, and like Te&s;timony from the Mini&s;ter of the Pari&s;h of his conuer&s;ation and conformity to the Orders and di&s;cipline of the Church of <HI>England.</HI> And fur|ther His Maie&s;ties expre&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure is&punc; That the Officers and Mini&s;ters of his &s;aid &s;e|uerall Ports, and the Members therof, do returne to His Maie&s;ties &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners for Plan|tations euery halfe yeare a particular and perfect&punc; Li&s;t of the names and qualities of all &s;uch per|&s;ons as &s;hall from time to time be embarqued in any of the &s;aid Ports for any of the &s;aid Plantati|ons. And of the&s;e His Maie&s;ties Royall Commands, all the Officers and Mini&s;ters of His &s;aid Ports, and the Members thereof are to take care, as they will an&s;wer the neglect thereof at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Court at Whitehall <DATE>the la&s;t day of Aprill, in the thirteenth yeare of Our Reigne.</DATE></DATELINE> </CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie: And by the A&s;signes of IOHN BILL. 1637.</P>
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