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<HEAD>&para; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&leaf; A Proclamation prohibiting the Importa|tion of Allome, and the Buying, or Spending thereof in any His Maie&s;ties Dominions.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_IAMES by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France,</HI> and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c.</SIGNED> <SALUTE>To all to whom the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall come, Greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Whereas by two &s;euerall Proclamations hereto|fore by Vs publi&s;hed, the one in the &s;euenth yeere, and the other in the twelfth yeere of Our Reigne, for &s;undry cau&s;es therein expre&s;&s;ed; wee &s;ignified our expre&s;&s;e plea&s;ure, and &s;traightly inhibited, a&s;well the Impor|tation, as the expence of any foreine Allome within any our Realmes or Dominions; thereby charging and commanding all per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, a&s;well Our naturall borne Subiects, as Denizens or Strangers, That none of them &s;hould at any time then after attempt or pre&s;ume to bring, or cau&s;e to be brought into the&s;e Our Realmes of England, Scot|land, or Ireland, or into any other Our Dominions, or into any the Ports, Hauens, Creekes, or places of any of them, any Allome in greater or le&s;&s;er quantities, made or to be made in any for|reine part or place what&s;oeuer, or any Allome made here within this Kingdome, after that the &s;ame had beene once exported; vpon paine of forfeiture of all and euery quantitie and quantities of Allomes, &s;o brought, or cau&s;ed to be brought into Our &s;aid Realmes or Dominions, contrary to Our Commandement &s;ignified in that behalfe, and al&s;o vpon paine of Our indignation and di&s;plea&s;ure, and of &s;uch further paines, penalties, and puni&s;hments, as are therein more at large expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>And wheras by a late Commi&s;&s;ion awarded by Our Co~mandement, to diuers per&s;ons to en|quire &amp; examine vpon Oth, or otherwi&s;e, in &s;undry of the Northerne parts, &amp; places of this Our Realm, of the due ob&s;eruatio~ &amp; performance of the Premi&s;&s;es, it was manife&s;tly proued, &amp; certified by the returne of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion, That Our Royal wil &amp; plea&s;ure &s;o often publi&s;hed in that behalfe, hath not beene accordingly obeyed and ob&s;erued; but that through the negligence and conniuence of &s;ome officers, and others in the &s;euerall Ports and Creekes of this Kingdome, there is as great a Commerce, and Intercour&s;e maintained between the Importers of forreine Allome, and &s;undrie Trade&s;men, the Buyers and &s;penders of Allome, as if the &s;ame had not at all been by Vs inhibited, and re&s;trained. Wee therefore being &s;en&s;ible of the neglect of Our &s;aid former Proclamations publi&s;hed in this behalfe, haue thought good to reuiue, and renew the &s;ame: And doe hereby &s;ignifie and declare, vnto all and euery Our louing Subiects, and others, Our expre&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure to bee; That Our &s;aid former Proclamations, and euery Clau&s;e, Inhibition, and Prohibition, or any other thing therein conteined, &s;hall bee from hencefoorth duely ob&s;erued and obeyed, vpon paine of Our high di&s;plea&s;ure, and to incurre &s;uch further pe|nalties and puni&s;hments, as Wee, or Our Priuie Councell, or our Trea&s;urer of England for the time being, &s;hall thinke fit to impo&s;e vpon all and euery the offenders and delinquents in that behalfe. And further Wee will, That the Buyers, and Traders in Allomes &s;o imported, or to bee imported, as afore&s;aid, &s;hall incurre and &s;u&s;taine the like penalties, puni&s;hments and forfei|tures, as the Importers of the &s;ame are, or ought to incurre by vertue or tenour of Our &s;ayde former Proclamations. And that all &s;uch Searchers, and Officers in all and euery Our Ports,
<PB REF="2">by who&s;e meanes, conniuencie, or negligence, &s;uch Allome, as afore&s;ayd, is or &s;hall be &s;uffered, or cau&s;ed to bee landed, &s;old or &s;pent within our &s;aid Realmes or Dominions, after due proofe &s;hall be thereof had, made and certified by Commi&s;&s;ioners appointed or to be appointed in that behalfe, or otherwi&s;e &s;hall be left to the di&s;cretion of Our high Trea&s;urer of England for the time being, to be by him puni&s;hed, by the lo&s;&s;e of his or their office or place, or by impri&s;onment, or otherwi&s;e, for &s;uch his or their negligence or offence in the premi&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>And whereas by the di&s;bur&s;ements and expence of &s;undry great &s;ummes of money, by Vs here|tofore made in and about the &s;aid Allome workes in this Our Realme, the &s;ame are now brought to &s;uch perfection, as that they doe annually yeeld, not onely a &s;ufficient quantity of Allome, for the nece&s;&s;ary v&s;e and &s;eruice of Our own Realmes and Dominions, but al&s;o a &s;urplu&s;age of good quantitie to be tran&s;ported into forreine parts for &s;upplie of their wants: We minding the main|tenance of Our &s;aid Allome workes, and intending to prouide for the &s;ame: Doe therefore &s;traitly charge and commaund, That no forreine Allome, nor any Engli&s;h Allome, that &s;hall bee once tran&s;ported, and afterwards returned from forreigne parts, &s;hall be bought, &s;olde, vttered, or &s;pent within any Our Realmes or Dominions, other then &s;uch Engli&s;h Allome, as heretofore hath beene, or hereafter &s;hall be made by our Agents, Deputies, or Factors at Our owne Allome works; and which hath not beene already tran&s;ported and returned, as is before forbidden. And Wee doe hereby &s;traitly charge, and command all and &s;inguler per&s;on, and per&s;ons, as well Our naturall borne Subiects, as Denizens or Strangers, Merchants, Marriners, Artificers, and o|thers; That none of them, nor any other per&s;on what&s;oeuer doe attempt heereafter to importe, buy, &s;ell, or vent, or cau&s;e to bee imported, bought, &s;old, or vented, any &s;uch forreigne, or Engli&s;h Allome, as is before mentioned or forbidden to be imported, or &s;olde, as afore&s;aid, vpon paine of forfeiture of all &s;uch Allome, to be &s;eized to Our v&s;e; And for want of &s;uch &s;eizure, to forfeit the value of all &s;uch Allome, as &s;hall be &s;o imported, or come to their or any of their hands, or po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ion, or bought, &s;olde, &s;pent, or vented by them or any of them, and vpon &s;uch further penalties, and puni&s;hments, as Wee, or Our Priuie Coun&s;ell, or Our Trea&s;urer for the time being &s;hall thinke fit to inflict vpon euery &s;uch offendor. And for the better finding out and di&s;couery of the &s;aid offendors; Wee are well plea&s;ed, and doe hereby require and command, That Our Trea&s;u|rer, Chancellor, and Barons of Our Exchequer for the time being, &s;hal and may awarde &s;uch, and &s;o many Commi&s;&s;ions, as they &s;hall thinke meete to be directed to di&s;creete and fit per&s;ons in all, or any Our Ports, or el&s;ewhere, to inquire of and examine vpon oath, or otherwi&s;e all &s;uch per&s;ons, as are or &s;hall be &s;u&s;pected to haue heeretofore offended, or which heereafter &s;hall offend again&s;t this or our former Proclamations in this behalfe, or any other per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;o|euer for the better finding out, and di&s;couerie of the &s;aid offences, and offendors, as is before men|tioned. To the ende that as well the Importers of all &s;uch Allome, as the Buyers, Sellers, Spenders, and Receiuers thereof may receiue &s;uch condigne puni&s;hment, by fine or otherwi&s;e for their offences, as by Our &s;aid Trea&s;urer of England for the time being, or by Our Court of Exche|quer &s;hall be thought fit. And in ca&s;e &s;uch Allome &s;hall not or cannot be taken or found to be &s;ei|&s;ed; That then euery &s;uch offender &s;hal forfeite and pay to the hands of Our Agent, or Agents in London in this behalfe, the full value of &s;uch Allome, as the &s;aid offendors heeretofore haue or heereafter &s;hall haue imported, bought, &s;olde, vented, or receiued, as afore&s;aid: And Our further will, and plea&s;ure is, and Wee doe heereby declare, that what&s;oeuer Our &s;aid Trea&s;urer, or Our &s;aid Agent, or Agents haue already done, or &s;hal do hereafter again&s;t any offendor or offendors in requiring, and taking the forfeiture of any Allome, or the value thereof &s;o imported, or vttered, as afore&s;aid, or in the mitigating and taking any le&s;&s;e &s;ome then the value of the &s;ame of any &s;uch of
<PB REF="3">fender in the Premi&s;&s;es or otherwi&s;e, according to y^e good di&s;cretio~ of Our &s;aid Trea&s;urer, Agent, or Agents, We do, &amp; wil from time to time approue &amp; allow of by the&s;e pre&s;ents, And this &s;ignifi|cation of our plea&s;ure, &s;halbe a&s;wel vnto our &s;aid Trea&s;urer, Agent, &amp; Agents for the time being, as vnto all &amp; euery &s;uch Co~mi&s;&s;ioner, &amp; Commi&s;&s;ioners, as haue heretofore been, or hereafter &s;hal be imployed in or about this Our &s;eruice, a &s;ufficient warrant, and di&s;charge in that behalfe, with|out any account to be by them, or any of the~, re&s;pectiuely yeelded to Vs, Our Heires, or Succe&s;|&s;ors, and without incurring any penaltie in the doing and excuting this Our &s;eruice, and Royal Commandement. And fora&s;much as heretofore diuers great quantities of Allome haue beene imported into this Realme, vnder the name and names of &s;undry poore Mariners and others, which are not able to pay the value therof, nor giue &s;ati&s;faction for the &s;ame; Our will and plea|&s;ure is, the better to auoid &s;uch frauds, and deceits in the time to come, That in what&s;oeuer Ship or Ve&s;&s;ell any &s;uch Allome in greater or le&s;&s;er quantitie &s;hall be found, or di&s;couered to be &s;o imported, and to be &s;hifted away, that &s;eizure thereof cannot be made; That then &s;uch Mari|ners, or others, who &s;hall &s;o import, or colour the &s;aid Allomes, &s;hall not onely be puni&s;hed as a|fore&s;ayd, but that euery Ma&s;ter, or Owner of &s;uch Ship or Ve&s;&s;ell, wherein &s;uch Allome &s;hall be &s;o imported and &s;hifted away, as afore&s;aid, &s;hal forfeit to Vs the value of the &s;ame Allome: And that &s;uch Ship or Ships &s;hall bee arre&s;ted, and &s;tayed by the officers of euery Porte re&s;pectiue|ly, vntill the &s;aid forfeiture be duely an&s;wered, and payde to the hands of Our &s;ayd Agent or A|gents, or &s;uch others as they &s;hall appoint in that behalfe. And for the better execution of the pre|mi&s;&s;es, Wee doe &s;traitly charge, and command all Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Shiriffes, Con|&s;tables, Headboroughs, Tithingmen, and all other Our Officers and Mini&s;ters, a&s;well of Our Admiraltie, as otherwi&s;e, and all other Our louing Subiects, to whom it &s;hall, or may apper|taine, That they and euery of them at all time and times hereafter, and from time to time be ay|ding, and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to Our &s;aid Agent, and Agents, and to &s;uch our Commi&s;&s;ioners, as &s;hall bee from time to time appointed, for or about this Our &s;eruice; And al&s;o to bee from time to time ay|ding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to all our Cu&s;tomers, Collectors, Searchers, Waiters, and to all &s;uch other per&s;on and per&s;ons, as &s;hall be authori&s;ed by Our &s;aid Agent, or Agents, for the &s;earching, &s;eizing, taking, and carrying away of all &s;uch Allome imported, or hereafter to bee imported, contrary to this Our Royal Prohibition and Commandement: And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;halbe found priuily, or &s;ecretly to oppo&s;e, or animate any others to contradict, or with&s;tand them, in the due execution of this Our &s;eruice and Royal Commandement; That then Wee doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;traitly charge and command, all and euery Our &s;aid Officers re&s;pectiuely, That euery &s;uch per|&s;on or per&s;ons, &s;hal be apprehended &amp; brought before Our Trea&s;urer for the time being, to receiue &s;uch order and condigne puni&s;hment, as &s;hall be thought meete to be inflicted vpon him or them for the &s;ame.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter <DATE>the &s;ixteenth of March, in the fifteenth yeere of Our Reigne of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the one and fifty.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Deputies and A&s;signes of Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. ANNO M.DC.XVII.</P>
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