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<HEAD>&leaf; By the Priuie Coun&s;el.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A Commandement that no &s;uiters come to the Court for any priuate &s;uite except their petitions be indor&s;ed by the Ma&s;ter of Reque&s;ts. 1594.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas many and &s;undry orders, haue bene formerly conceiued and publi&s;hed by Proclamtion, and other wi&s;e by her Maie&s;ties expre&s;&s;e commandement, for the re&s;traint of the vnordinate repayre of multitudes of Suitors to the Court, with Petitions and Complaints to her Maie&s;tie or her Priuie Coun|&s;ell: wherof commonly the mo&s;t part are for matters priuat, vnmeete to bee preferred to her, or for a Coun&s;el of State to deale in: or be &s;uch as are depen|ding or decidable in &s;ome of her Maie&s;ties Courtes of Iu&s;tice, or equitie at we&s;tmin&s;ter or other places in the Realme: which former orders are not ob|&s;erued, to the great di&s;tike of her Maie&s;tie, and the trouble and hinderance of her Coun&s;ell in the di&s;patch of her Highne&s;&s;e important &s;eruices: It is nowe therefore otrdered and inioyned that all Sutors, that from hencefoorth &s;hall vpon coulour or cau&s;e of Suite, intend to exhibite complaint or petition to her Maie&s;tie or to her Coun&s;ell, &s;hall fir&s;t acquaint there with one of the Ma&s;ters of Reque&s;ts, if any of them &s;halbe attendant in the Court, who with one of the Clerkes of the Coun&s;ell then attendant vpon hearing of the complaints, or vpon view and con&s;ideration of their petitions, &s;hall indor&s;e the &s;ub&s;tance of the matter, with their opinions &s;ub&s;cribed with their hands: But if the Ma&s;ter of Reque&s;ts, &s;hall bee out of the Court, &s;o as the Clerke of the Coun&s;ell then attendant in the Court, cannot be pre&s;ent with the Ma&s;ter of the Reque&s;ts at the hearing of the Complainant, then the Ma&s;ter of the Reque&s;ts &s;hall indor&s;e the Bill with his opinion, and &s;hall &s;end the &s;ame to the Clerke of the Coun&s;ell then attendant, who &s;hall pre&s;ent the &s;ame to the Priuie Coun&s;ell at their next &s;itting, to bee an&s;wered as &s;hall bee found meete by the Coun&s;ell. And the Ma&s;ter of the Reque&s;ts to referre the re&s;t of the Suitors, with their complaints to ordinarie Courtes of Iu&s;tice or equitie as the cau&s;e &s;hall require: And to direct all other Suitors in cau&s;es, neither meete to be pre|ferred to her Maie&s;tie, nor to be heard by the Priuie Coun&s;ell, nor yet meete for any other ordinarie Court of Iu&s;tice or equitie, to depart &amp; not to remaine as Suitors about the Court, vpon paine of impri&s;onment, and &s;o to be committed by direction of the Ma&s;ters of Reque&s;ts by warrant vnder his hand to the Knight Mar|&s;hall or his Deputie.</P>
<P>And the Ma&s;ter of the Reque&s;ts &s;hall al&s;o deliuer the names, of the parties that &s;hall bee reiected, to the Queenes Maie&s;ties Porter, to the intent he may know whom to exclude: and vpon the direction on the com|plaints &s;o indor&s;ed, the Suitors &s;hall addre&s;&s;e them&s;elues to follow the &s;aid direction, &amp; in no other &s;ort to folow their &s;uites. And therefore it is ordred, that at &s;uch time as any maner per&s;o~ (not being her Maie&s;ties knowen &s;eruant, or not of the degree &amp; condition of a known gentleman) &s;hall offer to come in at the Court gates, as to be a Suitor, the Queens Maie&s;ties Porters &s;hall informe the partie of this order, and &s;hall direct him or her to the Chamber of one of the Ma&s;ters of the Reque&s;ts, if any of them &s;halbe in the Court: And if none of them &s;hall be in the Court, then the Porters &s;hall command the partie not to continue in the Court, but to repayre to the hou&s;e of one of the Ma&s;ters of Reque&s;ts, and afterwards as his petition &s;hall be indor&s;ed, he &s;hall admit him to come into the Court, or reiect him: &s;traitly prohibiting all per&s;ons not to pre&s;&s;e in at the Court gate as Suitors, to exhibite any petition or complaint, without their Bill &s;hall be fir&s;t &s;o endor&s;ed by the &s;ayd Ma&s;ter of the Reque&s;ts and Clerke of the Coun&s;ell as aboue&s;ayd: or that the partie &s;hall be licen&s;ed by &s;ome of the pri|uie Coun&s;el, vpon &s;peciall cau&s;e knowen to repaire vnto the Court, to exhibite his complaint to the Queenes Maie&s;ty, or to the Coun&s;el, vpon paine of impri&s;onment in the Mar&s;hal&s;eas, during their Lord&s;hips plea&s;ure.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>At the Court at Greenewich <DATE>the xx. of Augu&s;t. 1594.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;aue the Queene</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Chri&s;topher Baker, Printer to the Queenes <HI>mo&s;t excellent Maiestie.</HI> 1595.</P>
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