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<HEAD>&para; By the Lords of His Maie&s;ties Priuie Councell.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas in diuers Ports of this Kingdome, the Officers of the &s;aid Ports doe exact a certaine
pettie duety, commonly called <HI>Head-money,</HI> vpon euery Pa&s;&s;enger, a&s;well at their
going forth, as at their entrance into the King|dome, which is now ab&s;olutely taken away and
aboli&s;hed, by a Treatie &s;ome few yeeres &s;ince made and concluded betwixt His Maie&s;tie and
the mo&s;t <HI>Chri&s;tian French King,</HI> that now is, both in the&s;e His Maie&s;ties
King|domes, as al&s;o in the Realme of <HI>France,</HI> and all other Dominions belong|ing to that
Crowne, as concerning tho&s;e of the Engli&s;h and French Na|tion: The&s;e &s;hall bee to let you
knowe, that His Maie&s;tie intending (as al|waies hee hath done) really to ob&s;erue the &s;aid
Treaty in that and all o|ther Articles therein contained, hath giuen &s;trait charge and
com|mandement, that no Officer, nor other per&s;on whom&s;oeuer, &s;hall pre&s;ume hereafter to
exact or de|mand the &s;aid <HI>Head-money,</HI> vpon any Subiects of His good Brother the mo&s;t
<HI>Chri&s;tian French King,</HI> that &s;hall haue occa&s;ion to pa&s;&s;e at that Port, or any
the members thereof, either at his going forth or landing, but that it may bee free for all &s;uch
per&s;ons, of what condition or degree &s;oeuer, again&s;t whome there &s;hall bee no other
particular cau&s;e of re&s;traint to pa&s;&s;e, as afore&s;aid, without the ex|action of this or
any duetie of the like nature what&s;oeuer. To which His Maie&s;ties Royall plea|&s;ure and
expre&s;&s;e commandement; Wee doe in his Highne&s;&s;e name &s;traitly charge and command you and
euery of you, whome it may concerne, to conforme your &s;elues, that you doe not henceforth
demaund, or &s;uffer to be demaunded the &s;aid pretended duetie, commonly called
<HI>Head-money,</HI> nor a|ny thing in the nature or Lieu thereof, as you will an&s;were the
contrary at your perill, and as you will auoid His Maie&s;ties high di&s;plea&s;ure.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at the Court at <HI>Whitehall</HI>
<DATE>the fifteenth of March, in the fifteenth yeere of His Maie&s;ties Reigne of <HI>England,
France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and of <HI>Scotland</HI> the one and fifty,
<HI>1617.</HI></DATE></DATELINE> To all Maiors, Portreeues, Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers, Searchers of
Ports, and all other His Maie&s;ties Officers whom it may concerne, and to euery of them.
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>G. Cant.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Pembroke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Th. Edmonds.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fr. Bacon, <HI>Canc.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>T. Arundell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Lake.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>T. Suffolke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iames Hay.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iul. Cae&s;ar.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lenox.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>F. Cary.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and Iohn Bill, Deputies and A&s;signes of Robert
Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. AN. DOM. M.DC.XVII.</P>
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<P><GAP DESC="missing" EXTENT="1+ pages"> receiue, and take the moietie, or one halfe thereof,
according to the true meaning of this our graunt of and from the Marchants and owners of the goods
in the Shippes, Hoyes, Barkes and ve&s;&s;ells, from time to time, according to the quantitie of
the goods and Marchandizes wherewith the &s;aid Shippes, Hoyes, Barkes or ve&s;&s;ells &s;hall be
fraught or laden.</P>
<P>And that the &s;aid per&s;ons hereafter named, their or either of their Executors,
Admini&s;trators or A&s;&s;ignes, &s;ub&s;titute or &s;ub&s;titutes one or more of them &s;hall or
may likewi&s;e lawfully demaund, receiue and take of euery Shippe, Hoye, Barke, Fi&s;herman or
ve&s;&s;ell being the Shippe, Hoye, Barke or ve&s;&s;ell of any Aliene, Denizen or &s;tranger, not
being our naturall borne Subiects, that &s;hall hap|pen to &s;ayle, or pa&s;&s;e from Port to Port,
by or along&s;t the &s;aid <HI>North</HI> Coa&s;t, the like dutie of one pennie upon the Tunne, in
the voy|age outward and inward, as afore&s;aid, which we will and ordaine, for vs, our Heyres, and
Succe&s;&s;ors, &s;hall be collected and taken by the per&s;ons hereafter named, their Exequetors,
Admini&s;trators, Debutis, or A&s;&s;ignes, at or in the Port, Harbour, Creeke, or Roade within any
part of our Dominions where the &s;aid Shippes, Hoyes, Barkes or ve&s;&s;ells of any &s;uch
&s;tranger, &s;hall harbor or put in, although the &s;ame Shippe, or ve&s;&s;ell &s;hall not there
be vnladed or di&s;charged of any the goods or Merchandizes, wherewith it &s;hall be fraught or
laden.</P>
<P>And that the &s;ame dutie of one pennie vpon the Tunne as afore&s;aid being once paide, and the
receipt thereof being te&s;tified by tho&s;e who &s;hall be appoynted to receiue the &s;ame, the
&s;aid Ma&s;ters and owners of Shippes and other ve&s;&s;ells, as well our naturall borne Subiects
as &s;trangers, &s;hall be then freed and di&s;charged of and from the payment of the &s;aid dutie,
in euery or any Port or Ports in which the &s;aid Shippes or ve&s;&s;ells, &s;hall or may happen or
come in euery or any &s;uch voyage as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P><HI>KNOVV YEE</HI> therefore that wee as well in con&s;ideration of the premi&s;es, as for
diuers other good cau&s;es and con&s;iderati|ons vs hereunto mouing of our &s;peciall grace,
certaine knowledge and meere motion, haue giuen and graunted, and by the&s;e pre&s;ents for vs, our
Heires &amp; Succe&s;&s;ors, wee doe giue &amp; graunt vnto our tru&s;tie &amp; welbeloued
&s;eruants <HI>Sir VViliam Erskin</HI> Knight, and <HI>Iohn Meldrum</HI> E&s;quire, their
Executors, Admini&s;trators and A&s;&s;ignes, as well in regard of the true, faithfull, and
acceptable &s;eruice by the &s;aid <HI>Sir William Erskine</HI> &amp; <HI>Iohn Meldrum</HI> to vs
heeretofore done, and as being the fir&s;t &s;uters vnto vs for the erecting and &s;etting vp of
<HI>Light-hou&s;es</HI> at or neer <HI>Winterton</HI> afore&s;aide, as al&s;o for other good
cau&s;es and con&s;iderations vs thereunto mouing free liber|tie, licence, power and authoritie,
that they or any of them &s;hall and may lawfully make, builde, erect, &s;et vp, remoue, and
maintaine, or cau&s;e to be made, builded, erected, &s;et vp, remoued and maintained in all &s;uch
place and places of the &s;aid <HI>North</HI> Coa&s;t within the compa&s;&s;e of two miles of the
Towne of <HI>Winterton</HI> in our County of <HI>Norfolke</HI> as to them &s;hall &s;eeme mo&s;t
fit, needfull and requi&s;ite, &s;uch and &s;o many conuenient <HI>Light-how&s;es,</HI> with
continuall <HI>Lights</HI> to be burning in them during all the night time, whereby the &s;aid
Seafaring men may take notice and be warned of the dangers thereabouts and &s;o be the more able to
auoide and e&s;cape them, and the &s;aid &s;hips and ve&s;&s;ells may the better ariue &amp; come
into their Ports and Harbors without perill, as to them the &s;aid <HI>Sir William Erskine</HI> and
<HI>Iohn Meldrum,</HI> their Executors, Admini&s;trators and A&s;&s;ignes or any of them &s;hall be
thought fit, requi&s;ite and needfull.</P>
<P>And for the great &amp; continuall charges to be from time to time &s;u&s;teyned &amp; borne in
&amp; about the erecting and maintaining of the &s;aid <HI>Lights</HI> and <HI>Light-how&s;es,</HI>
we doe for vs, our Heires, and Succe&s;&s;ors will, ordaine, giue and graunt to the &s;aid <HI>Sir
VVilliam Erskine</HI> and <HI>Iohn Meldrum,</HI> their Executors, Admini&s;trators, Deputies and
As&s;ignes full power and authoritie, that they and euery of them &s;hall and may lawfully
demaunde, receiue, haue and take of, and from the Ma&s;ters and Owners of Shippes, Hoyes, Barkes,
Fi&s;hermen, and other Ve&s;&s;ells pas&s;ing or &s;ayling by or along&s;t the &s;aid
<HI>North</HI> Coa&s;t one pennie vppon the Tunne according to the burthen of the &s;ame Ships or
ve&s;&s;els for euery whole voyage inward &amp; outward as afore&s;aid, to be from time to time
an&s;wered and payd either in &s;uch Port or places where the &s;ame Ship or Ve&s;&s;ell &s;hall be
fraught or laden, or el&s;e in &s;uch Port or place where the &s;ame Ship or Ve&s;&s;ell &s;hall be
di&s;charged and vnladen as afore&s;aid. Neuerthele&s;&s;e our will and plea&s;ure is that for the
erection, re|paration, renewing remouing and continuall mayntenance of all or any &s;uch
<HI>Light-hou&s;e</HI> or <HI>Light-hou&s;es</HI> heretofore erected &amp; &s;et vp, or which
hereafter &s;hall or may be erected, renued, altered, remoued and mayntained, at or neer
<HI>Winterton,</HI> or within two miles com|pa&s;&s;e of the &s;ame as afore&s;aid, no other or
further dutie or payment to be demaunded or taken of our &s;ubiects or others, then the
afore|&s;aid dutie or payment of one penny in the Voyage vpon the Tunne outward and inward as
afore&s;aid.</P>
<P><HI>AND WE</HI> doe further of our &s;peciall grace, certaine knowledge, &amp; meere motion for
vs, our Heires, and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, giue &amp; grant vnto the &s;aid <HI>Sir William Erskine</HI>
and <HI>Iohn Meldrum,</HI> their executors, admini&s;trators and a&s;&s;ignes, full power and
authoritie that they and euerie of them at their wills and plea&s;ures &s;hall or may lawfully
erect, &s;et vp, alter, change, renue and remoue by or at their proper co&s;ts and charges, and by
and with the adui&s;e and direction of expert and skillfull Seafaring men, dwelling or trading
vp|on the afore&s;aid Coa&s;t, &s;uch and &s;o many <HI>Lights</HI> and <HI>Light-hou&s;es,</HI> at
or neere <HI>Winterton</HI> afore&s;aid; or within the comp&s;&s;e of two miles thereof as
afore&s;aid, as &s;hall be thougt fit and as iu&s;t occa&s;ion or neces&s;itie &s;hall require. To
haue, hold, exerci&s;e and enioy the &s;aid liberties, licences, powers &amp; authorities, &amp;
the &s;aid dutie or payment of one pennie vpon the Tunne as afore&s;aid before by the&s;e
pre&s;ents giuen and granted and euerie of them vnto the &s;aid <HI>Sir William Erskine</HI> and
<HI>Iohn Meldrum</HI> their Executors, Admini&s;t|rators &amp; A&s;&s;ignes, for &amp; during the
full end and tear me of fiftie yeares from the date of the&s;e pre&s;ents fully to be compleate
&amp; ended.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> for a&s;much as any other order or cour&s;e cannot well be taken for the due
leauiyng of the &s;aid dutie or payment of one penny vpon the Tunne in the Voyage outward and
inward as afore&s;aid for and towards the effecting and continuance of this &s;o good and
nece&s;&s;arie a worke, then by appoynting the payment and collection of the &s;ame, to be had
&amp; made within the Ports, Harbors, Roades and Creekes, vnto the which the &s;aid Ships, Barkes,
and Ve&s;&s;ells &s;hall or doe come and arriue, we doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents for vs, our Heires
and Succe&s;&s;ors, will, ordaine and appoynt and al&s;o &s;traightly charge, command, and
authori&s;e all and euery the Cu&s;tomers, Collectors, Controulers, Receiuers of entries of
&s;hips, Water-baylifes &amp; al other the officers what&s;oeuer of and concerning the Cu|&s;tomes
to vs, our Heires &amp; Succe&s;&s;ors, and all other the Wardens or keepers of any our Hauens and
Ports now being, and which from the time hereafter &s;hall be as well in our &s;euerall Ports of
<HI>London</HI> &amp; <HI>New-ca&s;tle,</HI> as in all and euery other the Ports, Harbors, Creekes,
Roades, and places within our Realme of <HI>England</HI> to whome it &s;hall or may appertaine,
that they or &s;ome of them being fir&s;t lawfully deputed and appoynted by the &s;aid per&s;ons
herein before named, their Executors, Admini&s;trators or A&s;&s;ignes, or &s;ome of them for the
leuying and receiuing the &s;aid dutie of one pennie vpon the Tunne as afore&s;aid from time to
time &amp; at al tunes hereafter during the &s;aid terme of fiftie yeares before &s;uch time as
they or any of them &s;hall or may giue any Cocket or other di&s;charge what&s;oe|uer, or before
they &s;hall receiue or take any entry re&s;pectiuely of or for any Ship, Barke or Ve&s;&s;ell
which hereafter &s;hall pa&s;&s;e or re|pa&s;&s;e by or along&s;t the <HI>North</HI> Coa&s;t
afore&s;aid &s;hall demaund, collect and receiue the &s;aid dutie and allowance of one pennie vpon
the Tunne in the voiage, outward and inward herein before &s;pecified, re&s;pectiuely of and for
all and euery &s;uch Ship, Hoye Barke, or Ve&s;&s;ell, belonging to any Merchant, Fi&s;herman, or
other per&s;on or per&s;ons our naturall borne Subiects, Denizens and Strangers as &s;hall &s;ayle
and teade from Port to Port by or along the Coa&s;t afore&s;aide, except the Mai&s;ter or Owner of
the &s;ame Ship, Barke or Ve&s;&s;ell &s;hall produce &amp; &s;hew forth a receipt or acquittance
of and for the payment of the &s;aid dutie vnder the hand and &s;eale of &s;uch officer or officers
as &s;hall be deputed and appoynted by the &s;aid per&s;ons herein before named, their Executors,
Admini&s;trators or A&s;|&s;ignes in euery or any &s;uch Cu&s;tome-hou&s;e or place from whence the
&s;aid Shipe or Ve&s;&s;ell &s;hall come te&s;tifiing the payment and re|ceipt thereof to be there
duly had and made.</P>
<P>And that all and euery &s;uch Cu&s;tomer, collector, or other officer in our &s;aid
Cu&s;tome-hou&s;es to be appoynted and deputed as afore|&s;aid, &s;hall yeeld and make iu&s;t and
true accompts and payments, of all and every &s;uch collections &s;um &amp; &s;ummes of money, as
by him
<PB REF="3">them or any of them, &s;hall be collected or receiued from
time to time, vnto the &s;aid <HI>Sir William Erskine</HI> Knight, and <HI>Iohn Meldrum</HI> their
Executors, Admini&s;trators or A&s;&s;ignes, to be by them, either or any of them, receiued and
reteyned to their owne proper v&s;e and behoofe, for &amp; in re&s;pect of their great and
continuall charges, to be &s;u&s;teined and borne, in erecting, renewing, altering, remouing and
continuall maintaining of the &s;aid <HI>Light-hou&s;es</HI> and <HI>Lights,</HI> in the night
&s;ea&s;on as afore&s;aid, without any accompt or other thing therefore, or for any part thereof by
them to be made or giuen for the &s;ame, other then the yearely rent hereby to vs our Heyres and
Succe&s;&s;ors receiued, yeelding, and paying therefore vnto vs, our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors, the
yearely rent or &s;umme of &s;ix pounds thirteene &s;hillings and foure pence of lawfull money of
<HI>England,</HI> at the receipt of our Exchequer at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> or to our Receiuer
or Receiuers, of our Countie of <HI>Norffolke</HI> for the time being, at the fea&s;t of the
Annunciation of the ble&s;&s;ed virgine <HI>Mary,</HI> and at <HI>S. Michaell</HI> the
<HI>Arch-Angell,</HI> by even and equall proportion, during the &s;aid terme, or within thirty
dayes next after eyther of the &s;aid fea&s;tes.</P>
<P>And to the end, that the &s;aid <HI>S VVilliam Erskine</HI> and <HI>Iohn Mledrum,</HI> their
Executors, Admini&s;trators and A&s;&s;ignes, &s;hall and may the better haue &amp; enioye the full
force, benifit and effect of this our pre&s;ent graunt; and to the intent and purpo&s;e, that the
Ma|&s;ter, Wardens and A&s;&s;i&s;tants of the Trinitie Hou&s;e of <HI>Debtford Strond</HI>
afore&s;aid, and all others who&s;oeuer, may be re&s;trayned during the terme of Fiftie yeares
afore&s;aid, from continuing, reparing, renuing, remouing and maynteyning, any
<HI>Light-hou&s;e</HI> or <HI>Light-hou&s;es</HI> already erected and &s;et vp, &s;ince
<HI>March</HI> la&s;t, within the &s;pace of two Miles of the Towne of <HI>Winterton</HI>
afore&s;aid, and from erecting and &s;etting vp during the &s;aid terme, any other new
<HI>Light-hou&s;e</HI> or <HI>Light-hou&s;es,</HI> at or neere the &s;aid Towne, or within two
miles thereof and of and from the receiuing, hauing or taking, by any wayes, meanes, or pretences
what&s;oeuer, any collection, contribution, &s;ume or &s;umes of money what&s;oeuer for the &s;ame,
during the &s;aid Terme of Fiftie yeares before &s;pecified, notwith&s;tanding any former cour&s;e,
taken or had, by, or for the &s;aid Ma&s;ter, Wardens and A&s;&s;i&s;tants of the Trinitie hou&s;e
of <HI>Debtford Srond</HI> afore&s;aid, for the <HI>Light-hou&s;es</HI> &s;ince <HI>March</HI>
la&s;t by them ecected, at or neere <HI>VVinterton</HI> afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>Wee doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents, for vs, our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors, authorize, the Lords of
our Priuie Councell for the time being, and wee doe al&s;o &s;traightly charge, require and command
all Mayors, Sheriffes, Iu&s;tices of peace, Captaines of our Ca&s;tles, and Forts, Bayliffes and
other Officers and Mini&s;ters what&s;oeuer, of vs, our Heyres and Succe&s;&s;ors to whom it doth
and &s;hall appertaine, that they and euery of them bee from time to time hereafter ayding and
a&s;&s;i&s;ting vnto the &s;aid <HI>William Erskin Knight</HI> &amp; <HI>Iohn Meldrum,</HI> their
and either of their Executors, Admini&s;trators and A&s;&s;ignes, &s;ub&s;titutes, factors and
&s;eruants, and euery of them, in &amp; concerning the premi&s;es vpon euery complaint to be made
touching or concerning the &s;ame, according as in Iu&s;tice &s;hall be by them or any of them
de&s;ired and reque&s;ted in that behalfe, and the&s;e pre&s;ents or the intolement thereof &s;hall
be vnto them and euery of them a &s;ufficient warrant and di&s;charge for the doing, performing and
executing the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> la&s;tly we doe hereby &s;ignifie and declare our expre&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure
to be, and we doe for vs, our Heires and Succe&s;|&s;ors, &s;traightly charge and command the
&s;aid Mai&s;ter, Wardens, and A&s;&s;i&s;tants of the Trinitie hou&s;e of <HI>Debtford-Strond</HI>
and their &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, that they and euerie of them, their factors and &s;eruants appoynted by
them &s;hall and doe immediately from hence|forth &s;urcea&s;e and de&s;i&s;t as well of and from
erecting or &s;etting vp of any <HI>Light-hou&s;e</HI> or <HI>Light-hou&s;es</HI> at
<HI>VVinterton</HI> afore&s;aid, or within two miles compa&s;&s;e thereof as afore&s;aid, as of and
from the continuing or maintaining of any <HI>Light</HI> or <HI>Lights</HI> burning in any
<HI>Light-hou&s;e</HI> or <HI>Light-hou&s;es</HI> &s;ince <HI>March</HI> la&s;t by them there
erected or &s;et vp, &amp; that they and euery of them &s;hall for beare from hence|forth to
demande, receiue or take any dutie, payment allowance, or benifit of or from any our &s;ubiects or
others trading or pa&s;|&s;ing by or along&s;t the &s;aid Coa&s;t, for or in re&s;pect of the
&s;ame <HI>Light-hou&s;e</HI> or <HI>Light-hou&s;es</HI> by or vnder any colour, pretence or
pretext, what&s;oeuer any Act, Statute, Ordinance, Proui&s;ion, Charter and Graunt, heretofore had
made, enacted, or prouided, or any other cau&s;e, con&s;ideration, matter, or thing, to the
contrarie thereof in any wi&s;e, notwith&s;tanding, &amp; that vpon the paine and perill of
incurring our high and heauie di&s;plea&s;ure for their contempt or neglect of this our royall will
and commandement herein &s;o expre&s;ly declared in this behalfe, although expre&s;&s;e mention of
the true yearely value or certainty of the premi&s;es or of any of them, or of any other gift or
graunt by vs or any of our Progenitors or Predece&s;&s;ors to the afore&s;aid <HI>Sir William
Erskine</HI> and <HI>Iohn Meldrum</HI> or either of them before the&s;e times made in the&s;e
pre&s;ents, is not made, or any Statute, Act, Ordinance, Proui&s;ion, Proclamation or Re&s;traint
heretofore had made, &s;et forth, ordained or prouided or any other matter, cau&s;e or thing
what&s;oeuer to the contrarie in any wi&s;e notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>In witne&s;&s;e whereof we haue cau&s;ed the&s;e our Letters to be made Patents, witnes our
&s;elfe
at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI>
<DATE>the <HI>18</HI> day of <HI>Feb.</HI> in our <HI>15</HI> yeare of our Raigne of <HI>England,
France</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> and of <HI>Scotland</HI> the
<HI>51.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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