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<Q LANG="frm">HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&leaf; A Proclamation for explaining and enlarging his Maie&s;ties former orders for Buildings, in and about London.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas by &s;undry Proclamations grounded</HI> vpon important and weightie rea&s;ons, Wee haue heretofore made knowen Our Plea&s;ure, as well for re&s;traint of new Buildings in and neere Our City of London, As for reedifying olde Hou&s;es with Bricke and Stone, The good effect that hath en&s;ued thereby, and by the diligence and care of Our Commi&s;&s;ioners authorized for the execution of Our Commandements in that behalfe, And the dueti|full obedience and conformitie of many Our be&s;t di&s;po&s;ed Subiects, Hath not onely giuen Vs great content, but confirmed Our Re&s;olution again&s;t all oppo&s;ition of refractory per&s;ons, to proceede in a worke not onely honourable and gracefull, but &s;afe and healthfull for Our &s;ayd City; It being not without pre&s;ident of ancient times, euen in this Our Citie of London; In the Records whereof it is remembred, that in the time of King <HI>Richard</HI> the fir&s;t, <HI>Henry Fitz-Allwyn</HI> then Mayor, for preuention of ca&s;ualties by fire, cau&s;ed proui&s;ion to be made, that Buil|dings in the &s;aid City &s;hould be of Stone, which for many yeeres after was ob&s;erued: But the neglect thereof in &s;ucceeding times, e&s;pecially in the pre&s;ent, the great confluence to Our &s;ayd City, pe&s;tering of the Streets with Iutties, Stalles, and other annoyances &s;carcitie of Tim|ber, and many other occurrents, haue turned the policie of tho&s;e ancient times from conueni|encie to nece&s;&s;itie: In which re&s;pect, We are now fully determined, not onely to ratifie Our former Commandements, but to v&s;e all po&s;&s;ible endeauour by Our further care and direction to accompli&s;h Our intention in a matter of &s;uch high con&s;equence. And therefore being infor|med, that albeit the di&s;creete&s;t of Our Subiects doe now accept Our Commands, not with con|formitie and obedience alone, but with alacritie and cheerefulne&s;&s;e, as tending to no priuate end, but to the generall good; yet there want not many that doe daily put in vre &s;undry &s;leights and inuentions, to the di&s;turbance and impediment of that generall reformation, which We &s;o much affect, vnder pretence of euading the Letter, though not the &s;ence of Our former Procla|mations. And albeit &s;ome of them, notwith&s;tanding their &s;leights and &s;ubterfuges, haue been cen&s;ured in Our high Court of Starre-Chamber, yet others hauing not ta&s;ted of that &s;eueri|ty, doe hazard them&s;elues to incurre the like: How&s;oeuer, to make offenders in this kind vnex|cu&s;albe, Wee doe hereby publi&s;h and declare, That as Wee are re&s;olued to cheri&s;h and comfort the dutifulne&s;&s;e of &s;uch as apply them&s;elues to the conformitie de&s;ired; So We will extend the
<PB REF="2">&s;eueritie of Our Iu&s;tice to all them, that by &s;ubtill eua&s;ions &s;hall endeauour to fru&s;trate Our command. And therefore being giuen to vnder&s;tand, That the progre&s;&s;e of this &s;o glorious a worke is now chiefly hindred through the &s;upportation and &s;trengthening of ruinous and olde Buildings, vnfit to be continued, by digging of Cellars, and bringing vp new Bricke walles, by erecting new Chimneys and Staire-ca&s;es, by placing pieces of Timber, by &s;etting on new Roofes and Rafters, and thru&s;ting out of Dormers, knitting and fa&s;tening together the &s;ayd new Additions vnto the olde Timber by barres and crampes of Iron, and other like deuices, whereby the olde deformitie is not onely continued, but encrea&s;ed.</P>
<P>We doe hereby &s;traitly charge and command, That no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer with|in Our &s;aid City of London, or within two miles from any the Gates of the &s;aid City, doe pre|&s;ume or attempt to doe any of the things before recited, or any other thing what&s;oeuer of like nature, tending to the hinderance of Our &s;aid intended Worke, vnle&s;&s;e hee &s;hall be thereunto li|cenced and allowed by Our Commi&s;&s;ioners for Buildings.</P>
<P>And further We do hereby &s;traitly charge and command, That no per&s;on or per&s;ons what|&s;oeuer within the limits afore&s;aid, doe at any time hereafter pre&s;ume or attempt to erect, couer, ouerlay or inclo&s;e any Houels or other Sheds of Timber, with Reeds, Faggots, Hay, Straw, Boards, or other materials, or doe rai&s;e vp any wall, pale or banke of earth, to which Sheds may be added: Or doe repaire or new make into the &s;treets, any maner of Bulkes, Stalles, windowes, doores, or other offen&s;iue i&s;&s;ues: Or doe alter or change the v&s;e of any dwelling hou&s;e or other building to any more noy&s;ome or offen&s;iue v&s;e, end or purpo&s;e, then the &s;ame was imployed before the time of the demoli&s;hing or altering the &s;ame. By all which, and e&s;pecially by the &s;aid pretences of repaire and alterations, Our Royall intention of Reformation is much hindred and preuented. Our will and plea&s;ure therefore is, That all &s;uch as &s;hall hereafter pre&s;ume to offend in any the premi&s;&s;es, vnder pretence of repairing decayed hou&s;es, or addition or alteration of dwelling hou&s;es or other Buildings, or otherwi&s;e, hauing not fir&s;t had the ap|probation of Our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, &s;hall be deemed as per&s;ons oppo&s;ing Our Royall com|mandements, and be proceeded again&s;t in Our high Court of Starre-chamber, according to the qualitie of their &s;euerall offences.</P>
<P>And whereas by Our former Proclamation, all Hou&s;es and Buildings, to be reedified or new made within the limits afore&s;aid, were to be built of bricke, or bricke and &s;tone, We being de&s;irous that the like good order and decency &s;hould be ob&s;erued hereafter within fiue miles of any the gates of Our &s;aid Citie, Doe hereby &s;traitly charge and commaund, That no per&s;on or per&s;ons doe hereafter pre&s;ume, to erect, reedifie, or &s;et vp any hou&s;e or Building within the &s;aid di&s;tance of fiue miles from any the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2+ letters">tes of Our &s;aid Citie, vnle&s;&s;e he doe make all the vt|ter walls of the &s;ame of Bricke, or Bricke and Stone; And that all hou&s;es and Buildings to be erected within the &s;aid Citie of London, or in, or adioyning to any open &s;treete of any Towne or Village out of the &s;aid Citie within the limits of fiue miles afore&s;aid, &s;hall be built according to the forme and proportion hereafter in the&s;e pre&s;ents expre&s;&s;ed, viz. Euery whole &s;tory of and in &s;uch Hou&s;es and Buildings, and all and euery the roomes of &s;uch whole Story, &s;hall bee of the height of ten foote of A&s;&s;ize at the lea&s;t, and euery halfe Story, of and in &s;uch Hou&s;es and Buildings, &s;hall be of the height of &s;eauen foote and a halfe at the lea&s;t: And that the forefront and all outward and diui&s;ion walls betwixt hou&s;e and hou&s;e, &amp; the Iambes, heads and &s;oyles of the windowes, &s;hall be of Brick, or of Brick &amp; Stone, and the windowes (being of Timber) not to be put in vntill the Iambes and heads afore&s;aid, be fini&s;hed and beare of them&s;elues.</P>
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<P> And if the &s;aid Buildings doe not exceed two Stories in height, then the walls thereof &s;hall be of the thickne&s;&s;e of one Brick and halfe a Brickes length from the ground vnto the vpper|mo&s;t part of the &s;aid walls. And where the Building &s;hall be of the height of three Stories, the walls of the fir&s;t Story &s;hall be of the thickne&s;&s;e of two Bricks length, and from thence vn|to the vppermo&s;t part of the wall, of the thickne&s;&s;e of one Brick and halfe a Bricks length, and &s;o proportionably if there &s;hall be more Stories.</P>
<P>And that in building of the &s;aid Hou&s;es, there &s;hall bee no Iutties or Iutting, or Cant win|dowes, either vpon Timber Ioy&s;tes, or otherwi&s;e, but the walls to goe direct and &s;treight vpwards, and at the &s;etting off a Water-table to be made. Al&s;o the forme of the windowes of euery whole Story to be of more height then bredth, to the end the roomes may receiue ayre for health, and that there bee &s;ufficient Peeres of Brick, not le&s;&s;e then halfe the bredth of the windowes betweene them for &s;trength. And likewi&s;e the windowes of euery halfe Story to be made &s;quare or neere thereabouts.</P>
<P>And that all Shops and Streete doores be made with Pilla&s;ters of Stone, or Bricke, and the heads of the Shop windowes cut in wedges, with Arches ouer them to &s;u&s;teine the wall aboue, and that the Pilla&s;ters of Stone be in bredth fifteene inches at the lea&s;t, and as thick as the wall of the Story.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, that none doe rai&s;e the fir&s;t floore to gaine height in their cellars, &s;o as they are forced to make &s;teps into the &s;treete.</P>
<P>And to the end this Our plea&s;ure hereby &s;ignified and publi&s;hed, may be the better executed, Wee doe hereby require and authori&s;e Our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners for Buildings, and euery or a|ny of them, and all and euery Iu&s;tice, or Iu&s;tices of Peace, re&s;pectiuely to commit to Ward or Pri&s;on, all &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hal be found to offend in any of the premi&s;&s;es, contrary to the intent of this Our Proclamation. And We doe further require and command, and giue authoritie vnto all Mayors, Sheriffes, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Con&s;tables, Headboroughes, and other Our Officers and Mini&s;ters, without any further or other Warrant, to make &s;tay of, and re|&s;traine all irregular Buildings and proceedings contrary to Our command heereby, or by any former Proclamation concerning Buildings publi&s;hed. Wherein if any &s;hall be &s;o bold to pro|ceed notwith&s;tanding this Our gentle admonition, Our plea&s;ure then is, that Our Attourney Generall for the time being, doe from time to time informe again&s;t &s;uch per&s;ons in Our High Court of Starre-chamber, as wilfull contemners of Our Royall Command.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Theobalds <DATE>the &s;euenteenth day of Iuly, in the eighteenth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the three and fiftieth.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. ANNO DOM. M.DC.XX.</P>
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