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&leaf; By the King. &para; A Proclamation for the preuenting of the exporta|tion of Woolles, Woolle-fels, Yarne, Fullers earth, and Woad-a&s;hes, and for the better vent of Cloth, and Stuffe made of Wooll, within this Kingdome.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_HAuing vnder&s;tood by the generall complaints of Our louing Subiects from the &s;euerall</HI> parts of this Our Realme of <HI>England,</HI> that of late yeeres the Woolles of this Our Kingdome are exceedingly fallen from their woonted va|lues, and that the Cloth and Stuffes of this Our Kingdome, haue not that vent in forraine parts which formerly they haue had: Wee taking the&s;e things, and the weightie con&s;equence thereof, into Our Princely con&s;ideration, as matter of very great importance to the wealth and welfare of this Our Kingdome, and being carefull to prouide a &s;pee|dy and effectuall remedy again&s;t &s;uch a growing euill, and to the end that the hone&s;t Clothiers, and tho&s;e painefull workfolkes that depend vpon them, might bee comforted in their labours, and bee incouraged in their trades, and the Woolles and manufactures of Woolles re&s;tored to their wonted e&s;timation; Haue therefore &s;eriou&s;ly and often adui&s;ed with Our Priuie Coun&s;ell for the good of Our people; and the better to be informed, both of the true cau&s;es, and the fitte&s;t remedies, thought it expedient, fir&s;t to no|minate a Committee of twelue per&s;ons of quality and knowne abilities, not onely to informe them|&s;elues out of their owne ob&s;eruations and iudgements, but al&s;o by conference with diuers Knights and Gentlemen of &s;euerall Counties, Merchants of diuers Societies, Clothiers of &s;euerall clothing-Shires, and with all &s;uch others as they in their opinions thought fit, and then afterwards to make report to Vs and Our Priuie Coun&s;ell of their proceedings in that behalfe.</P>
<P>Which Committee, according to Our tru&s;t in them repo&s;ed, haue with great care and diligence tra|uelled therein, and exactly inquired both into the cau&s;es, and after the remedies, and made their re|port vnto Vs accordingly: Whereupon, and after adui&s;e taken with Our Priuie Coun&s;ell, We finde among&s;t other things of moment, That the exportation of Woolles, Woolle-fels, Woollen yarne, Fullers earth, and Woad-a&s;hes, are a great meanes to inable the forraigne making of Cloth, and a principall impediment to the vent of Our Clothes made in <HI>England;</HI> And that the fal&s;e and deceit|full making, dying, and dre&s;&s;ing of Our Cloth and Stuffes heere made of Woolles, doth exceeding|ly di&s;grace and di&s;credit the Drapery of this Our Kingdome, and doth very much hinder the vent of the&s;e commodities.</P>
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<P>We therfore out of the great de&s;ire We haue to aduance the wealth of Our people, &amp; by all meanes po&s;&s;ible to cheri&s;h and comfort their labours, doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;traitely charge and command, that no manner of Woolles, Woolle-fels, Wollen yarne, Corni&s;h-hayre, Fullers earth, Woad a&s;hes, be at any time or times heereafter, exported out of this Our Realme of <HI>England,</HI> Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> Towne or Port of <HI>Barwicke,</HI> or any the Iles, Ports, Creekes, or places therof, into any forraine parts, or into Our Kingdome of <HI>Scotland,</HI> nor that any maner of Woolls, Wooll-fels, Woollen yearne, Ful|lers earth, or Woad-a&s;hes, be tran&s;ported out of Our Kingdome of <HI>Ireland,</HI> into any other parts then into the Realme of <HI>England</HI> onely, vpon paine of confi&s;cation of all &s;uch Woolles, and other the pre|mi&s;&s;es &s;o tran&s;ported, or endeuoured to be tran&s;ported, as al&s;o of Our highe&s;t indignation, and the &s;eurre&s;t cen&s;ure of Our Court of <HI>Starre-chamber,</HI> and of &s;uch other paines and penalties as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Our Kingdome, and by Our Prerogatiue Royall may bee in|flicted.</P>
<P>And to the end that all Officers and Mini&s;ters in, or about Our Ports of <HI>England,</HI> may the more &s;trictly looke to the ob&s;eruance of this Our will and plea&s;ure, for the weale of this Our Kingdome; We do further &s;traitly charge and command, that if any Officer or Mini&s;ter of or belonging to Our Cu&s;tomes or Ports, or attending at any the Hauens, Creekes, or places adiacent, or carrying to the Sea, &s;hall con&s;ent or conniue at the vnlawfull exportation of the premi&s;&s;es, or any of them: Or if any of them &s;hall make any certificate vpon any cocket of the landing of any Woolles in any Ports of this Our Realme, vnle&s;&s;e the Officer him&s;elfe, who &s;hall make &s;uch certificate, do fir&s;t &s;ee the &s;ame Wools landed, according to the contents of the &s;ayd certificate: Or if the &s;ayd Officers or any of them &s;hall make any cocket, which &s;hall not conteine both the number of Sackes, and the weight of the Wooll in euery Sack conteyned in &s;uch cocket; That then euery &s;uch Officer and Mini&s;ter, who &s;hall offend in any the premi&s;&s;es, &s;hall not onely forfeit his Office, place, and employment, but &s;hall al&s;o incurre all other the paynes and penalties afore&s;ayd. And if any Mini&s;ter or Officer of, or many &s;hip or o|ther Ve&s;&s;ell, &s;hall permit and &s;uffer any Woolles, Wooll-fels, or any other of the premi&s;&s;es to bee tran&s;ported in any Ship, Bottome, or other Ve&s;&s;ell, wherein, or whereof he is or &s;hall bee Ma&s;ter, or other Officer; That then euery per&s;on &s;o offending &s;hall be &s;ubiect vnto &s;uch paines and penalties as afore&s;ayd.</P>
<P>And in ca&s;e there be now in force any former Licences or authorities heeretofore giuen and gran|ted by Vs, or any of Our Predece&s;&s;ors, for tran&s;portation of Woolles, or any other the premi&s;&s;es, We doe heereby reuoke and di&s;anull the &s;ame; And are re&s;olued that none &s;uch heereafter &s;hall bee granted: And for the better vtterance of Cloth within this Our Kingdome, Wee doe &s;traitly charge and command, that when, and as often as vpon the occa&s;ion of any Burials or Funerals, any Blacks be heereafter giuen or worne; That then &s;uch blackes and mourning &s;tuffes &s;hall bee onely of Cloth and Stuffes, made of the Wooll of this Kingdome, and not el&s;ewhere, nor otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P>And for that Wee are informed that the fal&s;e dying of Cloth and Stuffes made of Woolls, is a great hinderance to the vent of tho&s;e commodities: Therefore We &s;traitly will and command, That no per&s;on what&s;oeuer in, or towards the dying of any Cloth, of what &s;ort &s;oeuer, or of any Stuffes made of Wooll, &s;hall v&s;e any Logwood or Blockewood, the v&s;e whereof about the &s;ayd Clothes and Stuffes, hath &s;o often by &s;euerall Lawes and Proclamations beene already condemned: And for the better di&s;couery of fal&s;e and deceauable dying, and the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of the &s;ayd Logwood and Blockewood, in and about the dying of Stuffes made of Wooll, Wee &s;traitly charge and command the Wardens of the Diers of <HI>London,</HI> within the compa&s;&s;e of their &s;earch, and all other Officers in o|ther places, That from time to time they make carefull &amp; diligent &s;earch for the di&s;couery of all fal&s;e and deceitfull dying: and if in their &s;earches they &s;hall finde any Cloth or Stuffe died with Log|wood or Blockewood, either in all or in part, That they &s;eaze the &s;ame, and informe Our Attur|ney Generall for the time being thereof, that &s;uch proceeding may be &s;peedily had again&s;t the offen|ders, as &s;o great a contempt de&s;erueth.</P>
<P>Further. We doe hereby &s;traitly charge and command all Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bayliffes, Officers, and other per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, to doe their be&s;t endeuours to di&s;couer all and euery the offenders again&s;t this Our Proclamation. And for the better encouragement of all &s;uch as &s;hall take care and paines to make &s;uch di&s;coueries. Our will and plea&s;urs is, that euery &s;uch per&s;on that &s;hall be the fir&s;t di&s;couerer of &s;uch offender, &s;hall be rewarded with the moity, or one halfe of &s;uch &s;ummes of money as &s;hall come vnto Vs by vertue of any forfeiture incurred vpon this Our Proclamation, Giuing al&s;o like charge and command, that all per&s;ons of what degree, quality or place &s;oeuer, to whom it &s;hall appertaine, doe diligently ob&s;erue, and readily a&s;&s;i&s;t the due perfor|mance of this Our Proclamation in all things.</P>
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<P>Al&s;o We doe hereby thinke good to declare to all Our louing Subiects, that, for the more equall ballancing of trade, furthering of Commerce, increa&s;ing of Marchandize, remoouing of impedi|ments of Trade, and applying of remedies, according to the variation of occa&s;ions, and for di|uers other waightie matters, much importing the enriching and flouri&s;hing e&s;tate of this Our kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> We are re&s;olued foorthwith, by Commi&s;&s;ion vnder Our great Seale of <HI>England,</HI> to authorize &s;ome &s;elect per&s;ons to be Our Commi&s;&s;ioners, who &s;hall take into their &s;peciall care and con&s;ideration the cau&s;es and matters afore&s;aid, and they from time to time to make report thereof to the Body of our priuie Coun&s;ell, whereupon, We with the adui&s;e of Our priuie Coun&s;ell, &s;hall apply &s;uch further helpe in each particular as &s;halbe apte&s;t and fitte&s;t for &s;o great a worke.</P>
<P>And for the better proceeding in this Our inten&s;ion, to the honour and weale of all Our King|domes, We are al&s;o re&s;olued, with all conuenient &s;peed, to giue directions, that &s;ome Commi&s;&s;io|ners out of Our Kingdome of <HI>Scotland,</HI> &s;hall meet and conferre with Our Commi&s;&s;ioners to be au|thorized by Vs in this Our Realme of <HI>England,</HI> to adui&s;e of the be&s;t way, how the Woolles of that Our kingdome of <HI>Scotland,</HI> which &s;hall not there be draped, may be brought hither into <HI>England,</HI> and here from time to time bee bought vp and employed in the Draperie of this kingdome.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at Our Mannour of Otelands,</HI> <DATE><HI>the eight and twentieth day of Iuly, in the twentieth yeere of Our Reigne of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the fiue and fiftieth.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. M DC. XXII.</P>
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