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<HEAD>&para; By the Quene.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Quenes Maie&s;tie being in good and perfect peace with all Princes &amp; Coun|treys, and meanyng, with the a&s;&s;i&s;taunce of almightie God, to continue in the &s;ame: Hath thought conuenient, accordyng to the treati&s;e of peace betwixte her Maie&s;tie and other Princes her neyghbours, for auoydyng of &s;undry offen|ces vpon the Seas, to notifie to her Subiectes certayne Articles to be by them ob&s;erued, the lyke wherof, her Maie&s;tie vnder&s;tandeth are ment for the &s;ame purpo&s;e to be publi&s;hed and ob&s;erued on the part of the kynges and princes her neighbours.</P>
<P>Fyr&s;t her Maie&s;tie &s;trayghtly commaundeth, that all maner of &s;hyppes and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> armed for the warre, and beyng nowe vpon the Seas, &s;hall with all &s;pede retourne from the Seas, and di&s;arme them&s;elues, except they be &s;uch as haue alredy geuen good and &s;ufficient &s;uertie not to offende any of the Subiectes of the Kynges and Princes with whom her Maie&s;tie is in amitie, vpon payne to be ac|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">pted as breakers of the common peace, and to be puny&s;hed with all &s;eueritie.</P>
<P>Secondly, that no maner of &s;hippes or ve&s;&s;elles be &s;uffred from henceforth to go out of any Port or Creeke, without good and &s;ufficient &s;uertie fir&s;t geuen in the Court of the Admiraltie, or to the principall officers of the Portes, accordyng to the auncient good order heretofore v&s;ed, for not offendyng of any maner of per&s;on beyng in peace with her Maie&s;tie, except &s;uch ve&s;&s;elles as &s;halbe prepared by Marchauntes, well knowen only for the exerci&s;yng of marchaundizes, or for fy&s;&s;hyng, or to make ordinary pa&s;&s;ages of per&s;ons, or &s;uch as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">albe &s;pecially appoynted by her Maie&s;tie (yf cau&s;e &s;hall &s;o require) to be armed and pa&s;&s;e to the Seas, for clearyng of the &s;ame from pirates or rouers, vpon payne that what&s;oeuer officers of any Portes &s;hall &s;uffer or ayde any maner of per&s;on to do to the contrary, the &s;ame officers or mini&s;ters to be taken as breakers of the common peace, and the offendours them &s;elues to be v&s;ed as pirates.</P>
<P>Thirdly, her Maie&s;tie &s;trayghtly chargeth and commaundeth, that no maner per&s;on &s;hall receiue directly or indirectly, any maner of pirates or rouers vpon the Seas, excepte it be without fraude to arre&s;t and ap|prehende them, nor that they &s;hall &s;uccour any of them with victuals, money, apparell, for them &s;elues or theyr ve&s;&s;elles, or any other thyng what&s;oeuer, vpon payne to be taken, v&s;ed, and puny&s;hed as abbettours and maynteyners of the &s;ayde pirates. And for the reliefe of &s;uch as &s;hal chaunce to be robbed or &s;poyled by any Pirates, and for the recouery of theyr goodes, with the lea&s;t charges, and in mo&s;t &s;pedy maner that may <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> Her Maie&s;tie doth order and commaunde, that where any pirates or rouers vpon the Sea, &s;hall come in|t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> any Port or Creeke, that there vpon the fyr&s;t arryuall of them, arre&s;t &s;halbe made forthwith of the per|&s;ons ve&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">elles and goodes, &amp; lykewy&s;e a perfect Inuentory of the &s;ame goodes, with theyr markes, qualities, and quantities. Of all whiche there &s;halbe, by the officers of the Port where the &s;ayde Pirates &s;hall aryue, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> vnto them at the lea&s;t fiue or &s;ixe per&s;ons mete to be witne&s;&s;es) due certificat made vnder the hands <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> common &s;eales of the &s;ayde officers, and &s;ub&s;cribed by the handes or markes of the &s;ayde witne&s;&s;es, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ame &s;o in good fourme made and &s;ealed, &s;halbe clo&s;ed vp &amp; &s;ent the next day after the arre&s;t made, with|out delay, by the officers of the port which haue made the arre&s;t, to the iudge of the Admiraltie, or to his de|putie, re&s;ident in the Citie of London, conteynyng therin the tyme and place of the &s;ayd arre&s;t. And the &s;aid Iudge or his deputie &s;hall receiue the &s;ame, takyng an othe of the me&s;&s;enger that he hath made neither alte|ration nor di&s;clo&s;yng of the &s;ayde certificat. And &s;hall further cau&s;e the &s;ame certificat to be &s;afely kepte, to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">nde that &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall come to complayne and &s;eke for re&s;titution, may exhibite to the &s;aid Iudge or his deputie, theyr proues of theyr claymes, and &s;o thereafter as it &s;hall &s;eme probable that the goodes do <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">long to the complaynantes, the &s;ame to be &s;ent to the places where theyr goodes &s;halbe, to recouer the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ame by order of lawe, as the proues &s;hall fall out. And the &s;ayde Iudge or his deputie, &s;hall rea&s;onably and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">auourably a&s;&s;e&s;&s;e and geue order what the parties &s;poyled &s;hall pay for the charges of bryngyng the &s;aid cer|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ificat, hauyng therof before taken knowledge of the &s;ame by the me&s;&s;enger. And further it is ordered, for auoydyng of certayne vnlawefull exactions, whereof complayntes haue ben lately made, that no maner of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">fficer&punc; nor other per&s;on, &s;hall haue any allowaunce made vnto them, by retaynyng to them &s;elues of any of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">he goodes and marchaundizes taken, but only in redy money for theyr charges or dueties for theyr labours or any other thynges done for the recouery or pre&s;eruation of the &s;ayde goodes. Finally to auoyde certaine
<PB REF="2" MS="y"> fraudes whereof complaynt hath al&s;o ben made of officers and others, &s;ea&s;yng the goodes brought in by pi|rates, and &s;ellyng of them &s;pedely vnder theyr valure, for theyr owne lucre: Her Maie&s;tie ordereth &amp; &s;traight|lye commaundeth, that no maner of per&s;on be &s;uffred to make price or &s;ale, or to di&s;per&s;e abrode any parte of the wares or commodities that &s;halbe brought to any portes by any pyrates or rouers, or by any other that &s;hall haue taken them vpon the Sea from any pyrates or rouers, duryng the &s;pace of .vi. monethes, from the tyme that the &s;ame wares and co~modities &s;halbe &s;o brought into the port, vpon payne that who&s;o|euer &s;hall within the &s;ayde &s;pace do the contrary, &s;halbe taken and ordered as a fautour of the &s;ayde piracye, except it &s;halbe in &s;uch ca&s;es as the &s;ayde wares or &s;ome part therof, &s;halbe without fraude iudged by the of|ficers of the port, with the con&s;ent of .iiii. or .vi. other hone&s;t per&s;ons of good behauiour and vnder&s;tanding, to be of &s;uch nature as they cannot be pre&s;erued &s;o longe tyme without corruption or notoryous detryment: In which ca&s;e, the &s;ame &s;halbe pri&s;ed in the next market place if any be neare, or els in &s;ome other open place, by the othes of .vi. hone&s;t de&s;crete per&s;ons at the lea&s;t, and &s;o after open proclamation made in three &s;euerall places of the &s;ayde port, to be put to &s;ale within twelue houres after the la&s;t proclamation, to the be&s;t pryce that can be obteyned for the &s;ame. And that good &s;ureties be geuen to the head offycers of the port, for the aun&s;weryng of a&s;much in value to &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hal afterwarde make title and proues to the &s;ame, vpon the &s;ayd title approued good by order of lawe: of which &s;ureties the &s;ayd offycers &s;hal take good regarde, that therein be no fraude nor deceipt v&s;ed, as they wyll aun&s;were thereunto. And for all other good meanes to with&s;tande the offences vpon the Seas, or to make &s;pedy and fauourable admini&s;tration of Iu&s;tice to al ma|ner of per&s;ons that &s;hall make pur&s;uite therefore: Her Maie&s;tie geueth &s;trayght charge, and therewith al&s;o requyreth all maner her officers, mini&s;ters, and good &s;ubiectes, to haue regarde to the execution of all other auncient lawes and orders heretofore made, deui&s;ed, or v&s;ed to this intent, and them to reuyue and put in ex|ecution as they &s;hall &s;e cau&s;e, and as they wyll aun&s;were if they &s;halbe charged with the contrary: Wherein her Maie&s;tie intendeth heareafter to v&s;e &s;ome &s;eueritie in the fauour of Iu&s;tice, and for the &s;ati&s;faction of her Alyes and confederates, of whom &s;he is promi&s;ed for her Subiectes, to haue the like fauour to all pur|po&s;es and intentes.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Yeuen at Her Maie&s;ties Manour of Enfield
<DATE>the la&s;t day of Iuly. 1564. in the .vi. yere of her hyghnes raigne.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the Quene.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London in Powles Churchyarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cawood, Printers to the Quenes Maie&s;tie. Anno. <HI>1564.</HI> Men&s;e Iulii.</P>
<P><HI>Cum priuilegio Regiae Maie&s;tatis.</HI></P>
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