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<NAME>Megan Marion</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B081135.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<BYLINE>&leaf; By the King.</BYLINE>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>A Proclamation prohibiting the Importation of any Goods or Merchandize what&s;oeuer, in any French Shippes or Bottomes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_HAuing duely con&s;idered and weighed the pre&s;ent State of</HI> Af|fayres, as they now &s;tand betweene Vs and Our Brother of <HI>France,</HI> and Our Subiects, and fore&s;eeing the many inconueniences which would follow to Vs and Our people, if the Merchandize of that Kingdome, or of any other, &s;hould be imported into any of Our King|domes or Dominions, in, or by any French Ships or Bottomes, We haue therfore thought fit, by the Aduice of the whole body of Our Pri|uie Coun&s;ell, vtterly to forbid and prohibite the &s;ame. Our will and plea&s;ure therefore is, and Wee doe hereby publi&s;h and declare Our Royall Command to be, that no Goods, Merchandize, or Commo|dities what&s;oeuer, of what condition or nature &s;oeuer, &s;hall at any time or times hereafter, bee brought, or imported, into any of Our Realmes or Dominions, or any Hauen, Port, or Creeke of the &s;ame, in any Ship, Bottome, or Ve&s;&s;ell of, or belonging to the French King, or any his Subiects, vntill Our plea&s;ure &s;hall be otherwi&s;e publi&s;hed and made knowen to the contrary:</P>
<P>And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, &s;hall pre&s;ume to offend or tran&s;gre&s;&s;e Our Com|mandement and Royall plea&s;ure herein, that then all &s;uch goods and Merchadize, to whom&s;o|euer the &s;ame &s;hall belong, &s;halbe forfeited and confi&s;cated vnto Vs, and as forfeited &s;hal bee &s;eized and conuerted to Our v&s;e: and heereof Wee will that all Our louing Subiects, and all others whom it may concerne, doe take notice at their perill, and to that end Wee doe hereby &s;traitly charge and commaund, a&s;well Our high Admirall of England, and all and euery the officers of Our Admiralty, as al&s;o all and &s;igular Our Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers, Searchers and Way|ters in all and euery the Ports, Hauens and Creekes of this Our Realme of <HI>England,</HI> Domi|nion of <HI>Wales,</HI> and Towne of <HI>Berwicke,</HI> that they and euery of them in the &s;euerall places of their &s;euerall authorities, take &s;peciall care to &s;ee this Our Royall plea&s;ure and Commaunde|ment put in due execution, as they tender Our plea&s;ure and will auoyd the contrary at their vtmo&s;t perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Our Court at White-Hall <DATE>the 28. day of Aprill in the third yeere of Our Reigne of England, Scot|land, France, and Ireland.</DATE></DATELINE>
<LB>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 MAIESTIE. M.DC.XXVII.</P>
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