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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&para; A Proclamation for the prices of victuals within the Verge of the Court.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas heretofore diuers Bakers, Brewers, Inholders, Butchers, and other Victualers, through their greedy de&s;ire of vnlawfull gaine, not con|tented with rea&s;onable profit in vttering and &s;elling of Victuall vnto Our Subiects in the Common wealth, and &s;pecially within the Verge of Our Court, where Our Nobilitie, Seruants and Traine (daily attending vp|on Our per&s;on) are lodged and placed by Our Harbengers, are vnlawfully exacted vpon with vnrea&s;onable and extreame prices, by the &s;aid Victual|lers, enhaun&s;ing the &s;ame Victuals, Hor&s;emeat, Lodgings, and all other nece&s;&s;aries at a more deare price, then it was &s;old for (to Our common Sub|iects) before Our comming, And for that of late it appeareth vnto Vs by the Records of Our Compting hou&s;e, that all the Kings of this Realme, (Our progenitors) haue alwayes had a &s;peciall care to re&s;traine the exce&s;&s;e gaining by the afore&s;aid Victuallers and others within the Verge of their Courts, And al&s;o for that it further appeareth vnto Vs, that of late more ex|treame exaction is v&s;ed by the fore&s;aid Victuallers, and others to wards Our &s;eruants, Traine and Suiters, attending Our Courts where&s;oeuer Wee make Our abode, then heretofore hath bene, Nothing re&s;pecting Our Prerogatiue, nor the Lawes of Our Realme, Therefore Our will and plea&s;ure is, and We doe hereby &s;traitly charge and command, that all per&s;ons doe obey and keepe all &s;uch prices, as is and &s;halbe priced, a&s;&s;ea&s;&s;ed, and rated by the Clearke of the Mar|ket of Our Hou&s;hold within the Verge of Our Court, a&s;well within Liberties as without; And the Iurie before him, or his lawfull Deputie, by vertue of his office &s;worne and charged from time to time, The &s;ame rates and prices not onely to be certified by Our &s;aid Clerke of the Market, or his Deputie into Our Counting hou&s;e, But al&s;o fixed and &s;et vpon the Gates of Our Court, and other places within the Verge, a&s;well within Liberties as without; And that no maner of the per&s;on or per&s;ons afore&s;aid, of what e&s;tate or degree &s;oeuer he or they be, doe in any wi&s;e pay more for corne, Victuals, Hor&s;emeat, Lodging or any other thing, then after the rate and forme afore&s;aid, vpon paine of impri&s;onment, and to be Fined with further puni&s;hment that &s;hall thereof follow, The &s;ame paines and puni&s;hments, and enery part thereof to be execu|ted vpon all tho&s;e per&s;ons, and euery of them which doe, or &s;hall pre&s;ume to a&s;ke or demand, vt|ter and &s;ell any maner of thing, or things, contrary to the true meaning of this Our Proclama|tion. And moreouer We doe &s;traitly charge and command, that no maner of per&s;on or per&s;ons, now v&s;ing, or which hereafter &s;hall v&s;e, or of rightought to v&s;e to &s;erue any City, Borough, towne or other place where Our repo&s;e &amp; abode is, or &s;halbe, or el&s;ewhere within the Verge of Our Courts, a&s;well within Liberties as without, with any kind of Corne or Victuals, or other nece&s;|&s;aries, a&s;well vpon the Market day, as at any other time, &s;hall be any thing the more remi&s;&s;e or &s;lacke for making of proui&s;ion for the &s;ame, then they or any of them heretofore haue beene, nor v&s;e any colour of craft to deceiue the buyers thereof, Nor hide or lay a&s;ide their Corne, Victuals, Hor&s;emeat, Lodgings, or any other nece&s;&s;aries to dimini&s;h the Market, whereby Our whole Traine within any City, Borough, towne, and other inhabitants of the &s;ame, and other Our Subiects thereunto re&s;orting, &s;hould not be as well &s;erued and as plenteou&s;ly furni&s;hed in euery behalfe as it was before, or of right ought to haue beene in defraud of this Our ordinance. And furthermore We &s;traitly charge and expre&s;&s;ely Command all Our Officers of Greenecloth, Our Iu&s;tices of Peace, Our Clarke of the Market, his Deputy or Deputies, Maiors, Bayliffes, Shi|riffes, Con&s;tables, and all other Our faithfull Officers and euery of them, of Cities, Boroughes, Townes, Hundreds, and other places within the Verge of Our Court as well within Liber|ties as without from time to time, when and as often as need &s;hall require, vpon Complaint by any partie iu&s;tly made, diligently euery of them within their authorities forthwith to endeuour them&s;elues to &s;ee iu&s;t puni&s;hment, and due reformation of the premi&s;es again&s;t &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as &s;hall offend herein, according to Iu&s;tice and prices, as afore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Court of Whitehall <DATE>the fifth day of Nouember in the eleuenth yeere of Our reigne of England, France and Ireland, And of Scotland the &s;euen and fortieth.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
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. ANNO DOM. 1613.</P>
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